For The New Yorker’s November fiction podcast, David Sedaris reads Miranda July’s “Roy Spivey,” from No One Belongs Here More Than You.
“Sedaris says he was ‘completely, mysteriously shaken up’ by July’s story when he first read it. He compares the experience to that of reading works by Lorrie Moore; though seemingly loaded with jokes, the lighter parts of the narrative accumulate into an unexpectedly affecting whole. ‘I’m laughing, I’m laughing, I’m laughing,’ says Sedaris, ‘and, at the end, I’m just devastated.’”
