Caleb Crain Reads “Clay”

The author reads his story from the August 12, 2024, issue of the magazine.
A portrait of Caleb Crain in a collage.
Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph by Peter Terzian

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Caleb Crain reads his story “Clay,” from the August 12, 2024, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors,” which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019.