Jonathan Taylor writes:
I don’t read New Yorker fiction that regularly. I don’t bring up a New Yorker story and say, Did you read…? I did both with George Saunders’s “Victory Lap.” And then the person I say it to, who also doesn’t talk to me about New Yorker fiction, suddenly says she’s been thinking about it ever since she read it.
Emily recalls a similar flurry of people being struck and moved en masse when Lorrie Moore’s story “People Like That Are the Only People Here” came out in the magazine in 1997.
It’s true—you should read it on paper. On the subway, tonight.