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

Han Ong reads his story “Happy Days [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/happy-days-fiction-han-ong],” from the June 30, 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 [https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyH7WHjcwckpUCkCJk8xrBdUGMwnCrTySnBHs1HJcxP2i2PdHq1x]” and “The Disinherited [https://cna.st/affiliate-link/S99RnZiqgDo8vhfxbqdZfQbiYUKY89WDrDizVRneALkJDWX9Tsievc1HZQp26zwmgbzA31begG3Y78BWJJyuyHA9kTYBHF9PxSJiJQwtpoJoy6jBakPfGThUyHVFu9PRW4LAUCv].” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Yiyun Li reads her story “Any Human Heart, [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/23/any-human-heart-fiction-yiyun-li]” from the June 23, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go [https://www.amazon.com/Must-Go-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/0399589120]” and “The Book of Goose [https://www.amazon.com/Book-Goose-Novel-Yiyun-Li/dp/1250872413],” 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 book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow [https://www.amazon.com/Things-Nature-Merely-Grow-Yiyun/dp/0374617317],” was published in May. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Jim Shepard reads his story “The Queen of Bad Influences [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/16/the-queen-of-bad-influences-fiction-jim-shepard],” from the June 16, 2025, issue of the magazine. Shepard, a winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, is the author of thirteen books of fiction, including the novels “The Book of Aron [https://www.amazon.com/Book-Aron-novel-Jim-Shepard/dp/1101874317]” and “Phase Six [https://www.amazon.com/Phase-Six-novel-Jim-Shepard/dp/052565545X]” and the story collection “The World to Come [https://www.amazon.com/World-Come-Stories-Jim-Shepard/dp/1524731803].” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Louise Erdrich reads her story “Love of My Days [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/love-of-my-days-fiction-louise-erdrich],” from the June 2, 2025, issue of the magazine. Erdrich is the author of more than two dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including the novels “The Round House [https://www.amazon.com/Round-House-Novel-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0062065254],” which won the National Book Award in 2012, “The Night Watchman [https://www.amazon.com/Night-Watchman-Novel-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0062671197],” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2021, and “The Mighty Red [https://www.amazon.com/Mighty-Red-Novel-Louise-Erdrich/dp/0063277077/],” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]

Patricia Lockwood reads her story “Fairy Pools [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/fairy-pools-fiction-patricia-lockwood],” from the May 26, 2025, issue of the magazine. Lockwood is a poet, essayist, and novelist. Her memoir “Priestdaddy [https://www.amazon.com/Priestdaddy-Memoir-Patricia-Lockwood/dp/0399573267],” which came out in 2017, won the Thurber Prize, and her first novel, “No One Is Talking About This, [https://www.amazon.com/No-One-Talking-About-This/dp/0593189582]” won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2022. A new novel, “Will There Ever Be Another You [https://www.amazon.com/Will-There-Ever-Another-You/dp/0593718550],” from which this story was adapted, will come out later this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices [https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices]