Douglas Stuart Reads Kevin Barry

道格拉斯·斯图尔特(Douglas Stuart)阅读凯文·巴里(Kevin Barry)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2021-03-02

54 分钟
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Douglas Stuart joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Fjord of Killary,” by Kevin Barry, which appeared in a 2010 issue of the magazine. Stuart’s first novel, “Shuggie Bain,” won the Booker Prize in 2020.

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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 fjord of killery by Kevin Barry, which was published in the New Yorker in February of 2010.

  • It was by now a hysterical downpour with great sheets of water streaming down from wool Rhea and the harbour roared in the fattening light.

  • Visibility was reduced to 14ft.

  • This all signaled that the west of Ireland holiday season had begun.

  • The story was chosen by Douglas Stewart, whose first novel, Shuggie Bain, won the Booker Prize in 2020.

  • Hi, Douglas.

  • Hi, Debra.

  • How are you?

  • I'm all right.

  • Welcome.

  • When we talked about doing this, you had originally been inclined to choose a scottish story to read on the podcast, but in the end, you settled on an irish one.

  • Do you think the two traditions are interlocked?

  • They certainly have a very close relationship, but even in reading the Kevin Barry story, I realized how much of the pronunciation and the expressions weren't familiar to my ear.

  • And so although they're close, they are.

  • Quite different in terms of this story.

  • It feels a little like a fairy tale in a sense, and it has that sort of fable like quality to it.

  • And I feel as though it may work in a tradition of irish fables.