2016-09-01
48 分钟Annie Proulx joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss J. F. Powers’s “A Losing Game,” from a 1955 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 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?