David Means Reads “Chance the Cat”

<p>Daniyal Mueenuddin reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/01/the-golden-boy-fiction-daniyal-mueenuddin"><strong>The Golden Boy</strong></a>” from the December 1, 2025, issue of the magazine. Mueenuddin is the author of the story collection “<a hre ... Show More

<p>Madhuri Vijay reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/laras-theme-fiction-madhuri-vijay"><strong>Lara’s Theme</strong></a>,” from the November 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Vijay is the author of the novel “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Far ... Show More

<p>Paul Yoon reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/the-new-coast-fiction-paul-yoon"><strong>The New Coast</strong></a>,” from the November 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the novels “<a href ... Show More

<p><span>David Means joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/face-time">Face Time</a><span>,” by Lorrie Moore, which was published in<span> </span></span><em>The New Yorker</em><span><span> </span>in 2020. Means is the auth ... Show More

<p>Barbara Kingsolver’s novel “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/16/books/review/barbara-kingsolver-demon-copperhead.html" target="_blank">Demon Copperhead</a>,” a riff on “David Copperfield” that moves Charles Dickens’s story to contemporary Appalachia and grapples engagi ... Show More

<p><span>Gish Jen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1979/06/18/friends-4">Friends</a><span>,” by Grace Paley, which was published in<span> </span></span><em>The New Yorker</em><span><span> </span>in 1979. Jen is the aut ... Show More

Today I talked to Laurie R. King about her new novel Back to the Garden: A Novel (Bantam, 2022). Inspector Raquel Liang of the San Francisco Police Department has reached a crossroads in her career. A recent incident ended with her transfer to the Cold Cases Unit and instructions ... Show More

<p><span>Rebecca Curtis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/confessions-of-a-shinagawa-monkey">Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey</a><span>,” by Haruki Murakami, which was published in<span> </span></span><em>Th ... Show More

<p><span>Ben Okri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/the-rescue-will-begin-in-its-own-time">The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time</a><span>,” four short fiction pieces by Franz Kafka, translated from the Germa ... Show More

'It is over before either of us has really understood what is happening.' David Szalay, whose novel 'All That Man Is' was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize, reads his short story, specially written for the FT. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

<p><span>Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/seeing-ershadi">Seeing Ershadi</a><span>,” by Nicole Krauss, which was published in<span> </span></span><em>The New Yorker</em><span><span> </span>in 2018. M ... Show More

<p>Chang-rae Lee’s new novel, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/books/review/chang-rae-lee-my-year-abroad.html" target="_blank">“My Year Abroad,”</a> is his sixth. On this week’s podcast, Lee says that his readers might be surprised by it.</p><p>“It’s kind of a crazy bo ... Show More