Tony Earley Reads William Maxwell

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2013-01-03

21 分钟
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Tony Earley reads "Love," by William Maxwell.

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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 love by William Maxwell.

  • We meant to have her for our teacher forever.

  • We intended to pass right up through the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades and on into high school, taking her with us.

  • The story was chosen by Tony early, whose short stories have been appearing in the magazine since 1990 1999.

  • His latest novel, the Blue Star, was published in 2008, and his new collection of stories, Mister Tall, will come out next year.

  • Hi, Tony.

  • Hi, Debra.

  • William Maxwell was a fiction writer and also the fiction editor of the New Yorker from 1936 to 1975.

  • And his story Love was published in the magazine in 1983 when he was 75.

  • I think you were maybe in your early twenties then.

  • Did you read it at that point?

  • No, I didn't.

  • I read it much later, 1983.

  • That's the year I graduated from college.

  • And so how did you come across the story?

  • Well, I just came through Maxwell later.

  • And began sort of pawing through the archives and reading the stories.