Kevin Barry Reads Brian Friel

凯文·巴里(Kevin Barry)阅读布莱恩·弗里尔(Brian Friel)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2016-02-01

43 分钟
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单集简介 ...

Kevin Barry joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Brian Friel's "The Saucer of Larks," from a 1960 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 Brian Friel, the Saucer of Larks, which was published in the New Yorker in 1960.

  • Dammit.

  • It's lovely, isn't it?

  • Huh?

  • He said, God himself above you and the best of creation all around you.

  • Do you know only that the missus is buried away down in the midlands.

  • I wouldn't mind being laid to rest anywhere along the coast here myself.

  • The story was chosen by Kevin Barry, whose second novel, Beetlebone, came out last year.

  • He's been publishing fiction in the New Yorker since 2010.

  • Hi, Kevin.

  • Hello, Deborah.

  • How are you doing?

  • Welcome.

  • Thank you.

  • So Brian Friel, who died last October, is best known as a playwright, but before writing plays, he wrote two collections of short stories, the handful of which appeared in the New Yorker.

  • How do you think he differed as a playwright and a short story writer?

  • You know, I've been reading through them again over the last few weeks, and maybe it's with the benefit of hindsight, but I think in the stories, you can see very much a young playwright in embryo.