Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett
3/1/20251 hr 5 min
Paul Theroux joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1958. Theroux’s nonfiction books include “The Great Railway Bazaar” and “On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey.” A winner of the James Tait Black Award and the Whitbread Prize, he has published thirty-nine books of fiction, including the novels “The Mosquito Coast” and “Burma Sahib” and the story collections “Mr. Bones” and “The Vanishing Point,” which came out earlier this year. He has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1979.
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Deborah Treisman· Host1:01
I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker. Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss. This month, we're going to hear The Necklace by V.S. Pritchett, which appeared in The New Yorker in February of nineteen fifty-eight.
Paul Theroux· Guest1:16
It was my sister who started me using the word empty about Nell's gray eyes. It was not the word I would have used myself, but her eyes did make me feel I was going to fall clean through them.
Deborah Treisman· Host1:27
The story was chosen by Paul