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
Cristina Henríquez Reads “Everything is Far From Here”
What if she’s forgotten what he looks like? What if she’s gone crazy? What if he’s here, lying in one of those cribs, and she sees him every single day without realizing he’s her son? What if it’s be…
00:20:50 |
Tue 18 Jul 2017
Andrew Sean Greer reads “It’s a Summer Day”
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."
00:42:29 |
Tue 13 Jun 2017
Will Mackin reads “Crossing the River No Name”
"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…
00:29:47 |
Tue 06 Jun 2017
Sherman Alexie reads “Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest”
"On a Tuesday morning, she knocked on the door of 213. A corner room. Larger than standard. With two big windows instead of one. Twenty more dollars a night. The guest had been there for three nights…
00:31:01 |
Sat 03 Jun 2017
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “Show Don’t Tell”
"A lot of the people in our program were nakedly emotional in a way that, in childhood, I had so successfully trained myself not to be that I almost really wasn’t. Before entering grad school, I had …
00:44:52 |
Tue 30 May 2017
Samantha Hunt Reads “A Love Story”
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.
00:48:47 |
Tue 16 May 2017
Etgar Keret Reads “Fly Already”
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.
00:13:31 |
Tue 09 May 2017
Yiyun Li Reads “A Small Flame”
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…
00:45:32 |
Tue 02 May 2017
David Means Reads “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother”
David Means reads his story “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother,” from the May 1, 2017, issue of the magazine.
00:23:54 |
Tue 25 Apr 2017
Lara Vapnyar Reads “Deaf and Blind”
Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Deaf and Blind” from the April 24, 2017, issue of the magazine.
00:40:08 |
Tue 18 Apr 2017
Akhil Sharma reads “You Are Happy?”
The next day, Lakshman telephoned India. He gripped the phone and spoke in a soft, tight voice. “Mommy says she is going to stay in bed and drink.” Even as he was speaking, he knew that his father wo…
00:26:28 |
Tue 11 Apr 2017
Emma Cline Reads "Northeast Regional"
He stood there for another few minutes before a boy and a girl ambled toward him, the boy not immediately recognizable as his son. It was Rowan, obvious now as the boy got closer, and Richard pretend…
00:39:21 |
Tue 04 Apr 2017
John Lanchester Reads "Signal"
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.
00:44:34 |
Tue 28 Mar 2017
Victor Lodato Reads “Herman Melville, Volume I”
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…
00:55:31 |
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Anne Enright Reads "Solstice"
This was the part of the journey that he loved best: the street lamps gave way to the idea of countryside, and there was a song on the radio as the road opened up ahead. The music made him feel like …
00:15:26 |
Tue 07 Mar 2017
Zadie Smith Reads "Crazy They Call Me"
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…
00:17:48 |
Tue 28 Feb 2017
Lore Segal Reads "Ladies' Lunch"
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.”
00:19:46 |
Tue 21 Feb 2017
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “The Prairie Wife”
Kirsten’s commute is when she really focusses on whether she has the power to destroy Lucy Headrick’s life. Yes, the question hums in the background at other moments, like when Kirsten is at the groc…
00:40:43 |
Tue 07 Feb 2017
David Gilbert Reads “Underground”
“Love, in all forms, had turned into a kind of regret.”
00:47:35 |
Tue 31 Jan 2017
Alix Ohlin Reads “Quarantine”
“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.”
00:37:45 |
Tue 24 Jan 2017
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