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Selected Shorts
Sundays, noon
Program Website: http://www.symphonyspace.org/
Short stories by great writers of the past and present are read by stage,
screen and television personalities to an enthusiastic audience at Symphony
Space in New York City. The show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer
and performances are recorded and produced for radio by public station
WNYC by Joe Morton.
February 21
Let's Not Talk
“The Year of Silence,” by Kevin Brockmeier, read by Anthony
Rapp
From: The View from the Seventh Layer (Pantheon)
“Liberty Hall,” by Ring Lardner, read by Christina Pickles
From: The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner (Scribner) (out of print)
February 28
Strange Rituals
“Second-Hand Man,” by Rita Dove, read by Audra McDonald
From: Fifth Sunday (Callaloo Fiction Series)
“The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping,” by Padgett Powell, read
by James Naughton
From: Typical (Owl Books)
March 7
Women on a Mission
“A Shock for Countess,” by C.S. Montanye, read by Fionnula
Flanagan
From: Black Mask Magazine (March 1923)
“Katherine Comes to Yellow Sky,” by Mark Helprin, read by
Lisa Gay Hamilton
From: The Dove of the East and Other Stories (Harvest)
March 14
Two Tough Guy Writers
“The Creeping Siamese,” by Dashiell Hammett, read by John
Shea
From: Black Mask Magazine (May 1933)
“Make Westing,” Jack London, read by Steven Gilborn
From: The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (Oxford University Press)
March 21
Trying to Cope
“We,” by Mary Grimm, read by Patricia Kalember
From: Nothing But You Love Stories from The New Yorker, edited by Roger
Angell (Random House/Modern Library)
“Chivalry,” by Neil Gaiman, read by Jane Curtin
From: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions (Harper Perennial)
March 28
Unexpected Developments
“Sphinx,” by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Kathleen Widdoes
From: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Wordsworth Editions
Ltd)
“Minuet,” by Guy de Maupassant, read by René Auberjonois
From: French Stories, edited by Wallace Flowlie (Dover)
“The Toys of Peace,” by Saki, read by Dana Ivey
From: The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A.S. Byatt (Oxford
University Press)
“Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” by Thomas Wolfe, read by Isaiah
Sheffer
From: The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe (Simon and Schuster)
April 4
A Baseball Celebration
"Baseball Haiku," by Various Authors, read by Alec Baldwin and
Isaiah Sheffer
From: Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game (W. W.
Norton)
"The Hector Quesadilla Story," by T.C. Boyle, read by Jerry
Zaks
From: T.C. Boyle: Stories, (Viking)
"The Glory of Their Times," exerpt, by Lawrence S. Ritter, read
by Jonathan Rubinstein
From: The Glory of Their Times: The Story of Baseball Told By The Man
Who Played It, (Harper)
"Polo Grounds," by Rolphe Humphries, read by Fritz Weaver
From: Baseball: A Literary Anthology, edited by Nicholas Dawidoff (The
Library of America)
April 11
Strange Families
"Why I Live at the P.O.," by Eudora Welty, read by Stockard
Channing
From: Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoir (The Library of America)
"Other Persons," by Juan José Millas, read by James Naughton
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond,
edited by Robert Shapard & James Thomas (Norton)
"Ma, A Memoir," by Lynn Freed, read by Marian Seldes
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond,
edited by Robert Shapard & James Thomas (Norton)
"The Bird Woman," by Melodie Edwards, read by Kelli O'Hara
Unpublished
April 18
Indian Country
"Indian Country," by Sherman Alexie, read by John Lithgow
From: The Toughest Indian in the World (Atlantic Monthly Press)
April 25
Food Fantasies
"Country Cooking From Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed
Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double)," by Harry Mathews, read by Isaiah
Sheffer
"Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant," by Laurie Colwin, read
by Kelli O'Hara
From: Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen (Perennial)
May 2
Playwright's Delight
"A Clean Well-Lighted Place," by Ernest Hemingway, read by Ron
Cephas Jones
From: The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories (Scribner)
"The Little Green Monster," by Haruki Murakami, read by Dana
Ivey
From: The Elephant Vanishes (Vintage)
"After the Storm," by Ernest Hemingway, read by John Turturro
From: The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories (Scribner)
May 9
Shattered Peace
"The Woman from Hamburg," by Hanna Krall, translated by Madeline
G. Levine, read by Hope Davis
From: The Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories (Other Press)
"The First Sense," by Nadine Gordimer, read by Joanna Gleason
From: The New Yorker (December 18, 2006/www.newyorker.com)
May 16
Proof of Love
"An Enigmatic Nature," by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance
Garnett, read by Fionnula Flanagan
From: The Tales of Chekhov, Volume 10: The Horse Stealers and Other Stories
(Ecco Press)
"Brother," by Edna O'Brien, read by Fionnula Flanagan
From: Lantern Slides (Penguin)
"Awaiting Orders," by Tobias Wolff, read by Michael Cerveris
From: The New Yorker (July 25, 2005/www.newyorker.com) (Buy other stories
from Wolff on The William Hurt Collections and The REA Award)
May 23
Down To the Sea in Ships
"Initiation," by Joseph Conrad, read by Tony Roberts
Collected in: The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (Oxford University Press)
"Country Miles," by Robert King, read by Marian Seldes
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond,
edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas (Norton)
May 30
A Gallant Writer Celebrated
"Grippes et Poche," by Mavis Gallant, read by the author
From: The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant (Bloomsbury)
June 6
Appetites for Life
"Storytelling," by Mary Gordon, read by Lindsay Crouse
From: The Stories of Mary Gordon (Pantheon)
"Just A Little More," by V.S. Pritchett, read by Rene Auberjonois
From: Essential Stories (The Modern Library)
June 13
Hints of Madness
"The Sermon in the Guava Tree," by Kiran Desai, read by Tazewell
Thompson
From: Hullabaloo in the Guave Orchard (Anchor)
"Crazy Glue," by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Schlesinger,
read by Chris Sarandon
From: The Nimrod Flip-Out (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
June 20
Postcards From the Edge
"What Was Mine," by Ann Beattie, read by John Shea
From: What Was Mine and Other Stories (Vintage)
Fictions, Readers & Writers and Baseball!)
