2019-06-04
46 分钟Andrew Sean Greer joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "I Live on Your Visits," by Dorothy Parker, from a 1955 issue of the magazine. Greer is the author of six books of fiction, including "The Confessions of Max Tivoli," "The Story of a Marriage," and "Less," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018.
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 I live on your visits by Dorothy Parker, which was published in the New Yorker in January of 1955.
For the past week up at his school, he had hoped, and coming down in the train, he had hoped so hard that it became prayer that his mother would not be what he thought of only as like that.
The story was chosen by Andrew Sean Grier, who's the author of six books of fiction and received the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his novel less.
Hi, Andy.
Hi there.
So tell me, why Dorothy Parker?
What does she mean to you as a reader and as a writer?
I got a copy of the portable Dorothy Parker when I was 17.
A friend gave it to me, and it has been my Bible ever since.
I never read anything so wicked and funny before.
What prompted the friend to give you that?
I think she was shocked that I'd never heard of Dorothy Parker.
There probably aren't that many 17 year olds these days who have.
Well, she'd had a different kind of boarding school life where they passed that kind of thing around.
Mm hmm.
And what was it at that age that really hit you about her work?
She wrote these theater reviews, I think, for the New Yorker.