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.
Ben Okri Reads “The Secret Source”
Joan Silber Reads “Evolution”
Ben Lerner Reads “Café Loup”
David Sedaris Reads “Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July
Alejandro Zambra Reads “Skyscrapers”
Sana Krasikov Reads “The Muddle”
Clare Sestanovich Reads “You Tell Me”
Han Ong Reads “Elmhurst”
Bryan Washington Reads “Arrivals”
Rachel Kushner Reads “A King Alone”
Lauren Groff Reads “To Sunland”
Etgar Keret Reads “Mitzvah”
André Alexis Reads “Houyhnhnm”
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Trash”
Joshua Ferris Reads “The Boy Upstairs”
Claire-Louise Bennett Reads “Invisible Bird”
Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “Occupational Hazards”
Mohsin Hamid Reads “The Face in the Mirror”
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nondisclosure Agreement”
Elif Batuman Reads “The Repugnant Conclusion”
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