2020-11-02
47 分钟Elizabeth Strout joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Bravado,” by William Trevor, which appeared in a 2007 issue of the magazine. Strout’s most recent book, “Olive Again,” an Oprah’s book-club pick, was published in 2019.
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 bravado by William Trevor, which was published in the New Yorker in January of 2007.
The first time she'd been in the Star, the, the first time she'd seen Manning, no more than a face in the crowd.
She had admired him.
He'd noticed her interest, he told her afterward.
He said she was his kind, and she didn't hesitate when he asked her to go out with him.
The story was chosen by Elizabeth Strout, whose most recent book, Olive, an Oprah's book club pic, was published in 2019.
Hi, Liz.
Hi, Deborah.
How are you?
Good.
Thank you for doing this in pandemic times.
It's my pleasure.
It really is.
So what made you want to talk about a story by William Trevor today?
Has he been important to you as a writer or a reader?
Both, I think.
William Trevor is just such a wonderful writer, and I discovered him years and years ago through the New Yorker, I might add.