David Rabe Reads John Updike

戴维·拉伯(David Rabe)读约翰·updike

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2020-02-02

44 分钟
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David Rabe joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Other Side of the Street,” by John Updike, which appeared in a 1991 issue of the magazine. Rabe, a fiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter, is the author of more than a dozen plays, including the Tony Award-winning “Sticks and Bones,” “In the Boom Boom Room,” and “Hurlyburly.” He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theatre Award as a Master American Dramatist in 2014. His novels include “Recital of the Dog” and “Girl by the Road at Night.” 

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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 other side of the street by John Updike, which was published in the New Yorker in October of 1991.

  • He inhaled Hayesville happiness.

  • He saw his entire life past and to come as an errant encircling of this forgotten center.

  • The story was chosen by David Rabe, the playwright and fiction writer whose novels include Recital of the Dog, Dinosaurs on the Roof, and Girl by the road at night.

  • Hi, David.

  • Hi.

  • So I know some other ideas came up, but Updike was pretty much the first writer you thought of reading for the podcast.

  • Why was that?

  • He's been, you know, he's sort of been in my mind for, since I first started writing or thought about writing.

  • He was always meaningful to me, and then there's a period of time where I stopped reading him.

  • I just willfully stopped because I felt like it was the only way to write, the way he was doing it.

  • And so I just stopped.

  • And I can remember talking to friends, and I would kind of even developed some harsh opinions of him that were really inauthentic on some level.

  • Right.

  • Based on just a need to kind.

  • Of separate what for you is at the heart of his appeal.

  • Yeah, I mean, it's a funny way we have, you know, there's kind of a cross of backgrounds in a way.