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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Living life to the fullest
Mon, Jun 29, 2009
In the first story on this program, Pam Houston's wry "How to Talk to a Hunte," the first-person narrator charts the bumpy path of love with a macho outdoorsman. The reader is Mia Dillon. Next, Alan Gurganus's "It Had Wings," as the title suggests, tells of an encounter between an elderly widow and a divine being. SHORTS host Isaiah Sheffer reads. "The Canoeists," by Rick Bass, conjures up a lazy day shimmering with sensual details and is read by Neil Patrick Harris. Our fourth story shows an unexpected side of the great American humorist and cartoonist James Thurber, and is read by another humorist, David Rakoff.
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Postcards from the Edge
Mon, Jun 22, 2009
Summer days invite stories about pets and gardens. Television writer Merrill Markoe's
"A Conversation with My Dogs," shows us an unusual glimpse of family life, so sit, stay, and listen. Next, Daniel Gerroll reads a story by H.H. Munro, or Saki, "The Occasional Garden," about a woman who has to make special arrangements for her garden in order not to lose face. The hilarious results give new meaning to the term "one upmanship." Finally, Ann Beattie's poignant tale, "What Was Mine" calls into question what constitutes a family. The reader is John Shea.
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Hints of madness
Mon, Jun 15, 2009
Indian writer Kiran Desai's "Sermon in the Guava Tree," follows the uneven fortunes of an ordinary man and his disgruntled family when one day he decides to retreat from a disappointing life. Paradoxically, this gives him a place in the world for the first time. The reader is Tazewell Thompson. Our second story, "Crazy Glue," by the provocative Israeli writer Etgar Keret, gives us a look at a bizarre and transformative moment in an emotionally sluggish marriage. Chris Saradon is the reader. Some examples of works created as part of Symphony Space's adult literacy program ALL WRITE! round out the program.
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Appetites for life
Mon, Jun 08, 2009
Mary Gordon's "Storytelling" features a disenchanted writer who is reanimated after an encounter with a man whose life is a form of fiction. The story is read by the stage and screen actress Lindsay Crouse, and an interview with Gordon follows. In our second story, the English novelist V.S. Pritchett's "Just a Little More," an aging man reclaims his dignity in his robust accounts of meals he remembers. The reader is Rene Auberjonois.
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A Gallant writer celebrated
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
This program celebrates the remarkable Canadian-born writer Mavis Gallant, who moved to Paris in the 1950s to write fiction in an era when this was still an uncommon choice for woman. An award-winning lifetime later, she joined us at SELECTED SHORTS to read her own story "Grippes and Poche," which chronicles an epic relationship between a wily French novelist and a relentless tax collector.
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