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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

#150

Lore Segal Reads “On the Agenda”

Lore Segal reads her story “On the Agenda,” which appears in the September 18, 2023, issue of the magazine. Segal’s most recent books are “The Journal I Did Not Keep: New and Selected Writing” and “Ladies’ Lunch: and Other Stories,” which comes out later this month. ... Read more

11 Sep 2023

21 MINS

21:09

11 Sep 2023

#149

Lara Vapnyar Reads “Siberian Wood”

Lara Vapnyar reads her story “Siberian Wood,” which appears in the September 11, 2023, issue of the magazine. Vapnyar has published two short story collections and four novels, including “Still Here” and “Divide Me By Zero,” which came out in 2019. ... Read more

04 Sep 2023

45 MINS

45:55

04 Sep 2023

#148

Tessa Hadley on Her Years of Learning to Write

In July, The New Yorker published its thirtieth story by Tessa Hadley—a higher count that of any other fiction writer in the past two decades. On a recent episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour, the fiction editor Deborah Treisman spoke with Hadley about her genesis as a fiction writer. Hadley’s latest story collection is “After the Funeral.” ... Read more

28 Aug 2023

18 MINS

18:24

28 Aug 2023

#147

T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The End Is Only a Beginning”

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “The End Is Only a Beginning,” which appears in the August 21, 2023, issue of the magazine. Boyle has published more than two dozen books of fiction, including the story collection, “I Walk Between the Raindrops,” and the novel “Blue Skies,” which came out earlier this year. ... Read more

14 Aug 2023

36 MINS

36:04

14 Aug 2023

#146

Karan Mahajan Reads “The True Margaret”

Karan Mahajan reads his story “The True Margaret,” which appears in the August 14, 2023, issue of the magazine. Mahajan is the author of two novels, “Family Planning” and “The Association of Small Bombs,” which won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award in 2017. ... Read more

07 Aug 2023

30 MINS

30:10

07 Aug 2023

#145

Jamie Quatro Reads “Yogurt Days”

Jamie Quatro reads her story “Yogurt Days,” which appears in the August 7, 2023, issue of the magazine. Quatro is the author of the story collection “I Want to Show You More” and the novel “Fire Sermon.” A new novel, “Two-Step Devil,” will be published next year. ... Read more

31 Jul 2023

29 MINS

29:18

31 Jul 2023

#144

Tessa Hadley Reads “The Maths Tutor”

Tessa Hadley reads her story “The Maths Tutor,” which appeared in the July 24, 2023, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published twelve books of fiction, including the novels “Free Love’ and “The Past,” and the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral.” She is a winner of the 2016 Windham Campbell Literature Prize. ... Read more

17 Jul 2023

42 MINS

42:23

17 Jul 2023

#143

Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado”

Camille Bordas reads her story “Colorín Colorado,” which appeared in the July 10 & 17, 2023, issue of the magazine. Bordas published two novels in France. Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” came out in 2017. ... Read more

03 Jul 2023

54 MINS

54:16

03 Jul 2023

#142

Paul Yoon Reads “Valley of the Moon”

Paul Yoon reads his story “Valley of the Moon,” which appeared in the July 3, 2023, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of four books of fiction, including the story collection “The Mountain” and the novel “Run Me to Earth,” which came out in 2020. A new collection, “The Hive and the Honey,” will be published later this year. ... Read more

26 Jun 2023

44 MINS

44:40

26 Jun 2023

#141

Weike Wang Reads “Status in Flux”

Weike Wang reads her story “Status in Flux,” which appeared in the June 26, 2023, issue of the magazine. Wang is the author of two novels: “Chemistry,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2018, and “Joan Is Okay,” which was published in 2022. ... Read more

19 Jun 2023

26 MINS

26:55

19 Jun 2023

#140

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Civil Disturbance”

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “ [Civil Disturbance] (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/19/civil-disturbance-fiction-said-sayrafiezadeh) ,” which appeared in the June 19, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “ [Brief Encounters with the Enemy] (https://www.amazon.com/Brief-Encounters-Enemy-Sa%C3%AFd-Sayrafiezadeh/dp/0812993586?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50) ,” which was a finalist for the pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction in 2014, and “ [American Estrangement] (https://www.amazon.com/American-Estrangement-Stories-Sa%C3%AFd-Sayrafiezadeh/dp/0393541231?ots=1&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50) ,” which was published in 2021. ... Read more

12 Jun 2023

29 MINS

29:31

12 Jun 2023

#139

George Saunders Reads “Thursday”

George Saunders reads his story “Thursday,” which appeared in the June 12, 2023, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of five story collections, including “Tenth of December” and “Liberation Day,” which came out last year. ... Read more

05 Jun 2023

48 MINS

48:27

05 Jun 2023

#138

Nicole Krauss Reads “Long Island”

Nicole Krauss reads her story “Long Island,” which appeared in the May 22, 2023, issue of the magazine. Krauss is the author of four novels, including “The History of Love” and “Forest Dark.” Her story collection, “To Be a Man,” was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize. ... Read more

15 May 2023

46 MINS

46:02

15 May 2023

#137

Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”

Rebecca Makkai reads her story “The Plaza,” which appeared in the May 8, 2023, issue of the magazine. Makkai is the author of a story collection and four novels, including “The Great Believers,” which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and “I Have Some Questions for You,” which came out in February. ... Read more

01 May 2023

50 MINS

50:43

01 May 2023

#136

Rachel Cusk Reads “The Stuntman”

Rachel Cusk reads her story “The Stuntman,” which appeared in the April 24 & May 1, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cusk, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of four nonfiction works and eleven novels, including the “Outline” trilogy and, most recently, “Second Place.” ... Read more

17 Apr 2023

58 MINS

58:40

17 Apr 2023

#135

Ben Lerner Reads “The Ferry”

Ben Lerner reads his story “The Ferry,” which appeared in the April 10, 2023, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. ... Read more

03 Apr 2023

38 MINS

38:06

03 Apr 2023

#134

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads “False Star”

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain reads his story “False Star,” which appeared in the March 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. HolyWhiteMountain is a former Stegner fellow and current Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and an unrecognized citizen of the Blackfeet Nation. He is at work on a novel. ... Read more

13 Mar 2023

40 MINS

40:31

13 Mar 2023

#133

Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”

Rivka Galchen reads her story “How I Became a Vet,” which appeared in the March 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,” which was published in 2021. ... Read more

06 Mar 2023

31 MINS

31:36

06 Mar 2023

#132

Allegra Goodman Reads “The Last Grownup”

Allegra Goodman reads her story “The Last Grownup,” which appeared in the February 27, 2023, issue of the magazine. Goodman has published two story collections and seven novels, including “Kaaterskill Falls,” which was a National Book Award finalist, “The Chalk Artist,” and, most recently, “Sam,” which came out earlier this year. ... Read more

20 Feb 2023

24 MINS

24:38

20 Feb 2023

#131

Clare Sestanovich Reads “Different People”

Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Different People,” which appeared in the January 30, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich’s début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021, was a finalist PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She was named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022. ... Read more

23 Jan 2023

27 MINS

27:21

23 Jan 2023

#130

Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

Yiyun Li reads her story “Wednesday’s Child,” which appeared in the January 23, 2023, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of two story collections and five novels, including “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” which was published last year. She won the Windham Campbell Literature Prize in 2020. ... Read more

16 Jan 2023

51 MINS

51:22

16 Jan 2023

#129

Han Ong Reads “Hammer Attack”

Han Ong reads his story “Hammer Attack,” which appeared in the January 16, 2023, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.” ... Read more

06 Jan 2023

45 MINS

45:21

06 Jan 2023

#128

Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Notions of the Sacred”

Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Notions of the Sacred,” which appeared in the January 2 & 9, 2022, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of two novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” which was published in 2019, and “White on White,” which came out in 2021. ... Read more

26 Dec 2022

25 MINS

25:03

26 Dec 2022

#127

Matthew Klam Reads “The Other Party”

