Deborah Treisman Reads David Foster Wallace

Deborah Treisman阅读David Foster Wallace

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2020-04-02

34 分钟
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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. 

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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, 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.