Gabe Hudson Reads Robert Coover

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Gabe Hudson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Robert Coover’s “The Frog Prince,” from a 2014 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 Deborah Treesman, Fiction Editor at the New Yorker.
0:10.2	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.
0:15.8	This month we're going to hear The Frog Prince by Robert Coover,
0:19.9	which was published in the New Yorker in January of 2014.
0:23.9	The Prince was adorable.
0:25.9	All the girls at the Bridge Club squirming with envy said so,
0:30.9	though you could still see the effects his previous residents had had on him.
0:35.9	He had heavy, lidded eyes and a wide mouth like a hand puppets.
0:40.9	The story was chosen by Gabe Hudson, whose first book of fiction, Dear Mr. President,
0:45.9	came out in 2002 and received the Suke Hoffman Prize for first fiction
0:49.9	from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
0:52.9	A new novel, Gork, The Teenage Dragon, will be published this month.
0:57.9	Hi Gabe.
0:58.9	Hey Deborah.
0:59.9	Thanks for coming on.
1:01.9	Oh thanks so much for having me.
1:02.9	I'm thrilled.
1:03.9	Yes, really.
1:04.9	Now you chose a story by Robert Coover and his work has been especially important to you
1:09.9	because you studied with him, right?
1:11.9	That's right.
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