New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.


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David Wright Faladé reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/amarillo-boulevard-fiction-david-wright-falade">Amarillo Boulevard</a>,” from the October 6, 2025, issue of the magazine. Wright Faladé, the recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, is the author of a nonfiction book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195154843">Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers</a>,” and the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802160395">Black Cloud Rising</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/New-Internationals-David-Wright-Falade/dp/0802164064/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0">The New Internationals</a>,” which was published earlier this year.

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David Wright Faladé Reads “Amarillo Boulevard”

Rivka Galchen reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/unreasonable-fiction-rivka-galchen">Unreasonable</a>,” from the September 29, 2025, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Innovations-Stories-Rivka-Galchen/dp/1250069238/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0">American Innovations</a>" and the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Knows-Your-Mother-Witch/dp/1250849314/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1L9AF50DP5D1U&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.piRKxRLaVypsiKXMXWeSRX-fQYXnR8_4rwAEckwSYtwwtdfDD1Pi0t3VMk-8_eUVdevizU_rdRNC5hlE1fI2T8SKxXZrJ6EOaLxoG53uo1_n99PPBCxvKrw7kZmPTlEP-qvKAF7hVPaWBOAjip_MGG9IEAQvWwL9y3HYSCOc1bFVopdMECSpWZoUrYL1oF6W.RYYOsvdg98hb3dYGonYf-iOETrtlkvM7woCYxCrhVeY&dib_tag=se&keywords=Everyone+Knows+Your+Mother+Is+a+Witch&qid=1758199195&s=books&sprefix=everyone+knows+your+mother+is+a+witch%2Cstripbooks%2C111&sr=1-1">Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch</a>,” which was published in 2021.

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Rivka Galchen Reads “Unreasonable”

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/22/the-pool-fiction-t-coraghessan-boyle">The Pool</a>,”  from the September 22, 2025,  issue of the magazine. A winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story, among others, Boyle has published more than thirty books of fiction, including the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/I-Walk-Between-Raindrops-Stories/dp/006305289X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0">I Walk Between the Raindrops</a>” and the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Skies-T-C-Boyle/dp/1324095180/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ETTkAUs3tZxWNCm-GO0kQO9aGyD4Wq5W3u4b9Wpx7-8lgDzQJIWnVKEl2wksrxNWFC8FJGxavjcxre2UQRDFqdGtHgTDArSO3LvseGxB-w4J6FpBgYhazVLpgTW2udTGv-gNRZt5aOwwwqHcljSp7Js1cwxWojEO7kHZ5UzRjthiHPntu6RZDpa3v06vbZXnzMpJSxfK7eJiKj5aICfkVzMcjnwxCsVgw9XTXoBgxIk.WF44LbkziTgQe7x_6EpRaa6sLcppb0g8rqZRgxmp1to&qid=1757715582&sr=1-1">Blue Skies</a>,” which came out in 2023.

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Pool”

Bryan Washington reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/15/voyagers-fiction-bryan-washington">Voyagers!</a>,” from the September 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Young Lions Fiction Award, among others, Washington is the author of three books of fiction, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Memorial-Novel-Bryan-Washington/dp/0593087283?ref_=ast_author_dp">Memorial</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Family-Meal-Novel-Bryan-Washington/dp/0593421108/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LCQGOIVXAP8S&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._2W-jvf_WWSutHIvRwEXiDI_l7KkMnupg8gx5ZxXwpnGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.8PCj89LYvT53sFxJd6HJgBOSwjF3EJM5srYBPyEyqtw&dib_tag=se&keywords=bryan+washington+family+meal&qid=1757098773&sprefix=bryan+washington+family+meal%2Caps%2C140&sr=8-1">Family Meal</a>.” A new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Palaver-Novel-Bryan-Washington/dp/0374609071/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1P1EXA60G6TLR&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.DXuhoDYVb51PLTVeuBi7uzI_l7KkMnupg8gx5ZxXwpnGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.4i2DqOb9SVjweRZEel0uorDIZodf8F61FjsCV0qe7gA&dib_tag=se&keywords=bryan+washington+Palaver&qid=1757098787&sprefix=bryan+washington+palaver%2Caps%2C184&sr=8-1">Palaver</a>,” will be published later this year.

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Bryan Washington Reads "Voyagers!"

