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Selected Shorts
Below is the schedule for upcoming and previous Selected Shorts episodes.
Our most recently released shows are available for audio streaming HERE.
01/28/2021
"The Adventure of a Skier," by Italo Calvino, performed by James Naughton
“New York Day Women,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Laurine Towler
“Notes for a Hypothetical Novel,” by James Baldwin, performed by Brandon J. Dirden
01/21/2021
"Little Miss International Goodwill," by Doretta Lau, performed by Annie Q
“The Duchess and The Jeweller,” by Virginia Woolf, performed by Michael Urie
Excerpt from Sex and Vanity, by Kevin Kwan, performed by Melora Hardin
01/14/2021
"A Presidential Candidate," by Mark Twain, performed by Roy Wood, Jr.
“Our Boy George,” by Molly Ivins, performed by Samantha Bee
Excerpt from Unbought and Unbossed, by Shirley Chisholm, performed by Crystal Dickinson
“Waiting for Pivot,” by Alexandra Petri, performed by Paul Giamatti, Jordan Klepper, Aasif Mandvi, and Alexandra Petri
Excerpt from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, by Hunter S. Thompson, performed by Jordan Klepper
01/07/2021
"Top of the Food Chain," by T.C. Boyle, performed by Zach Grenier
“A Prize for Every Player,” by A.M. Homes, performed by Jane Curtin
12/31/2020
“The Luncheon,” by Jeffrey Archer, performed by Jefferson Mays
“Love Is Not a Pie,” by Amy Bloom, performed by Hope Davis
12/24/2020
“Powder,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Gifts of the Jewish Magi,” by Allegra Goodman, performed by Michael Cerveris and Dana Ivey
“Christmas in New York,” by Jeanette Winterson, performed by Richard Masur
12/17/2020
Excerpt from My Way of Life, by Joan Crawford, performed by Cole Escola
“Crazy They Call Me,” by Zadie Smith, performed by Karen Pittman
“Interview” by Will Eno, performed by Will Eno
“I Am Narcissus” by Elizabeth Olmstead, performed by Bebe Neuwirth
12/10/2020
“How to Travel with Salmon,” by Umberto Eco, performed by Jin Ha
“Marabou,” by Joy Williams, performed by Michael Emerson
“The Twenty-sixth Second,” by George Fox, performed by Linda Lavin
“The Hat,” by Patrick Modiano, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
12/03/2020
“Cultural Relativity,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Regina King
“The Lazy River,” by Zadie Smith, performed by Zadie Smith
“The Hope Chest,” by Jean Stafford, performed by Dana Ivey
11/26/2020
“A Wild Swan,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by Valorie Curry
“Fox 8” excerpt, by George Saunders, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
11/19/2020
“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
11/12/2020
“The Flowers,” by Alice Walker, performed by Crystal Dickinson
“Star Food,” by Ethan Canin, performed by David Strathairn
11/05/2020
“A Drama,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Rapture,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by performed by Robin Miles, Sam Underwood, Rainn Wilson, and Di Zhu
“Verotchka,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Rainn Wilson
“Which Is Better?” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Rainn Wilson
10/29/2020
“Story of a Parrot,” by Ana Menéndez, performed by Jacqueline Kim
“In Paris,” by Ivan Bunin, performed by René Auberjonois
10/22/2020
“Sibyl,” by Carys Davis, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
Beloved (excerpt), by Toni Morrison, performed by Andre Braugher
Goodbye, Vitamin (excerpt), by Rachel Khong, performed by Jennifer Ikeda
10/15/2020
“The Orange,” by Benjamin Rosenbaum, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
“The Man, the Restaurant, and the Eiffel Tower,” by Ben Loory, performed by Stana Katic
“I, Gentile,” by David Gordon, performed by Michael Urie
10/08/2020
“Trivial Pursuit,” by Jac Jemc, performed by Jordan Klepper
“Baghead,” by Renée Jessica Tan, performed by Karen Chee
“Spanish Winter,” by Jennifer Egan, performed by Melora Hardin
10/01/2020
“Feeding the Fussy,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Tracee Chimo
“Home Turf,” by Kiran Desai, performed by Angel Desai
“Watkyn, Comma,” by Joan Aiken, performed by Sonia Manzano
09/24/2020
“Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Hattie Winston
“Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Husband and Father,” by George Saunders, performed by James Naughton
“Domestic Dilemma,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Joanna Gleason
09/17/2020
“Ancient Rome,” by Kyle McCarthy, performed by Tavi Gevinson
“The Thing Around Your Neck,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Condola Rashad
09/10/2020
“Fully Zipped,” by Shelly Oria, performed by Katja Blichfeld
“Bad Latch,” by Curtis Sittenfeld, performed by Justine Lupe
“Future Cat,” by Xuan Juliana Wang, performed by Parker Posey
09/03/2020
“The First Kiss,” by Clarice Lispector, performed by Pepe Nufrio
“Hellion,” by Julia Elliott, performed by Donna Lynne Champlin
08/27/2020
“Yancey,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Mia Dillon
“The Mappist,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Joe Spano
08/20/2020
“The Cruise,” by Alix Ohlin, performed by Laura Benanti
“A Permanent Member of the Family,” by Russell Banks, performed by Zach Grenier
08/13/2020
“Nayla,” by Youmna Chlala, performed by Rita Wolf
“Life Off My E,” by Susan Perabo, performed by Hope Davis
08/06/2020
“Any Number of Little Old Ladies,” by Bruce Jay Friedman, performed by Blythe Danner and Maulik Pancholy
“In Naples,” by Roxana Robinson, performed by Betty Buckley
07/30/2020
“A Printer’s Tale,” by Robin Hemley, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Oh Shenandoah,” by Maura Stanton, performed by Kelli O’Hara
07/23/2020
“The Baby,” by Simon Rich, performed by Jason Mantzoukas
“Buttony,” by Fiona McFarlane, performed by Jin Ha
“Crumb Cake,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Andy Richter
With an introduction by Aimee Bender
07/16/2020
“Snow Blind,” by Elizabeth Strout, performed by Melora Hardin
“August Evening,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Half a Day,” by Naguib Mahfouz, performed by Bruce Altman
07/09/2020
“The Long Voyage,” by Leonardo Sciascia, performed by John Turturro
“Invitation to Dinner,” by Alba de Céspedes, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
“The Miraculous Beach, or, Prize for Modesty,” by Massimo Bontempelli, performed by Hugh Dancy
07/02/2020
“A Knowing So Deep,” by Toni Morrison, performed by Tayari Jones
The Bluest Eye (excerpt), by Toni Morrison, performed by Anika Noni Rose
Jazz (excerpt), by Toni Morrison, performed by S. Epatha Merkerson
“Sweetness,” by Toni Morrison, performed by Phylicia Rashad
With commentary by Fran Lebowitz
06/25/2020
Including selections from The Stonewall Reader, edited by The New York Public Library: Stonewall memories from Jayne County, Mark Segal, Lucian Truscott IV, and Holly Woodlawn
“Wedding,” by Gary Eldon Peter, performed by John Benjamin Hickey
“We Did It!” by Perry Brass, performed by Ivory Aquino and Kate Bornstein
“Song for the Kicked Out” (poem), by Kay Ulanday Barrett, performed by Kay Ulanday Barrett
06/18/2020
“Belles Lettres,” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, performed by Eboni Booth, Mary Karr, and Shalewa Sharpe
“About Two Nice People,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lilli Cooper, Ethan Slater, and Julie Halston
06/11/2020
“The Pangs of Love,” by Jane Gardam, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Hat Trick,” by Edith Pearlman, performed by Sharon Gless
06/04/2020
“Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,” performed 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, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Awake,” by Jenny Allen, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
05/28/2020
“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
05/21/2020
“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
05/14/2020
“The Princess Who Stood on Her Own Two Feet,” by Jeanne Desy, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Beauty and the Beast or The Enormous Wound,” by Clarice Lispector, performed by Kate Burton
05/07/2020
“Riding the Doghouse,” by Randy DeVita, performed by Michael Cerveris
“Mrs. Turner Cutting the Grass,” by Carol Shields, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
04/30/2020
“Tough as Bob War and Other Stuff,” by Molly Ivins, performed by Judith Ivey
“The Pony Problem,” by Sloane Crosley, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Waltz,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Parker Posey
“Lamentations of the Father,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
04/23/2020
“Breadman,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Kyle MacLachlan
An excerpt from Heartburn by Nora Ephron, performed by Joan Allen
04/16/2020
“Wedding Announcement,” by Colin Nissan, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
“The Eyes of the Soul,” by Michel Faber, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Lime Pickle,” by James Lasdun, performed by David Schwimmer
04/09/2020
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Doughnuts,” by Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz, performed by Joey Slotnick
“The Office Party,” by Corey Ford, performed by Jordan Klepper
“The Sorrows of Gin,” by John Cheever, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
04/02/2020
“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
03/26/2020
“Midrash on Happiness,” by Grace Paley, performed by Mia Dillon
“The American Embassy,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Karen Pittman
“My Father Sits in the Dark,” by Jerome Weidman, performed by Josh Hamilton
03/19/2020
“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
Featuring an interview with Meera Nair
03/12/2020
“The Elevator Dancer,” by N. K. Jemisin, performed by Laura Gómez
“Marigolds,” by Eugenia W. Collier, performed by Sharon Washington
“The Wife’s Story,” by Ursula K. Le Guin, performed by Joanna Gleason
03/05/2020
“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
02/27/2020
“Fly Already,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Liev Schreiber
“Where Are You?” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Dianna Agron
“One Gram Short,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Ira Glass
“Assassin,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Becky Ann Baker
02/20/2020
“The Dreamlife of Toasters,” by Heather O’Neill, performed by Yvette Nicole Brown
