Tonight! Selected Shorts: New York Stories with Wyatt Cenac
Selected Shorts: New York Stories with Wyatt Cenac
Selected Shorts: New York Stories with Wyatt Cenac
Tonight! Jane Curtin & Marcus Samuelsson in Conversation
Marcus Samuelsson & Jane Curtin in Conversation
Tonight! Selected Shorts: On the Trail with Jordan Klepper
Selected Shorts: On the Trail with Jordan Klepper
This Is New York with Jane Curtin
Join us tonight!
Tonight! The countdown is on for our next Selected Shorts with "Crazy Rich Asians" author Kevin Kwan. Have you purchased your ticket yet? Get it here: https://bit.ly/3cObW2Q #crazyrichasians
Join "Crazy Rich Asians" author Kevin Kwan this Thursday!
Kevin Kwan hosts a night of short fiction with readings by Melora Hardin, Bebe Neuwirth, Annie Q., and Michael Urie. Oct 1 at 7:30pm EST. Get your ticket here: https://bit.ly/3n1yQZc
Actor Michael Urie talks about his upcoming Virtual Selected Shorts performance.
We're getting very excited for next week's Virtual Selected Shorts with Kevin Kwan, Melora Hardin, Bebe Neuwirth, Annie Q., and Michael Urie. You can join us from any room in your home! Well, almost any. Get your tickets now at https://bit.ly/3i3qzk3
Join us for a virtual celebration of the short story! Actors Michael Imperioli, Andrea Martin, Colby Minifie, and host Baron Vaughn perform stories that examine our interior lives. Tune in next Wednesday, August 12th at 7:30pm EST: https://bit.ly/3gv5JKh
On this week's episode of Selected Shorts, a young actor recalls critical moments in her childhood in Elizabeth Strout’s “Snow Blind.” Our friend and Shorts regular Melora Hardin performs the story. Find to the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: https://bit.ly/2WScVs6
Fionnula Flanagan performs "Enough" by Alice McDermott, a beautiful story about a woman who unapologetically embraces life's pleasures, today on Sunday Stories. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3jlCsDK
In Alba de Céspedes' “Invitation to Dinner," a married couple hopes to restore pre-World War II elegance. Actor Dawn Akemi Saito reads the story on this week's episode of Selected Shorts, which features tales from the new Penguin Classics Book of Italian Short Stories, edited by Jhumpa Lahiri. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3gJl3CI
This week on Selected Shorts, we read stories from the magnificent collection from Penguin Classics, 'The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories,' edited by Jhumpa Lahiri. The great John Turturro performs Leonardo Sciascia’s “The Long Voyage,” a tale about hopeful peasants try to make it to a mysterious place called “Trenton.” Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: https://bit.ly/3gJl3CI
We're so excited to welcome both new and familiar faces to this week's virtual Selected Shorts! Jane Kaczmarek, Nate Corddry, Ann Dowd, and Randall Park come together for an evening of stories about life’s minor insurrections during a time of great upheaval. Learn more about this week's Virtual Selected Shorts: Little Rebellions here: https://bit.ly/38IVwH3
This week on Shorts, #HughDancy gives a dazzling performance of Massimo Bontempelli’s “The Miraculous Beach, or, Prize for Modesty.” The story was selected from The Penguin Classics Book of Italian Short Stories, edited by Jhumpa Lahiri. Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: https://bit.ly/3gJl3CI
We love S. Epatha Merkerson's incredible performance in our Toni Morrison episode of Selected Shorts! Merkerson lends her talents to an excerpt of Morrison's brilliant novel "Jazz." Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: https://bit.ly/38CasXz
On our episode of Selected Shorts celebrating the great Toni Morrison, Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad gives a stunning reading from an excerpt of Morrison's novel "Sweetness." Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: https://bit.ly/38CasXz
Author Tayari Jones reads Toni Morrison's brilliant essay “A Knowing So Deep" on this week's episode of Selected Shorts. Find the episode, which includes more wonderful performances of Morrison's works by her friends, colleagues, and admirers, wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: https://bit.ly/38CasXz
On this week's episode of Shorts, rumors and recriminations fly in “Belles Lettres,” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, as rival mothers defend their daughters’ reputations at a posh school--at any cost. The readers are Eboni Booth and Shalewa Sharpe. Find Selected Shorts: Escalation wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: https://bit.ly/31rF4sW
Haruki Murakami's "Ice Man" is in many ways a traditional love story—except that half of this pair is made of ice. Jane Curtin reads it on this week's edition of Sunday Stories. Listen: https://bit.ly/2AXx48f
On Selected Shorts: Not Your Mother's Love Stories, Sharon Gless performs “Hat Trick” by Edith Pearlman, in which four young girls choose husbands by chance. Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: https://bit.ly/2YNx8iY
On Selected Shorts: Not Your Mother's Love Stories, British writer Jane Gardam twists Hans Christian Andersen’s tale in a saucy reboot of “The Little Mermaid.” Her version, “The Pangs of Love,” is read by Jane Kaczmarek. Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: https://bit.ly/2YNx8iY
Today on Sunday Stories, voting unites the generations in "Taking Miss Kezee to the Polls" by David Haynes. Michael Genet reads this story about a young Election Day volunteer tasked with bringing the fiery Miss Kezee to vote. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3eehKCV
We are thrilled to announce this year’s winner and runners-up of our Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize, as chosen by our guest judge Nicole Chung!
Congratulations to Caitlin Campbell and her winning story “Prayer for the Ides of February,” and to runners-up Katy Sewall and Jennifer Jacobson.
In light of our canceled spring season of Selected Shorts, we are delighted to share “Prayer for the Ides of February” with you in a very special way—performed virtually by Emily Skeggs. Watch here:
"She Shall Not Be Moved," Shereen Pandit's story about an incident on a London bus, contemplates the reverberations of not speaking up for what is right. Read by the incredible Rita Wolf. Listen: https://bit.ly/2zg5XEO
In this edition of Sunday Stories, immerse yourself in the sights and smells of summertime baseball with W. P. Kinsella's story "The Thrill of the Grass," performed by John Shea. Listen here: https://bit.ly/2XPfhHI
"Afmerica! her home is here;
She wants or knows no other home..."
On Selected Shorts: I Am America, we examine the nuances of the American experience through stories, essays, and poems, and speeches. Kaneza Schaal performs "Afmerica," a powerful poem by Mary E. Ashe Lee. Find the full episode wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here: https://bit.ly/3gpNnL0