# Louise Erdrich Reads “The Hollow Children”  ## About - Author: The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker - Title: Louise Erdrich Reads “The Hollow Children” - Tags: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/59fa7433-cace-408b-a128-6296646949a5 ## Highlights > Driver Encounters Boiling White Mass on Muddy Road Transcript: Speaker 1 He was taking his turn behind the wheel. In the back of a school notebook, not long after the blizzard, he wrote about what happened. Ivic was bouncing down the muddy road when the mist dissolved and he saw it, a boiling white mass rolling at him like annihilation. He drove straight in at full speed, hoping to make it the rest of the way on sheer momentum. ([Time 0:02:49](https://share.snipd.com/snip/aa7eee54-4b3a-4950-9eff-87e1f60f9499)) --- > Silence in the Eternal Prairie Transcript: Speaker 1 The children had gone dead silent. The silence lasted until Ivic lost his feel of the road and knew that they had left it. The earth on either side of the Red River had been rolling pinned by a vast and ancient glacier. The flat fields in prairie were of a time eternal and the human presence in that expanse was slight. The children knew it and he knew it. ([Time 0:03:25](https://share.snipd.com/snip/4433af88-72da-4b38-99d4-839ce27c1681)) ---