In July, The New Yorker published its thirtieth story by Tessa Hadley—a higher count that of any other fiction writer in the past two decades. On a recent episode of the New Yorker Radio Hour, the fiction editor Deborah Treisman spoke with Hadley about her genesis as a fiction writer. Hadley’s latest story collection is “After the Funeral.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Aug 28, 2023•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “The End Is Only a Beginning,” which appears in the August 21, 2023, issue of the magazine. Boyle has published more than two dozen books of fiction, including the story collection, “I Walk Between the Raindrops,” and the novel “Blue Skies,” which came out earlier this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 14, 2023•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Karan Mahajan reads his story “The True Margaret,” which appears in the August 14, 2023, issue of the magazine. Mahajan is the author of two novels, “Family Planning” and “The Association of Small Bombs,” which won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award in 2017. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 07, 2023•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jamie Quatro reads her story “Yogurt Days,” which appears in the August 7, 2023, issue of the magazine. Quatro is the author of the story collection “I Want to Show You More” and the novel “Fire Sermon.” A new novel, “Two-Step Devil,” will be published next year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 31, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tessa Hadley reads her story “The Maths Tutor,” which appeared in the July 24, 2023, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published twelve books of fiction, including the novels “Free Love’ and “The Past,” and the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral.” She is a winner of the 2016 Windham Campbell Literature Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 17, 2023•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Camille Bordas reads her story “Colorín Colorado,” which appeared in the July 10 & 17, 2023, 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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 03, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Paul Yoon reads his story “Valley of the Moon,” which appeared in the July 3, 2023, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of four books of fiction, including the story collection “The Mountain” and the novel “Run Me to Earth,” which came out in 2020. A new collection, “The Hive and the Honey,” will be published later this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 26, 2023•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Weike Wang reads her story “Status in Flux,” which appeared in the June 26, 2023, issue of the magazine. Wang is the author of two novels: “Chemistry,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2018, and “Joan Is Okay,” which was published in 2022. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 19, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “ Civil Disturbance ,” which appeared in the June 19, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “ Brief Encounters with the Enemy ,” which was a finalist for the pen /Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction in 2014, and “ American Estrangement ,” which was published in 2021. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices...
Jun 12, 2023•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast George Saunders reads his story “Thursday,” which appeared in the June 12, 2023, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of 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
Jun 05, 2023•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nicole Krauss reads her story “Long Island,” which appeared in the May 22, 2023, issue of the magazine. Krauss is the author of four novels, including “The History of Love” and “Forest Dark.” Her story collection, “To Be a Man,” was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
May 15, 2023•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rebecca Makkai reads her story “The Plaza,” which appeared in the May 8, 2023, issue of the magazine. Makkai is the author of a story collection and four novels, including “The Great Believers,” which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and “I Have Some Questions for You,” which came out in February. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
May 01, 2023•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rachel Cusk reads her story “The Stuntman,” which appeared in the April 24 & May 1, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cusk, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of four nonfiction works and eleven novels, including the “Outline” trilogy and, most recently, “Second Place.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 17, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ben Lerner reads his story “The Ferry,” which appeared in the April 10, 2023, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apr 03, 2023•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sterling HolyWhiteMountain reads his story “False Star,” which appeared in the March 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. HolyWhiteMountain is a former Stegner fellow and current Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and an unrecognized citizen of the Blackfeet Nation. He is at work on a novel. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 13, 2023•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rivka Galchen reads her story “How I Became a Vet,” which appeared in the March 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,” which was published in 2021. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mar 06, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Allegra Goodman reads her story “The Last Grownup,” which appeared in the February 27, 2023, 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, most recently, “Sam,” which came out earlier this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 20, 2023•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Different People,” which appeared in the January 30, 2023, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich’s début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” which came out in 2021, was a finalist PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She was named a “5 Under 35” honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 23, 2023•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Yiyun Li reads her story “Wednesday’s Child,” which appeared in the January 23, 2023, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of two story collections and five novels, including “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” which was published last year. She won the Windham Campbell Literature Prize in 2020. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 16, 2023•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Han Ong reads his story “Hammer Attack,” which appeared in the January 16, 2023, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Berlin Prize, 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
Jan 06, 2023•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Notions of the Sacred,” which appeared in the January 2 & 9, 2022, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of two novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” which was published in 2019, and “White on White,” which came out in 2021. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 26, 2022•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Matthew Klam reads his story “ The Other Party ,” which appeared in the December 19, 2022, issue of the magazine. Klam 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
Dec 12, 2022•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Danielle Dutton reads her story “My Wonderful Description of Flowers,” which appeared in the December 5, 2022, issue of the magazine. Dutton is the co-founder of Dorothy, a publishing project, and the author of three books of fiction, including the novel “Margaret the First.” A new book, “Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other,” will be published in 2024. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 28, 2022•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Louise Erdrich reads her story “The Hollow Children,” which appeared in the November 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently “The Sentence” and “The Night Watchman,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 21, 2022•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “Princess,” which appeared in the November 7, 2022, issue of the magazine. Boyle has published more than two dozen books of fiction, including the novels “Outside Looking In” and “Talk to Me.” his most recent story collection, “I Walk Between the Raindrops,” came out earlier this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 31, 2022•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jonathan Lethem reads his story “Narrowing Valley,” which appeared in the October 31, 2022, issue of the magazine. Lethem’s books of fiction include the story collection “Lucky Alan and Other Stories” and the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published in 2020. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 24, 2022•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marisa Silver reads her story “Tiny Meaningless Things,” which appeared in the October 24, 2022, issue of the magazine. Silver is the author of seven books of fiction, including the story collection “Alone with You,” and the novels “Little Nothing” and “The Mysteries,” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 17, 2022•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Gilbert reads his story “ Come Softly to Me ,” which appeared in the October 17, 2022, issue of the magazine. Gilbert is the author of the story collection “ Remote Feed ,” and two novels, “ & Sons ” and “ The Normals .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 10, 2022•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Thomas McGuane reads his story “Take Half, Leave Half,” which appeared in the October 10, 2022, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the story collections “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories,” which came out in 2018. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 03, 2022•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nicole Krauss reads her story “Shelter,” which appeared in the October 3, 2022, issue of the magazine. Kruass is the author of four novels, including “The History of Love,” and “Forest Dark.” Her story collection, “To Be a Man,” was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 26, 2022•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast