Etgar Keret Reads Donald Barthelme

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 3 March 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Etgar Keret joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Donald Barthelme’s “Chablis,” from a 1983 issue of the magazine.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:07.0	I'm Debra Treesman, Fiction Editor at the New Yorker.
0:10.0	Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story
0:13.0	from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
0:16.0	This month, we're going to hear Donald Bartholomew's story,
0:18.0	Shabli, which was published in the New Yorker in 1983.
0:22.0	This dog thing is getting to be a big issue.
0:25.0	I said to my wife,
0:26.0	well, you've got the baby.
0:28.0	Do we have to have the damn dog too?
0:31.0	The dog will probably bite somebody or get lost.
0:35.0	The story was chosen by Edgar Carrot,
0:37.0	who has been publishing his own stories in the magazine since 2011.
0:41.0	His memoir, The Seven Good Years,
0:43.0	will be published by Riverhead Books in June.
0:45.0	Hi, Edgar.
0:46.0	Hi.
0:47.0	So, do you know you are the fifth person to choose a story
0:50.0	by Donald Bartholomew for this podcast?
0:52.0	Why do you think that is?
0:54.0	Why is he so popular with writers?
0:56.0	Well, I think that they're fun to read out loud.
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