Fiction Published by The New Yorker
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This podcast, published by The New Yorker, is a series of monthly readings of and/or conversations about fiction from The New Yorker moderated by editor Deborah Treisman. Readers include such luminaries as Tobias Wolff, Nathan Englander and Joyce Carol Oates.
| Title | Podcast Description | Author/Reader | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niccolo Tucci | Thomas Beller reads Niccolo Tucci's "The Evolution of Knowledge," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:36:23 |
| Stephanie Vaughn | Tea Obreht reads Stephanie Vaughn's "Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:44:59 |
| Thomas Beller | Said Sayrafiezadeh reads Thomas Beller's "A Different Kind of Imperfection," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. The work was published in the February 11, 1991, issue of The New Yorker and can be found in "Seduction Theory." | The New Yorker | 00:42:13 |
| Benedict Kiely | Colum McCann reads Benedict Kiely's "Bluebell Meadow," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:58:59 |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Ben Marcus reads Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Village After Dark," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:39:38 |
| Donald Barthelme | Salman Rushdie reads Donald Barthelme's "Concerning the Bodyguard," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:24:58 |
| Stuart Dybek | ZZ Packer reads Stuart Dybek's "Paper Lantern," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:47:11 |
| Alice Munro | Lauren Groff reads Alice Munro's "Axis," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "Axis" was published in the January 31, 2011 issue. | The New Yorker | 00:47:04 |
| John Updike | Allegra Goodman reads John Updike's "A & P," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:29:18 |
| Thomas McGuane | Sam Lipsyte reads Thomas McGuane's "Cowboy," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:32:22 |
| "Gomez Palacio" | Daniel Alarcon reads Roberto Bolano's "Gomez Palacio." | The New Yorker | 00:30:52 |
| "The Swimmer" | Anne Enright reads John Cheever's "The Swimmer." | The New Yorker | 00:42:46 |
| James McCourt | Hilton Als reads James McCourt's "Kaye Wayfaring in 'Avenged'" | The New Yorker | 00:43:05 |
| Steven Millhauser | Cynthia Ozick reads Steven Millhauser's "In the Reign of Harad IV." | The New Yorker | 00:36:22 |
| Lore Segal | Jennifer Egan reads Lore Segal's "The Reverse Bug." | The New Yorker | 00:44:39 |
| Chef's House | David Means reads Raymond Carver's "Chef's House." | The New Yorker | 00:25:52 |
| Jamaica Kincaid | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads Jamaica Kincaid's "Figures in the Distance." | The New Yorker | 00:28:11 |
| Donald Barthelme | Chris Adrian reads Donald Barthelme's "The Indian Uprising." | The New Yorker | 00:28:11 |
| Denis Johnson | Salvatore Scibona reads Denis Johnson's "Two Men." | The New Yorker | 00:36:59 |
| Leonard Michaels | Rivka Galchen reads Leonard Michaels's "Cryptology." | The New Yorker | 00:40:34 |
| Joshua Ferris | Monica Ali reads Joshua Ferris's "The Dinner Party." | The New Yorker | 00:46:21 |
| Don DeLillo | Chang-Rae Lee reads Don DeLillo's "Baader-Meinhof." | The New Yorker | 00:34:13 |
| Julie Hayden | Lorrie Moore reads Julie Hayden's "Day-Old Baby Rats." | The New Yorker | 00:50:19 |
| Frank O'Connor | Julian Barnes reads Frank O'Connor's "The Man of the World." | The New Yorker | 00:34:15 |
| Carson McCullers | Karen Russell reads Carson McCullers's "The Jockey." | The New Yorker | 00:25:52 |
| Edwidge Danticat | Junot Diaz reads Edwidge Danticat's "Water Child." | The New Yorker | 00:37:55 |
| John McGahern | Yiyun Li reads John McGahern's "The Wine Breath." | The New Yorker | 00:38:57 |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Orhan Pamuk reads Vladimir Nabokov's "My Russian Education" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:35:53 |
| Peter Taylor | Marisa Silver reads Peter Taylor's "Porte-Cochere" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:33:04 |
| George Saunders | Joshua Ferris reads George Saunders's "Adams" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:22:14 |
| Sergei Dovlatov | David Bezmozgis reads Sergei Dovlatov's "The Colonel Says I Love You" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:35:14 |
| Veronica Geng | Jonathan Franzen reads Veronica Geng's "Love Trouble Is My Business" and Ian Frazier's "Coyote v. Acme" and discusses them with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:26:28 |
| Denis Johnson | Tobias Wolff reads Denis Johnson's "Emergency" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:38:36 |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Disguised" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:31:26 |
| Eudora Welty | Joyce Carol Oates reads Eudora Welty's short story "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:22:03 |
| John Updike | Roger Angell reads John Updike's short story "Playing with Dynamite," and talks with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about editing Updike. | The New Yorker | 00:35:52 |
| James Salter | Thomas McGuane reads James Salter's "Last Night," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:33:42 |
| Maeve Brennan | Roddy Doyle reads Maeve Brennan's short story "Christmas Eve," and discusses Brennan's relationship with Ireland and Doyle's own family, with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:31:01 |
