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
David Gates Reads "Texas"
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 Reache…
00:32:07 |
Tue 09 Jan 2018
Sadia Shepard Reads "Foreign-Returned"
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 2…
00:53:03 |
Tue 02 Jan 2018
Colin Barrett Reads "Whoever is There, Come on Through"
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 Awar…
00:41:40 |
Tue 26 Dec 2017
Zadie Smith Reads "The Lazy River"
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 p…
00:19:55 |
Tue 19 Dec 2017
Thomas McGuane Reads "Riddle"
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…
00:18:10 |
Tue 12 Dec 2017
Kristen Roupenian Reads "Cat Person"
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 A…
00:40:15 |
Tue 05 Dec 2017
Will Mackin Reads “The Lost Troop”
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 D…
00:29:53 |
Tue 21 Nov 2017
David Gilbert Reads “The Sightseers”
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.”
00:52:45 |
Tue 14 Nov 2017
Anne Enright Reads "The Hotel"
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 …
00:14:43 |
Tue 31 Oct 2017
Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Sinking of The Houston”
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” whi…
00:29:20 |
Tue 24 Oct 2017
Edwidge Danticat Reads “Sunrise, Sunset”
Edwidge Danticat reads her story from the September 18, 2017, issue of the magazine. Danticat is the author of more than a dozen books, including the novels “The Dew Breaker” and “Claire of the Sea L…
00:45:08 |
Tue 17 Oct 2017
Tessa Hadley Reads “Funny Little Snake”
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 L…
00:55:24 |
Tue 10 Oct 2017
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads “Likes”
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” …
00:44:25 |
Tue 03 Oct 2017
Ben Marcus reads “Blueprints for St. Louis”
"“Terrorism” wasn’t really the term anymore. Ida found that it soured in her mouth, like a German word for some obscure feeling.“Tax”seemed to be a finer way to put it. A tax had been levied in St. L…
00:41:34 |
Tue 26 Sep 2017
Jonas Hassen Khemiri reads “As You Would Have Told it to Me (Sort of) If We Had Known Each Other Before You Died"
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. …
00:34:24 |
Tue 19 Sep 2017
Allegra Goodman Reads “F.A.Q.s”
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 Collecto…
00:36:54 |
Tue 05 Sep 2017
Miranda July Reads “The Metal Bowl”
Miranda July reads her story from the September 4, 2017, issue of the magazine. July is a writer, artist, film director, and actor. She is the author of the story collection “No One Belongs Here Mo…
00:31:09 |
Tue 29 Aug 2017
Lauren Groff Reads “Dogs Go Wolf”
What the storm had erased was the silence from the other cabin. For hours, there had been no laughing, no bottle caps falling, none of the bickering that the girls had grown used to over the past two…
00:36:50 |
Tue 22 Aug 2017
Garth Greenwell Reads “An Evening Out”
I knew I was acting badly, that I was looking too brazenly and too long, that I shouldn’t have looked at all. I would be ashamed later but I wasn’t ashamed now, I kept watching as the stream weakened…
00:46:30 |
Tue 15 Aug 2017
Kirstin Valdez Quade Reads "Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224)"
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…
00:47:00 |
Tue 25 Jul 2017
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