2013-11-02
57 分钟On this month's fiction podcast, Louise Erdrich reads "Mastiff," by Joyce Carol Oates, which appeared in the magazine in 2013. Erdrich's latest book, "The Round House," won the National Book Award in 2012.
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 a story by Joyce Carroll Oates called Mastiff.
The dog's damp, shining eyes were fixed on her, sharply focused with a kind of indignation.
Quickly shifting to fury, it barked at the woman.
The story was chosen by Louise Erdrich, whose poems and stories have been appearing in the magazine since the late 1980s.
Her latest novel, the Roundhouse, came out in 2012 and won the National Book Award.
She joins me from a studio in Minnesota where she lives.
So welcome back, Louise.
Thank you, Deborah.
I'm happy to be here.
Now, the last time you were on the podcast was in 2008, and you read a story by Lori Moore called Dance in America.
Yes.
Mastiff is quite a different piece.
Do you think that these two writers have anything in common?
I chose each one of those stories.
Because I couldn't forget something about them.
They kept coming back to me.
And this one especially, it stuck with me.