Podcast · 27 episodes
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
by The New Yorker · English
New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.
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Joyce Carol Oates Reads "Lost Child"Joyce Carol Oates reads “Lost Child,” a story framed by narrator Deborah Treisman describing her friend Catherine Carpenter’s decades-old, anniversary-triggered account of a childhood disappearance…13 Sep 2026 · 39 min
Hisham Matar Reads "New Shoes"Hisham Matar reads his New Yorker story “New Shoes,” about an Egyptian younger brother living in London who receives repeated claims that he’s been spotted in Cairo, triggering guilt, paranoia, and a…6 Sep 2026 · 32 min
Helen Simpson Reads “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub”Helen Simpson reads her New Yorker story “Lub Dub Lub Dub,” following Tracey as she attends a cardiac-arrest workshop, reflects on mortality and family health history, and then experiences a sudden…30 Aug 2026 · 21 min
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Joyce Carol Oates Reads "Lost Child"Joyce Carol Oates reads “Lost Child,” a story framed by narrator Deborah Treisman describing her friend Catherine Carpenter’s decades-old, anniversary-triggered account of a childhood disappearance…13 Sep 2026 · 39 min · 10 chapters
Hisham Matar Reads "New Shoes"Hisham Matar reads his New Yorker story “New Shoes,” about an Egyptian younger brother living in London who receives repeated claims that he’s been spotted in Cairo, triggering guilt, paranoia, and a…6 Sep 2026 · 32 min · 4 chapters
Helen Simpson Reads “Lub Dub Lub Dub Lub Dub”Helen Simpson reads her New Yorker story “Lub Dub Lub Dub,” following Tracey as she attends a cardiac-arrest workshop, reflects on mortality and family health history, and then experiences a sudden…30 Aug 2026 · 21 min · 7 chapters
Madhuri Vijay Reads "Hidden Life"Madhuri Vijay reads “Hidden Life,” a story about Nidhi, 14, whose mother becomes pregnant again and then miscarries, sending Nidhi to stay with her great-aunt Jaya in Chennai.16 Aug 2026 · 1 h 6 min · 16 chapters
Rachel Yoder Reads "The Promise"The Writer’s Voice episode features Rachel Yoder reading her New Yorker fiction story “The Promise,” centered on a young Mennonite girl, Bertie, staying with her aunts and grandmother on a farm while…2 Aug 2026 · 34 min · 9 chapters
Sheila Heti Reads "Earthly Delights"Sheila Heti reads “Earthly Delights,” a New Yorker fiction story about adolescent longing, a lifelong fixation on a man (Pierre), and an afterlife reunion where lust and desire are both fulfilled and…26 Jul 2026 · 29 min · 5 chapters
Min Jin Lee Reads “Testing”Min Jin Lee reads “Testing,” a New Yorker fiction story about Korean college-exam pressure (Sunung), family sacrifice, and the emotional cost of repeated failure—ending with a pivot toward studying…19 Jul 2026 · 54 min · 12 chapters
Bryan Washington Reads “Gatekeeping”A recurring airport job—wheeling passengers through security and gates—becomes a lens on love, caregiving, sexuality, and prejudice.12 Jul 2026 · 59 min · 22 chapters
Will Mackin Reads "Pig Lab"Deborah Treisman introduces Will Mackin reading his New Yorker story “Pig Lab.” The episode centers on a U.S.28 Jun 2026 · 34 min · 6 chapters
Ben Lerner Reads “The Readers”Ben Lerner reads and discusses his essay “The Readers,” centered on therapy boundaries, the fear that reading/writing affects intimacy, and how his open-heart surgery reframed his relationship to his…21 Jun 2026 · 38 min · 13 chapters
Andrea Bajani Reads “Constellation”Andrea Bajani reads his New Yorker fiction story “Constellation,” adapted from his novel The Anniversary.7 Jun 2026 · 38 min · 7 chapters
Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai”Jamil Jan Kochai reads “The Twice-Widowed Khala Hilei,” a story set during an Afghan women’s gathering (khatam) after a husband’s death, where grief, survival, and shifting loyalties surface through…1 Jun 2026 · 29 min · 5 chapters
Taiye Selasi Reads “Firstborn Immigrant Daughter”Tayeh Selassie reads “First Born Immigrant Daughter,” a fictional address to a firstborn daughter of immigrant parents, arguing that immigrants, migrants, and expats are different categories; that…31 May 2026 · 23 min · 4 chapters
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Many Worlds”Ayesha Gul Savesh reads “Many Worlds,” a story about Defne and Mete, Turkish doctoral students who return to Istanbul and move in with Alexei, a philosophy dropout whose worldview shifts from…24 May 2026 · 39 min · 7 chapters
Weike Wang Reads “The Dreamdrive”Waikie Wang reads her New Yorker fiction story “The Dream Drive,” about a man whose insomnia turns into an endless, foggy drive in which he panics he’s fallen asleep at the wheel, wakes in bed, then…17 May 2026 · 30 min · 7 chapters
Chang-rae Lee Reads “Standings”Chang-Rae Lee reads “Standings,” a coming-of-age story about bullying, ethnic slurs, escalating playground violence, and the lasting consequences of one boy’s attempted revenge.3 May 2026 · 58 min · 15 chapters
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Process of Elimination”A barista named Tamerlan Thompson is fired for “stealing” a tip jar shortly after the Boston Marathon bombing, and his name similarity to Tamerlan Tsarnaev fuels suspicion; he pursues unemployment…26 Apr 2026 · 39 min · 13 chapters
Thomas McGuane Reads “Ordinary Wear and Tear”Thomas McGuane reads “Ordinary Wear and Tear,” a fiction story about two longtime friends, Carl and Jed, whose lives unravel after Jed sleeps with Carl’s wife, Shirley Crane, during Carl’s divorce.19 Apr 2026 · 50 min · 12 chapters
Douglas Stuart Reads "A Private View"Douglas Stuart reads “A Private View,” a story about a gay art-world insider (David’s husband) escorting his alcoholic, estranged mother (Jean) through a museum’s private viewing of an Italian…12 Apr 2026 · 44 min · 13 chapters
Catherine Lacey Reads "Rate Your Happiness"Catherine Lacey reads “Rate Your Happiness,” a story about Louise, who faints on a plane and meets Bruce, a Mount Sinai nurse.5 Apr 2026 · 48 min · 18 chapters
Cassandra Neyenesch Reads "Enough for Now"Cassandra Nynish reads “Enough for Now,” a fiction story about Martha, a solitary backpacker on a Chinese train and later in hostels, whose brief romance with Dutch traveler Joost (“Yost”) turns into…29 Mar 2026 · 35 min · 18 chapters
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads "Floating"Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor at The New Yorker22 Mar 2026 · 25 min · 2 chapters
Han Ong Reads “My Balenciaga”The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker15 Mar 2026 · 53 min · 15 chapters
Addie Citchens Reads "The City Is a Graveyard”Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor at The New Yorker8 Mar 2026 · 26 min · 6 chapters