
Insights from recent episode analysis
Audience Interest
- literary fiction
- author interviews
Podcast Focus
- fiction readings
- editor conversations
Publishing Consistency
- 19 years active
- weekly episodes
Platform Reach
- available on major platforms
- potentially wide audience
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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 31 chart positions in 31 markets.
By chart position
- 🇺🇸US · Books#9300K to 1M
- 🇨🇦CA · Books#10300K to 1M
- 🇬🇧GB · Books#11300K to 1M
- 🇦🇺AU · Books#11300K to 1M
- 🇩🇪DE · Books#37100K to 300K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
880K to 2.9M🎙 Weekly cadence·230 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
1.8M to 5.8M🇺🇸17%🇨🇦17%🇬🇧17%+28 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
704K to 2.3M
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Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Jun 1, 2026
Unknown duration
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber
May 1, 2026
1h 27m 06s
Valeria Luiselli Reads Julio Cortázar
Apr 1, 2026
1h 11m 42s
Daniyal Mueenuddin Reads Peter Taylor
Mar 1, 2026
1h 03m 11s
Tessa Hadley Reads John McGahern
Feb 1, 2026
1h 22m 53s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/1/26 | ![]() Han Ong Reads Lyudmila Ulitskaya | Han Ong joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “The Fugitive,” by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, which was published in The New Yorker in 2014. Ong is the author of numerous plays and of the novels “The Disinherited” and “Fixer Chao.” “Fixer Chao” was first published in 2001 and will be reissued this July by Outsider Editions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Reads Joan Silber✨ | fictionliterature+3 | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum | The New YorkerEvolution+3 | — | Sarah Shun-lien BynumJoan Silber+4 | — | 1h 27m 06s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() Valeria Luiselli Reads Julio Cortázar✨ | literaturefiction+4 | Valeria Luiselli | The New YorkerThe Night Face Up+4 | — | Valeria LuiselliJulio Cortázar+5 | — | 1h 11m 42s | |
| 3/1/26 | ![]() Daniyal Mueenuddin Reads Peter Taylor✨ | literaturefiction+3 | Daniyal Mueenuddin | The New YorkerTwo Pilgrims+2 | — | Daniyal MueenuddinPeter Taylor+3 | — | 1h 03m 11s | |
| 2/1/26 | ![]() Tessa Hadley Reads John McGahern✨ | fictionliterature+3 | Tessa Hadley | The New YorkerGold Watch | — | Tessa HadleyJohn McGahern+5 | — | 1h 22m 53s | |
| 1/1/26 | ![]() Bryan Washington Reads Yiyun Li✨ | fictionliterature+3 | Bryan Washington | The New YorkerA Small Flame+4 | — | Bryan WashingtonYiyun Li+5 | — | 1h 16m 55s | |
| 12/1/25 | ![]() Miriam Toews Reads Raymond Carver✨ | literaturefiction+3 | Miriam Toews | The New YorkerElephant+5 | — | Miriam ToewsRaymond Carver+5 | — | 1h 02m 05s | |
| 11/1/25 | ![]() Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace✨ | fictionliterature+3 | Adam Levin | The New YorkerBackbone+4 | — | Adam LevinDavid Foster Wallace+4 | — | 1h 06m 21s | |
| 10/1/25 | ![]() Karen Russell Reads Louise Erdrich✨ | fictionliterature+3 | Karen Russell | The New YorkerThe Stone+4 | — | Karen RussellLouise Erdrich+3 | — | 49m 19s | |
| 9/1/25 | ![]() Victor Lodato Reads Denis Johnson✨ | fictionliterature+3 | Victor Lodato | The New YorkerThe Largesse of the Sea Maiden | — | Victor LodatoDenis Johnson+5 | — | 1h 30m 37s | |
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| 8/1/25 | ![]() Lauren Groff Reads Elizabeth Hardwick✨ | literaturefiction+3 | Lauren Groff | The FaithfulFates and Furies+3 | Gainesville, Florida | Lauren GroffElizabeth Hardwick+5 | — | 1h 12m 03s | |
| 7/1/25 | ![]() Souvankham Thammavongsa Reads Samanta Schweblin✨ | literaturefiction+3 | Souvankham Thammavongsa | The New YorkerThe Size of Things+3 | — | Souvankham ThammavongsaSamanta Schweblin+4 | — | 48m 30s | |
| 6/1/25 | ![]() Edwidge Danticat Reads Zadie Smith | Edwidge Danticat joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Two Men Arrive in a Village,” by Zadie Smith, which was published in The New Yorker in 2016. Danticat, a MacArthur Fellow and a winner of the Vilcek Prize in Literature, has published six books of fiction, including “Breath, Eyes, Memory,” “The Farming of Bones,” “Claire of the Sea Light,” and “Everything Inside.” Her memoir “Brother, I’m Dying” won the National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1999. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 5/1/25 | ![]() Yiyun Li Reads William Trevor | Yiyun Li joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Piano Tuner’s Wives,” by William Trevor, which was published in The New Yorker in 1995. Li has published eight books of fiction, including the novels “Must I Go” and “Book of Goose,” a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the story collection “Wednesday’s Child,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2024. A new nonfiction work, “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” will be published this month. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 4/1/25 | ![]() David Wright Faladé Reads Madeleine Thien | David Wright Faladé joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Lu, Reshaping,” by Madeleine Thien, which was published in The New Yorker in 2021. Falade is the author of the novels “Black Cloud Rising” and “The New Internationals,” and the nonfiction work “Fire on the Beach: Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers.” He’s been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2020. