2014-09-30
31 分钟Miranda July joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Janet Frame’s “Prizes,” from a 1962 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 prizes by Janet Frame.
You cheated in history.
You couldn't learn poetry by heart.
You never had your name in the paper.
First in geometry, French, English, history.
The story was chosen by Miranda July, whose fiction and essays have been appearing in the New Yorker since 2006.
July is also a multimedia artist and a filmmaker.
Her most recent movie, the Future, came out in 2011, and her first novel, the First Bad man, will be published in 2015.
She joins us from a recording studio in Los Angeles.
Hi, Miranda.
Hi.
Now, prizes was published in the magazine in 1962 when Janet Frame was 38, and you did not exist.
So I'm wondering how you first came across frames work, and what was the first piece of hers that you read?
Well, like so many people, it was Jane Campion's movie an angel at my table about Janet frame that led me to her work.
And I loved that movie.
It was so important to me.
And then I guess I read elves do cry faces in the water.