Rachel Cusk reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/project-fiction-rachel-cusk">Project</a>,” from the September 1 & 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. Cusk is the author of several works of nonfiction and twelve novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Outline-Novel-Trilogy-Rachel-Cusk/dp/1250081548">Outline</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Transit-Outline-Trilogy-Rachel-Cusk/dp/0374278628">Transit</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kudos-Outline-Trilogy-Rachel-Cusk/dp/0374279861">Kudos</a>,” and, most recently, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parade-Novel-Rachel-Cusk/dp/0374610045">Parade</a>,” which won the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize.

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Rachel Cusk Reads “Project”

Miriam Toews reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/25/something-has-come-to-light-fiction-miriam-toews">Something Has Come to Light</a>,” from the August 25, 2025, issue of the magazine. Toews, a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, is the author of eight novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Complicated-Kindness-Novel-Miriam-Toews/dp/1619026228">A Complicated Kindness</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Puny-Sorrows-Miriam-Toews/dp/1635574978/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0">All My Puny Sorrows</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Women-Talking-Miriam-Toews-ebook/dp/B07HM68X3P/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=RDLCH&content-id=amzn1.sym.0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_p=0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_r=146-2734176-4259746&pd_rd_wg=wvAmn&pd_rd_r=03e467c8-352b-40d5-b15a-003858d3feec&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk">Women Talking</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Night-Miriam-Toews-ebook/dp/B092QZ4W8F/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=RDLCH&content-id=amzn1.sym.0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_p=0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_r=146-2734176-4259746&pd_rd_wg=wvAmn&pd_rd_r=03e467c8-352b-40d5-b15a-003858d3feec&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk">Fight Night</a>.” A new memoir, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Truce-That-Not-Peace/dp/1639734740/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=Mtpsm&content-id=amzn1.sym.0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_p=0fb2cce1-1ca4-439a-844b-8ad0b1fb77f7&pf_rd_r=146-2734176-4259746&pd_rd_wg=uEG4y&pd_rd_r=6120f0c9-0a33-40a1-a99b-81db70b480ea&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk">A Truce That Is Not Peace,</a>” comes out this month.

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Miriam Toews Reads “Something Has Come to Light”

Kiran Desai reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/an-unashamed-proposal-fiction-kiran-desai">An Unashamed Proposal</a>,” from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine. Desai is the author of the novels “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuySpndJ5PJGhz151iNtNu8GDCf6zDDe7KTcseK6CpQ5k2L3UReJs">Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard</a>” and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuySpndJ5PAWYnQs3HVu3MNyfy4M5HWTM2zjPYZc17Uy4ujSbJptX">The Inheritance of Loss</a>,” which won the Booker Prize in 2006. A new novel, “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyH75FCycUQzRspM1WCCZakhuPksE6rE3iNCFwZpWfMkPYPB2dNP">The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny</a>,” from which this story was adapted, will be published this fall.

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Kiran Desai Reads "An Unashamed Proposal"

Anne Enright reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/magazine/2025/08/04/the-bridge-stood-fast-fiction-anne-enright">The Bridge Stood Fast</a>,” from the August 4, 2025, issue of the magazine. Enright has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuySpndJ5PJEwo4MwshQFY7nTEwhh3RURfGwNXcv3Mx2FQveaQzpu">Yesterday’s Weather</a>,” and the novels “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuySpndJ6GiaT6hqFK6UmvFferu5Ng3J6YEydUmLRcjNcKUhXckQD">The Gathering</a>,” which won the Man Booker Prize, “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyv7rkXC7T2VvdfaeozXrtiZnaZAzWKfT37HVcfGYHdYV4sFXQPcQd">Actress</a>,” and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyv7rkXC7T2VvesGMBc8bwvTzKXMYUP5Jb3x1cBCuCn7FwWmceDzyb">The Wren, The Wren</a>.”

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Anne Enright Reads “The Bridge Stood Fast”

Mona Awad reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/the-chartreuse-fiction-mona-awad">The Chartreuse</a>,” from the July 28, 2025, issue of the magazine. Awad is the author of four books of fiction, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/13-Ways-Looking-Fat-Girl/dp/0143128485">13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl</a>,” which won the Amazon Best First Novel Award, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rouge-Novel-Mona-Awad/dp/1982169699">Rouge</a>,” which was published in 2023. Her new novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/We-Love-You-Bunny-Novel/dp/166805986X">We Love You, Bunny</a>,” will come out in September.

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Mona Awad Reads “The Chartreuse”

Clare Sestanovich reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/natural-history-fiction-clare-sestanovich">Natural History</a>,” from the July 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich is the author of the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Objects-Desire-Stories-Clare-Sestanovich/dp/0593318099">Objects of Desire</a>,” which came out in 2021 and was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ask-Me-Again-Clare-Sestanovich/dp/0593318110">Ask Me Again</a>,” which was published last year.

