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April 18, 2013

Etgar and Gary Answer!

Taking questions we gathered from fans on social media, these good friends discussed oh-so-many things.

March 20, 2013

New Digital Humor Collection

It’s the end of March and winter won’t quit. Just found out I need root canal. The deli where I buy my Lotto ticket had a million dollar winner. It wasn’t me. Argh, I could use a laugh.

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February 16, 2013

Guest host Cynthia Nixon presents readings of three stories whose characters hope for love. In Rick Bass’s “Fires” a rural recluse is ignited by a long-distance runner. “Fires” is set in a remote part of Northern Montana, and literary commentator Hannah Tinti notes that Bass is an ardent environmentalist as well as a fiction writer. [...]

February 12, 2013

Wanting More with Guest Host Neil Gaiman

In D.H. Lawrence’s classic,”The Rocking Horse Winner,” a young boy tries to help a family obsessed by money. In the show, SHORTS literary commentator and guest host Gaiman discuss its unusual qualities. Unlike Lawrence’s well-known novels of class conflict and adult desire, like Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Women in Love, this tale has a fairy-tale [...]

December 28, 2012

Comic Tales

Guest host John Lithgow raises the curtain on five comic tales, classic and cutting-edge. First, New Yorker writer and Algonquin Round Table regular Dorothy Parker describes the hangover from hell in “You Were Perfectly Fine.” First published in 1929, this hilarious morning-after story of a young man waking up from a bender wears well, and [...]

December 22, 2012

A Father’s Story

Zadie Smith turns back time in this story of a memorable chance encounter between two veterans down on their luck. This program features a single story from the critically acclaimed novelist Zadie Smith, whose works include White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, and her most recent novel, NW. “Hanwell in Hell” was first published [...]