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 3/1/25 | ![]() Paul Theroux Reads V. S. Pritchett | Paul Theroux joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Necklace,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1958. Theroux’s nonfiction books include “The Great Railway Bazaar” and “On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey.” A winner of the James Tait Black Award and the Whitbread Prize, he has published thirty-nine books of fiction, including the novels “The Mosquito Coast” and “Burma Sahib” and the story collections “Mr. Bones” and “The Vanishing Point,” which came out earlier this year. He has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1979. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 2/1/25 | ![]() Anne Enright Reads John McGahern | Anne Enright joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Sierra Leone,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Enright, a winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, among others, has published eleven books of fiction, including the story collection “Yesterday’s Weather” and the novels “Actress” and “The Wren, The Wren.” She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2000. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 1/1/25 | ![]() Jennifer Egan Reads Margaret Atwood | Jennifer Egan joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Kat,” by Margaret Atwood, which was published in The New Yorker in 1990. Egan’s books of fiction include “The Keep,” “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” “Manhattan Beach,” and “The Candy House.” She is a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, among other honors. She has been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 1989. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 12/1/24 | ![]() Ayşegül Savaş Reads Tessa Hadley | Ayşegül Savaş joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “An Abduction,” by Tessa Hadley, which was published in The New Yorker in 2012. Savaş has published three novels, “Walking on the Ceiling,” “White on White,” and “The Anthropologists,” and one nonfiction book, “The Wilderness,” an essay and memoir about the first forty days of motherhood. A collection of stories, “Long Distance,” will come out in 2025. She has been publishing fiction in The New Yorker since 2019. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 11/2/24 | ![]() Aleksandar Hemon Reads ZZ Packer | Aleksandar Hemon joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” by ZZ Packer, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hemon, a winner of a MacArthur Fellowship and a PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, among others, is the author of eight books, including the novels “The Lazarus Project” and “The World and All It Holds,” the story collection “Love and Obstacles,” and two nonfiction works, “The Book of My Lives” and “My Parents: an Introduction.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 10/1/24 | ![]() Rebecca Makkai Reads Jhumpa Lahiri | Rebecca Makkai joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Third and Final Continent,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, which was published in The New Yorker in 1999. Makkai is the author of the story collection “Music for Wartime” and the novels “The Borrower,” “The Hundred Year House,” “The Great Believers,” for which she won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and “I Have Some Questions for You,” which was published last year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 9/1/24 | ![]() Louise Erdrich Reads Karen Russell | Louise Erdrich joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Haunting Olivia,” by Karen Russell, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Erdrich's novels include “The Round House,” which won the National Book Award in 2012, and “The Night Watchman,” which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2021. She will publish a new novel, “The Mighty Red,” this fall. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 8/1/24 | ![]() David Sedaris Reads George Saunders | David Sedaris joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Love Letter,” by George Saunders, which was published in The New Yorker in 2020. Sedaris is the author of more than a dozen books of essays, memoirs, and diaries, including, most recently, “A Carnival of Snackery” and “Happy-Go-Lucky.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 7/1/24 | ![]() Nathan Englander Reads Chris Adrian | Nathan Englander joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Every Night for a Thousand Years,” by Chris Adrian, which was published in The New Yorker in 1997. Englander is the author of five books of fiction, including the novel “kaddish.com” and the story collection “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2013. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
| 6/1/24 | ![]() André Alexis Reads Alice Munro | André Alexis joins Deborah Treisman for a special tribute to Alice Munro, who died in May at age ninety-two. Alexis reads and discusses “Before the Change,” by Munro, which was published in The New Yorker in 1998. Alexis’s works of fiction include “Fifteen Dogs,” which won the Giller Prize, “Days by Moonlight,” and the story collection “The Night Piece,” which was published in 2020. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices | — | ||||||
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