The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

Sheila Heti Reads "Earthly Delights"

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Sheila Heti reads her story “Earthly Delights,” from the August 3, 2026, issue of the magazine. Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novel “Pure Colour,” which won the Governor General’s Award in 2022, and “Alphabetical Diaries,” which was published in 2024.

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Min Jin Lee Reads “Testing”

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Min Jin Lee reads her story “Testing,” from the July 27, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lee is the author of the novels “Free Food for Millionaires” and “Pachinko,” which was a National Book Award finalist in 2017. Her third novel, “American Hagwon,” from which this week’s story was adapted, will be published in September.

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Bryan Washington Reads “Gatekeeping”

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Bryan Washington reads his story “Gatekeeping,” from the July 20, 2026, issue of the magazine. Washington is the author of four works of fiction, including “Memorial,” “Family Meal,” and “Palaver,” which won the L.A. Times Book Prize in 2025.

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Will Mackin Reads "Pig Lab"

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Will Mackin reads his story “Pig Lab,” from the July 6 & 13, 2026, issue of the magazine. Mackin, a U.S. Navy veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the author of “Bring Out the Dog,” which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize as the best début short-story collection of 2018.

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Ben Lerner Reads “The Readers”

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Ben Lerner reads his story “The Readers,” from the June 29, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including the novels “10:04,” “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, and “Transcription,” which came out earlier this year. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.

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Andrea Bajani Reads “Constellation”

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0000

Andrea Bajani reads his story “Constellation,” which was translated, from the Italian, by Geoffrey Brock, and appeared in the June 15, 2026, issue of the magazine. Bajani is a winner of the Bagutta Prize and the Strega Prize, among other awards, and the author of ten books of fiction, including “If You Kept a Record of Sins” and “Every Promise.” His most recent novel, “The Anniversary,” from which this story was adapted, is being translated into more than two dozen languages, and will be published in English in August.

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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai”

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai,” from the June 8, 2026, issue of the magazine. Kochai is the author of the novel “99 Nights in Logar” and the story collection “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022 and won the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

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Taiye Selasi Reads “Firstborn Immigrant Daughter”

Sun, 31 May 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Taiye Selasi reads her story “Firstborn Immigrant Daughter,” from the July 8, 2026, issue of the magazine. Selasi is an author and photographer. Her début novel, “Ghana Must Go,” a New York Times best-seller, was published in 2013, the year she was named one of the best young British novelists by Granta.

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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Many Worlds”

Sun, 24 May 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Many Worlds,” from the June 1, 2026, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of five books, including the novels “White on White” and “The Anthropologists”; a nonfiction work, “The Wilderness”; and the story collection “Long Distance,” which was published last year.

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Weike Wang Reads “The Dreamdrive”

Sun, 17 May 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Weike Wang reads “The Dreamdrive,” from the May 25, 2026, issue of the magazine. Wang was chosen for the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” list in 2017, and has published three novels, “Chemistry,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, “Joan Is Okay,” and “Rental House.”

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Chang-rae Lee Reads “Standings”

Sun, 03 May 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Chang-rae Lee reads his story “Standings,” from the May 11 & 18, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lee is the author of six novels, including “Native Speaker,” “The Surrendered,” which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2011, and “My Year Abroad.” His new novel, “A Tender Age,” will be published in August.

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Process of Elimination”

Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Process of Elimination,” from the May 4, 2026, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of several plays, a memoir, and the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy” and “American Estrangement,” which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize.

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Thomas McGuane Reads “Ordinary Wear and Tear”

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Thomas McGuane reads his story “Ordinary Wear and Tear,” from the April 27, 2026, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “A Wooded Shore,” which came out in 2025.

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Douglas Stuart Reads "A Private View"

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Douglas Stuart reads his story “A Private View,” from the April 20, 2026, issue of the magazine. Stuart has published two novels, “Shuggie Bain,” which won the Booker Prize in 2020, and “Young Mungo,” released in 2022. His new novel, “John of John,” will be published in May.

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Catherine Lacey Reads "Rate Your Happiness"

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Catherine Lacey reads her story “Rate Your Happiness,” from the April 13, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lacey is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Pew” and “Biography of X,” both of which were short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2021 and 2024, respectively. Her memoir and novella, “The Möbius Book,” was published in 2025.

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Cassandra Neyenesch Reads "Enough for Now"

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Cassandra Neyenesch reads her story “Enough for Now,” from the April 6, 2026, issue of the magazine. Neyenesch is a Brooklyn-based writer and curator, who has published nonfiction in the Guardian, Public Books, and Art in America, among other places. Her début novel, “A Little Bit Bad,” will be published in May.

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Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads "Floating"

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “Floating,” from the March 30, 2026, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry, as well as the story collection “How to Pronounce Knife” and the novel “Pick a Color,” both of which were winners of the Giller Prize.

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Han Ong Reads “My Balenciaga”

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Han Ong reads his story “My Balenciaga,” from the March 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and of the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, Ong is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “The Disinherited” and “Fixer Chao,” which will be reissued in July.

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Addie Citchens Reads "The City Is a Graveyard”

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0000

Addie Citchens reads her story “The City Is a Graveyard,” from the March 16, 2026, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, New Orleans-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, “Dominion,” was published in 2025 and was short-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.

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Yiyun Li Reads “Calm Sea and Hard Faring”

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:00:00 -0000

Yiyun Li reads her story “Calm Sea and Hard Faring,” from the March 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 2024. Her most recent book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” won this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

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Mary Gaitskill Reads “Something Familiar”

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

Mary Gaitskill reads her story “Something Familiar,” from the March 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. Gaitskill is the author of eight books of fiction, including “Veronica,” which was a finalist for a National Book Award in 2005, and the novella “This Is Pleasure.” Her most recent book is the essay collection “Oppositions.”

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Valeria Luiselli Reads "Predictions and Presentiments"

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

Valeria Luiselli reads her story “Predictions and Presentiments” from the February 16 & 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. A winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, Lusielli is the author of five books, including “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions” and “Lost Children Archive.” A new novel, “Beginning Middle End,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in July.

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Molly Aitken Reads “This Is How It Happens”

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

Molly Aitken reads her story “This Is How It Happens,” from the February 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. Aitken is the author of two novels, “The Island Child,” from 2020, and “Bright I Burn,” which was published in 2024. She won the 2023 Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction.

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Tessa Hadley Reads “The Quiet House”

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

Tessa Hadley reads her story “The Quiet House,” from the February 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published thirteen books of fiction, including the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral,” and the novella “The Party.” She won a Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction in 2016.

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Joseph O'Neill Reads "Light Secrets"

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

Joseph O’Neill reads his story “Light Secrets,” from the January 26, 2026, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of a story collection and five novels, including “Netherland,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2009, “The Dog,” and “Godwin,” which was published in 2024.

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Sadia Shepard Reads "Kim's Game"

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

Sadia Shepard reads her story “Kim’s Game,” from the January 19, 2026, issue of the magazine. Shepard is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her first book, “The Girl from Foreign," was published in 2008.

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Allegra Goodman Reads "Deal-Breaker"

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

Allegra Goodman reads her story “Deal-Breaker,” from the January 12, 2026, issue of the magazine. Goodman is the author of ten books of fiction, including the novels “Kaaterskill Falls,” which was a National Book Award finalist, “Sam,” and “Isola,” published last year. Her new collection of linked stories, “This Is Not About Us,” will come out in February.

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Nell Zink Reads "The Welfare State"

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Nell Zink reads her story “The Welfare State,” from the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue of the magazine. Zink is the author of seven novels, including “Doxology,” “Avalon,” and “Sister Europe,” which was published last year.

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Andrew Martin Reads "Risk, Discipline"

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Andrew Martin reads his story “Risk, Discipline,” from the December 22, 2025, issue of the magazine. Martin is the author of the novel “Early Work,” and the story collection “Cool for America.” His new novel, “Down Time,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in March.

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Camille Bordas Reads “Understanding the Science”

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Camille Bordas reads her story “Understanding the Science,” from the December 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. Bordas is the author of four novels, including “How to Behave in a Crowd” and “The Material.” Her first story collection, “One Sun Only,” will be published in January.

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Joan Silber Reads "Safety"

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Joan Silber reads her story “Safety,” from the December 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, the most recent of which are the novels “Mercy” and “Secrets of Happiness.”

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Daniyal Mueenuddin Reads "The Golden Boy"

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Daniyal Mueenuddin reads his story “The Golden Boy” from the December 1, 2025, issue of the magazine. Mueenuddin is the author of the story collection “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” which was published in 2009 and won both the Story Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His first novel, “This is Where the Serpent Lives,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in January.

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Madhuri Vijay Reads "Lara's Theme"

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Madhuri Vijay reads her story “Lara’s Theme,” from the November 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Vijay is the author of the novel “The Far Field,” which won India’s J.C.B. Prize for Literature in 2019. She is at work on her second novel.

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Paul Yoon Reads "The New Coast"

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Paul Yoon reads his story “The New Coast,” from the November 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Run Me to Earth” and “Snow Hunters,” which won the 2014 New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the story collection “The Hive and the Honey,” which was published in 2023.

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Lauren Groff Reads “Mother of Men”

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Lauren Groff reads her story “Mother of Men” from the November 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Groff’s work of fiction include the novels “Fates and Furies” and “Matrix,” both of which were finalists for the National Book Award, and “The Vaster Wilds,” which was published in 2023. A new story collection, “Brawler,” will come out in February of 2026. In 2024, she opened the bookstore The Lynx in Gainesville, Florida.

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Nathan Blum Reads "Outcomes"

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Nathan Blum reads his story “Outcomes” from the November 3, 2025, issue of the magazine. Blum received his M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University, where he taught creative writing. He is currently working on a collection of stories and a novel.

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Sam Lipsyte Reads "Final Boy"

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Sam Lipsyte reads his story “Final Boy” from the October 27, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of eight books of fiction, including the story collection “The Fun Parts,” and the novels “The Ask” and “No One Left to Come Looking For You.”

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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Intimacy”

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Intimacy” from the October 20, 2025, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of five books, including the novels “White on White” and “The Anthropologists”; a nonfiction work, “The Wilderness”; and the story collection “Long Distance,” which was published earlier this year.

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Catherine Lacey Reads “Coconut Flan”

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Catherine Lacey reads her story “Coconut Flan” from the October 13, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lacey is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Pew,” and “Biography of X,” both of which were short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2021 and 2024, respectively. Her memoir and novella, “The Möbius Book,” was published earlier this year.

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David Wright Faladé Reads “Amarillo Boulevard”

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 10:00:00 -0000

David Wright Faladé reads his story “Amarillo Boulevard,” from the October 6, 2025, issue of the magazine. Wright Faladé, the recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, is the author of a nonfiction book, “Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers,” and the novels “Black Cloud Rising” and “The New Internationals,” which was published earlier this year.

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Rivka Galchen Reads “Unreasonable”

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Rivka Galchen reads her story “Unreasonable,” from the September 29, 2025, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations" and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,” which was published in 2021.

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Pool”

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 10:31:00 -0000

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “The Pool,” from the September 22, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story, among others, Boyle has published more than thirty books of fiction, including the story collection “I Walk Between the Raindrops” and the novel “Blue Skies,” which came out in 2023.

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Bryan Washington Reads "Voyagers!"

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Bryan Washington reads his story “Voyagers!,” from the September 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among others, Washington is the author of three books of fiction, including “Memorial” and “Family Meal.” A new novel, “Palaver,” will be published later this year.

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Rachel Cusk Reads “Project”

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Rachel Cusk reads her story “Project,” from the September 1 & 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. Cusk is the author of several works of nonfiction and twelve novels, including “Outline,” “Transit,” “Kudos,” and, most recently, “Parade,” which won the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize.

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Miriam Toews Reads “Something Has Come to Light”

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Miriam Toews reads her story “Something Has Come to Light,” from the August 25, 2025, issue of the magazine. Toews, a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, is the author of eight novels, including “A Complicated Kindness,” “All My Puny Sorrows,” “Women Talking,” and “Fight Night.” A new memoir, “A Truce That Is Not Peace,” comes out this month.

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Kiran Desai Reads "An Unashamed Proposal"

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Kiran Desai reads her story “An Unashamed Proposal,” from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine. Desai is the author of the novels “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” and “The Inheritance of Loss,” which won the Booker Prize in 2006. A new novel, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” from which this story was adapted, will be published this fall.

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Anne Enright Reads “The Bridge Stood Fast”

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Anne Enright reads her story “The Bridge Stood Fast,” from the August 4, 2025, issue of the magazine. Enright has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “Yesterday’s Weather,” and the novels “The Gathering,” which won the Man Booker Prize, “Actress,” and “The Wren, The Wren.”

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Mona Awad Reads “The Chartreuse”

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Mona Awad reads her story “The Chartreuse,” from the July 28, 2025, issue of the magazine. Awad is the author of four books of fiction, including “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl,” which won the Amazon Best First Novel Award, and “Rouge,” which was published in 2023. Her new novel, “We Love You, Bunny,” will come out in September.

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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Natural History”

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Natural History,” from the July 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich is the author of the story collection “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021 and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the novel “Ask Me Again,” which was published last year.

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Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Zadie Smith reads her story “The Silence,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, among others, is the author of two short-story collections and six novels, including “NW,” “Swing Time,” and “The Fraud,” which was published in 2023.

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Ottessa Moshfegh Reads “The Comedian”

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Ottessa Moshfegh reads her story “The Comedian,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Moshfegh is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Eileen,” for which she won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2016; “My Year of Rest and Relaxation”; and “Lapvona,” which came out in 2022.

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Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Jubilee”

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story “Jubilee,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lahiri, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the PEN/Malamud Award, among others, is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections “Interpreter of Maladies,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and “Roman Stories,” which was written in Italian and published in English in 2023.

