2018-12-02
55 分钟Dave Eggers joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Indianapolis (Highway 74)," by Sam Shepard, from a 2009 issue of the magazine. Eggers is the author of twelve books, including the novels "Heroes of the Frontier," "The Circle," and "The Wild Things." A new novel, "The Parade," will be published in March.
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 Indianapolis Highway 74 by Sam Sheppard, which was published in the New Yorker in November of 2009.
Then she does an amazing thing.
She whips off the blue bandana and shakes out a mane of red hair that topples almost to her waist.
Now it all comes back.
Oh, it's you, I say, still unable to attach a name.
The story was chosen by Dave Eggers, who's the author of twelve books, including the novels a hologram for the King and Heroes of the Frontier, and the memoir a Heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Hi, Dave.
Hey, Debra, how are you?
Welcome.
Tell me about you and Sam Shepard's work.
Are you a longtime fan of his plays or his prose?
You know, I encountered the plays first.
It must have been when he was at the Magic Theater in San Francisco.
At some point, I wrote him a letter and I sent him a book that I wrote that was all dialogue.
It was sort of like a play, but it was a novel but just happened to be all dialogue.
And I had read that he grew up or was born in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, which is about a mile from where I grew up.
So I sort of wrote him a letter with that as the opening question.