2024-01-02
1 小时 6 分钟The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “The Bees, Part 1,” which was published in a 2002 issue of The New Yorker.
This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.
Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
This month, on our 200th episode, we're going to hear the Bees, part one by Alexander Heman, which appeared in the New Yorker.
In October of 2002, Father announced that.
He was going to make a film that would not lie.
My mother asked what the movie would be about.
The truth.
He said, obviously.
The story was chosen by Rivka Gauchan, whose books include the story collection American Innovations and the novel.
Everyone knows your mother is a witch.
Hi, Rivka, welcome back.
Hi.
Thanks for having me.
So on the other episodes of the podcast that you've done, you chose stories by Isaac Bosheva Singer and Leonard Michaels, and now Alexander Hemmon.
And I'm wondering if there's a common denominator.
No, I think one thing is that all of them have a language that feels translated.
I mean, Batheva singer is translated, but when I say translated, I mean it not in the sense of awkwardness, but in the sense of being very, very precise.
Like it feels foreign because it feels so accurate.
Each word choice feels accurate, and that's something I'm drawn to.