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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
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Mohammed Naseehu Ali reads his story “Allah Have Mercy” from the April 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Ali is the author of “The Prophet of Zongo Street,” a story collection, which came out in 2005. He teaches undergraduate fiction in N.Y.U.’s Creative Writing department.
Zach Williams reads his story “Neighbors” from the March 25, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. His début story collection, “Beautiful Days,” will be published in June.
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “The Time Being” from the March 18, 2024, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Netherland,” which won the pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, in 2009, and “The Dog.” A new novel, “Godwin,” will be published in June. 
Fiona McFarlane reads her story “Hostel” from the March 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. McFarlane is the author of two novels and a story collection, “The High Places,” which was awarded the International Dylan Thomas Prize, in 2017. A new collection, “Highway Thirteen,” will be published in August.
Thomas Korsgaard reads his story “The Spit of Him” from the March 4, 2024, issue of the magazine. Korsgaard is the author of three novels and two story collections, as well as several works for children. In 2021, at age twenty-six, he became the youngest writer ever to receive Denmark’s Golden Laurels prize.
Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “On the Night of the Khatam” from the February 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Kochai is the author of the novel “99 Nights in Logar” and the collection “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022 and won the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize.
Addie Citchens reads her story “That Girl,” from the February 12 & 19, 2024, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, New Orleans-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. She has published work in the Oxford American and The Paris Review, among other places.
Patrick Langley reads his story “Life with Spider,” from the February, 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Langley is the author of two novels, “Arkady” and “The Variations,” which came out in the U.K. last year, and will be published in the U.S. on February 20th.
David Means reads his story “Chance the Cat,” from the January 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and six story collections, including “Instructions for a Funeral” and “Two Nurses Smoking,” which was published in 2022.
Joy Williams reads her story “The Beach House,” from the January 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams, a winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, is the author of five story collections, including “Ninety-Nine Stories of God” and “The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories,” and five novels, such as “Harrow,” which was published in 2021.
On a special, archival New Year’s episode, Greg Jackson reads his story “Wagner in the Desert,” from the July 21, 2014, issue of the magazine, in which a group of old friends convene in Palm Springs, California, for the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Jackson, a winner of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, is the author of the story collection “Prodigals” and the novel “The Dimensions of a Cave,” which was published in October, 2023.
Rivka Galchen reads her story “Crown Heights North,” from the January 1 & 8, 2024, 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.”
Caleb Crain reads his story “Keats at Twenty-Four,” from the December 11, 2023, 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.
Teju Cole reads his story “Incoming,” which appears in the December 4, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cole, a winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Windham Campbell Literature Prize, is a novelist, critic, curator, and essayist. His novel “Tremor” was published earlier this year and a new book, “Pharmakon,” a collection of prose pieces and photographs, will be published in 2024. 
The story in The New Yorker’s November 27, 2023, issue is “Beauty Contest,” by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Steven Snyder. Ogawa was not able to read her story for The Writer’s Voice, but, on a recent episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, the writer Madeleine Thien read and discussed Ogawa’s 2004 story “The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain,” and we wanted to share that episode with you instead. We hope you enjoy it. 
Sheila Heti reads her story “According to Alice,” which appears in the November 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. Heti wrote this story in collaboration with a customizable chatbot on the Chai AI platform, which she began engaging in conversation in 2022. Heti is the author of seven books, including the novels “Motherhood,” which was short-listed for the Giller Prize, and “Pure Color,” which won the Governor General’s Award last year.
Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Our Time Is Up,” which appears in the November 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich’s début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021, was a finalist for the PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize, and she was named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022. 
Junot Díaz reads his story “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara,” which appears in the November 6, 2023, issue of the magazine. Díaz is the author of the story collections “Drown” and “This Is How You Lose Her,” and the novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2008. 
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.”
Mary Costello reads her story “The Choc-Ice Woman,” which appears in the October 16, 2023, issue of the magazine. Costello is the author of three books of fiction, including “Academy Street,” which won the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and the novel “The River Capture,” which came out in 2019.
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Elizabeth King

This one was really not for me. The story seemed so plodding and obvious and the writing was mediocre.

Feb 18th
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Elizabeth King

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!

Feb 18th
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Sarah Kitty

I loved this story. Great to hear it in the writer's voice.

Sep 8th
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Ayn Carey

great story! so rare to hear an author who is also a superb narrator.

May 9th
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Ayn Carey

Cusk has written an essay and dressed it as a short story. a good one to skip.

Apr 23rd
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Yamil

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.

Mar 7th
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Ayn Carey

wonderful story!

Oct 20th
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Zohan

Extremely loud and starting audio glitch at 17:40, severely unprofessional

Oct 16th
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Martha Morrison

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!

Oct 16th
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Khumbo Mhone

this story chilled me to the bone. Especially since we get no real answers as to how this couple ends up there

Mar 29th
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Caroline H

loved this

Mar 6th
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Jacqui Davies

I love Sestanovich's work. A wonderful story but she becomes inaudible at the end of every sentence...too frustrating to fully enjoy.

Dec 21st
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Forough Feizbakhsh

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.

Jul 4th
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Ayn Carey

great story! Thank you, Sam

Jun 30th
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Ricky Kruger

wow,that was so fantastic. so chilling.i wake up worried about my mortality , haha .

Jun 4th
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Laura Lavallee

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.

Jun 3rd
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Ayn Carey

excellent story. T.C. Boyle is an amazing writer. I read everything he publishes and mostly love everything.

Mar 13th
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Tracy Santimaw

Love TC Boyle, he's been on my radar since the very first time I'd heard him. He's amazing 🥰

Mar 12th
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Ricky Kruger

that was absolutely amazing . wow.

Feb 23rd
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Tracy Santimaw

Loved this story ❤ had to share it with my daughter.. Reminded me of how grown-up a 12 year old young child can be.

Jan 28th
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