A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker – Deborah Treisman & Jennifer Egan

Rizzoli Bookstore welcomes Deborah Treisman, longtime fiction editor of The New Yorker, to celebrate one hundred years of short stories in the magazine—the most influential and important showcase for the form. Deborah Treisman will be in conversation with Jennifer Egan, followed by a signing.

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There is simply no A-Z like the alphabet of fiction writers who have appeared in the pages of The New Yorker in the last hundred years. A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker boasts inarguable classics like Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain," and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" alongside stunners to be rediscovered. Some stories defined a moment or a now-lost world (Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Cafeteria"); others showed us a whole new way fiction could sound and feel ("The Red Girl," by Jamaica Kincaid).

With this vivid selection, Treisman showcases how our fiction has changed over time, and reminds us that past literary fashions continue to ripple outward in the fiction we love today. What does a Donald Barthelme mean to the craft of short fiction now? What will a Yiyun Li mean to the next generation of readers and writers? This exquisite tour of the form as practiced at its highest level will leap directly into the hearts of readers of all ages, all stripes, and is a beautiful tribute to the magazine's influence on our literary culture over the last century.

Deborah Treisman has been the Fiction Editor at The New Yorker since 2003. She joined the magazine as Deputy Fiction Editor in 1997. She is the host of the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast, and the editor of the anthologies 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker and A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker: 1925-2025.

Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was recently named one of the best books of the decade by Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly and one of the best books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Book Review. Her new novel, The Candy House, a companion to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was named one of the New York Times’s 10 Best Books of 2022 and one of President Obama’s favorite reads of the year.

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