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Andrea Bajani Reads “Constellation”
07 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Bajani reads his story “Constellation,” which was translated, from the Italian, by Geoffrey Brock, and appeared in the June 15, 2026, issue...
Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “The Twice-Widowed Khala Helai”
01 Jun 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Taiye Selasi reads her story “Firstborn Immigrant Daughter,” from the July 8, 2026, issue of the magazine. Selasi is an author and photographer. H...
Taiye Selasi Reads “Firstborn Immigrant Daughter”
31 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Taiye Selasi reads her story “Firstborn Immigrant Daughter,” from the July 8, 2026, issue of the magazine. Selasi is an author and photographer. H...
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Many Worlds”
24 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Many Worlds,” from the June 1, 2026, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of five books, including the no...
Weike Wang Reads “The Dreamdrive”
17 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Weike Wang reads “The Dreamdrive,” from the May 25, 2026, issue of the magazine. Wang was chosen for the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 3...
Chang-rae Lee Reads “Standings”
03 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Chang-rae Lee reads his story “Standings,” from the May 11 & 18, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lee is the author of six novels, including “Na...
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Process of Elimination”
26 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Process of Elimination,” from the May 4, 2026, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of several ...
Thomas McGuane Reads “Ordinary Wear and Tear”
19 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas McGuane reads his story “Ordinary Wear and Tear,” from the April 27, 2026, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen b...
Douglas Stuart Reads "A Private View"
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Stuart reads his story “A Private View,” from the April 20, 2026, issue of the magazine. Stuart has published two novels, “Shuggie Bain,...
Catherine Lacey Reads "Rate Your Happiness"
05 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Lacey reads her story “Rate Your Happiness,” from the April 13, 2026, issue of the magazine. Lacey is the author of five books of fictio...
Cassandra Neyenesch Reads "Enough for Now"
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cassandra Neyenesch reads her story “Enough for Now,” from the April 6, 2026, issue of the magazine. Neyenesch is a Brooklyn-based writer and cura...
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads "Floating"
22 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Souvankham Thammavongsa read her story “Floating,” from the March 30, 2026, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poet...
Han Ong Reads “My Balenciaga”
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Han Ong reads his story “My Balenciaga,” from the March 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and of the Berlin...
Addie Citchens Reads "The City Is a Graveyard”
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Addie Citchens reads her story “The City Is a Graveyard,” from the March 16, 2026, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, Ne...
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01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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Mary Gaitskill Reads “Something Familiar”
22 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Gaitskill reads her story “Something Familiar,” from the March 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. Gaitskill is the author of eight books of fict...
Valeria Luiselli Reads "Predictions and Presentiments"
08 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Valeria Luiselli reads her story “Predictions and Presentiments” from the February 16 & 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Inter...
Molly Aitken Reads “This Is How It Happens”
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Molly Aitken reads her story “This Is How It Happens,” from the February 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. Aitken is the author of two novels, “Th...
Tessa Hadley Reads “The Quiet House”
25 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tessa Hadley reads her story “The Quiet House,” from the February 2, 2026, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published thirteen books of fiction, ...
Joseph O'Neill Reads "Light Secrets"
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “Light Secrets,” from the January 26, 2026, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of a story collection ...
Sadia Shepard Reads "Kim's Game"
11 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sadia Shepard reads her story “Kim’s Game,” from the January 19, 2026, issue of the magazine. Shepard is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her...
Allegra Goodman Reads "Deal-Breaker"
04 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Allegra Goodman reads her story “Deal-Breaker,” from the January 12, 2026, issue of the magazine. Goodman is the author of ten books of fiction, i...
Nell Zink Reads "The Welfare State"
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nell Zink reads her story “The Welfare State,” from the December 29, 2025 & January 5, 2026, issue of the magazine. Zink is the author of seve...
Andrew Martin Reads "Risk, Discipline"
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Martin reads his story “Risk, Discipline,” from the December 22, 2025, issue of the magazine. Martin is the author of the novel “Early Wo...
