The New Yorker: Fiction

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 the National Jewish Book Award. He was also chosen as one of The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 in 2010.

Greg Jackson joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Safari,? by Jennifer Egan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2010. Jackson has published a story collection, ?Prodigals,? and a novel ?The Dimension of a Cave,? which was one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023. He has been publishing in the magazine since 2014.

Sterling HolyWhiteMountain joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Labyrinth,? by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. HolyWhiteMountain is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford, and grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.

In the two hundredth episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Rivka Galchen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?The Bees, Part 1,? by Aleksandar Hemon, which was published in The New Yorker in 2002. Galchen?s books include the story collection ?American Innovations? and the novel ?Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch.?

Teju Cole joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?1=1,? by Anne Carson, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Cole?s novels include ?Open City? and ?Tremor,? which was published this year.

Margaret Atwood joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Varieties of Exile,? by Mavis Gallant, which was published in The New Yorker in 1976. Atwood is the author of more than forty books of poetry and fiction, including the novels ?The Handmaid?s Tale? and ?The Testaments? and the story collection ?Old Babes in the Wood,? which was published earlier this year. This is the first episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast to be recorded in front of a live audience. It was taped at the Hot Docs podcast festival, in Toronto, on October 21, 2023.

Lucinda Rosenfeld joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Returns,? by Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Deborah Treisman, which was published in The New Yorker in 20233. Rosenfeld is the author of five novels, including ?I?m So Happy for You? and ?Class.?

Andrew O?Hagan joins Deborah Treisman to discuss ?An Actor Prepares,? by Donald Antrim, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. O?Hagan is the author of six novels, including ?The Illuminations? and ?Mayflies,? which was published in 2020 and won the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize.

David Means joins Deborah Treisman to discuss ?Face Time,? by Lorrie Moore, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Means is the author of a novel and six story collections, including ?Instructions for a Funeral? and ?Two Nurses, Smoking,? which came out in 2022.

George Saunders joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?So Late in the Day,? by Claire Keegan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2022. Saunders is the author of the novel ?Lincoln in the Bardo,? and five story collections, including ?Tenth of December? and ?Liberation Day,? which came out last year.

Ottessa Moshfegh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Two Ruminations on a Homeless Brother,? by David Means, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Moshfegh is the author of four novels, including ?My Year of Rest and Relaxation? and ?Lapvona.?

Jonas Hassen Khemiri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?A Slice of Life,? by Vladimir Nabokov, translated from the Russian text of 1925, by Dmitri Nabokov, in collaboration with the author, which was published in The New Yorker in 1976. Khemiri is a Swedish fiction writer and playwright whose novels include ?The Family Clause? and ?Everything I Don?t Remember.?

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Ill Seen Ill Said,? by Samuel Beckett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1981. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of a memoir and two story collections, the most recent of which, ?American Estrangement,? was published in 2021.

We?re pleased to announce that ?In The Dark,? the acclaimed investigative podcast from American Public Media, is joining The New Yorker and Condé Nast Entertainment. In its first two seasons, ?In The Dark,? hosted by the reporter Madeleine Baran, has taken a close look at the criminal-justice system in America. The first season examined the abduction and murder, in 1989, of eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling, and exposed devastating failures on the part of law enforcement. The second season focussed on Curtis Flowers, a Black man from Winona, Mississippi, who was tried six times for the same crime. When the show?s reporters began looking into the case, Flowers was on death row. After their reporting, the Supreme Court reversed Flowers?s conviction. Today, he is a free man. 

A third season of ?In The Dark,? which will be the show?s most ambitious one yet, is on its way. David Remnick recently sat down with Baran and the show?s managing producer, Samara Freemark, to talk about the remarkable first two seasons of the show, and what to expect in the future. To listen to the entirety of the ?In The Dark? catalogue, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Claire-Louise Bennett joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Family Walls,? by Maeve Brennan, which was published in The New Yorker in 1973. Bennett has published two books of fiction, ?Pond? and ?Checkout 19.?

