Donald Antrim Reads Denis Johnson

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2013-08-02

28 分钟
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单集简介 ...

Donald Antrim reads "Work," by Denis Johnson.

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 Dennis Johnson's story work.

  • Usually we felt guilty and frightened because there was something wrong with us and we didn't know what it was.

  • But today we had the feeling of men who had worked.

  • The story was chosen by Donald Antrim, whose fiction and essays have been appearing in the magazine since 1996.

  • His novels include the Verificationist and the Hundred Brothers, which were re released last year in paperback by Picador.

  • Hi, Donald.

  • Hey, how are you doing?

  • Good.

  • So this story Burke appeared in the magazine in 1988.

  • Would you have read it back then?

  • Yeah, that's why I wanted to read it now.

  • Really?

  • Yeah.

  • I didn't even remember that it had been so far back.

  • I knew that it was a while ago.

  • What were your thoughts on first reading it?

  • There were two stories of Dennis Johnson's that the New Yorker published that year, I believe.