Selected 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 ArticleLand of Oz
Israeli novelist and essayist, Amos Oz, talks about his new collection of short stories: Scenes from Village Life.
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 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 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 ArticleJhumpa 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.
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