The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
Zach Williams Reads “Neighbors”
Zach Williams reads his story “Neighbors” from the March 25, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. His début story collection, “Beautiful Days,” will be published in June.
Mar 18
30 min
Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Time Being”
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “The Time Being” from the March 18, 2024, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Netherland,” which won the pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, in 2009, and “The Dog.” A new novel, “Godwin,” will be published in June.
Mar 11
33 min
Fiona McFarlane Reads “Hostel”
Fiona McFarlane reads her story “Hostel” from the March 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. McFarlane is the author of two novels and a story collection, “The High Places,” which was awarded the International Dylan Thomas Prize, in 2017. A new collection, “Highway Thirteen,” will be published in August.
Mar 4
27 min
Thomas Korsgaard Reads “The Spit of Him”
Thomas Korsgaard reads his story “The Spit of Him” from the March 4, 2024, issue of the magazine. Korsgaard is the author of three novels and two story collections, as well as several works for children. In 2021, at age twenty-six, he became the youngest writer ever to receive Denmark’s Golden Laurels prize.
Feb 26
33 min
Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “On the Night of the Khatam”
Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “On the Night of the Khatam” from the February 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Kochai is the author of the novel “99 Nights in Logar” and the collection “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022 and won the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize.
Feb 19
34 min
Addie Citchens Reads “That Girl”
Addie Citchens reads her story “That Girl,” from the February 12 & 19, 2024, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, New Orleans-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. She has published work in the Oxford American and The Paris Review, among other places.
Feb 5
47 min
Patrick Langley Reads “Life with Spider”
Patrick Langley reads his story “Life with Spider,” from the February, 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Langley is the author of two novels, “Arkady” and “The Variations,” which came out in the U.K. last year, and will be published in the U.S. on February 20th.
Jan 29
52 min
David Means Reads “Chance the Cat”
David Means reads his story “Chance the Cat,” from the January 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and six story collections, including “Instructions for a Funeral” and “Two Nurses Smoking,” which was published in 2022.
Jan 15
37 min
Joy Williams Reads “The Beach House”
The author reads her story from the January 15, 2024, issue of the magazine.
Jan 8
28 min
Greg Jackson Reads “Wagner in the Desert”
On a special archival New Years episode, the author reads his story from the July 21, 2014, issue of the magazine.
Jan 1
42 min
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