The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
The New YorkerThe New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
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Han Ong reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/happy-days-fiction-han-ong">Happy Days</a>,” 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, “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyH7WHjcwckpUCkCJk8xrBdUGMwnCrTySnBHs1HJcxP2i2PdHq1x">Fixer Chao</a>” and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyHA9kTYBHF9PxSJiJQwtpoJoy6jBakPfGThUyHVFu9PRW4LAUCv">The Disinherited</a>.”
Will Mackin reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/06/will-mackin-fiction-pig-lab">Pig Lab</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812985680">Bring Out the Dog</a>,” which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize as the best début short-story collection of 2018.
Ben Lerner reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/29/the-readers-fiction-ben-lerner">The Readers</a>,” from the June 29, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of nine books of poetry and fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250081335/">10:04</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250758009/">The Topeka School</a>,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374618593/">Transcription</a>,” which came out earlier this year. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.
Andrea Bajani reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/constellation-fiction-andrea-bajani">Constellation</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1939810965">If You Kept a Record of Sins</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0857051466/">Every Promise</a>.” His most recent novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1635426189">The Anniversary</a>,” from which this story was adapted, is being translated into more than two dozen languages, and will be published in English in August.
Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/08/the-twice-widowed-khala-helai-fiction-jamil-jan-kochai">The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai,</a>” from the June 8, 2026, issue of the magazine. Kochai is the author of the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1408898446/">99 Nights in Logar</a>” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593297210/">The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories</a>,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022 and won the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize.
Taiye Selasi reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/08/firstborn-immigrant-daughter-fiction-taiye-selasi">Firstborn Immigrant Daughter</a>,” from the July 8, 2026, issue of the magazine. Selasi is an author and photographer. Her début novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143124978">Ghana Must Go</a>,” a New York Times best-seller, was published in 2013, the year she was named one of the best young British novelists by Granta.
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/01/many-worlds-fiction-aysegul-savas">Many Worlds</a>,” from the June 1, 2026, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of five books, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Novel-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/0593330528">White on White</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anthropologists-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/1639736689/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3PFO212OP2RRH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zHeSIaM0niTBIc3nvsurE8UA1_mqaO9D1ZiHUwvQSgJoSlW7b186GqBzE8jLUwRPK4d4g__kGqmQAGij6IMQr1DMHn79rVnb3831wEd3V2izzrmSW_Zmwwi6F4tQOYlriMtkIOiitPRPtu4JxO55FqSmPCeN_sUBwwOb3nL9s5D_KAaQVEWMwy-sl3vOx-CYlCGt8_8xDGYy0Zzi1redNC738GJNgRWVe859jO5CvgU.muQvlLo_ahoAs_9m12bViwek7imJWwACassO-xUhcYw&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+anthropologists+book&qid=1759773848&s=books&sprefix=the+anthropologists+book%2Cstripbooks%2C87&sr=1-1">The Anthropologists</a>”; a nonfiction work, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wilderness-Undelivered-Lectures-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/B0CWQ8V9S2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2A4P84H5VA6IL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.TH_Zgfv131HTRVhZGg3O9KJ0crzizFMDaLdTIvDtwIQ.sScWCayzvlgWxEwAJJ9ngHSyt_HqVk7rEVIltpN-heM&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Wilderness+Ayseg%C3%BCl+Savas&qid=1759773876&s=books&sprefix=the+wilderness+ayseg%C3%BCl+savas%2Cstripbooks%2C97&sr=1-1">The Wilderness</a>”; and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1639733108">Long Distance</a>,” which was published last year.
Weike Wang reads “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/25/the-dreamdrive-fiction-weike-wang">The Dreamdrive</a>,” 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, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525432221/">Chemistry</a>,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0525563954/">Joan Is Okay</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593545559/">Rental House</a>.”
Chang-rae Lee reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/11/chang-rae-lee-fiction-standings">Standings</a>,” from the May 11 & 18, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lee is the author of six novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1573225312/">Native Speaker</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594485011/">The Surrendered</a>,” which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2011, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594634580/">My Year Abroad</a>.” His new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2GGTQDL">A Tender Age</a>,” will be published in August.
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/04/said-sayrafiezadeh-fiction-process-of-elimination">Process of Elimination</a>,” from the May 4, 2026, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of several plays, a memoir, and the story collections “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812993586">Brief Encounters with the Enemy</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091V3HB3V/">American Estrangement</a>,” which was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize.
Thomas McGuane reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/27/ordinary-wear-and-tear-fiction-thomas-mcguane">Ordinary Wear and Tear</a>,” from the April 27, 2026, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400075181">Gallatin Canyon</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345805917/">Crow Fair</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385350236/">A Wooded Shore</a>,” which came out in 2025.
Douglas Stuart reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/20/a-private-view-fiction-douglas-stuart">A Private View</a>,” from the April 20, 2026, issue of the magazine. Stuart has published two novels, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802148506/">Shuggie Bain</a>,” which won the Booker Prize in 2020, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1529068789/">Young Mungo</a>,” released in 2022. His new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802167195/">John of John</a>,” will be published in May.
Catherine Lacey reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/rate-your-happiness-fiction-catherine-lacey">Rate Your Happiness</a>,” from the April 13, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lacey is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250798531">Pew</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250321689/">Biography of X</a>,” both of which were short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2021 and 2024, respectively. Her memoir and novella, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374615403">The Möbius Book</a>,” was published in 2025.
Cassandra Neyenesch reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/06/enough-for-now-fiction-cassandra-neyenesch">Enough for Now</a>,” 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 href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1668213125/">A Little Bit Bad</a>,” will be published in May.
Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/30/floating-fiction-souvankham-thammavongsa">Floating</a>,” from the March 30, 2026, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry, as well as the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Pronounce-Knife-Souvankham-Thammavongsa/dp/0316422126">How to Pronounce Knife</a>” and the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pick-Color-Novel-Souvankham-Thammavongsa/dp/0316422142/">Pick a Color</a>,” both of which were winners of the Giller Prize.
Han Ong reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/23/my-balenciaga-fiction-han-ong">My Balenciaga</a>,” 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, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Disinherited-Novel-Han-Ong/dp/0312424612/">The Disinherited</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fixer-Chao-Novel-Han-Ong/dp/0385552114/">Fixer Chao</a>,” which will be reissued in July.
Addie Citchens reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/16/the-city-is-a-graveyard-fiction-addie-citchens">The City Is a Graveyard,</a>” 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, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dominion-Novel-Addie-Citchens/dp/0374609330">Dominion</a>,” 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.
