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The New Yorker: Fiction

The New Yorker

236 episodes

A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

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  1. Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff

    · 1 h 04 min · Episode 3

    Colm Tóibín joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Awaiting Orders,” by Tobias Wolff, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Tóibín, who is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet, has won the…

  2. Min Jin Lee Reads Wendi Kaufman

    · 1 h 04 min · Episode 2

    Min Jin Lee joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. A recipient of the Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence, Lee is the author of three…

  3. Mohsin Hamid Reads Haruki Murakami

    · 1 h 33 min · Episode 1

    Mohsin Hamid joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Man-Eating Cats,” by Haruki Murakami, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hamid is the author of five novels, including “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” “Exit…

  4. Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane

    · 1 h 05 min

    Paul Yoon joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Hostel,” by Fiona McFarlane, which was published in The New Yorker in 2024. Yoon was one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” in 2010, and has published five books…

  5. Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya

    · 1 h 25 min

    Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Fugitive,” by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Ong is the author of numerous plays and of the novels “The Disinherited” and “Fixer Chao.”…

  6. Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber

    · 1 h 29 min

    Sarah Shun-lien Bynum joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Evolution,” by Joan Silber, which was published in The New Yorker in 2022. Bynum is the author of the novels “Madeleine Is Sleeping,” a National Book Award…

  7. Valeria Luiselli Reads Julio Cortázar

    · 1 h 14 min

    Valeria Luiselli joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Night Face Up,” by Julio Cortázar, which was published in The New Yorker in 1967. Luiselli is the author of five books, including the nonfiction book “Tell Me How…

  8. Daniyal Mueenuddin Reads Peter Taylor

    · 1 h 05 min

    Daniyal Mueenuddin joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Two Pilgrims,” by Peter Taylor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1963. Mueenuddin is the author of the novel “This Is Where the Serpent Lives,” which was…

  9. Tessa Hadley Reads John McGahern

    · 1 h 25 min

    Tessa Hadley joins Deborah Treisman to read “Gold Watch,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1980. Hadley has published thirteen books of fiction, including the story collections “Bad Dreams”…

  10. Bryan Washington Reads Yiyun Li

    · 1 h 19 min

    Bryan Washington joins Deborah Treisman to read “A Small Flame,” by Yiyun Li, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Washington, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is the…

  11. Miriam Toews Reads Raymond Carver

    · 1 h 04 min

    Miriam Toews joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Elephant,” by Raymond Carver, which was published in The New Yorker in 1986. Toews has published ten books, including the novels “A Complicated Kindness,” which…

  12. Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace

    · 1 h 09 min

    Adam Levin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Backbone,” by David Foster Wallace, which was published in The New Yorker in 2011. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is…

  13. Karen Russell Reads Louise Erdrich

    · 52 min

    Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Stone,” by Louise Erdrich, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections…

  14. Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson

    · 1 h 33 min

    Victor Lodato joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” by Denis Johnson, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Lodato is a playwright and the author of the novels “Edgar and…

  15. Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick

    · 1 h 14 min · Explicit

    Lauren Groff joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Faithful,” by Elizabeth Hardwick, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Groff’s works of fiction include the novels “Fates and Furies” and “Matrix,”…

  16. Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin

    · 51 min · Explicit

    Souvankham Thammavongsa joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Size of Things,” by Samanta Schweblin (translated, from the Spanish, by Megan McDowell), which was published in The New Yorker in 2017.…

  17. Edwidge Danticat Reads Zadie Smith

    · 46 min · Explicit

    Edwidge Danticat joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Men Arrive in a Village,” by Zadie Smith, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Danticat, a MacArthur Fellow and a winner of the Vilcek Prize in…

  18. Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor

    · 1 h 13 min

    Yiyun Li joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Piano Tuner’s Wives,” by William Trevor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1995. Li has published eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go”…

  19. David Wright Faladé Reads Madeleine Thien

    · 1 h 19 min · Explicit

    David Wright Faladé joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Lu, Reshaping,” by Madeleine Thien, which was published in The New Yorker in 2021. Falade is the author of the novels “Black Cloud Rising” and “The New…

  20. Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett

    · 35 min

    Paul Theroux joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1958. Theroux’s nonfiction books include “The Great Railway Bazaar” and “On the Plain…

  21. Anne Enright Reads John McGahern

    · 1 h 10 min · Explicit

    Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Sierra Leone,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Enright, a winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Man…

  22. Jennifer Egan Reads Margaret Atwood

    · 1 h 10 min · Explicit

    Jennifer Egan joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Kat,” by Margaret Atwood, which was published in The New Yorker in 1990. Egan’s books of fiction include “The Keep,” “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” “Manhattan…

  23. Ayşegül Savaş Reads Tessa Hadley

    · 1 h 27 min · Explicit

    Ayşegül Savaş joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “An Abduction,” by Tessa Hadley, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. Savaş has published three novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” “White on White,” and “The…

  24. Aleksandar Hemon Reads ZZ Packer

    · 1 h 19 min

    Aleksandar Hemon joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” by ZZ Packer, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hemon, a winner of a MacArthur Fellowship and a PEN/W. G. Sebald…

  25. Rebecca Makkai Reads Jhumpa Lahiri

    · 1 h 21 min

    Rebecca Makkai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Third and Final Continent,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. Makkai is the author of the story collection “Music for…

  26. Louise Erdrich Reads Karen Russell

    · 1 h 15 min

    Louise Erdrich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” by Karen Russell, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Erdrich's novels include “The Round House,” which won the National Book…

  27. David Sedaris Reads George Saunders

    · 49 min

    David Sedaris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Love Letter,” by George Saunders, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Sedaris is the author of more than a dozen books of essays, memoirs, and…

  28. Nathan Englander Reads Chris Adrian

    · 1 h 07 min

    Nathan Englander joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Every Night for a Thousand Years,” by Chris Adrian, which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. Englander is the author of five books of fiction,…

  29. André Alexis Reads Alice Munro

    · 1 h 41 min · Explicit

    André Alexis joins Deborah Treisman for a special tribute to Alice Munro, who died in May at age ninety-two. Alexis reads and discusses “Before the Change,” by Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1998.…

  30. Rachel Cusk Reads Marguerite Duras

    · 57 min

    Rachel Cusk joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "The Bible" and “The Stolen Pigeons” by Marguerite Duras, which were translated from the French, by Deborah Treisman, and published in *The New Yorker* in 2006 and…

  31. David Bezmozgis Reads Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

    · 1 h 11 min

    David Bezmozgis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Likes,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Bezmozgis is a filmmaker and writer. He has published two story collections…

  32. Greg Jackson Reads Jennifer Egan

    · 1 h 17 min

    Greg Jackson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Safari,” by Jennifer Egan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2010. Jackson has published a story collection, “Prodigals,” and a novel “The Dimension of a…

  33. Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads Roberto Bolaño

    · 1 h 11 min · Episode 203

    Sterling HolyWhiteMountain joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Labyrinth,” by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. HolyWhiteMountain is a…

  34. Rivka Galchen Reads Aleksandar Hemon

    · 1 h 09 min · Episode 202

    In the two hundredth episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Rivka Galchen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Bees, Part 1,” by Aleksandar Hemon, which was published in The New Yorker in 2002. Galchen’s…

  35. Teju Cole Reads Anne Carson

    · 55 min · Episode 201

    Teju Cole joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “1=1,” by Anne Carson, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Cole’s novels include “Open City” and “Tremor,” which was published this year. Learn more…

  36. Margaret Atwood Reads Mavis Gallant, Live

    · 1 h 21 min · Episode 200

    Margaret Atwood joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Varieties of Exile,” by Mavis Gallant, which was published in The New Yorker in 1976. Atwood is the author of more than forty books of poetry and fiction,…

  37. Lucinda Rosenfeld Reads Annie Ernaux

    · 48 min · Episode 199

    Lucinda Rosenfeld joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Returns,” by Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Deborah Treisman, which was published in The New Yorker in 20233. Rosenfeld is the author of five…

  38. Andrew O’Hagan Reads Donald Antrim

    · 1 h 18 min · Episode 198

    Andrew O’Hagan joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “An Actor Prepares,” by Donald Antrim, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. O’Hagan is the author of six novels, including “The Illuminations” and “Mayflies,”…

  39. David Means Reads Lorrie Moore

    · 1 h 03 min · Episode 197

    David Means joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Face Time,” by Lorrie Moore, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Means is the author of a novel and six story collections, including “Instructions for a…

  40. George Saunders Reads Claire Keegan

    · 1 h 13 min · Episode 196

    George Saunders joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “So Late in the Day,” by Claire Keegan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2022. Saunders is the author of the novel “Lincoln in the Bardo,” and five…

  41. Ottessa Moshfegh Reads David Means

    · 1 h 03 min · Episode 195

    Ottessa Moshfegh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother,” by David Means, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Moshfegh is the author of four novels, including “My…

  42. Jonas Hassen Khemiri Reads Vladimir Nabokov

    · 59 min · Episode 194

    Jonas Hassen Khemiri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Slice of Life,” by Vladimir Nabokov, translated from the Russian text of 1925, by Dmitri Nabokov, in collaboration with the author, which was published…

  43. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

    · 1 h 19 min · Episode 193

    Saïd Sayrafiezadeh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Ill Seen Ill Said,” by Samuel Beckett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1981. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of a memoir and two story collections,…

  44. Introducing: “In The Dark”

    · 21 min · Episode 192

    We’re pleased to announce that “In The Dark,” the acclaimed investigative podcast from American Public Media, is joining The New Yorker and Condé Nast Entertainment. In its first two seasons, “In The Dark,” hosted by…

  45. Claire-Louise Bennett Reads Maeve Brennan

    · 1 h 16 min · Episode 191

    Claire-Louise Bennett joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Family Walls,” by Maeve Brennan, which was published in The New Yorker in 1973. Bennett has published two books of fiction, “Pond” and “Checkout 19.”…

  46. Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro

    · 1 h 14 min · Episode 190

    Clare Sestanovich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Moons of Jupiter” by Alice Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1978. Sestanovich’s story collection, “Objects of Desire,” was published in…

  47. Gary Shteyngart Reads Weike Wang

    · 1 h 10 min · Episode 189

    Gary Shteyngart joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Omakase,” by Weike Wang, which was published in *The New Yorker* in 2018. Shteyngart is the author of five novels including, most recently, “Lake Success” and…

  48. Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss

    · 1 h 01 min · Episode 188

    Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Seeing Ershadi,” by Nicole Krauss, which was published in The New Yorker in 2018. Ma is the author of the novel “Severance” and the story collection “Bliss Montage,”…

  49. Jamil Jan Kochai Reads Yiyun Li

    · 1 h 03 min · Episode 187

    Jamil Jan Kochai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “All Will Be Well,” by Yiyun Li, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Kochai is the author of two books, the novel “99 Nights in Logar,” which was a…

  50. Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

    · 1 h 13 min · Episode 186

    Madeleine Thien joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain,” by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder, which was published in The New Yorker in…

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