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Han Ong Reads “Happy Days”

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Han Ong reads his story “Happy Days,” from the June 30, 2025, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, Ong is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

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Yiyun Li Reads “Any Human Heart”

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Yiyun Li reads her story “Any Human Heart,” from the June 23, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” was published in May.

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Jim Shepard Reads “The Queen of Bad Influences”

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Jim Shepard reads his story “The Queen of Bad Influences,” from the June 16, 2025, issue of the magazine. Shepard, a winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, is the author of thirteen books of fiction, including the novels “The Book of Aron” and “Phase Six” and the story collection “The World to Come.”

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Louise Erdrich Reads “Love of My Days”

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Louise Erdrich reads her story “Love of My Days,” from the June 2, 2025, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including the novels “The Round House,” which won the National Book Award in 2012, “The Night Watchman,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021, and “The Mighty Red,” which was published last year.

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Patricia Lockwood Reads “Fairy Pools”

Sun, 18 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Patricia Lockwood reads her story “Fairy Pools,” from the May 26, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lockwood is a poet, essayist, and novelist. Her memoir “Priestdaddy,” which came out in 2017, won the Thurber Prize, and her first novel, “No One Is Talking About This,” won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2022. A new novel, “Will There Ever Be Another You,” from which this story was adapted, will come out later this year.

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Lillian Fishman Reads “Travesty”

Sun, 04 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Lillian Fishman reads her story, “Travesty,” from the May 12 & 19, 2025, issue of the magazine. Fishman is the author of the novel “Acts of Service,” which was published in 2022. She is currently at work on her second novel, from which this story was adapted.

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nocturnal Creatures”

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Nocturnal Creatures,” from the May 5, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of several plays, the memoir “When Skateboards Will Be Free,” and the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy” and “American Estrangement,” a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, which was published in 2021.

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Adam Levin Reads “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie”

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Adam Levin reads his story “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie,” from the April 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of four books of fiction, including the novels “Bubblegum,” from 2020, and “Mount Chicago,” from 2022.

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David Bezmozgis Reads “From, To”

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

David Bezmozgis reads his story “From, To,” from the April 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Bezmozgis is the author of two novels and two story collections, “Natasha and Other Stories,” which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and “Immigrant City,” which was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2019.

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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Marseille”

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Marseille,” from the April 7, 2025, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of three novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” “White on White,” and “The Anthropologists.” A collection of stories, “Long Distance,” will come out later this year.

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Bryan Washington Reads “Hatagaya Lore”

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Bryan Washington reads his story “Hatagaya Lore,” from the March 31, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award, Washington is the author of three books of fiction, including “Memorial” and “Family Meal.” A new novel, “Palaver,” will be published later this year.

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Joyce Carol Oates Reads “The Frenzy”

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “The Frenzy,” from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than seventy books of fiction, including the novel “Butcher” and the story collection “Flint Kill Creek.” A new novel, “Fox,” will be published later this year.

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Yiyun Li Reads “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies”

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Yiyun Li reads her story, “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies,” from the March 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published in May.

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Colm Tóibín Reads “Five Bridges”

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Colm Tóibín reads his story “Five Bridges,” from the March 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Tóibín, a winner of the Folio Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others, has published eleven novels, including “Brooklyn,” “The Magician,” and “Long Island,” which came out last year.

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Joseph O'Neill Reads “Keuka Lake”

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Joseph O’Neill reads his story “Keuka Lake,” from the March 3rd, 2025, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and five novels, including “Netherland,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2009, “The Dog,” and “Godwin,” which was published last year.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads “Chuka”

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads her story “Chuka,” from the February 17 and February 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Adichie’s novels include “Half of a Yellow Sun,” which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and “Americanah,” a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A new novel, “Dream Count,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in March.

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David Rabe Reads “My Friend Pinocchio”

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

David Rabe reads his story “My Friend Pinocchio,” from the February 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays, including “Sticks and Bones,” “In the Boom Boom Room,” and “Hurlyburly.” His books of fiction include “Recital of the Dog,” “Girl by the Road at Night,” and “Listening for Ghosts,” which was published in 2022.

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Sheila Heti Reads “The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea”

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Sheila Heti reads her story “The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea,” from the January 27, 2025, issue of the magazine. Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novel “Pure Colour,” which won the Governor General’s Award in 2022, and “Alphabetical Diaries,” which was published last year.

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Han Ong Reads “Ming”

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Han Ong reads his story “Ming,” from the January 20, 2025, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, Ong is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

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Kanak Kapur Reads “Prophecy”

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000

Kanak Kapur reads her story “Prophecy,” from the January 13, 2025, issue of the magazine. Kapur teaches at Colgate University, where she is an Olive B. O’Connor fellow. Her short fiction has appeared in The Sewanee Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is working on her first novel.

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John Lanchester Reads “Signal”

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000

On this special holiday episode of the Writer’s Voice, we’ll hear a New Year’s story from the archives: “Signal,” by John Lanchester, which appeared in the April 3, 2017, issue of the magazine. Lanchester, a journalist and novelist, is the author of six books of fiction, including “Capital,” “The Wall,” and “Reality and Other Stories,” which was published in 2020.

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Daisy Hildyard Reads “Revision”

Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000

Daisy Hildyard reads her story “Revision,” from the December 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hildyard, a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and of one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” awards, is the author of the novels “Emergency” and “Hunters in the Snow,” and of a nonfiction book, “The Second Body.”

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Lauren Groff Reads “Between the Shadow and the Soul”

Sun, 08 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000

Lauren Groff reads her story “Between the Shadow and the Soul,” from the December 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. Groff has published five novels, including “Fates and Furies” and “The Vaster Wilds,” which came out last year. Her second story collection, “Florida,” won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2018. Groff was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People this year.

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David Szalay Reads “Plaster”

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 11:00:00 -0000

David Szalay reads “Plaster,” from the December 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Szalay is the author of six books of fiction, including “All That Man Is,” which won the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016, “Turbulence,” and “Flesh,” which will be published in April of 2025.

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Minimum Payment Due”

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy” and “American Estrangement,” a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, which was published in 2021. He has been publishing fiction in the magazine since 2010.

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Greg Jackson Reads “The Honest Island”

Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:00:00 -0000

Greg Jackson reads his story “The Honest Island,” from the November 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jackson is the author of a story collection, “Prodigals,” for which he received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, and a novel, “The Dimensions of a Cave,” which was published last year.

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Paul Yoon Reads “War Dogs”

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Paul Yoon reads his story “War Dogs,” from the October 28, 2024, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Snow Hunters” and “Run Me to Earth,” and the story collection, “The Hive and the Honey,” a winner of the Story Prize, which was published last year.

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Joshua Cohen Reads “My Camp”

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Joshua Cohen reads his story “My Camp,” from the October 21st, 2024, issue of the magazine. Cohen’s books include the novels “Witz,” “Moving Kings,” and “The Netanyahus,” which won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize.

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Matthew Klam Reads “Hi Daddy”

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Matthew Klam reads his story “Hi Daddy,” from the October 14th, 2024, issue of the magazine. Klam, a winner of the Robert Bingham/PEN Award, is the author of the collection “Sam the Cat and Other Stories” and the novel “Who Is Rich?,” which was published in 2017.

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Bonus: The Fiction Podcast: Jennifer Egan Reads Lore Segal

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:00:00 -0000

The story in the magazine’s October 7th, 2024, issue is “Stories About Us” by Lore Segal. Segal wasn’t able to read her story for the podcast. But, in 2010, on the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Jennifer Egan read and discussed a different story by Lore Segal—“The Reverse Bug,” from 1989—and we wanted to share this bonus sampling of Segal’s work with you instead.

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Allegra Goodman Reads “Ambrose”

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Allegra Goodman reads her story “Ambrose,” from the September 30, 2024, issue of the magazine. Goodman has published two story collections and seven novels, including “Kaaterskill Falls,” which was a National Book Award Finalist; “The Chalk Artist”; and “Sam,” which came out last year.

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Hugo Hamilton Reads “Autobahn”

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Hugo Hamilton reads his story “Autobahn,” from the September 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hamilton, a winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, is the author of the memoir “The Speckled People” and ten novels, including “Dublin Palms” and “The Pages.”

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Bryan Washington Reads “Last Coffeehouse on Travis”

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Bryan Washington reads his story “Last Coffeehouse on Travis,” from the September 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award, Washington is the author of one story collection and two novels, “Memorial,” which came out in 2020, and “Family Meal,” which was published last year.

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Sigrid Nunez Reads “Greensleeves”

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0000

Sigrid Nunez reads her story “Greensleeves,” from the September 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Nunez is the author of a memoir and nine novels, including “The Friend,” which won the National Book Award in 2018, and “The Vulnerables,” which was published last year.

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Yiyun Li Reads “The Particles of Order”

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Yiyun Li reads her story “The Particles of Order,” from the September 2, 2024, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. A new nonfiction book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published next year.

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Akhil Sharma Reads “The Narayans”

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Akhil Sharma reads his story “The Narayans,” from the August 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Sharma is the author of the story collection “A Life of Adventure and Delight,” and two novels, “An Obedient Father,” which was published in 2000 and republished, in a revised version, in 2022, and “Family Life,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2016.

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Sam Lipsyte Reads “The Naturals”

Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000

This week’s issue of The New Yorker is an archival issue, and we’d like to accompany it with an episode of the Writer’s Voice featuring an archival story: “The Naturals,” by Sam Lipsyte, which was published in the May 5, 2014, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of eight books of fiction, including the story collection “The Fun Parts,” “The Ask,” and “No One Left to Come Looking for You,” which was published in 2022.

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Caleb Crain Reads “Clay”

Sun, 04 Aug 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Caleb Crain reads his story “Clay,” from the August 12, 2024, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors,” which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019.

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Nell Freudenberger Reads “Attila”

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Nell Freudenberger reads her story “Attila,” from the August 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Freudenberger is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Lost and Wanted” and “The Limits,” which was published earlier this year. She was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Fiction Issue in 2010.

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Sarah Braunstein Reads “Abject Naturalism”

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Sarah Braunstein reads her story “Abject Naturalism,” from the July 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Braunstein is the author of two novels, “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children” and “Bad Animals,” which was published earlier this year. She is a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Award.

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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Freedom to Move”

Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Freedom to Move,” from the July 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of three novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” “White on White,” and “The Anthropologists,” which came out this month.

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Sally Rooney Reads “Opening Theory”

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Sally Rooney reads her story “Opening Theory,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Rooney is the author of three novels, “Conversations with Friends,” “Normal People,” and “Beautiful World, Where Are You.” A new novel, “Intermezzo,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in September.

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Annie Proulx Reads “The Hadal Zone”

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Annie Proulx reads her story “The Hadal Zone,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Proulx’s works of fiction include the novels “That Old Ace in the Hole” and “Barkskins,” and three collections of Wyoming stories, “Close Range,” “Bad Dirt,” and “Fine Just the Way It Is.” She is a winner of the pen/Faulkner Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, among other awards.

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Tessa Hadley Reads “Vincent’s Party”

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:00:00 -0000

Tessa Hadley reads her story “Vincent’s Party,” from the July 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published twelve books of fiction, including the novel “Free Love” and the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral,” which came out last year. She is a winner of the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.

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Roddy Doyle Reads “The Buggy”

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Roddy Doyle reads his story “The Buggy,” from the June 24, 2024, issue of the magazine. Doyle is the author of sixteen books of fiction, including the Booker Prize-winning novel “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,” and the story collection “Life Without Children.” A new novel, “The Women Behind the Door,” will be published in September.

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Camille Bordas Reads “Chicago on the Seine”

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Camille Bordas reads her story “Chicago on the Seine,” from the June 17, 2024, issue of the magazine. Bordas published two novels in France. Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” came out in 2017, and a new novel, “The Material,” was published this month.

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Lore Segal Reads “Beyond Imagining”

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Lore Segal reads her story “Beyond Imagining,” from the June 10, 2024, issue of the magazine. Segal’s most recent books are “The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing” and “Ladies’ Lunch and Other Stories,” which came out last year.

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Thomas McGuane Reads “Thataway”

Sun, 19 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Thomas McGuane reads his story “Thataway,” from the May 27, 2024, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories,” which came out in 2018.

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André Alexis Reads “Consolation”

Sun, 12 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000

André Alexis reads his story “Consolation,” from the May 20, 2024, issue of the magazine. Alexis, a playwright and fiction writer, received the Windham Campbell Prize in fiction in 2017. His novels include “Fifteen Dogs,” which won the Giller Prize, and “Days by Moonlight.” His story collection, “The Night Piece,” was published in 2020

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Simon Rich Reads “We’re Not So Different, You and I”

Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Simon Rich reads his story “We’re Not So Different, You and I,” from the May 13, 2024, issue of the magazine. Rich has published eight books of fiction, including “The Last Girlfriend on Earth,” which was adapted for the TV series “Man Seeking Woman,” and “Hits and Misses,” which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2019. A new story collection, “Glory Days,” will be published in July.

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Cynan Jones Reads “Pulse”

Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Cynan Jones reads his story “Pulse,” from the May 6, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jones is the author of six books of fiction, including, most recently, the novel “Cove” and the story collection “Stillicide.” His previous story in The New Yorker, “The Edge of the Shoal,” was the 2017 winner of the BBC National Short Story Award.

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Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Late Love”

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “Late Love,” from the April 22 & 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than seventy books of fiction. A new novel, “Butcher,” and a story collection, “Flint Kill Creek,” will be published later this year.

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Kevin Barry Reads “Finistère”

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Kevin Barry reads his story “Finistère,” from the April 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Barry is the author of six books of fiction, including the novel “City of Bohane,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award, and the story collection “That Old Country Music,” which came out in 2020. A new novel, “The Heart in Winter,” will be published in July.

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Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Bozo”

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “Bozo” from the April 8, 2024, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry and the story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” which won the Giller Prize in 2020.

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Mohammed Naseehu Ali Reads “Allah Have Mercy”

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:00:33 -0000

Mohammed Naseehu Ali reads his story “Allah Have Mercy” from the April 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Ali is the author of “The Prophet of Zongo Street,” a story collection, which came out in 2005. He teaches undergraduate fiction in N.Y.U.’s Creative Writing department.

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Zach Williams Reads “Neighbors”

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Zach Williams reads his story “Neighbors” from the March 25, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. His début story collection, “Beautiful Days,” will be published in June.

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Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Time Being”

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:00:00 -0000

Joseph O’Neill reads his story “The Time Being” from the March 18, 2024, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Netherland,” which won the pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, in 2009, and “The Dog.” A new novel, “Godwin,” will be published in June.

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Fiona McFarlane Reads “Hostel”

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:00:00 -0000

Fiona McFarlane reads her story “Hostel” from the March 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. McFarlane is the author of two novels and a story collection, “The High Places,” which was awarded the International Dylan Thomas Prize, in 2017. A new collection, “Highway Thirteen,” will be published in August.

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Thomas Korsgaard Reads “The Spit of Him”

Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:00:00 -0000

Thomas Korsgaard reads his story “The Spit of Him” from the March 4, 2024, issue of the magazine. Korsgaard is the author of three novels and two story collections, as well as several works for children. In 2021, at age twenty-six, he became the youngest writer ever to receive Denmark’s Golden Laurels prize.

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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “On the Night of the Khatam”

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:00:00 -0000

Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “On the Night of the Khatam” from the February 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Kochai is the author of the novel “99 Nights in Logar” and the collection “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022 and won the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

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Addie Citchens Reads “That Girl”

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 11:00:00 -0000

Addie Citchens reads her story “That Girl,” from the February 12 & 19, 2024, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, New Orleans-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. She has published work in the Oxford American and The Paris Review, among other places.

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Patrick Langley Reads “Life with Spider”

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:00:00 -0000

Patrick Langley reads his story “Life with Spider,” from the February, 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Langley is the author of two novels, “Arkady” and “The Variations,” which came out in the U.K. last year, and will be published in the U.S. on February 20th.

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David Means Reads “Chance the Cat”

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 11:00:00 -0000

David Means reads his story “Chance the Cat,” from the January 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and six story collections, including “Instructions for a Funeral” and “Two Nurses Smoking,” which was published in 2022.

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Joy Williams Reads “The Beach House”

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:00:00 -0000

Joy Williams reads her story “The Beach House,” from the January 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams, a winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, is the author of five story collections, including “Ninety-Nine Stories of God” and “The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories,” and five novels, such as “Harrow,” which was published in 2021.

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Greg Jackson Reads “Wagner in the Desert”

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 11:00:00 -0000

On a special, archival New Year’s episode, Greg Jackson reads his story “Wagner in the Desert,” from the July 21, 2014, issue of the magazine, in which a group of old friends convene in Palm Springs, California, for the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Jackson, a winner of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, is the author of the story collection “Prodigals” and the novel “The Dimensions of a Cave,” which was published in October, 2023.

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Rivka Galchen Reads “Crown Heights North”

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 11:00:00 -0000

Rivka Galchen reads her story “Crown Heights North,” from the January 1 & 8, 2024, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch.”

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Caleb Crain Reads “Keats at Twenty-Four”

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:00:00 -0000

Caleb Crain reads his story “Keats at Twenty-Four,” from the December 11, 2023, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors,” which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019.

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Teju Cole Reads “Incoming”

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:00:00 -0000

Teju Cole reads his story “Incoming,” which appears in the December 4, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cole, a winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Windham Campbell Literature Prize, is a novelist, critic, curator, and essayist. His novel “Tremor” was published earlier this year and a new book, “Pharmakon,” a collection of prose pieces and photographs, will be published in 2024.

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Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 11:00:00 -0000

The story in The New Yorker’s November 27, 2023, issue is “Beauty Contest,” by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Steven Snyder. Ogawa was not able to read her story for The Writer’s Voice, but, on a recent episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, the writer Madeleine Thien read and discussed Ogawa’s 2004 story “The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain,” and we wanted to share that episode with you instead. We hope you enjoy it.

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Sheila Heti Reads “According to Alice”

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Sheila Heti reads her story “According to Alice,” which appears in the November 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. Heti wrote this story in collaboration with a customizable chatbot on the Chai AI platform, which she began engaging in conversation in 2022. Heti is the author of seven books, including the novels “Motherhood,” which was short-listed for the Giller Prize, and “Pure Color,” which won the Governor General’s Award last year.

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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Our Time Is Up”

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:30:00 -0000

Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Our Time Is Up,” which appears in the November 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich’s début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021, was a finalist for the PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize, and she was named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022.

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Junot Díaz Reads “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara”

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 10:00:00 -0000

Junot Díaz reads his story “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara,” which appears in the November 6, 2023, issue of the magazine. Díaz is the author of the story collections “Drown” and “This Is How You Lose Her,” and the novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2008.

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Han Ong Reads “I Am Pizza Rat”

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:00:00 -0000

Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

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Mary Costello Reads “The Choc-Ice Woman”

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:00:00 -0000

Mary Costello reads her story “The Choc-Ice Woman,” which appears in the October 16, 2023, issue of the magazine. Costello is the author of three books of fiction, including “Academy Street,” which won the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and the novel “The River Capture,” which came out in 2019.

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Lore Segal Reads “On the Agenda”

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Lore Segal reads her story “On the Agenda,” which appears in the September 18, 2023, issue of the magazine. Segal’s most recent books are “The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing” and “Ladies’ Lunch: and Other Stories,” which comes out later this month.

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Lara Vapnyar Reads “Siberian Wood”

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Siberian Wood,” which appears in the September 11, 2023, issue of the magazine. Vapnyar has published two short story collections and four novels, including “Still Here” and “Divide Me By Zero,” which came out in 2019.

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Tessa Hadley on Her Years of Learning to Write

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:00:00 -0000

In July, The New Yorker published its thirtieth story by Tessa Hadley—a higher count that of any other fiction writer in the past two decades. On a recent episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour, the fiction editor Deborah Treisman spoke with Hadley about her genesis as a fiction writer. Hadley’s latest story collection is “After the Funeral.”

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The End Is Only a Beginning”

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:00:00 -0000

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “The End Is Only a Beginning,” which appears in the August 21, 2023, issue of the magazine. Boyle has published more than two dozen books of fiction, including the story collection, “I Walk Between the Raindrops,” and the novel “Blue Skies,” which came out earlier this year.

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Karan Mahajan Reads “The True Margaret”

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Karan Mahajan reads his story “The True Margaret,” which appears in the August 14, 2023, issue of the magazine. Mahajan is the author of two novels, “Family Planning” and “The Association of Small Bombs,” which won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award in 2017.

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Jamie Quatro Reads “Yogurt Days”

Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Jamie Quatro reads her story “Yogurt Days,” which appears in the August 7, 2023, issue of the magazine. Quatro is the author of the story collection “I Want to Show You More” and the novel “Fire Sermon.” A new novel, “Two-Step Devil,” will be published next year.

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Tessa Hadley Reads “The Maths Tutor”

Mon, 17 Jul 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Tessa Hadley reads her story “The Maths Tutor,” which appeared in the July 24, 2023, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published twelve books of fiction, including the novels “Free Love’ and “The Past,” and the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral.” She is a winner of the 2016 Windham Campbell Literature Prize.

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Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado”

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Camille Bordas reads her story “Colorín Colorado,” which appeared in the July 10 & 17, 2023, issue of the magazine. Bordas published two novels in France. Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” came out in 2017.

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Paul Yoon Reads “Valley of the Moon”

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Paul Yoon reads his story “Valley of the Moon,” which appeared in the July 3, 2023, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of four books of fiction, including the story collection “The Mountain” and the novel “Run Me to Earth,” which came out in 2020. A new collection, “The Hive and the Honey,” will be published later this year.

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Weike Wang Reads “Status in Flux”

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Weike Wang reads her story “Status in Flux,” which appeared in the June 26, 2023, issue of the magazine. Wang is the author of two novels: “Chemistry,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2018, and “Joan Is Okay,” which was published in 2022.

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Civil Disturbance”

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Civil Disturbance,” which appeared in the June 19, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy,” which was a finalist for the pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction in 2014, and “American Estrangement,” which was published in 2021.

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George Saunders Reads “Thursday”

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:00:00 -0000

George Saunders reads his story “Thursday,” which appeared in the June 12, 2023, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of five story collections, including “Tenth of December” and “Liberation Day,” which came out last year.

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Nicole Krauss Reads “Long Island”

Mon, 15 May 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Nicole Krauss reads her story “Long Island,” which appeared in the May 22, 2023, issue of the magazine. Krauss is the author of four novels, including “The History of Love” and “Forest Dark.” Her story collection, “To Be a Man,” was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize.

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Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”

Mon, 01 May 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Rebecca Makkai reads her story “The Plaza,” which appeared in the May 8, 2023, issue of the magazine. Makkai is the author of a story collection and four novels, including “The Great Believers,” which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and “I Have Some Questions for You,” which came out in February.

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Rachel Cusk Reads “The Stuntman”

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Rachel Cusk reads her story “The Stuntman,” which appeared in the April 24 & May 1, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cusk, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of four nonfiction works and eleven novels, including the “Outline” trilogy and, most recently, “Second Place.”

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Ben Lerner Reads “The Ferry”

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Ben Lerner reads his story “The Ferry,” which appeared in the April 10, 2023, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads “False Star”

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain reads his story “False Star,” which appeared in the March 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. HolyWhiteMountain is a former Stegner fellow and current Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and an unrecognized citizen of the Blackfeet Nation. He is at work on a novel.

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Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Rivka Galchen reads her story “How I Became a Vet,” which appeared in the March 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,” which was published in 2021.

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Allegra Goodman Reads “The Last Grownup”

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Allegra Goodman reads her story “The Last Grownup,” which appeared in the February 27, 2023, issue of the magazine. Goodman has published two story collections and seven novels, including “Kaaterskill Falls,” which was a National Book Award finalist, “The Chalk Artist,” and, most recently, “Sam,” which came out earlier this year.

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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Different People”

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Different People,” which appeared in the January 30, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich’s début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021, was a finalist PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She was named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022.

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Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Yiyun Li reads her story “Wednesday’s Child,” which appeared in the January 23, 2023, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of two story collections and five novels, including “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” which was published last year. She won the Windham Campbell Literature Prize in 2020.

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Han Ong Reads “Hammer Attack”

Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Han Ong reads his story “Hammer Attack,” which appeared in the January 16, 2023, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Notions of the Sacred”

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Notions of the Sacred,” which appeared in the January 2 & 9, 2022, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of two novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” which was published in 2019, and “White on White,” which came out in 2021.

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Matthew Klam Reads “The Other Party”

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Matthew Klam reads his story “The Other Party,” which appeared in the December 19, 2022, issue of the magazine. Klam is the author of the collection “Sam the Cat: And Other Stories” and the novel “Who Is Rich?,” which was published in 2017.

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Danielle Dutton Reads “My Wonderful Description of Flowers”

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Danielle Dutton reads her story “My Wonderful Description of Flowers,” which appeared in the December 5, 2022, issue of the magazine. Dutton is the co-founder of Dorothy, a publishing project, and the author of three books of fiction, including the novel “Margaret the First.” A new book, “Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other,” will be published in 2024.

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Louise Erdrich Reads “The Hollow Children”

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Louise Erdrich reads her story “The Hollow Children,” which appeared in the November 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently “The Sentence” and “The Night Watchman,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021.

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “Princess”

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:00:00 -0000

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “Princess,” which appeared in the November 7, 2022, issue of the magazine. Boyle has published more than two dozen books of fiction, including the novels “Outside Looking In” and “Talk to Me.” his most recent story collection, “I Walk Between the Raindrops,” came out earlier this year.

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Jonathan Lethem Reads “Narrowing Valley”

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Jonathan Lethem reads his story “Narrowing Valley,” which appeared in the October 31, 2022, issue of the magazine. Lethem’s books of fiction include the story collection “Lucky Alan and Other Stories” and the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published in 2020.

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Marisa Silver Reads “Tiny Meaningless Things”

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Marisa Silver reads her story “Tiny Meaningless Things,” which appeared in the October 24, 2022, issue of the magazine. Silver is the author of seven books of fiction, including the story collection “Alone with You,” and the novels “Little Nothing” and “The Mysteries,” which was published last year.

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David Gilbert Reads “Come Softly to Me”

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 16:00:00 -0000

David Gilbert reads his story “Come Softly to Me,” which appeared in the October 17, 2022, issue of the magazine. Gilbert is the author of the story collection “Remote Feed,” and two novels, “& Sons” and “The Normals.”

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Thomas McGuane Reads “Take Half, Leave Half”

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Thomas McGuane reads his story “Take Half, Leave Half,” which appeared in the October 10, 2022, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories,” which came out in 2018.

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Nicole Krauss Reads “Shelter”

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Nicole Krauss reads her story “Shelter,” which appeared in the October 3, 2022, issue of the magazine. Kruass is the author of four novels, including “The History of Love,” and “Forest Dark.” Her story collection, “To Be a Man,” was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize.

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Caleb Crain Reads “Easter”

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Caleb Crain reads his story “Easter,” from the September 26, 2022, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors” and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

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Ben Okri Reads “The Secret Source”

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Ben Okri reads his story “The Secret Source,” from the September 19, 2022, issue of the magazine. Okri is the author of eleven novels, including “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which came out in 2019. His poetry collection “A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn” was published last year.

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Joan Silber Reads “Evolution”

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Joan Silber reads her story “Evolution,” from the September 12, 2022, issue of the magazine. Silber is the author of nine books of fiction, including, most recently, “Secrets of Happiness” and “Improvement,” for which she won the pen/Faulkner Award in 2018.

