The 7 Best The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker Podcast Episodes
1) Zadie Smith Reads "The Lazy River"
Zadie Smith reads her story from the December 18th & 25th, 2017, issue of the magazine. Smith is the author of five novels, including "NW" and "Swing Time." Her essay collection "Feel Free" will be pu...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Lauren Groff Reads “Dogs Go Wolf”
What the storm had erased was the silence from the other cabin. For hours, there had been no laughing, no bottle caps falling, none of the bickering that the girls had grown used to over the past two ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Thomas McGuane Reads "Riddle"
Thomas McGuane reads his story from the November 13, 2017, issue of the magazine. McGuane has published thirteen books of fiction, including the story collections "Gallatin Canyon" and "Crow Fair." A ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) Zadie Smith Reads "Crazy They Call Me"
Take back your mink, take back your pearls. But you don’t sing that song, it’s not in your key. Let some other girl sing it.The type who gets a smile from a cop even if she’s crossing Broadway in her ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Hari Kunzru Reads “A Transparent Woman”
Hari Kunzru reads his story from the July 6 & 13, 2020, issue of the magazine. Kunzru is the author of five novels, including “Gods Without Men” and “White Tears.” A new novel, “Red Pill,” from which ...Show More
6) Robert Coover Reads "The Hanging of the Schoolmarm"
“The schoolmarm’s just showing off again, making their brains ache, unrepentant criminal that she is.”
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) George Saunders Reads “Thursday”
George Saunders reads his story “Thursday,” which appeared in the June 12, 2023, issue of the magazine. Saunders won the Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel “Lincoln in the Bardo.” He is the author of ...Show More
8) David Wright Faladé Reads “Amarillo Boulevard”
David Wright Faladé reads his story “Amarillo Boulevard,” from the October 6, 2025, issue of the magazine. Wright Faladé, the recipient of a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award, is the author of a...Show More
9) Rivka Galchen Reads “Unreasonable”
Rivka Galchen reads her story “Unreasonable,” from the September 29, 2025, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations"...Show More
10) T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Pool”
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 Story and the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story, among...Show More