The New Yorker: Fiction

Colin Barrett joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Stuff" by Joy Williams, from a 2016 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

David Sedaris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "Leopard," by Wells Tower from a 2008 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Last month, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Fiction Podcast, we asked you to vote for your favorite episode from our first ten years. The winner was an episode from 2012, in which David Sedaris read and discussed "Roy Spivey," by Miranda July. This is a re-release of that podcast. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Extra,” by Yiyun Li from a 2003 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Lauren Groff joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Shirley Hazzard’s “In These Islands,” from a 1990 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Matthew Klam joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss John Updike’s “Twin Beds in Rome,” from a 1964 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Curtis Sittenfeld joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Tessa Hadley’s “The Surrogate,” from a 2003 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Akhil Sharma reads and discusses “Baster,” by Jeffrey Eugenides. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Gabe Hudson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Robert Coover’s “The Frog Prince,” from a 2014 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Colm Tóibín reads and discusses “In The Middle of The Fields,” by Mary Lavin. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Rachel Kushner reads and discusses “The Black Lights,” by Thom Jones. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Salman Rushdie reads and discusses “Love Far From Home,” by Italo Calvino Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mary Gaitskill reads and discusses “The Five-Forty-Eight,” by John Cheever. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Junot Díaz reads and discusses "Seven," by Edwidge Danticat. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Richard Powers reads and discusses “A Visit,” by Steven Millhauser Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

David Means reads and discusses “The Toughest Indian in the World,” by Sherman Alexie. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ben Marcus reads and discusses "A Dream of Men," by Mary Gaitskill. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Mavis Gallant’s “From the Fifteenth District,” from a 1978 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Annie Proulx joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss J. F. Powers’s “A Losing Game,” from a 1955 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Alice Mattison reads "The First American" by Lore Segal. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ben Lerner joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss John Berger’s “Woven, Sir,” from a 2001 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Karl Ove Knausgaard joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss V. S. Naipaul's “Jack's Garden,” from a 1986 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dana Spiotta joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Joy Williams’s “Chicken Hill,” from a 2015 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Frank O'Connor's "The Masculine Principle," from a 1950 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Beginning March 21, you’ll be able to hear the stories that appear in The New Yorker, read by their authors, on our new podcast, The Author’s Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker. For this special, one-time preview episode of the podcast, we’ve put together an anthology of recent readings. First, you’ll hear Michael Cunningham reading his updated fairy tale “Little Man”; next will be Zadie Smith reading her story “Escape from New York”; and, finally, Tom Hanks reading his fiction piece “Alan Bean Plus Four.” If you like what you hear, don’t forget to subscribe to The Author’s Voice on your podcast app. Next week’s episode will feature Ian McEwan reading his latest story. We’ll be back here next month with a new episode of The New Yorker Fiction Podcast. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jonathan Franzen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss David Means's "The Spot," from a 2006 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Kevin Barry joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Brian Friel's "The Saucer of Larks," from a 1960 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Rivka Galchen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Cafeteria," from a 1968 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Andrew O'Hagan joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Edna O'Brien's "The Widow," from a 1989 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Lydia Davis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Robert Gorham Davis's “Then We’ll Set it Right,” from a 1943 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Allan Gurganus joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Grace Paley’s “My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age,” from a 2002 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Lionel Shriver joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss T. C. Boyle’s “Chicxulub,” from a 2004 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sam Lipsyte joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss James Purdy’s “About Jessie Mae,” from a 1957 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Yiyun Li joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Patricia Highsmith’s “The Trouble with Mrs. Blynn, the Trouble with the World,” from a 2002 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Michael Cunningham joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Harold Brodkey’s “Dumbness Is Everything,” from a 1996 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Joshua Ferris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Robert Coover’s “Going for a Beer,” from a 2011 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Thomas McGuane joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss David Means’s “The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934,” from a 2010 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Etgar Keret joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Donald Barthelme’s “Chablis,” from a 1983 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Antonya Nelson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Tom Drury’s “Accident at the Sugar Beet,” from a 1992 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Joseph O’Neill joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Muriel Spark’s “The Ormolu Clock,” from a 1960 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aleksandar Hemon joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pnin,” from a 1953 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

David Gilbert joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Steven Polansky’s “Leg,” from a 1994 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

George Saunders joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Grace Paley’s “Love,” from a 1979 issue of the magazine, and Barry Hannah’s “The Wretched Seventies,” from a 1996 issue. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Akhil Sharma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Tobias Wolff’s “The Night In Question,” from a 1996 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Joyce Carol Oates joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl,” from a 1980 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Miranda July joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Janet Frame’s “Prizes,” from a 1962 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Rebecca Curtis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Leonard Michaels’s “The Penultimate Conjecture,” from a 1999 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Tim Parks reads Peter Stamm. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nathan Englander Reads John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jennifer Egan reads Mary Gaitskill's "The Other Place." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices