
Miranda July’s “Roy Spivey” in The New Yorker:
The Writer’s Voice podcast
A fictional work, dotted with humour that ends on a sad note, can be devastating, as David Sedaris, who read the story in the podcast, tells Deborah Treisman, the New Yorker fiction editor.
Life is Beautiful, film by Roberto Benigni — was heart-wrenching precisely for this reason.