George Saunders Reads Grace Paley And Barry Hannah

乔治·桑德斯(George Saunders)读了格蕾丝·佩利(Grace Paley)和巴里·汉娜(Barry Hannah)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2014-10-02

37 分钟
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George Saunders joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Grace Paley’s “Love,” from a 1979 issue of the magazine, and Barry Hannah’s “The Wretched Seventies,” from a 1996 issue.

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  • 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 not one, but two stories, love by Grace Paley and the wretched seventies by Barry Hanna.

  • Ned Maxey had stared out a window, weeping, fasting, and praying in his way, in character of both the drunkard and the penitent, he had watched life across the street.

  • The stories this month were chosen by George Saunders, whose own stories have been appearing in the magazine since 1992.

  • His latest collection, 10 December, is now out in paperback.

  • Welcome back to the podcast, George.

  • Nice to be here, Deborah.

  • Thanks for having me.

  • Yeah.

  • Now, last time that you were on the program seven years ago, you read an Isaac bobble story called you must know everything.

  • This time you're reading these two very short, more recent stories by Grace Paley and Barry Hanna.

  • Grace Paley's story is from 1979.

  • Barry Hanna's is from 1996.

  • Why these two pieces and why talk about them together?

  • We're at the sort of the beginning of a semester up here at Syracuse, and I always like to kind of almost like reboot my whole understanding of the story form.

  • Like, just forget everything I was thinking last year and start fresh.

  • And so one way to do that is just to start with the simple short one page examples, kind of the form at its purest.

  • And these two struck me as being really wonderful in that they're silly and they're funny, and they're also completely valid short stories in their own right.