Selected Shorts: On Stage

A Passion for Central Park with Paul Auster

Central Park is much beloved by New Yorkers, tourists, and artists of all kinds, including hundreds of writers, whose characters have walked through, kissed, killed, birdwatched, played football, played tennis, run, fallen in love, fallen out of love and been inspired by this beautiful oasis in a busy, noisy city. In an evening of selections mostly drawn from the new collection Central Park, edited by Andrew Blauner, Paul Auster will open the evening by talking about how the park has been his muse. Leonard Nimoy and other Broadway and Hollywood actors read selections by Auster, Colson Whitehead, Susan Cheever and more.

Objects of Desire

If objects could talk, what stories they would tell? Historical, religious, beloved, passed along, cast aside — every object tells a story. Performances by Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds), Colman Domingo (Tony Award nominee The Scottsboro Boys) and others. Special guest Sloane Crosley will introduce a story from her bestselling essay collection I Was Told There'd Be Cake.

In partnership with Brooklyn Flea.

Selected Shorts on Tour: Cliffside Park, NJ

Selected Shorts host Isaiah Sheffer is joined by Rita Wolf (The Good Wife) and Dana Ivey (The Help) for an evening of Selected Shorts live at the Cliffside Park Library with readings of stories by Aimee Bender, Simon Rich and Steven Millhauser.