Jennifer Egan Reads Lore Segal

詹妮弗·伊根读《西格尔传说》

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2010-11-19

44 分钟
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Jennifer Egan reads Lore Segal's "The Reverse Bug."

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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 the reverse bug by Laurie Siegel.

  • There was a rustle of people turning to locate the voice that had said, my father went to the american consulate, but it said, nothing further, and the audience settled back.

  • The story was chosen by Jennifer Egan, six of whose stories have appeared in the magazine.

  • Her latest novel, which incorporates some of those stories, is called a visit from the Goon Squad.

  • She joins me today in the office.

  • Hi, Jenny.

  • Hello.

  • So the New Yorkers published 19 stories by Laurie Siegel since 1961, and the reverse bug came out in 1989.

  • Did you first encounter her work in the magazine?

  • No.

  • I actually had been at a writers.

  • Conference where she was teaching, so I think I had read some of her work before.

  • Uh huh.

  • When was that?

  • That was in 87.

  • So it would have been just a couple years before this.

  • But it may be one reason I read her with such interest that I had actually met her and sort of knew her as a human being a little bit.