Joyce Carol Oates Reads Eudora Welty

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2009-03-10

21 分钟
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Joyce Carol Oates reads Eudora Welty's short story "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

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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 Eudora Welty called where is the voice coming from?

  • I says, roland, there was one way left for me to be ahead of you and stay ahead of you, and I just taken it.

  • Now I'm alive and you ain't.

  • Where is the voice coming from?

  • Was chosen by Joyce Carol Oates, whose book reviews, fiction, and poetry have been appearing in the magazine since 1994.

  • Joyce Carol Oates is the author of many novels and short story collections.

  • Her latest novel is called my Sister, my Love, the intimate story of Skyler Rampike, and it's published by Echo Press.

  • She joins me from a studio in Princeton, New Jersey.

  • Hi, Joyce.

  • Hi.

  • So is Eudora Welty someone who's meant a lot to you as a fellow writer?

  • Absolutely.

  • I began reading Eudora Welty when I was in high school, and I was just mesmerized by her ability to write so beautifully, so lyrically at the same time as in this story, so powerfully.

  • And what was it that most struck you?

  • Was it the subject matter or the style?

  • I've read a number of Eudora Welty's stories in which she uses voices.

  • It's a way of writing that I like very much myself.