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 ,” ...
Mar 01, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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/...
Feb 01, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jan 01, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 cho...
Dec 01, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Aleksandar Hemon joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Drinking Coffee Elsewhere ,” by ZZ Packer, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hemon, a winner of a MacArthur Fellowship and a PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, among others, is the author of eight books, including the novels “ The Lazarus Project ” and “ The World and All It Holds ,” the story collection “ Love and Obstacles ,” and two nonfiction works, “ The Book of My Lives ” and “ My Parents: an Introduction .” Learn about your a...
Nov 02, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rebecca Makkai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ The Third and Final Continent ,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. Makkai is the author of the story collection “ Music for Wartime ” and the novels “ The Borrower ,” “ The Hundred Year House ,” “ The Great Believers ,” for which she won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and “ I Have Some Questions for You ,” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Louise Erdrich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Haunting Olivia ,” by Karen Russell, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Erdrich's novels include “ The Round House ,” which won the National Book Award in 2012, and “ The Night Watchman ,” which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2021. She will publish a new novel, “ The Mighty Red ,” this fall. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Sep 01, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Sedaris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Love Letter ,” by George Saunders, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Sedaris is the author of more than a dozen books of essays, memoirs, and diaries, including, most recently, “A Carnival of Snackery” and “Happy-Go-Lucky.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Aug 01, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nathan Englander joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Every Night for a Thousand Years ,” by Chris Adrian, which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. Englander is the author of five books of fiction, including the novel “ kaddish.com ” and the story collection “ What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank ,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast André Alexis joins Deborah Treisman for a special tribute to Alice Munro, who died in May at age ninety-two. Alexis reads and discusses “ Before the Change ,” by Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1998. Alexis’s works of fiction include “ Fifteen Dogs ,” which won the Giller Prize, “ Days by Moonlight ,” and the story collection “ The Night Piece ,” which was published in 2020. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jun 01, 2024•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rachel Cusk joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Bible" and “The Stolen Pigeons” by Marguerite Duras, which were translated from the French, by Deborah Treisman, and published in *The New Yorker* in 2006 and 2007. Cusk is a winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Award, and is the author of five books of nonfiction and twelve novels, including "Arlington Park," "Outline," "Transit," "Kudos," and "Parade," which will be published in June. Learn about your ad ...
May 01, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Bezmozgis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Likes,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Bezmozgis is a filmmaker and writer. He has published two story collections and two novels, “The Free World,” which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize, and “The Betrayers,” which won the National Jewish Book Award. He was also chosen as one of The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 in 2010. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.o...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Greg Jackson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Safari,” by Jennifer Egan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2010. Jackson has published a story collection, “Prodigals,” and a novel “The Dimension of a Cave,” which was one of The New Yorker 's Best Books of 2023. He has been publishing in the magazine since 2014. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sterling HolyWhiteMountain joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Labyrinth ,” by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. HolyWhiteMountain is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford, and grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep 203•Transcript available on Metacast In the two hundredth episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Rivka Galchen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ The Bees, Part 1 ,” by Aleksandar Hemon, which was published in The New Yorker in 2002. Galchen’s books include the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep 202•Transcript available on Metacast Teju Cole joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ 1=1 ,” by Anne Carson, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Cole’s novels include “Open City” and “Tremor,” which was published this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 01, 2023•53 min•Ep 201•Transcript available on Metacast Margaret Atwood joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Varieties of Exile ,” by Mavis Gallant, which was published in The New Yorker in 1976. Atwood is the author of more than forty books of poetry and fiction, including the novels “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testaments” and the story collection “Old Babes in the Wood,” which was published earlier this year. This is the first episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast to be recorded in front of a live audience. It was taped at the Hot Do...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Ep 200•Transcript available on Metacast Lucinda Rosenfeld joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Returns,” by Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Deborah Treisman, which was published in The New Yorker in 20233. Rosenfeld is the author of five novels, including “I’m So Happy for You” and “Class.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 01, 2023•46 min•Ep 199•Transcript available on Metacast Andrew O’Hagan joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “An Actor Prepares,” by Donald Antrim, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. O’Hagan is the author of six novels, including “The Illuminations” and “Mayflies,” which was published in 2020 and won the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep 198•Transcript available on Metacast David Means joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “ Face Time ,” by Lorrie Moore, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Means is the author of a novel and six story collections, including “Instructions for a Funeral” and “Two Nurses, Smoking,” which came out in 2022. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Aug 01, 2023•1 hr•Ep 197•Transcript available on Metacast George Saunders joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “So Late in the Day,” by Claire Keegan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2022. Saunders is the author of the novel “Lincoln in the Bardo,” and five story collections, including “Tenth of December” and “Liberation Day,” which came out last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 01, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep 196•Transcript available on Metacast Ottessa Moshfegh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother ,” by David Means, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Moshfegh is the author of four novels, including “ My Year of Rest and Relaxation ” and “ Lapvona .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep 195•Transcript available on Metacast Jonas Hassen Khemiri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Slice of Life,” by Vladimir Nabokov, translated from the Russian text of 1925, by Dmitri Nabokov, in collaboration with the author, which was published in The New Yorker in 1976. Khemiri is a Swedish fiction writer and playwright whose novels include “The Family Clause” and “Everything I Don’t Remember.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
May 01, 2023•57 min•Ep 194•Transcript available on Metacast Saïd Sayrafiezadeh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Ill Seen Ill Said,” by Samuel Beckett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1981. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of a memoir and two story collections, the most recent of which, “ American Estrangement ,” was published in 2021. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Apr 01, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep 193•Transcript available on Metacast We’re pleased to announce that “In The Dark,” the acclaimed investigative podcast from American Public Media, is joining The New Yorker and Condé Nast Entertainment. In its first two seasons, “In The Dark,” hosted by the reporter Madeleine Baran, has taken a close look at the criminal-justice system in America. The first season examined the abduction and murder, in 1989, of eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling, and exposed devastating failures on the part of law enforcement. The second season focuss...
Mar 09, 2023•19 min•Ep 192•Transcript available on Metacast Claire-Louise Bennett joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Family Walls ,” by Maeve Brennan, which was published in The New Yorker in 1973. Bennett has published two books of fiction, “Pond” and “Checkout 19.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep 191•Transcript available on Metacast Clare Sestanovich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ The Moons of Jupiter ” by Alice Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1978. Sestanovich’s story collection, “Objects of Desire,” was published in 2021. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Feb 01, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep 190•Transcript available on Metacast Gary Shteyngart joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Omakase,” by Weike Wang, which was published in *The New Yorker* in 2018. Shteyngart is the author of five novels including, most recently, “Lake Success” and “Our Country Friends.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 01, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep 189•Transcript available on Metacast Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ Seeing Ershadi ,” by Nicole Krauss, which was published in The New Yorker in 2018. Ma is the author of the novel “ Severance ” and the story collection “ Bliss Montage ,” which came out in September. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Dec 01, 2022•59 min•Ep 188•Transcript available on Metacast Jamil Jan Kochai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “ All Will Be Well ,” by Yiyun Li, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Kochai is the author of two books, the novel “99 Nights in Logar,” which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the story collection “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak,” which is a finalist for the National Book Award. He is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep 187•Transcript available on Metacast 
