This week's story is “The Muddle” by Sana Krasikov.
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On the August New Yorker Fiction Podcast, André Alexis reads and discusses "Waiting for Death in a Hotel" by Italo Calvino (translated, from the Italian, by Martin McLaughlin).
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“On day five, a reply came over Skype. ‘We’re alive.’ Two words in a pale-blue bubble”: a story by Sana Krasikov in The New Yorker Monday.
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The fifth story in our Summer of Flash Fiction is “Replacement Grandparent” by Kate Zambreno.
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"Roland believes that he is the initiator. But I don’t think there can be such a thing as consensual sex with a fourteen-year-old": Ian McEwan on his fiction in this week's issue.
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This week's fiction is “A Duet” by Ian McEwan.
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Akhil Sharma on rewriting his first novel.
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"All the time he had spent with her in his thoughts and, before that, all the intimidating lessons at the piano had been a rehearsal for what was about to happen": fiction by Ian McEwan in The New Yorker Monday.
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This week's Flash Fiction is “Soft Sculpture” by Lore Segal.
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"I find intuition to be an inadequate guide—probably in life, certainly in art. A true artist (not unlike a good mother) is supposed to always know what’s best for her work": Clare Sestanovich on her story in this week's issue.
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On this week's episode of the Writer's Voice podcast, Clare Sestanovich reads her story “You Tell Me,” from the August 1, 2022, issue of the magazine.
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This week's story is “You Tell Me” by Clare Sestanovich.
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"“ ‘I’ve refreshed the page a hundred times,’ she said. ‘What do I think is going to change?’ ”: a story by Clare Sestanovich in The New Yorker Monday.
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"It’s the kind of heartbreak that I habitually absorb, file away, and maybe, in due course, turn into a story": Han Ong on his story in this week's issue.
This week's Flash Fiction is “Beyond Nature” by Hugo Hamilton.
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On this week's episode of the Writer's Voice, Han Ong reads his story “Elmhurst,” from the July 25, 2022, issue of the magazine.
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This week's story is “Elmhurst” by Han Ong.
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"Shirley usually declined interpreting her own work, and likely would have waved off these questions; she always said that her work spoke for itself. But she also liked to be playful": Shirley Jackson’s son Laurence Jackson Hyman on an early story.
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"Steering a story’s vocabulary and framing toward queer prisms is always important (essential, even) to me": Bryan Washington on his story in this year's Fiction Issue.
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"I was thinking about whether the experiences of first-gen immigrants can be faithfully rendered by their children": Ling Ma on her story "Peking Duck" in the July 11 & 18, 2022, issue of the magazine.
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Last week, we launched this summer's Flash Fiction series with “A Triangle” by Giada Scodellaro.
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On this week's episode of the Writer's Voice podcast, Bryan Washington reads his story "Arrivals," from the July 11 & 18, 2022, issue of the magazine.
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The Truth About My Father: a memoir by David Wright Faladé.
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“Call Me Ishmael,” an Early Story by Shirley Jackson, in this year's Fiction Issue.
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"Wide World of Disney": a road-trip memoir by Akhil Sharma.
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This year's Fiction Issue includes Road Trip memoirs by Uwem Akpan, Yiyun Li, Akhil Sharma, and Joy Williams. Here is "Night Driving" by Uwem Akpan.
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On this week's eipsode of the Writer's Voice podcast, Rachel Kushner reads her story "A King Alone," from the July 11 & 18, 2022, issue of the magazine.
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Out today: the New Yorker's annual Fiction Issue, featuring the story “Peking Duck” by Ling Ma.
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Out today: the New Yorker's annual Fiction Issue, featuring the story “Arrivals” by Bryan Washington.
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Out today: the New Yorker's annual Fiction Issue, featuring the story “A King Alone” by Rachel Kushner.
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Arthur Miller on New York City before air-conditioning.
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The New Yorker's annual Fiction Issue is out on Monday, with fiction by Rachel Kushner, Ling Ma, Bryan Washington, and Shirley Jackson, and road-trip memoirs by Uwem Akpan, Yiyun Li, Akhil Sharma and Joy Williams.
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On the July episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Akhil Sharma reads and discusses "Zombie" by Joyce Carol Oates.
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"I think we’re all equally saved and damned, and all of our dark and light angels wrestle ceaselessly, and there will never be a clear winner even at the moment of death": Lauren Groff on her story in this week's issue.
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On this week's episode of the Writer's Voice podcast, Lauren Groff reads her story “To Sunland,” from the July 4, 2022, issue of the magazine.
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This week's story is “To Sunland” by Lauren Groff.
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