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 “Heirlooms”
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 thi…
00:46:57 |
Tue 28 Jul 2020
A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”
A.M. Homes joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” in this 2008 episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast. The story was originally published in 1948 a…
00:33:06 |
Tue 21 Jul 2020
Hari Kunzru Reads “A Transparent Woman”
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…
00:56:09 |
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Emma Cline Reads “White Noise”
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, “Dad…
01:09:44 |
Tue 09 Jun 2020
David Means Reads “Two Nurses, Smoking”
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 Fu…
00:34:30 |
Tue 26 May 2020
Fiona McFarlane Reads “Demolition”
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 …
00:35:14 |
Tue 19 May 2020
Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Afterlife”
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…
00:20:42 |
Tue 12 May 2020
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads “Bedtime Story”
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, “L…
00:44:24 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Ben Lerner Reads “The Media”
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 …
00:09:28 |
Tue 14 Apr 2020
George Saunders Reads “Love Letter”
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 collecti…
00:19:54 |
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Han Ong Reads “Futures”
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, “Fi…
00:50:40 |
Tue 24 Mar 2020
Matthew Klam Reads “The Liver”
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 …
00:43:23 |
Tue 10 Mar 2020
Anne Enright Reads “Night Swim”
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 Booke…
00:21:12 |
Tue 03 Mar 2020
Adam Levin Reads “Kid Positive”
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 pu…
00:30:21 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
Anthony Veasna So Reads “Three Women of Chuck’s Donuts”
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. Th…
00:49:08 |
Tue 04 Feb 2020
David Rabe Reads “Things We Worried About When I Was Ten”
David Rabe reads his story from the February 3, 2020, issue of the magazine. Rabe, a fiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter, is the author of more than a dozen plays, including the Tony Award-w…
00:41:17 |
Tue 28 Jan 2020
Mary South Reads “You Will Never Be Forgotten”
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.
00:52:25 |
Tue 21 Jan 2020
Bryan Washington Reads “Visitor”
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.
00:45:43 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Douglas Stuart Reads “Found Wanting”
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 firs…
00:36:58 |
Tue 07 Jan 2020
Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain”
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 …
00:17:53 |
Tue 31 Dec 2019
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