Each week on public radio stations nationwide, great actors from stage, screen and television bring short stories to life. Selected Shorts is an award-winning, one-hour program featuring readings of classic and new short fiction, recorded live at New York’s Symphony Space and on tour around the country. One of the most popular series on the airwaves, this unique show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer and produced for radio by Symphony Space and WNYC Radio.

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2009/2010 National Radio Series Reading List

Week of October 3 - October 9, 2009
Please Don't Explain

• "Just a little One" by Dorothy Parker, performed by Dana Ivey
  From: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker (Modern Library)
• "The Spray" by Jonathan Lethem, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
  From: Men and Cartoons (Doubleday)
  (Buy other stories performed by Leonard on Whodunit?)
• "The Swim Team" by Miranda July, performed by Parker Posey
  From: No One Belongs Here More Than You (Scribner)
• "Jesus Shaves" by David Sedaris, performed by Tim Blake Nelson
  From: Holidays on Ice (Little Brown)

Week of October 10 - October 16, 2009
French Fictions

• "A Parisian Affair" by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Rene Auberjonois
  From: A Parisian Affair and Other Stories by Guy De Maupassant (Penguin Books)
  (Buy other stories performed by Auberjonois on A Touch of Magic and Food Fictions)
• Feature: Isaiah Sheffer interviews Dan Chaon
• Selection from "Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow" by Faiza Guene, performed by Sonia Manzano
  From: Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (Harcourt)
• "The Secret of the Old Music" by Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam, performed by Philippe de Montebello
  From: The Scaffold and Other Cruel Tales Hollywood Comics

Week of October 17 - October 23, 2009
Tale of Terror

• "The Bees" by Dan Chaon, performed by Boyd Gaines
  Collected In: McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by McSweeney' Press, edited by Michael Chabon (Vintage Books)
• Feature: Isaiah Sheffer interviews Dan Chaon

Week of October 24 - October 30, 2009
Women on the Move

• "She Shall Not Be Moved" by Shereen Pandit, performed by Rita Wolf
  Collected In: Underwords: The Hidden City, edited by Maggie Hamand (The Maia Press Ltd)
• "Loose Change" by Andrea Levy, performed by Eve Best
  Collected In: Underwords: The Hidden City (The Maia Press Ltd)
• "Pie Dance" by Molly Giles, performed by Kate Burton
  Collected In: You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe, edited by Ron Hansen (Harper Perennial)
  (Buy this story on Pets!)

Week of October 31 - November 6, 2009
Tales from the Great Epics

• "The Death of Hector: from The Iliad" by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, performed by Stephen Lang
  From: The Illiad (Penguin)
• "Cantos IV and V" from Dante's Inferno, translated by Mark Strand and Daniel Halpern, performed by Phylicia Rashad
  From: Dante's Inferno, Translations by 20 Contemorary Poets, edited by Daniel Halpern (HarperCollins)
• "Captain Ahab, A Novel by the White Whale" by Paul West, performed by Diane Venora
  From: The Universe and Other Fictions (Overlook Press)

Week of November 7 - November 13, 2009
Stories that Surprise

• "Jesus is Waiting" by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson
  From: The Dog of the Marriage (Scribner)
• "No Other Country" by Sean Tan, performed by Campbell Scott
  From: Tales From Outer Suburbia (Scholastic)
  (Buy other stories read by Scott on The REA Award CD)
• "Swimmers" by Daniela Maristany, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson -Annual Stella Kuperferberg Memorial Short Story Prize award winner (unpublished)
• "Number 10" by Edna O'Brien, performed by Marian Seldes
  From: Mistress of the Dark (Barnes and Noble Books)
  (Buy other stories from O'Brien on Falling in Love)

