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A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.
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- 4 days ago1h 2m
Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff
Colm Tóibín joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Awaiting Orders,” by Tobias Wolff, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Tóibín, who is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet, has won the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. He has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the novels “Brooklyn” and “The Magician,” and the story collections “The Empty Family” and “The News from Dublin.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Sep 1, 20261h 4m
Min Jin Lee Reads Wendi Kaufman
Min Jin Lee joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. A recipient of the Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence, Lee is the author of three novels: “Free Food for Millionaires;” “Pachinko;” which was a finalist for the National Book Award, in 2017, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, in 2018; and “American Hagwon,” which was excerpted in The New Yorker and will be published in September. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Aug 1, 20261h 33m
Mohsin Hamid Reads Haruki Murakami
Mohsin Hamid joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Man-Eating Cats,” by Haruki Murakami, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hamid is the author of five novels, including “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” “Exit West,” a winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and “The Last White Man,” which was published in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Jul 1, 20261h 1m
Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane
Paul Yoon joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Hostel,” by Fiona McFarlane, which was published in The New Yorker in 2024. Yoon was one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” in 2010, and has published five books of fiction, including the novel “Run Me to Earth” and the story collection “The Hive and the Honey,” a winner of the Story Prize. A new novel, “Etna,” will be published in August. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- Jun 1, 20261h 23m
Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Fugitive,” by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Ong is the author of numerous plays and of the novels “The Disinherited” and “Fixer Chao.” “Fixer Chao” was first published in 2001 and will be reissued this July by Outsider Editions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- May 1, 20261h 27m
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Evolution,” by Joan Silber, which was published in The New Yorker in 2022. Bynum is the author of the novels “Madeleine Is Sleeping,” a National Book Award finalist, and “Ms. Hempel Chronicles”—and the story collection “Likes.” She was named one of The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” fiction writers in 2010. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- Apr 1, 20261h 11m
Valeria Luiselli Reads Julio Cortázar
Valeria Luiselli joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Night Face Up,” by Julio Cortázar, which was published in The New Yorker in 1967. Luiselli is the author of five books, including the nonfiction book “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions” and the novels “The Story of My Teeth” and “Lost Children Archive,” which won the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her new novel, “Beginning Middle End,” will be published in July. dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
- Mar 1, 20261h 3m
Daniyal Mueenuddin Reads Peter Taylor
Daniyal Mueenuddin joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Two Pilgrims,” by Peter Taylor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1963. Mueenuddin is the author of the novel “This Is Where the Serpent Lives,” which was published in January, and the story collection “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” which was published in 2009 and won both the Story Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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