2014-09-30
58 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 sweet dreams by Peter Stammer.
The man seemed quiet, almost indifferent, but in his eyes, Lara saw an attentiveness and a kind of hunger that she found a little disagreeable, but at the same time provocative.
The story was chosen by Tim Parks, whose essays and fiction have been appearing in the New Yorker since 1996.
His latest novel, Sex is forbidden, is out in paperback from vintage.
He joins us from a studio in Milan where he lives.
Hi, Tim.
Hi, Deborah.
Hi.
Peter Stamme is a swiss writer who writes in German.
Youve written about him and you love his work.
How did you first come across it?
Did you read it in Germane?
Oh, no, I don't actually read German.
I came across his work because the New York Review of Books asked me to review it.
As always, one looks with a little skepticism, thinking, do I really want to review this?
But this was one of those wonderful occasions where, you know that you want to read all the guys work, not just the book you've been sent.
And why did they pick you to review it if you didn't know his work?