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

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Mar 5, 2019 • 35min

Yiyun Li Reads "All Will Be Well"

Yiyun Li reads her story "All Will Be Well," from the March 11, 2019, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of two story collections and three novels, "The Vagrants," "Kinder Than Solitude," and "Where Reasons End," which was published last year.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Feb 26, 2019 • 33min

Jonathan Lethem Reads "The Starlet Apartments"

Jonathan Lethem reads his short story from the March 4, 2019, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction, including the novels "The Fortress of Solitude," "A Gambler's Anatomy," and "The Feral Detective," which was published last year.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Feb 12, 2019 • 20min

Leïla Slimani Reads "The Confession"

Leïla Slimani reads her short story from the February 18 & 25, 2019, issue of the magazine. Slimani is the author of the novel "The Perfect Nanny," which won the Prix Goncourt in France in 2016 and was published in the U.S. last year. Another novel. "Adele," was published here in January. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Feb 5, 2019 • 36min

T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads "Asleep at the Wheel"

T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his short story from the February 11, 2019, issue of the magazine. Boyle is the author of more than two dozen books of fiction, including the novels "The Terranauts" and "The Harder They Come." A new novel, "Outside Looking In," will be published in April. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Jan 29, 2019 • 42min

Emma Cline Reads "What Can You Do With a General"

Emma Cline reads her short story from the February 4, 2019, issue of the magazine. Cline's first novel, "The Girls," was published in 2016. She is a winner of The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize, and was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, in 2017. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Jan 15, 2019 • 43min

Salvatore Scibona Reads "Do Not Stop"

Salvatore Scibona reads his short story from the January 21, 2019, issue of the magazine. Scibona's first novel, "The End," was a finalist for the National Book Award and a winner of the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His second novel, "The Volunteer," from which this story was adapted, will be published in March.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Jan 1, 2019 • 40min

Taymour Soomro Reads "Philosophy of the Foot"

Taymour Soomro reads his short story from the January 7, 2019, issue of the magazine. This is Soomro's first fiction publication. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Dec 18, 2018 • 56min

Mary Gaitskill Reads "Acceptance Journey"

Mary Gaitskill reads her short story from the December 24 & 31, 2018, issue of the magazine. Gaitskill is the author of three novels and three story collections, including "Because They Wanted To" and "Don't Cry." Her novel "Veronica" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2005. Her most recent book is the essay collection "Somebody With a Little Hammer." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Dec 11, 2018 • 47min

Linn Ullmann Reads "Time for the Eyes to Adjust"

Linn Ullmann reads her short story from the December 17, 2018, issue of the magazine. Ullmann is the author of six novels, including "A Blessed Child" and "The Cold Song." "Time for the Eyes to Adjust" is adapted from her novel "Unquiet," which will be published in English in 2019. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Dec 4, 2018 • 23min

Joy Williams Reads "Chaunt"

Joy Williams reads her short story from the December 10, 2018, issue of the magazine. Williams is the author of four novels and five story collections, including "Ninety-Nine Stories of God" and "The Visiting Privilege." She won the Rea Award for the Short Story in 1999. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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