New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
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2025-03-23 | Bryan Washington reads his story “Hatagaya Lore,” from the March 31, 2025, 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 aut... |
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2025-03-16 | Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “The Frenzy,” from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than seventy books of fiction, including the n... |
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2025-03-09 | Yiyun Li reads her story, “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies,” from the March 17, 2025, 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... |
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2025-03-02 | Colm Tóibín reads his story “Five Bridges,” from the March 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Tóibín, a winner of the Folio Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others, has published eleven novels, including “Brooklyn,” “The Magician,” and “L... |
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2025-02-23 | Joseph O’Neill reads his story “Keuka Lake,” from the March 3rd, 2025, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and five novels, including “Netherland,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2009, “The Dog,” and “G... |
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2025-02-10 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads her story “Chuka,” from the February 17 and February 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Adichie’s novels include “Half of a Yellow Sun,” which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and “Americanah,” a winner of the National Boo... |
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2025-02-02 | 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 “R... |
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2025-01-19 | 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 Diarie... |
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2025-01-12 | 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 abo... |
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2025-01-05 | 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. Sh... |
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