Camille Bordas Reads Saul Bellow

Camille Bordas阅读Saul Bellow

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2022-05-02

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Camille Bordas joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Father-to-Be,” by Saul Bellow, which was published in The New Yorker in 1955. Bordas’s novel “How to Behave in a Crowd,” was published in 2017

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  • 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 a father to be by Saul Bello, which was published in the New Yorker in January of 1955.

  • The notion that all were under pressure and affliction, instead of saddening him, had the opposite influence.

  • It put him in a wonderful mood.

  • It was extraordinary how happy he became.

  • And in addition, clear sighted.

  • The story was chosen by Camille Bordas, whose novel how to behave in a crowd was published in 2017.

  • Hi, Camille.

  • Hi, Deborah.

  • So when did you first read Saul Bello?

  • I probably first read Saul Bellow after I moved to Chicago, so it would have been around 2012 or 2013.

  • Not that I didn't know who Saul Bello was before, but it was a bit intimidating to me, I think.

  • And then, yeah, I moved to Chicago, and I kept hearing his name, and I didn't come to his stories until very recently because one of my students told me, yeah, he has good stories, too.

  • He's not just a novelist.

  • I think I read Humboldt's gift and then almost all his novels after that.

  • Yeah.

  • So Humboldt's gift made you want to read the others?

  • Yes, absolutely.