Allegra Goodman Reads John Updike

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 21 May 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Allegra Goodman reads John Updike's "A & P," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "A & P" was published in the July 22, 1961, issue of The New Yorker and is collected in "The Early Stories: 1953-1975."

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:06.8	I'm Deborah Treesman, Fiction Editor at the New Yorker.
0:10.0	Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read
0:13.7	and discuss.
0:15.2	This month, we're going to hear A&P by John Updike.
0:19.2	You know, it's one thing to have a girl in a bathing suit down on the beach, where
0:22.7	what with the glare nobody can look at each other much anyway.
0:25.8	And another thing, in the cool of the A&P.
0:30.8	The story was chosen by Allegra Goodman, whose own fiction has been appearing in the magazine
0:34.6	since 1991.
0:36.4	Her most recent novel is The Cookbook Collector.
0:39.1	She joins us from the studios of the Christian Science Monitor in Boston.
0:42.5	Hi, Allegra.
0:43.5	Hi.
0:44.5	So I know that Updike has been really important to you as a writer, did you ever actually
0:47.8	meet him?
0:48.8	You know, I only met him once, I believe, and it was actually at a New Yorker photo shoot
0:53.8	years ago.
0:55.0	Richard Avedon took some photos of fiction writers in the New Yorker.
0:59.2	I think I was standing between John Updike and Nicholson Baker, so I met him then.
1:02.5	He was charming.
1:03.5	And had you been reading him at that point?
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