2015-03-03
29 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 Donald Barthelme's story Chablis, which was published in the New Yorker in 1983.
This dog thing is getting to be a big issue.
I said to my wife, well, you've got the baby.
Do we have to have the damn dog too?
The dog will probably bite somebody or get lost.
The story was chosen by Edgar Carrot, who has been publishing his own stories in the magazine since 2011.
His memoir, the seven good years, will be published by Riverhead Books in June.
Hi, Eckhart.
Hi.
So do you know you are the fifth person to choose a story by Donald Barthelme for this podcast.
Why do you think that is?
Why is he so popular with writers?
Well, I think that they're fun to read out loud.
There are many stories that I love, but I wouldn't dare to read for a podcast because it would seem like that, you know, it doesn't work as well as you see it in paper.
And with both of these stories, many times it's a voice.
It's not even a plot.
You know, there is a voice there.