Week of November 14 - November 20, 2009
Rebel Yiddish Writers

• "My First Love" by Moishe Nadir, performed by John Shea
  Collected in: A Treasury of Yiddish Stories, edited by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg (Viking Penguin)
  (Buy other stories performed by Shea on Tales of Betrayal and Readers and Writers)
• "A Quiet Garden Spot" by Sholem Asch, performed by Laura Esterman
  Collected in: A Treasury of Yiddish Stories, edited by Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg (Viking Penguin)
• "Job's Jobs" by Aimee Bender, performed by Anjelica Huston
  Collected In: Another City: Writing from Los Angeles, edited by David L. Ulin (City Lights)
  (Buy other stories from Bender on A Touch of Magic)

Week of November 21 - November 27, 2009
Adventures in London and the Wild West

• An excerpt from "The Road Home" by Rose Tremain, performed by Paul Hecht
  From: The Road Home (Little, Brown and Company)
  (Buy other stories read by Hecht on Travel Tales)
• "Cary Grant's Suit" by Todd McEwen, performed by James Cromwell
  Collected in: Granta: On the Road Again (Summer 2006, issue 94)

Week of November 28 - December 4, 2009
The Heart of the Matter

• "The Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe, performed by Terrence Mann
  From: The Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Perennial)
• "Gimpel The Fool" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
  From: Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• "The Paring Knife" by Michael Oppenheimer, performed by Steve Gilborn
  Collected in: Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories, edited by James Thomas, Denise Thomas and Tom Hazuka (W.W. Norton)
  (Buy other stories read by Gilborn on Timeless Classics)

Week of December 5 - December 11, 2009
Asking for Directions

• "The Mappist" by Barry Lopez, performed by Joe Spano
  From: Light Action in the Caribbean (Vintage)
• "Devil of a Curve" by Walter Kirn, performed by Roscoe Lee Browne
  From: My Hard Bargain (Knopf)
  
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Week of December 12 - December 18, 2009
Confused Couples

• "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" by Nathan Englander, performed by Jefferson Mays
  From: For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (Vintage)
• "A Second of Pleasure" by Neil LaBute, performed by Andrew McCarthy and Maura Tierney
  From: Seconds of Pleasure (Grove)
• "Lies I've Told" by Sue Allison, performed by Barbara Barrie and David Strathairn
  Unpublished
  
  

Week of December 13 - December 18, 2009
Holiday Special

• "The H Street Sledding Record" by Ron Carlson, performed by Keith Szarabajka
  From: The News of the World (W.W. Norton & Company)
  (Buy other stories from Carlson on The William Hurt Collection and Lots of Laughs!)
• "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor" by John Cheever, performed by Malachy McCourt
  Published in: The New Yorker (December 24, 1949/ www.newyorker.com)
  From: Christmas at the New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art (Random House)
• "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" by James Thurber
  Published in: The New Yorker (December 24, 1927)
  From: Christmas at the New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art (Random House)
  (Buy other stories performed by Thurber on Are We There Yet?)

Week of December 19 - December 25, 2009
A Touch of Magic

• "The Palmist" by Andrew Lam, performed by James Naughton
  Collected in: New Sudden Fiction: Short-short stories from America and Beyond, edited by Robert Shapard & James Thomas (Norton)
• "The Occasional Garden" by Saki, performed by Daniel Gerroll
  Collected in: The Garden of Reading: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Short Fiction about Gardens and Gardeners, edited by Michele Slung (Overlook Ducksworth)
• "The Balloon" by Donald Barthelme, performed by Maria Tucci
  Published in: The New Yorker (April 16, 1966 )
  From: Sixty Stories (Penguin)
• "The Little Green Monster" by Haruki Murakami, performed by Dana Ivey
  From: The Elephant Vanished (Vintage)
  (All of the stories from this program are available on A Touch of Magic)
  

• "Beyond the Pale" by Joseph Epstein, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
  Published in: "The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Houghton Mifflin)
• "Ma, A Memoir" by Lynn Freed, performed by Marian Seldes
  Collected in: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond (W.W. Norton)

• "The Briefcase" by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber
  Published in: The Best American Short Stories 2009 (Houghton Mifflin)
• "Diem Perdidi" by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jayne Atkinson
  Unpublished

• "The Traveler" by Wallace Stegner, performed by Jack Davidson
  From: Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner (Penguin Classics)
• "Goin' to Town" by Wallace Stegner, performed by Lillo Way, Isaiah Sheffer and Jack Davidson
  From: Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner (Penguin Classics)

• "Disco Papa" by Karen Russell, performed by Susanna Thompson
  Published in: The New York Times Magazine (February 2, 2009/ www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine)
• "Departure" by Andrew Porter, performed by Khris Lewin
  Published in: Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, 2008 Edition (Pushcart Press)
• "Waiting For Rusty" by William Cole, performed by Ted Marcoux

• An excerpt from Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, performed by Brian Stokes Mitchell (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
• "Salt," by Sherman Alexie, performed by David Strathairn From: War Dances (Grove Press)
  
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Week of February 4, 2010 - February 10, 2010
Inspired by the photography of Robert Frank

• "Sunflower Sutra" by Allen Ginsberg, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
  From: Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Publishers)
• "The Death of Jim Taylor" by Elissa Hutson, performed by Boyd Gaines, introduced by Felicity Tsikiwa (Unpublished)
• "Barbara Stanwyck, It's Your Time to Shine" by Bianca Galvez, performed by Condola Rashad, introduced by William Carrington (Unpublished)
• "Good Living" by Aleksandar Hemon, performed by Boyd Gaines
  From: Love and Obstacles (Riverhead Hardcover)
• "The Thing Around Your Neck" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Condola Rashad
  Collected in: The Thing Around Your Neck (Knopf)

• "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker, performed by Aasif Mandvi
  Collected in: The Vampire Archives (Vintage Crime 2009)
• "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
  Collected in: Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Vintage Books)

Week of February 18, 2010 - February 24, 2010
Forbidden Fruit

• "Yurt" by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, performed by Joanna Gleason
  From: Ms. Hempel Chronicles (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• "Wild Plums" by Grace Stone Coates, performed by Mia Dillon
  Collected in: Best American Short Stories of the Century (Mariner Books)

Week of February 25, 2010 - March 3, 2010
An Hour with Sherman Alexie

• "Breaking and Entering" by Sherman Alexie, performed by B.D. Wong
  From: War Dances (Grove Press)
  
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• "Popsy" by Stephen King, performed by Michael Imperioli
  Collected in: The Vampire Archives (Vintage Crime 2009)
• "Night Calls" by Lisa Fugard, performed by the author (Unpublished)
  (Buy this story on Getting There From Here)

• “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, performed by Dylan Baker From: The Things They Carried (Mariner Books)
  (Buy this story on Wartime Lives)

• "Good Intentions" by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
  From: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God (The Toby Press)
• "Lost and Found" by Colson Whitehead, performed by Alec Baldwin
  Published in: The New York Times
• "My Mother" by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Laurine Towler
  From: At the Bottom of the River (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• “A Soldier for the Crown” by Charles Johnson, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson From: Soulcatcher and Other Stories by Charles Johnson (Harvest Books)
  (Buy this story on Wartime Lives)
  
  Week of April 1, 2010 - April 7, 2010
  Jhumpa Lahiri's Two Worlds
  
• "Hell-Heaven," by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Rita Wolf
  From: Unaccustomed Earth (Knopf)
  (Buy other stories by Lahiri on Timeless Classics)
  
  Week of April 8, 2010 - April 14, 2010
  What Do Women Want? A Tribute to Eudora Welty
• "Lily Daw and the Three Ladies," by Eudora Welty, performed by Marian Seldes
• "The Key," by Eudora Welty, performed by Sloane Shelton
  Both stories from: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Harvest Books)
  (Buy other stories by Welty on Are We There Yet?)
  
