Allegra Goodman Reads John Updike

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2011-05-21

29 分钟
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Allegra Goodman reads John Updike's "A & P," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "A & P" was published in the July 22, 1961, issue of The New Yorker and is collected in "The Early Stories: 1953-1975."

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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 a and p by John Updike.

  • You know, it's one thing to have a girl in a bathing suit down on the beach where, what with the glare, nobody can look at each other much anyway.

  • And another thing, in the cool of the A and P.

  • The story was chosen by Allegra Goodman, whose own fiction has been appearing in the magazine since 1991.

  • Her most recent novel is the Cookbook Collector.

  • She joins us from the studios of the Christian Science Monitor in Boston.

  • Hi, Allegra.

  • Hi.

  • So I know that Updike has been really important to you as a writer.

  • Did you ever actually meet him?

  • You know, I only met him once, I believe, and it was actually at a New Yorker photo shoot years ago.

  • Richard Avedon took some photos of fiction writers in the New Yorker.

  • I think I was standing between John Updike and Nicholson Baker.

  • So I met him then.

  • He was charming.

  • And had you been reading him at that point?

  • You know, I've been reading him since high school, like so many other people in America.