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.
Teju Cole Reads “Incoming”
Sheila Heti Reads “According to Alice”
Clare Sestanovich Reads “Our Time Is Up”
Junot Díaz Reads “The Ghosts of Gloria Lara”
Han Ong Reads “I Am Pizza Rat”
Mary Costello Reads “The Choc-Ice Woman”
Lore Segal Reads “On the Agenda”
Lara Vapnyar Reads “Siberian Wood”
Tessa Hadley on Her Years of Learning to Write
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The End Is Only a Beginning”
Karan Mahajan Reads “The True Margaret”
Jamie Quatro Reads “Yogurt Days”
Tessa Hadley Reads “The Maths Tutor”
Camille Bordas Reads “Colorín Colorado”
Paul Yoon Reads “Valley of the Moon”
Weike Wang Reads “Status in Flux”
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Civil Disturbance”
George Saunders Reads “Thursday”
Nicole Krauss Reads “Long Island”
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