Nathan Englander Reads Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2009-04-11

31 分钟
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单集简介 ...

Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Disguised" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

单集文稿 ...

  • 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 disguised by Isaac Bechevis, singer Tamerl herself was.

  • About to faint, yet she noticed that the woman's cheeks were not smooth, but fuzzy, as if she were sprouting a beard.

  • Disguised was published in the New Yorker in 1986.

  • It was chosen by Nathan Englander, author of the novel the Ministry of Special Cases and the short story collection for the relief of unbearable urges.

  • His short stories have also appeared in the New Yorker.

  • He joins me in the New Yorker office.

  • Hi, Nathan.

  • Hi, Debra.

  • So Singer wrote literally hundreds of stories, and dozens of them were published in the magazine.

  • Why did you instantly go to this one?

  • You know what?

  • I'll admit it, since it's so intimate.

  • Just me and you and whoever's downloading.

  • I knew I wanted Singer from the start, and then I picked 87 other stories as well because I thought, like, I'm so Jewy.

  • Don't be Jewy.

  • And I think everyone gets penned in in these weird ways.

  • Stories are about people.