Camille Bordas Reads “Understanding the Science”
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Camille Bordas reads her story “Understanding the Science,” from the December 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. Bordas is the author of four novels...
Joan Silber Reads "Safety"
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Silber reads her story “Safety,” from the December 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fict...
Daniyal Mueenuddin Reads "The Golden Boy"
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daniyal Mueenuddin reads his story “The Golden Boy” from the December 1, 2025, issue of the magazine. Mueenuddin is the author of the story collec...
Madhuri Vijay Reads "Lara's Theme"
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Madhuri Vijay reads her story “Lara’s Theme,” from the November 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Vijay is the author of the novel “The Far Fie...
Paul Yoon Reads "The New Coast"
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Yoon reads his story “The New Coast,” from the November 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, includi...
Lauren Groff Reads “Mother of Men”
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Groff reads her story “Mother of Men” from the November 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Groff’s work of fiction include the novels “Fa...
Nathan Blum Reads "Outcomes"
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Blum reads his story “Outcomes” from the November 3, 2025, issue of the magazine. Blum received his M.F.A. from Vanderbilt University, wher...
Sam Lipsyte Reads "Final Boy"
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Lipsyte reads his story “Final Boy” from the October 27, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lipsyte is the author of eight books of fiction, includi...
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Intimacy”
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Intimacy” from the October 20, 2025, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of five books, including the no...
Catherine Lacey Reads “Coconut Flan”
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Lacey reads her story “Coconut Flan” from the October 13, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lacey is the author of five books of fiction, inc...
David Wright Faladé Reads “Amarillo Boulevard”
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Wright Faladé reads his story “Amarillo Boulevard,” from the October 6, 2025, issue of the magazine. Wright Faladé, the recipient of a Zor...
Rivka Galchen Reads “Unreasonable”
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rivka Galchen reads her story “Unreasonable,” from the September 29, 2025, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction,...
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Pool”
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 S...
Bryan Washington Reads "Voyagers!"
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Washington reads his story “Voyagers!,” from the September 15, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize...
Rachel Cusk Reads “Project”
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Cusk reads her story “Project,” from the September 1 & 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. Cusk is the author of several works of nonfictio...
Miriam Toews Reads “Something Has Come to Light”
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Miriam Toews reads her story “Something Has Come to Light,” from the August 25, 2025, issue of the magazine. Toews, a winner of the Governor Gener...
Kiran Desai Reads "An Unashamed Proposal"
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kiran Desai reads her story “An Unashamed Proposal,” from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine. Desai is the author of the novels “Hullaba...
Anne Enright Reads “The Bridge Stood Fast”
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Enright reads her story “The Bridge Stood Fast,” from the August 4, 2025, issue of the magazine. Enright has published eleven books of fictio...
Mona Awad Reads “The Chartreuse”
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mona Awad reads her story “The Chartreuse,” from the July 28, 2025, issue of the magazine. Awad is the author of four books of fiction, including ...
Clare Sestanovich Reads “Natural History”
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Clare Sestanovich reads her story “Natural History,” from the July 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sestanovich is the author of the story collect...
Zadie Smith Reads “The Silence”
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zadie Smith reads her story “The Silence,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Smith, a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction ...
Ottessa Moshfegh Reads “The Comedian”
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ottessa Moshfegh reads her story “The Comedian,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Moshfegh is the author of one story collec...
Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Jubilee”
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jhumpa Lahiri reads her story “Jubilee,” from the July 7 & 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lahiri, a recipient of the National Humanities Med...
Han Ong Reads “Happy Days”
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Han Ong reads his story “Happy Days,” from the June 30, 2025, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize,...
Yiyun Li Reads “Any Human Heart”
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yiyun Li reads her story “Any Human Heart,” from the June 23, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including t...
