Yiyun Li Reads “The Particles of Order”

Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Crooked House”: Jonathan Lethem reads his story from the March 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of seventeen books of fiction, including the novels “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Feral Detective,” and, most recently, “The Arrest,” which was published la by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Imbolo Mbue Reads “The Case for and Against Love Potions”: Imbolo Mbue reads her story from the March 22, 2021, issue of the magazine. Mbue is the author of two novels, “Behold the Dreamers,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and “How Beautiful We Were,” which was published this month. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Karen Russell Reads “The Ghost Birds”: Karen Russell reads her story “The Ghost Birds,” from the October 11, 2021, issue of the magazine. Russell is the author of five books of fiction, including the story collection “Orange World,” which was published in 2019, and the novel “Swamplandia,” wh by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Margaret Atwood Reads “Old Babes in the Wood”: Margaret Atwood reads her story from the April 26 & May 3, 2021, issue of the magazine. Atwood has published more than two dozen books of fiction, including the story collection “Stone Mattress,” and the novels “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Testamen by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Rachel Heng Reads “Before the Valley”: Rachel Heng reads her story from the June 7, 2021, issue of the magazine. Heng is the author of the novel “Suicide Club,” which was a national bestseller in Singapore and has been translated into ten languages. A new novel, “The Great Reclamation,” will by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Camille Bordas Reads “Offside Constantly”: Camille Bordas reads her story from the June 28, 2021, issue of the magazine. Bordas has published two novels in France, “Les Treize Desserts” and “Partie Commune.” Her first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” was published in 2017. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Han Ong Reads “The Monkey Who Speaks”: Han Ong reads his story “The Monkey Who Speaks,” from the September 13, 2021, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinhe by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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George Saunders Reads “The Mom of Bold Action”: George Saunders reads his story “The Mom of Bold Action,” from the August 30, 2021, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Man Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel, “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of four story collections, including “CivilWarLan by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Shape of a Teardrop”: T.Coraghessan Boyle reads his story from the March 15, 2021, issue of the magazine. Boyle is the author of more than two dozen books of fiction, including “The Terranauts” and “Outside Looking In.” A new book, “Talk to Me,” will be published in September by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Clare Sestanovich Reads “Separation”: Clare Sestanovich reads her story from the April 12, 2021, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich will publish her début story collection, “Objects of Desire,” in June. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads “Featherweight”: Sterling HolyWhiteMountain reads his story from the April 5, 2021, issue of the magazine. HolyWhiteMountain is a former Stegner Fellow and current Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. He is an unrecognized citizen of the Blackfeet Nation. He is at work by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Future Selves”: Ayşegül Savaş reads her story from the March 29, 2021, issue of the magazine. Savaş’s first novel, “Walking on the Ceiling,” was published in 2019. Her second novel, “White on White,” will be published this year. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Emma Cline Reads “The Iceman”: Emma Cline reads her story “The Iceman,” from the August 23, 2021, issue of the magazine. Cline’s first novel, “The Girls,” a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, came out in 2016, and her story collection, “Daddy,” was published last year. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Thomas McGuane Reads “Not Here You Don’t”: Thomas McGuane reads his story “Not Here You Don’t,” from the October 18, 2021, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including “Gallatin Canyon,” “Crow Fair,” and “Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories,” which by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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hurmat kazmi Reads “Selection Week”: hurmat kazmi reads their story “Selection Week,” from the August 16, 2021, issue of the magazine. kazmi, a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, is a writer from Karachi, Pakistan, who lives and teaches in Iowa City. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Jonas Eika Reads “Alvin”: Jonas Eika reads his story from the April 19, 2021, issue of the magazine, which was translated from the Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg. Eika, a Danish writer, won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2019 for his short-story collection “After t by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Good-Looking”: Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story from the March 1, 2021, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry and the short-story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” which won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Sam Lipsyte Reads “My Apology”: Sam Lipsyte reads his story “My Apology,” from the July 5, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collection “The Fun Parts,” and the novels “The Ask” and “Hark,” which was published in 2019. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak”: Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak,” from the November 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Kochai was a Truman Capote fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop. His first novel, ”99 Nights in Logar,” was published in 2019, and a story co by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “A, S, D, F”: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story from the May 31, 2021, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collection “Brief Encounters with the Enemy,” which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for début fiction, in 2014. A by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Rebecca Curtis Reads “Satellites”: Rebecca Curtis reads her story “Satellites,” from the July 12 & 19, 2021, issue of the magazine. Curtis is the author of the story collection “Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money” and a winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award f by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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David Means Reads “The Depletion Prompts”: David Means reads his story “The Depletion Prompts,” from the November 1, 2021, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and five story collections, including “The Spot” and “Instructions for a Funeral,” which was published in 2 by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Esther Freud Reads “Desire”: Esther Freud reads her story “Desire,” from the September 27, 2021, issue of the magazine. Freud is the author of nine novels, including “Hideous Kinky,” “Mr. Mac and Me,” and “I Couldn’t Love You More.” by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Zach Williams Reads “Wood Sorrel House”: Zach Williams reads his story “Wood Sorrel House,” from the March 21, 2022, issue of the magazine. Williams is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is working on a collection of short stories. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Tessa Hadley Reads “Coda”: Tessa Hadley reads her story “Coda,” from the August 2, 2021, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published ten books of fiction, including the story collection “Bad Dreams and Other Stories” and the novel “Late In the Day,” which was published in 2019. Sh by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Jennifer Egan Reads “What the Forest Remembers”: Jennifer Egan reads her story “What the Forest Remembers,” from the January 3 & 10, 2022, issue of the magazine. Egan is the author of six books of fiction, including “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, and “Manhattan by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Bryan Washington Reads “Foster”: Bryan Washington reads his story from the June 14, 2021, issue of the magazine. Washington is a winner of the Ernest J. Gaines award, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Lambda Literary award. His story collection, “Lot,” was published in 2019, by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Colin Barrett Reads “A Shooting in Rathreedane”: Colin Barrett reads his story “A Shooting in Rathreedane,” from the December 13, 2021, issue of the magazine. Barrett is the author of the story collection “Young Skins,” which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Guardian First by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Adam Levin Reads “A Lot of Things Have Happened”: Adam Levin reads his story “A Lot of Things Have Happened,” from the December 27, 2021, issue of the magazine. Levin is the author of the story collection “Hot Pink,” and two novels, “The Instructions” and “Bubblegum,” which was published last year. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Greg Jackson Reads “The Hollow”: Greg Jackson reads his story “The Hollow,” from the November 29, 2021, issue of the magazine. Jackson, a winner of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, is the author of the story collection “Prodigals,” which came out in 2016. His first novel by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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