Han Ong Reads “I Am Pizza Rat”

The author reads his story from the October 23, 2023, issue of the magazine.
Han Ong in blackandwhite next to an orange background with cursive writing on it.
Illustration by The New Yorker; Source photograph courtesy Han Ong

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Han Ong reads his story “I Am Pizza Rat,” which appears in the October 23, 2023, issue of the magazine. Ong, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Berlin Prize, is the author of more than a dozen plays and two novels, “Fixer Chao” and “The Disinherited.”