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March 2, 2012

Helping Out – Selected Shorts for March 3, 2012

“Help”, wanted, unwanted, sought, and refused, is the topic of today’s two stories; one focusing on present-day Haiti and one from an American master.

January 6, 2012

James Joyce’s The Dead part 2 – Shorts for January 6, 2012

James Joyce’s classic story, “The Dead”, takes place at a New Year’s dinner-dance in Dublin in 1904. It is filled with colorful personalities, and is a glimpse of a bygone era.”The Dead” continues with part 2 this week!

December 30, 2011

James Joyce’s The Dead part 1 – Shorts for December 30, 2011

James Joyce’s classic story, “The Dead”, takes place at a New Year’s dinner-dance in Dublin in 1904. It is filled with colorful personalities, and is a glimpse of a bygone era.

December 25, 2011

Ghosts and Angels – Shorts for December 23, 2011

From James Thurber’s classic story of misunderstanding, “The Night the Ghost Got In,” to Alice Hoffman’s whimsical tale of bad karma turned good, “Examining the Evidence,” to Alan Gurganus’s reverse Annunciation tale, “It Had Wings,” the line between the real and the numinous is both funny and fine. Shorts host Isaiah Sheffer describes Thurber’s mock [...]

December 19, 2011

The Magical Imagination of Neil Gaiman – Shorts for December 16

Two of the stories on this program come from an evening at Symphony Space hosted and curated by the prolific and multi-talented fantasy writer Neil Gaiman.

December 15, 2011

A One-of-a-Kind Gift from the Man Himself

No, not Santa, but someone who’s almost as popular, especially to the hardcore Selected Shorts fan. Well, it’s not too late to do something really amazing to make their holiday. What’s amazing, you ask? How about getting a Selected Shorts CD personally signed by Isaiah Sheffer!