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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
Reviewer charisme
May 13, 2009
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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http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=9911210 Family Values
Sun, May 19, 2013
Guest host David Sedaris presents two stories about family pressures. Patricia Highsmith is best known as a thriller writer but “The Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Out” is a wonderful character study of a working woman nervously entertaining a judgmental sister. Tandy Croyn reads. In Tobias Wolff’s “Powder,” it’s a father and son, taking an exhilarating drive in a snow storm. SHORTS late host Isaiah Sheffer was the reader.
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What Would You Do?
Sun, May 12, 2013Guest host David Sedaris presents three stories about hard choices. In Amy Hempel’s “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried,” two old friends face death together and apart. The reader is Mary Beth Hurt. In Tobias Wolff’s “The Night in Question” a sister and brother disagree about the right thing to do. Lou Antonio reads. And Sedaris gives an hilarious performance of Frank Gannon’s “I Know What I’m Doing About All the Attention I’ve Been Getting,” about a narcissist with an existential wardrobe crisis.
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Dorothy Parker’s Wicked Pen
Sun, May 05, 2013Guest host David Sedaris presents a program of stories by Dorothy Parker, a member of the witty Algonquin Roundtable. A honeymoon disintegrates in “Here We Are,” read by Jane Alexander; a woman has one too many in a speakeasy in “Just a Little One,” read by Dana Ivey, and indie star Parker Posey describes the partner from Hell in “The Waltz.”
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A Tribute to David Rakoff
Sun, Apr 28, 2013Guest host David Sedaris presents a program celebrating the late David Rakoff, and praising him as a great reader and “lover of language.” Rakoff reads Leonard Michaels’ “Cryptology,” in which a neurotic mathematician has a strange encounter, and Roberto Bolano’s “Gomez Palacio,” which is a dead-end town where a young man’s life nevertheless takes a turn for the better.
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Passion for the Park
Sun, Apr 21, 2013Colson Whitehead, Walter Dean Myers, and Susan Cheever praise Central Park, and late baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti talks about the green fields of the mind. Readers include Leonard Nimoy, Eric Poindexter, and Debra Monk.
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