Monica Ali Reads Joshua Ferris

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2010-05-14

46 分钟
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Monica Ali reads Joshua Ferris's "The Dinner Party."

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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 dinner party by Joshua Faris.

  • I can predict everything that will happen from the moment they arrive to the little kiss on the cheek goodbye, and I just can't goddamn do it.

  • The story was chosen by Monica Ali, the author of the novels Brick Lane and in the Kitchen.

  • Her story Sundowners was published in the New Yorker in 2006 and became a chapter of her book Alan Tejo Blue.

  • Hi, Monica.

  • Hi, Debra.

  • So the story was first published in 2008, and it was Josh Ferriss first story in the magazine.

  • Did it have a big impact on you when you read it?

  • I'd already readdevelop.

  • Then we came to the end.

  • His novel.

  • Yes, before I read this story.

  • So I was already a fan of his.

  • And then we came to the end as a very, it's a laugh out loud novel that also deals with some serious issues, but it's very, very funny.

  • And I picked up on the humour straight away in the opening of the dinner party.

  • But then it gets darker and darker, this story as it unfolds, and I was really sucked in by that.

  • Do you feel as though this story is sort of in keeping with the novel, or do you feel as though it's a departure for him?