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  Week of April 15, 2010 - April 21, 2010
  Gone Missing
• "Going, Going, Gone," by Peter Blauner, performed by Keith Szarabajka
  From: The Best American Mystery Stories 2007, ed. by Carl Hiaasen (Houghton Mifflin)
• "The Purple Is Everything," by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, performed by Christina Pickles
• From: A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women, ed. by Elizabeth George (Harper Paperbacks)
  
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  Week of April 22, 2010 - April 28, 2010
  Fiction into Film
  
  • "No Bikini," by Ivan E. Coyote, performed by Sonia Manzano
    From: Close to Spiderman (Arsenal Pulp Press)
  • "Kubuku Rides (This Is It)," by Larry Brown, performed by Myra Lucretia Taylor
    From: Facing the Music (Algonquin Books)
  
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  Week of April 29, 2010 - May 5, 2010
  Women in the News
  
  • "Ad," by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Jill Eikenberry
    From: All This Heavenly Glory (Back Bay Books)
  • "A Piece of News," by Eudora Welty, performed by Kathryn Markey
    From: The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Harvest Books)
    (Buy other stories by Welty on Are We There Yet?)
  
  Week of May 6, 2010 - May 12, 2010
  Pressing Engagements
  
  • "Stump Louie," by Lisa Halliday, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
    From: The Paris Review. (Issue 174/Summer 2005)
  • "The Dome," by Steven Millhauser, performed by Alec Baldwin
    Collected in The Pushcart Prize 2008 (Pushcart Press) and Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Knopf)
  
  Week of May 13, 2010 - May 19, 2010
  Writing at the MacDowell Colony
  
  • "The Proposition," by David Bezmozgis, performed by Paul Hecht
    From: Natasha and Other Stories (Picador)
  • "The Modern Age," by Frances Hwang performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
    From: Transparency Stories (Back Bay Books)
  
  Week of May 20, 2010 - May 26, 2010
  Memories of Math and Pickled Herring
  
  • "The Mathematician," by Daniel Kehlmann, performed by B.D. Wong
    From: Measuring the World (Vintage)
  • *"I Was Really Very Hungry," by M.F.K. Fisher, performed by Christina Pickles
    From: As They Were (Knopf)
    (Buy this story on Food Fictions)
  
  Week of May 27, 2010 - June 2, 2010
  Improvisations
• "Roy Spivey," by Miranda July, performed by Amy Ryan
  From: The New Yorker (June 11, 2007)
• "Improvisation," by Ed McBain, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
  From: The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (Houghton Mifflin)
  (Buy this story on Whodunit?)
  
  Week of June 3, 2010 - June 9, 2010
  Love on the Rocks
  
• "A Mouthful of Cut Glass," by Tessa Hadley, performed by Lois Smith
  From: Sunstroke and Other Stories (Picador)
  (Buy other Hadley Stories on Tales of Betrayal)
• "Blowing Shades," by Stuart Dybek, performed by James Naughton
  From: The Pushcart Prize 1999 (Pushcart Press)
  (Buy other Dybek Stories on Are We There Yet?)
  
  Week of June 10, 2010 - June 16, 2010
  On the Road
  
• "Twenty Grand," by Rebecca Curtis, performed by Jane Curtin
  From: Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love and Money (HarperCollins)
  (Buy other Stories read by Curtin on Falling in Love, Tales of Betrayal, and Pets!)
• "Best Western," by Anne de Marcken, performed by Laura Esterman - Annual Stella Kuperferberg Memorial Short Story Prize award winner (unpublished)
  
  Week of June 17, 2010 - June 23, 2010
  Richard Prince: Spiritual America
  
• "Adventures in Auto-eroticism," by Neal Cassady, performed by Ted Marcoux
  From: The First Third (City Lights Books)
  Buy other Stories read by Marcoux on Wartime Lives, Falling in Love)
• "Ambush," by Tim O'Brien, performed by John Shea
  From: The Things They Carried (Broadway)
  (Buy other Stories read by Shea on Tales of Betrayal, Timeless Classics, Food Fictions, Readers & Writers, and Baseball!)
  (Buy Other Stories from O'Brien on Wartime Lives)
• "John Wayne: A Love Song," by Joan Didion, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
  From: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Farrar, Staus & Giroux)
  (Buy Other Stories form Didion on Travel Tales)
• "Learn a Trade," by John Updike, performed by Paul Hecht
  From: Trust Me (Fawcett Columbine)
  (Buy other Stories from Updike on Lots of Laughs, Baseball!, The REA Award)
  
