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The New Yorker: Fiction

The New Yorker: Fiction

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A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

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  • Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane

    Paul Yoon Reads Fiona McFarlane
    Jul 1 2026

    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.

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya

    Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya
    Jun 1 2026

    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.

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber

    Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber
    May 1 2026

    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.

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    1 hr and 27 mins
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