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

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

• 04.15.2024

  Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Late Love”

  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...

  
• 04.08.2024

  Kevin Barry Reads “Finistère”

  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...

  
• 04.01.2024

  Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Bozo”

  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.

  
• 03.25.2024

  Mohammed Naseehu Ali Reads “Allah Have Mercy”

  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...

  
• 03.18.2024

  Zach Williams Reads “Neighbors”

  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.

  
• 03.11.2024

  Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Time Being”

  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...

  
• 03.04.2024

  Fiona McFarlane Reads “Hostel”

  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...

  
• 02.26.2024

  Thomas Korsgaard Reads “The Spit of Him”

  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...

  
• 02.19.2024

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

  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...

  
• 02.05.2024

  Addie Citchens Reads “That Girl”

  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...

  
• 01.29.2024

  Patrick Langley Reads “Life with Spider”

  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...

  
• 01.15.2024

  David Means Reads “Chance the Cat”

  The author reads his story from the January 22, 2024, issue of the magazine.

  
• 01.08.2024

  Joy Williams Reads “The Beach House”

  The author reads her story from the January 15, 2024, issue of the magazine.

  
• 01.01.2024

  Greg Jackson Reads “Wagner in the Desert”

  On a special archival New Years episode, the author reads his story from the July 21, 2014, issue of the magazine.

  
• 12.25.2023

  Rivka Galchen Reads “Crown Heights North”

  The author reads her story from the January 1 & 8, 2024, issue of the magazine.

  
• 12.04.2023

  Caleb Crain Reads “Keats at Twenty-Four”

  The author reads his story from the December 11, 2023, issue of the magazine.

  
• 11.27.2023

  Teju Cole Reads “Incoming”

  The author reads his story from the December 4, 2023, issue of the magazine.

  
• 11.20.2023

  Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

  The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the story “The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain,” which was published in a 2004 issue of the magazine.

  
• 11.13.2023

  Sheila Heti Reads “According to Alice”

  The author reads her story from the November 20, 2023, issue of the magazine.

  
• 11.07.2023

  Clare Sestanovich Reads “Our Time Is Up”

  The author reads her story from the November 13, 2023, issue of the magazine.

  
• 10.30.2023

  Junot Díaz Reads “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara”

  The author reads his story from the November 6, 2023, issue of the magazine.

  
• 10.16.2023

  Han Ong Reads “I Am Pizza Rat”

  The author reads his story from the October 23, 2023, issue of the magazine.

  
• 10.09.2023

  Mary Costello Reads “The Choc-Ice Woman”

  The author reads her story from the October 16, 2023, issue of the magazine.

  
• 09.11.2023

  Lore Segal Reads “On the Agenda”

  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,”...

  
• 09.04.2023

  Lara Vapnyar Reads “Siberian Wood”

  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...

  
• 08.28.2023

  Tessa Hadley on Her Years of Learning to Write

  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...

  
• 08.14.2023

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

  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...

  
• 08.07.2023

  Karan Mahajan Reads “The True Margaret”

  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...

  
• 07.31.2023

  Jamie Quatro Reads “Yogurt Days”

  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,...

  
• 07.17.2023

  Tessa Hadley Reads “The Maths Tutor”

  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”...

  
• 07.03.2023

  Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado”

  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...

  
• 06.26.2023

  Paul Yoon Reads “Valley of the Moon”

  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...

  
• 06.19.2023

  Weike Wang Reads “Status in Flux”

  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...

  
• 06.12.2023

  Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Civil Disturbance”

  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...

  
• 06.05.2023

  George Saunders Reads “Thursday”

  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...

  
• 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...