Paul Yoon

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490 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 1 Jul

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The New Yorker: Fiction · Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

But also continues that thing you mentioned, Debra, about the body being framed, right?

Or there's only sort of parts of the body where it's like his forearms, you know, no one will have as amazing forearms as Roy.

Or when she's fixated on Mandy giving him a blowjob in the hostel, it calls back to that opening paragraph and sort of the way she frames her husband, right?

But there's also that line, you know, near the end of the story where she's, I think, the narrator is very surprised that they end up breaking up, right?

You know, I had been so sure of the red door, the skylights, the way they looked at each other.

And, you know, I've been so sure that marriage to a man like Roy would be like stepping onto a throne, right?

From which there could be no abdication.

So there's...

There's a kind of, they're solid ground.

To her, they're solid ground.

They're a haven, you know, they're a habitat.

And I think if the story is being told in retrospect, she knows that that has been kind of taken away from her, right?

That the house has sort of collapsed.

And part of that hostility that we feel, I think, could be kind of that sort of awareness that this did not last.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Or sort of we're aware that evil exists in the world.

And then suddenly, you know, you were very much aware it exists when something happens.

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