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 “Hatagaya Lore”
Bryan Washington reads his story “Hatagaya Lore,” from the March 31, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the International Dylan Thomas Prize,…
00:48:10 |
Sun 23 Mar 2025
Joyce Carol Oates Reads “The Frenzy”
Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “The Frenzy,” from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author o…
00:47:58 |
Sun 16 Mar 2025
Yiyun Li Reads “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies”
Yiyun Li reads her story, “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies,” from the March 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book o…
00:44:47 |
Sun 09 Mar 2025
Colm Tóibín Reads “Five Bridges”
Colm Tóibín reads his story “Five Bridges,” from the March 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Tóibín, a winner of the Folio Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others, has published eleven…
00:44:51 |
Sun 02 Mar 2025
Joseph O'Neill Reads “Keuka Lake”
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “Keuka Lake,” from the March 3rd, 2025, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and five novels, including “Netherland,” which won the PEN/…
00:38:39 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads “Chuka”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads her story “Chuka,” from the February 17 and February 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Adichie’s novels include “Half of a Yellow Sun,” which won the Orange Prize for Fi…
00:52:43 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
David Rabe Reads “My Friend Pinocchio”
David Rabe reads his story “My Friend Pinocchio,” from the February 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays, including “Sticks and Bones,” “In the Boom Boom Roo…
00:47:49 |
Sun 02 Feb 2025
Sheila Heti Reads “The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea”
Sheila Heti reads her story “The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea,” from the January 27, 2025, issue of the magazine. Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novel “Pure Colour,” which won the Gover…
00:50:51 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
Han Ong Reads “Ming”
Han Ong reads his story “Ming,” from the January 20, 2025, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, Ong is the author of more than a dozen plays and two no…
00:43:12 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
Kanak Kapur Reads “Prophecy”
Kanak Kapur reads her story “Prophecy,” from the January 13, 2025, issue of the magazine. Kapur teaches at Colgate University, where she is an Olive B. O’Connor fellow. Her short fiction has appeared…
00:39:58 |
Sun 05 Jan 2025
John Lanchester Reads “Signal”
On this special holiday episode of the Writer’s Voice, we’ll hear a New Year’s story from the archives: “Signal,” by John Lanchester, which appeared in the April 3, 2017, issue of the magazine. Lanch…
00:44:41 |
Sun 29 Dec 2024
Daisy Hildyard Reads “Revision”
Daisy Hildyard reads her story “Revision,” from the December 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hildyard, a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and of one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35…
00:51:59 |
Sun 15 Dec 2024
Lauren Groff Reads “Between the Shadow and the Soul”
Lauren Groff reads her story “Between the Shadow and the Soul,” from the December 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. Groff has published five novels, including “Fates and Furies” and “The Vaster Wilds,…
00:44:26 |
Sun 08 Dec 2024
David Szalay Reads “Plaster”
David Szalay reads “Plaster,” from the December 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Szalay is the author of six books of fiction, including “All That Man Is,” which won the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and…
00:43:40 |
Sun 01 Dec 2024
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Minimum Payment Due”
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy” and “American Estrangement,” a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, which was published in 2021. He has …
00:31:50 |
Sun 17 Nov 2024
Greg Jackson Reads “The Honest Island”
Greg Jackson reads his story “The Honest Island,” from the November 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jackson is the author of a story collection, “Prodigals,” for which he received the National Book …
00:39:01 |
Sun 03 Nov 2024
Paul Yoon Reads “War Dogs”
Paul Yoon reads his story “War Dogs,” from the October 28, 2024, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Snow Hunters” and “Run Me to Earth,” and the…
00:44:04 |
Sun 20 Oct 2024
Joshua Cohen Reads “My Camp”
Joshua Cohen reads his story “My Camp,” from the October 21st, 2024, issue of the magazine. Cohen’s books include the novels “Witz,” “Moving Kings,” and “The Netanyahus,” which won the National Jewis…
01:04:59 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Matthew Klam Reads “Hi Daddy”
Matthew Klam reads his story “Hi Daddy,” from the October 14th, 2024, issue of the magazine. Klam, a winner of the Robert Bingham/PEN Award, is the author of the collection “Sam the Cat and Other Sto…
00:42:11 |
Sun 06 Oct 2024
Bonus: The Fiction Podcast: Jennifer Egan Reads Lore Segal
The story in the magazine’s October 7th, 2024, issue is “Stories About Us” by Lore Segal. Segal wasn’t able to read her story for the podcast. But, in 2010, on the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Jennife…
00:45:25 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
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