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Ben Lerner Reads “Café Loup”

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Ben Lerner reads his story “Café Loup,” from the September 5, 2022, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.

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David Sedaris Reads “Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:00:00 -0000

The August 29, 2022, issue of The New Yorker is an archival issue, bringing together pieces from past issues of the magazine on the theme of Celebrity. It features the story “Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July, which was published in The New Yorker in 2007. Instead of a Writer’s Voice episode, this week we are rereleasing an episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, taped in 2012, in which David Sedaris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Roy Spivey.”

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Alejandro Zambra Reads “Skyscrapers”

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Alejandro Zambra reads his story “Skyscrapers,” which was translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell, from the August 22, 2022, issue of the magazine. Zambra is a Chilean poet and fiction writer whose books translated into English include “Multiple Choice,” “Chilean Poet,” and “Bonsai,” his first novel, which was published in a new translation this month.

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Sana Krasikov Reads “The Muddle”

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Sana Krasikov reads her story “The Muddle,” from the August 15, 2022, issue of the magazine. Krasikov is the author of the story collection “One More Year,” for which she won the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Award, and the novel “The Patriots,” which was published in 2017.

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Clare Sestanovich Reads “You Tell Me”

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Clare Sestanovich reads her story “You Tell Me” from the August 1, 2022, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich was named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022. Her début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” which came out last year, was a finalist for the PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize.

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Han Ong Reads “Elmhurst”

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Han Ong reads his story “Elmhurst” from the July 25, 2022, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

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Bryan Washington Reads “Arrivals”

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Bryan Washington reads his story “Arrivals,” from the July 11 & 18, 2022, issue of the magazine. Washington is a winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. His story collection, “Lot,” was published in 2019, and his novel, “Memorial,” came out in 2020.

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Rachel Kushner Reads “A King Alone”

Mon, 04 Jul 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Rachel Kushner reads her story “A King Alone” from the July 11 & 18, 2022, issue of the magazine. Kushner has published three novels, “Telex from Cuba,” “The Flamethrowers,” and “The Mars Room,” which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2018. Her most recent book, “The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020,” came out last year.

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Lauren Groff Reads “To Sunland”

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Lauren Groff reads her story “To Sunland,” from the July 4, 2022, issue of the magazine. Groff has published four novels, including “Fates and Furies” and “Matrix,” which came out last year. Her second story collection, “Florida,” which was published in 2018, won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

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Etgar Keret Reads “Mitzvah”

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Etgar Keret reads his story “Mitzvah,” translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen, from the June 27, 2022, issue of the magazine. Keret’s books include the memoir “The Seven Good Years” and the story collections “Suddenly a Knock on the Door” and “Fly Already,” which was published in 2020.

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André Alexis Reads “Houyhnhnm”

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 16:00:00 -0000

André Alexis reads his story “Houyhnhnm,” from the June 20, 2022, issue of the magazine. Alexis received the Windham-Campbell prize for fiction in 2017. His novels include “Childhood,” “Fifteen Dogs,” and “Days by Moonlight,” and his story collection, “The Night Piece,” was published in 2020.

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Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Trash”

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “Trash,” from the June 13, 2022, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry and the short-story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” which won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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Joshua Ferris Reads “The Boy Upstairs”

Mon, 30 May 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Joshua Ferris reads his story “The Boy Upstairs,” from the June 6, 2022, issue of the magazine. Ferris is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” which won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2014, and “A Calling for Charlie Barnes,” which was published last year.

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Claire-Louise Bennett Reads “Invisible Bird”

Mon, 23 May 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Claire-Louise Bennett reads her story “Invisible Bird,” from the May 30, 2022, issue of the magazine. Bennett is the author of the short-story collection “Pond” and the novel “Checkout 19,” which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.

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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “Occupational Hazards”

Mon, 16 May 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “Occupational Hazards,” from the May 23, 2022, issue of the magazine. Kochai’s first novel, “99 Nights in Logar,” was published in 2019 and was a finalist for the pen/Hemingway Award. His story collection, “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories,” will come out in July.

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Mohsin Hamid Reads “The Face in the Mirror”

Mon, 09 May 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Mohsin Hamid reads his story “The Face in the Mirror,” from the May 16th, 2022, issue of the magazine. Hamid is the author of four novels, including “How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia” and “Exit West,” a winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize. A new novel, “The Last White Man,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in August

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nondisclosure Agreement”

Mon, 02 May 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Nondisclosure Agreement,” from the May 9th, 2022, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy,” which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction in 2014, and “American Estrangement,” which was published last year.

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Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Elif Batuman reads her story “The Repugnant Conclusion,” from the April 25 & May 2, 2022, issue of the magazine. Batuman is the author of “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them” and the novel “The Idiot,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. “The Repugnant Conclusion” was adapted from her second novel, “Either/Or,” which will be published in May.

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Sheila Heti Reads “Just a Little Fever”

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Sheila Heti reads her story “Just a Little Fever,” from the April 18, 2022, issue of the magazine. Heti is a Canadian writer, whose books of fiction and nonfiction include the novels “How Should a Person Be,” “Motherhood,” which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and “Pure Colour,” which was published earlier this year.

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Kevin Barry Reads “The Pub with No Beer”

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Kevin Barry reads his story “The Pub with No Beer,” from the April 11, 2022, issue of the magazine. Barry is the author of six books of fiction, including the novel “City of Bohane,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award, and, most recently, the story collection “That Old Country Music,” which was published in 2020.

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Tessa Hadley Reads “After the Funeral”

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Tessa Hadley reads her story “After the Funeral,” from the March 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “Bad Dreams and Other Stories, ” and the novel “Free Love,” which came out this year. She is a winner of the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.

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Zach Williams Reads “Wood Sorrel House”

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:00:00 -0000

Zach Williams reads his story “Wood Sorrel House,” from the March 21, 2022, issue of the magazine. Williams is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is working on a collection of short stories.

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Camille Bordas Reads “One Sun Only”

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Camille Bordas reads her story “One Sun Only,” from the March 7, 2022, issue of the magazine. Bordas published two novels in France. Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” came out in 2017.

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Claire Keegan Reads “So Late in the Day”

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Claire Keegan reads her story “So Late in the Day,” from the February 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Keegan is the author of four books, including the novella “Foster,” which appeared in abridged form in *The New Yorker*, and, most recently, the novel “Small Things Like These,” which was published last year. She is a winner of the William Trevor Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, among others.

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Kate Folk Reads “Out There”

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0000

In a special episode of the Writer’s Voice podcast, Kate Folk reads her story “Out There,” which ran in the magazine two years ago, in the March 23, 2020, issue. Folk’s recording session at the time was cancelled due to the pandemic lockdown. Folk was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. Her first book, the story collection “Out There,” will be published next month.

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Lauren Groff Reads “Annunciation”

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Lauren Groff reads her story “Annunciation,” from the February 14 & 21, 2022, issue of the magazine. Groff has published four novels, including “Arcadia,” “Fates and Furies,” and most recently “Matrix,” which came out last year. Her second story collection “Florida,” which was published in 2018, won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

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Alexander MacLeod Reads “Once Removed”

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Alexander MacLeod reads his story “Once Removed,” from the February 7, 2022, issue of the magazine. MacLeod is the author of the story collection “Light Lifting,” which was published in 2010 and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. His second story collection, “Animal Person,” will be published in April.

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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Long Distance”

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Long Distance,” from the January 31, 2022, issue of the magazine. Savaş’s first novel, “Walking on the Ceiling,” was published in 2019, and her second novel, “White on White,” came out last year.

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Jennifer Egan Reads “What the Forest Remembers”

Mon, 27 Dec 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Jennifer Egan reads her story “What the Forest Remembers,” from the January 3 & 10, 2022, issue of the magazine. Egan is the author of six books of fiction, including “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, and “Manhattan Beach,” which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal in 2018. A new book, “The Candy House,” will be published in April.

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Adam Levin Reads “A Lot of Things Have Happened”

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Adam Levin reads his story “A Lot of Things Have Happened,” from the December 27, 2021, issue of the magazine. Levin is the author of the story collection “Hot Pink,” and two novels, “The Instructions” and “Bubblegum,” which was published last year.

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Madeleine Thien Reads “Lu, Reshaping”

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Madeleine Thien reads her story “Lu, Reshaping,” from the December 20, 2021, issue of the magazine. Thien is the author of four books of fiction, including the novels “Dogs at the Perimeter” and “Do Not Say We Have Nothing,” which won Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2016.

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Colin Barrett Reads “A Shooting in Rathreedane”

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Colin Barrett reads his story “A Shooting in Rathreedane,” from the December 13, 2021, issue of the magazine. Barrett is the author of the story collection “Young Skins,” which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award in 2014. A new collection, “Homesickness,” will be published in May.

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Kate Walbert Reads “Marriage/Quarantine”

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Kate Walbert reads her story “Marriage/Quarantine,” from the December 6, 2021, issue of the magazine. Walbert’s novels include “A Short History of Women,” “His Favorites,” and “Our Kind,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2004. Her story collection, “She Was Like That,” was published in 2019.

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Greg Jackson Reads “The Hollow”

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Greg Jackson reads his story “The Hollow,” from the November 29, 2021, issue of the magazine. Jackson, a winner of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, is the author of the story collection “Prodigals,” which came out in 2016. His first novel, “The Dimensions of a Cave,” will be published in 2023.

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Gish Jen Reads “Detective Dog”

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Gish Jen reads her story “Detective Dog,” from the November 22, 2021, issue of the magazine. Jen has published five novels, including “World and Town” and “The Resisters,” which came out last year, as well as the story collection “Who's Irish?” A new story collection, “Thank You, Mr. Nixon,” will come out in January.

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Yiyun Li Reads “Hello, Goodbye”

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Yiyun Li reads her story “Hello, Goodbye,” from the November 15, 2021, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of two story collections and four novels, including “Where Reasons End” and “Must I Go,” which was published last year. She won the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2020.

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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak”

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak,” from the November 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Kochai was a Truman Capote fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop. His first novel, ”99 Nights in Logar,” was published in 2019, and a story collection, “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories,” will come out next year.

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David Means Reads “The Depletion Prompts”

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:00:00 -0000

David Means reads his story “The Depletion Prompts,” from the November 1, 2021, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and five story collections, including “The Spot” and “Instructions for a Funeral,” which was published in 2019.

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Thomas McGuane Reads “Not Here You Don’t”

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Thomas McGuane reads his story “Not Here You Don’t,” from the October 18, 2021, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories,” which came out in 2018.

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Karen Russell Reads “The Ghost Birds”

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Karen Russell reads her story “The Ghost Birds,” from the October 11, 2021, issue of the magazine. Russell is the author of five books of fiction, including the story collection “Orange World,” which was published in 2019, and the novel “Swamplandia,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. She was made a MacArthur fellow in 2013.

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Esther Freud Reads “Desire”

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Esther Freud reads her story “Desire,” from the September 27, 2021, issue of the magazine. Freud is the author of nine novels, including “Hideous Kinky,” “Mr. Mac and Me,” and “I Couldn’t Love You More.”

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Han Ong Reads “The Monkey Who Speaks”

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Han Ong reads his story “The Monkey Who Speaks,” from the September 13, 2021, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

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George Saunders Reads “The Mom of Bold Action”

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:00:00 -0000

George Saunders reads his story “The Mom of Bold Action,” from the August 30, 2021, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Man Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of four story collections, including “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline” and “Tenth of December.”

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Emma Cline Reads “The Iceman”

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Emma Cline reads her story “The Iceman,” from the August 23, 2021, issue of the magazine. Cline’s first novel, “The Girls,” a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, came out in 2016, and her story collection, “Daddy,” was published last year.

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hurmat kazmi Reads “Selection Week”

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:00:00 -0000

hurmat kazmi reads their story “Selection Week,” from the August 16, 2021, issue of the magazine. kazmi, a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, is a writer from Karachi, Pakistan, who lives and teaches in Iowa City.

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Sarah Braunstein Reads “Superstition”

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Sarah Braunstein reads her story “Superstition,” from the August 9, 2021, issue of the magazine. Braunstein is the author of the novel “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children,” which won the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Fiction and a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award.

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Tessa Hadley Reads “Coda”

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Tessa Hadley reads her story “Coda,” from the August 2, 2021, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published ten books of fiction, including the story collection “Bad Dreams and Other Stories” and the novel “Late In the Day,” which was published in 2019. She is a winner of the 2016 Wyndham-Campbell literature prize.

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Rebecca Curtis Reads “Satellites”

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Rebecca Curtis reads her story “Satellites,” from the July 12 & 19, 2021, issue of the magazine. Curtis is the author of the story collection “Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money” and a winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for Fiction.

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Sam Lipsyte Reads “My Apology”

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Sam Lipsyte reads his story “My Apology,” from the July 5, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collection “The Fun Parts,” and the novels “The Ask” and “Hark,” which was published in 2019.

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Camille Bordas Reads “Offside Constantly”

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Camille Bordas reads her story from the June 28, 2021, issue of the magazine. Bordas has published two novels in France, “Les Treize Desserts” and “Partie Commune.” Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” was published in 2017.

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Bryan Washington Reads “Foster”

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Bryan Washington reads his story from the June 14, 2021, issue of the magazine. Washington is a winner of the Ernest J. Gaines award, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Lambda Literary award. His story collection, “Lot,” was published in 2019, and his novel, “Memorial,” came out in 2020.

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Rachel Heng Reads “Before the Valley”

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Rachel Heng reads her story from the June 7, 2021, issue of the magazine. Heng is the author of the novel “Suicide Club,” which was a national bestseller in Singapore and has been translated into ten languages. A new novel, “The Great Reclamation,” will be published next year.

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “A, S, D, F”

Tue, 25 May 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story from the May 31, 2021, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collection “Brief Encounters with the Enemy,” which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction, in 2014. A new collection, “American Estrangement,” will be published in August.

