Discuss “The Golden Boy” by Daniyal Mueenuddin
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[We meet every Sunday after a new New Yorker magazine is published.]
Greetings, Fictioneers!
On Sunday, November 30th, 2025 at 4 pm CST/5 pm EST/3 pm MST/2 pm PST, at Zoom link https://bit.ly/cehcsunday, we will discuss the New Yorker Fiction story from the issue dated December 1, 2025: “The Golden Boy” by Daniyal Mueenuddin (The-nee-yaal Moo-ee-noo-deen, per [BOOKBROWSE.com)](https://www.bookbrowse.com/authors/author_pronunciations/detail/index.cfm/author_number/1659/daniyal-mueenuddin). Mueenuddin’s work last appeared in the New Yorker with “Muscle”, a novella published in 2021.
Reader/listener beware: this is a tad longer than last week’s.
- Read “The Golden Boy” at this link. Try a private or incognito window if blocked by the New Yorker's paywall or through the Libby app via your local public library “card”.
- Want to listen to it? Use the “Listen to this story” audio module on the story page (66 minutes at 1x speed) or at this link (1:07:54 with intro and ad(s)).
- An author interview, “Daniyal Mueenuddin on the Great Curve of History” is at this link.
"Daniyal Mueenuddin (Urdu: دانیال معین الدین; born 1963) is a Pakistani-American author who writes in English. His short story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, has been translated into sixteen languages, and won The Story Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and other honors and critical acclaim.
“Born in Los Angeles, USA, he spent his childhood in Pakistan. At the age of thirteen he moved back to the US, where he received higher education and worked as a journalist, director, lawyer, and businessman, before finally devoting his efforts to writing.
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"His first published story was "Our Lady of Paris" published in Zoetrope: All-Story in Fall 2006. This gained the attention of a literary agent, Bill Clegg, who then helped him to publish a story in Granta and three stories in The New Yorker. Mueenuddin's first collection of stories In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was published in February 2009 (four new stories, plus the four previously published). Mueenuddin's writing is influenced by Anton Chekov, "I like the Russians, like everyone else. I am constantly reading Chekov. I am never not reading Chekov."
- from Wikipedia English's Daniyal_Mueenuddin page , footnote marks and links removed.