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Sunday, May 20, 2012
This program includes two stories featuring improbable events. The first, Joyce Johnson’s “The Fall of Texas&r..
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Monday, May 14, 2012
We think of this program as a literary “mix tape,” featuring two stories mingling with the music that inspired, or p..
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
In Krista MacGruder’s “Not Quite Home Alone,” a solitary woman is surprised by an intruder. The re..
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Monday, April 30, 2012
First, James Lasdun’s “A Woman at the Window,” is a cautionary tale for men who want to rescue damsels in dist..
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Each of the three works on this program, by masters Tennessee Williams, Edna O’Brien, and Flannery O’Connor, offers ..
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Monday, April 16, 2012
A couple with a rocky marriage learn a life lesson when their home is invaded, and a whole community disappears in a powerful st..
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Monday, April 9, 2012
A lot of people listen to SELECTED SHORTS in their cars. In this program, the characters are in their cars—running f..
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
A program of funny tales curated by the New Yorker humorist and journalist Ian Frazier includes a reminiscence by the late Grac..
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Monday, March 26, 2012
This program includes four pieces exploring the ideas of time, place, and identity, beginning with SHORTS host Isaiah Sheffer&rs..
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
The three stories on this program illustrate the imaginative range of this bestselling author. In “Airplane,” ..
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Monday, March 12, 2012
A program devoted to “growing up fast.” In Tobias Wolff’s “Smorgasbord,” two prep school boy..
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
A darkly comic tale about a misguided do-gooder in Haiti, Mark Kurlansky’s “The Leopard of Ti Morne” mixes fac..
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The protean Miranda July—writer, filmmaker, and visual and performance artist—interviewed people selling prized poss..
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The opening chapter of Haruki Murakami’s prodigious novel 1Q84 leads a contemporary woman to the edge of a motorway, and a..
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Monday, February 13, 2012
What if your heart is broken and your only guide is Dante? This is the premise of Allegra Goodman’s bittersweet “La ..
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