Clare Sestanovich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?The Moons of Jupiter? by Alice Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1978. Sestanovich?s story collection, ?Objects of Desire,? was published in 2021.

Gary Shteyngart joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Omakase,? by Weike Wang, which was published in *The New Yorker* in 2018. Shteyngart is the author of five novels including, most recently, ?Lake Success? and ?Our Country Friends.? 

Ling Ma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Seeing Ershadi,? by Nicole Krauss, which was published in The New Yorker in 2018. Ma is the author of the novel ?Severance? and the story collection ?Bliss Montage,? which came out in September.

Jamil Jan Kochai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?All Will Be Well,? by Yiyun Li, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Kochai is the author of two books, the novel ?99 Nights in Logar,? which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the story collection ?The Haunting of Hajji Hotak,? which is a finalist for the National Book Award. He is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton.

Madeleine Thien joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain,? by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder, which was published in The New Yorker in 2004. Thien?s books include the novels ?Dogs at the Perimeter? and ?Do Not Say We Have Nothing,? which won the Governor General?s Literary Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. 

Elif Batuman joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Truth and Fiction,? by Sylvia Townsend Warner, which was published in The New Yorker in 1961. Batuman is the author of one book of nonfiction, ?The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,? and two novels, ?The Idiot? and ?Either/Or,? which was published earlier this year. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010.

André Alexis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Waiting for Death in a Hotel,? by Italo Calvino, translated, from the Italian, by Martin McLaughlin, which was published in The New Yorker in 2006. Alexis?s novels include ?Childhood,? ?Days by Moonlight,? and ?Fifteen Dogs,? which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2015.

2022 © Italo Calvino, performed with permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.

Akhil Sharma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Zombie,? by Joyce Carol Oates, which was published in The New Yorker in 1994. Sharma is the author of the novels ?Family Life? and ?An Obedient Father,? which will be reissued in a revised version this month.

Rachel Kushner joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Come Into the Drawing Room, Doris,? by Edna O?Brien, which was published in The New Yorker in 1962. Kushner is the author of three novels and most recently the essay collection ?The Hard Crowd,? which was published last year.

Camille Bordas joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?A Father-to-Be,? by Saul Bellow, which was published in The New Yorker in 1955. Bordas?s novel ?How to Behave in a Crowd,? was published in 2017

Sherman Alexie joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Where I?m Calling From,? by Raymond Carver, which was published in The New Yorker in 1982. Alexie is the author of nineteen books of fiction and poetry, including ?Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories? and the novel ?Flight.?

Gish Jen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Friends,? by Grace Paley, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Jen is the author of nine books, including the novel ?The Resisters? and the story collection ?Thank you, Mr. Nixon,? which was published in February.

Alejandro Zambra joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Loneliness,? by Bruno Schulz, translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Zambra is a Chilean poet, novelist, and story writer whose most recent novel, ?Chilean Poet,? will be published in English this month.

Kevin Barry joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?A Family Man,? by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Barry is a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the author of six books of fiction, most recently the story collection ?That Old Country Music,? which came out in 2020.

Will Mackin joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?The Falls,? by George Saunders, which was published in The New Yorker in 1996. Mackin?s first book, ?Bring Out the Dog,? was published in 2018 and won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.

Ben Lerner joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?In the Name of Bobby,? by Julio Cortázar, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Lerner is the author of seven books of fiction and poetry, including the novels ?10:04? and ?The Topeka School,? which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. 

Donald Antrim joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?The Balloon,? by Donald Barthelme, which was published in The New Yorker in 1966. Antrim is the author of three novels and the story collection ?The Emerald Light in the Air.? His memoir, ?One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival,? will be published this month.

?The Balloon? (c) 1966, by Donald Barthelme, performed with permission of the Wylie Agency, LLC.

