The Writers' Prize

He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.

And here in the UK, it was shortlisted for the Folio Prize.

This one follows a high school student whose mother is a famous feminist author, as was Ben Lerner's.

A kind of 21st century The Sound and the Fury, a kaleidoscopic portrait that masterfully connects one family and its traumas to wider cultural dysfunction.

Wolff is also a recipient of the Rea Award for the short story and the National Medal of Arts, among other honors.

Colm Tóibín, a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among others, is a fiction writer, essayist, playwright, and poet.

He's 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.

You can download more than 230 previous episodes of The New Yorker Fiction Podcast, including episodes in which Colm Tóibín discusses work by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Mary Lavin, or subscribe to the podcast for free in Apple Podcasts.