Podcast:The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker Published On: Tue Jan 17 2017 Description: "It was a mystery to me how Svetlana generated so many opinions. Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact. Meanwhile, I went from class to class, read hundreds—thousands—of pages of the distilled ideas of the great thinkers of human history, and nothing happened." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices