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A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

JAN 1

Bryan Washington Reads Yiyun Li

Bryan Washington joins Deborah Treisman to read “A Small Flame,” by Yiyun Li, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Washington, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of the story collection “Lot” and the novels “Memorial,” “Family Meal,” and “Palaver,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2025. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 17m
12/01/2025

Miriam Toews Reads Raymond Carver

Miriam Toews joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Elephant,” by Raymond Carver, which was published in The New Yorker in 1986. Toews has published ten books, including the novels “A Complicated Kindness,” which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction; “All My Puny Sorrows,” “Women Talking,” and “Fight Night”—and the memoir “A Truce That Is Not Peace.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 2m
11/01/2025

Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace

Adam Levin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Backbone,” by David Foster Wallace, which was published in The New Yorker in 2011. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of the story collection “Hot Pink” and the novels “The Instructions,” “Bubblegum,” and “Mount Chicago.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 6m
10/01/2025

Karen Russell Reads Louise Erdrich

Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Stone,” by Louise Erdrich, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” and “Orange World and Other Stories” and the novels “Swamplandia!,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012, and “The Antidote,” which came out earlier this year and was long-listed for the National Book Award. Russell, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, was included in the magazine’s “20 Under 40” Fiction Issue in 2010. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

49 min
09/01/2025

Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson

Victor Lodato joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” by Denis Johnson, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Lodato is a playwright and the author of the novels “Edgar and Lucy,” “Mathilda Savitch,” the winner of the PEN USA Award for fiction, and “Honey,” which came out in 2024. He has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2012. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 31m
08/01/2025

Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick

Lauren Groff joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Faithful,” by Elizabeth Hardwick, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Groff’s works of fiction include the novels “Fates and Furies” and “Matrix,” both of which were finalists for the National Book Award, and “The Vaster Wilds,” which was published in 2023. A new story collection, “Brawler,” will come out in February of 2026. In 2024, she opened the bookstore The Lynx, in Gainesville, Florida. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 12m
07/01/2025

Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin

Souvankham Thammavongsa joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Size of Things,” by Samanta Schweblin (translated, from the Spanish, by Megan McDowell), which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian writer. Her publications include the poetry collections “Light” and “Cluster” and the story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” which won the Giller Prize in 2020. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2021. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

49 min
06/01/2025

Edwidge Danticat Reads Zadie Smith

Edwidge Danticat joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Men Arrive in a Village,” by Zadie Smith, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Danticat, a MacArthur Fellow and a winner of the Vilcek Prize in Literature, has published six books of fiction, including “Breath, Eyes, Memory,” “The Farming of Bones,” “Claire of the Sea Light,” and “Everything Inside.” Her memoir “Brother, I’m Dying” won the National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1999. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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09/22/2025

EpOtis

Some kind of compression or ducking is causing the beginnings of sentences or paragraphs of reading to be cut off, typically the chapter titles are incomprehensible. Why is no one checking the recordings before releasing these?
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Jan 9

SA happy

I have been a sometime subscriber to The New Yorker and what I always checked first was the Fiction. I occasionally loved what I read but just as often was bored or disaffected with it— and I took that as a sign that the editors were doing their job well, trying to reach many story fans and also reach new readers. Because I find the short story an endlessly fascinating genre, combining some of my favorite features of both poetry and literary fiction, I was delighted to find this podcast, with a rich back catalog of episodes. The concept of it is absolutely genius! Take a well established author, or perhaps a relatively newly successful one, and invite them to choose a story from the New Yorker archive to read aloud. Have the Editor of New Yorker fiction section introduce both author/reader and the story/story author. Listen to the reading. Discuss. What you get is both the delight of being read aloud to by an experienced and knowledgeable reader, and a richly grounded conversation about the story and its author’s writing style. I have learned SO much from Deborah Treisman and her guests! The episode on 6/1/24 is one of my favorites so far: André Alexis reads Alice Munro, after she had passed away. He chose such a sophisticated Munro story and he also gets Treisman to speak a bit about what her own relationship to Munro was. Don’t miss it!
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12/07/2025

Elmo Pete

I’m a podcast junky and these are my favorite. The stories themselves are excellent but the conversations about them are equally interesting. Thank you for entertaining and educating me.
Poverty and dysfunctional families…

12/02/2025

honolululistenet

Had high hopes for an uplifting episode for the Holiday /Christmas season…