2019-08-02
1 小时 10 分钟Margaret Atwood joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Corrie," by Alice Munro, from a 2010 issue of the magazine. Atwood is the author of numerous collections of poetry, stories, and novels, including "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Blind Assassin," which won the Booker Prize in 2000, and "Stone Mattress." A winner of the Franz Kafka Prize and the Governor General's Award, among others, she will publish "The Testaments," a sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale," in September.
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 Corey by Alice Monroe, which was published in the New Yorker in October of 2010.
Corey was right across the table looking their guest in the eye.
She seemed to think this was funny.
Whos she going to marry?
Her father continued.
Shes 25.
Corey raised her eyebrows, made a face you missed to hear, she said, 26.
The story was chosen by Margaret Atwood, who is the author of 18 novels, including the Testaments, a sequel to her 1985 book the Handmaids Tale, which will be published in September.
Hi, Margaret.
Hello, Deborah.
Thank you for coming back.
Now, the last time that you were on the podcast, you read a story by another fellow Canadian, Mavis Gallant.
And the answer may seem obvious, but why did you choose to talk about Alice Monroe this time?
Well, she's an old pal.
I know her work quite well.
How did you two meet?
Did you know her work before you met her?