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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Tales from the Great Epics
Mon, Nov 02, 2009
This program features powerful narratives drawn from Homer's Iliad and the "Inferno" section of Dante Aleghieri's Divine Comedy. First, Stephen Lang reads "The Death of Hector," followed by
Phylicia Rashad's rendering of Cantos IV and V of the "Inferno," in which the poet/guide Virgil leads Dante through the outer circles of Hell, and introduces him to the tragic lovers Paolo and Francesca. The third story is derived from Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Paul West's "Captain Ahab, A Novel by the White Whale," is a short but compelling meditation in the voice of the great whale, voiced by Diane Venora.
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Women on the Move
Mon, Oct 26, 2009
This program features three stories about women in transition—geographically, morally, or emotionally. Shereen Pandit's "She Shall Not Be Moved" features a political exile who experiences a crisis of conscience during an incident on a London bus. The reader is Rita Wolf. The program's second story, Andrea's Levy's "Loose Change," also takes place in London, and involves ?migr?s from different worlds. The story is read by Eve Best. Back in America, Molly Giles' whimsical story "Pie Dance," features an odd m?nage. A woman, her former husband, his current wife, and the family dog are the principal characters in this little domestic comedy. The reader Kate Burton.
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A Tale of Terror
Mon, Oct 19, 2009
This entire program is given over to a sensational psychological ghost story, "The Bees," by Dan Chaon, author of the critically acclaimed novel, Await Your Reply. The story comes from the world in between nightmare and reality, and was inspired by the idea of exploring secrets in a marriage. The reader is four-time Tony Award-winner Boyd Gaines.
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French Fictions
Mon, Oct 12, 2009
This French-themed program includes a story is by the 19th-century master Guy de Maupassant. His "A Parisian Affair" depicts the adventures of a bored provincial housewife seeking the Paris of her fantasies. It was read by stage and screen star Rene Auberjonois. Our second reading is an excerpt from Faiza Guene's novel KIFFE KIFFE TOMORROW, in which a feisty Moslem teenager comes of age in the public housing projects of a Paris suburb. It is read by Sonia Manzano. And our final story is a whimsical tale about a strange instrument, "The Secret of the Old Music," by the French aristocrat Auguste Villiers de l'Isle Adam, read by former Metropolitan Museum director Philippe de Montebello.
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Please Don?t Explain
Mon, Oct 05, 2009
This edition of SELECTED SHORTS offers four stories in which elaborate explanations just make things worse. We start with a classic by Algonquin Round Table wit Dorothy Parker, "Just a Little One," read by Broadway star Dana Ivey. Next, Jonathan Lethem's "The Spray" is a comic fantasy about the wages of infidelity. It is read by Tony Award-winner Robert Sean Leonard. Indie film star Parker Posey reads Miranda July's bittersweet story "The Swim Team, and Tim Blake Nelson rounds things out with a bold rendering of David Sedaris' "Jesus Shaves," in which Sedaris tackles French and tries to explain the Easter Bunny.
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