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Nicole Krauss Reads “Long I...

05.15.2023

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,” ...

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05.15.2023 Nicole Krauss Reads “Long Island” 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,” ...
05.01.2023 Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza” 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 ...
04.17.2023 Rachel Cusk Reads “The Stuntman” 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, ...
04.03.2023 Ben Lerner Reads “The Ferry” 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 ...
03.13.2023 Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads “False Star” 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 ...
03.06.2023 Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet” 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 ...
02.20.2023 Allegra Goodman Reads “The Last Grownup” 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 ...
01.23.2023 Clare Sestanovich Reads “Different People” 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 ...
01.16.2023 Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child” 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 ...
01.06.2023 Han Ong Reads “Hammer Attack” 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 ...
12.26.2022 Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Notions of the Sacred” 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 ...
12.12.2022 Matthew Klam Reads “The Other Party” 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 ...
11.28.2022 Danielle Dutton Reads “My Wonderful Description of Flowers” 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 ...
11.21.2022 Louise Erdrich Reads “The Hollow Children” 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 ...
10.31.2022 T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “Princess” 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 ...
10.24.2022 Jonathan Lethem Reads “Narrowing Valley” 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, ...
10.17.2022 Marisa Silver Reads “Tiny Meaningless Things” 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” ...
10.10.2022 David Gilbert Reads “Come Softly to Me” 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.”
10.03.2022 Thomas McGuane Reads “Take Half, Leave Half” 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: ...
09.26.2022 Nicole Krauss Reads “Shelter” 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 ...
09.19.2022 Caleb Crain Reads “Easter” 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 ...
09.12.2022 Ben Okri Reads “The Secret Source” 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 ...
09.05.2022 Joan Silber Reads “Evolution” 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 ...
08.29.2022 Ben Lerner Reads “Café Loup” 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 ...
08.22.2022 David Sedaris Reads “Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July 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 ...
08.15.2022 Alejandro Zambra Reads “Skyscrapers” 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,” ...
08.08.2022 Sana Krasikov Reads “The Muddle” 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 ...
07.25.2022 Clare Sestanovich Reads “You Tell Me” 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 ...
07.18.2022 Han Ong Reads “Elmhurst” 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” ...
07.11.2022 Bryan Washington Reads “Arrivals” 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. ...
07.04.2022 Rachel Kushner Reads “A King Alone” 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 ...
06.27.2022 Lauren Groff Reads “To Sunland” 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 ...
06.20.2022 Etgar Keret Reads “Mitzvah” 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 ...
06.13.2022 André Alexis Reads “Houyhnhnm” 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 ...
06.06.2022 Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Trash” 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.
05.30.2022 Joshua Ferris Reads “The Boy Upstairs” 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 ...
05.23.2022 Claire-Louise Bennett Reads “Invisible Bird” 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.
05.16.2022 Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “Occupational Hazards” 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 ...
05.09.2022 Mohsin Hamid Reads “The Face in the Mirror” 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 ...
05.02.2022 Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nondisclosure Agreement” 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 ...
04.18.2022 Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion” 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 ...
04.11.2022 Sheila Heti Reads “Just a Little Fever” 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 ...
04.04.2022 Kevin Barry Reads “The Pub with No Beer” 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 ...
03.21.2022 Tessa Hadley Reads “After the Funeral” 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 ...
03.14.2022 Zach Williams Reads “Wood Sorrel House” 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.
02.28.2022 Camille Bordas Reads “One Sun Only” 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.
02.21.2022 Claire Keegan Reads “So Late in the Day” 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, ...
02.14.2022 Kate Folk Reads “Out There” 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 ...
02.07.2022 Lauren Groff Reads “Annunciation” 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 ...
01.31.2022 Alexander MacLeod Reads “Once Removed” 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 ...

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

Nicole Krauss Reads “Long Island”

Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”

Rachel Cusk Reads “The Stuntman”

Ben Lerner Reads “The Ferry”

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads “False Star”

Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”

Allegra Goodman Reads “The Last Grownup”

Clare Sestanovich Reads “Different People”

Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

Han Ong Reads “Hammer Attack”

Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Notions of the Sacred”

Matthew Klam Reads “The Other Party”

Danielle Dutton Reads “My Wonderful Description of Flowers”

Louise Erdrich Reads “The Hollow Children”

T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “Princess”

Jonathan Lethem Reads “Narrowing Valley”

Marisa Silver Reads “Tiny Meaningless Things”

David Gilbert Reads “Come Softly to Me”

Thomas McGuane Reads “Take Half, Leave Half”

Nicole Krauss Reads “Shelter”

Caleb Crain Reads “Easter”

Ben Okri Reads “The Secret Source”

Joan Silber Reads “Evolution”

Ben Lerner Reads “Café Loup”

David Sedaris Reads “Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July

Alejandro Zambra Reads “Skyscrapers”

Sana Krasikov Reads “The Muddle”

Clare Sestanovich Reads “You Tell Me”

Han Ong Reads “Elmhurst”

Bryan Washington Reads “Arrivals”

Rachel Kushner Reads “A King Alone”

Lauren Groff Reads “To Sunland”

Etgar Keret Reads “Mitzvah”

André Alexis Reads “Houyhnhnm”

Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Trash”

Joshua Ferris Reads “The Boy Upstairs”

Claire-Louise Bennett Reads “Invisible Bird”

Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “Occupational Hazards”

Mohsin Hamid Reads “The Face in the Mirror”

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nondisclosure Agreement”

Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

Sheila Heti Reads “Just a Little Fever”

Kevin Barry Reads “The Pub with No Beer”

Tessa Hadley Reads “After the Funeral”

Zach Williams Reads “Wood Sorrel House”

Camille Bordas Reads “One Sun Only”

Claire Keegan Reads “So Late in the Day”

Kate Folk Reads “Out There”

Lauren Groff Reads “Annunciation”

Alexander MacLeod Reads “Once Removed”

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