Podcast:The New Yorker: Fiction Published On: Sun Feb 01 2026 Description: Tessa Hadley joins Deborah Treisman to read “Gold Watch,” by John McGahern, which was published in The New Yorker in 1980. Hadley has published thirteen books of fiction, including the story collections “Bad Dreams” and “After the Funeral,” and the novella “The Party.” She won a Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction in 2016. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices