Deborah Treisman has been the fiction editor of The New Yorker since 2003, and was deputy fiction editor for five years prior to that.
The woman, a stranger, was looking at me. In the glare of the hot afternoon, in the swirl of motorcycles and hawkers, she was looking down at me from the back seat of her jeep. Her stare was too direct, not sufficiently vacant. She was not merely resting her eyes on the car next to hers, as people often do in Lagos traffic; she was looking at me. At first, I glanced away, but then I stared back, at the haughty silkiness of the weave that fell to her shoulders in loose curls, the kind of extension called Brazilian Hair and paid for in dollars at Victoria
New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman and writers Karen Russell and David Bezmozgis discuss The New Yorker’s series on young fiction writers. The stories have now published in one volume, 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker.
New Yorker magazine fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, discusses the publication's much debated "20 Under 40" list of promising writers.
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