  Week of June 24, 2010 - June 30, 2010
  A Child's Eye View
• *"Charles," by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
  From: The Lottery and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  (Buy other Stories from Jackson on Timeless Classics or buy this story on Family Matters)
• *"Pride and Joy," by Etgar Keret, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
  From: The Nimrod Flipout (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  (Buy this story on Family Matters, buy other Stories from Keret on Lots of Laughs, or buy other stories read by Leonard on Getting There from Here, For Better or For Worse)
• "Blue Waltz with Coyotes," by Jeanne Dixon, performed by Mia Dillon
  From: The Best of Montana's Short Fiction (The Lyons Press)
• *"Boys," by Rick Moody, performed by BD Wong
  From: Demonology (Back Bay/Little Brown)
  (Buy this story on Family Matters or buy other Stories read by Wong on Tales of Betrayal)
  
  Week of July 1, 2010 - July 7, 2010
  Two Funny Guys
  
• "Alvin the Typesetter," by Lydia Davis, performed by David Rakoff
  From: Samuel Johnson is Indignant (Little Brown)
  (Buy other Stories read by Rakoff on Lots of Laughs!, Are We There Yet?)
• "The Lie," by T. Coraghessan Boyle performed by Stephen Colbert
  From: The New Yorker (April 14, 2008 / www.newyorker.com)
  
  Week of July 8, 2010 - July 14, 2010
  A Pair of Paleys
• "The Long-Distance Runner," by Grace Paley, performed by Laura Esterman
  (Buy other Stories from Paley on The REA Award, Family Matters or buy other stories read by Esterman on Lots of Laughs!)
• "A Conversation with My Father," by Grace Paley, performed by Anne Pitoniak
  Both stories from: The Collected Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  
  Week of July 15, 2010 - July 21, 2010
  Deepening Insight
  
• "The Seventh Man," by Haruki Murakami, performed by John Shea
  From: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Vintage International)
  (Buy other Stories read by Shea on Tales of Betrayal, Timeless Classics, Food Fictions, Readers & Writers, and Baseball!)
• "The Rememberer," by Aimee Bender, performed by Marian Seldes
  From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond, edited by Robert Sharp and James Thomas (W.W. Norton)
  (Buy other Stories read by Seldes on Getting There From Here, Timeless Classics, and Wondrous Women)
  
  Week of July 22, 2010 - July 28, 2010
  Listen Up!
  
• "The Apology," by Brock Clark, performed by Stephen Lang
  From: Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses 2005, edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize Editors (W.W. Norton & Company)
• "The Chairs," by Joshua Ferris, performed by Ivy Austin
  From: Then We Came to the End: A Novel (Back Bay Books)
• "Feeling Good, Feeling Fine," by George Garrett, performed by B.D. Wong
  From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond, edited by Robert Sharp and James Thomas (W.W. Norton)
  (Buy other Stories read by Wong on Tales of Betrayal, and Family Matters)
  
  Week of July 29, 2010 - August 4, 2010
  Wild Guys
  
• "Gleason," by Louise Erdrich, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
  From: The New Yorker (March 20, 2006 / www.newyorker.com) and The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 (Houghton Mifflin)
  (Buy this story on Whodunit? or buy other stories read by Leonard on Getting There From Here, Family Matters and For Better or For Worse)
• "Red," by Maile Meloy, performed by Keith Szarabajka
  From: Half in Love (Scribner)
  (Buy this story on Wartime Lives or buy other stories read by Szarabajka on Are We There Yet?)
  
