Cressida Leyshon interviews the writer Lore Segal about “Stories About Us,” her story from the October 7, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.
I am always puzzled about questions about why I put things in stories. I am not so interested in questions. The fact of the matter is I don’t know. They seem to fit in because they belong in there. I suppose because the friends are interested in their own commotions, otherwise there would not be any interest. In the West Side Rag, Anya Schiffrin wrote about the real group of ladies you’ve lunched with for many decades, one of whom is her mother.
She tells the friends that the payoff “is that you come across improbable behaviors and recognize your friends—recognize yourself.” How important has Proust been in your own reading? Proust drives me crazy. I love him so much because reading him is so difficult. If you could return to one volume of Proust, which one would it be? Like everyone else, the first volume of Proust. “Swann’s Way” is my favorite.
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