“The Invisible Collection,” by Stefan Zweig, performed by René Auberjonois
02/13/2020
“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
02/06/2020
“Yours Truly,” by A.M. Homes, performed by Beth Malone
“Omakase,” by Weike Wang, performed by Jennifer Lim
01/30/2020
“No Bikini,” by Ivan E. Coyote, performed by Becca Blackwell
“The World with My Mother Still In It,” by Kathryn Chetkovich, performed by Phillipa Soo
“At the Zoo,” by Caitlin Horrocks, performed by Kate Walsh
With an introduction by Celeste Ng
01/23/2020
“Love and Hydrogen,” by Jim Shepard, performed by Sam Underwood
“The Coat,” by Carys Davies, performed by Becca Blackwell
01/16/2020
“Miss Marple Tells a Story,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Lois Smith
“Accident,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Hugh Dancy
With commentary by Megan Abbott
01/09/2020
“Hello?” by Dmitry Biriukov, performed by Mike Doyle
“How to Tie-Dye,” by Jenny Allen, performed by Jane Curtin
“From the Diary of a Hot-Tempered Man,” by Anton Chekhov and translated by Peter Constantine, performed by Sam Underwood
01/02/2020
“My Date with Neanderthal Woman,” by David Galef, performed by Giullian Yao Gioiello
“Edna in Rain,” by Marie-Helene Bertino, performed by Colby Minifie
“Leak,” by Sam Ruddick, performed by Peter Sagal
“The Little Heidelberg,” by Isabel Allende, performed by Kathleen Turner
12/26/2019
“The Knowers,” by Helen Phillips, performed by Stockard Channing
“Three Little Maids,” by Alix Ohlin, performed by Mia Dillon
12/19/2019
“O Holy Night, or The Year I Ruined Christmas,” by Laurie Notaro, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Spirit of Christmas,” by Jeanette Winterson, performed by Christina Pickles
12/12/2019
“Correspondence,” performed Emily Skeggs
“The Discovery of Christmas,” performed by Amanda Quaid
“Sucker,” performed by Michael Cerveris
12/05/2019
“The Case for Remaining Indoors,” by Samantha Irby, performed by Retta
“Everything We Know About the Bomber,” by Rebecca Makkai, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
“The Hoaxer,” by Walter Kirn, performed by Michael McKean
11/28/2019
“Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” by Jeanne Dixon, performed by Mia Dillon
“The Color Master,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Denis O’Hare
11/21/2019
“My Brother at the Canadian Border,” by Sholeh Wolpé, performed by Maulik Pancholy
“A Guide to Fooling Yourself,” by Lauren Schenkman, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“Reunion,” by John Cheever, performed by Bruce Altman
“Black-Eyed Women,” by Viet Thanh Nguyen, performed by Jennifer Ikeda
11/14/2019
“Looking for a Thief,” by Danielle Lazarin, performed by Heather Burns
“I Stand Here Ironing,” by Tillie Olsen, performed by Kate Burton
11/07/2019
“Evening on the Côte d’Azur,” by Richard Yates, performed by Edie Falco
“Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz,” by George Saunders, performed by Josh Radnor
10/31/2019
“Friends,” by Lucia Berlin, performed by Lydia Gaston
“Control Negro,” by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, performed by LeVar Burton
10/24/2019
“The Caul,” by Russell Banks, performed by Richard Masur
“The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Lamp,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Rita Wolf
“An Imperial Message,” by Franz Kafka, performed by Kaneza Schaal
10/17/2019
“Blue Girl,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Valorie Curry
“Little Man,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by Zach Grenier
10/10/2019
“My Dungeon Shook,” by James Baldwin, performed by Christopher Jackson
Giovanni's Room (excerpt), by James Baldwin, performed by Anthony Rapp
Go Tell It on the Mountain (excerpt), by James Baldwin, performed by Charlayne Woodard
With remarks by Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation
10/03/2019
“The Appointment in Samarra,” by W. Somerset Maugham, performed by Maulik Pancholy
“The Monster,” by Ben Loory, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
“The Faery Handbag,” by Kelly Link, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
09/26/2019
“Detour,” by Évelyne Trouillot, performed Arian Moayed and Rita Wolf
“Woman Striker Has Killer Left Foot,” by Réka Mán-Várhegyi, performed by Adina Verson
“Muzaffer and Bananas,” by Yalçın Tosun, performed by Arian Moayed
Introductions by Siri Hustvedt and Karan Mahajan
09/19/2019
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“A Summer’s Reading,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by David Rakoff
09/12/2019
“The Wisdom of Eve,” by Mary Orr, performed by Stana Katic
“The Leap,” by Louise Erdrich, performed by Elizabeth Reaser
Introductions by Sarah Thyre and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
09/05/2019
“The Strength of God, Concerning the Reverend Curtis Hartman,” by Sherwood Anderson, performed by James Naughton
“The Universe as Primal Scream,” by Tracy K. Smith, performed by Tracy K. Smith
“The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,” by Tracy K. Smith, performed by Tracy K. Smith
“Everything Is Waiting for You,” by David Whyte, performed by Julie White
“You Must Be This Happy to Enter,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Claire Danes
“An Enigmatic Nature,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
08/29/2019
“Patriots,” by Patrick Dacey, performed by Wendie Malick
“Sea Monster,” by Seth Fried, performed by Natasha Rothwell
“The Mistress,” by Gina Berriault, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
08/22/2019
“First Person Shooter,” by Charles Yu, performed by Tony Hale
“The Portable Mrs. Tillson,” by Whitfield Cook, performed by Laura Grey and Jordan Klepper
“Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen,” by Stephen Leacock, performed by Sonia Manzano
08/15/2019
“The King,” by Isaac Babel, performed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
“A Love Affair,” by Lucia Berlin, performed by Rita Wolf
“Lost & Found,” by Colson Whitehead, performed by Alec Baldwin
08/08/2019
“The Doctor and the Rabbi,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Ellen Burstyn
“Spirituality; With or Without a Prayer,” by Elmore Leonard, performed by Julie White
“The History of Everything Including You,” by Jenny Hollowell, performed by Kyra Sedgwick
“The God Who Loves You,” by Carl Dennis, performed by Tracy K. Smith
“Poetry,” by Pablo Neruda, performed by Tracy K. Smith
08/01/2019
“The Trip,” by Bruce Jay Friedman, performed by Santino Fontana and Julie Halston
“Foes,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Joan Allen and Kyle MacLachlan
07/25/2019
“Initials Etched on a Dining Room Table, Lockeport, Nova Scotia,” by Peter Orner, performed by Maulik Pancholy
“Ollie’s Back,” by Lynn Sloan, performed by Nate Corddry
“Light,” by Lesley Nneka Arimah, performed by Crystal Dickinson
07/18/2019
A dramatic reading of OK Cupid profiles, performed by Giullian Yao Gioiello and Colby Minifie
“Ad,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“The Littoral Zone,” by Andrea Barrett, performed by Becky Ann Baker and Dylan Baker
07/11/2019
"I Live on Your Visits," by Dorothy Parker, performed by Celeste Holm
"Snakebite," by Arthur Bradford, performed by John Benjamin Hickey
07/04/2019
“Paddle to Canada,” by Heather Monley, performed by Jenna Ushkowitz
“A Family,” by Jamel Brinkley, performed by Brandon J. Dirden
06/27/2019
Including selections from The Stonewall Reader, edited by The New York Public Library: Stonewall memories from Jayne County, Mark Segal, Lucian Truscott IV, and Holly Woodlawn
“We Did It!” by Perry Brass, performed by Ivory Aquino and Kate Bornstein
“Wedding,” by Gary Eldon Peter, performed by John Benjamin Hickey
“Song for the Kicked Out” (poem), by Kay Ulanday Barrett, performed by Kay Ulanday Barrett
06/20/2019
“Remnants of Carnival,” by Clarice Lispector, performed by Carolina Ravassa
“The Obedient Ones,” by Clarice Lispector, performed by Denis O’Hare
“Happy Birthday,” by Clarice Lispector, performed by Lynn Cohen
With commentary by Porochista Khakpour and Idra Novey
06/13/2019
“There Was Once,” by Margaret Atwood, performed by René Auberjonois, Zach Grenier, and Jane Kaczmarek
“A Leading Role,” by Tove Jansson, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Treasure State,” by Smith Henderson, performed by Michael Shannon
06/06/2019
“I Break Everything I Touch,” by James Thurber, performed by Keith Olbermann
“The Macbeth Murder Mystery,” by James Thurber, performed Michael McKean and Susannah Rogers
“The Tortoise and the Hare,” by James Thurber, performed by Kristine Nielsen
“The Peacelike Mongoose,” by James Thurber, performed by Keith Olbermann
“The Flaw in the Plan,” by James Thurber, performed by Keith Olbermann
“The Moth and the Star,” by James Thurber, performed by Susannah Rogers
“Many Moons,” by James Thurber, performed by Michael McKean
05/30/2019
“Mortals,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Reading Lessons,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Marsha Stephanie Blake
05/23/2019
“Dear Boys,” by Chris Cohoes, performed by Matthew Modine
“A Soldier for the Crown,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
“Mother in the Trenches,” by Robert Olen Butler, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Peace and War,” by Moacyr Scliar, performed by Michael Cristofer
05/16/2019
“My Mother Explains the Ballet to Me,” by Jesse Eisenberg, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Léonide Massine,” by Janet Collins, performed by Carmen de Lavallade
“The Cape,” by Ben Loory, performed by Tony Yazbeck
“Tango,” by Kurt Vonnegut, performed by Tony Shalhoub
05/09/2019
My Way of Life (excerpt), by Joan Crawford, performed by Cole Escola
“Crazy They Call Me,” by Zadie Smith, performed by Karen Pittman
“Interview,” by Will Eno, performed by Will Eno
“I Am Narcissus,” by Elizabeth Olmstead, performed by Bebe Neuwirth
05/02/2019
“The Different One,” by John Updike, performed by Michael Emerson
“Coming Soon,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by David Morse
“Youth From Every Quarter,” by Kirstin Valdez Quade, performed by Sonia Manzano
04/25/2019
“A Wild Swan,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by Valorie Curry
Fox 8 (excerpt) by George Saunders, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
04/18/2019
Selections from the anthology The Best of Harvard Lampoon, including works by Jonathan Adler, Patricia Marx, and B.J. Novak, and others, performed by Wyatt Cenac, Michael Emerson, Richard Masur, and Alysia Reiner, among others.
