2017-12-22
32 分钟Last month, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Fiction Podcast, we asked you to vote for your favorite episode from our first ten years. The winner was an episode from 2012, in which David Sedaris read and discussed "Roy Spivey," by Miranda July. This is a re-release of that podcast.
This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.
Last month, in honor of the 10th anniversary of the New Yorker Fiction podcast, we asked you to vote for your favorite episode from our first ten years.
What amazed us was that out of more than 120 episodes, 71 different podcasts got at least one vote, and most of them got many more than that.
The final winner was an episode from 2012 in which David Sedaris read and discussed the story.
Royce Bivy by Miranda July, a great selection and were happy to re release the episode now.
Thank you to everyone who voted, and thank you to all of our listeners for making this podcast such a rewarding thing to work on.
This is the New Yorker Fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
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 Roy Spivey by Miranda July.
He slept for the first hour, and it was startling to see such a famous face look so vulnerable and empty.
The story was chosen by David Sedaris, whose personal essays and humor pieces have been appearing in the New Yorker for nearly two decades.
He's published eight books, including me, talk Pretty one day, dress your family in corduroy and denim, and when you are engulfed in flames.
Hi, David.
Hi, Deborah.
So Miranda July published a story collection called no one belongs here more than you a few years ago, and two of her stories have appeared in the magazine, but she's also perhaps better known as a film director and performer.
She wrote, directed, and starred in two feature movies, me and you and everyone we know in 2005 and last year's the Future.
What side of her work do you know best?
I was not familiar with Miranda's July until I picked up this New Yorker with her story in it, and I sat down to read the story, and I felt like I was a different person when I finished reading the story.
It was exactly the kind of short story you want to read.