2019-07-02
1 小时 13 分钟Kirstin Valdez Quade joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Long Black Line," by John L'Heureux, from a 2018 issue of the magazine. Quade is the author of the story collection "Night at the Fiestas," which won the National Book Critic Circle's John Leonard Prize and a "5 Under 35" award from the National Book Foundation.
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 long black line by John LaRue, which was published in the New Yorker in May of 2018.
Feelings father Superior explained to are always to be distrusted.
Jesuits are men of the will.
The story was chosen by Kirsten Valdez Quaid, whose first story collection, Night at the Fiestas, was published in 2015.
Hi, Kirsten.
Hi, Deborah.
John Leroux died last April, and I know you were a student of his at Stanford, and his mentorship meant a lot to you.
Can you talk about that a little?
It did mean so much to me.
John's class was, I think, the first classroom I walked into in my freshman fall at Stanford.
It was for a freshman seminar on the american short story, and I'd applied to be in it and was beyond excited when I showed up that first day.
And John was at that point.
He was professor Leroux to me, and he was a brilliant teacher, a stern teacher.
He could be intimidating.
He was witty and just incredibly, incredibly generous to me.
He was generous in his line comments on our essays.
He was generous outside of class.