The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

Thank you for existing! 💜

I enjoyed this podcast, I just can’t pay for a subscription. Between the costs of rising gasoline and groceries it’s just too much.

The stories are a mixed bag— from revelatory to painfully dull. I didn’t appreciate every story but I enjoyed this podcast for years (while it was freely accessible). The paywall will not make me subscribe, it’ll stop me from engaging.

I don’t know if Constellations is a good read or not because the narrator read it with such a heavy accent, and I was annoyed with those who deprived us, perhaps, of a wonderful tale. Question: Did those who made such a decision think an accent would make it more authentic? Did you not think that when we READ it, we don’t read it with an accent?

Increasingly, after reading the New Yorker for 40 years, I find that these stories are almost deliberately written by young writers, without reflecting really any standards for plot, innovation, and delight. Too many of these stories are self-indulgent and reflect the lives of privileged people whose problems are quite frankly, boring. Too many of them are also coming out of the New York publishing system from writers who have connections or writers who have a novel coming out soon.