04/11/2019
“Prince Amilec,” by Tanith Lee, performed by Gildart Jackson
“Be Mine,” by A.M. Homes, performed by Sanjit De Silva and Adina Verson
“The Idea of Marcel,” by Marie-Helene Bertino, performed by Jenna Ushkowitz
04/04/2019
“La Sainte-Vierge,” by Daphne du Maurier, performed by Kathryn Erbe
“Pilgrimage to Earth,” by Robert Sheckley, performed by Paul Giamatti
03/28/2019
“My Last Duchess,” by Robert Browning, performed by John Darnielle
“No More Loves,” by Javier Marías, performed by Molly Ringwald
“When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11 ¼,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Le Miroir,” by Robert Aickman, performed by Kathryn Erbe
03/21/2019
“Alarm,” by Aja Gabel, performed by Hettienne Park
“Flower Hunters,” by Lauren Groff, performed by Maria Dizzia
“Tempo,” by R.O. Kwon performed, by Hettienne Park
“Buck Boy” by James McBride, performed by Teagle F. Bougere
03/14/2019
“Best Worst American,” by Juan Martinez, performed by Cristin Milioti
“Double Men,” by Namwali Serpell, performed by Nikki James
“The Metamorphosis,” by Seth Fried, performed by Jennifer Mudge
“Kafka’s Houses,” by Dino Buzzati, performed by Tony Roberts
03/07/2019
“The Luncheon,” by Jeffrey Archer, performed by Jefferson Mays
“Love Is Not A Pie,” by Amy Bloom, performed by Hope Davis
02/28/2019
“American Dreams,” by Peter Carey, performed by David Strathairn
“Night Calls,” by Lisa Fugard, performed by Lisa Fugard
02/21/2019
“At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners,” by Lauren Groff, performed by Amy Ryan
“How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance,” by Kiese Laymon, performed by Brandon J. Dirden
02/14/2019
“Moses and Gaspar,” by Amparo Dávila, performed by Peter Jay Fernandez
“The Pitch,” by Dennis Etchison, performed by Michael Shannon
02/07/2019
“Chainsaw Apple,” by Arthur Bradford, performed by Josh Radnor
“First Love,” by Vladimir Nabokov, performed by Edward Herrmann
“The Getaway,” by Dorothy Thomas, performed by Mia Dillon
01/31/2019
“Suburbia!” by Amy Silverberg, performed by Martha Plimpton
“Everything Is Far From Here,” by Cristina Henríquez, performed by Zabryna Guevara
01/24/2019
“Nairobi,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Alison Pill
“The Most Girl Part of You,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Kate Burton
“Boys,” by Rick Moody, performed by BD Wong
01/17/2019
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (excerpt), by Carrie Brownstein, performed by Carrie Brownstein
“My Chivalric Fiasco,” by George Saunders, performed by BD Wong
“Sticks,” by George Saunders, performed by Anthony Rapp
01/10/2019
“The Gold Lunch,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Sean Astin
“The Women,” by Tom Barbash, performed by Michael Imperioli
“The Other Wife,” by Colette, performed by Barbara Barrie
01/03/2019
“The Five-Pound Burrito,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Santino Fontana
“Love (or Live Cargo),” by Nancy Jooyoun Kim, performed by Valorie Curry
“OIF,” by Phil Klay, performed by Brandon J. Dirden
“The Tablecloth of Turin,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Edi Gathegi
12/27/2018
“Waiting for the Miracle,” by Lara Vapnyar, performed by David Costabile
“Beyond Lies the Wub,” by Philip K. Dick, performed by Denis O’Hare
12/20/2018
“Interview with God,” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, performed by James Naughton and Jayne Atkinson
“The Fir Tree,” by Hans Christian Andersen, performed by James Naughton
“A Present for Big Saint Nick,” by Kurt Vonnegut, performed by Tate Donovan
12/13/2018
“The Broken Side-view Mirror” from Avenue of Mysteries, by John Irving, performed by Yul Vazquez
In One Person (excerpt), by John Irving, performed by Michael C. Hall
“Unhappy Mothers” from A Widow for One Year, by John Irving, performed by Heather Burns
12/06/2018
“How to Travel with a Salmon,” by Umberto Eco, performed by Jin Ha
“Marabou,” by Joy Williams, performed by Michael Emerson
“The Twenty-Sixth Second,” by George Fox, performed by Linda Lavin
“The Hat,” by Patrick Modiano, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
11/29/2018
“The Juniper Tree,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“The Possibility of Evil,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Dana Ivey
11/22/2018
“Top of the Food Chain,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Zach Grenier
“A Prize for Every Player,” by A.M. Homes, performed by Jane Curtin
11/15/2018
“Matrilineal,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Patricia Kalember
“In the Country,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Thomas Gibson
11/08/2018
“A Drama,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Rapture,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Robin Miles, Sam Underwood, Rainn Wilson, and Di Zhu
“Verotchka,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Rainn Wilson
“Which Is Better?” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Rainn Wilson
11/01/2018
“The Voter,” by Chinua Achebe, performed by Arthur French
“Occupy Jen’s Street,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“Taking Ms. Kezee to the Polls,” by David Haynes, performed by Michael Genét
10/25/2018
“Prologue to Middletown,” by Will Eno, performed by Cecil Baldwin
“The Beautiful Stranger,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Cecil Baldwin
“Lab Coats,” by Yoko Ogawa, performed by Marin Ireland
“List of Cross-Dressing Soldiers,” by Patricia Lockwood, performed by Dylan Marron
“Go Back to the Telephone Booth, Clark Kent, Clark Kent,” by Sarah Levy, performed by Sarah Levy, Meg Bashwiner, and Dylan Marron
“Texts from Peter Pan,” by Daniel Mallory Ortberg, performed by Dylan Marron and Mara Wilson
10/18/2018
“The Orange,” by Benjamin Rosenbaum, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
“The Man, The Restaurant, and the Eiffel Tower,” by Ben Loory, performed by Stana Katic
“I, Gentile,” by David Gordon, performed by Michael Urie
10/11/2018
“Yancey,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Mia Dillon
“The Mappist,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Joe Spano
10/04/2018
“Breadman,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Kyle MacLachlan
An excerpt from Heartburn by Nora Ephron, performed by Joan Allen
09/27/2018
“The Suitcase,” by Meron Hadero, performed by Renée Elise Goldsberry
“Bridge,” by Daniel J. O’Malley, performed by Joan Allen
“The Great Silence,” by Ted Chiang, performed by Elizabeth Rodriguez
09/20/2018
“Feeding the Fussy,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Tracee Chimo
“Home Turf,” by Kiran Desai, performed by Angel Desai
“Watkyn, Comma,” by Joan Aiken, performed by Sonia Manzano
09/13/2018
“The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross,” by Henry Slesar, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Head Over Knees,” by Eric Schlich, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Dornicka and the St. Martin’s Day Goose,” by Helen Oyeyemi, performed by Colby Minifie
09/06/2018
“Dog,” by Richard Russo, performed by Stephen Lang
“Tobermory,” by Saki, performed by René Auberjonois
“Take It from Cats,” by Helen Ellis, performed by Maria Dizzia
“Roslyn’s Dog,” by Arthur Bradford, performed by John Benjamin Hickey
08/30/2018
“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
08/23/2018
“Jane Eyre (excerpt),” by Charlotte Brontë, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Reader, She Married Me,” by Sally Vickers, performed by Chris Sarandon
“The Orphan Exchange,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Tovah Feldshuh
08/16/2018
“The Strawberry Window,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Boyd Gaines
“Hell Diving Women” by Megan Mayhew Bergman, performed by Anika Noni Rose
08/09/2018
“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
08/02/2018
“The Parents,” by Kelly Cherry, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“The Women,” by Tom Barbash, performed by Michael Imperioli
“The Garlic War,” performed by Annie Proulx, performed by Shohreh Aghdashloo
07/26/2018
“God Bless America,” by Steve Almond, performed by Michael Urie
“The Isles of Dr. Moreau,” by Heather O’Neill, performed by Valorie Curry
07/19/2018
“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, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Awake,” by Jenny Allen, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
07/12/2018
“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
07/05/2018
“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
06/28/2018
“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
06/21/2018
“Tough as Bob War and Other Stuff,” by Molly Ivins, performed by Judith Ivey
“The Pony Problem,” by Sloane Crosley, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Waltz,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Parker Posey
“Lamentations of the Father,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
06/14/2018
“Snow Blind,” by Elizabeth Strout, performed by Melora Hardin
“August Evening,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Half a Day,” by Naguib Mahfouz, performed by Bruce Altman
06/07/2018
“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Madame Lazarus,” by Maile Meloy, performed by René Auberjonois
05/31/2018
“Jerry and Molly and Sam,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Ana Gasteyer
“Breaking the Pig,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Campbell Scott
“A Pale Pink Roast,” by Grace Paley, performed by Linda Lavin
05/24/2018
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Doughnuts,” by Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz, performed by Joey Slotnick
“The Office Party,” by Corey Ford, performed by Jordan Klepper
“The Sorrows of Gin,” by John Cheever, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
05/17/2018
“Miss Marple Tells a Story,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Lois Smith
“Accident,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Hugh Dancy
With commentary by Megan Abbott
05/10/2018
“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
05/03/2018
“The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl, performed by Sam Underwood
“Four O’Clock,” by Price Day, performed by Zachary Quinto
“Perchance to Dream,” by Charles Beaumont, performed by Zach Grenier
04/26/2018
“Wedding Announcement,” by Colin Nissan, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
“The Eyes of the Soul,” by Michel Faber, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Lime Pickle,” by James Lasdun, performed by David Schwimmer
04/19/2018
“Last Night,” by James Salter, performed by Amy Ryan
