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Do You Know Where You Are? Updated: 2011-11-06 18:00:00 Description: The story that started it all for “Bright Lights, Big City” author Jay McInerney. “It’s Six A.M., Do You Know Where You Are?,” is performed by Jeremy Shamos. And Montana-born Mailie Meloy conjures the beauty of her...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dogs and Dates Updated: 2011-10-30 17:00:00 Description: Two stories from the new media venture Electric Literature: “Sir Henry,” Lydia Millet’s charming tale of a dog walker with very high standards and his elegant charges is rendered tenderly by John Lithgow, and comic Mike Birbiglia an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Saints and Sinners Updated: 2011-10-23 17:00:00 Description: Edna O’Brien’s devastating stories are lyrical and direct, and, like her native Ireland, intertwine love, sex, war, and death in complex ways. On this program we present “Sinners,” read by "Sex in the City" alum Cyn...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Love in Real Life Updated: 2011-10-16 17:00:00 Description: Love, fantasy, and reality blend intriguingly in Kat Howard’s “A Life in Fictions,” performed by Marin Ireland, and in best-selling author Neil Gaiman’s “The Thing About Cassandra,” performed by Josh Hamilton....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Music and a Minotaur Updated: 2011-10-09 17:00:00 Description: Author Juan Martinez was inspired by weird dot.com start-ups to invent the craziest business ever—a literary karaoke bar, in “Customer Service at the Karaoke Don Quixote,” read by Nate Corddry. And “Rocky Horror Picture&...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD THE WORLD OF ETGAR KERET Updated: 2011-10-02 17:00:00 Description: The new season of SELECTED SHORTS begins with a program devoted to the darkly humorous Israeli writer Etgar Keret, whose playful but subversive stories, in which harsh reality often topples into fantasy, have earned him an international following.&nb...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A SAMPLING OF SHORTS Updated: 2011-09-27 16:00:00 Description: The new season of SELECTED SHORTS begins this week, and we’re promoting it with behind-the-scenes listen to our hosts, our authors, and our stories. Listen as Stephen Colbert introduces, and Neil Gaiman admits to being addicted to, all th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD LOSS AND RECOVERY Updated: 2011-09-25 17:00:00 Description: The program begins with Israeli author Etgar Keret’s darkly comic tale of a professional hit man whose latest assignment calls him to question his line of work. Leonard Nimoy reads. Next, “Lost and Found,” Colson Whitehead&rsq...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Things They Carried Updated: 2011-09-18 17:00:00 Description: “The Things They Carried” is a powerful fictional depiction of the reality of America’s doomed enterprise in Vietnam. It is the title story of a book in which O’Brien follows one platoon of grunts, and its fantastic lite...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Creatures of the Night Updated: 2011-09-09 10:00:00 Description: The stories you will hear in this hour are tales that center on the time after sunset, but they come from very different worlds. First, two darkly comic takes on the vampire genre, Stephen King’s “Popsy”--about a thug who choo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD New York “Lost and Found” Updated: 2011-09-07 19:00:00 Description: This special program recognizes the 10th anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the character of New York City. Colson Whitehead’s essay “Lost and Found” was ori...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mysterious Circumstances Updated: 2011-09-04 17:00:00 Description: Cops and robbers in a hard-boiled classic, and a comic take on burglary in the two stories on this program. Thomas Walsh’s “Double Check” was first published in Black Mask Magazine in the 1930s, and has all the earmarks o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD An Hour with Sherman Alexie Updated: 2011-08-28 17:00:00 Description: A special program celebrating Sherman Alexie and the publication of his book, War Dances. From that book, we first hear a powerful tale of a moment when life changes, “Breaking and Entering,” read by Tony Award-winner B.D. Wong.&nbs...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Forbidden Fruit Updated: 2011-08-21 17:00:00 Description: The theme of “Forbidden Fruit” has been the source of many provocative stories, two of which are featured here. In “Yurt,” by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, a schoolteacher feels that she is missing life. The incisive reader is ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tales of Terror Updated: 2011-08-14 17:00:00 Description: This program is devoted to two classic tales of terror. We begin with Bram Stoker’s “Dracula’s Guest,” which almost makes you hear the sound of the wolves on the windswept moor, as delivered by the regular performer on t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inspired by Robert Frank Updated: 2011-08-07 17:00:00 Description: This program was inspired by an exhibition of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, "Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans". Franks book first appeared in 1959, and presented an unvarnished view of American life in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Vantage Points Updated: 2011-07-31 17:00:00 Description: This program features unusual points of view. First, an excerpt from Colum McCann’s National Book Award-winning novel, Let the Great World Spin records the moment just before Philippe Petit’s now-famous walk between the Twin Towers ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Surprising Discoveries Updated: 2011-07-24 17:00:00 Description: In three stories on this program, the central characters experience surprising revelations. In Karen Russell's "Disco Papa," a grandaughter learns more about her disco-dancing grandfather than she ever knew. The reader is Susanna Thompson...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Travellers: A Wallace Stegner Tribute Updated: 2011-07-17 18:10:09 Description: A travelling saleman lost in a snow storm finds himself; a farm family dreams of an excursion to town in two stories by the American master Wallace Stegner, a vivid word painter of harsh and majestic Western landscapes and the inner struggles of peop...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Displaced Persons Updated: 2011-07-10 17:34:29 Description: "Who Am I?" is the question that unites these two stories. First, Victor Garber reads Rebecca Makkai's "The Briefcase," in which a fugitive borrows the life of another man. The second work is Julie Otsuka's part story/part mem...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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