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<p>Adam Levin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/03/07/backbone"><strong>Backbone</strong></a>,” by David Foster Wallace, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2011. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Libra ... Show More

<p>Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/the-stone"><strong>The Stone</strong></a>,” by Louise Erdrich, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2019. Russell is the author of six books of fiction ... Show More

<p>Victor Lodato joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/the-largesse-of-the-sea-maiden"><strong>The Largesse of the Sea Maiden</strong></a>,” by Denis Johnson, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2014. Loda ... Show More

<p>Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “Late Love,” from the April 22 &amp; 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, “<a href="https://w ... Show More

<p>Danielle Dutton reads her story “My Wonderful Description of Flowers,” which appeared in the December 5, 2022, issue of the magazine. Dutton is the co-founder of Dorothy, a publishing project, and the author of three books of fiction, including the novel “Margaret the First.” ... Show More

<p>Addie Citchens reads her story “That Girl,” from the February 12 &amp; 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 pla ... Show More

<p>Joy Williams reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/15/the-beach-house-fiction-joy-williams">The Beach House</a>,” from the January 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Williams, a winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, is the a ... Show More

<p>Louise Erdrich reads her story “The Hollow Children,” which appeared in the November 28, 2022, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, most recently “The Sentence” and “The Night Watchman,” which won the Pulit ... Show More

<p><span>Greg Jackson reads his story “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/29/the-hollow">The Hollow</a><span>,” 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 st ... Show More

<p>David Means reads his story “Chance the Cat,” from the January 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel “Hystopia” and six story collections, including “Instructions for a Funeral” and “Two Nurses Smoking,” which was published in 2022.</p> Learn abou ... Show More

<p>Eliza Griswold joins Kevin Young to discuss her poetry sequence "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/23/first-person" target="_blank">First Person</a>," featured on<span> </span><a href="http://newyorker.com/" target="_blank">newyorker.com</a>. Griswold is a po ... Show More

<p>Joseph O’Neill reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/the-time-being-fiction-joseph-oneill"><strong>The Time Being</strong></a>” from the March 18, 2024, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and four novels, incl ... Show More

<p>The early part of a year can mean new books to read, or it can mean catching up on older ones we haven’t gotten to yet. This week, Gilbert Cruz chats with the Book Review’s Sarah Lyall and Sadie Stein about titles from both categories that have held their interest lately, incl ... Show More