Annie Proulx Reads J. F. Powers

安妮·普洛克斯(Annie Proulx)阅读J. F. Powers

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2016-09-01

48 分钟
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Annie Proulx joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss J. F. Powers’s “A Losing Game,” from a 1955 issue of the magazine.

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  • 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 a losing game by JF Powers, which was published in the New Yorker in November of 1955.

  • That was it.

  • The pastor had won again.

  • He was safe in his room, secure in the knowledge that his curate wouldn't knock and start the whole business all over.

  • Not for a while, anyway.

  • Father Faber went away.

  • Going downstairs, he told himself that though he had lost, he had extended the pastor as never before and would get the best of him yet.

  • The story was chosen by Annie Prue, who is the author of four story collections and five novels, most recently Barkskins, which was published earlier this year.

  • Hi, Annie.

  • Hi, Deborah.

  • So JF Powers was one of the first people you considered reading for the podcast.

  • What made him come to mind?

  • Well, he's a very favorite author of mine.

  • I loved his writing for many, many years.

  • I think he's worth looking at again and again and again.

  • I think I've been reading powers for about 30 years.

  • How did you come across him for the first time?