“Joplin and Dickens,” by Padgett Powell, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
04/12/2018
“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
04/05/2018
“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
03/29/2018
“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
03/22/2018
“Ancient Rome,” by Kyle McCarthy, performed by Tavi Gevinson
“The Thing Around Your Neck,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Condola Rashad
03/15/2018
“Brothers,” by Sherwood Anderson, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Diem Perdidi,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jayne Atkinson
03/08/2018
“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
03/01/2018
“The Pangs of Love,” by Jane Gardam, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Hat Trick,” by Edith Pearlman, performed by Sharon Gless
02/22/2018
“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
02/15/2018
“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
02/08/2018
“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
02/01/2018
“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
01/25/2018
“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
01/18/2018
“The Dreamlife of Toasters,” by Heather O’Neill, performed by Yvette Nicole Brown
“The Invisible Collection,” by Stefan Zweig, performed by René Auberjonois
01/11/2018
“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
01/04/2018
“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
12/28/2017
“Any Number of Little Old Ladies,” by Bruce Jay Friedman, performed by Blythe Danner and Maulik Pancholy
“In Naples,” by Roxana Robinson, performed by Betty Buckley
12/21/2017
“One Christmas,” by Truman Capote, performed by John Shea
“The Loudest Voice,” by Grace Paley, performed by Linda Lavin
“A Visit from St. Nicholas,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
12/15/2017
“The Television Helps, But Not Very Much,” by John McNulty, performed by Jason Biggs
“Goodbye to All That,” by Joan Didion, performed by Mia Dillon
Selections from Humans of New York, by Brandon Stanton, performed by Vanessa Aspillaga, Jason Biggs, Tracee Chimo, Lynn Cohen, Brandon J. Dirden, and Peter Francis James
12/08/2017
“The Boy Detective,” by Roger Rosenblatt, performed by Michael Tucker
“Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by David Margulies
Poems by Billy Collins, performed by Billy Collins
12/01/2017
“Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” by Jeanne Dixon, performed by Mia Dillon
“The Color Master,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Denis O’Hare
11/24/2017
“A Sunday Kind of Love,” by Tom Wolfe, performed by Tracee Chimo
“Malta Scheffer,” by Nelson Eubanks, performed by Brandon J. Dirden
Selections from Humans of New York, by Brandon Stanton, performed by Vanessa Aspillaga, Jason Biggs, Tracee Chimo, Lynn Cohen, Brandon J. Dirden, and Peter Francis James
11/17/2017
“The Knowers,” by Helen Phillips, performed by Stockard Channing
“Three Little Maids,” by Alix Ohlin, performed by Mia Dillon
11/10/2017
“República y Grau,” by Daniel Alarcón, performed by David Strathairn
“The Letter Writer,” by M.T. Sharif, performed by Joe Morton
11/03/2017
“Blue Girl,” Elizabeth Crane, performed by Valorie Curry
“Little Man,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by Zach Grenier
10/27/2017
“Through the Safety Net,” by Charles Baxter, performed by Becky Ann Baker
“Click-Clack, The Rattlebag,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Neil Gaiman
“Strays,” by Mark Richard, performed by Alex Hurt
“October Tale,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
10/20/2017
“Correspondence,” by Carson McCullers, performed Emily Skeggs
“The Discovery of Christmas,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Amanda Quaid
“Sucker,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Michael Cerveris
10/13/2017
“The Appointment in Samarra,” by W. Somerset Maugham, performed by Maulik Pancholy
“The Monster,” by Ben Loory, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
“The Faery Handbag,” by Kelly Link, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
10/06/2017
“Grammar Questions,” by Lydia Davis, performed by David Costabile
“Until the Girl Died,” by Anne Enright, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Animal Hospital,” by Joe Meno, performed by Becky Ann Baker
“The Silk Handkerchief,” by Sait Faik Abasiyanik, performed by Amir Arison
09/29/2017
“My Brother at the Canadian Border,” by Sholeh Wolpé, performed by Maulik Pancholy
“A Guide to Fooling Yourself,” by Lauren Schenkman, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“Reunion,” by John Cheever, performed by Bruce Altman
“Black-Eyed Women,” by Viet Thanh Nguyen, performed by Jennifer Ikeda
09/22/2017
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“A Summer’s Reading,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by David Rakoff
09/14/2017
“Resistance,” by Stephan Enter, performed by Michael Cerveris
“Gorilla My Love,” by Toni Cade Bambara, performed by Hattie Winston
09/07/2017
“Evening on the Côte d’Azur,” by Richard Yates, performed by Edie Falco
“Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz,” by George Saunders, performed by Josh Radnor
08/31/2017
“You Can Find Love Now,” by Ramona Ausubel, performed by Martin Short and Amy Ryan
“The Alaska of Giants and Gods,” by Dave Eggers, performed by Kate Burton
“Loser,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Linda Emond
08/24/2017
“Dissed Fish,” written and performed by Calvin Trillin
“Best American Term Paper Assignment,” by Kurt Vonnegut, performed by BD Wong
“The Breakup Ceremony,” by Toure, performed by Maulik Pancholy
“The Frenchman,” by Seth Fried, performed by Tate Donovan
08/17/2017
“Remnants of Carnival,” by Clarice Lispector, performed by Carolina Ravassa
“The Obedient Ones,” by Clarice Lispector, performed by Denis O’Hare
“Happy Birthday,” by Clarice Lispector, performed by Lynn Cohen
With commentary by Porochista Khakpour and Idra Novey
08/10/2017
“My Date with Neanderthal Woman,” by David Galef, performed by Giullian Yao Gioiello
“Edna in Rain,” by Marie-Helene Bertino, performed by Colby Minifie
“Leak,” by Sam Ruddick, performed by Peter Sagal
“The Little Heidelberg,” by Isabel Allende, performed by Kathleen Turner
08/03/2017
“The King,” by Isaac Babel, performed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
“A Love Affair,” by Lucia Berlin, performed by Rita Wolf
“Lost & Found,” by Colson Whitehead, performed by Alec Baldwin
07/27/2017
“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
“We Was Twins,” by Fiona Maazel, performed by Cory Michael Smith
“The Epiphany Branch,” by Mary Gordon, performed by Mary Cleere Haran
07/20/2017
“The Pool of Tears,” by Lewis Carroll, performed by Ari Graynor
“The Mock Turtle’s Story,” by Lewis Carroll, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Humpty Dumpty,” by Lewis Carroll, performed by Dan Stevens
07/13/2017
“The Strength of God, Concerning the Reverend Curtis Hartman,” by Sherwood Anderson, performed by James Naughton
“The Universe as Primal Scream,” by Tracy K. Smith, performed by Tracy K. Smith
“The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,” by Tracy K. Smith, performed by Tracy K. Smith
“Everything Is Waiting for You,” by David Whyte, performed by Julie White
“You Must Be This Happy to Enter,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Claire Danes
“An Enigmatic Nature,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
07/06/2017
“I Go Adventuring,” by Helen Keller, performed by Maggie Siff
“The Secrets of Bats,” by Jess Row, performed by Heather Goldenhersh
06/29/2017
“The Doctor and the Rabbi,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Ellen Burstyn
“Spirituality; With or Without a Prayer,” by Elmore Leonard, performed by Julie White
“The History of Everything Including You,” by Jenny Hollowell, performed by Kyra Sedgwick
“The God Who Loves You,” by Carl Dennis, performed by Tracy K. Smith
“Poetry,” by Pablo Neruda, performed by Tracy K. Smith
06/22/2017
A dramatic reading of OK Cupid profiles, performed by Giullian Yao Gioiello and Colby Minifie
“Ad,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“The Littoral Zone,” by Andrea Barrett, performed by Becky Ann Baker and Dylan Baker
06/15/2017
A wonderful selection from the popular blog and bestselling book include letters by Mick Jagger, Katherine Hepburn, Jack the Ripper, and Queen Elizabeth II, among others. Readers include Jane Curtin, Kate Mulgrew, Phylicia Rashad, Jeremy Shamos, and Sam Underwood.
06/08/2017
“I Live on Your Visits,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Celeste Holm
“Snakebite,” by Arthur Bradford, performed by John Benjamin Hickey
06/01/2017
“Isn’t It Romantic?” by David Rakoff, performed by Harris Yulin
“More Alarms at Night,” by James Thurber, performed by Colin Quinn
“Août,” by Meg Wolitzer, performed by Jill Eikenberry
05/25/2017
“Dear Boys,” by Chris Cohoes, performed by Matthew Modine
“A Soldier for the Crown,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
“Mother in the Trenches,” by Robert Olen Butler, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Peace and War,” by Moacyr Scliar, performed by Michael Cristofer
05/18/2017
Selected excerpts, 1979-1985 from The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol, performed by Denis O’Hare
“The Young Painters,” by Nicole Krauss, performed by Heather Burns
“The Burning Palms,” by Claire Keegan, performed by Patricia Kalember
05/11/2017
“There Was Once,” by Margaret Atwood, performed by Jane Kaczmarek, René Auberjonois, and Zach Grenier
“A Leading Role,” by Tove Jansson, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Treasure State,” by Smith Henderson, performed by Michael Shannon
05/04/2017
“The Different One,” by John Updike, performed by Michael Emerson
“Coming Soon,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by David Morse
“Youth From Every Quarter,” by Kirstin Valdez Quade, performed by Sonia Manzano
04/27/2017
“The Proxy Marriage,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Patricia Kalember
“The Worm and the Apple,” by John Cheever, performed by Anne Meara
04/20/2017
“Mortals,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Reading Lessons,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Marsha Stephanie Blake
04/13/2017
Guest host Kate Burton presents a cornucopia of funny pieces from the volume The Best of The Harvard Lampoon. A fine cast of readers were matched up with these funnies: Wyatt Cenac, Michael Emerson, Erinn Hayes, Richard Masur, Alysia Reiner, and Zuzanna Szadkowski.
