2013-03-07
36 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 two pieces by Jamaica Kincaid, one called Girl and the other called Wingless.
Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery, and perhaps after I've made my great discovery, I will be sent home in chains.
They were chosen by Edwidge Danticard, whose fiction and essays have been appearing in the New Yorker since 1999.
Her novels include Breath, Eyes, Memory, and the Dewbreaker.
Her new book, Clare of the Sea Light, will be out in August.
Edwich joins us from the studios of WLRN in Miami.
Hi, Edweech.
Hi, Debra.
Now, when did you first read Jamaica Kincaid's work?
Do you remember what effect it had on you at the time?
Yeah, I read her in college.
She was coming to our campus, and it feels like this was the first.
Real writer I had seen in person.
I can't be 100% sure, but I just remember her coming to the campus, and every time I go on a campus now, I have this sort of, as my vision of sort of what people are expecting of me because I was so blown away by her.
You have to live up to that now.
Exactly.
I thought, oh, my gosh, if people were just expecting that, then I'm in trouble.