Aleksandar Hemon Discusses Bernard Malamud

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 10 July 2008

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Aleksandar Hemon discusses Bernard Malamud's short story "A Summer's Reading" with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

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0:00.0	This is the Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:04.3	I'm Deborah Treesman, Fiction Editor at The New Yorker.
0:07.1	Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
0:11.7	This month's story, by Bernard Malamoud, was first published in 1956.
0:16.1	It's called a Summer's Reading.
0:17.9	What are you reading?
0:19.2	George hesitated and said,
0:20.8	I got a list of books in the library once,
0:22.8	and now I'm going to read them this summer.
0:24.8	He felt strange and a little unhappy saying this,
0:27.5	but he wanted Mr. Katanzar to respect him.
0:29.9	A Summer's Reading was chosen from the Archives by Alexander Hemman.
0:33.2	Hemman was born in Bosnia, which was then part of Yugoslavia in 1964,
0:37.7	and moved to Chicago in 1992.
0:40.2	He started writing in English a few years later and published his first story in the New Yorker in 1999.
0:45.9	His latest novel, The Lazarus Project, came out in May.
0:49.2	He joins me from WBEZ in Chicago.
0:52.3	Hi Sasha.
0:53.1	Hello.
0:54.0	Sasha, in the 50s, 60s and 70s, Malamoud was almost as well known in this country as
0:58.0	Saul Bello and Philip Roth.
0:59.7	The two other American Jewish writers for me was often grouped with.
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