Yiyun Li reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/calm-sea-and-hard-faring-fiction-yiyun-li">Calm Sea and Hard Faring</a>,” from the March 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0241978688">Must I Go</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250872413">The Book of Goose</a>,” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250338387">Wednesday’s Child</a>,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 2024. Her most recent book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250437970">Things in Nature Merely Grow</a>,” won this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
Mary Gaitskill reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/02/something-familiar-fiction-mary-gaitskill">Something Familiar</a>,” from the March 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. Gaitskill is the author of eight books of fiction, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Veronica-Mary-Gaitskill/dp/037572785X">Veronica</a>,” which was a finalist for a National Book Award in 2005, and the novella “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Pleasure-Mary-Gaitskill/dp/1788165047/">This Is Pleasure</a>.” Her most recent book is the essay collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Oppositions-Selected-Essays-Mary-Gaitskill/dp/178816816X/">Oppositions</a>.”
Valeria Luiselli reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/predictions-and-presentiments-fiction-valeria-luiselli">Predictions and Presentiments</a>” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tell-Me-How-Ends-Questions/dp/1566894956">Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Children-Archive-Valeria-Luiselli/dp/0525436464/">Lost Children Archive</a>.” A new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Middle-End-Valeria-Luiselli/dp/B0FY5NMR6Q/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0">Beginning Middle End</a>,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in July.
Molly Aitken reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/this-is-how-it-happens-fiction-molly-aitken">This Is How It Happens</a>,” from the February 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. Aitken is the author of two novels, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Island-Child-novel-Molly-Aitken/dp/0593080912/">The Island Child</a>,” from 2020, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Burn-Novel-Molly-Aitken/dp/0593080920/">Bright I Burn</a>,” which was published in 2024. She won the 2023 Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction.
Tessa Hadley reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/02/the-quiet-house-fiction-tessa-hadley">The Quiet House</a>,” from the February 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published thirteen books of fiction, including the story collections “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Other-Stories-Tessa-Hadley/dp/006247667X/">Bad Dreams</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-Funeral-Other-Stories-Hadley/dp/0593469844/">After the Funeral</a>,” and the novella “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/party-Tessa-Hadley/dp/1529949319/">The Party</a>.” She won a Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction in 2016.
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/26/light-secrets-fiction-joseph-oneill">Light Secrets</a>,” from the January 26, 2026, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of a story collection and five novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307388778">Netherland</a>,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2009, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Novel-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307472949">The Dog</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Godwin-Novel-Joseph-ONeill/dp/0593687159">Godwin</a>,” which was published in 2024.
Sadia Shepard reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/19/kim's-game-fiction-sadia-shepard">Kim’s Game</a>,” from the January 19, 2026, issue of the magazine. Shepard is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her first book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Foreign-Memoir-Sadia-Shepard/dp/0143115774">The Girl from Foreign</a>," was published in 2008.
Allegra Goodman reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/12/deal-breaker-fiction-allegra-goodman">Deal-Breaker</a>,” from the January 12, 2026, issue of the magazine. Goodman is the author of ten books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kaaterskill-Falls-Allegra-Goodman/dp/0385323905">Kaaterskill Falls</a>,” which was a National Book Award finalist, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Novel-Allegra-Goodman/dp/0593447832">Sam</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Isola-Reeses-Book-Club-Novel/dp/0593730100">Isola</a>,” published last year. Her new collection of linked stories, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Not-About-Us-Fiction/dp/0593447840">This Is Not About Us</a>,” will come out in February.
Nell Zink reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/29/the-welfare-state-fiction-nell-zink">The Welfare State</a>,” from the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue of the magazine. Zink is the author of seven novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Doxology-Novel-Nell-Zink/dp/0062877801">Doxology</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Avalon-novel-Nell-Zink/dp/0593468155">Avalon</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sister-Europe-Novel-Nell-Zink/dp/0593534913">Sister Europe</a>,” which was published last year.
Andrew Martin reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/22/risk-discipline-fiction-andrew-martin">Risk, Discipline</a>,” from the December 22, 2025, issue of the magazine. Martin is the author of the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Early-Work-Novel-Andrew-Martin/dp/1250215013/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.fUFWcDllmbtQOSBbA7_AHgNielPH3wdrYAFRWW3USoU017FLUUDxAIM2ojj58l2gRFqfJaLjpUI9W6moFhTSgRyGtBGiMum3HQzcYQ-uUYwY1bxp7SRBxZxgAhCyzO2LxhxQotGQA92RoXJ7hVkSJP3jQ2tMd4BkCEEFIPQxFLkl8QedzHjArJAM9BJx70kWfYIn7aSmNWWNziPgR0Wkm_FATBZwGY1Bu4bVHWO-PQk.8POxczvxSUVHzszpQv9Dsb9Y4OK5wziFkRtiIV-V38k&qid=1764625318&sr=8-1">Early Work</a>,” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cool-America-Stories-Andrew-Martin/dp/1250798647/">Cool for America</a>.” His new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Down-Time-Novel-Andrew-Martin/dp/0374617066/">Down Time</a>,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in March.
Camille Bordas reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/understanding-the-science-fiction-camille-bordas">Understanding the Science</a>,” from the December 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. Bordas is the author of four novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0451497554">How to Behave in a Crowd</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593729846">The Material</a>.” Her first story collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593729870">One Sun Only</a>,” will be published in January.
Joan Silber reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/safety-fiction-joan-silber">Safety</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mercy-Novel-Joan-Silber/dp/1640097074">Mercy</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Happiness-Novel-Joan-Silber/dp/1640095314">Secrets of Happiness</a>.”
Daniyal Mueenuddin reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/01/the-golden-boy-fiction-daniyal-mueenuddin">The Golden Boy</a>” from the December 1, 2025, issue of the magazine. Mueenuddin is the author of the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Other-Rooms-Wonders/dp/0393337200">In Other Rooms, Other Wonders</a>,” which was published in 2009 and won both the Story Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His first novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Where-Serpent-Lives-Daniyal-Mueenuddin/dp/0525655158/">This is Where the Serpent Lives</a>,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in January.
Madhuri Vijay reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/laras-theme-fiction-madhuri-vijay">Lara’s Theme</a>,” from the November 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Vijay is the author of the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Far-Field-Madhuri-Vijay/dp/0802147968/">The Far Field</a>,” which won India’s J.C.B. Prize for Literature in 2019. She is at work on her second novel.
Paul Yoon reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/the-new-coast-fiction-paul-yoon">The New Coast</a>,” from the November 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Run-Me-Earth-Paul-Yoon/dp/1501154052/">Run Me to Earth</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Hunters-Novel-Paul-Yoon/dp/1476714827/">Snow Hunters</a>,” which won the 2014 New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hive-Honey-Stories-Paul-Yoon/dp/1668020807/">The Hive and the Honey</a>,” which was published in 2023.
Lauren Groff reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/mother-of-men-fiction-lauren-groff">Mother of Men</a>” from the November 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Groff’s work of fiction include the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fates-Furies-Novel-Lauren-Groff/dp/1594634483/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1CGZ2MGO41C2H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cs6f09okHgtglxb8JrKvM40bzLU7o1x5uIHygZDr4XuyAGfvtbhEYarNQUa96HiT-aH_gDdvV20FY8kyH_KN9_u2NDztJ6yRZzjSJyCbj8WlH1XEIAx0qHbqigOIa2jn899zVl2OzwH3MFrh38CYTOtcO53AD4EQ0IxOdGCZozwytkhl8f2C_J4uqGYgxgpRdLadZY2cp-kysIOaRrHCXgjNN4nsXdPnLa9HmWOmK8uvWEeKXxjHR_zYbmULJg4PfB9obxhgL8nUBNeeCFVIebiYqi6jgyiF_V16CQhxc84.A5M5FL75KdcjPn4Phpl3piU-0rlFXNwtuLSc8PYcKKk&dib_tag=se&keywords=lauren+groff&qid=1761790979&s=books&sprefix=lauren+groff%2Cstripbooks%2C98&sr=1-2">Fates and Furies</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Matrix-Novel-Lauren-Groff/dp/1594634505/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cs6f09okHgtglxb8JrKvM40bzLU7o1x5uIHygZDr4XuyAGfvtbhEYarNQUa96HiT-aH_gDdvV20FY8kyH_KN9_u2NDztJ6yRZzjSJyCbj8WlH1XEIAx0qHbqigOIa2jn899zVl2OzwH3MFrh38CYTOtcO53AD4EQ0IxOdGCZozwytkhl8f2C_J4uqGYgxgpRdLadZY2cp-kysIOaRrHCXgjNN4nsXdPnLa9HmWOmK8uvWEeKXxjHR_zYbmULJg4PfB9obxhgL8nUBNeeCFVIebiYqi6jgyiF_V16CQhxc84.A5M5FL75KdcjPn4Phpl3piU-0rlFXNwtuLSc8PYcKKk&qid=1761790979&sr=1-3">Matrix</a>,” both of which were finalists for the National Book Award, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vaster-Wilds-Novel-Lauren-Groff/dp/0593418409/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.XvUfRV4pIEXXIXWchiHySS9kcr_Oho0FbduGmSx0AR7GjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.s4jt_YQvTxrBtuFZm8h-EJsE53YNGAA7JRQ0ecQRSUo&qid=1761791026&sr=1-1">The Vaster Wilds</a>,” which was published in 2023. A new story collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brawler-Stories-Lauren-Groff/dp/0593418425/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UUFIWQUETVR9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._nFo9VnQUPBEJBDvqN4l--rC0h5HezEzgLrGHAzAMDIL9FV5xNrMhObVt83dRQ_YpPdW2GJYo0SzXs6P4ki51mRVSQygSgx87FhitTwEHvE0Y150-ycbdiREARIJOWHu.v11BEWSHNTqFHH1rOB_Ts_7qUEDCXlLv67UnTrowQKU&dib_tag=se&keywords=lauren+groff+Brawler&qid=1761791048&s=books&sprefix=lauren+groff+brawler%2Cstripbooks%2C91&sr=1-1">Brawler</a>,” will come out in February of 2026. In 2024, she opened the bookstore The Lynx in Gainesville, Florida.
Nathan Blum reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/outcomes-fiction-nathan-blum">Outcomes</a>” 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.
Sam Lipsyte reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/27/final-boy-fiction-sam-lipsyte">Final Boy</a>” from the October 27, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of eight books of fiction, including the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fun-Parts-Stories-Sam-Lipsyte/dp/125004359X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0">The Fun Parts</a>,” and the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Novel-Sam-Lipsyte/dp/0312680635/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0">The Ask</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/One-Left-Come-Looking-You/dp/1501146130/ref=sr_1_1?crid=35OWKAMM8XIDV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pZ5-169Z2__tBvdgHuAxcg.8SHVhZk4T-kcDUdakmWkfhmy0xgrl3PWknYOnjcEXFU&dib_tag=se&keywords=No+One+Left+to+Come+Looking+For+You+sam+lipsyte&qid=1760562840&s=books&sprefix=no+one+left+to+come+looking+for+you+sam+lipsyte%252Cstripbooks%252C109&sr=1-1">No One Left to Come Looking For You</a>.”
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/20/intimacy-fiction-aysegul-savas">Intimacy</a>” from the October 20, 2025, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of five books, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Novel-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/0593330528">White on White</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anthropologists-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/1639736689/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3PFO212OP2RRH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zHeSIaM0niTBIc3nvsurE8UA1_mqaO9D1ZiHUwvQSgJoSlW7b186GqBzE8jLUwRPK4d4g__kGqmQAGij6IMQr1DMHn79rVnb3831wEd3V2izzrmSW_Zmwwi6F4tQOYlriMtkIOiitPRPtu4JxO55FqSmPCeN_sUBwwOb3nL9s5D_KAaQVEWMwy-sl3vOx-CYlCGt8_8xDGYy0Zzi1redNC738GJNgRWVe859jO5CvgU.muQvlLo_ahoAs_9m12bViwek7imJWwACassO-xUhcYw&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+anthropologists+book&qid=1759773848&s=books&sprefix=the+anthropologists+book%2Cstripbooks%2C87&sr=1-1">The Anthropologists</a>”; a nonfiction work, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wilderness-Undelivered-Lectures-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/B0CWQ8V9S2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2A4P84H5VA6IL&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.TH_Zgfv131HTRVhZGg3O9KJ0crzizFMDaLdTIvDtwIQ.sScWCayzvlgWxEwAJJ9ngHSyt_HqVk7rEVIltpN-heM&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Wilderness+Ayseg%C3%BCl+Savas&qid=1759773876&s=books&sprefix=the+wilderness+ayseg%C3%BCl+savas%2Cstripbooks%2C97&sr=1-1">The Wilderness</a>”; and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Long-Distance-Stories-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/1639733108/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3K30E2E08EHHD&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.DLBOs4TvA5pIZivnJ12gHeR8j90M6EMMcY7kc1Czm_Ab_ljdLR3KT71N6aayQgBk.jcwtzStf2eUdcCqtnYd3hJwVNtmI2bcr8deiwMK_vto&dib_tag=se&keywords=Long+Distance+Ayseg%C3%BCl+Savas&qid=1759773894&s=books&sprefix=long+distance+ayseg%C3%BCl+savas%2Cstripbooks%2C112&sr=1-1">Long Distance</a>,” which was published earlier this year.
Catherine Lacey reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/13/coconut-flan-fiction-catherine-lacey">Coconut Flan</a>” from the October 13, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lacey is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250798531">Pew</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250321689/">Biography of X</a>,” both of which were short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2021 and 2024, respectively. Her memoir and novella, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374615403">The Möbius Book</a>,” was published earlier this year.
David Wright Faladé reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/amarillo-boulevard-fiction-david-wright-falade">Amarillo Boulevard</a>,” 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, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195154843">Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers</a>,” and the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802160395">Black Cloud Rising</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/New-Internationals-David-Wright-Falade/dp/0802164064/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0">The New Internationals</a>,” which was published earlier this year.
Rivka Galchen reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/unreasonable-fiction-rivka-galchen">Unreasonable</a>,” from the September 29, 2025, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Innovations-Stories-Rivka-Galchen/dp/1250069238/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0">American Innovations</a>" and the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Knows-Your-Mother-Witch/dp/1250849314/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1L9AF50DP5D1U&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.piRKxRLaVypsiKXMXWeSRX-fQYXnR8_4rwAEckwSYtwwtdfDD1Pi0t3VMk-8_eUVdevizU_rdRNC5hlE1fI2T8SKxXZrJ6EOaLxoG53uo1_n99PPBCxvKrw7kZmPTlEP-qvKAF7hVPaWBOAjip_MGG9IEAQvWwL9y3HYSCOc1bFVopdMECSpWZoUrYL1oF6W.RYYOsvdg98hb3dYGonYf-iOETrtlkvM7woCYxCrhVeY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Everyone+Knows+Your+Mother+Is+a+Witch&qid=1758199195&s=books&sprefix=everyone+knows+your+mother+is+a+witch%2Cstripbooks%2C111&sr=1-1">Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch</a>,” which was published in 2021.
T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/22/the-pool-fiction-t-coraghessan-boyle">The Pool</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/I-Walk-Between-Raindrops-Stories/dp/006305289X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0">I Walk Between the Raindrops</a>” and the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Skies-T-C-Boyle/dp/1324095180/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ETTkAUs3tZxWNCm-GO0kQO9aGyD4Wq5W3u4b9Wpx7-8lgDzQJIWnVKEl2wksrxNWFC8FJGxavjcxre2UQRDFqdGtHgTDArSO3LvseGxB-w4J6FpBgYhazVLpgTW2udTGv-gNRZt5aOwwwqHcljSp7Js1cwxWojEO7kHZ5UzRjthiHPntu6RZDpa3v06vbZXnzMpJSxfK7eJiKj5aICfkVzMcjnwxCsVgw9XTXoBgxIk.WF44LbkziTgQe7x_6EpRaa6sLcppb0g8rqZRgxmp1to&qid=1757715582&sr=1-1">Blue Skies</a>,” which came out in 2023.
Bryan Washington reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/15/voyagers-fiction-bryan-washington">Voyagers!</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Memorial-Novel-Bryan-Washington/dp/0593087283?ref_=ast_author_dp">Memorial</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Family-Meal-Novel-Bryan-Washington/dp/0593421108/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LCQGOIVXAP8S&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._2W-jvf_WWSutHIvRwEXiDI_l7KkMnupg8gx5ZxXwpnGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.8PCj89LYvT53sFxJd6HJgBOSwjF3EJM5srYBPyEyqtw&dib_tag=se&keywords=bryan+washington+family+meal&qid=1757098773&sprefix=bryan+washington+family+meal%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-1">Family Meal</a>.” A new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Palaver-Novel-Bryan-Washington/dp/0374609071/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1P1EXA60G6TLR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.DXuhoDYVb51PLTVeuBi7uzI_l7KkMnupg8gx5ZxXwpnGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.4i2DqOb9SVjweRZEel0uorDIZodf8F61FjsCV0qe7gA&dib_tag=se&keywords=bryan+washington+Palaver&qid=1757098787&sprefix=bryan+washington+palaver%2Caps%2C184&sr=8-1">Palaver</a>,” will be published later this year.
Rachel Cusk reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/project-fiction-rachel-cusk">Project</a>,” from the September 1 & 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. Cusk is the author of several works of nonfiction and twelve novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Outline-Novel-Trilogy-Rachel-Cusk/dp/1250081548">Outline</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Transit-Outline-Trilogy-Rachel-Cusk/dp/0374278628">Transit</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kudos-Outline-Trilogy-Rachel-Cusk/dp/0374279861">Kudos</a>,” and, most recently, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parade-Novel-Rachel-Cusk/dp/0374610045">Parade</a>,” which won the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize.
Miriam Toews reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/25/something-has-come-to-light-fiction-miriam-toews">Something Has Come to Light</a>,” 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 href="https://www.amazon.com/Complicated-Kindness-Novel-Miriam-Toews/dp/1619026228">A Complicated Kindness</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Puny-Sorrows-Miriam-Toews/dp/1635574978/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0">All My Puny Sorrows</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Women-Talking-Miriam-Toews-ebook/dp/B07HM68X3P/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=RDLCH&content-id=amzn1.sym.0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_p=0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_r=146-2734176-4259746&pd_rd_wg=wvAmn&pd_rd_r=03e467c8-352b-40d5-b15a-003858d3feec&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk">Women Talking</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Night-Miriam-Toews-ebook/dp/B092QZ4W8F/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=RDLCH&content-id=amzn1.sym.0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_p=0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_r=146-2734176-4259746&pd_rd_wg=wvAmn&pd_rd_r=03e467c8-352b-40d5-b15a-003858d3feec&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk">Fight Night</a>.” A new memoir, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Truce-That-Not-Peace/dp/1639734740/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=Mtpsm&content-id=amzn1.sym.0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_p=0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_r=146-2734176-4259746&pd_rd_wg=uEG4y&pd_rd_r=6120f0c9-0a33-40a1-a99b-81db70b480ea&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk">A Truce That Is Not Peace,</a>” comes out this month.
Kiran Desai reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/an-unashamed-proposal-fiction-kiran-desai">An Unashamed Proposal</a>,” from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine. Desai is the author of the novels “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuySpndJ5PJGhz151iNtNu8GDCf6zDDe7KTcseK6CpQ5k2L3UReJs">Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard</a>” and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuySpndJ5PAWYnQs3HVu3MNyfy4M5HWTM2zjPYZc17Uy4ujSbJptX">The Inheritance of Loss</a>,” which won the Booker Prize in 2006. A new novel, “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyH75FCycUQzRspM1WCCZakhuPksE6rE3iNCFwZpWfMkPYPB2dNP">The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny</a>,” from which this story was adapted, will be published this fall.
Anne Enright reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/magazine/2025/08/04/the-bridge-stood-fast-fiction-anne-enright">The Bridge Stood Fast</a>,” from the August 4, 2025, issue of the magazine. Enright has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuySpndJ5PJEwo4MwshQFY7nTEwhh3RURfGwNXcv3Mx2FQveaQzpu">Yesterday’s Weather</a>,” and the novels “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuySpndJ6GiaT6hqFK6UmvFferu5Ng3J6YEydUmLRcjNcKUhXckQD">The Gathering</a>,” which won the Man Booker Prize, “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyv7rkXC7T2VvdfaeozXrtiZnaZAzWKfT37HVcfGYHdYV4sFXQPcQd">Actress</a>,” and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyv7rkXC7T2VvesGMBc8bwvTzKXMYUP5Jb3x1cBCuCn7FwWmceDzyb">The Wren, The Wren</a>.”
