Mavis Gallant Reads “Grippes and Poche” at SFU

Part one of a two-part series, this episode engages with Gallant’s voice and the materiality of the recording: how do we perceive Gallant’s explanatory interruptions, unincluded in the printed work? How do we hear the physicality of the audio recording itself? While this episode takes up these questions in regards to the recording of the event, part two will take them up in combination with further consideration of the live event itself.

Episoder Producers:

This episode was created by SpokenWeb contributors Kate Moffatt, Kandice Sharren, and Michelle Levy, with additional audio courtesy of the Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management Department.

Citations:

Coe, Jonathan. “The Life of Henri Grippes.” London Review of Books. Vol. 19, no. 18, 18 September 1997.

Gallant, Mavis. “Grippes and Poche.” The New Yorker, 29 November 1982, p. 42.

Gallant, Mavis. “A Painful Affair.” The New Yorker, 16 March 1981, p. 

Gallant, Mavis. “A Flying Start.” The New Yorker, 13 September 1982, p. 39.

Gallant, Mavis. “In Plain Sight.” The New Yorker, 25 October 1993, p. 96.

kyles. “cassette tape deck open, close +tape handling.” Freesound, 5 December 2018, https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/450525/.

Mavis Gallant. The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997.

Mavis Gallant. “Preface.” The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997.

Mackie, John. “A hidden treasure of 1960s Vancouver recordings resurfaces.” Vancouver Sun, 31 December 2019, https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/a-hidden-treasure-of-1960s-vancouver-recordings-resurfaces

vladnegrila. “Flipping through pages 2.” Freesound, 22 April 2017, https://freesound.org/people/vladnegrila/sounds/388870/.

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