Selected Shorts from PRI

Best American Short Stories 2021 with Jesmyn Ward

Guest host Jane Kaczmarek presents two stories from the Best American Short Stories 2021...

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• 5 días

Modest Expectations

Host Meg Wolitzer presents four stories in which characters shape their expectations and dreams...

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• 12 días

Bonus: A Conversation with Elizabeth Strout

  Host Meg Wolitzer talks with author Elizabeth Strout about her story “Home” and the fictional...

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• 19 días

Out of Sight

HostMeg Wolitzer shares three stories about people who put things out of sight—and try to put...

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• 19 días

Save the Date with Belletrist Book Club

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about social occasions for introverts and extroverts...

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• 26 días

Embracing Change

On this episode of Selected Shorts, host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about change. A...

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• 1 mes

What’s Your Story?

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about the act of writing and how it can remake us--a...

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• 1 mes

Elements of Nature

Host Meg Wolitzer presentsfour works in which nature and the out-of-doors drive both plots and...

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• 2 meses

Too Hot for Radio: Erin Somers "Variations on the Same"

This story is by the writer Erin Somers. She has a novel, Stay Up with Hugo Best, and has been...

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• 2 meses

Extended Families

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two works with unusual family dynamics.  In Zadie Smith’s “Grand...

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• 2 meses

Selected Shorts Goes to the Movies with the Tribeca Film Festival

Host Meg Wolitzer presents stories so compelling that they were adapted for the screen. Selected...

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• 2 meses

Meg Wolitzer interviews Louise Erdrich

In this bonus conversation, host Meg Wolitzer talks to author Louise Erdrich about her story; her...

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• 2 meses

Homewreckers

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two humorous stories about marriages not made in heaven.  In James...

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• 2 meses

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks to Denis O’Hare

In this bonus conversation, host Meg Wolitzer talks to actor Denis O’Hare about his craft, and...

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• 2 meses

Reality Checks

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories in which reality contrasts with the dreams, perceptions,...

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• 2 meses

Hitched

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three pieces about marriages that outlive the romance. In Etgar...

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• 3 meses

I Contain Multitudes

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about complex characters and the many different roles they...

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• 3 meses

Bradbury Centennial with Neil Gaiman

Host Meg Wolitzer presents a celebration of the great Ray Bradbury, master of science fiction and...

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• 3 meses

Truly, Madly

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about the course of true love, from two very different...

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• 3 meses

Too Hot for Radio: James Hannaham "Cookie Monster Shares"

"Cookie Monster Shares" was performed by actor and comedian Baron Vaughn at SketchFest in San...

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• 3 meses