
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
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4 snips
Jul 3, 2023 • 54min
Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado”
Camille Bordas reads her story “Colorín Colorado,” which appeared in the July 10 & 17, 2023, 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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Jun 26, 2023 • 45min
Paul Yoon Reads “Valley of the Moon”
Paul Yoon reads his story “Valley of the Moon,” which appeared in the July 3, 2023, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of four books of fiction, including the story collection “The Mountain” and the novel “Run Me to Earth,” which came out in 2020. A new collection, “The Hive and the Honey,” will be published later this year.
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Jun 19, 2023 • 27min
Weike Wang Reads “Status in Flux”
Weike Wang reads her story “Status in Flux,” which appeared in the June 26, 2023, issue of the magazine. Wang is the author of two novels: “Chemistry,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2018, and “Joan Is Okay,” which was published in 2022.
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Jun 12, 2023 • 30min
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Civil Disturbance”
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Civil Disturbance,” which appeared in the June 19, 2023, 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 in 2021.
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Jun 5, 2023 • 49min
George Saunders Reads “Thursday”
George Saunders reads his story “Thursday,” which appeared in the June 12, 2023, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of five story collections, including “Tenth of December” and “Liberation Day,” which came out last year.
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May 15, 2023 • 46min
Nicole Krauss Reads “Long Island”
Nicole Krauss reads her story “Long Island,” which appeared in the May 22, 2023, issue of the magazine. Krauss is the author of four novels, including “The History of Love” and “Forest Dark.” Her story collection, “To Be a Man,” was published in 2020 and won the Wingate Literary Prize.
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May 1, 2023 • 51min
Rebecca Makkai Reads “The Plaza”
Rebecca Makkai reads her story “The Plaza,” which appeared in the May 8, 2023, issue of the magazine. Makkai is the author of a story collection and four novels, including “The Great Believers,” which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award, and “I Have Some Questions for You,” which came out in February.
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Apr 17, 2023 • 59min
Rachel Cusk Reads “The Stuntman”
Rachel Cusk reads her story “The Stuntman,” which appeared in the April 24 & May 1, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cusk, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of four nonfiction works and eleven novels, including the “Outline” trilogy and, most recently, “Second Place.”
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Apr 3, 2023 • 38min
Ben Lerner Reads “The Ferry”
Ben Lerner reads his story “The Ferry,” which appeared in the April 10, 2023, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.
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Mar 13, 2023 • 41min
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads “False Star”
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain reads his story “False Star,” which appeared in the March 20, 2023, issue of the magazine. HolyWhiteMountain is a former Stegner fellow and current Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, and an unrecognized citizen of the Blackfeet Nation. He is at work on a novel.
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