Mona Awad reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/the-chartreuse-fiction-mona-awad">The Chartreuse</a>,” from the July 28, 2025, issue of the magazine. Awad is the author of four books of fiction, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/13-Ways-Looking-Fat-Girl/dp/0143128485">13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl</a>,” which won the Amazon Best First Novel Award, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rouge-Novel-Mona-Awad/dp/1982169699">Rouge</a>,” which was published in 2023. Her new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/We-Love-You-Bunny-Novel/dp/166805986X">We Love You, Bunny</a>,” will come out in September.
Clare Sestanovich reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/natural-history-fiction-clare-sestanovich">Natural History</a>,” from the July 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich is the author of the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Objects-Desire-Stories-Clare-Sestanovich/dp/0593318099">Objects of Desire</a>,” which came out in 2021 and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Me-Again-Clare-Sestanovich/dp/0593318110">Ask Me Again</a>,” which was published last year.
Zadie Smith reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-silence-fiction-zadie-smith">The Silence</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/NW-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0143123939">NW</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Swing-Time-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0143111647/">Swing Time</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fraud-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0525558985">The Fraud</a>,” which was published in 2023.
Ottessa Moshfegh reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-comedian-fiction-ottessa-moshfegh">The Comedian</a>,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Moshfegh is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyDFLfb3X3GuX9pHLSGmmg8BHGes1Fid16M7eACzaEg8vXZco9q2">Eileen</a>,” for which she won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2016; “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyM1SV7g1BfkdyU3vcjvm5xtcyNP8HfYDq5HyT16o2TYQZsdsJmv">My Year of Rest and Relaxation</a>”; and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyM4X6DmztF24N1FdoykS6QntETWSdY7m13ksdNRQgebqc2cvP2x">Lapvona</a>,” which came out in 2022.
Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/jubilee-fiction-jhumpa-lahiri">Jubilee</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyHB2wU5LkwL8M4soJwRsMAF2Rbccmar5Efh8dtjasusUKGXuJWG">Interpreter of Maladies</a>,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyM4X6GQzXoD493yizqe8TYq91yE4CWh7HJGagAf53imq6PWiHkp">Roman Stories</a>,” which was written in Italian and published in English in 2023.
Yiyun Li reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/23/any-human-heart-fiction-yiyun-li">Any Human Heart,</a>” from the June 23, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Must-Go-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/0399589120">Must I Go</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Goose-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250872413">The Book of Goose</a>,” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wednesdays-Child-Stories-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250338387/">Wednesday’s Child</a>,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Things-Nature-Merely-Grow-Yiyun/dp/0374617317">Things in Nature Merely Grow</a>,” was published in May.
Jim Shepard reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/16/the-queen-of-bad-influences-fiction-jim-shepard">The Queen of Bad Influences</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Aron-novel-Jim-Shepard/dp/1101874317">The Book of Aron</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Phase-Six-novel-Jim-Shepard/dp/052565545X">Phase Six</a>” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/World-Come-Stories-Jim-Shepard/dp/1524731803">The World to Come</a>.”
Louise Erdrich reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/love-of-my-days-fiction-louise-erdrich">Love of My Days</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Round-House-Novel-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0062065254">The Round House</a>,” which won the National Book Award in 2012, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Night-Watchman-Novel-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0062671197">The Night Watchman</a>,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Red-Novel-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0063277077/">The Mighty Red</a>,” which was published last year.
Patricia Lockwood reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/fairy-pools-fiction-patricia-lockwood">Fairy Pools</a>,” from the May 26, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lockwood is a poet, essayist, and novelist. Her memoir “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Priestdaddy-Memoir-Patricia-Lockwood/dp/0399573267">Priestdaddy</a>,” which came out in 2017, won the Thurber Prize, and her first novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Talking-About-This/dp/0593189582">No One Is Talking About This,</a>” won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2022. A new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Will-There-Ever-Another-You/dp/0593718550">Will There Ever Be Another You</a>,” from which this story was adapted, will come out later this year.
Lillian Fishman reads her story, “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/12/travesty-fiction-lillian-fishman">Travesty</a>,” from the May 12 & 19, 2025, issue of the magazine. Fishman is the author of the novel “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyM4X6CV9EDGPtrdTfauD3L7prEzWF1Woh8Sm2te8sGMHRQa2BrX">Acts of Service</a>,” which was published in 2022. She is currently at work on her second novel, from which this story was adapted.
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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/When-Skateboards-Will-Be-Free/dp/0385340699">When Skateboards Will Be Free</a>,” and the story collections “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brief-Encounters-Enemy-Sa%25C3%25AFd-Sayrafiezadeh/dp/0812993586">Brief Encounters with the Enemy</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Estrangement-Stories-Sa%25C3%25AFd-Sayrafiezadeh/dp/0393541231">American Estrangement</a>,” a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, which was published in 2021.
Adam Levin reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/21/jenny-annie-fanny-addie-fiction-adam-levin">Jenny Annie Fanny Addie</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bubblegum-Novel-Adam-Levin/dp/0385544960">Bubblegum</a>,” from 2020, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Chicago-Novel-Adam-Levin/dp/0385548249">Mount Chicago</a>,” from 2022.
David Bezmozgis reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/from-to-fiction-david-bezmozgis">From, To</a>,” from the April 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Bezmozgis is the author of two novels and two story collections, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Natasha-Other-Stories-David-Bezmozgis/dp/0312423934">Natasha and Other Stories</a>,” which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Immigrant-City-David-Bezmozgis/dp/1443457795">Immigrant City</a>,” which was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2019.
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/07/marseille-fiction-aysegul-savas">Marseille</a>,” from the April 7, 2025, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of three novels, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Ceiling-Novel-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/0525537414">Walking on the Ceiling</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Novel-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/059333051X">White on White</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anthropologists-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/163973306X">The Anthropologists</a>.” A collection of stories, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Long-Distance-Stories-Ayseg%C3%BCl-Savas/dp/1639733108/">Long Distance</a>,” will come out later this year.
Bryan Washington reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/hatagaya-lore-fiction-bryan-washington">Hatagaya Lore</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593087275">Memorial</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593421108">Family Meal</a>.” A new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Palaver-Novel-Bryan-Washington-ebook/dp/B0DQJ6LQ4B">Palaver</a>,” will be published later this year.
Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/24/the-frenzy-fiction-joyce-carol-oates">The Frenzy</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Butcher-novel-Joyce-Carol-Oates/dp/0593537777">Butcher</a>” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flint-Kill-Creek-Stories-Suspense/dp/1613167164/">Flint Kill Creek</a>.” A new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fox-Novel-Joyce-Carol-Oates/dp/0593978080">Fox</a>,” will be published later this year.
