2008-02-12
19 分钟T. Coraghessan Boyle reads Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain" and discusses Wolff with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.
Every month we ask a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives.
To read and discuss on this program, we'll hear a story by Tobias Wolf called bullet in the brain.
One of you tellers hits the alarm, you're all dead meat.
Got it?
The tellers nodded.
Oh, bravo.
Anders said.
Dead meat.
The New Yorker first published bullet in the Brain in 1995, and it was selected this month by novelist TC Boyle, who has published 19 stories in the magazine since 1993.
His most recent novel, Talk Talk, came out last year.
He joins us from the studios of the production room in Santa Barbara, California.
Hi, Tom.
Hi, Debra.
There are thousands of stories in the New Yorker archive, but you told me that it took you about 30 seconds to choose bullet in the brain.
It's one of your all time favorites.
Can you tell me why?
What I love about bullet in the brain is that it takes you into a space you couldn't imagine.
From the first line to what happens at the end is inconceivable.