Hi, this is David Remnick, and I'm pleased to share that two New Yorker films have been

nominated for this year's Academy Awards. No kidding. One of them, The Barber of Little Rock Rock is nominated for Best Documentary Short Film

and looks at America's growing racial wealth gap through the story of Arlo Washington,

a barber in Arkansas who is reshaping the future of banking for Black Americans.

You can watch it and the magazine's full slate of acclaimed short films at New Yorker.com

slash video. This is the writer's voice, new fiction from the New Yorker. I'm Deborah

Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker. On this episode of the writer's voice, we'll hear Thomas

Korsgard read his story, The Spid of Him, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitkin,

from the March 4th 2024 issue of the magazine.

Coursegard is the author of three novels and two story collections as well as several works for children.

In 2021, at age 26, he became the youngest writer ever to receive Denmark's Golden Laurel Prize.

Now here's Thomas Korsgard. The Spit of him.

of him.

Kevin didn't have a rain jacket and for that reason he wasn't wearing one. A pair of bananas in Pyama's Pyama bottoms bunched over the

shaft of his rain boots. From his left shoulder a flat laptop bagged angled.

It had been consigned to his school's lost property box

and had remained there more than four months before he claimed it for himself.

Now it flapped rhythmicalia against his hip.

It contained next to nothing, but he felt that it lent him a professional air.

It was a Tuesday, early evening, and Kevin was the only person out.

Darkness had descended upon him since he left home.

Dristle beaded his face.

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