Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Casting Shadows”

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David Gilbert Reads “Cicadia”: David Gilbert reads his story from the August 24, 2020, issue of the magazine. Gilbert is the author of the story collection “Remote Feed” and two novels, “& Sons” and “The Normals.” by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Hari Kunzru Reads “A Transparent Woman”: Hari Kunzru reads his story from the July 6 & 13, 2020, issue of the magazine. Kunzru is the author of five novels, including “Gods Without Men” and “White Tears.” A new novel, “Red Pill,” from which this story was adapted, will be published this Sep by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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George Saunders Reads “Love Letter”: George Saunders reads his story from the April 6, 2020, 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 “In Persuasion Nation” and “Tenth of Dec by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Afterlife”: Jonathan Lethem reads his story from the May 18, 2020, issue of the magazine. Lethem is the author of more than fifteen books of fiction, including “Motherless Brooklyn,” “The Gambler’s Anatomy,” and “The Feral Detective.” A new novel, “The Arrest,” will by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Emma Cline Reads “White Noise”: Emma Cline reads her short story from the June 8 & 15, 2020, issue of the magazine. Cline’s first novel, “The Girls,” winner of the Shirley Jackson award, came out in 2016. Her story collection, “Daddy,” will be published later this year. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Ben Okri Reads “A Wrinkle in the Realm”: Ben Okri reads his story from the February 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Okri is the author of eleven novels, including “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which came out in 2019. His story collection, “Pr by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Ben Lerner Reads “The Media”: Ben Lerner reads his story from the April 20, 2020, issue of the magazine. Lerner is the author of the novels “Leaving the Atocha Station,” “10:04,” and “The Topeka School,” which was published last year. He was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 2015. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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A. M. Homes Reads Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”: A.M. Homes joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” in this 2008 episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast. The story was originally published in 1948 and is included in the July 27, 2020, issue of The New Y by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Bryan Washington Reads “Heirlooms”: Bryan Washington reads his story from the August 3 & 10, 2020, issue of the magazine. Washington’s first story collection, “Lot,” was published in 2019 and his first novel, “Memorial,” from which this story was adapted, will come out in October. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Fiona McFarlane Reads “Demolition”: Fiona McFarlane reads her story from the May 25, 2020, issue of the magazine. McFarlane is the author of the novel “The Night Guest” and the story collection “The High Places,” which was awarded the international Dylan Thomas Prize in 2017. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Patricia Lockwood Reads “The Winged Thing”: Patricia Lockwood reads her story from the November 30, 2020, issue of the magazine. Lockwood has published two collections of poetry and the memoir “Priestdaddy,” which came out in 2017. Her first novel, “No One Is Talking About This,” from which this s 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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Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “A for Alone”: Curtis Sittenfeld reads her story from the November 2, 2020, issue of the magazine. Sittenfeld is the author of one short-story collection, “You Think It, I’ll Say It,” and six novels, including “Prep,” “Eligible,” and “Rodham,” which came out earlier th by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Madhuri Vijay Reads “You Are My Dear Friend”: Madhuri Vijay reads his story from the August 17, 2020, issue of the magazine. Vijay is the author of the novel “The Far Field,” which won the J.C.B prize for literature in 2019. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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David Rabe Reads “Suffocation Theory”: David Rabe reads his story from the October 12, 2020, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays, including the Tony-award-winning “Sticks and Bones,” “In the Boom Boom Room,” and “Hurlyburly.” His novels include “Recital of the by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads “Bedtime Story”: Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum reads her story from the April 27, 2020, issue of the magazine. Bynum is the author of two novels, “Madeleine Is Sleeping” and “Ms. Hempel Chronicles.” Her story collection, “Likes,” will be published in September. by The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Casting Shadows”: Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story from the February 15 & 22, 2021, issue of the magazine. Lahiri is the author of two novels and two short-story collections. Her first book, “Interpreter of Maladies,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and she was a recipien 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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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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Roddy Doyle Reads “Life Without Children”: Roddy Doyle reads his story from the October 19, 2020, issue of the magazine. Doyle is the author of thirteen novels, including the Booker Prize-winning “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha” and “The Dead Republic.” His most recent novel, “Love,” came out earlier this 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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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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