2020-07-02
1 小时 7 分钟Allegra Goodman joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “No Place for You My Love,” by Eudora Welty, which appeared in a 1952 issue of the magazine. Goodman’s books include “The Family Markowitz” and “The Chalk Artist.”
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 no place for you, my love, by Eudora Welty, which was published in the New Yorker in September of 1952.
The heat fazed them.
It was ahead.
They could see it waving at them, shaken in the air above the white of the road, always at a certain distance ahead, shimmering finely as a cloth with running edges of green and gold, fire and azure.
It's never anything like this in Syracuse, he said.
Or in Toledo, either, she replied, dry lips.
The story was chosen by Allegra Goodman, whose books include the family Markowitz and the chalk artist.
Hi, Allegra.
Hi.
So you have chosen a story by Eudora Welty.
What has her work meant to you?
I started reading her when I was just a kid.
In fact, my dad used to read aloud to our family, and he read some of her funnier stories, like why I live at the Po petrified fan and some of her comic stuff, and we would all sit around and laugh, and I just fell in love with her.
So this particular story, no place for you, my love, is it one that your father read to you?
Is it something you came across later?
Something I came across later.
And it's a different mode for her.