Deborah Treisman
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first heard May 2026
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This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from The New Yorker magazine.
I'm Deborah Triesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
This month we're going to hear Helen on 86th Street by Wendy Kaufman, which appeared in The New Yorker in November of 1997.
The story was chosen by Min Jin Li, the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko.
Her third novel, American Hagwan, will be published this month.
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So Wendy Kaufman died in twenty fourteen at the age of fifty.
She published just one story in the New Yorker, which is this story Helen on eighty sixth street.
Why did you choose it to read today?
What did you think was so remarkable?
How did you know her?
Right.
I know she only published this one book, Helen on Eighty Sixth Street and Other Stories, and that came out
A couple of months after she died.
So when you say she became more established, in what way?
Just as a a kind of guide for other writers?
it is.
It is.
So you met her in that context of of knowing her through her agent.
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