Broadcast Schedule

“The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross,” by Henry Slesar, read by Robert Sean Leonard
“Head Over Knees,” by Eric Schlich, read by Robert Sean Leonard
“Dornicka and the St. Martin’s Day Goose,” by Helen Oyeyemi, read by Colby Minifie

“Dog,” by Richard Russo, read by Stephen Lang
“Tobermory,” by Saki, read by Rene Auberjonois
“Take It from Cats,” by Helen Ellis, read by Maria Dizzia
“Roslyn’s Dog,” by Arthur Bradford, read by John Benjamin Hickey

“I Am the Bear,” by Wendy Brenner, performed by Kate Walsh
“All the Time We Have,” by David Rakoff, performed by Denis O’Hare
“Good Bones,” by Maggie Smith, performed by Busy Philipps
“Currents,” by Hannah Voskuil, performed by Maulik Pancholy

“Jane Eyre (excerpt),” by Charlotte Brontë, read by Joanna Gleason
“Reader, She Married Me,” by Sally Vickers, read by Chris Sarandon
“The Orphan Exchange,” by Audrey Niffenegger, read by Tovah Feldshuh

“Strawberry Window,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Boyd Gaines
“Hell Diving Women” by Megan Mayhew Bergman, performed by Anika Noni Rose

“Second Hand,” by Andrés Neuman, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Dinner on the Rocks,” by Dawn Powell, performed by Christina Pickles
“Fortune Cookie,” by Hubert Selby, Jr., performed by Michael Imperioli

“Second Hand,” by Andrés Neuman, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Dinner on the Rocks,” by Dawn Powell, performed by Christina Pickles
“Fortune Cookie,” by Hubert Selby, Jr., performed by Michael Imperioli

“God Bless America,” by Steve Almond, read by Michael Urie
“The Isles of Dr. Moreau,” by Heather O’Neill, read by Valorie Curry

“Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,” by S.J. Perelman, performed by James Naughton
“Shiftless Little Loafers,” by Susan Orlean, performed by Dave Hill
“The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message, or the Asp Strikes Again,” by
Jean Shepherd, read by Isaiah Sheffer
“Awake,” by Jenny Allen, performed by Jane Kaczmarek

“The Princess Who Stood On Her Own 2 Feet,” by Jeanne Desy, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Beauty and the Beast or The Enormous Wound,” by Clarice Lispector, performed by Kate Burton

“Flotsam,” by Diane Cook, performed by Melora Hardin
“Paranoia,,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Thomas Gibson
“A Tree, A Rock, a Cloud,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Lance Reddick

“The Walk,” by Elizabeth Strout, performed by Ellen Burstyn
“Listen,” by Susan Minot, performed by Jennifer Ikeda and Khris Lewin
“Speak! Speak!” by Julia Alvarez, performed by Selenis Leyva
“Lines to Ida B. Wells,” by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman, performed by Crystal Dickinson
“Speech Delivered to Women’s Rights Convention in Akron Ohio” [excerpt] by Sojourner Truth, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“Afmerica,” by Mary E. Ashe Lee, performed by Kaneza Schaal

“Apocalypse,” by Jack Handey, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Encounters with Unexpected Animals,” by Bret Anthony Johnston, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Wish,” by Roald Dahl, performed by Pablo Schreiber
“Indianapolis (Highway 74),” by Sam Shepard, performed by Bryan Cranston

“The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl, read by Sam Underwood
“Four O’Clock,” by Price Day, read by Zachary Quinto
“Perchance to Dream,” by Charles Beaumont, read by Zach Grenier

“Yeltsin Dancing,” by Padgett Powell, performed by Arian Moayed
“State Facts for the New Age,” by Amy Sauber, performed by Amy Ryan
“Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Joe Grifasi

“The Smoking Room,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Cristin Milioti
“Company for Dinner,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Stephen Kunken
“The Bus,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Paul Giamatti

“Bee Beard,” by Ryan Boudinot, performed by Tony Hale
“The Dummy,” by Susan Sontag, performed by Justin Kirk
“The Swim Team,” by Miranda July, performed by Parker Posey

“Ancient Rome,” by Kyle McCarthy, performed by Tavi Gevinson
“The Thing Around Your Neck,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Condola Rashad

“Brothers” by Sherwood Anderson, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Diem Perdidi” by Julie Otsuka performed by Jayne Atkinson

“The Texas Principessa,” by William Goyen, performed by Doris Roberts
“Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish,” by David Rakoff, performed by Jackie Hoffman
“The Canoeists,’ by Rick Bass, performed by Neil Patrick Harris

“The Pangs of Love,” by Jane Gardam, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Hat Trick,” by Edith Pearlman, performed by Sharon Gless

“Charity” (excerpt), by Joy Williams, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child,” by Joy Williams, performed by David Rakoff
“Escapes,” by Joy Williams, performed by Joy Williams

“The Greatest Man in the World,” by James Thurber, performed by Michael Ian Black
“A Warm Welcome to the President, Insh’Allah!” by Meera Nair, performed by Aasif Mandvi

“The Ambush,” by Donna Tartt, performed by Patricia Kalember
“My Father’s Life,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Secret Lives of Chefs,” by Lisa Hanawalt, performed by Mario Batali

“They Tell Me, Now I Know,” by Shay Youngblood, performed by Viola Davis
“A Small Sacrifice For an Enormous Happiness,” by Jai Chakrabarti, performed by Bhavesh Patel

“The Sock,” by Lydia Davis, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“Deep Lie the Woods,” by Meg Wolitzer, performed by Blythe Danner
“Nightblooming,” by Kenneth Calhoun, performed by Josh Charles

“The Dreamlife of Toasters,” by Heather O’Neill, performed by Yvette Nicole Brown
“The Invisible Collection,” by Stefan Zweig, performed by René Auberjonois

“When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11¼,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Evening Primrose,” by John Collier, performed by Neil Gaiman
“July Tale,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Neil Gaiman

“Distractions,” by Simon Rich, performed by Erinn Hayes
“Love in a Kitchen Garden,” by Douglas Lawson, performed by Richard Kind
“Brand Values,” by Emily Buckler, performed by Maulik Pancholy