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Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

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. 

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  Greg Jackson Reads “The Honest Island”

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  Paul Yoon Reads “War Dogs”

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  Joshua Cohen Reads “My Camp”

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  Matthew Klam Reads “Hi Daddy”

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  Bonus: The Fiction Podcast: Jennifer Egan Reads Lore Segal

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  Allegra Goodman Reads “Ambrose”

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  Hugo Hamilton Reads “Autobahn”

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  Bryan Washington Reads “Last Coffeehouse on Travis”

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  Sigrid Nunez Reads “Greensleeves”

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  Yiyun Li Reads “The Particles of Order”

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  Akhil Sharma Reads “The Narayans”

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  Sam Lipsyte Reads “The Naturals”

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  Caleb Crain Reads “Clay”

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  Nell Freudenberger Reads “Attila”

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  Sarah Braunstein Reads “Abject Naturalism”