04/06/2017
“La Sainte-Vierge,” by Daphne du Maurier, performed by Kathryn Erbe
“Pilgrimage to Earth,” by Robert Sheckley, performed by Paul Giamatti
03/30/2017
“On the Hill,” by Elizabeth Spencer, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Modern Girls,” by Teju Cole, performed by Zainab Jah
03/23/2017
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (excerpt), by Carrie Brownstein, performed by Carrie Brownstein
“My Chivalric Fiasco,” by George Saunders, performed by BD Wong
“Sticks,” by George Saunders, performed by Anthony Rapp
03/16/2017
Stuart Little (excerpt), by E.B. White, performed by David Hyde Pierce
“Araby,” by James Joyce, performed by Malachy McCourt
“The Palmist,” by Andrew Lam, performed by James Naughton
“Flying,” by Stephen Dixon, performed by Thomas Gibson
03/09/2017
“Nairobi,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Alison Pill
“The Most Girl Part of You,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Kate Burton
“Boys,” by Rick Moody, performed by BD Wong
03/02/2017
“Best Worst American,” by Juan Martinez, performed by Cristin Milioti
“Double Men,” by Namwali Serpell, performed by Nikki James
“The Metamorphosis,” by Seth Fried, performed by Jennifer Mudge
“Kafka’s Houses,” by Dino Buzzati, performed by Tony Roberts
02/23/2017
“Covet Diary,” by Leanne Shapton, performed by Justin Vivian Bond
“Conversation: You Don’t Know What I Deal With,” by Ramou Sarr, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Conversation: I’m Always on the Floor and Working,” by Mona Kowalska, performed by Sonia Manzano
“The Hat of My Mother,” by Max Steele, performed by Paul Hecht
02/16/2017
“Magic and Dread,” by Jenny Offill, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“The Tragic Queen of Carthage,” from The Aeneid, by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles, performed by BD Wong
02/09/2017
“Chainsaw Apple,” by Arthur Bradford, performed by Josh Radnor
“First Love,” by Vladimir Nabokov, performed by Edward Herrmann
“The Getaway,” by Dorothy Thomas, performed by Mia Dillon
02/02/2017
“The Minimalist,” by Stacey Richter, performed by Parker Posey
“Varengeville,” by William Boyd, performed by Dan Stevens
“Honey I Twisted,” by Helen Phillips, performed by Heather Burns
“Timeshare,” by Dolan Morgan, performed by Rita Wolf
01/26/2017
“The Suitcase,” by Meron Hadero, performed by Renée Elise Goldsberry
“Bridge,” by Daniel J. O’Malley, performed by Joan Allen
“The Great Silence,” by Ted Chiang, performed by Elizabeth Rodriguez
01/19/2017
“The Juniper Tree,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“The Possibility of Evil,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Dana Ivey
01/12/2017
“At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners,” by Lauren Groff, performed by Amy Ryan
“How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance,” by Kiese Laymon, performed by Brandon J. Dirden
01/05/2017
“Waiting for the Miracle,” by Lara Vapnyar, performed by David Costabile
“Beyond Lies the Wub,” by Philip K. Dick, performed by Denis O’Hare
12/29/2016
“Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband,” by George Saunders, performed by James Naughton
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn
“Lamentations of the Father,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
12/22/2016
“Christmas Freud,” by David Rakoff, performed by Jon Glaser
“Violets,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Homecoming,” by William Maxwell, performed by Keir Dullea
“Christmas in Qatar,” by Calvin Trillin, performed by Trillin
12/15/2016
“Small Fates,” by Teju Cole, performed by Blythe Danner and Jeffrey Wright
“In the South,” by Salman Rushdie, performed by Michael Stuhlbarg
12/08/2016
“The Dog of the Marriage,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Joan Allen
“Partners,” by Veronica Geng, performed by Michael Cerveris, Patricia Kalember, and Isaiah Sheffer
“Nightingale,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by William Hurt
12/01/2016
“The Broken Side-view Mirror” from Avenue of Mysteries, by John Irving, performed by Yul Vazquez
In One Person (excerpt), by John Irving, performed by Michael C. Hall
“Unhappy Mothers” from A Widow for One Year, by John Irving, performed by Heather Burns
11/24/2016
“Can't and Won't,” by Lydia Davis, performed by Lydia Davis
“If At the Wedding (At the Zoo),” by Lydia Davis, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“The Party,” by Lydia Davis, performed by Cristin Milioti
“The Two Davises and the Rug,” by Lydia Davis, performed by Dylan Baker
“The Egg Race,” by John Updike, performed by Alec Baldwin
11/17/2016
“The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross,” by Henry Slesar, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Head Over Knees,” by Eric Schlich, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Dornicka and the St. Martin's Day Goose,” by Helen Oyeyemi, performed by Colby Minifie
11/10/2016
“God Bless America,” by Steve Almond, performed by Michael Urie
“The Isles of Dr. Moreau,” by Heather O'Neill, performed by Valorie Curry
11/03/2016
“The Voter,” by Chinua Achebe, performed by Arthur French
“Occupy Jen's Street,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“Taking Ms. Kezee to the Polls,” by David Haynes, performed by Michael Genet
10/27/2016
“The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl, performed by Sam Underwood
“Four O’Clock,” by Price Day, performed by Zachary Quinto
“Perchance to Dream,” by Charles Beaumont, performed by Zach Grenier
10/20/2016
“The Sexes,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Parker Posey
“Bohemia (poem),” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Heather Burns
“In the Throes,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Heather Burns
“The Standard of Living,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Hope Davis
“Waitress,” by Robert Coover, performed by Sonia Manzano
10/13/2016
“Matrilineal,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Patricia Kalember
“In the Country,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Thomas Gibson
10/06/2016
“Where You'll Find Me,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“The Year of Spaghetti,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Michael Imperioli
“Reading Aloud,” by Marina Keegan, performed by Rita Wolf
09/29/2016
“Dog,” by Richard Russo, performed by Stephen Lang
“Tobermory,” by Saki, performed by René Auberjonois
“Take It from Cats,” by Helen Ellis, performed by Maria Dizzia
“Roslyn’s Dog,” by Arthur Bradford, performed by John Benjamin Hickey
09/22/2016
Jane Eyre (excerpt), by Charlotte Brontë, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Reader, She Married Me,” by Sally Vickers, performed by Chris Sarandon
“The Orphan Exchange,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Tovah Feldshuh
09/15/2016
“Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Christine Baranski
“Havahart,” by Belle Boggs, performed by Merritt Wever
“Sticks,” by George Saunders, performed by Anthony Rapp
09/01/2016
“The Moons of Jupiter,” by Alice Munro, performed by Holly Hunter
“She Unnames Them,” by Ursula LeGuin, performed by Joanna Gleason
08/25/2016
“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Madame Lazarus,” by Maile Meloy, performed by René Auberjunois
08/18/2016
“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
08/11/2016
“The Sound of Summer Running,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Sean Astin
“I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth,” by Margaret Atwood, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Shiftless Little Loafers,” by Susan Orlean, performed by Dave Hill
08/04/2016
“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
07/28/2016
“ReBoot Me,” by Larry Doyle, performed by Chip Kidd
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (excerpt), by Michael Chabon, performed by Aya Cash
“I am Not a Jew,” by John Biguenet, performed by David Strathairn
07/21/2016
“The Strawberry Window,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Boyd Gaines
“Hell Diving Women” by Megan Mayhew Bergman, performed by Anika Noni Rose
07/14/2016
“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
07/07/2016
Selections from Women in Clothes, a fascinating collection of pieces by and about women and their relationships to clothes, from all over the globe, performed by Justin Vivian Bond, Jennifer Lim, Zosia Mamet, Sonia Manzano, and Molly Ringwald.
06/30/2016
“Last Night,” by James Salter, performed by Amy Ryan
“Joplin and Dickens,” by Padgett Powell, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
06/26/2016
“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
06/16/2016
“Chablis,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Bobby Cannavale
“The Slaves of New York,” by Tama Janowitz, performed by Anna Chlumsky
“After the Denim,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Michael Cerveris
“Snow,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson
06/09/2016
“The Boy Detective,” by Roger Rosenblatt, performed by Michael Tucker
“Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by David Margulies
Poems by Billy Collins, performed by Billy Collins
06/02/2016
“The Lone Pilgrim,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Hope Davis
“The Night Bookmobile,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Christina Pickles
05/26/2016
“Fiesta, 1980,” by Junot Díaz, performed by Felix Solis
“How Old, How Young,” by John O’Hara, performed by Alec Baldwin
05/19/2016
“Brothers,” by Sherwood Anderson, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Diem Perdidi,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jayne Atkinson
05/12/2016
Tales from the quarterly journal Lucky Peach, founded by Momofuku owner and chef David Chang. Food fictions and commentary by Rosie Schaap, Peter Meehan, Kevin West, Jase Grimm, Nelly Reifler, and Marc Maron, performed by Gaby Hoffman, Peter Meehan, David Cross, and Sarah Steele.
05/05/2016
A Story Lately Told (excerpt), by Anjelica Huston, performed by Anjelica Huston
Says (excerpt), by Linor Goralik, translated by Anya Ulinich, performed by Nina Arianda
“Indulgence,” by Susan Perabo, performed by Hope Davis
04/28/2016
“Charity,” 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
04/21/2016
“The Television Helps, But Not Very Much,” by John McNulty, performed by Jason Biggs
“Goodbye to All That,” by Joan Didion, performed by Mia Dillon
Selections from Humans of New York, by Brandon Stanton, performed by Vanessa Aspillaga, Jason Biggs, Tracee Chimo, Lynn Cohen, Brandon J. Dirden, and Peter Francis James
04/14/2016
“In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Curtin
“Through the Tunnel,” by Doris Lessing, performed by James Naughton
“Barbara Stanwyck, It’s Your Time to Shine,” by Bianca Galvez, performed by Condola Rashad
04/07/2016
“The Pool of Tears,” by Lewis Carroll, performed by Ari Graynor
“The Mock Turtle’s Story,” by Lewis Carroll, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Humpty Dumpty,” by Lewis Carroll, performed by Dan Stevens
03/31/2016
“The Distance of the Moon,” by Italo Calvino, performed by Liev Schreiber
“All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Michael Cerveris
With commentary by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich of Radiolab
03/24/2016
“Grammar Questions,” by Lydia Davis, performed by David Costabile
“Until the Girl Died,” by Anne Enright, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Animal Hospital,” by Joe Meno, performed by Becky Ann Baker
“The Silk Handkerchief,” by Sait Faik Abasiyanik, performed by Amir Arison
03/17/2016
“A Sunday Kind of Love,” by Tom Wolfe, performed by Tracee Chimo
“Malta Sheffer,” by Nelson Eubanks, performed by Brandon J. Dirden
Selections from Humans of New York, by Brandon Stanton, performed by Vanessa Aspillaga, Jason Biggs, Tracee Chimo, Lynn Cohen, Brandon J. Dirden, and Peter Francis James
03/10/2016
“Resistance,” by Stephan Enter, performed by Michael Cerveris
“Gorilla My Love,” by Toni Cade Bambara, performed by Hattie Winston
03/03/2016
“The Portal,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“A Curtain of Green,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Frances Sternhagen
02/25/2016
“Good Intentions,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Man Who Liked Dickens,” by Evelyn Waugh, performed by Leonard Nimoy
02/18/2016
“República y Grau,” by Daniel Alarcón, performed by David Strathairn
“The Letter Writer,” by M.T. Sharif, performed by Joe Morton
02/11/2016
“How I Met My Husband,” by Alice Munro, performed by Amy Ryan
“The Meeting,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Paul Hecht
02/04/2016
“At the Anarchists Convention,” by John Sayles, performed by Jerry Stiller
“The Falls,” by George Saunders, performed by René Auberjonois
01/28/2016
“Dissed Fish,” written and performed by Calvin Trillin
“Best American Term Paper Assignment,” by Kurt Vonnegut, performed by BD Wong
“The Breakup Ceremony,” by Toure, performed by Maulik Pancholy
“The Frenchman,” by Seth Fried, performed by Tate Donovan
01/21/2016
“You Can Find Love Now,” by Ramona Ausubel, performed by Martin Short and Amy Ryan
“The Alaska of Giants and Gods,” by Dave Eggers, performed by Kate Burton
“Loser,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Linda Emond
01/14/2016
“Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
“We Was Twins,” by Fiona Maazel, performed by Cory Michael Smith
“The Epiphany Branch,” by Mary Gordon performed by Mary Cleere Haran
01/07/2016
“Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Out,” by Patricia Highsmith, performed by Tandy Cronyn
“Powder,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
12/31/2015
“Isn’t It Romantic,” by David Rakoff, performed by Harris Yulin
“More Alarms at Night,” by James Thurber, performed by Colin Quinn
“Août,” by Meg Wolitzer, performed by Jill Eikenberry
12/24/2015
“Ambition,” by Jonathan Franzen, performed by Edie Falco
“From the Diary of a New York Lady,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Mary Louise Wilson
12/17/2015
“One Christmas,” by Truman Capote, performed by John Shea
“The Loudest Voice,” by Grace Paley, performed by Linda Lavin
“A Visit from St. Nicholas,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
12/10/2015
Selected excerpts, 1979-1985, from The Andy Warhol Diaries by Andy Warhol, performed by Denis O’Hare
“The Young Painters,” by Nicole Krauss, performed by Heather Burns
“The Burning Palms” by Claire Keegan, performed by Patricia Kalember
12/03/2015
“Pilgrims,” by Julie Orringer, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“The Life You Save May be Your Own,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Lois Smith
11/26/2015
“Where the Cluetts Are,” by Jack Finney, performed by Philip Casnoff
“Lederhosen,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Aasif Mandvi
11/19/2015
“The Proxy Marriage,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Patricia Kalember
“The Worm in the Apple,” by John Cheever, performed by Anne Meara
11/12/2015
“Unstuck,” by John Updike, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Playing with Dynamite,” by John Updike, performed by Sally Field
11/05/2015
“Prologue to Middletown,” by Will Eno, performed by Cecil Baldwin
“The Beautiful Stranger,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Cecil Baldwin
“Lab Coats,” by Yoko Ogawa, performed by Marin Ireland
“List of Cross-Dressing Soldiers,” by Patricia Lockwood, performed by Dylan Marron
“Go Back to the Telephone Booth, Clark Kent, Clark Kent,” by Sarah Levy, performed by Sarah Levy, Meg Bashwiner, and Dylan Marron
“Texts from Peter Pan,” by Mallory Ortberg, performed by Dylan Marron and Mara Wilson
10/29/2015
“Through the Safety Net,” by Charles Baxter, performed by Becky Ann Baker
“Click-Clack, The Rattlebag,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Neil Gaiman
“Strays,” by Mark Richard, performed by Alex Hurt
“October Tale,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
10/22/2015
“The Lie,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Stephen Colbert
“Yma Dream,” by Thomas Meehan, performed by Christine Baranski
“Pride and Prejudice,” from “Twitterature,” performed by Wyatt Cenac
10/15/2015
“The Adventure of the Computer Program,” by Seth Fried, performed by Santino Fontana
“Find the Bad Guy,” by Jeffrey Eugenides, performed by John Benjamin Hickey
10/08/2015
“Vanilla Bright Like Eminem,” by Michel Faber, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“North Country,” by Roxane Gay, performed by Adepero Oduye
10/01/2015
“Amazing Proposal Stories,” by Simon Rich, performed by Tracee Chimo
“The Weekend Travelers,” by Elizabeth Spencer, performed by Campbell Scott
“Best Western,” by Louise Erdrich, performed by Patricia Kalember
09/24/2015
“Another Life,” by Paul La Farge, performed by Josh Radnor
“The Big Cat,” by Louise Erdrich, performed by Keir Dullea
09/17/2015
“Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband,” by George Saunders, performed by James Naughton
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn
“Lamentations of the Father,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
09/10/2015
“On the Hill,” by Elizabeth Spencer, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Modern Girls,” by Teju Cole, performed by Zainab Jah
09/03/2015
“Interior Design,” by Dolan Morgan, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“In the Bed Department,” by Anne Enright, performed by Christina Pickles
“The Architecture of the Moon,” by Joe Meno, performed by Wren T. Brown
08/27/2015
“Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Kelli O’Hara
“Snowing in Greenwich Village,” by John Updike, performed by Jane Curtin
Greenwich Village recollections by Dave Hill, Isaac Mizrahi, Ralph Lee, and Penny Arcade
08/20/2015
“Soiree in Hollywood,” by Henry Miller, performed by Joshua Malina
“Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roald Dahl, performed by Catherine O’Hara
“Halibut,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Josh Radnor
“Going for a Beer,” by Robert Coover, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
08/13/2015
“The Mast Year,” by Diane Cook, performed by Hope Davis
“The Frog Prince,” by Robert Coover, performed by Parker Posey
“Mermaid in a Jar,” by Sheila Heti, performed by Rita Wolf
08/06/2015
“White Angel,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by James Naughton
“The Fine Art of Sighing,” by Bernard Cooper, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
07/30/2015
“Awake,” by Jenny Allen, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“The TV,” by Ben Loory, performed by Liev Schreiber
“The Tax Man,” by Bruce Jay Friedman, performed by Sigourney Weaver
07/23/2015
“The Occasional Pignoli Tart,” by Ann Hood, performed by Amber Tamblyn
“A Mad Tea Party,” from Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, performed by Christopher Lloyd
07/16/2015
“Letter to a Frozen Peas Manufacturer,” by Lydia Davis, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Serial Monogamy,” by Nora Ephron, performed by Mary Kay Place
Madame Bovary (excerpt), by Gustave Flaubert, performed by Christina Pickles
07/09/2015
“Clair de Lune,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by James Naughton
“Night People,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“Luck,” by Richard Bausch, performed by Campbell Scott
07/02/2015
“The Sound of Summer Running,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Sean Astin
“I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth,” by Margaret Atwood, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Shiftless Little Loafers,” by Susan Orlean, performed by Dave Hill
06/25/2015
“I Go Adventuring,” by Helen Keller, performed by Maggie Siff
“The Secrets of Bats,” by Jess Row, performed by Heather Goldenhersh
06/18/2015
“The Distance of the Moon,” by Italo Calvino, performed by Liev Schreiber
“All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Michael Cerveris
06/11/2015
Stuart Little (excerpt), by E.B. White, performed by David Hyde Pierce
“Araby,” by James Joyce, performed by Malachy McCourt
“The Palmist,” by Andrew Lam, performed by James Naughton
“Flying,” by Stephen Dixon, performed by Thomas Gibson
06/04/2015
A selection from the popular blog and bestselling book include letters by Mick Jagger, Katherine Hepburn, Jack the Ripper, and Queen Elizabeth II, among others. Readers include Jane Curtin, Kate Mulgrew, Phylicia Rashad, Jeremy Shamos, and Sam Underwood
“Hearing from Wayne,” by Bill Franzen, performed by Jeremy Shamos
“Yma Dream,” by Thomas Meehan, performed by James Naughton
05/28/2015
“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
05/21/2015
“The Dome,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Cretan Love Song,” by Jim Shepard, performed by Joe Morton
“Subsoil,” by Nicholas Baker, performed by Thomas Gibson
05/14/2015
“Good Intentions,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Man Who Liked Dickens,” by Evelyn Waugh, performed by Leonard Nimoy
05/07/2015
“The Minimalist,” by Stacey Richter, performed by Parker Posey
“Varengeville,” by William Boyd, performed by Dan Stevens
“Honey I Twisted,” by Helen Phillips, performed by Heather Burns
“Timeshare,” by Dolan Morgan, performed by Rita Wolf
04/30/2015
“Beg, SI Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep (Begin, Slip Together, Increase, Continue, Repeat),” by Amy Hempel, performed by Anika Noni Rose
“Sarah’s Story,” by Galina Vroman, performed by Jane Curtin
04/23/2015
“The Baby-Sitter,” by Jane Yolen, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, performed by Dick Cavett
“The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Jamey Sheridan
“The Wood Duck,” by James Thurber, performed by Malachy McCourt
04/16/2015
“But the One on the Right,” Dorothy Parker, performed Christina Pickles
“Starting from Happy,” by Patricia Marx, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Occupy Jen’s Street,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“People are Becoming Clouds,” by Joe Meno, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
04/09/2015
“Covet Diary,” by Leanne Shapton, performed by Justin Vivian Bond
“Conversation: You Don’t Know What I Deal With,” by Ramou Sarr, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Conversation: I’m Always on the Floor and Working,” by Mona Kowalska, performed by Sonia Manzano
“The Hat of My Mother,” by Max Steele, performed by Paul Hecht
04/02/2015
“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Jane Curtin
“Fault Lines,” by Barbara Kingsolver, performed by Jill Eikenberry
03/26/2015
“Reeling for the Empire,” by Karen Russell, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“The Dodo,” by Ben Loory, performed by André Holland
“The Secretary,” by Deborah Willis, performed by Arian Moayed
03/19/2015
“Small Fates,” by Teju Cole, performed by Blythe Danner and Jeffrey Wright
“In the South,” by Salman Rushdie, performed by Michael Stuhlbarg
03/12/2015
“Turning,” by Lynda Sexson, performed by Christine Lahti
“Goody Bags,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Amber Tamblyn
“Faith,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Michael Cerveris
An excerpt from Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, by David Rakoff, performed by Anika Noni Rose
03/05/2015
Selections from Women in Clothes, a fascinating collection of pieces by and about women and their relationships to clothes, from all over the globe, performed by Justin Vivian Bond, Jennifer Lim, Zosia Mamet, Sonia Manzano, and Molly Ringwald.
02/26/2015
“At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners,” by Lauren Groff, performed by Amy Ryan
“How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance,” by Kiese Laymon, performed by Brandon J. Dirden
02/19/2015
“St. George,” by Gail Godwin, performed by Jane Curtin
“The Trickle-Down Effect,” by Annie Proulx, performed by James Naughton
02/12/2015
“All You Have to Do,” by BJ Novak, performed by BJ Novak
“Missed Connection: Grocery Spill at 21st and 6th 2:30pm on Wednesday,” by BJ Novak, performed by Allison Williams
“Closure,” by BJ Novak, performed by Aasif Mandvi, BJ Novak, and Allison Williams
“Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July, performed by Amy Ryan
“Eveline,” by James Joyce, performed by Kelli O'Hara
02/05/2015
“The Rematch,” by BJ Novak, performed by BJ Novak
“Great Writers Steal,” by BJ Novak, performed by BJ Novak, Aasif Mandvi, and Anthony Rapp
“Kellogg’s (or: The Last Wholesome Fantasy of the Middle-School Boy),” by BJ Novak, performed by BJ Novak
01/29/2015
“Cryptology,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by David Rakoff
“Gomez Palacio,” by Roberto Bolano, performed by David Rakoff
01/22/2015
“Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Christine Baranski
“Havahart,” by Belle Boggs, performed by Merritt Wever
“Sticks,” by George Saunders, performed by Anthony Rapp
01/15/2015
“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“The Night in Question,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Lou Antonio
“I Know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting,” by Frank Gannon, performed by David Sedaris
01/08/2015
“The Dog of the Marriage,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Joan Allen
“Partners,” by Veronica Geng, performed by Michael Cerveris, Patricia Kalember, and Isaiah Sheffer
“Nightingale,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by William Hurt
01/01/2015
“The Dead,” by James Joyce (Part 2), performed by Cynthia Nixon and Colum McCann
12/25/2014
“The Dead,” by James Joyce (Part 1), performed by Cynthia Nixon
12/18/2014
“The H Street Sledding Record,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“Christmas Morning,” by Frank O’Connor, performed by Malachy McCourt
“Occurrence on the Six Seventeen,” by George Shephard, performed by Tony Roberts
“Christmas in Qatar” (poem), by Calvin Trillin, performed by Calvin Trillin
12/11/2014
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Part One, Chapter 1,” by Hunter S. Thompson, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Part One, Chapter 3,” by Hunter S. Thompson, performed by Anthony Rapp
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Part One, Chapter 10,” by Hunter S. Thompson, performed by Michael Imperioli
Including commentary by Thompson’s friends, colleagues, and literary heirs: Terry McDonell, Chuck Klosterman, and Matt Taibbi
12/04/2014
“I Love Girl,” by Simon Rich, performed by Michael Ian Black
“When We Lived Together In the Belly of a Whale, Some Nights Were Perfect,” by Mara Sternberg, performed by BD Wong
“Jubilation, Florida,” by N.M Kelby, performed by Amy Ryan
11/27/2014
“Homegirls on St. Nicholas Avenue,” by Sonia Sanchez, performed by Marsha Stephanie Blake
“Strike and Fade,” by Henry Dumas, performed by Francois Battiste
“Fenstad’s Mother,” by Charles Baxter, performed by Edie Falco
11/20/2014
“Magic and Dread,” by Jenny Offill, performed by Kaneza Schal
“The Tragic Queen of Carthage,” from TheAeneid by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles, performed by BD Wong
11/13/2014
“Ambition,” by Jonathan Franzen, performed by Edie Falco
“From the Diary of a New York Lady,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Mary Louise Wilson
11/06/2014
“The Company of Wolves,” by Angela Carter, performed by Rita Wolf
“Adventure Story,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
“The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Denis O’Hare
10/30/2014
“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
10/23/2014
“The Writers’ Model,” by Molly Giles, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“Creative Writing,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Alex Karpovsky
“On Keeping a Notebook,” by Joan Didion, performed by Parker Posey
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
10/16/2014
“Can’t and Won’t,” by Lydia Davis, performed by Lydia Davis
“If At the Wedding (At the Zoo),” by Lydia Davis, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“The Party,” by Lydia Davis, performed by Cristin Milioti
“The Two Davises and the Rug,” by Lydia Davis, performed by Dylan Baker
“The Egg Race,” by John Updike, performed by Alec Baldwin
10/09/2014
“Clair de Lune,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by James Naughton
“Night People,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“Luck,” by Richard Bausch, performed by Campbell Scott
10/02/2014
“Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Kelli O’Hara
“Snowing in Greenwich Village,” by John Updike, performed by Jane Curtin
Greenwich Village recollections by Dave Hill, Isaac Mizrahi, Ralph Lee, and Penny Arcade
09/25/2014
“The Sexes,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Parker Posey
“Bohemia (poem),” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Heather Burns
“In the Throes,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Heather Burns
“The Standard of Living,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Hope Davis
“Waitress,” by Robert Coover, performed by Sonia Manzano
09/18/2014
“Feathers,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“The School,” by Donald Barthleme, performed by Laura Esterman
09/11/2014
“Where You'll Find Me,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“The Year of Spaghetti,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Michael Imperioli
“Reading Aloud,” by Marina Keegan, performed by Rita Wolf
09/04/2014
“Do You Know Where I Am?” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn
08/28/2014
“The History of Everything Including You,” by Jenny Hollowell, performed by Kyra Sedgwick
“Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” by Paul Broks, performed by Jane Curtin
“Getting Closer,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
08/21/2014
“A Priest in the Family,” by Colm Tóibín, performed by Lois Smith
“Dusk,” by James Salter, performed by Amy Ryan
“The Bureau,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
08/14/2014
“Beg, SI Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep (Begin, Slip Together, Increase, Continue, Repeat),” by Amy Hempel, performed by Anika Noni Rose
“Sarah’s Story,” by Galina Vroman, performed by Jane Curtin
08/07/2014
“It’s Six A.M., Do You Know Where You Are?” by Jay McInerney, performed by Jeremy Shamos
“Red from Green,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Patricia Kalember
07/31/2014
“Everything That Rises Must Converge,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Estelle Parsons
“Jesus is Waiting,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson
07/24/2014
“Soiree in Hollywood,” by Henry Miller, performed by Joshua Malina
“Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roald Dahl, performed by Catherine O’Hara
“Halibut,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Josh Radnor
“Going for a Beer,” by Robert Coover, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
07/17/2014
“The Occasional Pignoli Tart,” by Ann Hood, performed by Amber Tamblyn
“A Mad Tea Party,” from Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, performed by Christopher Lloyd
07/10/2014
“Letter to a Frozen Peas Manufacturer,” by Lydia Davis, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Serial Monogamy,” by Nora Ephron, performed by Mary Kay Place
Madame Bovary (excerpt), by Gustave Flaubert, performed by Christina Pickles
07/03/2014
“Sir Henry,” by Lydia Millet, performed by John Lithgow
“Some Contemporary Characters,” by Rick Moody, performed by Mike Birbiglia and Aya Cash
06/26/2014
