A. M. Homes Reads Margaret Atwood

A. M. Homes阅读玛格丽特·阿特伍德(Margaret Atwood)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2018-06-02

1 小时 8 分钟
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A.M. Homes joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Stone Mattress," from a 2011 issue of The New Yorker.

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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 stone mattress by Margaret Atwood, which was published in the New Yorker in December of 2011.

  • At the outset, Verna had not intended to kill anyone.

  • What she had in mind was a vacation, pure and simple.

  • Take a breather, do some inner accounting, shed worn skin.

  • The story was chosen by Am Holmes, who's the author of ten books of fiction, including the story collection days of Awe, which comes out this month.

  • Hi, am.

  • Hi, Debra.

  • So last time you were on the podcast, you read the lottery by Shirley Jackson and one of the darkest stories of the last century.

  • This time, you've chosen another dark story by Margaret Atwood.

  • Do you think that these two stories appeal to you for the same reasons?

  • You know, it's interesting.

  • I hadn't thought about it in that sense, but I would say they appeal to a kind of darkness that often goes unspoken, that I think is in the culture, as opposed to, say, in me personally.

  • So, yeah, I think that there is that, that thread of trying to figure out how one illustrates this kind of darkness in fiction.

  • A sort of internal murderousness.

  • Yeah.

  • Or a kind of a moral situation that is unresolved.

  • Right.