2020-04-02
34 分钟Deborah Treisman reads and discusses “Good People,” by David Foster Wallace, which appeared in a 2007 issue of the magazine. David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of three short-story collections and three novels, including “Infinite Jest,” and “The Pale King,” which was published posthumously, in 2011, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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, due to the coronavirus lockdown, we weren't able to proceed with our.
Planned guest, so we're changing the format a little.
I've chosen a story to read, and I asked listeners to submit questions for me to discuss through our Twitter and Facebook pages.
The story I've chosen is good people.
By David Foster Wallace, which was published in the New Yorker in January of 2007.
All the different angles and ways they had come at the decision together did not ever include it.
The word for had he once said it, avowed that he did love her, loved Sherry Fisher, then it all would have been transformed.
It would not be a different stance or angle, but a difference in the very thing they were praying and deciding on together.
I chose this story in part because it was the last piece that I.
Worked on with David Foster Wallace before.
His death in 2008, and because our.
Correspondence about the story stayed very vividly in my memory and came to mind when he died.
The story was eventually part of the.
Pale King, David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel.
Which was published in 2011.
At the time that he sent it to me in December of 2006, though.