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PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast

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PRI Selected Sorts, May 13, 2009
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Food and Flight


Sun, Feb 05, 2012

Taste buds rule on this program featuring two tales involving strong feelings about food.  First, T.C. Boyle’s outlandish “Rapture of the Deep,” in which Jacques Cousteau’s temperamental French cook has had enough of “poisson, poisson, poisson.”  SHORTS host Isaiah Sheffer reads.  Then for dessert, author Larry Woiwode wants an orange.  The reader is Michael Keck.

This program begins with a classic by the godfather of modern American short stories, Raymond Carver, the much anthologized “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” in which two hard-drinking couples review their lives and loves.  The reader is Leonard Nimoy.  Dorothy Thomas is an early 20^th century writer.  Her charming story
“The Getaway,” about an overwhelmed mom trying to have fling, despite her tenacious son, was first published in The New Yorker. The reader is Mia Dillon.

Two stories by internationally acclaimed Japanese author Haruki Murkami, author of 1Q84, that demonstrate his gift for making the events and details of everyday life surreal and uncanny.  In “Lederhosen,” a long marriage breaks up over a pair of shorts!  The reader is TV and off-Broadway star Aasif Mandvi.    “Ice Man,” depicts a very different marriage, between a young woman and an icy being who holds the world’s past frozen in his body.  The reader is “Third Rock from the Sun’s” Jane Curtin.

A Russian troika—humor, tragedy, and magic are featured in three stories.  In Isaac Babel’s “My First Goose” an intellectual Jewish soldier has to prove his barbarism to be accepted by his troop.  In Anton Chekhov’s “Rothschild’s Fiddle,” a miserable personality rediscovers his humanity, and in between, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has created a strange fairy tale in which three lost souls become a family.  The readers are Joe Morton, Denis O’Hare, and Nina Arianda. 

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