The New Yorker: Fiction
A monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.
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On the show
- Valeria Luiselli1 ep
- Daniyal Mueenuddin1 ep
- Tessa Hadley1 ep
Also: Bryan Washington, Miriam Toews, Adam Levin, Karen Russell, Victor Lodato, Lauren Groff, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Han Ong, Paul Yoon, Min Jin Lee, Mohsin Hamid
Audience Interest
- literary fiction
- author interviews
Podcast Focus
- fiction readings
- editor conversations
Publishing Consistency
- 19 years active
- weekly episodes
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Total monthly reach
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- 🇺🇸United States · BooksHOME#9635K to 3.4M
- 🇨🇦Canada · Books#467K to 357K
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom · Books#1523K to 120K
- 🇦🇺Australia · Books#1117K to 92K
- 🇮🇪Ireland · Books#217K to 90K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
807K to 4.3M🎙 Biweekly cadence·235 episodes·Last published 3w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
1.2M to 6.1M🇺🇸79%🇨🇦8%🇬🇧3%+5 more - Active Followers
Loyal subscribers who consistently listen
461K to 2.4M
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/1/26 | Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff | Colm Tóibín joins Deborah Treisman to discuss “Awaiting Orders,” by Tobias Wolff, which was published in The New Yorker in 2005. Tóibín, who is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet, has won the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others. He has published more than a dozen books of fiction, including the novels “Brooklyn” and “The Magician,” and the story collections “The Empty Family” and “The News from Dublin.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 02m 34s | ||||||
| 9/1/26 | literatureauthor discussion+3 | Min Jin Lee | The New YorkerHelen on Eighty-Sixth Street+3 | — | Min Jin LeeDeborah Treisman+3 | — | 1h 04m 14s | ||
| 8/1/26 | literaturefiction+4 | Mohsin Hamid | The New YorkerL.A. Times+5 | — | Mohsin HamidHaruki Murakami+5 | — | 1h 33m 10s | ||
| 7/1/26 | fictionliterature+3 | Paul Yoon | The New YorkerHostel+3 | — | Paul YoonFiona McFarlane+5 | — | 1h 05m 02s | ||
| 6/1/26 | literaturefiction+3 | Han Ong | The DisinheritedFixer Chao+2 | — | Han OngLyudmila Ulitskaya+5 | — | 1h 25m 27s | ||
| 5/1/26 | fictionliterature+3 | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum | The New YorkerEvolution+3 | — | Sarah Shun-lien BynumJoan Silber+4 | — | 1h 29m 21s | ||
| 4/1/26 | literaturefiction+4 | Valeria Luiselli | The New YorkerThe Night Face Up+4 | — | Valeria LuiselliJulio Cortázar+5 | — | 1h 13m 57s | ||
| 3/1/26 | literaturefiction+3 | Daniyal Mueenuddin | The New YorkerTwo Pilgrims+2 | — | Daniyal MueenuddinPeter Taylor+3 | — | 1h 05m 26s | ||
| 2/1/26 | fictionliterature+3 | Tessa Hadley | The New YorkerGold Watch | — | Tessa HadleyJohn McGahern+5 | — | 1h 25m 08s | ||
| 1/1/26 | fictionliterature+3 | Bryan Washington | The New YorkerA Small Flame+4 | — | Bryan WashingtonYiyun Li+5 | — | 1h 19m 10s | ||
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| 12/1/25 | literaturefiction+3 | Miriam Toews | The New YorkerElephant+5 | — | Miriam ToewsRaymond Carver+5 | — | 1h 04m 20s | ||
| 11/1/25 | fictionliterature+3 | Adam Levin | The New YorkerBackbone+4 | — | Adam LevinDavid Foster Wallace+4 | — | 1h 08m 36s | ||
| 10/1/25 | fictionliterature+3 | Karen Russell | The New YorkerThe Stone+4 | — | Karen RussellLouise Erdrich+3 | — | 51m 34s | ||
| 9/1/25 | fictionliterature+3 | Victor Lodato | The New YorkerThe Largesse of the Sea Maiden | — | Victor LodatoDenis Johnson+5 | — | 1h 32m 52s | ||
| 8/1/25 | literaturefiction+3 | Lauren Groff | The FaithfulFates and Furies+3 | Gainesville, Florida | Lauren GroffElizabeth Hardwick+5 | — | 1h 14m 18s | ||
| 7/1/25 | literaturefiction+3 | Souvankham Thammavongsa | The New YorkerThe Size of Things+3 | — | Souvankham ThammavongsaSamanta Schweblin+4 | — | 50m 45s | ||
| 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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 46m 21s | ||||||
| 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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 13m 16s | ||||||
| 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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 19m 09s | ||||||
| 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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 34m 36s | ||||||
| 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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 09m 49s | ||||||
| 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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 09m 39s | ||||||
| 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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 26m 55s | ||||||
| 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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 19m 26s | ||||||
| 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 more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 21m 05s | ||||||
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What the show covers
- fiction readings
- editor conversations
- literary discussions
- author insights
Audience interests
- literary fiction
- author interviews
- story analysis
- New Yorker content
Platform reach
- available on major platforms
- potentially wide audience
- no specific platforms listed
- unknown follower count
Publishing consistency
- 19 years active
- weekly episodes
- 230 total episodes
- consistent release schedule
Chart history for The New Yorker: Fiction
Peaked at #2 in Ireland, top 10 in 8 of 50 tracked markets, currently #2 in Ireland.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | — | #2 | #2 | — |
| RO | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| Canada | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| RO | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| South Africa | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| PE | — | #7 | #7 | — |
| United States | — | #9 | #9 | — |
| Ireland | — | #9 | #9 | — |
| Australia | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| IS | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| Canada | — | #12 | #12 | — |
| Netherlands | — | #13 | #13 | — |
| PE | — | #13 | #13 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #15 | #15 | — |
| IL | — | #15 | #15 | — |
| South Africa | — | #17 | #17 | — |
| Norway | — | #20 | #20 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| GR | — | #22 | #22 | — |
| HK | — | #22 | #22 | — |
Chart Positions
50 placements across 33 markets.
Chart Positions
50 placements across 33 markets.