  Week of August 5, 2010 - August 11, 2010
  Vacation Complications
  
• "The Summer People," by Shirley Jackson, performed by René Auberjonois
  From: A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women, edited by Elizabeth George (Harper Perennial)
  (Buy other Stories from Wolff on The REA Award)
• "The Wrong Suitecase," by Maeve Binchy, performed by Cynthia Nixon
  From: The Return Journey (Dell)
  (Buy other stories read by Hudson on Wartime Lives)
  
  Week of August 12, 2010 - August 18, 2010
  Passions Run Deep
• "Bible," by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Alexander
  From: Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Knopf)
  (Buy other Stories from Wolff on The REA Award)
• "The Appropriation of Cultures," by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago Hudson
  From: Damned If I Do (Graywolf)
  (Buy other stories read by Hudson on Wartime Lives)
  
  Week of August 19, 2010 - August 25, 2010
  Let's Not Talk
  
• "The Year of Silence," by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Anthony Rapp
  From: The View from the Seventh Layer (Pantheon)
• "Liberty Hall," by Ring Lardner, performed by Christina Pickles
  From: The Best Short Stories of Ring Lardner (Scribner) (out of print)
  (Buy this story on Travel Tales or buy other stories read by Pickles on Food Fictions, Lots of Laughs! and Falling in Love)
  
  Week of August 26, 2010 - September 1, 2010
  Strange Rituals
  
• "Second-Hand Man," by Rita Dove, performed by Audra McDonald
  From: Fifth Sunday (Callaloo Fiction Series)
  (Buy this story on Getting There From Here)
• "The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping," by Padgett Powell, performed by James Naughton
  From: Typical (Owl Books)
  (Buy this story on Falling in Love or buy other stories read by Naughton on Are We There Yet?, and Timeless Classics)
  
  Week of September 2, 2010 - September 8, 2010
  Women on a Mission
  
• "A Shock for Countess," by C.S. Montanye, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
  From: Black Mask Magazine (March 1923)
  (Buy this story on Whodunit? or buy other stories read by Flanagan on Falling in Love and Food Fictions)
• "Katherine Comes to Yellow Sky," by Mark Helprin, performed by Lisa Gay Hamilton
  From: The Dove of the East and Other Stories (Harvest)
  
  
  Week of September 9, 2010 - September 15, 2010
  Two Tough Guy Writers
  
• "The Creeping Siamese," by Dashiell Hammett, performed by John Shea
  From: Black Mask Magazine (May 1933)
  (Buy this story on Whodunit? or buy other stories read by Shea on Tales of Betrayal, Timeless Classics, Readers & Writers, Baseball!, and Food Fictions)
• "Make Westing," Jack London, performed by Steven Gilborn
  From: The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (Oxford University Press)
  (Buy this story on Timeless Classics)
  
  Week of September 16, 2010 - September 22, 2010
  Trying to Cope
  
• "We," by Mary Grimm, performed by Patricia Kalember
  From: Nothing But You Love Stories from The New Yorker, edited by Roger Angell (Random House/Modern Library)
• "Chivalry," by Neil Gaiman, performed by Jane Curtin
  From: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions (Harper Perennial)
  (Buy this story on Lots of Laughs! or buy other stories read by Curtin on Tales of Betrayal, Pets!, and Falling in Love)
  
  
  Week of September 23, 2010 - September 29, 2010
  Unexpected Developments
  
• "Sphinx," by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Kathleen Widdoes
  From: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Wordsworth Editions Ltd)
• "Minuet," by Guy de Maupassant, performed by René Auberjonois
  From: French Stories, edited by Wallace Flowlie (Dover)
  (Buy other stories read by Auberjonois on Food Fictions)
• "The Toys of Peace," by Saki, performed by Dana Ivey
  From: The Oxford Book of English Short Stories, edited by A.S. Byatt (Oxford University Press)
• "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn," by Thomas Wolfe, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
  From: The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe (Simon and Schuster)
  (Buy other stories read by Sheffer on Readers & Writers, Food Fictions, Lots of Laughs!, Timeless Classics, Getting There From Here, Pets!, Baseball!)
  
  
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