| Frank O'Connor | Julian Barnes reads Frank O'Connor's "The Man of the World." | The New Yorker | 00:34:15 |
| Carson McCullers | Karen Russell reads Carson McCullers's "The Jockey." | The New Yorker | 00:25:52 |
| Edwidge Danticat | Junot Diaz reads Edwidge Danticat's "Water Child." | The New Yorker | 00:37:55 |
| John McGahern | Yiyun Li reads John McGahern's "The Wine Breath." | The New Yorker | 00:38:57 |
| Books and Blades | Orhan Pamuk reads Vladimir Nabokov's "My Russian Education" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:35:53 |
| Fathers and Sons | Marisa Silver reads Peter Taylor's "Porte-Cochere" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:33:04 |
| Human Nature | Joshua Ferris reads George Saunders's "Adams" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:22:14 |
| From Russia with Love | David Bezmozgis reads Sergei Dovlatov's "The Colonel Says I Love You" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:35:14 |
| Extreme Writing | Jonathan Franzen reads Veronica Geng's "Love Trouble Is My Business" and Ian Frazier's "Coyote v. Acme" and discusses them with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:26:28 |
| Knife in the Eye | Tobias Wolff reads Denis Johnson's "Emergency" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:38:36 |
| Like Man and Wife | Nathan Englander reads Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story Disguised and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:31:26 |
| Hearing Voices | Joyce Carol Oates reads Eudora Welty's short story "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:22:03 |
| Editing Updike | Roger Angell reads John Updike's short story "Playing with Dynamite," and talks with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about editing Updike. | The New Yorker | 00:35:52 |
| The Living Dead | Thomas McGuane reads James Salter's "Last Night," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:33:42 |
| Home for the Holidays | Roddy Doyle reads Maeve Brennan's short story "Christmas Eve," and discusses Brennan's relationship with Ireland and Doyle's own family, with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:31:01 |
| Luck of the Draw | A. M. Homes reads Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:32:02 |
| The Curiosity of Sisters | Gary Shteyngart reads Andrea Lee's short story "Brothers and Sisters Around the World," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:33:36 |
| Off Base | Tobias Wolff reads Stephanie Vaughn's short story "Dog Heaven," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:40:38 |
| Head Cold | Jeffrey Eugenides reads Harold Brodkey's short story "Spring Fugue," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:24:36 |
| A List of Books | Aleksandar Hemon discusses Bernard Malamud's short story "A Summer's Reading" with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:27:41 |
| Sign Language | Mary Gaitskill reads "Symbols and Signs," Vladimir Nabokov's first story published in The New Yorker, and discusses it with fiction editor Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:27:25 |
| Invalid Souls | Invalid Souls: Hilton Als discusses Jean Stafford and her story "Children Are Bored on Sunday" with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. Reading by Eliza Foss. | The New Yorker | 00:36:44 |
| This Is It | Louise Erdrich reads Lorrie Moores short story "Dance in America" and discusses Moore with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:31:09 |
| The Wood Duck | Jonathan Lethem reads James Thurber's short story "The Wood Duck" and discusses Thurber with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:18:54 |
| One with a Bullet | T. Coraghessan Boyle reads Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain" and discusses Wolff with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:19:22 |
| Class Act | E. L. Doctorow reads John O'Hara's short story "Graven Image" and discusses O'Hara with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:19:22 |
| Open Secrets | Jhumpa Lahiri reads the short story "A Day," by William Trevor, and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Triesman | The New Yorker | 00:37:39 |
| Waiting | Antonya Nelson reads Mavis Gallant's short story "When We Were Nearly Young" and discusses Gallant with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:32:57 |
| Chapter and Verse | Paul Theroux reads Jorge Luis Borges's short story "The Gospel According to Mark" and discusses Borges with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "The Gospel According to Mark" was published in The New Yorker on October 23, 1971. | The New Yorker | 00:21:57 |
| Talking Pictures | Nell Freudenberger discusses Grace Paley's short story "Somewhere Else" with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. The podcast includes a reading of the story by Barbara Rosenblatt. "Somewhere Else" was published in The New Yorker on October 23, 1978. | The New Yorker | 00:33:41 |
| Listen and Learn | George Saunders reads Isaac Babel's short story "You Must Know Everything" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:23:12 |
| Urban Planning | Donald Antrim reads Donald Barthelme's 1974 short story "I Bought a Little City" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. | The New Yorker | 00:17:50 |
| The Dating Game | Junot Díaz reads a story; Edwidge Danticat and Deborah Treisman discuss. | The New Yorker | 00:17:38 |
| Reunions | Richard Ford reads a John Cheever story. | The New Yorker | 00:11:54 |
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