Gary Shteyngart Reads Andrea Lee

加里·施坦加特读安德里亚·李

The New Yorker: Fiction

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2008-10-10

33 分钟
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Gary Shteyngart reads Andrea Lee's short story "Brothers and Sisters Around the World," 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, my guest is the novelist Gary Steingart, and he chose a story by Andrea Lee that came out in the winter of 2000 called brothers and sisters around the world.

  • The girls squatting under the mango tree stare hard at me whenever I sit out on the beach or walk down to the water to swim.

  • They stare at me and guffaw and stretch and give their breath, competitive shake.

  • Gary Steingart is the author of two novels, the russian debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan, excerpts from which appeared in the New Yorker.

  • He was born in St.

  • Petersburg, which was then Leningrad, but left Russia when he was seven and has lived in New York on and off since then.

  • Hi, Gary.

  • Hi.

  • Now, when I was coming here today, I was trying to think up some parallels between your writing and Andrea Lee's writing.

  • I couldn't come up with much.

  • She writes about elegant, wealthy Europeans and american expats in Europe.

  • And you write about low grade criminals and con men who try to take advantage of wealthy Europeans expats.

  • The circle is complete.

  • What is it that draws you to her writing?

  • I first discovered her in 2004.

  • I was living in Rome for a year.

  • I had no idea about Andrea Lee's background.