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Jul 1
Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane
Paul Yoon joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Hostel,” by Fiona McFarlane, which was published in The New Yorker in 2024. Yoon was one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” in 2010, and has published five books of fiction, including the novel “Run Me to Earth” and the sto ... Show More
1h 1m
Jun 1
Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Fugitive,” by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Ong is the author of numerous plays and of the novels “The Disinherited” and “Fixer Chao.” “Fixer Chao” was first published in 2001 and will be reissued ... Show More
1h 23m
May 1
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Evolution,” by Joan Silber, which was published in The New Yorker in 2022. Bynum is the author of the novels “Madeleine Is Sleeping,” a National Book Award finalist, and “Ms. Hempel Chronicles”—and the story collection “Lik ... Show More
1h 27m
Apr 2024
Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Late Love”
<p>Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “Late Love,” from the April 22 & 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
51m 58s
May 2022
Eileen Myles Reads Joy Harjo
28m 52s
May 2022
Two nonfiction books... that just won Pulitzer Prizes!
The Pulitzer Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the country for writers... and last year's winners were just announced this week. So today, we're looking back at two nonfiction authors whose books won the accolade. First, journalist Andrea Elliot speaks to Jane Clyson ... Show More
20m 38s
Nov 2023
Teju Cole Reads “Incoming”
<p>Teju Cole reads his story “Incoming,” which appears in the December 4, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cole, a winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Windham Campbell Literature Prize, is a novelist, critic, curator, and essayist. His novel “Tremor” was published earlier this ... Show More
20m 48s
Jan 2024
Joy Williams Reads “The Beach House”
<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
28m 22s
Dec 2020
Margaret Atwood Reads Saeed Jones
29m 19s
Dec 2021
Amanda Gorman Reads Tracy K. Smith
34m 31s
Sep 2019
Eliza Griswold discusses "First Person"
33m 40s
May 2023
511 Annie Ernaux, Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature (with Alison Strayer) | My Last Book with Bob Blaisdell
Jacke talks to Alison Strayer, translator of several books by French author Annie Ernaux, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022. PLUS he talks to author and Chekhov expert Bob Blaisdell about his choice for the last book he will ever read.
ANNIE ERNAUX (The Years, Gettin ... Show More
41m 47s
David Bezmozgis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Likes,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Bezmozgis is a filmmaker and writer. He has published two story collections and two novels, “The Free World,” which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize, and “The Betrayers,” which won th ... Show More
<p><span>Eileen Myles joins </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span><span> </span>to read “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/11/without">Without</a><span>,” by Joy Harjo, and their own poem “</span><a href= ... Show More
<p><span>Margaret Atwood joins </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span><span> </span>to read “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/a-stranger">A Stranger</a><span>,” by Saeed Jones, and her own poem “</span ... Show More
<p><span>Amanda Gorman joins </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/kevin-young">Kevin Young</a><span><span> </span>to read “</span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/declaration">Declaration</a><span>,” by Tracy K. Smith, and her own poem “</s ... 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
