2026-04-01
1 小时 11 分钟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 The Night Face Up by Julio Cortazar,
which was translated from the Spanish by Paul Blackburn.
It appeared in The New Yorker in April of 1967.
He came too, abruptly.
Four or five young men were getting him out from under the cycle.
He felt a taste of salt and blood.
One knee hurt, and when they hoisted him up, he yelped.
The story was chosen by Valeria Luiselli, a MacArthur Fellow and winner of the Folio Prize, among others.
She is the author of five books, including the novel Lost Children Archive.
Her new novel, Beginning Middle End, will be published in July.
Hi, Valeria.
Hi, Debra.
So you had a fair number of ideas for stories you might want to read today,
and I'm wondering what made you settle on The Night Face Up.
Yes, that's a great question.
I really wanted to read Shakespeare's memory.
Right.