2021-08-02
1 小时 9 分钟Ann Patchett joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Proxy Marriage,” by Maile Meloy, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. Patchett is the author of eight novels, including “Commonwealth” and “The Dutch House,” which was a finalist for last year’s Pulitzer Prize.
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 proxy marriage by Miley Malloy, which was published in the New Yorker in May of 2012.
Other soldiers heard about the proxy law, and William and Bridey did three more weddings on a single day in the spring and three in the summer.
After they graduated, it got easier for William as the ceremony became familiar.
His heart didn't trip over itself so much when he said, I do.
The story was chosen by Anne Patchett, who's the author of eight novels, including Commonwealth and the Dutch House, which was a finalist for last year's Pulitzer Prize.
Hi, Anne.
Hi, Debra.
Welcome.
So you and Miley Malloy are friends.
It's true.
It's a fix.
And I've heard that you were, in a way, the trigger for this story, the proxy marriage.
Can you tell me about that?
In a very small way.
Miley and I were in Australia together.
We were on book tour separately.
But when you fly to Australia with someone and you're there a couple of weeks and then fly back, you have a lot of time to talk.