Thomas McGuane Reads James Salter

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2009-01-10

33 分钟
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Thomas McGuane reads James Salter's "Last Night," 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 last night by James Salter.

  • He had known her when she was in her twenties, long legged and innocent.

  • Now he had slipped her, as in a burial at sea, beneath the flow of time.

  • Last night was published in the New Yorker in 2002.

  • It was chosen by Thomas McGuin, seven of whose stories have been published in the magazine.

  • McWane's many novels include the Bushwhacked Piano, 92 in the Shade, and the Cadence of Grass.

  • He's also written screenplays and several books of nonfiction.

  • He joins me from the studios of Peak Recording and sound in Bozeman, Montana.

  • Hi, Tom.

  • Good morning, Deborah.

  • So James Salter has published a couple of non fiction pieces in the magazine, but last night is the only story of his that's been in the New Yorker so far.

  • When you chose it, were you just looking for a story by Salter, or was this story in particular very memorable for you?

  • Well, I picked the story because in some ways, because I wanted to find out why I'd been so moved by it.

  • I wanted to find out if I had been reasonably moved.

  • And so it was one I kind of wanted to pick apart rather than just being kind of crushed by it because it's a very powerful story, I think.

  • Now, before he became a writer, Salter was a fighter pilot in the US Air force who flew more than 100 combat missions in the korean war.

  • And his first novel, the Hunters, was about that experience.