2016-05-02
39 分钟Dana Spiotta joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Joy Williams’s “Chicken Hill,” from a 2015 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 story by Joy Williams, Chicken Hill, which was published in the New Yorker in September of 2015.
You go away now, and when you come back in a few months, say, I'll give you some jewelry.
I'll come back tomorrow.
That's so soon, Ruth protested.
But all right, the day after tomorrow, the important thing is to go away now.
The story was chosen by Dana Spiota, who is the author of four novels.
An excerpt from her most recent novel, innocents and others, was published in the New Yorker in December.
Hi, Dana.
Hi, Deborah.
So you've chosen a very recent story by Joy Williams, who's been publishing stories for more than 30 years now.
How did you first come to her work?
I first was reading her novels.
Gordon Lish actually was the person who recommended Joy Williams work to me.
I was working for him at a literary magazine called the Quarterly.
And I love the novels.
And in fact, the quick and the dead remains a huge influence on me.
And my second novel really showed me how to write about political content without being didactic, being funny.