The New Yorker: Fiction

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Akhil Sharma Reads Tobias Wolff Sep 30, 2014

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Akhil Sharma joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Tobias Wolff’s “The Night In Question,” from a 1996 issue of the magazine.

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Miranda July Reads Janet Frame Sep 30, 2014

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Miranda July joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Janet Frame’s “Prizes,” from a 1962 issue of the magazine.

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Rebecca Curtis Reads Leonard Michaels Sep 30, 2014

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Rebecca Curtis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Leonard Michaels’s “The Penultimate Conjecture,” from a 1999 issue of the magazine.

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Nathan Englander Reads John Cheever Sep 30, 2014

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Nathan Englander Reads John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio”

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Jennifer Egan Reads Mary Gaitskill Mar 04, 2014

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Jennifer Egan reads Mary Gaitskill's "The Other Place."

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T. C. Boyle Reads Donald Barthelme Feb 04, 2014

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T. C. Boyle reads two short stories by Donald Barthelme: “Game” and “The School.”

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Paul Theroux Reads Elizabeth Taylor Jan 03, 2014

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Paul Theroux reads "The Letter Writers," by Elizabeth Taylor, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1958.

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Jonathan Safran Foer Reads Amos Oz Dec 03, 2013

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Jonathan Safran Foer reads Amos Oz's "The King of Norway," which first appeared in The New Yorker in 2011.

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Louise Erdrich Reads Joyce Carol Oates Nov 02, 2013

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On this month's fiction podcast, Louise Erdrich reads "Mastiff," by Joyce Carol Oates, which appeared in the magazine in 2013. Erdrich's latest book, "The Round House," won the National Book Award in 2012.

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Jonathan Lethem Reads V. S. Pritchett Oct 02, 2013

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On this month's fiction podcast, Jonathan Lethem reads "The Rescue," by V. S. Pritchett, which was first published in The New Yorker in 1973 and can be found in Pritchett's "Complete Collected Stories." (Lethem's most recent fiction in the magazine, "The Gray Goose," was excerpted from his new novel, "Dissident Gardens.") In his discussion with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, Lethem says that Pritchett is a "total sorcerer," a writer who lets readers into a world that seems stable and then "pulls the rug out from under" them, changing where the story is going and what they think of the characters. "The Rescue," which is narrated by a sixteen-year-old girl whose mother brings home an awkward boy named Ellis to help her plan the town's annual pageant, is, according to Lethem, a perfect model for the way Pritchett tends to "overturn expectations."

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