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 Pulitzer Prize in 2021.
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Téa Obreht Reads “Family Lore”
Téa Obreht reads her story “Family Lore,” from the November 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. Obreht, who was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” Fiction Issue, in 2010, and the subsequent anthology, in 2021, is the author of four novels, including “The Tiger’s Wife,” a winn ... Show More
1h 3m
Oct 25
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads "Wall Cano"
Souvankham Thammavongsa read her story “Wall Cano,” from the November 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry, along with the story collection “How to Pronounce Knife” and the novel “Pick a Color,” both of which were winners of the Giller ... Show More
27m 41s
Oct 18
George Saunders Reads “Appeasement, Ohio”
George Saunders reads his story “Appeasement, Ohio,” from the October 26, 2026, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, among others, Saunders is the author of five story collections, including “Tenth of December” and “Liberation Day ... Show More
55m 42s
Sep 2024
Louise Erdrich Reads Karen Russell
Louise Erdrich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” by Karen Russell, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Erdrich's novels include “The Round House,” which won the National Book Award in 2012, and “The Night Watchman,” which was awarded the Pul ... Show More
1h 15m
Oct 2025
Karen Russell Reads Louise Erdrich
Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Stone,” by Louise Erdrich, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” and “Orange World and Other Stories ... Show More
51m 34s
May 2022
Eileen Myles Reads Joy Harjo
Eileen Myles joins Kevin Young to read “Without,” by Joy Harjo, and their own poem “Dissloution.” Myles has published more than twenty books of poetry and prose. Their honors include the Publishing Triangle’s 2020 Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, an American Academy of ... Show More
32m 7s
Sep 2020
Joy Harjo Reads Sandra Cisneros
Joy Harjo joins Kevin Young to read “Still-Life with Potatoes, Pearls, Raw Meat, Rhinestones, Lard, and Horse Hooves,” by Sandra Cisneros, and her own poem “Running.” Harjo is the current Poet Laureate of the United States, as well as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets ... Show More
37m 59s
Sep 2022
Sandra Cisneros Reads José Antonio Rodríguez
Sandra Cisneros joins Kevin Young to read “Shelter,” by José Antonio Rodríguez, and her own poem “Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982.” Cisneros is the recipient of a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a National Medal of Arts, the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship, and the PEN/Nab ... Show More
39m 32s
Aug 2025
Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick
Lauren Groff joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Faithful,” by Elizabeth Hardwick, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Groff’s works of fiction include the novels “Fates and Furies” and “Matrix,” both of which were finalists for the National Book Award, and ... Show More
1h 14m
Dec 2022
Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss
Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Seeing Ershadi,” by Nicole Krauss, which was published in The New Yorker in 2018. Ma is the author of the novel “Severance” and the story collection “Bliss Montage,” which came out in September. Learn more about your ad choices. ... Show More
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Sep 2023
Dorothea Lasky Reads Louise Bogan
Dorothea Lasky joins Kevin Young to read “Three Songs,” by Louise Bogan, and her own poem “The Green Lake.” Lasky is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including her forthcoming collection “The Shining.” She’s the co-creator, with Alex Dimitrov, of Astro Poets, and ... Show More
39m 34s
Dec 2020
Margaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones
Margaret Atwood joins Kevin Young to read “A Stranger,” by Saeed Jones, and her own poem “Flatline.” Atwood, a prolific poet and novelist, is known for brilliant books such as “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Blind Assassin.” Her many distinctions include the Los Angeles Times Inno ... Show More
32m 34s