Joy Williams Reads Don DeLillo

The New Yorker: Fiction

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🗓️ 1 March 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Joy Williams joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Itch," by Don DeLillo, from a 2017 issue of the magazine. Williams is the author of four novels and five story collections, including "The Quick and the Dead," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and "Ninety-Nine Stories of God." Her most recent book is "The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories."

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0:00.0	This is The New Yorker Fiction Podcast from The New Yorker Magazine.
0:08.9	I'm Debra Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.
0:12.1	Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and
0:15.7	discuss.
0:17.1	This month we're going to hear The Itch by Don Delillo, which was published in The New Yorker
0:21.3	in August of 2017.
0:23.6	She was checking his ankles, shins, and thighs.
0:26.4	She spoke absolutely about the pathology of the skin.
0:30.2	He liked this term.
0:31.9	It suggested a kind of criminal intent or an evil that falls a person.
0:36.8	The story was chosen by Joy Williams, who's the author of four novels and five story collections,
0:41.8	including 99 stories of God and the visiting privilege.
0:46.4	Hi Joy.
0:47.4	Hi Debra.
0:49.5	So you said from the beginning when I first asked you that you wanted to read something
0:53.2	by Don Delillo, why was that?
0:55.4	Oh, he's my favorite author.
0:58.0	That's easy.
0:59.6	And I think his short stories are wonderful.
1:02.2	The Angel Is Morel is a beautiful, compact, thrilling little book.
1:07.4	And I hope he does another collection soon.
1:10.7	And it's amazing that a novelist of such great length and power can also master that shorter
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