Yiyun Li reads her story, “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/techniques-and-idiosyncrasies-fiction-yiyun-li">Techniques and Idiosyncrasies</a>,” from the March 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Must-Go-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/0399589139">Must I Go</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Goose-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250872413">The Book of Goose</a>,” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wednesdays-Child-Stories-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250338387">Wednesday’s Child</a>,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Things-Nature-Merely-Grow-Yiyun/dp/0374617317">Things in Nature Merely Grow</a>,” will be published in May.
Colm Tóibín reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/five-bridges-fiction-colm-toibin">Five Bridges</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brooklyn-Novel-Colm-Toibin/dp/1439148953">Brooklyn</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Magician-Novel-Colm-Toibin/dp/1476785090">The Magician</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Long-Island-Eilis-Lacey-Toibin/dp/1476785120">Long Island</a>,” which came out last year.
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/03/keuka-lake-fiction-joseph-oneill">Keuka Lake</a>,” from the March 3rd, 2025, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and five novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Netherland-Novel-Joseph-ONeill/dp/0307377040">Netherland,</a>” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2009, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Novel-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307472949">The Dog,</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Godwin-Novel-Joseph-ONeill/dp/0593701321">Godwin,</a>” which was published last year.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/17/chuka-fiction-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie">Chuka,</a>” from the February 17 and February 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Adichie’s novels include “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Half-Yellow-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie/dp/1400095204">Half of a Yellow Sun</a>,” which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Americanah-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie/dp/0307455920">Americanah</a>,” a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Count-Chimamanda-Ngozi-Adichie-ebook/dp/B0DHW7MGSP">Dream Count</a>,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in March.
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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sticks-Bones-Play-Two-Acts/dp/0573615837">Sticks and Bones</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Boom-Room-David-Rabe/dp/0573606471">In the Boom Boom Room</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hurlyburly-Play-David-Rabe/dp/0394620119">Hurlyburly</a>.” His books of fiction include “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Recital-Dog-David-Rabe/dp/0802136583">Recital of the Dog</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Girl-Road-Night-Novel-Vietnam/dp/1439163340">Girl by the Road at Night</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Ghosts-Novella-Four-Stories/dp/1953002307">Listening for Ghosts</a>,” which was published in 2022.
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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Colour-Novel-Sheila-Heti/dp/0374603944">Pure Colour</a>,” which won the Governor General’s Award in 2022, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alphabetical-Diaries-Sheila-Heti/dp/0374610789">Alphabetical Diaries</a>,” which was published last year.
Han Ong reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/20/ming-fiction-han-ong">Ming</a>,” 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, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fixer-Chao-Novel-Han-Ong/dp/0312420536">Fixer Chao</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Disinherited-Novel-Han-Ong/dp/0312424612/">The Disinherited</a>.”
Kanak Kapur reads her story “<a href="https://newyorker.com/magazine/2025/01/13/prophecy-fiction-kanak-kapur">Prophecy</a>,” 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.
On this special holiday episode of the Writer’s Voice, we’ll hear a New Year’s story from the archives: “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/03/signal-john-lanchester">Signal</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Novel-John-Lanchester/dp/0393345092">Capital</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wall-Novel-John-Lanchester/dp/1324001631">The Wall</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reality-Other-Stories-John-Lanchester/dp/039354091X">Reality and Other Stories</a>,” which was published in 2020.
Daisy Hildyard reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/23/revision-fiction-daisy-hildyard">Revision</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Daisy-Hildyard/dp/1913097811">Emergency</a>” and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hunters-Snow-HILDYARD-Daisy/dp/022409744X/">“Hunters in the Snow</a>,” and of a nonfiction book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Second-Body-Daisy-Hildyard/dp/1910695475">The Second Body</a>.”
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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fates-Furies-Novel-Lauren-Groff/dp/1594634483">Fates and Furies</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vaster-Wilds-Novel-Lauren-Groff/dp/0593418409/">The Vaster Wilds</a>,” which came out last year. Her second story collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Florida-Lauren-Groff/dp/1594634521">Florida</a>,” 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.
David Szalay reads “Plaster,” from the December 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Szalay is the author of six books of fiction, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-That-Man-David-Szalay/dp/1555977537">All That Man Is</a>,” which won the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Turbulence-Novel-David-Szalay/dp/1982122730">Turbulence</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flesh-Novel-David-Szalay/dp/198212279X">Flesh</a>,” which will be published in April of 2025.
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Brief-Encounters-Enemy-Sa%C3%AFd-Sayrafiezadeh/dp/0812993586">Brief Encounters with the Enemy</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Estrangement-Stories-Sa%C3%AFd-Sayrafiezadeh/dp/1324050489">American Estrangement</a>,” a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, which was published in 2021. He has been publishing fiction in the magazine since 2010.
Greg Jackson reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/11/the-honest-island-fiction-greg-jackson">The Honest Island</a>,” from the November 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jackson is the author of a story collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250118050">Prodigals</a>,” for which he received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, and a novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374298491">The Dimensions of a Cave</a>,” which was published last year.
Paul Yoon reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/28/war-dogs-fiction-paul-yoon">War Dogs</a>,” from the October 28, 2024, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Snow-Hunters-Novel-Paul-Yoon/dp/1476714827">Snow Hunters</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Run-Me-Earth-Paul-Yoon/dp/1501154052">Run Me to Earth</a>,” and the story collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hive-Honey-Stories-Paul-Yoon/dp/1668020807">The Hive and the Honey</a>,” a winner of the Story Prize, which was published last year.
Joshua Cohen reads his story “My Camp,” from the October 21st, 2024, issue of the magazine. Cohen’s books include the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Witz-American-Literature-Joshua-Cohen/dp/1564785882">Witz</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Moving-Kings-Novel-Joshua-Cohen/dp/039959020X">Moving Kings</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Netanyahus-Account-Ultimately-Negligible-Episode/dp/1681376075">The Netanyahus</a>,” which won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize.
Matthew Klam reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/hi-daddy-fiction-matthew-klam">Hi Daddy</a>,” from the October 14th, 2024, issue of the magazine. Klam, a winner of the Robert Bingham/PEN Award, is the author of the collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Cat-Stories-Matthew-Klam/dp/0375726616">Sam the Cat and Other Stories</a>” and the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Rich-Novel-Matthew-Klam/dp/0812997980">Who Is Rich?</a>,” which was published in 2017.
The story in the magazine’s October 7th, 2024, issue is “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/stories-about-us-fiction-lore-segal">Stories About Us</a>” by Lore Segal. Segal wasn’t able to read her story for the podcast. But, in 2010, on the <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-new-yorker-fiction/id256945396">New Yorker Fiction Podcast</a>, Jennifer Egan read and discussed a different story by Lore Segal—“<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/05/01/the-reverse-bug">The Reverse Bug</a>,” from 1989—and we wanted to share this bonus sampling of Segal’s work with you instead.
