Overall, I LOVE this podcast and its companion New Yorker fiction read from the archives.
Unlike the other podcast, there’s no discussion about these new stories. This can be a problem for me sometimes.
I think I am a well read, university educated person with degrees in science and postgraduate education in business administration.
But I truly struggle with some of the selections presented here.
As an example, I wish that Debra Treesman or anybody (like maybe the author) would explain to me what I just listened to, and read the transcription of, in “Fairy Pools”.
Honest to God, I was completely lost for the entire story. Every time I thought I had started to get a grip on some part of the narrative, the author takes off in another direction and drops you down into another dimension without a hint to help you bridge the gap.
Other than the fact that it has to do with a trip to Scotland, I can’t explain anything about the plot or give a sensible summary of the story.
Disjointed sentences, no matter how well constructed, still need at least rudimentary structure to make sense.
I really want to know what the editor at the New Yorker saw in this particular story that made it worthy of publication.