Hey podcast listeners, I'm Chris Morocco, the food director of Bonapete and Epicureus and the host of Dinner

SOS. Every week on Dinner SOS, we answer listeners questions about what's going on in their kitchens and that first hint of fall in the air means we're thinking about Thanksgiving and we want to help you out on the air.

Are you bored with your same old turkey preparation? Can't

figure out what to bring for your Friends Giving celebration or maybe you're

experimenting with a new cuisine this year. Whatever your Thanksgiving question is,

dinner SOS can help.

Email us your question at dinner SOS at bonapatit.com.

We just might feature it on the show. This is the writer's voice, new fiction from the New Yorker.

I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.

On this week's episode of the writer's voice we'll hear

Joshua Cohen read his story My Camp from the October 21st 2024 issue of

the magazine. Cohen's books include the novel's wits, Moving Kings, and the Netanyahoos, which won the National Jewish

Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize.

Now here's Joshua Cohen.

My camp.

Human nature, yes? Nature, no.

I know nothing about it.

A rose is a rose is my tradition, but then feelings lead us outside tradition. They lure us beyond it, and I feel

nature deeply. I feel its lack of interest in me, its lack of humanity jibing with my inner emptiness.

I like how its trees come together to make a forest that shows me how to breathe, and

how its boulders show me how to concentrate. I'm content with having these

immature idealizing poetic romantic emotions about the great outdoors and don't want to know anything more,

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