2021-04-02
1 小时 0 分钟Weike Wang joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Katania,” by Lara Vapnyar, which appeared in a 2013 issue of the magazine. Wang's first novel, “Chemistry,” won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2018.
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 Catania by Lara Vapnyar, which was published in the New Yorker in October of 2013.
What my family lacked was a father, but a father doll was a true rarity.
Nobody I knew had a father doll.
Most of the kids I knew didn't even have fathers.
I didn't have a father.
Mine died when I was two.
The story was chosen by Wacky Wang, whose first novel, Chemistry, won the Penn Hemingway award in 2018.
Hi, Waikie.
Hi, Deborah.
How are you doing?
All right.
Thanks for joining us.
So when we talked about doing the podcast, Lara Vapnyar was your first thought.
Why was that first thought?
Neon sign went off in my head.
I've read the story many times, but this is one of the first stories that, you know, from the magazine that I read, and then it stuck with me for a really long time.
And since then, I've read her older stories in the magazine, but also all of her collections, her novels.