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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.
May 4
Chris Offutt, “Second Hand,” read by Mary Beth Hurt
Collected in: Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories
from the South, selected by Anne Tyler and edited by Shannon Ravenel (Algonquin)
M.T. Sharif, “The Letter Writer,” read by Joe Morton
Collected in: The Best American Short Stories 1989, edited by Margaret
Atwood and Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin)
May 11
Aimee Bender, “The Meeting,” read by Paul Hecht
From: Willful Creatures (Doubleday)
Shahrnush Parsipur, “Mrs. Farrokhlaqa Sadraldivan Golchehreh,”
translated from the Persian by Kamran Talattoff and Jocelyn Sharlet, read
by Frances Sternhagen
From: Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (The Feminist Press at
CUNY)
*Etgar Keret, “Pride and Joy,” translated from the Hebrew
by Sondra Silverston, read by Robert Sean Leonard (Buy this story now
| Buy other stories by Karet
From: The Nimrod Flipout (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
May 18
*Tom Bissell, “War Wounds,” read by Oskar Eustis (Buy this
story now)
From: The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam
(Pantheon)
May 25
Walter R. Brooks, “Ed Has His Mind Improved,” read by Tony
Roberts
Collected in: In the Stacks, edited by Michael Cart (Overlook)
Mark Helprin, “Palais de Justice,” read by Keir Dullea (Buy
this story now)
From: Ellis Island and Other Stories (Harvest Books)
June 1
John Updike, “Learn a Trade,” read by Paul Hecht (Buy other
stories by Updike on Baseball or Lots of Laughs
From: Trust Me (Ballantine Books)
Yiyun Li, “Extra,” read by Lois Smith
From: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Random House)
June 8
Brian Evenson, “Mudder Tongue,” read by David Strathairn
From: McSweeney’s (Issue 16 / http://store.mcsweeneys.net/ )
Kenneth Grahame, “Mr. Badger,” read by Samantha Eggar
From: The Wind in the Willows (Aegypan)
June 15
Italo Calvino, “A General in the Library,” read by Isaiah
Sheffer
Ray Bradbury, “Exchange,” read by Rochelle Oliver
Both collected in: In the Stacks, edited by Michael Cart (Overlook)
Edith Wharton, “A Backward Glance: Henry James,” read by Brenda
Wehle (Buy other stories by Wharton)
Collected in: Edith Wharton: Novellas & Other Writings (Library of
America, Volume 47)
June 22
Jhumpa Lahiri, “The Long Way Home,” read by Shohreh Aghdashloo
(Buy other stories by Lahiri)
From: The New Yorker (September 6, 2004 / www.newyorker.com)
*Anton Chekhov, “Indigestion,” translated by Peter Constantine,
read by Bradley Whitford (Buy this story now)
From: The New Yorker (December 23, 1996 / www.newyorker.com)
*Damon Runyon, “A Piece of Pie,” read by John Shea (Buy this
story now)
From: Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyon (Penguin)
June 29
James Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” read by
Dick Cavett (Other stories by Thurber on CD | Cassette)
From: My World – and Welcome To It (Harcourt) (Out of Print)
Roy Blount, Jr., “Things in the Wrong Hands,” read by Isaiah
Sheffer (Buy this story now)
From: Crackers (Ballantine)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Renascence,” read by Barbara Feldon
From: Renascence, and Other Poems (Harper)
Chinua Achebe, “The Voter,” read by Arthur French
From: Girls at War and Other Stories (Anchor Books)
July 6
*Molly Giles, “Pie Dance,” read by Kate Burton
From: Rough Translations (University of Georgia Press)
Collected in: You’ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers
Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe, edited by Ron Hansen (Harper
Perennial) Buy This Story Now! On (http://www.symphonyspace.org/store/item/26)
Calvin Trillin, “Grandfather Knows Best,” read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: Feeding a Yen (Random House)
Laurie Colwin, “Why I Love Cookbooks,” read by Jane Kaczmarek
(Other stories by Colwin on CD | Cassette)
From: More Home Cooking (Harper Perennial)
July 13
Edith Wharton, “The Eyes,” read by Charles Keating (Other
stories by Wharton on CD)
From: Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1891-1910 (Library of America)
Other Stories by Wharton (http://www.symphonyspace.org/store/item/22)
July 20
Captain Ryan Kelly, “A Quick Look at Who Is Fighting This War,”
read by Chris Chalk
Staff Sergeant Parker Gyokeres, “Camp Muckamungus,” read by
Isaiah Sheffer
Specialist Ross Cohen, “Khost-Gardez,” read by Matthew Modine
Captain Michael Lang, “Reflections,” read by Isaiah Sheffer
Sergeant Dena Price Van den Bosch, “Brotherhood,” read by
Joan Allen
Staff Sargeant Jack Lewis, “Road Work,” read by Stephen Lang
Commander Kathleen Toomey Jabs, “Safekeeping,” read by Joan
Allen
Lieutenant Colonel Chris Cohoes, “Dear Boys,” read by Matthew
Modine
Above eight collected in: Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and
the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families edited
by Andrew Carroll (Random House)
July 27
Rishi Reddi, “Justice Shiva Ram Murthy,” read by Aasif Mandvi
From: Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi (Harper Perennial)
Collected in: The Best American Short Stories 2005, edited by Michael
Chabon (Houghton Mifflin)
Leigh Allison Wilson, “Bullhead,” by Leigh Allison Wilson
Collected in: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and
Beyond (Norton)
August 3
Edith Wharton, “The Debt,” read by David Strathairn (Other
stories by Wharton on CD)
From: Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1891-1910 (Library of America)
Maile Meloy, “Acqua Boulevard,” read by Isaiah Sheffer (Other
stories by Meloy: Falling in Love | Wartime Lives)
From: Half in Love: Stories (Scribner)
August 10
*Roald Dahl, “Taste,” read by John Lithgow (Buy this story
now on CD | Cassette)
From: Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (Everyman’s Library)
James Thurber, “How to Tell a Fine Old Wine,” read by Raphael
Sbarge (Buy this story now on CD | Cassette)
From: The New Yorker (February 24, 1934 / www.newyorker.com)
August 17
David Means, “The Secret Goldfish,” read by Charles Keating
From: The Secret Goldfish: Stories (HarperCollins)
Sherwood Anderson, “The Other Woman,” read by Keir Dullea
From: The Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories (BiblioBazaar)
August 24
John Cheever, “The Trouble of Marcie Flint,” read by Fritz
Weaver (Other stories by Cheever on CD | Cassette)
From: The Stories of John Cheever (Vintage)
August 31
Lyudmilla Ignatenko as told to Svetlana Alexievich, “A Solitary
Human Voice,” translated by Keith Gessen, read by Stockard Channing
From: Voices from Chernobyl (Picador)
Sherman Alexie, “Do You Know Where I Am?” read by Keir Dullea
From: Ten Little Indians (Grove)
September 7
*Benjamin Percy, “Refresh, Refresh” read by Ted Marcoux (Buy
this story now)
From: Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf Press)
Collected in: The Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Ann Patchett
(Houghton Mifflin)
Billie Hill-Hunt, “Buzz Saw,” read by Joan Allen
Sergeant Brian Turner, “Ashbah,” read by Chris Chalk
Sergeant Brian Turner, “The Baghdad Zoo,” read by Stephen
Lang
Sergeant Michael A. Thomas, “3 A.M. in Bangor, Maine,” read
by Stephen Lang
Above four collected in: Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and
the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families edited
by Andrew Carroll (Random House)
September 14
*T.C. Boyle, “Sorry Fugu,” read by Tony Roberts (Buy this
story | Other stories by Boyle on Baseball, Pets!)
From: T.C. Boyle Stories (Penguin)
September 21
Stuart Dybek, “Killing Time” and “Insomnia,” read
by Jim True-Frost
From: the “Nighthawks” section of The Coast of Chicago (Picador)
Nelson Algren, “He Couldn’t Boogie-Woogie Worth a Damn,”
read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: The Neon Wilderness (Seven Stories Press)
September 28
Andrew Lam, “The Palmist,” read by David Strathairn
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond
(Norton)
Elizabeth Crane, “Football,” read by Martha Lavey
From: All This Heavenly Glory (Little, Brown and Company)
Jeanne Dixon, “Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” read by Mia Dillon
Collected in: The Best of Montana’s Short Fiction, edited by Willian
Kittredge and Allen Morris Jones (Lyons Press)
Lan Samantha Chang, “Water Names,” read by Dawn Akemi Saito
From: Hunger (Norton)
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