2019-05-02
58 分钟Emma Cline joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Metal Bowl," by Miranda July, from a 2017 issue of the magazine. Cline's first novel, "The Girls," was shortlisted for the John Leonard Award from the National Book Critics Circle and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.
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 Metal bowl by Miranda July, which was published in the New Yorker in September of 2017.
If I protested, I'd only make his case stronger.
I'm less fun than my own butt, which is not untrue.
In my essence, I am a stone unmoving for 10,000 years unless picked up and moved.
The story was chosen by Emma Klein, who published her first novel, the Girls, in 2016.
Hi, Emma.
Hi, Deborah.
So the Metal bowl was published, as I just said, less than two years ago.
Did you read it when it first came out?
I actually first heard it, and I don't normally listen to many audiobooks or people reading aloud, but I was on a road trip and happened to listen to Miranda July read the story after it was published.
I was just so struck by it.
And I was in a sort of lull with reading where I just hadn't been engrossed in something in a long time or something had gone a little bit dull.
And then something about this story was just so peculiar and so apt that it really got me excited about stories again and the possibilities for stories.
What do you think it was about?
The story?
I think the way that she explicates certain emotions or thoughts in a way that I had just never seen before, but.
But in a way that also gave me that sense of recognition or familiarity.