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) Rachel Cusk Reads “Project”
Rachel Cusk reads her story “Project,” from the September 1 & 8, 2025, issue of the magazine. Cusk is the author of several works of nonfiction and twelve novels, including “Outline,” “Transit,” “Kudo...Show More
9) Miriam Toews Reads “Something Has Come to Light”
Miriam Toews reads her story “Something Has Come to Light,” from the August 25, 2025, issue of the magazine. Toews, a winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, is the author of eight novels,...Show More
10) Kiran Desai Reads "An Unashamed Proposal"
Kiran Desai reads her story “An Unashamed Proposal,” from the August 11, 2025, issue of the magazine. Desai is the author of the novels “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” and “The Inheritance of Loss,”...Show More