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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
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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” awards, is the author of the novels “Emergency” and “Hunters in the Snow,” and of a nonfiction book, “The Second Body.”
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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,” which came out last year. Her second story collection, “Florida,” won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2018. Groff was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People this year.
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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 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016, “Turbulence,” and “Flesh,” which will be published in April of 2025.
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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 been publishing fiction in the magazine since 2010.
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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 Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, and a novel, “The Dimensions of a Cave,” which was published last year.
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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 story collection, “The Hive and the Honey,” a winner of the Story Prize, which was published last year.
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1Joshua 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 Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize.
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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 Stories” and the novel “Who Is Rich?,” which was published in 2017.
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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, Jennifer Egan read and discussed a different story by Lore Segal—“The Reverse Bug,” from 1989—and we wanted to share this bonus sampling of Segal’s work with you instead.
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Allegra Goodman reads her story “Ambrose,” from the September 30, 2024, 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 “Sam,” which came out last year.
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Hugo Hamilton reads his story “Autobahn,” from the September 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hamilton, a winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, is the author of the memoir “The Speckled People” and ten novels, including “Dublin Palms” and “The Pages.”
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Bryan Washington reads his story “Last Coffeehouse on Travis,” from the September 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award, Washington is the author of one story collection and two novels, “Memorial,” which came out in 2020, and “Family Meal,” which was published last year.Be among the first to see the 2024 National Book Awards longlists. Sign up for the magazine's Books and Fiction newsletter, where you’ll also receive early access to new short stories, plus essays and criticism.
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Sigrid Nunez reads her story “Greensleeves,” from the September 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Nunez is the author of a memoir and nine novels, including “The Friend,” which won the National Book Award in 2018, and “The Vulnerables,” which was published last year.
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Yiyun Li reads her story “The Particles of Order,” from the September 2, 2024, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. A new nonfiction book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published next year.
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Akhil Sharma reads his story “The Narayans,” from the August 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Sharma is the author of the story collection “A Life of Adventure and Delight,” and two novels, “An Obedient Father,” which was published in 2000 and republished, in a revised version, in 2022, and “Family Life,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2016.
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This week’s issue of The New Yorker is an archival issue, and we’d like to accompany it with an episode of the Writer’s Voice featuring an archival story: “The Naturals,” by Sam Lipsyte, which was published in the May 5, 2014, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of eight books of fiction, including the story collection “The Fun Parts,” “The Ask,” and “No One Left to Come Looking for You,” which was published in 2022.
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Caleb Crain reads his story “Clay,” from the August 12, 2024, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors,” which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019.
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Nell Freudenberger reads her story “Attila,” from the August 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Freudenberger is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Lost and Wanted” and “The Limits,” which was published earlier this year. She was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Fiction Issue in 2010.
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Sarah Braunstein reads her story “Abject Naturalism,” from the July 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Braunstein is the author of two novels, “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children” and “Bad Animals,” which was published earlier this year. She is a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Award.
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Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Freedom to Move,” from the July 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of three novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” “White on White,” and “The Anthropologists,” which came out this month.
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It never got better. No respect for words.
One minute 30 and I'm already bored. The New Yorker needs a new fiction editor.
Trash for manchildren. No, thank you.
This one was really not for me. The story seemed so plodding and obvious and the writing was mediocre.
This is such an excellent story. Compelling storytelling, elegant writing, and characters and setting that had so much depth and leapt from the page. More from this author!
I loved this story. Great to hear it in the writer's voice.
great story! so rare to hear an author who is also a superb narrator.
Cusk has written an essay and dressed it as a short story. a good one to skip.
I'm surprised this story made the cut on the New Yorker. Usually, I like or dislike stories but find that even disliking a story the New Yorker provides me with material to think about. This story was the absolute opposite... there's nothing in the characters, plot, or setting that would even make me spend a minute on it but to prevent others from wasting their time in listening. Or actually, do listen if you like to hear a bad short story and learn how not to write.
wonderful story!
Extremely loud and starting audio glitch at 17:40, severely unprofessional
I think probably it's well-written, but I couldn't get past the narration. Completely monotone. No distinction between people talking, nor between sentences & paragraphs. Seriously, this podcast needs to be like the fiction one - the stories read by other people! The best way to ruin a good story or poem is through bad narration!
this story chilled me to the bone. Especially since we get no real answers as to how this couple ends up there
loved this
I love Sestanovich's work. A wonderful story but she becomes inaudible at the end of every sentence...too frustrating to fully enjoy.
after listening to this, I got her book: Isidore et les autres. I couldn't put it down. reminded me of Salinger's Franny and Zoe. It was perfect.
great story! Thank you, Sam
wow,that was so fantastic. so chilling.i wake up worried about my mortality , haha .
IS IT ME? MONOTONED I can't enjoy this story because the author/ reader drops her voice down to a whisper after every sentence! It's very hard to hear the last couple words. I am very frustrated and I am so turned off.
excellent story. T.C. Boyle is an amazing writer. I read everything he publishes and mostly love everything.