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May 12, 2013

What Would You Do? with Guest Host David Sedaris

Guest host David Sedaris presents three stories about hard choices. Amy Hempel’s “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” is about life and death, but you wouldn’t know it at first, as two women trade hilarious zingers and rebuild an old friendship. Sedaris calls the story “beautifully devastating.” Amy Hempel’s works include At the [...]

May 5, 2013

Dorothy Parker’s Wicked Pen

Guest host David Sedaris presents a program of stories by the legendary wit, Dorothy Parker. Parker was the reigning Queen of the Algonquin Roundtable, where writers for the smart magazines of the 1920s and 1930s met for lunch and to skewer each other. Her wickedly funny stories for The New Yorker among other outlets showed [...]

April 28, 2013

A Tribute to David Rakoff

Guest host David Sedaris presents a program celebrating the late writer and actor David Rakoff. Rakoff read often for SELECTED SHORTS, and in this special tribute show, featuring two of his performances, we hear his exceptional ability to pull emotion and meaning out of a text, without getting in its way. David Sedaris, who was [...]

April 21, 2013

A Passion for the Park

This week, we celebrate Central Park and the wonderful heartbreak of baseball. It’s not easy being green in New York City, but Central Park has been an oasis in a land of high rises since the late 19th century, and its natural beauty and unique character have inspired many writers. Some of those writings were [...]

April 14, 2013

A Richard Ford Odyssey

This week, a touching post-Katrina story of family and friendship by Richard Ford. This entire program is devoted to Richard Ford’s “Leaving for Kenosha.” The story, set in post-Katrina New Orleans, involves two families and probes delicately at what it takes to cross social and racial barriers, and what events make them both irrelevant and [...]

April 7, 2013

The Sun and the Moon

A moon voyage with Radiolab, and a trip to Venus with Ray Bradbury are what we offer on this fantastical program. We invited Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich from the storytelling science show Radiolab (produced by WNYC and distributed by NPR) to curate an evening of stories with us, and we knew their choices would [...]

March 31, 2013

A Night at the Abbey

Guest host BD Wong introduces an homage to the world inhabited by the characters in the hit television series Downton Abbey. This program includes British stories and memoirs featuring upper class twits, elegant aristocratic women, and fantastically competent servants. First, the incomparable Jeeves, the perfect manservant. This enduring character was created by the English humorist [...]

March 24, 2013

Expect the Unexpected

Guest host Neil Gaiman introduces stories with surprises. Ordinary events yield unexpected results in the four tales on this program. First Jane Yolen’s “The Baby Sitter,” includes some familiar details: a creepy Victorian house, mysterious footsteps, and a teenage narrator in peril. But it turns out to be a ghost story with a twist. The [...]

March 19, 2013

What’s a Babka?

Babka. Baaaaaaaaaaaaabka. Bab-Ka. Babka, babka, babka! Doesn’t that word just roll off the tongue? But what does it mean? Shorts wants you to tell us! Join our WHAT’S A BABKA? Contest on Facebook and send in your wackiest, craziest, completely made-up definitions for this magical word. We’re looking for creative, silly, or perhaps even earth-shattering [...]

March 17, 2013

True Selves/Hidden Selves

Guest host BD Wong introduces three stories about identity. First, Karen Russell’s “Reeling for the Empire,” an eerie take on the issue of exploited workers. It is set during the Meiji era in Japan, when the country began to absorb Western industrial practices. It is a tale of transmogrification, but also of self-discovery. In an [...]