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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

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Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”

Zadie Smith reads her story “The Silence,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, among others, is the author of two short-story collections and six novels, including “NW,” “Swing Time,” and “The Fraud,” which was published in 2023. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

34 min
JUL 2

Ottessa Moshfegh Reads “The Comedian”

Ottessa Moshfegh reads her story “The Comedian,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Moshfegh is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Eileen,” for which she won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2016; “My Year of Rest and Relaxation”; and “Lapvona,” which came out in 2022. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

39 min
JUN 30

Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Jubilee”

Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story “Jubilee,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lahiri, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the PEN/Malamud Award, among others, is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections “Interpreter of Maladies,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, and “Roman Stories,” which was written in Italian and published in English in 2023. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

48 min
JUN 22

Han Ong Reads “Happy Days”

Han Ong reads his story “Happy Days,” from the June 30, 2025, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, Ong is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

1h 2m
JUN 15

Yiyun Li Reads “Any Human Heart”

Yiyun Li reads her story “Any Human Heart,” from the June 23, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” was published in May. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

52 min
JUN 8

Jim Shepard Reads “The Queen of Bad Influences”

Jim Shepard reads his story “The Queen of Bad Influences,” from the June 16, 2025, issue of the magazine. Shepard, a winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, is the author of thirteen books of fiction, including the novels “The Book of Aron” and “Phase Six” and the story collection “The World to Come.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

39 min
JUN 1

Louise Erdrich Reads “Love of My Days”

Louise Erdrich reads her story “Love of My Days,” from the June 2, 2025, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including the novels “The Round House,” which won the National Book Award in 2012, “The Night Watchman,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021, and “The Mighty Red,” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

29 min
MAY 18

Patricia Lockwood Reads “Fairy Pools”

Patricia Lockwood reads her story “Fairy Pools,” from the May 26, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lockwood is a poet, essayist, and novelist. Her memoir “Priestdaddy,” which came out in 2017, won the Thurber Prize, and her first novel, “No One Is Talking About This,” won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2022. A new novel, “Will There Ever Be Another You,” from which this story was adapted, will come out later this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

30 min

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Slow down

May 7

Tree Swan

I like most of the stories, but sometimes the authors read so quickly that I have to slow down the narration. Additionally, some of the authors read their beautiful tales in a dull, robotic way - can they be encouraged to do their stories justice, and put a little inflection or tone into their narrations? I’m not expecting a master orator, but just a little feeling would really enhance the stories’ impact.
A monthly treat

Jun 9

NeelieC-N

I love this podcast so much! Each month brings a new treasure.
Love/Hate the stories

May 22

High Fidelity

Overall, I LOVE this podcast and its companion New Yorker fiction read from the archives. Unlike the other podcast, there’s no discussion about these new stories. This can be a problem for me sometimes. I think I am a well read, university educated person with degrees in science and postgraduate education in business administration. But I truly struggle with some of the selections presented here. As an example, I wish that Debra Treesman or anybody (like maybe the author) would explain to me what I just listened to, and read the transcription of, in “Fairy Pools”. Honest to God, I was completely lost for the entire story. Every time I thought I had started to get a grip on some part of the narrative, the author takes off in another direction and drops you down into another dimension without a hint to help you bridge the gap. Other than the fact that it has to do with a trip to Scotland, I can’t explain anything about the plot or give a sensible summary of the story. Disjointed sentences, no matter how well constructed, still need at least rudimentary structure to make sense. I really want to know what the editor at the New Yorker saw in this particular story that made it worthy of publication.
We’re not so different, you and I

Mar 31

D. Campy

Enjoyable.

New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

Channel

The New Yorker
Creator

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
Years Active

2016 - 2025
Episodes

152
Rating

Explicit
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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker