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

Lotte said, “I have not told Alana or Minnie that I’ve died. I thought awhile before telling Sam, but he was fine. He was really very good about it, my poor Sam.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Kirsten’s commute is when she really focusses on whether she has the power to destroy Lucy Headrick’s life. Yes, the question hums in the background at other moments, like when Kirsten is at the grocery store and sees a cooking magazine with Lucy on the cover—it’s just so fucking weird how famous Lucy is—but it’s in the car that Kirsten thinks through, in a realistic way, which steps she’d take.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“Love, in all forms, had turned into a kind of regret.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“She found it hurtful to see other people’s smiling, healthy families or, even worse, to hear about lives that seemed as fragile as her own.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

"It was a mystery to me how Svetlana generated so many opinions. Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact. Meanwhile, I went from class to class, read hundreds—thousands—of pages of the distilled ideas of the great thinkers of human history, and nothing happened." Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Yiyun Li reads her story “On The Street Where You Live,” from the January 9, 2017, issue of the magazine.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“Within the hour, he’d packed and left, and, although it’s true that things hadn’t been great between us for a while—we’d run out of things to say to each other, and our silences were, frankly, boring—I would have appreciated a little notice, a little time to get used to the idea of breaking up before the breakup’s implementation.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“The poet Mark McCain received an e-mail inviting him to sign a ‘poetition’ requesting that President Obama pardon Edward Snowden.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“The schoolmarm’s just showing off again, making their brains ache, unrepentant criminal that she is.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

“What is it about me that people need breaks from? she asks the dog, who looks as though she wants to say something but, out of innate gentleness, refrains.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices