2017-02-01
55 分钟Junot Díaz reads and discusses "Seven," by Edwidge Danticat.
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 seven by Edwij Danticat, which was published in the New Yorker in October of 2001.
He charged at her and wrapped both of his arms around her, and as he held her, she felt her feet leave the ground.
It was when he put her back down that she finally believed that she was somewhere else, on another soil, in another country.
The story was chosen by Juno Diaz, who is the author of two story collections and the novel the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wilde, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.
Hi, Juno.
How's it going?
Deborah?
Oh, well, you know, today is January 20, and we've just seen Trump be sworn in, so we're in a new era.
We certainly are, from my point of view, a rather dark one, but I'm sure you know.
Yeah.
Yep.
A fitting era to read the story that you've chosen today, which is seven by Eduig Danticat.
And the last time that you were on the podcast, you read another story by eduach called Water Child, which was published in the magazine a year earlier.
Why choose seven for today?
Well, I've spent the last few years, as I've spent probably my entire adult life, meditating on immigration and on immigrant communities, most specifically that generation that comes before the adult generation.
As much as I've thought about my own immigration as a child, and certainly our national politics have been all about the immigrant as a menacing and dangerous figure for the last few years.
And one of the antidotes for that kind of xenophobia have been writers like Edouise D'Antequint.