Episode 41: Jim Phelan & David Richter — Katherine Anne Porter’s “Theft”

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and David Richter discuss Katherine Anne Porter’s short story “Theft,” originally published in 1929 and republished in 1935. David Richter is Professor Emeritus at Queens College of the City University of New York and at the CUNY Graduate Center. Richter is an expert on The Bible, on 18th century British literature and culture, and on narrative and critical theory. His single authored books are Fable’s End: Completeness and Closure in Rhetorical Fiction, The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel, and Reading the Eighteenth Century Novel. Richter’s edited books include Falling into Theory, The Critical Tradition, and Ideology and Form in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Richter has also written essays on biblical narrative, detective fiction, irony, film, and many other subjects.