The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 375
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Bryan Washington Reads "Voyagers!"
Bryan Washington reads his story “Voyagers!,” from the September 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among others, Was…
00:57:23 |
Sun 07 Sep 2025
Rachel Cusk Reads “Project”
Rachel Cusk reads her story “Project,” from the September 1 & 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. Cusk is the author of several works of nonfiction and twelve novels, including “Outline,” “Transit,” “Kud…
00:29:11 |
Sun 24 Aug 2025
Miriam Toews Reads “Something Has Come to Light”
Miriam Toews reads her story “Something Has Come to Light,” from the August 25, 2025, issue of the magazine. Toews, a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, is the author of eight novels…
00:18:36 |
Sun 17 Aug 2025
Kiran Desai Reads "An Unashamed Proposal"
Kiran Desai reads her story “An Unashamed Proposal,” from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine. Desai is the author of the novels “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” and “The Inheritance of Loss,…
00:57:18 |
Sun 03 Aug 2025
Anne Enright Reads “The Bridge Stood Fast”
Anne Enright reads her story “The Bridge Stood Fast,” from the August 4, 2025, issue of the magazine. Enright has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “Yesterday’s Weathe…
00:51:53 |
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Mona Awad Reads “The Chartreuse”
Mona Awad reads her story “The Chartreuse,” from the July 28, 2025, issue of the magazine. Awad is the author of four books of fiction, including “13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl,” which won the Ama…
00:50:19 |
Sun 20 Jul 2025
Clare Sestanovich Reads “Natural History”
Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Natural History,” from the July 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich is the author of the story collection “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021 and w…
00:38:39 |
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”
Zadie Smith reads her story “The Silence,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, among others,…
00:33:57 |
Sun 06 Jul 2025
Ottessa Moshfegh Reads “The Comedian”
Ottessa Moshfegh reads her story “The Comedian,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Moshfegh is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Eileen,” for which she w…
00:39:19 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Jubilee”
Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story “Jubilee,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lahiri, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the PEN/Malamud Award, among others, is the author…
00:47:56 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Han Ong Reads “Happy Days”
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…
01:02:08 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
Yiyun Li Reads “Any Human Heart”
Yiyun Li reads her story “Any Human Heart,” from the June 23, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” and th…
00:52:08 |
Sun 15 Jun 2025
Jim Shepard Reads “The Queen of Bad Influences”
Jim Shepard reads his story “The Queen of Bad Influences,” from the June 16, 2025, issue of the magazine. Shepard, a winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, is the author of thirteen books of fi…
00:39:13 |
Sun 08 Jun 2025
Louise Erdrich Reads “Love of My Days”
Louise Erdrich reads her story “Love of My Days,” from the June 2, 2025, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including the no…
00:28:32 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Patricia Lockwood Reads “Fairy Pools”
Patricia Lockwood reads her story “Fairy Pools,” from the May 26, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lockwood is a poet, essayist, and novelist. Her memoir “Priestdaddy,” which came out in 2017, won the Th…
00:30:20 |
Sun 18 May 2025
Lillian Fishman Reads “Travesty”
Lillian Fishman reads her story, “Travesty,” from the May 12 & 19, 2025, issue of the magazine. Fishman is the author of the novel “Acts of Service,” which was published in 2022. She is currently at …
00:42:04 |
Sun 04 May 2025
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nocturnal Creatures”
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Nocturnal Creatures,” from the May 5, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of several plays, the memoir “When Skateboards Will Be Free,” and th…
00:34:25 |
Sun 27 Apr 2025
Adam Levin Reads “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie”
Adam Levin reads his story “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie,” from the April 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of four b…
00:19:33 |
Sun 13 Apr 2025
David Bezmozgis Reads “From, To”
David Bezmozgis reads his story “From, To,” from the April 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Bezmozgis is the author of two novels and two story collections, “Natasha and Other Stories,” which won the…
01:00:02 |
Sun 06 Apr 2025
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Marseille”
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Marseille,” from the April 7, 2025, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of three novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” “White on White,” and “The Anthropologists.” A…
00:32:02 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
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