The story in The New Yorker’s November 27, 2023, issue is “Beauty Contest,” by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Steven Snyder. Ogawa was not able to read her story for The Writer’s Voice, but, on a recent episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, the writer Madeleine Thien read and discussed Ogawa’s 2004 story “The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain,” and we wanted to share that episode with you instead. We hope you enjoy it.
Cynan Jones Reads “Pulse”
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Kevin Barry Reads “Finistère”
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Bozo”
Mohammed Naseehu Ali Reads “Allah Have Mercy”
Zach Williams Reads “Neighbors”
Joseph O’Neill Reads “The Time Being”
Fiona McFarlane Reads “Hostel”
Thomas Korsgaard Reads “The Spit of Him”
Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “On the Night of the Khatam”
Addie Citchens Reads “That Girl”
Patrick Langley Reads “Life with Spider”
David Means Reads “Chance the Cat”
Joy Williams Reads “The Beach House”
Greg Jackson Reads “Wagner in the Desert”
Rivka Galchen Reads “Crown Heights North”
Caleb Crain Reads “Keats at Twenty-Four”
Teju Cole Reads “Incoming”
Sheila Heti Reads “According to Alice”
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