The New Yorker: Fiction

Nathan Englander Reads John Cheever’s “The Enormous Radio” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jennifer Egan reads Mary Gaitskill's "The Other Place." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

T. C. Boyle reads two short stories by Donald Barthelme: “Game” and “The School.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paul Theroux reads "The Letter Writers," by Elizabeth Taylor, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1958. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jonathan Safran Foer reads Amos Oz's "The King of Norway," which first appeared in The New Yorker in 2011. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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, Le...

Rick Bass reads "Ice," by Thomas McGuane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donald Antrim reads "Work," by Denis Johnson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gary Shteyngart reads "Paper Losses," by Lorrie Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Robert Coover reads "The Daughters of the Moon," by Italo Calvino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard Ford reads "The State of Grace," by Harold Brodkey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Margaret Atwood reads "Voices Lost in Snow," by Mavis Gallant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Edwidge Danticat reads "Girl" and "Wingless," by Jamaica Kincaid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Francisco Goldman reads "Clara," by Roberto Bolano. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tony Earley reads "Love," by William Maxwell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hisham Matar reads "Shakespeare's Memory," by Jorge Luis Borges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David Sedaris reads "Roy Spivey," by Miranda July. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sherman Alexie reads "The Lesson," by Jessamyn West. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this month's fiction podcast, Tessa Hadley reads "City Lovers," a story by the South African writer and 1991 Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. The story, which was published in The New Yorker in 1975, focusses on a love affair between a white man and a "colored" woman in Apartheid South Africa. It's deeply political in its details--the man is a geologist at a mining company, the couple's affa...

Maile Meloy reads Laurie Colwin's "Mr. Parker" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "Mr. Parker" was published in the April 14, 1973, issue of The New Yorker and can be found in "Passion and Affect." Maile Meloy's novels include "Liars and Saints" and "A Family Daughter." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

James Salter reads Reynolds Price's "His Final Mother" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "His Final Mother" was published in the May 21, 1990, issue of The New Yorker and can be found in "Reynolds Price: The Collected Stories." James Salter's novels include "The Hunters" and "Light Years." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dave Eggers reads Roddy Doyle's "Bullfighting," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "Bullfighting" was published in the April 28, 2008, issue of The New Yorker and can be found in "Bullfighting: Stories." Dave Eggers's new novel, "A Hologram for the King," comes out this month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matthew Klam reads Charles D'Ambrosio's "The Point" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "The Point" was published in the October 1, 1990, issue of The New Yorker and was the title story of D'Ambrosio's first collection. Matthew Klam's most recent book of stories is "Sam the Cat." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Colm Toibin reads Sylvia Townsend Warner's "The Children's Grandmother," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "The Children's Grandmother" was published in the November 25, 1950, issue of The New Yorker and can be found in "Winter in the Air and Other Stories." Colm Toibin's most recent collection of stories is "The Empty Family." Learn more about your ad choice...