2017-09-01
1 小时 0 分钟Curtis Sittenfeld joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Tessa Hadley’s “The Surrogate,” from a 2003 issue of the magazine.
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 the surrogate by Tessa Hadley, which was published in the New Yorker in September of 2003.
When he asked for a pint of Stella, his accent was ordinary, not like Patrick's edge educated one.
When I smiled at him and made some comment about the football match, he blushed and I guessed that he was shy and maybe not very clever.
The story was chosen by Curtis Sittenfeld, who's published five novels, including Prep, Sisterland, and Eligible, which came out last year.
Hi, Curtis.
Hi, Deborah.
No, the surrogate.
The Tessa Hadley story came out almost 15 years ago.
Did you read it back then?
Yes, I read it in the magazine.
Uh huh.
So you were probably still a student like the character in the story?
No, I might be older than you think I am.
So I'm about to turn 42, so I was.
Oh, no, this is in your late twenties.
You could have been an MFA student.
In September 2003, I actually was teaching at a boys prep school in Washington, DC, a boys high school.