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Airs: Saturday 9:00 PM- 10:00 PM
Host: Isaiah Sheffer
Produced by: NPR
Link: Selected Shorts
E-mail: shorts@symphonyspace.org		  
   
 
This week on Selected Shorts
 

Saturday, July 26

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)

Selected Shorts, Saturdays from 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM on WUSF 89.7(2), your NPR Station.

 
 
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Isaiah Sheffer

Since 1985, Symphony Space in New York City has served 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 like: John Updike, E. Annie Proulx, Alice Munro, William Trevor and Tim O'Brien, in addition to such legends as: Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, Langston Hughes, James Joyce and Willa Cather.