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.
Thomas McGuane Reads “Not Here You Don’t”
Karen Russell Reads “The Ghost Birds”
Esther Freud Reads “Desire”
Han Ong Reads “The Monkey Who Speaks”
George Saunders Reads “The Mom of Bold Action”
Emma Cline Reads “The Iceman”
hurmat kazmi Reads “Selection Week”
Sarah Braunstein Reads “Superstition”
Tessa Hadley Reads “Coda”
Rebecca Curtis Reads “Satellites”
Sam Lipsyte Reads “My Apology”
Camille Bordas Reads “Offside Constantly”
Bryan Washington Reads “Foster”
Rachel Heng Reads “Before the Valley”
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “A, S, D, F”
Margaret Atwood Reads “Old Babes in the Wood”
Jonas Eika Reads “Alvin”
Clare Sestanovich Reads “Separation”
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain Reads “Featherweight”
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Future Selves”
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