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.
Imbolo Mbue Reads “The Case for and Against Love Potions”
T. Coraghessan Boyle Reads “The Shape of a Teardrop”
Jonathan Lethem Reads “The Crooked House”
Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads “Good-Looking”
Jhumpa Lahiri Reads “Casting Shadows”
Ben Okri Reads “A Wrinkle in the Realm”
Lauren Groff Reads “The Wind”
Allegra Goodman Reads “A Challenge You Have Overcome”
Andrea Lee Reads “The Rivals”
Rebecca Curtis Reads “The Christmas Miracle”
Patricia Lockwood Reads “The Winged Thing”
Salman Rushdie Reads “The Old Man in the Piazza”
Rebecca Curtis Reads “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit”
George Saunders Reads “Ghoul”
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “A for Alone”
Roddy Doyle Reads “Life Without Children”
David Rabe Reads “Suffocation Theory”
Joseph O’Neill Reads “Rainbows”
Douglas Stuart Reads “The Englishman”
Susan Choi Reads “Flashlight”
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