2023-02-02
1 小时 12 分钟Clare Sestanovich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Moons of Jupiter” by Alice Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1978. Sestanovich’s story collection, “Objects of Desire,” was published in 2021.
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 we're going to hear the moons of Jupiter by Alice Monroe, which was published in the New Yorker in May of 1978.
On the screen, a bright, jagged line was continually being written.
The writing was accompanied by a nervous electronic beeping.
The behavior of his heart was on display.
I tried to ignore it.
The story was chosen by Claire Sestanovich, whose story collection, objects of Desire was published in 2021.
Hi, Claire.
Hi, Debra.
So you chose a story by Alice Monroe to read today.
Has her work been important to you as a writer, as a reader?
Both, yes.
I have been a sort of lifelong worshipper of Alice Monroe.
I think I was probably introduced to her by my mother.
Monroe is a favorite of hers, and she was also a favorite of my grandmother's.
And actually this copy of the moons of Jupiter that I've been reading all week has her name on the COVID So, yeah, I remember as sort of maybe an eleven or twelve year old taking the selected stories off my parents shelf, which is this heavy volume, dark purple, very mature purple, sort of plum, and reading it and having some adult ask me what I was reading, which of course was exactly what I wanted to happen, and feeling very impressed with myself.
And I don't think I actually read that book in earnest.
It was more for show.