Rebecca Curtis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey,? by Haruki Murakami, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Curtis is the author of the story collection ?Twenty Grand: and Other Tales of Love and Money.?

Ann Patchett joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?The Proxy Marriage,? by Maile Meloy, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. Patchett is the author of eight novels, including ?Commonwealth? and ?The Dutch House,? which was a finalist for last year?s Pulitzer Prize.

Susan Choi joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Found Objects,? by Jennifer Egan, which was published in The New Yorker in 2007. Choi is the author of five novels, including ?My Education? and ?Trust Exercise,? which won the National Book Award in 2019.

Ben Okri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time,? four short fiction pieces by Franz Kafka, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, which were published in The New Yorker in June of 2020. Okri is the author of two dozen books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including the novels ?The Famished Road,? which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and ?The Freedom Artist,? which was published in 2019.

Téa Obreht joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Gallatin Canyon,? by Thomas McGuane, which appeared in a 2003 issue of the magazine. Obreht is the author of two novels, ?The Tiger's Wife? and ?Inland.?

Weike Wang joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Katania,? by Lara Vapnyar, which appeared in a 2013 issue of the magazine. Wang's first novel, ?Chemistry,? won the PEN/Hemingway Award in 2018.

Douglas Stuart joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Fjord of Killary,? by Kevin Barry, which appeared in a 2010 issue of the magazine. Stuart?s first novel, ?Shuggie Bain,? won the Booker Prize in 2020.

Hisham Matar joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?One Minus One,? by Colm Tóibín, which appeared in a 2007 issue of the magazine. Matar?s most recent book, the memoir ?A Month in Siena,? came out last year.

Chang-rae Lee joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Coming Soon,? by Steven Millhauser, which appeared in a 2013 issue of the magazine. Lee?s sixth novel, ?My Year Abroad,? will be published in February.

Samantha Hunt joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?A Sheltered Woman,? by Yiyun Li, which appeared in a 2014 issue of the magazine. Hunt?s four books of fiction include the story collection ?The Dark Dark,? which was published in 2017, and ?The Seas,? for which she won the National Book Foundations?s 5 Under 35 Award in 2006.

Elizabeth Strout joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Bravado,? by William Trevor, which appeared in a 2007 issue of the magazine. Strout?s most recent book, ?Olive Again,? an Oprah?s book-club pick, was published in 2019. 

ZZ Packer joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Who Will Greet You At Home,? by Lesley Nneka Arimah, which appeared in a 2015 issue of the magazine. Packer?s story collection, ?Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,? was published in 2003.

David Gilbert joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Three Days,? by Samantha Hunt, which appeared in a 2006 issue of the magazine. Gilbert is the author of two novels, ?& Sons? and ?The Normals.?

Tommy Orange joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?The Years of My Birth,? by Louise Erdrich, which appeared in a 2011 issue of the magazine. Orange?s first novel, ?There There,? was published in 2018 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Allegra Goodman joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?No Place for You My Love,? by Eudora Welty, which appeared in a 1952 issue of the magazine. Goodman?s books include ?The Family Markowitz? and ?The Chalk Artist.? 

Bryan Washington joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?U.F.O. in Kushiro,? by Haruki Murakami, which first appeared in a 2001 issue of the magazine and was then republished in 2011, after an earthquake and tsunami devastated northern Japan. Washington?s début story collection, ?Lot,? was published last year, and his first novel, ?Memorial,? will come out in October. 

Kristen Roupenian joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss ?Afternoon in Linen,? by Shirley Jackson, which appeared in a 1943 issue of the magazine. Roupenian?s début story collection, ?You Know You Want This,? was published last year, and was just released in paperback under the title ?Cat Person and Other Stories.? 

Deborah Treisman reads and discusses ?Good People,? by David Foster Wallace, which appeared in a 2007 issue of the magazine. David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008, was the author of three short-story collections and three novels, including ?Infinite Jest,? and ?The Pale King,? which was published posthumously, in 2011, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.