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

Cassandra Neyenesch Reads "Enough for Now"

Cassandra Neyenesch reads her story “Enough for Now [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/06/enough-for-now-fiction-cassandra-neyenesch],” from the April 6, 2026, issue of the magazine. Neyenesch is a Brooklyn-based writer and curator, who has published nonfiction in the Guardian, Public Books, and Art in America, among other places. Her début novel, “A Little Bit Bad [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1668213125/],” will be published in May. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads "Floating"

Souvankham Thammavongsa reads her story “Floating [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/30/floating-fiction-souvankham-thammavongsa],” from the March 30, 2026, issue of the magazine. Thammavongsa has published four volumes of poetry, as well as the story collection “How to Pronounce Knife [https://www.amazon.com/How-Pronounce-Knife-Souvankham-Thammavongsa/dp/0316422126]” and the novel “Pick a Color [https://www.amazon.com/Pick-Color-Novel-Souvankham-Thammavongsa/dp/0316422142/],” both of which were winners of the Giller Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Han Ong Reads “My Balenciaga”

Han Ong reads his story “My Balenciaga [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/23/my-balenciaga-fiction-han-ong],” from the March 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and of the Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, Ong is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “The Disinherited [https://www.amazon.com/Disinherited-Novel-Han-Ong/dp/0312424612/]” and “Fixer Chao [https://www.amazon.com/Fixer-Chao-Novel-Han-Ong/dp/0385552114/],” which will be reissued in July. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Addie Citchens Reads "The City Is a Graveyard”

Addie Citchens reads her story “The City Is a Graveyard, [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/16/the-city-is-a-graveyard-fiction-addie-citchens]” from the March 16, 2026, issue of the magazine. Citchens is a Mississippi Delta-born, New Orleans-based writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, “Dominion [https://www.amazon.com/Dominion-Novel-Addie-Citchens/dp/0374609330],” was published in 2025 and was short-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Yiyun Li Reads “Calm Sea and Hard Faring”

Yiyun Li reads her story “Calm Sea and Hard Faring [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/09/calm-sea-and-hard-faring-fiction-yiyun-li],” from the March 9, 2026, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0241978688]” and “The Book of Goose [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250872413],” and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250338387],” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in 2024. Her most recent book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250437970],” won this year’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]