Matthew Klam reads his story “ [The Other Party] (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/19/the-other-party) ,” which appeared in the December 19, 2022, 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 2017. ... Read more

12 Dec 2022

56 MINS

56:51

12 Dec 2022

#126

Danielle Dutton Reads “My Wonderful Description of Flowers”

Danielle Dutton reads her story “My Wonderful Description of Flowers,” which appeared in the December 5, 2022, issue of the magazine. Dutton is the co-founder of Dorothy, a publishing project, and the author of three books of fiction, including the novel “Margaret the First.” A new book, “Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other,” will be published in 2024. ... Read more

28 Nov 2022

22 MINS

22:55

28 Nov 2022

#125

Louise Erdrich Reads “The Hollow Children”

Louise Erdrich reads her story “The Hollow Children,” which appeared in the November 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently “The Sentence” and “The Night Watchman,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021. ... Read more

21 Nov 2022

18 MINS

18:09

21 Nov 2022

#124

T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “Princess”

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “Princess,” which appeared in the November 7, 2022, issue of the magazine. Boyle has published more than two dozen books of fiction, including the novels “Outside Looking In” and “Talk to Me.” his most recent story collection, “I Walk Between the Raindrops,” came out earlier this year. ... Read more

31 Oct 2022

28 MINS

28:17

31 Oct 2022

#123

Jonathan Lethem Reads “Narrowing Valley”

Jonathan Lethem reads his story “Narrowing Valley,” which appeared in the October 31, 2022, issue of the magazine. Lethem’s books of fiction include the story collection “Lucky Alan and Other Stories” and the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published in 2020. ... Read more

24 Oct 2022

23 MINS

23:15

24 Oct 2022

#122

Marisa Silver Reads “Tiny Meaningless Things”

Marisa Silver reads her story “Tiny Meaningless Things,” which appeared in the October 24, 2022, issue of the magazine. Silver is the author of seven books of fiction, including the story collection “Alone with You,” and the novels “Little Nothing” and “The Mysteries,” which was published last year. ... Read more

17 Oct 2022

34 MINS

34:24

17 Oct 2022

#121

David Gilbert Reads “Come Softly to Me”

David Gilbert reads his story “ [Come Softly to Me] (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/17/come-softly-to-me) ,” which appeared in the October 17, 2022, issue of the magazine. Gilbert is the author of the story collection “Remote Feed,” and two novels, “& Sons” and “The Normals.” ... Read more

10 Oct 2022

46 MINS

46:27

10 Oct 2022

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#150

Lore Segal Reads “On the Agenda”

#149

Lara Vapnyar Reads “Siberian Wood”

#148

Tessa Hadley on Her Years of Learning to Write

#147

T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The End Is Only a Beginning”

#146

Karan Mahajan Reads “The True Margaret”

#145

Jamie Quatro Reads “Yogurt Days”

#144

Tessa Hadley Reads “The Maths Tutor”

#143

Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado”

#142

Paul Yoon Reads “Valley of the Moon”

#141

Weike Wang Reads “Status in Flux”

#140

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Civil Disturbance”

#139

George Saunders Reads “Thursday”

#138

Nicole Krauss Reads “Long Island”

#137

Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”

#136

Rachel Cusk Reads “The Stuntman”

#135

Ben Lerner Reads “The Ferry”

#134

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads “False Star”

#133

Rivka Galchen Reads “How I Became a Vet”

#132

Allegra Goodman Reads “The Last Grownup”

#131

Clare Sestanovich Reads “Different People”

#130

Yiyun Li Reads “Wednesday’s Child”

#129

Han Ong Reads “Hammer Attack”

#128

Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Notions of the Sacred”

#127

Matthew Klam Reads “The Other Party”

#126

Danielle Dutton Reads “My Wonderful Description of Flowers”

#125

Louise Erdrich Reads “The Hollow Children”

#124

T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “Princess”

#123

Jonathan Lethem Reads “Narrowing Valley”

#122

Marisa Silver Reads “Tiny Meaningless Things”

#121

David Gilbert Reads “Come Softly to Me”