2015-04-02
39 分钟Thomas McGuane joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss David Means’s “The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934,” from a 2010 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 David Meanes story, the Treeline, Kansas, 1934, which was published in the New Yorker in 2010.
Five days he had listened to Barnes, staying quiet, holding back on saying much, until that last day when Barnes turned and said, look, Lee, all we're doing out here is wasting time.
Carson isn't coming.
I mean, hell, let's face it, it's unlikely that he's going to arrive down that road.
The story was chosen by Thomas McGuin, whose own stories have been peering in the magazine since 1994.
His latest collection, Crow Fair, came out in March.
Hi, Tom.
Good morning.
Is it morning?
No, we're afternoon now.
Are we really?
Well, I'm happy to be here with you.
So how did you first read this story?
Did you read it in the magazine in 2010?
I did.
I read it when it first came out.
And then when we wanted to do one of these podcasts, I went back to see if I was right in liking it so much.