Sigrid Nunez Reads “Greensleeves”
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Sigrid Nunez reads her story “Greensleeves,” from the September 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Nunez is the author of a memoir and nine novels, including “The Friend,” which won the National Book Award in 2018, and “The Vulnerables,” which was published last year.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the writer's voice new fiction from the New Yorker. I'm Deborah |
| 0:09.6 | Treisman fiction at the New Yorker. On this week's episode of the writer's voice |
| 0:14.0 | we'll hear Sigrid Nunez read her story |
| 0:16.0 | Green Sleeves from the September 9th, 2024 |
| 0:19.0 | issue of the magazine. |
| 0:21.0 | Nunez is the author of a memoir in nine novels including The Friend, which won the National Book Award in 2018, |
| 0:27.0 | and the Vulnerable which was published last year. |
| 0:30.0 | Now here's S Nunez. |
| 0:40.0 | Green sleeves. Green sleeves. What I want to know, the woman said to the Green's leaves. |
| 0:42.7 | What I want to know, the woman said to the therapist, |
| 0:46.1 | is why the voices always say mean terrible things. |
| 0:50.1 | Why don't they ever say things like, |
| 0:52.2 | you're a good person, you're a great, smart, wonderful |
| 0:55.8 | guy, your life matters, and you deserve to be happy. |
| 1:00.0 | I mean, instead of saying, you're no good good your life is worthless everyone hates you |
| 1:05.1 | you should hurt yourself you deserve to be hurt you deserve to die |
| 1:10.7 | even worse the woman went on. |
| 1:13.0 | Why do the voices always say things like, |
| 1:16.0 | go shove some innocent stranger in front of an oncoming train, |
| 1:20.0 | instead of like, how about helping that little old lady with her bags he wanted to |
| 1:26.6 | laugh but the woman was being earnest she was young early 30s he guessed with an unremarkable face except for her eyes so dark you could barely |
| 1:36.8 | distinguish iris from pupil she stared at him from under thick bangs, |
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