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

Weike Wang Reads “The Dreamdrive”

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

The New Yorker

Arts, Authors, Fiction, Yorker, New, Newyorker

4.32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Weike Wang reads “The Dreamdrive,” from the May 25, 2026, issue of the magazine. Wang was chosen for the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” list in 2017, and has published three novels, “Chemistry,” which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, “Joan Is Okay,” and “Rental House.”

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0:00.0

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0:03.8

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0:48.4

Thank you. This is The Writer's Voice, new fiction from The New Yorker.

1:04.0

I'm Deborah Treesman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

1:07.1

On this episode of The Writer's Voice, we'll hear Waiky Wang read her story, The Dream Drive,

1:11.8

from the May 25th, 26th issue of the magazine.

1:15.8

Wang, who was chosen for the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 list in 2017,

1:21.2

have published three novels, Chemistry, which won the Penn Hemingway Award,

1:25.7

Joan Is OK, and Rental House. Now here's Waiky Wang.

1:33.9

The Dream Drive

1:39.4

The night it began, he'd had an unremarkable meal of chicken and rice.

1:46.9

Sure, the chicken was dry, flavorless, and the rice wet, also flavorless, but he had not found

1:53.2

the meal particularly bad, and after imbibing a large glass of cold filtered water, he'd

1:59.4

experienced no gastrointestinal bloat.

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