2017-07-03
29 分钟Gabe Hudson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Robert Coover’s “The Frog Prince,” from a 2014 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 Frog Prince by Robert Coover, which was published in the New Yorker in January of 2014.
The prince was adorable.
All the girls at the Bridge club squirming with envy said so, though you could still see the effects his previous residents had had on him.
He had heavy lidded eyes and a wide mouth like a hand puppets.
The story was chosen by Gabe Hudson, whose first book of fiction, Dear Mister president, came out in 2002 and received the Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
A new novel, the Teenage Dragon, will be published this month.
Hi, Gabe.
Hey, Deborah.
Thanks for coming on.
Oh, thanks so much for having me.
I'm thrilled.
Sincerely.
Now, you chose a story by Robert Coover, and his work has been especially important to you because you studied with him, right?
That's right.
Was that as an undergrad or grad student?
As a graduate student in the MFA program at Brown University, being that that program was a sort of life changing event for me, and then working with Robert Coover, or Bob, as we call him, was also hugely transformative experience.
Had you read him before you took the class?