2007-12-11
37 分钟Jhumpa Lahiri reads the short story "A Day," by William Trevor, and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Triesman.
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.
Today we'll hear a story by William Trevor from 1993 called a day.
It was in France in the hotel St.
George during their September holiday seven years ago that misses Lethwest found out about her husband's other woman.
Adey was chosen from the New Yorker archives by Jhumpa Lahiri, whose short stories have been appearing in the magazine since 1998.
She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her first book, a collection of stories entitled Interpreter of maladies.
Her third book, Unaccustomed Earth, is coming out in the spring.
Welcome to the program.
Cinpa.
Thank you.
The New Yorker's been publishing William Trevor since the late seventies.
Did you first read him in the magazine?
I didn't.
A friend recommended him.
And this was right around the time that I was trying to write fiction or just sort of getting my bearings.
And this when you were in college.
Or, you know, this was, no, I was probably mid twenties around then, and so I got the big orange collected stories.
But I was also receiving the New Yorker.