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Margaret Atwood Reads “Old Babes in the Wood”

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Margaret Atwood reads her story from the April 26 & May 3, 2021, issue of the magazine. Atwood has published more than two dozen books of fiction, including the story collection “Stone Mattress,” and the novels “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments,” which won the Booker Prize in 2019.

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Jonas Eika Reads “Alvin”

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Jonas Eika reads his story from the April 19, 2021, issue of the magazine, which was translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg. Eika, a Danish writer, won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2019 for his short-story collection “After the Sun,” which will be published in English in August.

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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Separation”

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Clare Sestanovich reads her story from the April 12, 2021, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich will publish her début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” in June.

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads “Featherweight”

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain reads his story from the April 5, 2021, issue of the magazine. HolyWhiteMountain is a former Stegner Fellow and current Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. He is an unrecognized citizen of the Blackfeet Nation. He is at work on a novel.

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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Future Selves”

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story from the March 29, 2021, issue of the magazine. Savaş’s first novel, “Walking on the Ceiling,” was published in 2019. Her second novel, “White on White,” will be published this year.

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Imbolo Mbue Reads “The Case for and Against Love Potions”

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Imbolo Mbue reads her story from the March 22, 2021, issue of the magazine. Mbue is the author of two novels, “Behold the Dreamers,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and “How Beautiful We Were,” which was published this month.

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Shape of a Teardrop”

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:00:00 -0000

T.Coraghessan Boyle reads his story from the March 15, 2021, issue of the magazine. Boyle is the author of more than two dozen books of fiction, including “The Terranauts” and “Outside Looking In.” A new book, “Talk to Me,” will be published in September.

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Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Crooked House”

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Jonathan Lethem reads his story from the March 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of seventeen books of fiction, including the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published last year.

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Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Good-Looking”

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story from the March 1, 2021, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry and the short-story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” which won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Casting Shadows”

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story from the February 15 & 22, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lahiri is the author of two novels and two short-story collections. Her first book, “Interpreter of Maladies,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and she was a recipient of the National Humanities Medal in 2014. Her new novel, “Whereabouts,” from which this story is adapted, was published in Italian in 2018 and will come out in Lahiri’s translation in April.

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Ben Okri Reads “A Wrinkle in the Realm”

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Ben Okri reads his story from the February 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Okri is the author of eleven novels, including “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which came out in 2019. His story collection, “Prayer for the Living,” was published in the U.S. this month.

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Lauren Groff Reads “The Wind”

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Lauren Groff reads her story from the February 1, 2021, issue of the magazine. Groff has published three novels, including “Arcadia,” in 2012, and “Fates and Furies,” in 2015. Her second story collection, “Florida,” won the Story Prize in 2018.

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Allegra Goodman Reads “A Challenge You Have Overcome”

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Allegra Goodman reads her story from the January 25, 2021, issue of the magazine. Goodman’s books include “The Family Markowitz” and “The Chalk Artist.”

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Andrea Lee Reads “The Rivals”

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:00:00 -0000

Andrea Lee reads her story from the January 4 & 11, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lee is the author of four books, including the novel “Lost Hearts in Italy” and the story collection “Interesting Women.” A new book, “Red Island House,” will be published in March.

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Rebecca Curtis Reads “The Christmas Miracle”

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:00:00 -0000

For a special holiday episode of the Writer’s Voice podcast, Rebecca Curtis reads “The Christmas Miracle,” her story from the December 23 & 30, 2013, issue of the magazine. Curtis is the author of the story collection “Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money” and a winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for Fiction.

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Patricia Lockwood Reads “The Winged Thing”

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:00:00 -0000

Patricia Lockwood reads her story from the November 30, 2020, issue of the magazine. Lockwood has published two collections of poetry and the memoir “Priestdaddy,” which came out in 2017. Her first novel, “No One Is Talking About This,” from which this story is adapted, will come out next year.

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Salman Rushdie Reads “The Old Man in the Piazza”

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:00:00 -0000

Salman Rushdie reads his story from the November 23, 2020, issue of the magazine. Rushdie has published twelve novels, including the Booker Prize-winning “Midnight’s Children,” “The Satanic Verses,” “The Golden House,” and, most recently, “Quichotte,” which came out last year.

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Rebecca Curtis Reads “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit”

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:00:00 -0000

Rebecca Curtis reads her story from the November 16, 2020, issue of the magazine. Curtis is the author of the story collection “Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money” and a winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for Fiction.

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George Saunders Reads “Ghoul”

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:00:00 -0000

George Saunders reads his story from the November 9, 2020, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Man Booker Prize in 2017, for his novel “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of four story collections, including “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline” and “Tenth of December.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “A for Alone”

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Curtis Sittenfeld reads her story from the November 2, 2020, issue of the magazine. Sittenfeld is the author of one short-story collection, “You Think It, I’ll Say It,” and six novels, including “Prep,” “Eligible,” and “Rodham,” which came out earlier this year.

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Roddy Doyle Reads “Life Without Children”

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Roddy Doyle reads his story from the October 19, 2020, issue of the magazine. Doyle is the author of thirteen novels, including the Booker Prize-winning “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha” and “The Dead Republic.” His most recent novel, “Love,” came out earlier this year.

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David Rabe Reads “Suffocation Theory”

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:00:00 -0000

David Rabe reads his story from the October 12, 2020, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays, including the Tony-award-winning “Sticks and Bones,” “In the Boom Boom Room,” and “Hurlyburly.” His novels include “Recital of the Dog” and “Girl by the Road at Night.”

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Joseph O’Neill Reads “Rainbows”

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Joseph O’Neill reads his story from the October 5, 2020, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of four novels, including “Netherland,” which won the PEN/Faulkner award in 2009, and “The Dog.” His first story collection, “Good Trouble,” came out in 2018.

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Douglas Stuart Reads “The Englishman”

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Douglas Stuart reads his story from the September 14, 2020, issue of the magazine. Stuart published his first novel, “Shuggie Bain,” earlier this year.

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Susan Choi Reads “Flashlight”

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Susan Choi reads her story from the September 7, 2020, issue of the magazine. Choi is the author of five novels, including “My Education” and “Trust Exercise,” which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2019.

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David Wright Faladé Reads “The Sand Banks, 1861”

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:00:00 -0000

David Wright Faladé reads his story from the August 31, 2020, issue of the magazine. Wright Faladé is the author of the nonfiction book “Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers” and the young-adult novel “Away Running.” This story was adapted from his novel-in-progress “Nigh-On a Brother,” which will be published in 2022.

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David Gilbert Reads “Cicadia”

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:00:00 -0000

David Gilbert reads his story from the August 24, 2020, issue of the magazine. Gilbert is the author of the story collection “Remote Feed” and two novels, “& Sons” and “The Normals.”

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Madhuri Vijay Reads “You Are My Dear Friend”

Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Madhuri Vijay reads his story from the August 17, 2020, issue of the magazine. Vijay is the author of the novel “The Far Field,” which won the J.C.B prize for literature in 2019.

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Bryan Washington Reads “Heirlooms”

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Bryan Washington reads his story from the August 3 & 10, 2020, issue of the magazine. Washington’s first story collection, “Lot,” was published in 2019 and his first novel, “Memorial,” from which this story was adapted, will come out in October.

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A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:00:00 -0000

A.M. Homes joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” in this 2008 episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast. The story was originally published in 1948 and is included in the July 27, 2020, issue of The New Yorker—a bonus issue made up of pieces from the magazine’s archive on the subject of American dissent.

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Hari Kunzru Reads “A Transparent Woman”

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Hari Kunzru reads his story from the July 6 & 13, 2020, issue of the magazine. Kunzru is the author of five novels, including “Gods Without Men” and “White Tears.” A new novel, “Red Pill,” from which this story was adapted, will be published this September.

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Emma Cline Reads “White Noise”

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Emma Cline reads her short story from the June 8 & 15, 2020, issue of the magazine. Cline’s first novel, “The Girls,” winner of the Shirley Jackson award, came out in 2016. Her story collection, “Daddy,” will be published later this year.

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David Means Reads “Two Nurses, Smoking”

Tue, 26 May 2020 16:00:00 -0000

David Means reads his short story from the June 1, 2020, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and five story collections, including “The Spot” and “Instructions for a Funeral,” which was published last year.

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Fiona McFarlane Reads “Demolition”

Tue, 19 May 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Fiona McFarlane reads her story from the May 25, 2020, issue of the magazine. McFarlane is the author of the novel “The Night Guest” and the story collection “The High Places,” which was awarded the international Dylan Thomas Prize in 2017.

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Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Afterlife”

Tue, 12 May 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Jonathan Lethem reads his story from the May 18, 2020, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction, including “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Gambler’s Anatomy,” and “The Feral Detective.” A new novel, “The Arrest,” will be published later this year.

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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads “Bedtime Story”

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum reads her story from the April 27, 2020, issue of the magazine. Bynum is the author of two novels, “Madeleine Is Sleeping” and “Ms. Hempel Chronicles.” Her story collection, “Likes,” will be published in September.

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Ben Lerner Reads “The Media”

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Ben Lerner reads his story from the April 20, 2020, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was published last year. He was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 2015.

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George Saunders Reads “Love Letter”

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:00:00 -0000

George Saunders reads his story from the April 6, 2020, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Man Booker prize in 2017 for his novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of four story collections, including “In Persuasion Nation” and “Tenth of December.”

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Han Ong Reads “Futures”

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Han Ong reads his story from the March 30, 2020, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

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Matthew Klam Reads “The Liver”

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:00:00 -0000

Matthew Klam reads his story from the March 16, 2020, issue of the magazine. Klam is the author of the collection “Sam the Cat and Other Stories” and the novel “Who Is Rich?,” which was published in 2017.

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Anne Enright Reads “Night Swim”

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:00:00 -0000

Anne Enright reads her story from the March 9, 2020, issue of the magazine. Enright is the author of three short-story collections and seven novels, including “The Gathering,” which won the Man Booker Prize in 2007, and “Actress,” which was published this month.

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Adam Levin Reads “Kid Positive”

Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:00:00 -0000

Adam Levin reads his story from the March 2, 2020, issue of the magazine. Levin is the author of the novel “The Instructions” and the story collection “Hot Pink.” A new novel, “Bubblegum,” will be published in April.

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Anthony Veasna So Reads “Three Women of Chuck’s Donuts”

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:00:00 -0000

Anthony Veasna So reads his story from the February 10, 2020, issue of the magazine. So is an MFA Candidate in Fiction at Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in n+1, Granta, and ZYZZYVA. This is his first piece of fiction in the magazine.

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David Rabe Reads “Things We Worried About When I Was Ten”

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:00:00 -0000

David Rabe reads his story from the February 3, 2020, issue of the magazine. Rabe, a fiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter, is the author of more than a dozen plays, including the Tony Award-winning “Sticks and Bones,” “In the Boom Boom Room,” and “Hurlyburly.” His novels include “Recital of the Dog” and “Girl by the Road at Night.”

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Mary South Reads “You Will Never Be Forgotten”

Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:00:00 -0000

Mary South reads her story from the January 27, 2020, issue of the magazine. South will publish her first book, the story collection “You Will Never Be Forgotten,” in March.

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Bryan Washington Reads “Visitor”

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:00:00 -0000

Bryan Washington reads his story from the January 20, 2020, issue of the magazine. Washington is a National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree. His first story collection, “Lot,” was published last year.

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Douglas Stuart Reads “Found Wanting”

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:00:00 -0000

Douglas Stuart reads his story from the January 13, 2020, issue of the magazine. Stuart, who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, will publish his first novel, “Shuggie Bain,” in February. This is his first published piece of fiction.

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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain”

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story from the January 6, 2020, issue of the magazine. He was a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first novel, “99 Nights in Logar,” was published in 2019.

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Camille Bordas Reads “Only Orange”

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Camille Bordas reads “Only Orange,” her story from the December 23, 2019, issue of the magazine. She has published two novels in France, “Les Treize Desserts” and “Partie Commune.” Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” was published in 2017.

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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Old Hope”

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Clare Sestanovich reads her story from the December 9, 2019, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich is working on her first collection of stories. She is a member of The New Yorker’s editorial staff. This is her first story in the magazine.

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Roddy Doyle Reads “The Curfew”

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Roddy Doyle reads his story from the December 2, 2019, issue of the magazine. Doyle is the author of twelve novels, including the Man Booker Prize-winning “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha” and “The Dead Republic.” His most recent novel, “Charlie Savage,” came out earlier this year.

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Weike Wang Reads “The Trip”

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Weike Wang reads her story from the November 18, 2019, issue of the magazine. Wang’s first novel, “Chemistry,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, was published in 2017, and she was named one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 the same year.

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Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Flier”

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Joseph O’Neill reads his story from the November 11, 2019, issue of the magazine. O’Neil is the author of four novels, including “Netherland,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2009, and “The Dog.” His first story collection, “Good Trouble,” was published last year.

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Tiphanie Yanique Reads “God’s Caravan”

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Tiphanie Yanique reads her story from the November 4, 2019, issue of the magazine. Yanique is the author of “How to Escape from a Leper Colony: a Novella and Stories” and the novel “Land of Love and Drowning,” which won the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize in 2014.

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Tessa Hadley Reads “The Bunty Club”

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Tessa Hadley reads “The Bunty Club,” her story from the October 28, 2019, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published ten books of fiction, including the story collections “Married Love” and “Bad Dreams and Other Stories,” and the novel “Late in the Day,” which was published earlier this year.

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David Means Reads “Are You Experienced?”

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:00:00 -0000

David Means reads his story “Are You Experienced?” from the October 21, 2019, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and five story collections, including “The Spot” and “Instructions for a Funeral,” which was published earlier this year.

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Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Joyce Carol Oates reads “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” her story from the October 14, 2019, issue of the magazine. Oates is the author of more than sixty books of fiction, including the novels “The Gravedigger’s Daughter” and “A Book of American Martyrs,” and the story collection “Dear Husband.”

