PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast
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It's story time for adults with NPR's award-winning series of short fiction read by the stars of stage and screen. Recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in NYC and on tour. A co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio.
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PRI Selected Sorts, May 13, 2009
Reviewer: charisme
Wow! I don't know how I had missed this! I am an avid audio book, listener... I love to listen!
These were so interesting, funny and entertaining... I loved each story! They are not too long, not too short. Very enjoyable!
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Inspired by Robert Frank
Mon, Feb 08, 2010
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." Frank's book first appeared in 1959, and presented an unvarnished view of American life in all its hope, despair, and diversity. Our program includes two stories inspired by pictures in the exhibition; a rollicking poem by Frank's friend Allen Ginsberg; and stories by two contemporary ?migr?s: Alexsandar Hemon ("Good Living," read by Boyd Gaines) and
Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie ("The Thing Around Your Neck," read by Condola Rashad.)
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Vantage Points
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
This program features unusual points of view. First, an excerpt from Colum McCann's National Book Award-winning novel, >em< Let the Great World Spin< /em> records the moment just before Philippe Petit's now-famous walk between the Twin Towers in 1974. The reader is Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell. Second, the narrator of Sherman Alexie's "Salt" is a substitute obituary-writer for his local Washington State newspaper. The reader is Oscar nominee David Strathairn.
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Surprising Discoveries
Mon, Jan 25, 2010
In three stories on this program, the central characters experience surprising revelations. In Karen Russell's "Disco Papa," a granddaughter learns more about her disco-dancing grandfather than she ever knew. The reader is Susanna Thompson. In Andrew Porter's "Departure," read by Khris Lewin, urban and Amish teens clash in a Pennsylvania suburb. Our final story on this program, "Waiting for Rusty," is surprising tale of crime, loyalty, and betrayal first published in1939. Ted Marcoux reads William Cole's noir classic.
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Travelers: A Wallace Stegner Tribute
Mon, Jan 18, 2010
Both stories on this program are by the American master Wallace Stegner, a vivid word painter of harsh and majestic Western landscapes and the inner struggles of the people who inhabit them. Each of these stories is connected to automobiles and each depicts a spiritual as well as a physical journey. Jack Davidson reads "The Traveler", and Davidson, Lillo Way, and SHORTS host Isaiah Sheffer read "Goin' to Town."
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Displaced Persons
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
"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. An interview with Makkai follows the reading. The second work is Julie Otsuka's part story/part memoir, "Diem Perdidi, a poignant portrait of her mother's heartbreaking and gradual loss of memory. The reader is Jayne Atkinson.
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Literature
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