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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

Nell Freudenberger Reads “Attila”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Fiction, Authors, Arts, New, Newyorker, Yorker

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Nell Freudenberger reads her story “Attila,” from the August 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Freudenberger is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Lost and Wanted” and “The Limits,” which was published earlier this year. She was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Fiction Issue in 2010.

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This is the writer's voice,

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new fiction from the New Yorker.

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

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On this week's episode of The Writers Voice, we'll hear Nell Foydenberger, read her story Attila, from the August 5th, 2024 issue of the magazine.

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Fordenberger is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels Lost and

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Wanted and The Limits, which was published earlier this year.

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She was included in the New Yorker 20-40 fiction issue in 2010.

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Now here's now Freudenberger. Attila.

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Martha got the knife away from her mother and shut her in the garage.

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The garage was not for cars.

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It had been converted by the house's previous owners into what the broker called a mother-in-law apartment.

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Martha assumed it was called that because mothers were more likely to move in with daughters and men were more likely to own houses.

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