David Means Reads Sherman Alexie

大卫的意思是读谢尔曼·亚历克斯(Sherman Alexie)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2016-12-01

51 分钟
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单集简介 ...

David Means reads and discusses “The Toughest Indian in the World,” by Sherman Alexie.

单集文稿 ...

  • 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 toughest indian in the world by Sherman Alexei, which was published in the New Yorker in June of 1999.

  • We all know that nostalgia is dangerous, but I remember those days with a clear conscience.

  • We live in different days now, and there aren't as many indian hitchhikers as there used to be.

  • The story was chosen by David Means, who's published four story collections.

  • His first novel, Histopia, was published earlier this year.

  • Hi, David.

  • Hey, Debra.

  • So last time you were on the podcast, you read a story by Raymond Carver.

  • What made you pick Sherman Alexei this time?

  • I'm not sure.

  • I think it was.

  • I felt for some reason, I suddenly felt that Sherman Alexei was being neglected a little bit.

  • I think he's a writer who goes way beyond the category of a native american writer and is simply just a great storyteller and story writer.

  • And I felt this story had some complexity that lent itself to discussion, I think at some level.

  • Did you read it when it first came out?

  • I think I read it in book form years ago, and occasionally I've brought it in front of my class to teach.

  • So I've looked at it over the years again and again.