Colin Barrett Reads Joy Williams

科林·巴雷特(Colin Barrett)读乔伊·威廉姆斯(Joy Williams)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2018-02-02

49 分钟
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Colin Barrett joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Stuff" by Joy Williams, from a 2016 issue of the magazine.

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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 stuff by Joy Williams, which was published in the New Yorker in July of 2016.

  • He suddenly felt that he could make anything appear in this room, anything he wanted.

  • His father's rack of pipes, the bird's nest he had destroyed on a dare.

  • Anything, his old dog breathing heavily in dream.

  • This was a magic place.

  • The story was chosen by Colin Barrett, whose debut story collection, Young Skins, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian first Book Award in 2014.

  • Hi, Colin.

  • Hi, Deborah.

  • You know, when I first asked you to come on the podcast, it didn't occur to me that you would choose a story by Joy Williams.

  • Her work, on a superficial level anyway, seems at a far removed from yours.

  • What is it that most excites you about her writing?

  • Gosh, I mean, I kind of only really encountered joy Williams work probably only like three or four years ago.

  • I really began reading her consistently.

  • I was based in Ireland up until last year, I don't think any of her collections were ever published in the UK, you know, so she wasn't widely known, even in part from a few short story connoisseurs, those several hundred of us that exist in Ireland.

  • Well, in Ireland there's probably several tens of thousands of them.

  • But, you know, obviously she wouldn't be known by even pretty well read, you know, the casual reader.

  • So I only really encountered her three or four years ago, maybe, and I'd kind of already written my first book, Young Skins.