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
Elif Batuman Reads “Constructed Worlds”
"It was a mystery to me how Svetlana generated so many opinions. Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact. Meanwhile, I went from class to class, read hundreds—thousands—of pa…
00:48:17 |
Tue 17 Jan 2017
Thomas Pierce Reads "Chairman Spaceman"
“Jerome, with a very serious expression, asked what Dom would do if an alien wanted to have sex with him.”
00:44:04 |
Tue 10 Jan 2017
Yiyun Li Reads “On The Street Where You Live”
Yiyun Li reads her story “On The Street Where You Live,” from the January 9, 2017, issue of the magazine.
00:43:04 |
Tue 03 Jan 2017
Camille Bordas Reads “Most Die Young”
“Within the hour, he’d packed and left, and, although it’s true that things hadn’t been great between us for a while—we’d run out of things to say to each other, and our silences were, frankly, borin…
00:42:52 |
Tue 27 Dec 2016
Joseph O'Neill Reads "Pardon Edward Snowden"
“The poet Mark McCain received an e-mail inviting him to sign a ‘poetition’ requesting that President Obama pardon Edward Snowden.”
00:32:08 |
Tue 06 Dec 2016
Robert Coover Reads "The Hanging of the Schoolmarm"
“The schoolmarm’s just showing off again, making their brains ache, unrepentant criminal that she is.”
00:09:55 |
Tue 22 Nov 2016
Lauren Groff Reads "Flower Hunters"
“What is it about me that people need breaks from? she asks the dog, who looks as though she wants to say something but, out of innate gentleness, refrains.”
00:22:40 |
Tue 15 Nov 2016
T.C. Boyle Reads "Are We Not Men?"
"In a room at GenLab, Connie and I were presented with an exhaustive menu of just how our chromosomes could be made to match up.”
00:38:52 |
Tue 01 Nov 2016
Ottessa Moshfegh Reads "An Honest Woman"
"Jeb could hear almost everything that went on in her house, he’d figured out, if he listened carefully from his basement window."
00:48:37 |
Tue 18 Oct 2016
Kevin Barry Reads "Deer Season"
“It’s the sort of thing that could get me in a lot of trouble around here,” he said. “Who’ll know?” she said.
00:25:17 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Etgar Keret Reads “To the Moon and Back”
Etgar Keret reads his story “To the Moon and Back,” from the October 3, 2016, issue of the magazine. The story was translated, from the Hebrew, by Sondra Silverston. Keret is the author, most recentl…
00:16:51 |
Tue 27 Sep 2016
Rivka Galchen Reads “How Can I Help?”
Rivka Galchen reads her story “How Can I Help?,” from the September 19, 2016, issue of the magazine. Galchen's story collection, “American Innovations,” was published in 2014. She was included in The…
00:28:21 |
Tue 13 Sep 2016
Robert Coover Reads “Invasion of the Martians”
Robert Coover reads his story “Invasion of the Martians,” from the September 19, 2016, issue of the magazine. Coover is the author of ten novels, including “The Origin of the Brunists, “The Adventure…
00:25:55 |
Tue 06 Sep 2016
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “Gender Studies”
Curtis Sittenfeld reads her story “Gender Studies,” from the August 29, 2016, issue of the magazine. Sittenfeld is the author of five novels, including “Prep“ and “American Wife.” Her most recent nov…
00:29:43 |
Tue 23 Aug 2016
Thomas McGuane Reads “Papaya”
Thomas McGuane reads his story “Papaya,” from the August 22, 2016, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published ten novels and three short story collections, including, most recently, “Crow Fair.” He…
00:34:52 |
Tue 16 Aug 2016
Tessa Hadley Reads “Dido's Lament”
Tessa Hadley reads her story “Dido's Lament,” from the August 8 & 15, 2016, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published six novels and four story collections, including “Sunstroke and Other Stories” …
00:35:25 |
Tue 02 Aug 2016
Joshua Ferris Reads “The Abandonment”
Joshua Ferris reads his story “The Abandonment,” from the August 1, 2016, issue of the magazine. Ferris is the author of three novels, including “The Unnamed” and “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour.” He…
00:45:07 |
Tue 26 Jul 2016
Joy Williams Reads “Stuff”
Joy Williams reads her story “Stuff,” from the July 25, 2016, issue of the magazine. Williams is the author of five story collections and four novels, including “Breaking and Entering” and “The Quick…
00:31:22 |
Tue 19 Jul 2016
Michael Andreasen Reads “The King's Teacup at Rest”
Michael Andreasen reads his story “The King's Teacup at Rest,” from the July 11, 2016, issue of the magazine. Andreasen has published fiction in "Zoetrope: Allstory" and elsewhere. This is his first …
00:29:54 |
Wed 29 Jun 2016
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Fugitive”
T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “The Fugitive,” from the July 4, 2016, issue of the magazine. Boyle has published more than two dozen stories in The New Yorker. He is the author of fifteen novel…
00:34:38 |
Tue 28 Jun 2016
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