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

JUL 1

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
JUN 1

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

44 min
MAY 1

Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor

Yiyun Li joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Piano Tuner’s Wives,” by William Trevor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1995. Li has published eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “Book of Goose,” a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction work, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published this month. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 11m
APR 1

David Wright Faladé Reads Madeleine Thien

David Wright Faladé joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Lu, Reshaping,” by Madeleine Thien, which was published in The New Yorker in 2021. Falade is the author of the novels “Black Cloud Rising” and “The New Internationals,” and the nonfiction work “Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers.” He’s been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2020. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 17m
MAR 1

Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett

Paul Theroux joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1958. Theroux’s nonfiction books include “The Great Railway Bazaar” and “On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey.” A winner of the James Tait Black Award and the Whitbread Prize, he has published thirty-nine books of fiction, including the novels “The Mosquito Coast” and “Burma Sahib” and the story collections “Mr. Bones” and “The Vanishing Point,” which came out earlier this year. He has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1979. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 5m
FEB 1

Anne Enright Reads John McGahern

Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Sierra Leone,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Enright, a winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, among others, has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “Yesterday’s Weather” and the novels “Actress” and “The Wren, The Wren.” She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2000. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 8m
JAN 1

Jennifer Egan Reads Margaret Atwood

Jennifer Egan joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Kat,” by Margaret Atwood, which was published in The New Yorker in 1990. Egan’s books of fiction include “The Keep,” “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” “Manhattan Beach,” and “The Candy House.” She is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, among other honors. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1989. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 7m
12/01/2024

Ayşegül Savaş Reads Tessa Hadley

Ayşegül Savaş joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “An Abduction,” by Tessa Hadley, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. Savaş has published three novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” “White on White,” and “The Anthropologists,” and one nonfiction book, “The Wilderness,” an essay and memoir about the first forty days of motherhood. A collection of stories, “Long Distance,” will come out in 2025. She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2019. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 25m

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Deborah Treisman

Host
Edwidge Danticat

Guest
Paul Theroux

Guest
Anne Enright

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Nathan Englander

Guest
André Alexis

Guest
David Bezmozgis

Guest
Greg Jackson

Guest
Roberto Bolaño

Guest
Rivka Galchen

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Wonderful distraction

Jun 27

storyteller/educator

You can count on being taken out of your here and now to go on a journey into another life and time. The farther back the episodes go the more rewarding the stories are. This age of having to broadcast one’s identity groups constantly has diminished the pleasure of a good story. I do enjoy Deborah’s insights and on more than one occasion you can hear how the guest reader has no clue what Deborah saw. “I hadn’t thought of that!” from the guest reader tells me that he or she probably mailed in the effort. And I do agree: the readers whose first language is not English can read stories like they are proving that they can read English.
Almost but not quite

May 11

Webuyevrykidmovie

Agree with the reviews that 1) Not every author is a great reader. Some are unlistenable, as much as I want to hear the story and 2) we need many more Black and brown authors and stores. MANY more.
Variety and Diversity

Mar 21

PisceanPainter

I’ve really enjoyed these readings but I find myself waiting for more Black and Brown voices and stories. There is a very large and rich canon to choose from, shouldn’t be hard to find.
Two years on

May 10

mwalukere

Great stories. What a treat. Waiting for more black, brown, indigenous and Palestinian writers pleas.