Joshua Ferris Reads Robert Coover

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2015-05-02

22 分钟
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单集简介 ...

Joshua Ferris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Robert Coover’s “Going for a Beer,” from a 2011 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 Robert Coover's story going for a beer, which was published in the New Yorker in 2011.

  • He finds himself sitting in the neighborhood bar drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going there for one.

  • In fact, he has finished it.

  • Perhaps he'll have a second one, he thinks as he downs it and asks for a third.

  • The story was chosen by Joshua Faris, who's the author of three novels, including last year's, to rise again at a decent hour.

  • His own stories have been appearing in the magazine since 2008.

  • Hi, Josh.

  • Hi, Deborah.

  • So Robert Coover is sometimes described as a writers writer.

  • Why do you think that is?

  • And are you one of the writers hes a writers writer for?

  • I would say I probably am, yeah.

  • Ive been reading Coover since I was in college.

  • My guess is that the formal concerns that he has makes him primarily the reason that people talk about him as a writers writer.

  • Hes not first and foremost concerned with the things that kind of make for a more universal read.

  • Character is not always top most.

  • A driving plot is not always topmost.