Tommy Orange Reads Louise Erdrich

汤米·奥兰治(Tommy Orange)阅读路易丝·埃德里奇(Louise Erdrich)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2020-08-02

51 分钟
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Tommy Orange joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Years of My Birth,” by Louise Erdrich, which appeared in a 2011 issue of the magazine. Orange’s first novel, “There There,” was published in 2018 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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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 the years of my birth by Louise Erdrich, which was published in the New Yorker in January of 2011.

  • Growing up in the midst of a large family, I had never registered the visitations from my presence at those rare moments when I was alone as something strange.

  • The first time I was aware of it was when I was taken from Betty and put in a white room.

  • After that, I occasionally had the sensation that there was someone walking beside me or sitting behind me, always just beyond my peripheral vision.

  • The story was chosen by Tommy Orange, whose first novel, they're there, was published in 2018 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

  • Hi, Tommy.

  • Hey, Debra.

  • So what made you choose a story by Louise Erdrich for the podcast?

  • So you had published, I think, last year, a short story of hers called the Stone.

  • It's a pretty short short story, and it was a strange story, and it just struck me.

  • So when you asked me to choose.

  • A story, I went looking for another one of hers.

  • And she's actually published a lot in the New Yorker because I haven't known her for short stories.

  • She only has one collection of short.

  • Stories, you know, with a pretty massive career.

  • Most of her stories start as stories and end up in her novels.

  • Yeah, that's what I've heard her say.