"Shades," by William Henry Lewis, read by Curtis McClarin
From: I Got Somebody in Staunton (Amistad)
June 27
Living Life to the Fullest
"How to Talk to a Hunter," by Pam Houston, read by Mia Dillon
From: Cowboys Are My Weakness (W.W. Norton)
"It Had Wings," by Allan Gurganus, read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: White People (Vintage)
"The Canoeists," by Rick Bass, read by Neil Patrick Harris
From: The Lives of Rocks (Houghton Mifflin)
"A Ride With Olympy," by James Thurber, read by David Rakoff
From: The Thurber Carnival (HarperCollins)
July 4
You Just Don't Understand
"The Dilettante," by Edith Wharton, read by Brenda Wehle
"The Muse's Tragedy," by Edith Wharton, read by David Strathairn
Both from: The Muse's Tragedy and other Stories (Signet Classics)
July 11
Memories that Define Us
"Dissed Fish," by Calvin Trillin, read by the author
From: The New Yorker (September 6, 2004/ www.newyorker.com)
"Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses," by Luis Alberto Urrea, read
by Robert Sean Leonard
From: Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction, (Cinco Puntos Press)
July 18
Paws and Claws
"The Red Fox Fur Coat," by Teolinda Gersao, translated by Margaret
Jull Costa, read by Kathleen Chalfant
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond
(Norton)
"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Rasied By Wolves," by Karen Russell,
introduced by Stephen King, read by Joanna Gleason
From: The Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Stephen King (Houghton
Mifflin)
July 25
Strange But True: Aimee Bender & Etgar Keret
"Drunken Mimi," by Aimee Bender, read by Bernadette Quigley
From: The Girl with the Flammable Skirt (Anchor Books)
"Death Watch," by Aimee Bender, read by Bernadette Quigley
From: Willful Creatures (Doubleday)
"Your Man," by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Shlesinger,
read by David Rakoff
"Shooting Tuvia," by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Shlesinger,
read by David Rakoff
Both from: The Nimrod Flipout (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
August 1
Best Friends: Dog Tales
"Sleeping with Dogs on a King Size Bed," by Abigail Thomas,
read by Rochelle Oliver
Unpublished
"The Dog of the Marriage," by Amy Hempel, read by Joan Allen
From: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (Scribner)
"Heart of a Champion," by T.C. Boyle, read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: T.C. Boyle Stories (Penguin)
August 8
It's Love
"Examining the Evidence," by Alice Hoffman, read by Joanna Gleason
From: Local Girls (Berkeley)
"An Old Fashioned Story," by Laurie Colwin, read by Mia Dillon
From: The Lone Pilgrim (HarperCollins)
August 15
Tales in Verse, and a Chiller
Selected poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Gertrude
Stein, Robert Frost and others, read by John Lithgow and Bill Irwin
From: The Poets' Corner: The One-And-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family
(Grand Central Publishing)
"The Monkey's Paw," by W.W. Jacobs, read by John Lithgow
From: The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by W.W.
Jacobs, compiled by Gary Hoppenstand (Academy Chicago Publishers)
August 22
Figuring it Out
"Towel Season," by Ron Carlson, read by James Naughton
From: At the Jim Bridger (Picador)
"Bad Joke," by Ha Jin, read by B.D. Wong
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond
(W.W. Norton)
August 29
Overwhelmed
"A Curtain of Green," by Eudora Welty, read by Frances Sternhagen
From: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (Harcourt)
"Concerning Love," by Anton Chekhov, translated by Ronald Hingley,
read by Joe Morton
From: The Russian Master and Other Stories (Oxford University Press World's
Classics)
September 5
People with Problems
"Wes Amerigo's Giant Fear," by David Schickler, read by Isaiah
Sheffer
From: The New Yorker (March 17, 2003 / www.newyorker.com)
"The Doctor of Mental Health," by Miranda Mellis, read by David
Rakoff
From: McSweeney's (Issue #16 / http://store.mcsweeneys.net/)
September 12
The Rea Award for the Short Story: A Tribute
Readings and Remarks by Cynthia Ozick, Lois Smith, Deborah Eisenberg,
Richard Ford, Joyce Carol Oates and Grace Paley
September 19
Rea Award for the Short Story: A Tribute Part 2
Readings and Remarks by John Edgar Wideman, Joy Williams, Tobias Wolff,
John Updike and Campbell Scott
September 26
Unlikely Situations
"The Schartz-Metterklume Method," by Saki, read by Marian Seldes
From: The Complete Saki (Penguin Twentith-Century Classics)
"I Dated Jane Austen," by T.C. Boyle, read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: T.C. Boyle Stories (Penguin Books)
"The Sixth Borough," by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jerry
Zaks
Published in: The New York Times (September 17, 2004)
Part of the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Mariner Books)
"Game," by Donald Barthelme, read by David Strathairn
From: Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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