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The New Yorker: Fiction

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Ep 30Yiyun Li Reads John McGahern

Yiyun Li reads John McGahern's "The Wine Breath." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nov 12, 200938 min

Ep 29Orhan Pamuk Reads Vladimir Nabokov

Orhan Pamuk reads Vladimir Nabokov's "My Russian Education" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 14, 200935 min

Ep 28Marisa Silver Reads Peter Taylor

Marisa Silver reads Peter Taylor's "Porte-Cochere" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 12, 200933 min

Ep 27Joshua Ferris Reads George Saunders

Joshua Ferris reads George Saunders's "Adams" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 11, 200922 min

Ep 26David Bezmozgis Reads Sergei Dovlatov

David Bezmozgis reads Sergei Dovlatov's "The Colonel Says I Love You" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jul 8, 200935 min

Ep 25Jonathan Franzen Reads Veronica Geng

Jonathan Franzen reads Veronica Geng's "Love Trouble Is My Business" and Ian Frazier's "Coyote v. Acme" and discusses them with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jun 2, 200926 min

Ep 24Tobias Wolff Reads Denis Johnson

Tobias Wolff reads Denis Johnson's "Emergency" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 9, 200938 min

Ep 23Nathan Englander Reads Isaac Bashevis Singer

Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Disguised" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apr 10, 200931 min

Ep 22Joyce Carol Oates Reads Eudora Welty

Joyce Carol Oates reads Eudora Welty's short story "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mar 9, 200921 min

Ep 21Roger Angell Reads John Updike

Roger Angell reads John Updike's short story "Playing with Dynamite," and talks with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about editing Updike. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Feb 12, 200935 min

Ep 20Thomas McGuane Reads James Salter

Thomas McGuane reads James Salter's "Last Night," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jan 10, 200933 min

Ep 19Roddy Doyle Reads Maeve Brennan

Roddy Doyle reads Maeve Brennan's short story "Christmas Eve," and discusses Brennan's relationship with Ireland and Doyle's own family, with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dec 12, 200831 min

Ep 18A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson

A. M. Homes reads Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nov 12, 200832 min

Ep 17Gary Shteyngart Reads Andrea Lee

Gary Shteyngart reads Andrea Lee's short story "Brothers and Sisters Around the World," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 9, 200833 min

Ep 16Tobias Wolff Reads Stephanie Vaughn

Tobias Wolff reads Stephanie Vaughn's short story "Dog Heaven," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 12, 200840 min

Ep 15Jeffrey Eugenides Reads Harold Brodkey

Jeffrey Eugenides reads Harold Brodkey's short story "Spring Fugue," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 8, 200824 min

Ep 14Aleksandar Hemon Discusses Bernard Malamud

Aleksandar Hemon discusses Bernard Malamud's short story "A Summer's Reading" with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jul 10, 200827 min

Ep 13Mary Gaitskill Reads Vladimir Nabokov

Mary Gaitskill reads "Symbols and Signs," Vladimir Nabokov's first story published in The New Yorker, and discusses it with fiction editor Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jun 2, 200827 min

Ep 12Hilton Als Discusses Jean Stafford

Invalid Souls: Hilton Als discusses Jean Stafford and her story "Children Are Bored on Sunday" with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Reading by Eliza Foss. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 6, 200836 min

Ep 11Louise Erdrich Reads Lorrie Moore

Louise Erdrich reads Lorrie Moores short story "Dance in America" and discusses Moore with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apr 9, 200831 min

Ep 10Jonathan Lethem Reads James Thurber

Jonathan Lethem reads James Thurber's short story "The Wood Duck" and discusses Thurber with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mar 3, 200818 min

Ep 9T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads Tobias Wolff

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain" and discusses Wolff with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Feb 11, 200819 min

Ep 8E. L. Doctorow Reads John O’Hara

E. L. Doctorow reads John O'Hara's short story "Graven Image" and discusses O'Hara with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jan 7, 200819 min

Ep 7Jhumpa Lahiri Reads William Trevor

Jhumpa Lahiri reads the short story "A Day," by William Trevor, and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Triesman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dec 11, 200737 min

Ep 6Antonya Nelson Reads Mavis Gallant

Antonya Nelson reads Mavis Gallant's short story "When We Were Nearly Young" and discusses Gallant with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nov 5, 200732 min

Ep 5Paul Theroux Reads Jorge Luis Borges

Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Gospel According to Mark" and discusses Borges with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "The Gospel According to Mark" was published in The New Yorker on October 23, 1971. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 8, 200721 min

Ep 4Nell Freudenberger Discusses Grace Paley

Nell Freudenberger discusses Grace Paley's short story "Somewhere Else" with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. The podcast includes a reading of the story by Barbara Rosenblatt. "Somewhere Else" was published in The New Yorker on October 23, 1978. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 10, 200733 min

Ep 3George Saunders Reads Isaac Babel

George Saunders reads Isaac Babel's short story "You Must Know Everything" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 6, 200723 min

Ep 2Donald Antrim Reads Donald Barthelme

Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme's 1974 short story "I Bought a Little City" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jul 9, 200717 min

Ep 1Junot Díaz Reads How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)

Junot Díaz reads a story; Edwidge Danticat and Deborah Treisman discuss. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jun 2, 200717 min

Richard Ford Reads John Cheever

Richard Ford reads "Reunion" by John Cheever. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 4, 200711 min