The New Yorker: Fiction

Yiyun Li joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Piano Tuner’s Wives [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/10/30/the-piano-tuners-wives],” by William Trevor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1995. Li has published eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go [https://www.amazon.com/Must-Go-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/0399589139]” and “Book of Goose [https://www.amazon.com/Book-Goose-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250872413],” a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child [https://www.amazon.com/Wednesdays-Child-Stories-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250338387],” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction work, “Things in Nature Merely Grow [https://www.amazon.com/Things-Nature-Merely-Grow-Yiyun/dp/0374617317],” will be published this month. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

David Wright Faladé joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Lu, Reshaping [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/lu-reshaping],” by Madeleine Thien, which was published in The New Yorker in 2021. Falade is the author of the novels “Black Cloud Rising [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1443466786]” and “The New Internationals [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802164064],” and the nonfiction work “Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195154843].” He’s been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2020. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Paul Theroux joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1958/02/15/the-necklace],” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1958. Theroux’s nonfiction books include “The Great Railway Bazaar [https://www.amazon.com/Great-Railway-Bazaar-Train-Through/dp/0618658947]” and “On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey [https://www.amazon.com/Plain-Snakes-Mexican-Journey/dp/0544866479].” A winner of the James Tait Black Award and the Whitbread Prize, he has published thirty-nine books of fiction, including the novels “The Mosquito Coast [https://www.amazon.com/Mosquito-Coast-Paul-Theroux/dp/0618658963]” and “Burma Sahib [https://www.amazon.com/Burma-Sahib-Novel-Paul-Theroux/dp/006329754X]” and the story collections “Mr. Bones [https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Bones-Stories-Paul-Theroux/dp/0544483952]” and “The Vanishing Point [https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-Point-Stories-Paul-Theroux/dp/035872225X],” which came out earlier this year. He has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1979. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Sierra Leone,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Enright, a winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, among others, has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “Yesterday’s Weather [https://www.amazon.com/Yesterdays-Weather-Anne-Enright/dp/0802144322]” and the novels “Actress [https://www.amazon.com/Actress-Novel-Anne-Enright-ebook/dp/B07TK4JH5C]” and “The Wren, The Wren [https://www.amazon.com/Wren-Novel-Anne-Enright/dp/1324005688].” She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2000. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Jennifer Egan joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Kat,” by Margaret Atwood, which was published in The New Yorker in 1990. Egan’s books of fiction include “The Keep [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400079748],” “A Visit from the Goon Squad [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307477479],” “Manhattan Beach [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476716730],” and “The Candy House [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476716765].” She is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, among other honors. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1989. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]