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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kaaterskill-Falls-Allegra-Goodman/dp/0385323905">Kaaterskill Falls</a>,” which was a National Book Award Finalist; “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chalk-Artist-Novel-Allegra-Goodman/dp/1400069874/">The Chalk Artist</a>”; and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Novel-Allegra-Goodman/dp/0593447832/">Sam</a>,” which came out last year.
Hugo Hamilton reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/23/autobahn-fiction-hugo-hamilton">Autobahn</a>,” 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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Speckled-People-Memoir-Half-Irish-Childhood/dp/0007156634?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">The Speckled People</a>” and ten novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dublin-Palms/dp/000812809X?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">Dublin Palms</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pages-novel-Hugo-Hamilton/dp/0593320662?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">The Pages</a>.”
Bryan Washington reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/16/last-coffeehouse-on-travis-fiction-bryan-washington">Last Coffeehouse on Travis</a>,” 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, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593087275">Memorial</a>,” which came out in 2020, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593421108">Family Meal</a>,” which was published last year.
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Sigrid Nunez reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/09/greensleeves-fiction-sigrid-nunez">Greensleeves,</a>” from the September 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Nunez is the author of a memoir and nine novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Friend-Novel-Sigrid-Nunez/dp/0735219443">The Friend</a>,” which won the National Book Award in 2018, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vulnerables-Novel-Sigrid-Nunez/dp/0593715519">The Vulnerables</a>,” which was published last year.
Yiyun Li reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/02/the-particles-of-order-fiction-yiyun-li">The Particles of Order</a>,” from the September 2, 2024, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399589120?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">Must I Go</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/037460634X?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">The Book of Goose</a>,” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374606374?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">Wednesday’s Child</a>,” 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.
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 href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-Adventure-Delight-Akhil-Sharma/dp/0393285340">A Life of Adventure and Delight</a>,” and two novels, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Obedient-Father-Akhil-Sharma/dp/1946022381">An Obedient Father</a>,” which was published in 2000 and republished, in a revised version, in 2022, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Family-Life-Novel-Akhil-Sharma/dp/0393060055">Family Life</a>,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2016.
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: “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/05/05/the-naturals">The Naturals</a>,” 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.
Caleb Crain reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-crain">Clay</a>,” 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.
Nell Freudenberger reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/05/attila-fiction-nell-freudenberger">Attila</a>,” 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.
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.
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/22/freedom-to-move-fiction-aysegul-savas">Freedom to Move</a>,” 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.
Sally Rooney reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/08/opening-theory-fiction-sally-rooney">Opening Theory</a>,” 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.
Annie Proulx reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/08/the-hadal-zone-fiction-annie-proulx">The Hadal Zone</a>,” 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.
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.
Roddy Doyle reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/24/the-buggy-fiction-roddy-doyle">The Buggy</a>,” 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.
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.
Lore Segal reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/10/beyond-imagining-fiction-lore-segal">Beyond Imagining</a>,” 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.
Thomas McGuane reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/27/thataway-fiction-thomas-mcguane">Thataway</a>,” from the May 27, 2024, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400075181">Gallatin Canyon</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345805917">Crow Fair</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345805925">Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories</a>,” which came out in 2018.
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
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 “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Girlfriend-Earth-Other-Stories/dp/0316219398?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">The Last Girlfriend on Earth</a>,” which was adapted for the TV series “Man Seeking Woman,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hits-and-Misses-Simon-Rich-audiobook/dp/B07F8ZBCDT?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">Hits and Misses</a>,” which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2019. A new story collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Glory-Days-Stories-Simon-Rich/dp/0316569003?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">Glory Days</a>,” will be published in July.
Cynan Jones reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/pulse-fiction-cynan-jones">Pulse</a>,” from the May 6, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jones is the author of six books of fiction, including, most recently, the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cove-Cynan-Jones/dp/1936787849?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">Cove</a>” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Stillicide-Novel-Cynan-Jones/dp/1646220137/?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">Stillicide</a>.” His previous story in The New Yorker, “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/the-edge-of-the-shoal">The Edge of the Shoal</a>,” was the 2017 winner of the BBC National Short Story Award.
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, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Butcher-novel-Joyce-Carol-Oates-ebook/dp/B0CG8SNND2?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">Butcher</a>,” and a story collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flint-Kill-Creek-Stories-Suspense/dp/1613165579/?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">Flint Kill Creek</a>,” will be published later this year.
Kevin Barry reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/15/finistere-fiction-kevin-barry">Finistère</a>,” from the April 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Barry is the author of six books of fiction, including the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/City-Bohane-Novel-Kevin-Barry/dp/155597645X?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">City of Bohane</a>,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award, and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/That-Old-Country-Music-Stories/dp/0385540337?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">That Old Country Music</a>,” which came out in 2020. A new novel, “The Heart in Winter,” will be published in July.
Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/08/bozo-fiction-souvankham-thammavongsa">Bozo</a>” from the April 8, 2024, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Pronounce-Knife-Souvankham-Thammavongsa/dp/0316422134?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">How to Pronounce Knife</a>,” which won the Giller Prize in 2020.
Mohammed Naseehu Ali reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/allah-have-mercy-fiction-mohammed-naseehu-ali">Allah Have Mercy</a>” from the April 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Ali is the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Zongo-Street-Stories/dp/0060523549?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">The Prophet of Zongo Street</a>,” a story collection, which came out in 2005. He teaches undergraduate fiction in N.Y.U.’s Creative Writing department.
Zach Williams reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/25/neighbors-fiction-zach-williams">Neighbors</a>” from the March 25, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. His début story collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Days-Stories-Zach-Williams/dp/0385550146">Beautiful Days</a>,” will be published in June.
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/the-time-being-fiction-joseph-oneill">The Time Being</a>” from the March 18, 2024, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Netherland-Vintage-Contemporaries-Joseph-ONeill/dp/0307388778">Netherland</a>,” which won the pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, in 2009, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Novel-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/0307472949">The Dog</a>.” A new novel, “Godwin,” will be published in June.
Fiona McFarlane reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/11/hostel-fiction-fiona-mcfarlane">Hostel</a>” from the March 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. McFarlane is the author of two novels and a story collection, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/High-Places-Stories-Fiona-McFarlane/dp/1250131855?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50">The High Places</a>,” which was awarded the International Dylan Thomas Prize, in 2017. A new collection, “Highway Thirteen,” will be published in August.
Thomas Korsgaard reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/the-spit-of-him-thomas-korsgaard-fiction">The Spit of Him</a>” 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.
The author reads his story from the February 26, 2024, issue of the magazine
The author reads her story from the February 12 & 19, 2024, issue of the magazine.
The author reads his story from the February 5, 2024, issue of the magazine.
The author reads his story from the January 22, 2024, issue of the magazine.
The author reads her story from the January 15, 2024, issue of the magazine.
On a special archival New Years episode, the author reads his story from the July 21, 2014, issue of the magazine.
The author reads her story from the January 1 & 8, 2024, issue of the magazine.
The author reads his story from the December 11, 2023, issue of the magazine.
The author reads his story from the December 4, 2023, issue of the magazine.
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.
The author reads her story from the November 20, 2023, issue of the magazine.
The author reads her story from the November 13, 2023, issue of the magazine.
The author reads his story from the November 6, 2023, issue of the magazine.
The author reads his story from the October 23, 2023, issue of the magazine.
The author reads her story from the October 16, 2023, issue of the magazine.
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.
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.
Tessa Hadley on Her Years of Learning to Write
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The End Is Only a Beginning”
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.
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.
Tessa Hadley Reads “The Maths Tutor”
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.
Paul Yoon Reads “Valley of the Moon”
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.
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Civil Disturbance”
George Saunders Reads “Thursday”
Nicole Krauss Reads “Long Island”
Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”
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.”
Ben Lerner Reads “The Ferry”
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.
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 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.”
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.
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.
Danielle Dutton Reads “My Wonderful Description of Flowers”
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.
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “Princess”
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Ben Okri Reads “The Secret Source”
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.
Ben Lerner Reads “Café Loup”
David Sedaris Reads “Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July
Alejandro Zambra Reads “Skyscrapers”
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.
Clare Sestanovich Reads “You Tell Me”
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.”
Bryan Washington Reads “Arrivals”
Rachel Kushner Reads “A King Alone”
Lauren Groff Reads “To Sunland”
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.
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.
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.
Joshua Ferris Reads “The Boy Upstairs”
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.
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 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.
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.
Claire Keegan Reads “So Late in the Day”
Kate Folk Reads “Out There”
Lauren Groff Reads “Annunciation”
Alexander MacLeod Reads “Once Removed”
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.
Jennifer Egan Reads “What the Forest Remembers”
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.
Madeleine Thien Reads “Lu, Reshaping”
Colin Barrett Reads “A Shooting in Rathreedane”
Kate Walbert Reads “Marriage/Quarantine”
Greg Jackson Reads “The Hollow”
Gish Jen Reads “Detective Dog”
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.
Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak”
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.
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.
Karen Russell Reads “The Ghost Birds”
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.”
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.”
George Saunders Reads “The Mom of Bold Action”
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.
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.
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.
Tessa Hadley Reads “Coda”
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.
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.
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.
Bryan Washington Reads “Foster”
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.
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “A, S, D, F”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Casting Shadows”
Ben Okri Reads “A Wrinkle in the Realm”
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.
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.”
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.
Rebecca Curtis Reads “The Christmas Miracle”
Patricia Lockwood Reads “The Winged Thing”
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
David Rabe Reads “Suffocation Theory”
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.
Douglas Stuart reads his story from the September 14, 2020, issue of the magazine. Stuart published his first novel, “Shuggie Bain,” earlier this year.
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.
David Wright Faladé Reads “The Sand Banks, 1861”
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.”
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.
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.
A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Rabe Reads “Things We Worried About When I Was Ten”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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."
Elizabeth Strout Reads "Motherless Child"
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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."
Ta-Nehisi Coates Reads "Conduction"
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.
Ben Lerner Reads "Ross Perot and China"
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.
Lauren Groff Reads "Brawler"
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.
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.
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.
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.
Colson Whitehead Reads “The Match”
Lore Segal Reads “Dandelion”
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.
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.
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.
Leïla Slimani Reads "The Confession"
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.
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.
Salvatore Scibona Reads "Do Not Stop"
Taymour Soomro reads his short story from the January 7, 2019, issue of the magazine. This is Soomro's first fiction publication.
Mary Gaitskill Reads "Acceptance Journey"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kevin Barry Reads "The Coast of Leitrim"
Yiyun Li Reads "When We Were Happy We Had Other Names"
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."
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads "Audition"
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Karen Russell Reads "Orange World"
Ben Marcus Reads "Stay Down and Take It"
Edwidge Danticat Reads "Without Inspection"
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.
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.
Keith Gessen Reads "How Did We Come to Know You?"
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.
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.
Tommy Orange Reads "The State"
Gish Jen Reads "No More Maybe"
Joseph O’Neill Reads "The Poltroon Husband"
Nicole Krauss Reads "Seeing Ershadi"
Rachel Kushner Reads "Stanville"
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.
Jhumpa Lahiri Reads "The Boundary"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Edwidge Danticat Reads “Sunrise, Sunset”
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.
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.
Ben Marcus reads “Blueprints for St. Louis”
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.
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.
Miranda July Reads “The Metal Bowl”
Lauren Groff Reads “Dogs Go Wolf”
Garth Greenwell Reads “An Evening Out”
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.”
Cristina Henríquez Reads “Everything is Far From Here”
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."
"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."
Sherman Alexie reads “Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest”
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “Show Don’t Tell”
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.
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.
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.
David Means reads his story “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother,” from the May 1, 2017, issue of the magazine.
Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Deaf and Blind” from the April 24, 2017, issue of the magazine.
Akhil Sharma reads “You Are Happy?”
Emma Cline Reads "Northeast Regional"
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.
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.
Anne Enright Reads "Solstice"
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.
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.”
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “The Prairie Wife”
“Love, in all forms, had turned into a kind of regret.”
“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.”
"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."
Yiyun Li reads her story “On The Street Where You Live,” from the January 9, 2017, issue of the magazine.
Camille Bordas Reads “Most Die Young”
“The poet Mark McCain received an e-mail inviting him to sign a ‘poetition’ requesting that President Obama pardon Edward Snowden.”
“The schoolmarm’s just showing off again, making their brains ache, unrepentant criminal that she is.”
“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.”
"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.”
"Jeb could hear almost everything that went on in her house, he’d figured out, if he listened carefully from his basement window."
“It’s the sort of thing that could get me in a lot of trouble around here,” he said. “Who’ll know?” she said.
Etgar Keret Reads “To the Moon and Back”
Rivka Galchen Reads “How Can I Help?”
Robert Coover Reads “Invasion of the Martians”
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.
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.
Tessa Hadley Reads “Dido's Lament”
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.
Joy Williams Reads “Stuff”
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.
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Fugitive”
Paul Theroux Reads “Upside-Down Cake”
Karen Russell Reads “The Bog Girl”
Ben Lerner Reads “The Polish Rider”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lara Vapnyar Reads “Waiting for the Miracle”
Colin Barrett Reads “Anhedonia, Here I Come”
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.
Kevin Canty Reads “God's Work”
Ian McEwan Reads “My Purple Scented Novel”
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.
Han Ong Reads “Happy Days”
June 22, 20251hr 4min
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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