Dana Spiotta Reads Joy Williams

达娜·斯皮塔(Dana Spiotta)阅读乔伊·威廉姆斯(Joy Williams)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2016-05-02

39 分钟
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单集简介 ...

Dana Spiotta joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Joy Williams’s “Chicken Hill,” from a 2015 issue of the magazine.

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 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.