Jan 1

Bryan Washington Reads Yiyun Li

Bryan Washington joins Deborah Treisman to read “A Small Flame,” by Yiyun Li, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Washington, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of the story collection “Lot” and the novels “Memorial,” “Fa ... Show More

1h 16m

Dec 1

Miriam Toews Reads Raymond Carver

Miriam Toews joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Elephant,” by Raymond Carver, which was published in The New Yorker in 1986. Toews has published ten books, including the novels “A Complicated Kindness,” which won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction; “All My Puny Sor ... Show More

1h 2m

Nov 1

Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace

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

1h 6m

Jun 2025

Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Jubilee”

Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/jubilee-fiction-jhumpa-lahiri">Jubilee</a>,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lahiri, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the PEN/Malamud A ... Show More

47m 56s

Aug 2024

Akhil Sharma Reads “The Narayans”

Akhil Sharma reads his story “The Narayans,” from the August 26, 2024, issue of the magazine. Sharma is the author of the story collection “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-Adventure-Delight-Akhil-Sharma/dp/0393285340">A Life of Adventure and Delight</a>,” ... Show More

21m 30s

Oct 2024

Merve Emre on Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf

I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the writer, critic, and author, Merve Emre. Currently the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University – and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism – ... Show More

49m 21s

Aug 2024

21st Century Books Special Edition: Jennifer Egan on 'A Visit from the Goon Squad'

As part of its recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html" target="_blank">100 Best Books of the 21st Century</a> project, The New York Times Book Review is interviewing some of the authors whose books appeared on the list. This ... Show More

41m 8s

Sep 2024

Kate Atkinson on the Return of Jackson Brodie

The British writer Kate Atkinson has had a rich and varied career since her debut novel, “Behind the Scenes at the Museum,” won the Whitbread Book of the Year award in 1996; her 14 subsequent books have included story collections, historical fiction and an inventive speculativ ... Show More

44m 48s

Jul 2025

Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”

Zadie Smith reads her story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-silence-fiction-zadie-smith">The Silence</a>,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Audible Li ... Show More

33m 57s

Dec 2024

Sheila Heti on Jenny Holzer, Berthe Morisot, Margaux Williamson, and more

Welcome to the FINALE of Season 12! I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the acclaimed writer, Sheila Heti. Born in 1976 in Toronto, where she lives today, Heti is the author of eleven books, from novels to novellas, short stories and children’s books. Most ... Show More

33m 37s

Sep 2025

David Wright Faladé Reads “Amarillo Boulevard”

David Wright Faladé reads his story “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/amarillo-boulevard-fiction-david-wright-falade">Amarillo Boulevard</a>,” from the October 6, 2025, issue of the magazine. Wright Faladé, the recipient of a Zora Neale H ... Show More

42m 51s

Oct 13

740 Mel Brooks and Other Eminent Jews (with David Denby) | War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (#13 GBOAT)

In this episode, Jacke talks to author David Denby about his new book, Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer, a group biography (loosely inspired by Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians) that describes how four larger-than-life figures upended the restrained culture of ... Show More

1h 3m

Sep 2025

Book Club: Let's Talk About 'Pride and Prejudice'

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”So opens Jane Austen’s Regency-era romantic comedy “Pride and Prejudice,” which for centuries has delighted readers with its story of the five Bennet si ... Show More

1h 5m

Rebecca Makkai Reads Jhumpa Lahiri