The New Yorker: Fiction

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-11-02

  Aleksandar Hemon Reads ZZ Packer

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... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-10-01

  Rebecca Makkai Reads Jhumpa Lahiri

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,” ... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-09-01

  Louise Erdrich Reads Karen Russell

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... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-08-01

  David Sedaris Reads George Saunders

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 Ca... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-07-01

  Nathan Englander Reads Chris Adrian

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 ... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-06-01

  André Alexis Reads Alice Munro

André 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. Alexis’s works of fiction include “Fif... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-05-01

  Rachel Cusk Reads Marguerite Duras

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 Whi... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-04-01

  David Bezmozgis Reads Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

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,” w... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-03-01

  Greg Jackson Reads Jennifer Egan

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 Yo... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author
2024-02-01

  Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads Roberto Bolaño

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Labyrinth,” by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. HolyWhiteMountain is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford, and gr... 		  WNYC Studios and The New Yorker author