Lillian Fishman Reads “Travesty”
Lillian Fishman reads her story, “Travesty,” from the May 12 & 19, 2025, issue of the magazine. Fishman is the author of the novel “Acts of Service,” which was published in 2022. She is currently at work on her second novel, from which this story was adapted. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
4 Mai 42min
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads “Nocturnal Creatures”
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh reads his story “Nocturnal Creatures,” from the May 5, 2025, issue of the magazine. Sayrafiezadeh is the author of several plays, the memoir “When Skateboards Will Be Free,” and the story collections “Brief Encounters with the Enemy” and “American Estrangement,” a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, which was published in 2021. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
27 Apr 34min
Adam Levin Reads “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie”
Adam Levin reads his story “Jenny Annie Fanny Addie,” from the April 21, 2025, issue of the magazine. Levin, a winner of the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, is the author of four books of fiction, including the novels “Bubblegum,” from 2020, and “Mount Chicago,” from 2022. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
13 Apr 19min
David Bezmozgis Reads “From, To”
David Bezmozgis reads his story “From, To,” from the April 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Bezmozgis is the author of two novels and two story collections, “Natasha and Other Stories,” which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and “Immigrant City,” which was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2019. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
6 Apr 1h
Ayşegül Savaş Reads “Marseille”
Ayşegül Savaş reads her story “Marseille,” from the April 7, 2025, issue of the magazine. Savaş is the author of three novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” “White on White,” and “The Anthropologists.” A collection of stories, “Long Distance,” will come out later this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
30 Mar 32min
Bryan Washington Reads “Hatagaya Lore”
Bryan Washington reads his story “Hatagaya Lore,” from the March 31, 2025, issue of the magazine. A winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award, Washington is the author of three books of fiction, including “Memorial” and “Family Meal.” A new novel, “Palaver,” will be published later this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
23 Mar 48min
Joyce Carol Oates Reads “The Frenzy”
Joyce Carol Oates reads her story “The Frenzy,” from the March 24, 2025, issue of the magazine. Oates, a winner of the National Humanities Medal and the Jerusalem Prize, among others, is the author of more than seventy books of fiction, including the novel “Butcher” and the story collection “Flint Kill Creek.” A new novel, “Fox,” will be published later this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
16 Mar 47min
Yiyun Li Reads “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies”
Yiyun Li reads her story, “Techniques and Idiosyncrasies,” from the March 17, 2025, issue of the magazine. Li is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “The Book of Goose,” and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction book, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published in May. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
9 Mar 44min