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Rion Amilcar Scott Reads “Shape-ups at Delilah’s”

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Rion Amilcar Scott reads his story “Shape-ups at Delilah’s,” from the October 7, 2019, issue of the magazine. Scott is the author of two story collections, “Insurrections,” which was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Début Fiction, and “The World Doesn’t Require You,” which was published earlier this year.

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Joy Williams Reads "The Fellow"

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Joy Williams reads her story from the September 30, 2019, issue of the magazine. Williams is the author of four novels and five story collections, including "Honored Guest" and "99 Stories of God." Her most recent book, "The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories," was published in 2015.

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Thomas McGuane Reads "Wide Spot"

Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Thomas McGuane reads his story from the September 23, 2019, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published fourteen books of fiction, including the story collections "Gallatin Canyon," "Crow Fair," and "Cloudbursts," which came out last year.

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Garth Greenwell Reads "Harbor"

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Garth Greenwell reads his story from the September 16, 2019, issue of the magazine. Greenwell's first novel, "What Belongs to You," was published in 2016, and won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year. A new book of fiction, "Cleanness," will be published in January.

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Louise Erdrich Reads "The Stone"

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Louise Erdrich reads her story from the September 9, 2019, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her novels include "LaRose" and "The Round House," which won the National Book Award in 2012.

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Kate Walbert Reads "To Do"

Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Kate Walbert reads her story from the September 2, 2019, issue of the magazine. Walbert's novels include "Our Kind," "A Short History of Women," and "His Favorites." A new story collection, "She Was Like That," will be published in October.

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J. Robert Lennon Reads "The Loop"

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:00:00 -0000

J. Robert Lennon reads his story from the August 26, 2019, issue of the magazine. Lennon is the author of ten books of fiction, including the novel "Broken River" and the story collection "See You in Paradise."

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George Saunders Reads "Elliott Spencer"

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:00:00 -0000

George Saunders reads his story from the August 19, 2019, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Man Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel "Lincoln in the Bardo." He is the author of four short-story collections, including "In Persuasion Nation" and "Tenth of December."

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Elizabeth Strout Reads "Motherless Child"

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Elizabeth Strout reads her story from the August 5 & 12, 2019, issue of the magazine. Strout is the author of six books of fiction, including "My Name Is Lucy Barton" and "Olive Kitteridge," which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A new book, "Olive, Again," will be published in October.

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Salman Rushdie Reads "The Little King"

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Salman Rushdie reads his story from the July 29, 2019, issue of the magazine. Rushdie has published eleven novels, including "Midnight's Children," "The Satanic Verses," "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights," and "The Golden House." His new novel, "Quichotte," from which this story was adapted, will be published in September.

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Hanif Kureishi Reads "She Said He Said"

Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Hanif Kureishi reads his story from the July 22, 2019, issue of the magazine. Kureishi is the author of numerous plays, screenplays, and novels, including "The Buddha of Suburbia," "Intimacy," "The Last Word," and "Nothing." A new collection of fiction and essays, "What Happened?," will be published in October.

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David Rabe Reads "Uncle Jim Called"

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:00:00 -0000

David Rabe reads his story from the July 8 & 15, 2019, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays, including "Sticks and Bones," "Hurlyburly," and "Visiting Edna." His novels include "Recital of the Dog" and "Girl by the Road at Night."

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Emma Cline Reads "Son of Friedman"

Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Emma Cline reads her story from the July 1, 2019, issue of the magazine. Cline's first novel, "The Girls," was published in 2016. She is a winner of The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize, and was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, in 2017.

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Mary Grimm Reads "Back Then"

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Mary Grimm reads her story from the June 24, 2019 issue of the magazine. Grimm, a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, is the author of the novel "Left to Themselves," and is currently at work on a historical novel.

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Andrea Lee Reads "The Children"

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Andrea Lee reads her story from the June 10 & 17, 2019, issue of the magazine. Lee is the author of four books, including the novel "Lost Hearts in Italy" and the story collection "Interesting Women." A new story collection, "Red Island House," will be published in 2021.

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Han Ong Reads "Javi"

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Han Ong reads his story from the June 10 & 17, 2019, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, "Fixer Chao" and "The Disinherited."

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Ta-Nehisi Coates Reads "Conduction"

Tue, 04 Jun 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Ta-Nehisi Coates reads his story from the June 10 & 17, 2019, issue of the magazine. Coates is the author of the nonfiction books "The Beautiful Struggle," "We Were Eight Years in Power," and "Between the World and Me," which won the National Book Award in 2015. His first novel, "The Water Dancer," from which this story is adapted, will be published in September.

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Ayşegül Savaş Reads "Canvas"

Tue, 28 May 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story from the June 3, 2019, issue of the magazine. Savaş is a Turkish writer who lives in Paris and teaches at the Sorbonne. Her first novel, "Walking on the Ceiling," was published in April.

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Ben Lerner Reads "Ross Perot and China"

Tue, 21 May 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Ben Lerner reads his story from the May 27, 2019, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels "Leaving the Atocha Station" and "10:04," as well as three books of poetry. His third novel, "The Topeka School," from which this story was adapted, will be published in October.

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Camille Bordas Reads "The Presentation on Egypt"

Tue, 14 May 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Camille Bordas reads her story from the May 20, 2019, issue of the magazine. Bordas has published two novels in France, "Les Treize Desserts" and "Partie Commune." Her first novel in English, "How to Behave in a Crowd," was published in 2017.

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Lauren Groff Reads "Brawler"

Tue, 07 May 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Lauren Groff reads her story from the May 13, 2019, issue of the magazine. Groff has published three novels, including "Arcadia," in 2012, and "Fates and Furies," in 2015. Her second story collection, "Florida," which came out last year, won the Story Prize in 2018 and was a finalist for the National Book Award.

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Greg Jackson Reads "Poetry"

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Greg Jackson reads his story from the April 29, 2019, issue of the magazine. Jackson is the author of the story collection "Prodigals" and the winner of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award and the Bard Fiction Prize.

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Catherine Lacey Reads "Cut"

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Catherine Lacey reads her story from the April 22, 2019, issue of the magazine. Lacey has published two novels, "Nobody is Ever Missing" and "The Answers," as well as the story collection "Certain American States," which came out last year.

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Pat Barker Reads "Medusa"

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Pat Barker reads her story from the April 15, 2019, issue of the magazine. Barker is the author of fourteen novels, including "Regeneration," "The Ghost Road," which won the Booker Prize, and, most recently, "The Silence of the Girls," which was published in 2018.

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Te-Ping Chen Reads “Lulu”

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Te-Ping Chen reads her story “Lulu,” from the April 8, 2019, issue of the magazine. Chen is a writer and journalist based in Philadelphia. She is working on her first collection of stories.

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Colson Whitehead Reads “The Match”

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Colson Whitehead reads his story “The Match,” from the April 1, 2019, issue of the magazine. Whitehead has published six novels, including “The Intuitionist” and “The Underground Railroad,” which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His new novel, “The Nickel Boys,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in July.

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Lore Segal Reads “Dandelion”

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Lore Segal reads her story “Dandelion,” from the March 25, 2019, issue of the magazine. Segal is the author of three story collections and five novels, including “Her First American” and “Half the Kingdom.” A new book, “The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing,” will be published in June.

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Sally Rooney Reads “Color and Light”

Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:00:00 -0000

Sally Rooney reads her story “Color and Light,” from the March 18, 2019, issue of the magazine. Rooney is the author of two novels, “Conversations with Friends” and “Normal People,” which was published last year and won the Costa Book Award.

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Yiyun Li Reads "All Will Be Well"

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Yiyun Li reads her story "All Will Be Well," from the March 11, 2019, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of two story collections and three novels, "The Vagrants," "Kinder Than Solitude," and "Where Reasons End," which was published last year.

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Jonathan Lethem Reads "The Starlet Apartments"

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Jonathan Lethem reads his short story from the March 4, 2019, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction, including the novels "The Fortress of Solitude," "A Gambler's Anatomy," and "The Feral Detective," which was published last year.

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Leïla Slimani Reads "The Confession"

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Leïla Slimani reads her short story from the February 18 & 25, 2019, issue of the magazine. Slimani is the author of the novel "The Perfect Nanny," which won the Prix Goncourt in France in 2016 and was published in the U.S. last year. Another novel. "Adele," was published here in January.

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads "Asleep at the Wheel"

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:00:00 -0000

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his short story from the February 11, 2019, issue of the magazine. Boyle is the author of more than two dozen books of fiction, including the novels "The Terranauts" and "The Harder They Come." A new novel, "Outside Looking In," will be published in April.

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Emma Cline Reads "What Can You Do With a General"

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Emma Cline reads her short story from the February 4, 2019, issue of the magazine. Cline's first novel, "The Girls," was published in 2016. She is a winner of The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize, and was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, in 2017.

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Salvatore Scibona Reads "Do Not Stop"

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Salvatore Scibona reads his short story from the January 21, 2019, issue of the magazine. Scibona's first novel, "The End," was a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His second novel, "The Volunteer," from which this story was adapted, will be published in March.

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Taymour Soomro Reads "Philosophy of the Foot"

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 17:00:00 -0000

Taymour Soomro reads his short story from the January 7, 2019, issue of the magazine. This is Soomro's first fiction publication.

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Mary Gaitskill Reads "Acceptance Journey"

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:00:00 -0000

Mary Gaitskill reads her short story from the December 24 & 31, 2018, issue of the magazine. Gaitskill is the author of three novels and three story collections, including "Because They Wanted To" and "Don't Cry." Her novel "Veronica" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2005. Her most recent book is the essay collection "Somebody With a Little Hammer."

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Linn Ullmann Reads "Time for the Eyes to Adjust"

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:00:00 -0000

Linn Ullmann reads her short story from the December 17, 2018, issue of the magazine. Ullmann is the author of six novels, including "A Blessed Child" and "The Cold Song." "Time for the Eyes to Adjust" is adapted from her novel "Unquiet," which will be published in English in 2019.

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Joy Williams Reads "Chaunt"

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:00:00 -0000

Joy Williams reads her short story from the December 10, 2018, issue of the magazine. Williams is the author of four novels and five story collections, including "Ninety-Nine Stories of God" and "The Visiting Privilege." She won the Rea Award for the Short Story in 1999.

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Garth Greenwell Reads "The Frog King"

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:00:00 -0000

Garth Greenwell reads his short story from the November 26, 2018, issue of the magazine. Greenwell's first novel, "What Belongs to You," was published in 2016. It won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year and was a finalist for several other prizes, including the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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Sam Lipsyte Reads "Show Recent Some Love"

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:00:00 -0000

Sam Lipsyte reads his short story from the November 19, 2018, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of five books of fiction, including the novel "The Ask" and the story collection "The Fun Parts." A new novel, "Hark," will be published in January.

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Tony Earley Reads "Backpack"

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Tony Earley reads his short story from the November 5, 2018, issue of the magazine. Earley is the author of five books, including the story collection "Mr. Tall" and the novels "Jim the Boy" and "The Blue Star." He has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1998.

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Bryan Washington Reads "Waugh"

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Bryan Washington reads his short story from the October 29, 2018, issue of the magazine. Washington's first collection of stories, "Lot," will be published in March. He lives in Houston.

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Kevin Barry Reads "The Coast of Leitrim"

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Kevin Barry reads his short story from the October 15, 2018, issue of the magazine. Barry is the author of two story collections, “There Are Little Kingdoms” and “Dark Lies the Island,” as well as the novels “Beatlebone” and “City of Bohane,” for which he won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

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Yiyun Li Reads "When We Were Happy We Had Other Names"

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Yiyun Li reads her short story from the October 1, 2018, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of two story collections and two novels, "The Vagrants" and "Kinder Than Solitude." Her book of memoir and essays, "Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life," was published last year. Li has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2003.

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Tessa Hadley Reads "Cecilia Awakened"

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Tessa Hadley reads her short story from the September 17, 2018, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published nine books of fiction, including the novel "The Past" and the story collections "Married Love" and "Bad Dreams and Other Stories."

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads "Audition"

Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his short story from the September 10, 2018, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collection "Brief Encounters with the Enemy," which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction in 2014. He won a 2010 Whiting Writers' Award for his memoir "When Skateboards Will Be Free."

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Sana Krasikov Reads "Ways and Means"

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Sana Krasikov reads her short story from the August 27, 2018, issue of the magazine. Krasikov is the author of the story collection "One More Year," for which she won the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" Award, and the novel "The Patriots," which was published in 2017.

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Callan Wink Reads "A Refugee Crisis"

Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Callan Wink reads his short story from the August 20, 2018, issue of the magazine. Wink's début story collection, "Dog Run Moon," was published in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He works as a fly-fishing guide in Montana.

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Richard Ford Reads "Displaced"

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Richard Ford reads his short story from the August 6 & 13, 2018, issue of the magazine. Ford is the author of five short-story collections and seven novels, including "Independence Day," "The Lay of the Land," and "Canada." He is working on a new collection titled "The Irish in America."

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads "I Walk Between the Raindrops"

Tue, 24 Jul 2018 16:00:00 -0000

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his short story from the July 30, 2018, issue of the magazine. Boyle is the author of more than two dozen books of fiction, including the novels "The Terranauts" and "The Harder They Come." A new novel, "Outside Looking In," will be published next year.

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Zadie Smith Reads "Now More Than Ever"

Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Zadie Smith reads her short story from the July 23, 2018, issue of the magazine. Smith is the author of five novels, including "NW" and "Swing Time." Her essay collection "Feel Free" was published in February.

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Lauren Groff Reads "Under the Wave"

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Lauren Groff reads her story from the July 9 & 16, 2018, issue of the magazine. Groff has published three novels, including "Arcadia," in 2012, and "Fates and Furies," in 2015. Her second story collection, "Florida," came out last month.

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Joseph O'Neill Reads "The First World"

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Joseph O'Neill reads his story from the July 2, 2018, issue of the magazine. O'Neill is the author of four novels, including "Netherland," which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2009, and "The Dog." His first story collection, "Good Trouble," was published this month.

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Gary Shteyngart Reads "The Luck of Kokura"

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Gary Shteyngart reads his story from the June 25, 2018, issue of the magazine. Shteyngart has published three novels, including "Absurdistan" and "Super Sad True Love Story," and the memoir "Little Failure." His fourth novel, "Lake Success," from which this story was adapted, comes out in September.

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Weike Wang Reads "Omakase"

Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Weike Wang reads her story "Omakase," from the June 18, 2018, issue of The New Yorker. Wang's first novel, "Chemistry," which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, was published last year.

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David Gilbert Reads "Fungus"

Tue, 05 Jun 2018 16:00:00 -0000

David Gilbert reads his story "Fungus," from the June 4 & 11, 2018, issue of The New Yorker. Gilbert is the author of the story collection "Remote Feed," and two novels, "& Sons" and "The Normals."

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Karen Russell Reads "Orange World"

Tue, 29 May 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Karen Russell reads her story "Orange World," from the June 4 & 11, 2018, issue of The New Yorker. Russell is the author of two short-story collections, and the novel "Swamplandia," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She was included in the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" issue in 2010, and was made a MacArthur Fellow in 2013.

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Ben Marcus Reads "Stay Down and Take It"

Tue, 22 May 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Ben Marcus reads his story "Stay Down and Take It," from the May 28, 2018, issue of the magazine. Marcus has published two novels and two short-story collections, including "The Flame Alphabet" and "Leaving the Sea," which was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. A new story collection, "Notes from the Fog," will be published in August.

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Edwidge Danticat Reads "Without Inspection"

Tue, 08 May 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Edwidge Danticat reads her story "Without Inspection," from the May 14th, 2018, issue of the magazine. Danticat is the author of more than a dozen books, including the novels "The Dew Breaker" and "Claire of the Sea Light." Her most recent book is the memoir-essay "The Art of Death," which was published last year.

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Robert Coover Reads "Treatments"

Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Coover is the author of eleven novels, including “The Public Burning,” “The Brunist Day of Wrath,” and “Huck Out West.” His story collection “Going for a Beer” was published earlier this year.

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Yiyun Li Reads "A Flawless Silence”

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Li is the author of two novels and two story collections, “Gold Boy, Emerald Girl” and “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.” A book of memoir and essays, “Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life,” was published last year.

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Keith Gessen Reads "How Did We Come to Know You?"

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Keith Gessen reads his story “How Did We Come to Know You?,” from the April 16, 2018, issue of the magazine. Gessen’s first novel, “All the Sad Young Literary Men,” came out in 2008. His second novel, “A Terrible Country,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in July. Gessen is also a translator and a journalist, who has contributed many nonfiction pieces to The New Yorker.

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Camille Bordas Reads "The State of Nature"

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Camille Bordas reads her story “The State of Nature,” from the April 9, 2018, issue of the magazine. Bordas has published two novels in France, “Les Treize Desserts” and “Partie Commune.” Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” was published last year.

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Sam Allingham Reads "The Intermediate Class"

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Sam Allingham reads his story “The Intermediate Class,” from the April 2, 2018, issue of the magazine. Allingham’s first story collection, “The Great American Songbook,” was published in 2016. He has published fiction in One Story, Epoch, and American Short Fiction, among other magazines.

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Tommy Orange Reads "The State"

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Tommy Orange reads his story “The State,” from the March 26, 2018, issue of the magazine. Orange is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Orange will publish his first novel, "There There," from which this story was adapted in June. This is his first piece of fiction in the magazine.

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Gish Jen Reads "No More Maybe"

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 16:00:00 -0000

Gish Jen reads her story “No More Maybe,” from the March 19, 2018, issue of the magazine. Jen has published four novels, including “Mona in the Promised Land” and “World and Town,” and the short-story collection “Who’s Irish?.” Her most recent book is a nonfiction study titled “The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap.”

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Joseph O’Neill Reads "The Poltroon Husband"

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:00:00 -0000

Joseph O’Neill reads his story "The Poltroon Husband" from the March 12, 2018, issue of the magazine. O'Neill has published four novels, including “Netherland,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2009, and “The Dog,” which came out in 2014. He is also the author of the nonfiction family history “Blood-Dark Track.” This is his fourth story in the magazine.

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Nicole Krauss Reads "Seeing Ershadi"

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 17:00:00 -0000

Nicole Krauss reads her story "Seeing Ershadi," from the March 5, 2018, issue of the magazine. Krauss is the author of four novels, including “The History of Love” and “Forest Dark,” which was published last year. Her story “The Young Painters” was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Fiction Issue in 2010. She has been publishing fiction in the magazine since 2004.

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Rachel Kushner Reads "Stanville"

Tue, 06 Feb 2018 05:00:00 -0000

Rachel Kushner reads her story "Stanville," from the February 12 & 19, 2018, issue of the magazine. Kushner is the author of two novels, "Telex from Cuba" and "The Flamethrowers," both of which were finalists for the National Book Award. Her third novel, "The Mars Room," from which this story was adapted, will be published in May.

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Jeffrey Eugenides Reads "Bronze"

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 05:00:00 -0000

Jeffrey Eugenides reads his story "Bronze" from the February 5th, 2018, issue of the magazine. Eugenides is the author of three novels, including "Middlesex," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003. His most recent book, the story collection "Fresh Complaint," was published last year.

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Jhumpa Lahiri Reads "The Boundary"

Tue, 23 Jan 2018 05:00:00 -0000

Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story from the January 29, 2018, issue of the magazine. Lahiri is the author of two novels and two short-story collections. Her first book, "Interpreter of Maladies," won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and her most recent novel, "The Lowland," was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award in 2014.

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David Gates Reads "Texas"

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:00:00 -0000

David Gates reads his story from the January 15, 2018, issue of the magazine. Gates is the author of four books of fiction, including the novel "Preston Falls" and the story collection "A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me," which was published in 2015.

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Sadia Shepard Reads "Foreign-Returned"

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 05:00:00 -0000

Sadia Shepard reads her story from the January 8, 2018, issue of the magazine. Shepard is a writer and documentary film producer. Her first book, "The Girl from Foreign: A Memoir," was published in 2008.

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Colin Barrett Reads "Whoever is There, Come on Through"

Tue, 26 Dec 2017 05:00:00 -0000

Colin Barrett reads his story from the January 1, 2018, issue of the magazine. Barrett is the author of the story collection "Young Skins," which won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award in 2014.

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Zadie Smith Reads "The Lazy River"

Tue, 19 Dec 2017 05:00:00 -0000

Zadie Smith reads her story from the December 18th & 25th, 2017, issue of the magazine. Smith is the author of five novels, including "NW" and "Swing Time." Her essay collection "Feel Free" will be published in February.

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Thomas McGuane Reads "Riddle"

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 05:00:00 -0000

Thomas McGuane reads his story from the November 13, 2017, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published thirteen books of fiction, including the story collections "Gallatin Canyon" and "Crow Fair." A new volume, titled "Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories," will be published next year.

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Kristen Roupenian Reads "Cat Person"

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 05:00:00 -0000

Kristen Roupenian reads her story "Cat Person," from the December 11, 2017, issue of the magazine. Roupenian recently completed an M.F.A. and is now a Zell Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Will Mackin Reads “The Lost Troop”

Tue, 21 Nov 2017 05:00:00 -0000

Will Mackin reads his story "The Lost Troop,” from the November 27th, 2017, issue of the magazine. Mackin, who retired from the Navy in 2014, will publish his first story collection, "Bring Out the Dog," in March.

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David Gilbert Reads “The Sightseers”

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 05:00:00 -0000

David Gilbert reads his story from the November 20, 2017, issue of the magazine. Gilbert is the author of the story collection “Remote Feed” and the author of two novels, “& Sons” and “The Normals.”

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Anne Enright Reads "The Hotel"

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Anne Enright reads her story from the November 6, 2017, issue of the magazine. Enright has published three short-story collections and six novels, including “The Gathering,” which won the Man Booker prize in 2007, and “The Green Road,” which came out in 2015.

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Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Sinking of The Houston”

Tue, 24 Oct 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Joseph O’Neill reads his story from the October 30, 2017, issue of the magazine. O’Neill has published four novels, including “Netherland,” which won the PEN/Faulkner award in 2009, and “The Dog” which came out in 2014.

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Edwidge Danticat Reads “Sunrise, Sunset”

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Edwidge Danticat reads her story from the September 18, 2017, issue of the magazine. Danticat is the author of more than a dozen books, including the novels “The Dew Breaker” and “Claire of the Sea Light.” Her most recent book is the memoir “The Art of Death,” which was published in July.

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Tessa Hadley Reads “Funny Little Snake”

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Tessa Hadley reads her story from the October 16, 2017, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published six novels and four short-story collections, including “Sunstroke and Other Stories” and “Married Love.” In 2016, she won the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.

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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads “Likes”

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reads her story from the October 9, 2017, issue of the magazine. Bynum is the author of two novels, “Madeleine is Sleeping” and “Ms. Hempel Chronicles.” Her story “The Erlking” was included in The New Yorker’s "20 Under 40” issue, in 2010.

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Ben Marcus reads “Blueprints for St. Louis”

Tue, 26 Sep 2017 04:00:00 -0000

"“Terrorism” wasn’t really the term anymore. Ida found that it soured in her mouth, like a German word for some obscure feeling.“Tax”seemed to be a finer way to put it. A tax had been levied in St. Louis. In New Orleans last year, in Tucson three years back. Et cet- era. A tax on comfort, safety. A price paid for being alive, for waking up."

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Jonas Hassen Khemiri reads “As You Would Have Told it to Me (Sort of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died"

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Jonas Hassen Khemiri reads his story from the September 25, 2017, issue of the magazine. Khemiri is a Swedish playwright and novelist, whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. His most recent novel, “Everything I Don’t Remember,” was published in the U.S. last year.

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Allegra Goodman Reads “F.A.Q.s”

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Allegra Goodman reads her story from the September 11, 2017, issue of the magazine. Goodman is the author of two story collections and six novels including “Kaaterskill Falls,” “The Cookbook Collector,” and “The Chalk Artist,” which was published earlier this year.

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Miranda July Reads “The Metal Bowl”

Tue, 29 Aug 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Miranda July reads her story from the September 4, 2017, issue of the magazine. July is a writer, artist, film director, and actor. She is the author of the story collection “No One Belongs Here More Than You,” and a novel, “The First Bad Man,” which was published in 2015.

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Lauren Groff Reads “Dogs Go Wolf”

Tue, 22 Aug 2017 04:00:00 -0000

What the storm had erased was the silence from the other cabin. For hours, there had been no laughing, no bottle caps falling, none of the bickering that the girls had grown used to over the past two days. This was because there were no more adults. They’d been left alone on the island, the two little girls. Four and seven.

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Garth Greenwell Reads “An Evening Out”

Tue, 15 Aug 2017 04:00:00 -0000

I knew I was acting badly, that I was looking too brazenly and too long, that I shouldn’t have looked at all. I would be ashamed later but I wasn’t ashamed now, I kept watching as the stream weakened and became intermittent, let him know, I said to myself, he already knows, let him see it.

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Kirstin Valdez Quade Reads "Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224)"

Tue, 25 Jul 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Gertrude holds her belly in skeletal arms. She sinks to her knees before Christina, pulls at Christina’s limp hands. “Please let me keep it,”she begs.“Please, Christina. I know you can intercede with God. Please do this for me.”

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Cristina Henríquez Reads “Everything is Far From Here”

Tue, 18 Jul 2017 04:00:00 -0000

What if she’s forgotten what he looks like? What if she’s gone crazy? What if he’s here, lying in one of those cribs, and she sees him every single day without realizing he’s her son? What if it’s been too long? What if memory fails? What if everything fails, and getting through life is simply learning to cope with the failure? No, she scolds herself. Don’t think like that. Don’t let yourself give way.

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Andrew Sean Greer reads “It’s a Summer Day”

Tue, 13 Jun 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Arthur Less recalls intercontinental-travel advice that his old flame Freddy once gave him: "They serve you dinner, you take your sleeping pill, they serve you breakfast, you're there."

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Will Mackin reads “Crossing the River No Name”

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 04:00:00 -0000

"One rainy night, in March, 2009, we crossed a muddy field to intercept a group of Taliban who’d come out of the mountains of Pakistan. They were walking west. We were patrolling north to arrive at a point ahead of them, where we’d set up an ambush."

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Sherman Alexie reads “Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest”

Sat, 03 Jun 2017 04:00:00 -0000

"On a Tuesday morning, she knocked on the door of 213. A corner room. Larger than standard. With two big windows instead of one. Twenty more dollars a night. The guest had been there for three nights and was sup- posed to check out by noon. She knocked again. “Housekeeping,” she said. Then said it louder, “Housekeeping.”"

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Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “Show Don’t Tell”

Tue, 30 May 2017 04:00:00 -0000

"A lot of the people in our program were nakedly emotional in a way that, in childhood, I had so successfully trained myself not to be that I almost really wasn’t. Before entering grad school, I had never felt normal, but here I was competent and well adjusted to a boring degree. I always showed up for class. I met deadlines. I made eye contact. Of course I was chronically sad, and of course various phobias lay dormant inside me, but none of that was currently dictating my behavior"

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Samantha Hunt Reads “A Love Story”

Tue, 16 May 2017 04:00:00 -0000

What’s the scariest sound a person can hear? In a quiet country house where the closest neighbors are pretty far away, the scariest possible sound is a man coughing outside at night.

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Etgar Keret Reads “Fly Already”

Tue, 09 May 2017 04:00:00 -0000

The guy on the roof nods—it looks like he heard something this time— and shouts at me,“How did you know? How did you know she died?” Someone always dies, I want to yell back. Always.

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Yiyun Li Reads “A Small Flame”

Tue, 02 May 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Bella wanted Miss Chu to know that she understood the indifference they both had to endure; she wanted Miss Chu to suffer less because she was suffering with her. Yet Miss Chu treated Bella with more sarcasm than she treated the other students.

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David Means Reads “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother”

Tue, 25 Apr 2017 04:00:00 -0000

David Means reads his story “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother,” from the May 1, 2017, issue of the magazine.

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Lara Vapnyar Reads “Deaf and Blind”

Tue, 18 Apr 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Deaf and Blind” from the April 24, 2017, issue of the magazine.

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Akhil Sharma reads “You Are Happy?”

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 04:00:00 -0000

The next day, Lakshman telephoned India. He gripped the phone and spoke in a soft, tight voice. “Mommy says she is going to stay in bed and drink.” Even as he was speaking, he knew that his father would find some way to make light of what was happening. His father said, “What else does she do anyway?”

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Emma Cline Reads "Northeast Regional"

Tue, 04 Apr 2017 04:00:00 -0000

He stood there for another few minutes before a boy and a girl ambled toward him, the boy not immediately recognizable as his son. It was Rowan, obvious now as the boy got closer, and Richard pretended he’d known all along. Wasn’t that what parents were supposed to do? Be able to spot their children in a crowd, in an instant, the most primal of recognitions?

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John Lanchester Reads "Signal"

Tue, 28 Mar 2017 04:00:00 -0000

Kate and I looked at each other and shrugged. Hector was lonely and missing his children. It made sense. But then Kate noticed something, and that was when the holiday went irrecoverably wrong.

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Victor Lodato Reads “Herman Melville, Volume I”

Tue, 21 Mar 2017 04:00:00 -0000

He pushes her against a tree, and even though his hand is somewhere else, the girl feels it on her throat. She can’t speak. She only squeaks. A shadow falls, as if to give them privacy. The man takes full advantage. “Get the fuck away from her.”There’s a sudden cracking sound, and the man whelps.

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Anne Enright Reads "Solstice"

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 05:00:00 -0000

This was the part of the journey that he loved best: the street lamps gave way to the idea of countryside, and there was a song on the radio as the road opened up ahead. The music made him feel like he could keep driving forever. It was a love song, or a sad song. It reminded him of a time in his life, some town he was in, he could not say where.

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Zadie Smith Reads "Crazy They Call Me"

Tue, 28 Feb 2017 05:00:00 -0000

Take back your mink, take back your pearls. But you don’t sing that song, it’s not in your key. Let some other girl sing it.The type who gets a smile from a cop even if she’s crossing Broadway in her oldest Terylene housedress. You don’t have that luxury.

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Lore Segal Reads "Ladies' Lunch"

Tue, 21 Feb 2017 05:00:00 -0000

Lotte said, “I have not told Alana or Minnie that I’ve died. I thought awhile before telling Sam, but he was ﬁne. He was really very good about it, my poor Sam.”

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Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “The Prairie Wife”

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 05:00:00 -0000

Kirsten’s commute is when she really focusses on whether she has the power to destroy Lucy Headrick’s life. Yes, the question hums in the background at other moments, like when Kirsten is at the grocery store and sees a cooking magazine with Lucy on the cover—it’s just so fucking weird how famous Lucy is—but it’s in the car that Kirsten thinks through, in a realistic way, which steps she’d take.

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David Gilbert Reads “Underground”

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 05:00:00 -0000

“Love, in all forms, had turned into a kind of regret.”

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Alix Ohlin Reads “Quarantine”

Tue, 24 Jan 2017 05:00:00 -0000

“She found it hurtful to see other people’s smiling, healthy families or, even worse, to hear about lives that seemed as fragile as her own.”

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Elif Batuman Reads “Constructed Worlds”

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 05:00:00 -0000

"It was a mystery to me how Svetlana generated so many opinions. Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact. Meanwhile, I went from class to class, read hundreds—thousands—of pages of the distilled ideas of the great thinkers of human history, and nothing happened."

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Yiyun Li Reads “On The Street Where You Live”

Tue, 03 Jan 2017 05:00:00 -0000

Yiyun Li reads her story “On The Street Where You Live,” from the January 9, 2017, issue of the magazine.

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Camille Bordas Reads “Most Die Young”

Tue, 27 Dec 2016 05:00:00 -0000

“Within the hour, he’d packed and left, and, although it’s true that things hadn’t been great between us for a while—we’d run out of things to say to each other, and our silences were, frankly, boring—I would have appreciated a little notice, a little time to get used to the idea of breaking up before the breakup’s implementation.”

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Joseph O'Neill Reads "Pardon Edward Snowden"

Tue, 06 Dec 2016 05:00:00 -0000

“The poet Mark McCain received an e-mail inviting him to sign a ‘poetition’ requesting that President Obama pardon Edward Snowden.”

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Robert Coover Reads "The Hanging of the Schoolmarm"

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 05:00:00 -0000

“The schoolmarm’s just showing off again, making their brains ache, unrepentant criminal that she is.”

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Lauren Groff Reads "Flower Hunters"

Tue, 15 Nov 2016 05:00:00 -0000

“What is it about me that people need breaks from? she asks the dog, who looks as though she wants to say something but, out of innate gentleness, refrains.”

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T.C. Boyle Reads "Are We Not Men?"

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 04:00:00 -0000

"In a room at GenLab, Connie and I were presented with an exhaustive menu of just how our chromosomes could be made to match up.”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Reads "An Honest Woman"

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 04:00:00 -0000

"Jeb could hear almost everything that went on in her house, he’d ﬁgured out, if he listened carefully from his basement window."

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Kevin Barry Reads "Deer Season"

Tue, 04 Oct 2016 04:00:00 -0000

“It’s the sort of thing that could get me in a lot of trouble around here,” he said. “Who’ll know?” she said.

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Etgar Keret Reads “To the Moon and Back”

Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Etgar Keret reads his story “To the Moon and Back,” from the October 3, 2016, issue of the magazine. The story was translated, from the Hebrew, by Sondra Silverston. Keret is the author, most recently, of the memoir “The Seven Good Years,” which was pubished in 2015. His story collection, “Suddenly a Knock on the Door,” came out in 2012. He’s been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2012.

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Rivka Galchen Reads “How Can I Help?”

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Rivka Galchen reads her story “How Can I Help?,” from the September 19, 2016, issue of the magazine. Galchen's story collection, “American Innovations,” was published in 2014. She was included in The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 issue in 2010. She's been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2008.

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Robert Coover Reads “Invasion of the Martians”

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Robert Coover reads his story “Invasion of the Martians,” from the September 19, 2016, issue of the magazine. Coover is the author of ten novels, including “The Origin of the Brunists, “The Adventures of Lucky Pierre,” and “The Brunist Day of Wrath.” A new novel, “Huck Out West,” will be published next year. This is his seventh story in The New Yorker.

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Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “Gender Studies”

Tue, 23 Aug 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Curtis Sittenfeld reads her story “Gender Studies,” from the August 29, 2016, issue of the magazine. Sittenfeld is the author of five novels, including “Prep“ and “American Wife.” Her most recent novel, “Eligible,” was published earlier this year. This is her first story in The New Yorker.

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Thomas McGuane Reads “Papaya”

Tue, 16 Aug 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Thomas McGuane reads his story “Papaya,” from the August 22, 2016, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published ten novels and three short story collections, including, most recently, “Crow Fair.” He's been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 1994.

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Tessa Hadley Reads “Dido's Lament”

Tue, 02 Aug 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Tessa Hadley reads her story “Dido's Lament,” from the August 8 & 15, 2016, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published six novels and four story collections, including “Sunstroke and Other Stories” and “Married Love.” She won this year’s Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction. She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2002.

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Joshua Ferris Reads “The Abandonment”

Tue, 26 Jul 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Joshua Ferris reads his story “The Abandonment,” from the August 1, 2016, issue of the magazine. Ferris is the author of three novels, including “The Unnamed” and “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour.” He has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2008.

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Joy Williams Reads “Stuff”

Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Joy Williams reads her story “Stuff,” from the July 25, 2016, issue of the magazine. Williams is the author of five story collections and four novels, including “Breaking and Entering” and “The Quick and the Dead.” Her collection “99 Stories of God” was published by Tin House this month. She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 1981.

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Michael Andreasen Reads “The King's Teacup at Rest”

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Michael Andreasen reads his story “The King's Teacup at Rest,” from the July 11, 2016, issue of the magazine. Andreasen has published fiction in "Zoetrope: Allstory" and elsewhere. This is his first story in The New Yorker.

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Fugitive”

Tue, 28 Jun 2016 04:00:00 -0000

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “The Fugitive,” from the July 4, 2016, issue of the magazine. Boyle has published more than two dozen stories in The New Yorker. He is the author of fifteen novels, including “San Miguel” and “The Harder They Come.” His sixteenth novel, “The Terranauts,” will come out in October.

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Paul Theroux Reads “Upside-Down Cake”

Tue, 21 Jun 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Paul Theroux reads his short story “Upside-Down Cake,” from the June 27, 2016, issue of the magazine. Theroux has written more than 50 books of fiction and nonfiction, including “The Mosquito Coast,” “The Great Railway Bazaar,” “The Lower River,” and “Mr. Bones.” He has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 1979.

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Karen Russell Reads “The Bog Girl”

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Karen Russell reads her story “The Bog Girl,” from the June 20, 2016, issue of the magazine. Russell is the author of two story collections, and the novel “Swamplandia!.” She was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” issue in 2010, and is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2005.

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Ben Lerner Reads “The Polish Rider”

Tue, 07 Jun 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Ben Lerner reads his story “The Polish Rider,” from the June 6 and 13, 2016, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station” and “10:04,” and three books of poetry. He’s a 2015 MacArthur Fellow. He has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2012.

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Zadie Smith Reads “Two Men Arrive in a Village”

Tue, 31 May 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Zadie Smith reads her story “Two Men Arrive in a Village,” from the June 6 and 13, 2016, issue of the magazine. Smith is the author of five novels, including “Swing Time,” which will be published in November. She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 1999.

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Charles Yu Reads “Fable”

Mon, 23 May 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Charles Yu reads his story “Fable,” from the May 30, 2016, issue of the magazine. Yu is the author of two story collections and one novel, “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe.” This is his first story in The New Yorker.

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Lauren Groff Reads “The Midnight Zone”

Mon, 16 May 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Lauren Groff reads her story “The Midnight Zone,” from the May 23, 2016, issue of the magazine. Groff is the author of one story collection and three novels, including “Arcadia” and “Fates and Furies.” She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2011.

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Akhil Sharma Reads “A Life of Adventure and Delight”

Mon, 09 May 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Akhil Sharma reads his story “A Life of Adventure and Delight,” from the May 16, 2016, issue of the magazine. Sharma is the author of two novels, “An Obedient Father” and ”Family Life.” He has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 1997.

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John L'Heureux Reads ”Three Short Moments in a Long Life"

Mon, 02 May 2016 04:00:00 -0000

John L'Heureux reads his story “Three Short Moments in a Long Life,” from the May 9, 2016, issue of the magazine. L'Heureux is the author of twenty books, including the novels, “The Miracle,” and “The Medici Boy.” He has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 1980.

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Alexandra Kleeman Reads “Choking Victim”

Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Alexandra Kleeman reads her story “Choking Victim,” from the May 2, 2016, issue of the magazine. Kleeman is the author of the novel “You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,” which was published in 2015. This is her first story in The New Yorker.

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Lara Vapnyar Reads “Waiting for the Miracle”

Mon, 18 Apr 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Waiting for the Miracle,” from the April 25, 2016, issue of the magazine. Vapnyar is the author of two short-story collections, “There are Jews in My House,” and “Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love,” and two novels, “Memoirs of a Muse,” and “The Scent of Pine.” She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2003.

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Colin Barrett Reads “Anhedonia, Here I Come”

Mon, 11 Apr 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Colin Barrett reads his story “Anhedonia, Here I Come,” from the April 18, 2016, issue of the magazine. Barrett is the author of the story collection “Young Skins,” which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First Book Award in 2014. He has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2015.

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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads “The Burglar”

Mon, 04 Apr 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum reads her story “The Burglar,” from the April 11, 2016, issue of the magazine.
Bynum is the author of two novels, “Madeleine is Sleeping” and “Ms. Hempel Chronicles.” She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2008.

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Kevin Canty Reads “God's Work”

Mon, 28 Mar 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Kevin Canty reads his story from the April 4, 2016, issue of the magazine. Canty is the author of three short-story collections and four novels, including “A Stranger in the World,” “Where the Money Went,” “Winslow in Love,” and, most recently, “Everything.” He has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 1997.

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Ian McEwan Reads “My Purple Scented Novel”

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 04:00:00 -0000

Ian McEwan reads his story from the March 28, 2016 issue of the magazine. McEwan has published sixteen books of fiction, including “The Children Act,” “Sweet Tooth,” “Saturday,” and “Atonment.” This story was inspired by “L’image volée,” an exhibition project by Thomas Demand that opens this month at Fondazione Prada, in Milan. He has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 1997.

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Introducing The Author’s Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker

Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:00:00 -0000

Beginning March 21st, you’ll be able to hear the short stories that appear in The New Yorker, read by their authors, on our new podcast, The Author’s Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker. For this special, one-time preview episode of the podcast, we’ve put together an anthology of recent readings. First, you’ll hear Michael Cunningham reading his updated fairy tale “Little Man”; next will be Zadie Smith reading her story “Escape from New York”; and, finally, Tom Hanks reading his fiction piece “Alan Bean Plus Four.” If you like what you hear, don’t forget to subscribe to The Author’s Voice on your podcast app. We’ll be back next week with a new episode of The Author’s Voice, featuring a new story by Ian McEwan.

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