NPR: 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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Operation Homecoming
Mon, Jul 21, 2008
This special SELECTED SHORTS features works drawn from the remarkable volume Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families. The book may be the first documenting a war as it is still underway, in the words of ordinary men and women pushed to extraordinary insights by the weight of their experiences. The remarkable ensemble cast reading these works includes award-winning actors Joan Allen, Chris Chalk, Stephen Lang, and Matthew Modine.
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?The Eyes? have it.
Mon, Jul 14, 2008
In Edith Wharton's gripping fantasy, "The Eyes" a group of gentlemen has just finished telling ghost stories for their own amusement when their host irrevocably alters things with a personal narrative both gripping and grotesque. SHORTS host Isaiah Sheffer calls reader Charles Keating "a master of the macabre"—listen to how he comes to grips with Wharton's densely layered work.
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Food and fairy tales.
Mon, Jul 07, 2008
Award-winning actress Stockard Channing reads the classic Grimm's fairy tale, "The Old Woman in the Wood," followed by three works featuring food: Molly Giles' "Pie Dance," read by Kate Burton, maps the territory between two women involved with the same man. Host Isaiah Sheffer reads food essayist Calvin Trillin's tribute to takeout, "Grandfather Knows Best." Finally, the late Laurie Colwin's charming essay, "Why I Love Cookbooks" read by Jane Kaczmarek.
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Things in the Wrong Hands
Mon, Jun 30, 2008
Two stories by great American humorists begin this program. First, "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," James Thurber's whimsical tale of a hen-pecked husband who escapes into the adventurous recesses of his mind, is read by Dick Cavett. Second, SHORTS host Isaiah Sheffer reads Roy Blount Jr.'s "Things in the Wrong Hands," a saga about how the simplest objects can turn against you. In a change of mood, the third work is poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's first great work, "Renascence,"read by SHORTS regular Barbara Feldon. The final work on this eclectic program is "The Voter," a sharp tale of politics and conscience from the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe.
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Food, Glorious Food
Mon, Jun 23, 2008
All three of the works on this program's "menu" are food focused. "The Long Way Home" is a lovely memoir of a mother's love and sense of place by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri. It is read by Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo. Anton Chekov's "Indigestion"—the title says it all—is read by West Wing alum Bradley Whitford. The final item on the menu is a classic by the American comic master Damon Runyon. "A Piece of Pie" chronicles an epic eating contest and is read by John Shea.
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