2015-10-01
44 分钟Allan Gurganus joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Grace Paley’s “My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age,” from a 2002 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 Grace Paley's story.
My father addresses me on the facts of old age, which was published in the New Yorker in 2002.
The main thing is this.
When you get up in the morning, you must take your heart in your two hands.
You must do this every morning.
That's a metaphor, right?
Metaphor?
No, no.
You can do this.
The story was chosen by Alan Garganis, who is the author of five books of fiction, including the novel oldest living confederate widow tells all and the novella collection local souls.
His stories have been appearing in the New Yorker since 1974.
Hi, Alan.
Hi, Debra.
Good to hear you.
You too.
You said that Grace Paley was your teacher, your writing teacher at one point.
Where and when was that?