2007-09-10
33 分钟Nell Freudenberger discusses Grace Paley's short story "Somewhere Else" with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. The podcast includes a reading of the story by Barbara Rosenblatt. "Somewhere Else" was published in The New Yorker on October 23, 1978.
This program was recorded shortly before the death of the writer Grace Paley, whose work it honors.
This is the New Yorker out loud from the New Yorker magazine.
I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.
This month we'll hear somewhere else a story by Grace Paley that was originally published in the New Yorker in 1978.
At any rate, he ignored Joe and the interesting socialist question of decentralized neighborhood industry.
Instead he said, Mister Lorenz, why did you choose to photograph that peasanthenne?
What?
Me?
Me?
Somewhere else was chosen from our archives by Nell Freudenberger, whose story Lucky Girls was published in the magazine in 2001.
A collection of her short stories with the same title was published in 2005.
Nell Freudenberger not only chose this month's story, she's here to talk about it, too.
Hi, Nell.
Hi.
Grace Paley has published three books of short stories, and almost all of them are set in New York City, except for this one, half of which takes place in China.
I know that you've written many times about americans traveling abroad, and I wondered, is that what drew you to this story?
Well, it was partly that, and I was really excited to see that one of my favorite writers was writing about a place that I've been.
But it was also just the circumstances of the trip that were really interesting to me.
I think that her trip, the trip that Grace Paley took was in 1974.
So she really, she did actually go to China at this point.