The preeminent short fiction series since 1915, The Best American Short Stories continues to dazzle and delight with its rich collection of talent, chosen each year by a distinguished master of the form.

Continuing and enhancing the Caedmon tradition of bringing the greatest literature to vibrant audio life, here are stories that have echoed though the years, brilliantly performed by an array of renowned actors, as well as the authors themselves.

Author, novelist and literary critic John Updike will be our guest for In Depth on December 4th.

he extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had.

John Updike talks about Terrorist.

John Updike, a genius at creating uncannily vivid mirror images of American life, is at his best in this final episode of the extraordinary "Rabbit" saga.

John Updike's twentieth novel, like his first, The Poorhouse Fair (1959), takes place in one day...

From John Updike to Sarah Orne Jewett to James Thurber, New England has been home and muse to many...

An extraordinary novel from multiple award winner John Updike--the story of 18-year-old Ahmad, whose devotion to Allah and the sacred words of the Qur'an, as revealed to him by the local imam, leads him to commit himself to an act of terror.

An extraordinary novel from multiple award winner John Updike--the story of 18-year-old Ahmad, whose devotion to Allah and the sacred words of the Qur'an, as revealed to him by the local imam, leads him to commit himself to an act of terror.

Here is life as we live it, in twenty-two stories of uncommon beauty and pathos from a master storyteller at the peak of his brilliant career.

John Updike's twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement in the rather geriatric community of Haskells Crossing, Massachusetts.