Zadie Smith Reads "Crazy They Call Me"
Take back your mink, take back your pearls. But you don’t sing that song, it’s not in your key. Let some other girl sing it.The type who gets a smile from a cop even if she’s crossing Broadway in her ...
28 Feb 201720min
Lore Segal Reads "Ladies' Lunch"
Lotte said, “I have not told Alana or Minnie that I’ve died. I thought awhile before telling Sam, but he was fine. He was really very good about it, my poor Sam.” Learn more about your ad choic...
21 Feb 201722min
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “The Prairie Wife”
Kirsten’s commute is when she really focusses on whether she has the power to destroy Lucy Headrick’s life. Yes, the question hums in the background at other moments, like when Kirsten is at the groce...
7 Feb 201742min
David Gilbert Reads “Underground”
“Love, in all forms, had turned into a kind of regret.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
31 Jan 201749min
Alix Ohlin Reads “Quarantine”
“She found it hurtful to see other people’s smiling, healthy families or, even worse, to hear about lives that seemed as fragile as her own.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...
24 Jan 201740min
Elif Batuman Reads “Constructed Worlds”
"It was a mystery to me how Svetlana generated so many opinions. Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact. Meanwhile, I went from class to class, read hundreds—thousands—of pag...
17 Jan 201750min
Yiyun Li Reads “On The Street Where You Live”
Yiyun Li reads her story “On The Street Where You Live,” from the January 9, 2017, issue of the magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
3 Jan 201745min
Camille Bordas Reads “Most Die Young”
“Within the hour, he’d packed and left, and, although it’s true that things hadn’t been great between us for a while—we’d run out of things to say to each other, and our silences were, frankly, boring...
27 Dec 201645min
