New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
David Rabe reads his story “My Friend Pinocchio,” from the February 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays, including “ Sticks and Bones ,” “ In the Boom Boom Room ,” and “ Hurlyburly .” His books of fiction include “ Recital of the Dog ,” “ Girl by the Road at Night ,” and “ Listening for Ghosts ,” which was published in 2022. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Sheila Heti reads her story “The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea,” from the January 27, 2025, issue of the magazine. Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novel “ Pure Colour ,” which won the Governor General’s Award in 2022, and “ Alphabetical Diaries ,” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Han Ong reads his story “ Ming ,” from the January 20, 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...
Kanak Kapur reads her story “ Prophecy ,” from the January 13, 2025, issue of the magazine. Kapur teaches at Colgate University, where she is an Olive B. O’Connor fellow. Her short fiction has appeared in The Sewanee Review , The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is working on her first novel. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
On this special holiday episode of the Writer’s Voice, we’ll hear a New Year’s story from the archives: “ Signal ,” by John Lanchester, which appeared in the April 3, 2017, issue of the magazine. Lanchester, a journalist and novelist, is the author of six books of fiction, including “ Capital ,” “ The Wall ,” and “ Reality and Other Stories ,” which was published in 2020. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Daisy Hildyard reads her story “ Revision ,” from the December 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hildyard, a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and of one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” awards, is the author of the novels “ Emergency ” and “Hunters in the Snow ,” and of a nonfiction book, “ The Second Body .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Lauren Groff reads her story “Between the Shadow and the Soul,” from the December 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. Groff has published five novels, including “ Fates and Furies ” and “ The Vaster Wilds ,” which came out last year. Her second story collection, “ Florida ,” won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2018. Groff was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
David Szalay reads “Plaster,” from the December 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Szalay is the author of six books of fiction, including “ All That Man Is ,” which won the Plimpton Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016, “ Turbulence ,” and “ Flesh ,” which will be published in April of 2025. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “ Brief Encounters with the Enemy ” and “ American Estrangement ,” a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, which was published in 2021. He has been publishing fiction in the magazine since 2010. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Greg Jackson reads his story “ The Honest Island ,” from the November 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jackson is the author of a story collection, “ Prodigals ,” for which he received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, and a novel, “ The Dimensions of a Cave ,” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Paul Yoon reads his story “ War Dogs ,” from the October 28, 2024, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “ Snow Hunters ” and “ Run Me to Earth ,” and the story collection, “ The Hive and the Honey ,” a winner of the Story Prize, which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Joshua Cohen reads his story “My Camp,” from the October 21st, 2024, issue of the magazine. Cohen’s books include the novels “ Witz ,” “ Moving Kings ,” and “ The Netanyahus ,” which won the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Matthew Klam reads his story “ Hi Daddy ,” from the October 14th, 2024, issue of the magazine. Klam, a winner of the Robert Bingham/PEN Award, is the author of the collection “ Sam the Cat and Other Stories ” and the novel “ Who Is Rich? ,” which was published in 2017. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
The story in the magazine’s October 7th, 2024, issue is “ Stories About Us ” by Lore Segal. Segal wasn’t able to read her story for the podcast. But, in 2010, on the New Yorker Fiction Podcast , Jennifer Egan read and discussed a different story by Lore Segal—“ The Reverse Bug ,” from 1989—and we wanted to share this bonus sampling of Segal’s work with you instead. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Allegra Goodman reads her story “Ambrose,” from the September 30, 2024, issue of the magazine. Goodman has published two story collections and seven novels, including “ Kaaterskill Falls ,” which was a National Book Award Finalist; “ The Chalk Artist ”; and “ Sam ,” which came out last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Hugo Hamilton reads his story “ Autobahn ,” from the September 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hamilton, a winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, is the author of the memoir “ The Speckled People ” and ten novels, including “ Dublin Palms ” and “ The Pages .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Bryan Washington reads his story “ Last Coffeehouse on Travis ,” from the September 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award, Washington is the author of one story collection and two novels, “ Memorial ,” which came out in 2020, and “ Family Meal ,” which was published last year. Be among the first to see the 2024 National Book Awards longlists. Sign up for the magazine's B...
Sigrid Nunez reads her story “ Greensleeves, ” from the September 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Nunez is the author of a memoir and nine novels, including “ The Friend ,” which won the National Book Award in 2018, and “ The Vulnerables ,” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Yiyun Li reads her story “ The Particles of Order ,” from the September 2, 2024, 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 this year’s Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. A new nonfiction book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published next year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Akhil Sharma reads his story “The Narayans,” from the August 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Sharma is the author of the story collection “ A Life of Adventure and Delight ,” and two novels, “ An Obedient Father ,” which was published in 2000 and republished, in a revised version, in 2022, and “ Family Life ,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2016. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
This week’s issue of The New Yorker is an archival issue, and we’d like to accompany it with an episode of the Writer’s Voice featuring an archival story: “ The Naturals ,” by Sam Lipsyte, which was published in the May 5, 2014, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of eight books of fiction, including the story collection “The Fun Parts,” “The Ask,” and “No One Left to Come Looking for You,” which was published in 2022. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Caleb Crain reads his story “ Clay ,” from the August 12, 2024, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors,” which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nell Freudenberger reads her story “ Attila ,” from the August 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Freudenberger is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “Lost and Wanted” and “The Limits,” which was published earlier this year. She was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Fiction Issue in 2010. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Sarah Braunstein reads her story “Abject Naturalism,” from the July 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Braunstein is the author of two novels, “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children” and “Bad Animals,” which was published earlier this year. She is a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Award. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “ Freedom to Move ,” from the July 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of three novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” “White on White,” and “The Anthropologists,” which came out this month. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sally Rooney reads her story “ Opening Theory ,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Rooney is the author of three novels, “Conversations with Friends,” “Normal People,” and “Beautiful World, Where Are You.” A new novel, “Intermezzo,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in September. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Annie Proulx reads her story “ The Hadal Zone ,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Proulx’s works of fiction include the novels “That Old Ace in the Hole” and “Barkskins,” and three collections of Wyoming stories, “Close Range,” “Bad Dirt,” and “Fine Just the Way It Is.” She is a winner of the pen/Faulkner Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, among other awards. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Tessa Hadley reads her story “Vincent’s Party,” from the July 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published twelve books of fiction, including the novel “Free Love” and the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral,” which came out last year. She is a winner of the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Roddy Doyle reads his story “ The Buggy ,” from the June 24, 2024, issue of the magazine. Doyle is the author of sixteen books of fiction, including the Booker Prize-winning novel “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,” and the story collection “Life Without Children.” A new novel, “The Women Behind the Door,” will be published in September. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Camille Bordas reads her story “Chicago on the Seine,” from the June 17, 2024, issue of the magazine. Bordas published two novels in France. Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” came out in 2017, and a new novel, “The Material,” was published this month. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
