Explore every episode of the podcast The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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| Yiyun Li Reads “The Particles of Order” | 25 Aug 2024 | 00:56:39 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Akhil Sharma Reads “The Narayans” | 18 Aug 2024 | 00:21:30 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Roddy Doyle Reads “The Buggy” | 16 Jun 2024 | 00:19:26 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Lauren Groff Reads “Annunciation” | 07 Feb 2022 | 00:55:13 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Alexander MacLeod Reads “Once Removed” | 31 Jan 2022 | 00:46:32 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Long Distance” | 24 Jan 2022 | 00:32:27 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Jennifer Egan Reads “What the Forest Remembers” | 27 Dec 2021 | 00:34:31 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Adam Levin Reads “A Lot of Things Have Happened” | 20 Dec 2021 | 00:28:33 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Madeleine Thien Reads “Lu, Reshaping” | 13 Dec 2021 | 00:40:24 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Colin Barrett Reads “A Shooting in Rathreedane” | 06 Dec 2021 | 00:38:06 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Camille Bordas Reads “Chicago on the Seine” | 09 Jun 2024 | 00:35:25 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Lore Segal Reads “Beyond Imagining” | 02 Jun 2024 | 00:28:08 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Thomas McGuane Reads “Thataway” | 19 May 2024 | 00:39:30 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| André Alexis Reads “Consolation” | 12 May 2024 | 00:45:13 | |
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 Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Simon Rich Reads “We’re Not So Different, You and I” | 06 May 2024 | 00:22:53 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Cynan Jones Reads “Pulse” | 29 Apr 2024 | 00:28:03 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Late Love” | 15 Apr 2024 | 00:51:58 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Kevin Barry Reads “Finistère” | 08 Apr 2024 | 00:28:58 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Bozo” | 01 Apr 2024 | 00:24:02 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Sam Lipsyte Reads “The Naturals” | 11 Aug 2024 | 00:37:38 | |
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. | |||
| Mohammed Naseehu Ali Reads “Allah Have Mercy” | 25 Mar 2024 | 00:54:54 | |
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| Zach Williams Reads “Neighbors” | 18 Mar 2024 | 00:30:42 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Time Being” | 11 Mar 2024 | 00:33:45 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Fiona McFarlane Reads “Hostel” | 04 Mar 2024 | 00:27:48 | |
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. | |||
| Thomas Korsgaard Reads “The Spit of Him” | 26 Feb 2024 | 00:33:22 | |
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. | |||
| Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “On the Night of the Khatam” | 19 Feb 2024 | 00:34:47 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Addie Citchens Reads “That Girl” | 05 Feb 2024 | 00:47:46 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Patrick Langley Reads “Life with Spider” | 29 Jan 2024 | 00:52:04 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| David Means Reads “Chance the Cat” | 15 Jan 2024 | 00:37:55 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Joy Williams Reads “The Beach House” | 08 Jan 2024 | 00:28:22 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Caleb Crain Reads “Clay” | 04 Aug 2024 | 00:42:19 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Greg Jackson Reads “Wagner in the Desert” | 01 Jan 2024 | 00:42:29 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Rivka Galchen Reads “Crown Heights North” | 25 Dec 2023 | 00:25:36 | |
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.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Caleb Crain Reads “Keats at Twenty-Four” | 04 Dec 2023 | 00:16:26 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Teju Cole Reads “Incoming” | 27 Nov 2023 | 00:20:48 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa | 20 Nov 2023 | 01:11:15 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Sheila Heti Reads “According to Alice” | 13 Nov 2023 | 00:33:07 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Clare Sestanovich Reads “Our Time Is Up” | 07 Nov 2023 | 00:39:24 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Junot Díaz Reads “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara” | 30 Oct 2023 | 00:59:34 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Han Ong Reads “I Am Pizza Rat” | 16 Oct 2023 | 00:39:19 | |
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.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Mary Costello Reads “The Choc-Ice Woman” | 09 Oct 2023 | 00:59:21 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Nell Freudenberger Reads “Attila” | 28 Jul 2024 | 00:40:42 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Lore Segal Reads “On the Agenda” | 11 Sep 2023 | 00:21:12 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Lara Vapnyar Reads “Siberian Wood” | 04 Sep 2023 | 00:46:02 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Tessa Hadley on Her Years of Learning to Write | 28 Aug 2023 | 00:18:26 | |
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.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The End Is Only a Beginning” | 14 Aug 2023 | 00:36:09 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Karan Mahajan Reads “The True Margaret” | 07 Aug 2023 | 00:30:14 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Jamie Quatro Reads “Yogurt Days” | 31 Jul 2023 | 00:29:22 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Tessa Hadley Reads “The Maths Tutor” | 17 Jul 2023 | 00:42:29 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||
| Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado” | 03 Jul 2023 | 00:54:24 | |
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | |||