The New Yorker: Fiction

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Episodes

Joshua Ferris Reads Robert Coover

Joshua Ferris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Robert Coover’s “Going for a Beer,” from a 2011 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 01, 2015•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Thomas McGuane Reads David Means

Thomas McGuane joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss David Means’s “The Tree Line, Kansas, 1934,” from a 2010 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apr 02, 2015•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Etgar Keret Reads Donald Barthelme

Etgar Keret joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Donald Barthelme’s “Chablis,” from a 1983 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mar 03, 2015•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Antonya Nelson Reads Tom Drury

Antonya Nelson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Tom Drury’s “Accident at the Sugar Beet,” from a 1992 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Feb 03, 2015•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Joseph O’Neill Reads Muriel Spark

Joseph O’Neill joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Muriel Spark’s “The Ormolu Clock,” from a 1960 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dec 31, 2014•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Aleksandar Hemon Reads Vladimir Nabokov

Aleksandar Hemon joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Vladimir Nabokov’s “Pnin,” from a 1953 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dec 01, 2014•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast

David Gilbert Reads Steven Polansky

David Gilbert joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Steven Polansky’s “Leg,” from a 1994 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nov 04, 2014•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast

George Saunders Reads Grace Paley And Barry Hannah

George Saunders joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Grace Paley’s “Love,” from a 1979 issue of the magazine, and Barry Hannah’s “The Wretched Seventies,” from a 1996 issue. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Oct 01, 2014•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Akhil Sharma Reads Tobias Wolff

Akhil Sharma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Tobias Wolff’s “The Night In Question,” from a 1996 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 30, 2014•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Joyce Carol Oates Reads Cynthia Ozick

Joyce Carol Oates joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl,” from a 1980 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 30, 2014•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Miranda July Reads Janet Frame

Miranda July joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Janet Frame’s “Prizes,” from a 1962 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 30, 2014•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Rebecca Curtis Reads Leonard Michaels

Rebecca Curtis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Leonard Michaels’s “The Penultimate Conjecture,” from a 1999 issue of the magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 30, 2014•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Tim Parks Reads Peter Stamm

Tim Parks reads Peter Stamm. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 30, 2014•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Nathan Englander Reads John Cheever

Nathan Englander Reads John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sep 30, 2014•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Jennifer Egan Reads Mary Gaitskill

Jennifer Egan reads Mary Gaitskill's "The Other Place." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mar 04, 2014•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast

T. C. Boyle Reads Donald Barthelme

T. C. Boyle reads two short stories by Donald Barthelme: “Game” and “The School.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Feb 04, 2014•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Paul Theroux Reads Elizabeth Taylor

Paul Theroux reads "The Letter Writers," by Elizabeth Taylor, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1958. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jan 03, 2014•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Jonathan Safran Foer Reads Amos Oz

Jonathan Safran Foer reads Amos Oz's "The King of Norway," which first appeared in The New Yorker in 2011. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dec 03, 2013•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Louise Erdrich Reads Joyce Carol Oates

On this month's fiction podcast, Louise Erdrich reads "Mastiff," by Joyce Carol Oates, which appeared in the magazine in 2013. Erdrich's latest book, "The Round House," won the National Book Award in 2012. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nov 02, 2013•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Jonathan Lethem Reads V. S. Pritchett

On this month's fiction podcast, Jonathan Lethem reads "The Rescue," by V. S. Pritchett, which was first published in The New Yorker in 1973 and can be found in Pritchett's "Complete Collected Stories." (Lethem's most recent fiction in the magazine, "The Gray Goose," was excerpted from his new novel, "Dissident Gardens.") In his discussion with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, Lethem says that Pritchett is a "total sorcerer," a writer who lets readers into a world that seems st...

Oct 02, 2013•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast

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Episodes

The New Yorker: Fiction

Episodes

Joshua Ferris Reads Robert Coover

Thomas McGuane Reads David Means

Etgar Keret Reads Donald Barthelme

Antonya Nelson Reads Tom Drury

Joseph O’Neill Reads Muriel Spark

Aleksandar Hemon Reads Vladimir Nabokov

David Gilbert Reads Steven Polansky

George Saunders Reads Grace Paley And Barry Hannah

Akhil Sharma Reads Tobias Wolff

Joyce Carol Oates Reads Cynthia Ozick

Miranda July Reads Janet Frame

Rebecca Curtis Reads Leonard Michaels

Tim Parks Reads Peter Stamm

Nathan Englander Reads John Cheever

Jennifer Egan Reads Mary Gaitskill

T. C. Boyle Reads Donald Barthelme

Paul Theroux Reads Elizabeth Taylor

Jonathan Safran Foer Reads Amos Oz

Louise Erdrich Reads Joyce Carol Oates

Jonathan Lethem Reads V. S. Pritchett

Rick Bass Reads Thomas McGuane

Donald Antrim Reads Denis Johnson

Gary Shteyngart Reads Lorrie Moore

Robert Coover Reads Italo Calvino

Richard Ford Reads Harold Brodkey

Margaret Atwood Reads Mavis Gallant

Edwidge Danticat Reads Jamaica Kincaid

Francisco Goldman Reads Roberto Bolano

Tony Earley Reads William Maxwell

Hisham Matar Reads Jorge Luis Borges