2020-03-02
59 分钟Greg Jackson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Where You’ll Find Me,” by Ann Beattie, which appeared in a 1986 issue of the magazine. Jackson is the author of “Prodigals,” a story collection published in 2016, for which he won the Bard Fiction Prize and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award.
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 where you'll find me by Anne Beattie, which was published in the New Yorker in March of 1986.
What's wrong with me?
Howard says it's almost the first time he's looked at me since I arrived.
I've been trying not to register my boredom and my frustration with Kate's prattle.
Maybe we should get a tree, I say.
I don't think it's Christmas that's making me feel this way.
Howard says.
The story was chosen by Greg Jackson, whose debut story collection, Prodigals, was published in 2016.
Hi, Greg.
Hi, Deborah.
So you were once a student of Anne Beatty's, right?
Yes, I was.
Where and when was that?
I was her student at the University of Virginia in 2011 2012.
I had a workshop with her and she was then my thesis advisor, and I chose her as my thesis advisor because she never liked any of my work.
And I thought, what better person to learn from.
I knew in some sense that she was right and that my work wasn't very good, but I didn't really know why.