2019-04-02
55 分钟Marisa Silver joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Nawabdin Electrician," by Daniyal Mueenuddin, from a 2007 issue of the magazine. Silver is the author of two short-story collections and four books of fiction, including "The God of War" and "Little Nothing."
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 Nawabdin electrician by Daniel Muwinerdin, which was published in the New Yorker in August of 2007.
Unfortunately or fortunately, Nawab had married early in life, woman of unsurpassed fertility, who he adored, and she proceeded to bear him children, spaced if not less than nine months apart, then not that much more.
The story was chosen by Marissa Silver, who's the author of two story collections and four novels, including Mary Coyne and Little Nothing.
Hi, Marisa.
Hi, Deborah.
So when we talked, you were on the podcast once before, reading a story by Peter Taylor.
And when we talked about doing it this time, this story, Nawabdinelli Christian, was one of the first things that came to mind.
Why was that?
I just remember reading this in the New Yorker, and at the time, I think we had not been aware of this man as a writer.
I just was knocked out by it.
And I think what I love about this story and all of his stories is the deceptive simplicity of the telling, which belies an incredible complexity underneath it.
And it's the kind of story that I really admire, and I think he does it so beautifully.
So you read it first just when it came out in the magazine?
Yeah.
And then I got the collection and read the collection in other rooms.
Other wonders.
Right.