The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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May 16, 2022 • 32min

Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “Occupational Hazards”

Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “Occupational Hazards,” from the May 23, 2022, issue of the magazine. Kochai’s first novel, “99 Nights in Logar,” was published in 2019 and was a finalist for the pen/Hemingway Award. His story collection, “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories,” will come out in July. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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May 9, 2022 • 40min

Mohsin Hamid Reads “The Face in the Mirror”

Mohsin Hamid reads his story “The Face in the Mirror,” from the May 16th, 2022, issue of the magazine. Hamid is the author of four novels, including “How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia” and “Exit West,” a winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize. A new novel, “The Last White Man,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in August Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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May 2, 2022 • 35min

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nondisclosure Agreement”

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Nondisclosure Agreement,” from the May 9th, 2022, 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 last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Apr 18, 2022 • 51min

Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”

Elif Batuman reads her story “The Repugnant Conclusion,” from the April 25 & May 2, 2022, issue of the magazine. Batuman is the author of “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them” and the novel “The Idiot,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. “The Repugnant Conclusion” was adapted from her second novel, “Either/Or,” which will be published in May.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Apr 11, 2022 • 28min

Sheila Heti Reads “Just a Little Fever”

Sheila Heti reads her story “Just a Little Fever,” from the April 18, 2022, issue of the magazine. Heti is a Canadian writer, whose books of fiction and nonfiction include the novels “How Should a Person Be,” “Motherhood,” which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and “Pure Colour,” which was published earlier this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Apr 4, 2022 • 27min

Kevin Barry Reads “The Pub with No Beer”

Kevin Barry reads his story “The Pub with No Beer,” from the April 11, 2022, issue of the magazine. Barry is the author of six books of fiction, including the novel “City of Bohane,” for  which he won the International Dublin Literary Award, and, most recently, the story collection “That Old Country Music,” which was published in 2020. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Mar 21, 2022 • 49min

Tessa Hadley Reads “After the Funeral”

Tessa Hadley reads her story “After the Funeral,” from the March 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “Bad Dreams and Other Stories, ” and the novel “Free Love,” which came out this year. She is a winner of the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Mar 14, 2022 • 35min

Zach Williams Reads “Wood Sorrel House”

Zach Williams reads his story “Wood Sorrel House,” from the March 21, 2022, issue of the magazine. Williams is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is working on a collection of short stories. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Feb 28, 2022 • 34min

Camille Bordas Reads “One Sun Only”

Camille Bordas reads her story “One Sun Only,” from the March 7, 2022, 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
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Feb 21, 2022 • 44min

Claire Keegan Reads “So Late in the Day”

Claire Keegan reads her story “So Late in the Day,” from the February 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Keegan is the author of four books, including the novella “Foster,” which appeared in abridged form in *The New Yorker*, and, most recently, the novel “Small Things Like These,” which was published last year. She is a winner of the William Trevor Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, among others.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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