Catherine Lacey joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People,” by Lorrie Moore, published in The New Yorker in 1993. Lacey, a winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and a Lambda Literary Award, has published four novels, including “The Answers” and “Biography of X,” and the story collection “Cer ... Show More
Oct 1
Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff
Colm Tóibín joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Awaiting Orders,” by Tobias Wolff, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Tóibín, who is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet, has won the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize, and the Dayton Liter ... Show More
1h 3m
Aug 1
Mohsin Hamid Reads Haruki Murakami
Mohsin Hamid joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Man-Eating Cats,” by Haruki Murakami, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hamid is the author of five novels, including “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” “Exit West,” a winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize and the Aspen Word ... Show More
1h 33m
Nov 2022
Louise Erdrich Reads “The Hollow Children”
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 ... Show More
20m 27s
Mar 2019
Sally Rooney Reads “Color and Light”
Sally Rooney reads her story “Color and Light,” from the March 18, 2019, issue of the magazine. Rooney is the author of two novels, “Conversations with Friends” and “Normal People,” which was published last year and won the Costa Book Award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi ... Show More
37m 22s
Sep 2025
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Pool”
T. Coraghessan Boyle reads his story “The Pool,” from the September 22, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story, among others, Boyle has published more than thirty books of fiction, including the stor ... Show More
30m 43s