Jim Shepard Reads “The Queen of Bad Influences”
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Shepard reads his story “The Queen of Bad Influences,” from the June 16, 2025, issue of the magazine. Shepard, a winner of the Rea Award for t...
Louise Erdrich Reads “Love of My Days”
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Louise Erdrich reads her story “Love of My Days,” from the June 2, 2025, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than two dozen works...
Patricia Lockwood Reads “Fairy Pools”
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patricia Lockwood reads her story “Fairy Pools,” from the May 26, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lockwood is a poet, essayist, and novelist. Her mem...
Lillian Fishman Reads “Travesty”
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lillian Fishman reads her story, “Travesty,” from the May 12 & 19, 2025, issue of the magazine. Fishman is the author of the novel “Acts of ...
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nocturnal Creatures”
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Nocturnal Creatures,” from the May 5, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of several pla...
Adam Levin Reads “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie”
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Levin reads his story “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie,” from the April 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Libra...
David Bezmozgis Reads “From, To”
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Bezmozgis reads his story “From, To,” from the April 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Bezmozgis is the author of two novels and two story co...
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Marseille”
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Marseille,” from the April 7, 2025, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of three novels, “Walking on t...
Bryan Washington Reads “Hatagaya Lore”
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Washington reads his story “Hatagaya Lore,” from the March 31, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Liter...
Joyce Carol Oates Reads “The Frenzy”
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “The Frenzy,” from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal a...
Yiyun Li Reads “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies”
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yiyun Li reads her story, “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies,” from the March 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fict...
Colm Tóibín Reads “Five Bridges”
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Colm Tóibín reads his story “Five Bridges,” from the March 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Tóibín, a winner of the Folio Prize and the Dayton...
Joseph O'Neill Reads “Keuka Lake”
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph O’Neill reads his story “Keuka Lake,” from the March 3rd, 2025, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection an...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads “Chuka”
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads her story “Chuka,” from the February 17 and February 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Adichie’s novels include “...
David Rabe Reads “My Friend Pinocchio”
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Rabe reads his story “My Friend Pinocchio,” from the February 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays...
Sheila Heti Reads “The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea”
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sheila Heti reads her story “The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea,” from the January 27, 2025, issue of the magazine. Heti is the author of eleven books, i...
Han Ong Reads “Ming”
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Han Ong reads his story “Ming,” from the January 20, 2025, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, On...
Kanak Kapur Reads “Prophecy”
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kanak Kapur reads her story “Prophecy,” from the January 13, 2025, issue of the magazine. Kapur teaches at Colgate University, where she is an Oli...
John Lanchester Reads “Signal”
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this special holiday episode of the Writer’s Voice, we’ll hear a New Year’s story from the archives: “Signal,” by John Lanchester, which ...
Daisy Hildyard Reads “Revision”
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Daisy Hildyard reads her story “Revision,” from the December 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hildyard, a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and...
Lauren Groff Reads “Between the Shadow and the Soul”
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Groff reads her story “Between the Shadow and the Soul,” from the December 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. Groff has published five novels...
David Szalay Reads “Plaster”
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Szalay reads “Plaster,” from the December 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Szalay is the author of six books of fiction, including “All Tha...
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Minimum Payment Due”
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy” and “American Estrangement,” a finalist for the L...
Greg Jackson Reads “The Honest Island”
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Jackson reads his story “The Honest Island,” from the November 11, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jackson is the author of a story collection, ...
Paul Yoon Reads “War Dogs”
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Yoon reads his story “War Dogs,” from the October 28, 2024, issue of the magazine. Yoon is the author of five books of fiction, including the...
Joshua Cohen Reads “My Camp”
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Cohen reads his story “My Camp,” from the October 21st, 2024, issue of the magazine. Cohen’s books include the novels “Witz,” “Movi...
Matthew Klam Reads “Hi Daddy”
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Klam reads his story “Hi Daddy,” from the October 14th, 2024, issue of the magazine. Klam, a winner of the Robert Bingham/PEN Award, is th...
