Etgar Keret Reads Janet Frame

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 1 September 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Etgar Keret joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "You Are Now Entering the Human Heart," by Janet Frame, from a 1969 issue of the magazine. Keret has published several short-story collections, including "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God," "The Girl on the Fridge," "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door," and "Fly Already." His memoir, "The Seven Good Years," was published in 2015.

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from the New Yorker magazine.
0:08.4	I'm Debra Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
0:11.6	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and
0:15.5	discuss.
0:16.5	This month we're going to hear you are now entering the Human Heart by Janet Frame,
0:21.6	which was published in The New Yorker in March of 1969.
0:25.2	Teachers not afraid.
0:26.7	Are you?
0:27.7	The attendant persisted?
0:30.0	He leaned forward, pronouncing judgment on her.
0:33.6	While she suddenly jerked her head and lifted her hands in panic to get rid of the snake.
0:41.0	The story was chosen by Edgar Carrot, whose short story collections include suddenly a knock
0:45.9	on the door and fly already.
0:48.9	Hi, Edgar.
0:49.9	Hi.
0:50.9	So what made you choose a story by Janet Frame to read today?
0:54.5	Well, first of all, I love her short fiction.
0:59.2	I think that there is something very free in it.
1:02.9	Whenever she writes, you really think she's not aiming for some kind of a goal or she's
1:11.6	not trying to initiate a specific kind of dialogue with her readers, but she just kind of floats
1:19.8	or levitates this kind of feeling of floating in zero gravity.
1:25.0	And this is always what I aspire for when I write to forget about everything and just
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