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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

    Sally Rooney Reads “Opening Theory”

    Sally Rooney Reads “Opening Theory”

    Sally Rooney reads her story “Opening Theory,” from the July 8 & 15, 2024, issue of the magazine. Rooney is the author of three novels, “Conversations with Friends,” “Normal People,” and “Beautiful World, Where Are You.” A new novel, “Intermezzo,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in September.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Annie Proulx Reads “The Hadal Zone”

    Annie Proulx Reads “The Hadal Zone”

    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 novels “That Old Ace in the Hole” and “Barkskins,” and three collections of Wyoming stories, “Close Range,” “Bad Dirt,” and “Fine Just the Way It Is.” She is a winner of the pen/Faulkner Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, among other awards.

    • 1 hr 13 min
    Tessa Hadley Reads “Vincent’s Party”

    Tessa Hadley Reads “Vincent’s Party”

    Tessa Hadley reads her story “Vincent’s Party,” from the July 1, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hadley has published twelve books of fiction, including the novel “Free Love” and the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral,” which came out last year. She is a winner of the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize.

    • 54 min
    Roddy Doyle Reads “The Buggy”

    Roddy Doyle Reads “The Buggy”

    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 the Booker Prize-winning novel “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,” and the story collection “Life Without Children.” A new novel, “The Women Behind the Door,” will be published in September.

    • 19 min
    Camille Bordas Reads “Chicago on the Seine”

    Camille Bordas Reads “Chicago on the Seine”

    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 first novel in English, “How to Behave in a Crowd,” came out in 2017, and a new novel, “The Material,” was published this month. 

    • 35 min
    Lore Segal Reads “Beyond Imagining”

    Lore Segal Reads “Beyond Imagining”

    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 Not Keep: New and Selected Writing” and “Ladies’ Lunch and Other Stories,” which came out last year.

    • 28 min

Customer Reviews

4.3 out of 5
1.8K Ratings

1.8K Ratings

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How can o read my stories on here?

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Brilliant. Story, voice, pacing, breathtaking … everything I love in storytelling

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Maybe another reader...

I eagerly await each podcast in this series. While not all authors are great readers, most convey the meaning and mood in an authentic and personalized way, and leave me thinking about their stories for hours afterward. But a good writer does not necessarily a good reader make. Some are unlistenable, often due to unrelenting vocal fry, monotone pitch, thick accents, bursts of three or four words with no flow to the phrasing. Or, as in this week’s episode, the reader over-enunciates each word as if he is using voice recognition software or is reading words he doesn’t understand (but he wrote it!) Couldn’t listen to it.

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