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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

    Zach Williams Reads “Neighbors”

    Zach Williams Reads “Neighbors”

    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.

    • 30 min
    Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Time Being”

    Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Time Being”

    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. 

    • 33 min
    Fiona McFarlane Reads “Hostel”

    Fiona McFarlane Reads “Hostel”

    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.

    • 27 min
    Thomas Korsgaard Reads “The Spit of Him”

    Thomas Korsgaard Reads “The Spit of Him”

    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.

    • 33 min
    Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “On the Night of the Khatam”

    Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “On the Night of the Khatam”

    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.

    • 34 min
    Addie Citchens Reads “That Girl”

    Addie Citchens Reads “That Girl”

    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.

    • 47 min

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