David Means Reads “Chance the

Cat”
The author reads his story from the January 22, 2024, issue of the
magazine.

With Deborah Treisman

January 15, 2024

Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph by Chris X. Carroll

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David Means reads his story “Chance the Cat,” from the January 22,
2024, issue of the magazine. Means is the author of the novel
“Hystopia” and six story collections, including “Instructions for a
Funeral” and “Two Nurses, Smoking,” which was published in 2022.

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