Salvatore Scibona Reads Denis Johnson

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The New Yorker: Fiction

小说

2010-07-14

37 分钟
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Salvatore Scibona reads Denis Johnson's "Two Men."

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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 story by Dennis Johnson called two men.

  • The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.

  • I was like rubber.

  • I'll go after him then.

  • Let's just have it out.

  • Two men was chosen by Salvatore Scabona, whose story the Kid was featured in the New Yorkers recent 20 under 40 fiction issue.

  • Scebona is the author of the novel the end, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2009.

  • And he's the winner of the Young Lions Award from the New York Public Library.

  • Hi, Salvatore.

  • Hi, Deborah.

  • So when did you first encounter Johnson's work?

  • What impression did it make on you?

  • I think I first read his poems.

  • I was reading that collection of three of his books put together, and I was walking down a street in Iowa City where he's kind of presiding spirit demigod.

  • Yeah.

  • Yeah.

  • And as I was reading the book, and I held the book a couple of inches away from my chest as I was reading, a bird defecated right on my shirt between my eyes.