Dave Eggers Reads Sam Shepard

戴夫·埃格斯(Dave Eggers)阅读山姆·谢泼德(Sam Shepard)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2018-12-02

55 分钟
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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.

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  • 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.