The New Yorker: Fiction

Nathan Englander Reads John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jennifer Egan reads Mary Gaitskill's "The Other Place." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

T. C. Boyle reads two short stories by Donald Barthelme: “Game” and “The School.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Paul Theroux reads "The Letter Writers," by Elizabeth Taylor, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1958. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jonathan Safran Foer reads Amos Oz's "The King of Norway," which first appeared in The New Yorker in 2011. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this month's fiction podcast, Louise Erdrich reads "Mastiff," by Joyce Carol Oates, which appeared in the magazine in 2013. Erdrich's latest book, "The Round House," won the National Book Award in 2012. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

On this month's fiction podcast, Jonathan Lethem reads "The Rescue," by V. S. Pritchett, which was first published in The New Yorker in 1973 and can be found in Pritchett's "Complete Collected Stories." (Lethem's most recent fiction in the magazine, "The Gray Goose," was excerpted from his new novel, "Dissident Gardens.") In his discussion with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, Lethem says that Pritchett is a "total sorcerer," a writer who lets readers into a world that seems stable and then "pulls the rug out from under" them, changing where the story is going and what they think of the characters. "The Rescue," which is narrated by a sixteen-year-old girl whose mother brings home an awkward boy named Ellis to help her plan the town's annual pageant, is, according to Lethem, a perfect model for the way Pritchett tends to "overturn expectations." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Rick Bass reads "Ice," by Thomas McGuane. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Donald Antrim reads "Work," by Denis Johnson. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Gary Shteyngart reads "Paper Losses," by Lorrie Moore. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices