Jhumpa Lahiri Reads William Trevor
Jhumpa Lahiri reads the short story "A Day," by William Trevor, and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Triesman.
View ArticleW. Somerset Maugham Contemplates the Future of American Writers
In this 1950 speech given at a Books and Authors Luncheon, W. Somerset Maugham lays out his surprisingly detailed plan for a foreign academy to promote the growth of American literature.Maugham's...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Where Am I?
This program includes four pieces exploring the ideas of time, place, and identity, beginning with SHORTS host Isaiah Sheffer’s reading of Jonathan Safran Foer's “Why I’m Not Where You Are, 5/21/63,”...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Couples and Mysteries from Haruki Murakami
In the fall of 2011 we celebrated the long-awaited publication of the big novel IQ84 by the prodigious Japanese writer Haruki Murakami with a Symphony Space marathon SELECTED SHORTS program called...
View ArticleLand of Oz
Israeli novelist and essayist, Amos Oz, talks about his new collection of short stories: Scenes from Village Life.
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Tales of Terror
This program is devoted to two classic tales of terror by two masters of the genre. "Dracula’s Guest" by Bram Stoker is read by Aasif Mandvi and "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe is read...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Tales that Surprise
This program features four contemporary tales with unexpected plot twists and emotional surprises.The heroine of Amy Hempel’s road trip tale, “Jesus is Waiting,” seems to be driving away from...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Tales from the Great Epics
The great epics of literature—from those by Homer to "Beowulf" to the "Song of Roland" and Dante’s "Divine Comedy"—are not short stories. For one thing, they are all rather long. But they were intended...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Women on the Move
Three contemporary female authors, three splendid actresses and three rather different stories, each about women in transition—geographically, morally, or emotionally—make up this program.The first two...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: The Private Paradise
Finding paradise and fixing the world in stories by promising young writers and established humorists.What makes a paradise? We explore this idea in the first half of this program, which features...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Edwidge Danticat Writes of Haiti and New York
This program features works by the prodigiously talented Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat. First, “Claire of the Sea Light,” a tender and heartrending father-daughter story was her own...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Young Men on the Make
A comedian tells all in a rib-tickling memoir, and a directionless young man fishes for a life, in this edition of SELECTED SHORTS featuring two tales about young men seeking their fortunes. First, the...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Wishing You the Best
Praying to God, playing God, and mysterious ways in four tales comic and strange.The first two stories on this program are from an evening at Symphony Space hosted by the comic writer Ian Frazier,...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Tale of Terror
A man’s past envelops his present in this eerie tale by Dan Chaon.The story comes from the world in between nightmare and reality, and was inspired, Chaon tells SHORTS host Isaiah Sheffer in the...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Please Don't Explain
David Sedaris learns French, and three other tales involving elaborate explanations that only make things worse.This edition of SELECTED SHORTS offers four stories in which elaborate explanations make...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Holding Fast
Holding fast. This program features two powerful stories about moral tests and holding fast to beliefs no matter what the cost.The first story is John Biguenet’s “I Am Not a Jew,” in which a frightened...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: An Irish Ear: Colum McCann's Favorite Stories
Ultimate acts in stories selected by Colum McCann, and a sharp-edged fantasy by Molly Giles). The novelist Colum McCann, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin, was the...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Roberto Bolaño and the Writers He Admired
Roberto Bolaño is best known to American audiences as the author of the prodigious novel "2666." But this cosmopolitan Latin writer, who lived in Paris, Barcelona, and Mexico City before his death at...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Little Fellows
We indulge in a bit of word play with this program, a SELECTED SHORTS event featuring two stories about short(er) people, and two fractured fairy tales.Kim Addonizio’s “Ever After” is a bitter sweet...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Happy Families?
Family is our focus on this edition of SELECTED SHORTS. One story, Peter Taylor’s “Porte Cochere,” is about an angry father, and his children and his house, and one story, Alice McDermott’s “Enough,”...
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