Selected Shorts

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., Sunday

Symphony Space in New York City serves as the stage for exciting pairings of authors and actors. Selected Shorts producers match Oscar and Tony Award-winning actors with short stories by acclaimed contemporary and classic authors. The results are magically entertaining events turned into captivating radio programs. Selected Shorts readers have included: Jane Curtin, Paul Reiser, Leonard Nimoy, Alec Baldwin, Jerry Orbach and Meryl Streep. Stories include those by great contemporary writers, in addition to such legends as: Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Langston Hughes, James Joyce and Willa Cather.

Coming Up…

February 7th
Inspired by the photography of Robert Frank
“Sunflower Sutra” by Allen Ginsberg, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
From: Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Publishers)
“The Death of Jim Taylor” by Elissa Hutson, performed by Boyd Gaines, introduced by Felicity Tsikiwa (Unpublished)
“Barbara Stanwyck, It’s Your Time to Shine” by Bianca Galvez, performed by Condola Rashad, introduced by William Carrington (Unpublished)
“Good Living” by Aleksandar Hemon, performed by Boyd Gaines
From: Love and Obstacles (Riverhead Hardcover)
“The Thing Around Your Neck” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Condola Rashad
Collected in: The Thing Around Your Neck (Knopf)

February 14th
Tales of Terror
“Dracula’s Guest” by Bram Stoker, performed by Aasif Mandvi
Collected in: The Vampire Archives (Vintage Crime 2009)
“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
Collected in: Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Vintage Books)

February 21st
Forbidden Fruit
“Yurt” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, performed by Joanna Gleason
From: Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
“Wild Plums” by Grace Stone Coates, performed by Mia Dillon
Collected in: Best American Short Stories of the Century (Mariner Books)

February 28th
An Hour with Sherman Alexie
“Breaking and Entering” by Sherman Alexie, performed by B.D. Wong
From: War Dances (Grove Press)
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