Every month the New Yorker chooses a short story from their archive and asks a writer to read the story for their Fiction Podcast.
This month Jennifer Egan reads "The Reverse Bug" by Lore Segal.
Jennifer Egan Reads \"The Reverse Bug\"
If you've got 30mins to spare, give that time to Segal ala Egan. Delightful to read and delightful to hear, "Reverse Bug," written in 1989, contains prophetic echos to our own age of terror, but it does so in a subtle, pleasing way.