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A Didion Duo
On this SELECTED SHORTS host Meg Wolitzer presents two works by the dazzling writer Joan Didion, whose essays, novels, and memoirs have been beloved by generations of readers. This...
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Bonus: Meg Wolitzer and Alison Stewart Talk Fiction
Selected Shorts presents a bonus interview between our host and best-selling author, Meg Wolitzer, and the host of WNYC’s All of It, Alison Stewart. Wolitzer reveals some of the...
All of It with Alison Stewart
We partnered with WNYC’s Alison Stewart on this program featuring tales of love and haunting by new and established writers who have been featured on her show All of...
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO VONNEGUT
On the next Selected Shorts, it’s all about the Slaughterhouse Five author who somehow managed to make a bleak dystopia funny, and a high school band teacher a hero....
On Repeat
SELECTED SHORTS host Meg Wolitzer presents three provocative works about rituals that reshape and define their characters. In “oh she gotta head fulla hair,” by Ntozake Shange, a woman’s...
Too Hot for Radio: N.K. Jemisin “The Storyteller’s Replacement”
A haunting story from one of the major figures in modern speculative fiction, short story- and novel-writer N.K. Jemisin.The New York Times called her “The Most Celebrated Science Fiction...
ALMOST LIKE LOVE
SELECTED SHORTS host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about love, or the next best thing. In Pam Houston’s “How to Talk to a Hunter” a smart woman can’t get...
On the Run
SELECTED SHORTS host Meg Wolitzer presents two gripping stories about people in flight. In Rebecca Makkai’s “The Suitcase,” performed by Victor Garber, an escaped prisoner assumes another man’s identity....
A Night at the Theater
SELECTED SHORTS host Meg Wolitzer presents a show about the theater, and those who love it. Rachel Klein’s “Audience Instructions for Our Immersive/Experimental Theatre Production In An Abandoned Middle...