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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Natural History”

Zadie Smith reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-silence-fiction-zadie-smith">The Silence</a>,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, among others, is the author of two short-story collections and six novels, including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/NW-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0143123939">NW</a>,” “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Swing-Time-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0143111647/">Swing Time</a>,” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fraud-Novel-Zadie-Smith/dp/0525558985">The Fraud</a>,” which was published in 2023.

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Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”

Ottessa Moshfegh reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-comedian-fiction-ottessa-moshfegh">The Comedian</a>,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Moshfegh is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyDFLfb3X3GuX9pHLSGmmg8BHGes1Fid16M7eACzaEg8vXZco9q2">Eileen</a>,” for which she won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2016; “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyM1SV7g1BfkdyU3vcjvm5xtcyNP8HfYDq5HyT16o2TYQZsdsJmv">My Year of Rest and Relaxation</a>”; and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyM4X6DmztF24N1FdoykS6QntETWSdY7m13ksdNRQgebqc2cvP2x">Lapvona</a>,” which came out in 2022.

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Ottessa Moshfegh Reads “The Comedian”

Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/jubilee-fiction-jhumpa-lahiri">Jubilee</a>,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lahiri, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the PEN/Malamud Award, among others, is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyHB2wU5LkwL8M4soJwRsMAF2Rbccmar5Efh8dtjasusUKGXuJWG">Interpreter of Maladies</a>,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyM4X6GQzXoD493yizqe8TYq91yE4CWh7HJGagAf53imq6PWiHkp">Roman Stories</a>,” which was written in Italian and published in English in 2023.

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Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Jubilee”

Han Ong reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/happy-days-fiction-han-ong">Happy Days</a>,” from the June 30, 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 novels, “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyH7WHjcwckpUCkCJk8xrBdUGMwnCrTySnBHs1HJcxP2i2PdHq1x">Fixer Chao</a>” and “<a href="https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyHA9kTYBHF9PxSJiJQwtpoJoy6jBakPfGThUyHVFu9PRW4LAUCv">The Disinherited</a>.”

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Han Ong Reads “Happy Days”

Yiyun Li reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/23/any-human-heart-fiction-yiyun-li">Any Human Heart,</a>” from the June 23, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Must-Go-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/0399589120">Must I Go</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Goose-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250872413">The Book of Goose</a>,” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wednesdays-Child-Stories-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250338387/">Wednesday’s Child</a>,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Things-Nature-Merely-Grow-Yiyun/dp/0374617317">Things in Nature Merely Grow</a>,” was published in May.

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Yiyun Li Reads “Any Human Heart”

Jim Shepard reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/16/the-queen-of-bad-influences-fiction-jim-shepard">The Queen of Bad Influences</a>,” from the June 16, 2025, issue of the magazine. Shepard, a winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, is the author of thirteen books of fiction, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Book-Aron-novel-Jim-Shepard/dp/1101874317">The Book of Aron</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Phase-Six-novel-Jim-Shepard/dp/052565545X">Phase Six</a>” and the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/World-Come-Stories-Jim-Shepard/dp/1524731803">The World to Come</a>.”

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Jim Shepard Reads “The Queen of Bad Influences”

Louise Erdrich reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/love-of-my-days-fiction-louise-erdrich">Love of My Days</a>,” from the June 2, 2025, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including the novels “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Round-House-Novel-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0062065254">The Round House</a>,” which won the National Book Award in 2012, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Night-Watchman-Novel-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0062671197">The Night Watchman</a>,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021, and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Red-Novel-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0063277077/">The Mighty Red</a>,” which was published last year.

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David Wright Faladé Reads “Amarillo Boulevard”

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Rivka Galchen Reads “Unreasonable”

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Pool”

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Bryan Washington Reads "Voyagers!"

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Rachel Cusk Reads “Project”

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Miriam Toews Reads “Something Has Come to Light”

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Kiran Desai Reads "An Unashamed Proposal"

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Anne Enright Reads “The Bridge Stood Fast”

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Mona Awad Reads “The Chartreuse”

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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Natural History”

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Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”

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Ottessa Moshfegh Reads “The Comedian”

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Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Jubilee”

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Han Ong Reads “Happy Days”

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Yiyun Li Reads “Any Human Heart”

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Jim Shepard Reads “The Queen of Bad Influences”

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Louise Erdrich Reads “Love of My Days”