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.
Sheila Heti Reads “Just a Little Fever”
Kevin Barry Reads “The Pub with No Beer”
Tessa Hadley Reads “After the Funeral”
Zach Williams Reads “Wood Sorrel House”
Camille Bordas Reads “One Sun Only”
Claire Keegan Reads “So Late in the Day”
Kate Folk Reads “Out There”
Lauren Groff Reads “Annunciation”
Alexander MacLeod Reads “Once Removed”
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Long Distance”
Jennifer Egan Reads “What the Forest Remembers”
Adam Levin Reads “A Lot of Things Have Happened”
Madeleine Thien Reads “Lu, Reshaping”
Colin Barrett Reads “A Shooting in Rathreedane”
Kate Walbert Reads “Marriage/Quarantine”
Greg Jackson Reads “The Hollow”
Gish Jen Reads “Detective Dog”
Yiyun Li Reads “Hello, Goodbye”
Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak”
David Means Reads “The Depletion Prompts”
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