Jennifer Egan joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Kat, by Margaret Atwood, which was published in The New Yorker in 1990. Egans 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 choice...
Jan 01, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ayegl Sava joins Deborah Treisman to discuss An Abduction , by Tessa Hadley, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. Sava 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/a...
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 ad choices: dovetail....
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-choices...
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 Andr 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. Alexiss 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 ch...
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.org/ad-...
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 Bolao, 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•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. Galchens 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•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. Coles 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•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 Handmaids 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 Docs podcast...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 19 min•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 Im So Happy for You and Class. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 01, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andrew OHagan joins Deborah Treisman to discuss An Actor Prepares, by Donald Antrim, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. OHagan 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•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•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•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•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 Dont Remember. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
May 01, 2023•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sad 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•Transcript available on Metacast Were pleased to announce that In The Dark, the acclaimed investigative podcast from American Public Media, is joining The New Yorker and Cond 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 focussed on ...
Mar 09, 2023•19 min•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•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. Sestanovichs 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•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•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•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•Transcript available on Metacast Madeleine Thien joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain , by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder, which was published in The New Yorker in 2004. Thiens books include the novels Dogs at the Perimeter and Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which won the Governor Generals Literary Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Oct 01, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Elif Batuman joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Truth and Fiction , by Sylvia Townsend Warner, which was published in The New Yorker in 1961. Batuman is the author of one book of nonfiction, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, and two novels, The Idiot and Either/Or, which was published earlier this year. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
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