Bonus: The Fiction Podcast: Jennifer Egan Reads Lore Segal
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story in the magazine’s October 7th, 2024, issue is “Stories About Us” by Lore Segal. Segal wasn’t able to read her story for the podcast....
Allegra Goodman Reads “Ambrose”
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Allegra Goodman reads her story “Ambrose,” from the September 30, 2024, issue of the magazine. Goodman has published two story collections and sev...
Hugo Hamilton Reads “Autobahn”
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hugo Hamilton reads his story “Autobahn,” from the September 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hamilton, a winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Lit...
Bryan Washington Reads “Last Coffeehouse on Travis”
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Washington reads his story “Last Coffeehouse on Travis,” from the September 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Ernest J. Gaine...
Sigrid Nunez Reads “Greensleeves”
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sigrid Nunez reads her story “Greensleeves,” from the September 9, 2024, issue of the magazine. Nunez is the author of a memoir and nine novels, i...
Yiyun Li Reads “The Particles of Order”
25 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yiyun Li reads her story “The Particles of Order,” from the September 2, 2024, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, ...
Akhil Sharma Reads “The Narayans”
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Li...
Sam Lipsyte Reads “The Naturals”
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s issue of The New Yorker is an archival issue, and we’d like to accompany it with an episode of the Writer’s Voice featuring an archi...
Caleb Crain Reads “Clay”
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Caleb Crain reads his story “Clay,” from the August 12, 2024, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels,...
Nell Freudenberger Reads “Attila”
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nell Freudenberger reads her story “Attila,” from the August 5, 2024, issue of the magazine. Freudenberger is the author of five books of fiction,...
Sarah Braunstein Reads “Abject Naturalism”
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Braunstein reads her story “Abject Naturalism,” from the July 29, 2024, issue of the magazine. Braunstein is the author of two novels, “Th...
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Freedom to Move”
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Freedom to Move,” from the July 22, 2024, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of three novels, “Walkin...
Sally Rooney Reads “Opening Theory”
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sally Rooney reads her story “Opening Theory,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Rooney is the author of three novels, “Con...
Annie Proulx Reads “The Hadal Zone”
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Annie Proulx reads her story “The Hadal Zone,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Proulx’s works of fiction include the nove...
Tessa Hadley Reads “Vincent’s Party”
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tessa Hadley reads her story “Vincent’s Party,” from the July 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published twelve books of fiction, incl...
Roddy Doyle Reads “The Buggy”
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Roddy Doyle reads his story “The Buggy,” from the June 24, 2024, issue of the magazine. Doyle is the author of sixteen books of fiction, including...
Camille Bordas Reads “Chicago on the Seine”
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Camille Bordas reads her story “Chicago on the Seine,” from the June 17, 2024, issue of the magazine. Bordas published two novels in France. Her f...
Lore Segal Reads “Beyond Imagining”
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lore Segal reads her story “Beyond Imagining,” from the June 10, 2024, issue of the magazine. Segal’s most recent books are “The Journal I Did...
Thomas McGuane Reads “Thataway”
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas McGuane reads his story “Thataway,” from the May 27, 2024, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published more than a dozen books of fiction,...
André Alexis Reads “Consolation”
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
André Alexis reads his story “Consolation,” from the May 20, 2024, issue of the magazine. Alexis, a playwright and fiction writer, received the W...
Simon Rich Reads “We’re Not So Different, You and I”
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Rich reads his story “We’re Not So Different, You and I,” from the May 13, 2024, issue of the magazine. Rich has published eight books of ...
Cynan Jones Reads “Pulse”
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cynan Jones reads his story “Pulse,” from the May 6, 2024, issue of the magazine. Jones is the author of six books of fiction, including, most rec...
Joyce Carol Oates Reads “Late Love”
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Kevin Barry Reads “Finistère”
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Barry reads his story “Finistère,” from the April 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Barry is the author of six books of fiction, including t...