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New Yorker fiction writers read their stories.

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

Lauren Groff reads her story “Between the Shadow and the Soul,” from the December 16, 2024, issue of the magazine. Groff has published five novels, including “Fates and Furies” and “The Vaster Wilds,” which came out last year. Her second story collection, “Florida,” won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2018. Groff was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People this year.

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Lauren Groff Reads “Between the Shadow and the Soul”

Daisy Hildyard reads her story “Revision,” from the December 23, 2024, issue of the magazine. Hildyard, a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and of one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” awards, is the author of the novels “Emergency” and “Hunters in the Snow,” and of a nonfiction book, “The Second Body.”

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Daisy Hildyard Reads “Revision”

On this special holiday episode of the Writer’s Voice, we’ll hear a New Year’s story from the archives: “Signal,” by John Lanchester, which appeared in the April 3, 2017, issue of the magazine. Lanchester, a journalist and novelist, is the author of six books of fiction, including “Capital,” “The Wall,” and “Reality and Other Stories,” which was published in 2020.

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John Lanchester Reads “Signal”

Kanak Kapur reads her story “Prophecy,” from the January 13, 2025, issue of the magazine. Kapur teaches at Colgate University, where she is an Olive B. O’Connor fellow. Her short fiction has appeared in The Sewanee Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is working on her first novel.

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Kanak Kapur Reads “Prophecy”

Han Ong reads his story “Ming,” from the January 20, 2025, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Berlin Prize, Ong is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

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Han Ong Reads “Ming”

Sheila Heti reads her story “The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea,” from the January 27, 2025, issue of the magazine. Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novel “Pure Colour,” which won the Governor General’s Award in 2022, and “Alphabetical Diaries,” which was published last year.

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Sheila Heti Reads “The St. Alwynn Girls at Sea”

David Rabe reads his story “My Friend Pinocchio,” from the February 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Rabe is the author of more than a dozen plays, including “Sticks and Bones,” “In the Boom Boom Room,” and “Hurlyburly.” His books of fiction include “Recital of the Dog,” “Girl by the Road at Night,” and “Listening for Ghosts,” which was published in 2022.

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David Rabe Reads “My Friend Pinocchio”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads her story “Chuka,” from the February 17 and February 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Adichie’s novels include “Half of a Yellow Sun,” which won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and “Americanah,” a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. A new novel, “Dream Count,” from which this story was adapted, will be published in March.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Reads “Chuka”

Joseph O’Neill reads his story “Keuka Lake,” from the March 3rd, 2025, issue of the magazine. O’Neill is the author of one story collection and five novels, including “Netherland,” which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2009, “The Dog,” and “Godwin,” which was published last year.

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Joseph O'Neill Reads “Keuka Lake”

Colm Tóibín reads his story “Five Bridges,” from the March 10, 2025, issue of the magazine. Tóibín, a winner of the Folio Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others, has published eleven novels, including “Brooklyn,” “The Magician,” and “Long Island,” which came out last year.

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Colm Tóibín Reads “Five Bridges”

Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”

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Han Ong Reads “I Am Pizza Rat”

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