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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Feb 14, 2022 • 43min
Kate Folk Reads “Out There”
In a special episode of the Writer’s Voice podcast, Kate Folk reads her story “Out There,” which ran in the magazine two years ago, in the March 23, 2020, issue. Folk’s recording session at the time was cancelled due to the pandemic lockdown. Folk was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. Her first book, the story collection “Out There,” will be published next month.
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Feb 7, 2022 • 55min
Lauren Groff Reads “Annunciation”
Lauren Groff reads her story “Annunciation,” from the February 14 & 21, 2022, issue of the magazine. Groff has published four novels, including “Arcadia,” “Fates and Furies,” and most recently “Matrix,” which came out last year. Her second story collection “Florida,” which was published in 2018, won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Jan 31, 2022 • 47min
Alexander MacLeod Reads “Once Removed”
Alexander MacLeod reads his story “Once Removed,” from the February 7, 2022, issue of the magazine. MacLeod is the author of the story collection “Light Lifting,” which was published in 2010 and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. His second story collection, “Animal Person,” will be published in April.
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Jan 24, 2022 • 32min
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Long Distance”
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Long Distance,” from the January 31, 2022, issue of the magazine. Savaş’s first novel, “Walking on the Ceiling,” was published in 2019, and her second novel, “White on White,” came out last year.
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