The 3 Best Selected Shorts Podcast Episodes
1) Trust Your Senses
Guest host Michael Cerveris presents stories in which trusting your senses is important. In Jeanne Dixon’s “Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” a rebellious farm girl flirts with danger. It’s read by Mia ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) ESCALATION
Guest host Hope Davis presents two stories in which things get out of hand. Rumors and recriminations fly in “Belles Lettres,” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, as rival mothers defend their daughters’ rep...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Crossing the Line
Guest host Denis O’Hare presents three stories that take things to extremes. In Simon Rich’s “Distractions,” we learn about a global conspiracy. Errin Hayes reads. The misanthrope in...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) Meet the Neighbors
Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about neighbors and the unexpected relationships that can develop between people who live adjacent to one another. In Tess Gallagher’s “Mr. Woodriff’s Neckties,” a f...Show More
5) McSweeney’s 25th Anniversary Extravaganza
Meg Wolitzer presents stories celebrating a quarter century of clever, funny, playful, weird, and literary writing, in print and online, showcased by the powerhouse indie publisher McSweeney’s. These ...Show More
6) Perfectly Unmatched
Host Meg Wolitzer presents perfect mismatches. In “The Man and the Moose” by Ben Loory, performed by Michael Cerveris, a man’s best bud has antlers. In “Red Dirt Don't Wash” by Roger Mais, performed b...Show More
7) Come Out Swinging
Meg Wolitzer presents three works about squabbles between people who love one another most. Jenny Allen’s “In the Car” chronicles the European road trip of a long married couple—and he won’t ask for ...Show More
8) Too Hot For Radio: Roxane Gay "Requiem for a Glass Heart"
Jessica Hecht performs Roxane Gay's "Requiem for a Glass Heart," and host Aparna Nancherla talks to Amanda Jones, the author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America.
9) Classics from The New Yorker
Meg Wolitzer presents three stories featured in the anthology A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker. The magazine celebrates its 100th birthday, and this is the second of two programs this season i...Show More
10) Reading Between the Lines
Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about the things she loves most: books and words and why they matter. In Ben Loory’s “The Book,” a contrarian volume becomes a literary sensation, and alters one woma...Show More