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

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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

  • 28 minutes 3 seconds
    Cynan Jones Reads “Pulse”

    Cynan Jones reads his story “Pulse,” from the May 6, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jones is the author of six books of fiction, including, most recently, the novel “Cove” and the story collection “Stillicide.” His previous story in The New Yorker, “The Edge of the Shoal,” was the 2017 winner of the BBC National Short Story Award.

    29 April 2024, 10:00 am
  • 51 minutes 58 seconds
    Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Late Love”

    Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “Late Love,” from the April 22 & 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than seventy books of fiction. A new novel, “Butcher,” and a story collection, “Flint Kill Creek,” will be published later this year.

    15 April 2024, 10:00 am
  • 28 minutes 58 seconds
    Kevin Barry Reads “Finistère”

    Kevin Barry reads his story “Finistère,” from the April 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Barry is the author of six books of fiction, including the novel “City of Bohane,” for which he won the International Dublin Literary Award, and the story collection “That Old Country Music,” which came out in 2020. A new novel, “The Heart in Winter,” will be published in July.

    8 April 2024, 10:00 am
  • 24 minutes 2 seconds
    Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Bozo”

    Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “Bozo” from the April 8, 2024, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry and the story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” which won the Giller Prize in 2020.

    1 April 2024, 10:00 am
  • 54 minutes 54 seconds
    Mohammed Naseehu Ali Reads “Allah Have Mercy”


    Mohammed Naseehu Ali reads his story “Allah Have Mercy” from the April 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Ali is the author of “The Prophet of Zongo Street,” a story collection, which came out in 2005. He teaches undergraduate fiction in N.Y.U.’s Creative Writing department.

    25 March 2024, 10:00 am
  • 30 minutes 42 seconds
    Zach Williams Reads “Neighbors”

    Zach Williams reads his story “Neighbors” from the March 25, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University. His début story collection, “Beautiful Days,” will be published in June.

    18 March 2024, 10:00 am
  • 33 minutes 45 seconds
    Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Time Being”

    Joseph O’Neill reads his story “The Time Being” from the March 18, 2024, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “Netherland,” which won the pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, in 2009, and “The Dog.” A new novel, “Godwin,” will be published in June. 

    11 March 2024, 10:00 am
  • 27 minutes 48 seconds
    Fiona McFarlane Reads “Hostel”

    Fiona McFarlane reads her story “Hostel” from the March 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. McFarlane is the author of two novels and a story collection, “The High Places,” which was awarded the International Dylan Thomas Prize, in 2017. A new collection, “Highway Thirteen,” will be published in August.


    4 March 2024, 11:00 am
  • 33 minutes 22 seconds
    Thomas Korsgaard Reads “The Spit of Him”

    Thomas Korsgaard reads his story “The Spit of Him” from the March 4, 2024, issue of the magazine. Korsgaard is the author of three novels and two story collections, as well as several works for children. In 2021, at age twenty-six, he became the youngest writer ever to receive Denmark’s Golden Laurels prize.


    26 February 2024, 11:00 am
  • 34 minutes 47 seconds
    Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “On the Night of the Khatam”

    Jamil Jan Kochai reads his story “On the Night of the Khatam” from the February 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Kochai is the author of the novel “99 Nights in Logar” and the collection “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories” which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2022 and won the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

    19 February 2024, 11:00 am
  • 47 minutes 46 seconds
    Addie Citchens Reads “That Girl”

    Addie Citchens reads her story “That Girl,” from the February 12 & 19, 2024, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, New Orleans-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. She has published work in the Oxford American and The Paris Review, among other places.

    5 February 2024, 11:00 am
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