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
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Good-Looking”
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…
00:22:38 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Casting Shadows”
Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story from the February 15 & 22, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lahiri is the author of two novels and two short-story collections. Her first book, “Interpreter of Maladies,” wo…
00:44:44 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
Ben Okri Reads “A Wrinkle in the Realm”
Ben Okri reads his story from the February 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Okri is the author of eleven novels, including “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Art…
00:15:19 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
Lauren Groff Reads “The Wind”
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 collec…
00:23:32 |
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Allegra Goodman Reads “A Challenge You Have Overcome”
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.”
00:30:11 |
Tue 19 Jan 2021
Andrea Lee Reads “The Rivals”
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 Wome…
00:54:11 |
Tue 29 Dec 2020
Rebecca Curtis Reads “The Christmas Miracle”
For a special holiday episode of the Writer’s Voice podcast, Rebecca Curtis reads “The Christmas Miracle,” her story from the December 23 & 30, 2013, issue of the magazine. Curtis is the author of th…
00:53:06 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
Patricia Lockwood Reads “The Winged Thing”
Patricia Lockwood reads her story from the November 30, 2020, issue of the magazine. Lockwood has published two collections of poetry and the memoir “Priestdaddy,” which came out in 2017. Her first n…
00:44:00 |
Tue 24 Nov 2020
Salman Rushdie Reads “The Old Man in the Piazza”
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,” …
00:37:24 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
Rebecca Curtis Reads “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit”
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 Ro…
00:54:08 |
Tue 10 Nov 2020
George Saunders Reads “Ghoul”
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 colle…
00:55:37 |
Tue 03 Nov 2020
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “A for Alone”
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 “Pre…
00:50:46 |
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Roddy Doyle Reads “Life Without Children”
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…
00:25:55 |
Tue 13 Oct 2020
David Rabe Reads “Suffocation Theory”
David Rabe reads his story from the October 12, 2020, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays, including the Tony-award-winning “Sticks and Bones,” “In the Boom Boom Room…
00:43:37 |
Tue 06 Oct 2020
Joseph O’Neill Reads “Rainbows”
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.” …
00:42:07 |
Tue 29 Sep 2020
Douglas Stuart Reads “The Englishman”
Douglas Stuart reads his story from the September 14, 2020, issue of the magazine. Stuart published his first novel, “Shuggie Bain,” earlier this year.
00:42:07 |
Tue 08 Sep 2020
Susan Choi Reads “Flashlight”
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 F…
00:42:09 |
Tue 01 Sep 2020
David Wright Faladé Reads “The Sand Banks, 1861”
David Wright Faladé reads his story from the August 31, 2020, issue of the magazine. Wright Faladé is the author of the nonfiction book “Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheri…
00:41:09 |
Tue 25 Aug 2020
David Gilbert Reads “Cicadia”
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.”
00:39:10 |
Tue 18 Aug 2020
Madhuri Vijay Reads “You Are My Dear Friend”
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.
00:53:58 |
Tue 11 Aug 2020
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