“Cryptology,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by David Rakoff
“Gomez Palacio,” by Roberto Bolano, performed by David Rakoff
06/19/2014
“Fires,” by Rick Bass, performed by Ted Marcoux
“A Singer's Romance,” by Willa Cather, performed by Marian Seldes
“What Do We Have in Our Pockets?” by Etgar Keret, performed by David Rakoff
06/12/2014
“Miracle Polish,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn
06/05/2014
“Chablis,” by Donald Barthleme, performed by Bobby Cannavale
“The Slaves of New York,” by Tama Janowitz, performed by Anna Chumsky
“After the Denim,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Michael Cerveris
“Snow,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson
05/29/2014
“ReBoot Me,” by Larry Doyle, performed by Chip Kidd
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (excerpt), by Michael Chabon, performed by Aya Cash
“I am Not a Jew,” by John Biguenet, performed by David Strathairn
05/22/2014
“The Moons of Jupiter,” by Alice Munro, performed by Holly Hunter
“She Unnames Them,” by Ursula K. Le Guin, performed by Joanna Gleason
05/15/2014
“How I Met My Husband,” by Alice Munro, performed by Amy Ryan
“The Meeting,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Paul Hecht
05/08/2014
“Gaming at Winnie’s,” by Rosie Schaap, performed by Gaby Hoffmann
“Crab Rangoon,” by Peter Meehan, performed by Peter Meehan
“Seville Orange Marmalade,” by Kevin West, performed by Gaby Hoffmann
“The South Pole Cook: Jase Grimm,” by Christopher Sheehy, performed by David Cross
“Supreme Cloud Ear,” by Nelly Reifler, performed by Sarah Steele
“Pan-American,” by Marc Maron, performed by David Cross
05/01/2014
“Ed Has His Mind Improved,” by Walter Brooks, performed by Tony Roberts
“Exchange,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Rochelle Oliver
“Dreamtigers,” by Jorge Luis Borges, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
04/24/2014
“Glittery Eyes,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Parker Posey
“What Animal Are You?” by Etgar Keret, performed by Willem Dafoe
“Sixty-Nine Cents,” by Gary Shteyngart, performed by Alex Karpovsky
“Flying Carpets,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Billy Campbell
04/17/2014
“Starting from Happy,” by Patricia Marx, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Occupy Jen Street,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“Audio Tour,” by Patricia Marx, performed by Anna Chlumsky
“The Swim Team,” by Miranda July, performed by Parker Posey
“The Meeting,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Kate Burton
04/10/2014
“Art of Cake,” by Michael Chabon, performed by David Furr
“True Loves,” by Mark Strand, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Trash Kites,” by Justin Torres, performed by Colman Domingo
04/03/2014
“In Dreams Become Responsibilities,” by Delmore Schwartz, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Lover of Horses,” by Tess Gallagher, performed by Kate Burton
03/27/2014
“Scenes from a Life,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“The Vow,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Amber Tamblyn
“People Are Becoming Clouds,” by Joe Meno, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Storm,” by Kate Chopin, performed by Jane Curtin
03/20/2014
“You Were Perfectly Fine,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Aya Cash and David Furr
“Unprotected,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“The Day the Dam Broke,” by James Thurber, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Center of the Universe,” by Simon Rich, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Tablecloth of Turin,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Edi Gathegi
03/13/2014
“The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs, performed by John Lithgow
“Two Words,” by Isabel Allende, performed by Lisa Fugard
03/06/2014
A Story Lately Told (excerpt), by Anjelica Huston, performed by Anjelica Huston
Says (excerpt), by Linor Goralik, translated by Anya Ulinich, performed by Nina Arianda
“Indulgence,” by Susan Perabo, performed by Hope Davis
02/27/2014
Readings from the essay collection The Book of Men. Essays and stories by writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Adam Haslet, Colum McCann, Ian McEwan, and Tea Obreht are performed by Gabriel Byrne, Stockard Channing, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Corey Stoll, and BD Wong.
02/20/2014
“In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Curtin
“Through the Tunnel,” by Doris Lessing, performed by James Naughton
“Barbara Stanwyck, It's Your Time to Shine,” by Bianca Galvez, performed by Condola Rashad
02/13/2014
“The Lone Pilgrim,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Hope Davis
“The Night Bookmobile,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Christina Pickles
02/06/2014
“St. George,” by Gail Godwin, performed by Jane Curtin
“The Trickle-Down Effect,” by Annie Proulx, performed by James Naughton
01/30/2014
“The Treatment,” by Daniel Menaker, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Palais de Justice,” by Mark Helprin, performed by Jack Davidson
01/23/2014
“Where the Cluetts Are,” by Jack Finney, performed by Philip Casnoff
“Lederhosen,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Aasif Mandvi
01/16/2014
“At the Anarchists Convention,” by John Sayles, performed by Jerry Stiller
“The Falls,” by George Saunders, performed by René Auberjonois
01/09/2014
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Part One, Chapter 1,” by Hunter S. Thompson, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Part One, Chapter 3,” by Hunter S. Thompson, performed by Anthony Rapp
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Part One, Chapter 10,” by Hunter S. Thompson, performed by Michael Imperioli
Including commentary by Thompson’s friends, colleagues, and literary heirs: Terry McDonell, Chuck Klosterman, and Matt Taibbi
01/02/2014
“Fires,” by Rick Bass, performed by Ted Marcoux
“A Singer's Romance,” by Willa Cather, performed by Marian Seldes
“What Do We Have in Our Pockets?” by Etgar Keret, performed by David Rakoff
12/26/2013
“The Night the Ghost Got In,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Examining the Evidence,” by Alice Hoffman, performed by Joanna Gleason
“It Had Wings,” by Allen Gurganus, performed by Marian Seldes
“Second-Hand Man,” by Rita Dove, performed by Audra McDonald
12/19/2013
“The H Street Sledding Record,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“Christmas Morning,” by Frank O'Connor, performed by Malachy McCourt
“Occurrence on the Six-Seventeen,” by George Shephard, performed by Tony Roberts
“Christmas in Qatar” (poem), by Calvin Trillin, performed by Calvin Trillin
12/12/2013
“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“The Night in Question,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Lou Antonio
“I Know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting,” by Frank Gannon, performed by David Sedaris
12/05/2013
“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D.H. Lawrence, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“The Book,” by Ben Loory, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
11/28/2013
“The Writers’ Model,” by Molly Giles, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“Creative Writing,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Alex Karpovsky
“On Keeping a Notebook,” by Joan Didion, performed by Parker Posey
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
11/21/2013
“Unstuck,” by John Updike, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Playing with Dynamite,” by John Updike, performed by Sally Field
11/14/2013
“The Lie,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Stephen Colbert
“Yma Dream,” by Thomas Meehan, performed by Christine Baranski
“Pride and Prejudice,” from “Twitterature,” performed by Wyatt Cenac
11/07/2013
“Do You Know Where I Am?” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn
10/31/2013
“Solomon's Big Day,” by Touré, performed by Daniel Alexander Jones
“Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband,” by George Saunders, performed by James Naughton
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
10/24/2013
“The Cat That Went to Trinity,” by Robertson Davies, performed by Charles Keating
“The Bells,” by Edgar Allen Poe, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Isaiah Sheffer, and Harris Yulin
“Annabel Lee,” by Edgar Allen Poe, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Isaiah Sheffer, and Harris Yulin
“The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allen Poe, performed by Wyatt Cenac
10/17/2013
“Homegirls on St. Nicholas Avenue,” by Sonia Sanchez, performed by Marsha Stephanie Blake
“Strike and Fade,” by Henry Dumas, performed by Francois Battiste
“Fenstad’s Mother,” by Charles Baxter, performed by Edie Falco
10/10/2013
“I Love Girl,” by Simon Rich, performed by Michael Ian Black
“When We Lived Together In the Belly of a Whale, Some Nights Were Perfect,” by Mara Sternberg, performed by BD Wong
“Jubilation, Florida,” by N.M Kelby, performed by Amy Ryan
10/03/2013
“The Dome,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Cretan Love Song,” by Jim Shepard, performed by Joe Morton
“Subsoil,” by Nicholas Baker, performed by Thomas Gibson
09/26/2013
“A Ride with Olympy,” by James Thurber, preformed by David Rakoff
“The Macbeth Murder Mystery,” by James Thurber, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“How to Relax While Broadcasting,” by James Thurber, performed by Eli Wallach
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, performed by Wyatt Cenac
09/19/2013
“Here We Are,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Jane Alexander
“Just a Little One,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Dana Ivey
“The Waltz,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Parker Posey
09/12/2013
Bonfire of the Vanities (excerpt), by Tom Wolfe, performed by Danny Burstein
“Xingu,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Christina Pickles
09/05/2013
“The Baby-Sitter,” by Jane Yolen, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, performed by Dick Cavett
“The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Jamey Sheridan
“The Wood Duck,” by James Thurber, performed by Malachy McCourt
08/29/2013
“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Stephen Colbert
“The Catbird Seat,” by James Thurber, performed by Leonard Nimoy
08/22/2013
“Cathedral,” by Raymond Carver, performed by James Naughton
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
08/15/2013
“You Were Perfectly Fine,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Aya Cash and David Furr
“Unprotected,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“The Day the Dam Broke,” by James Thurber, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Center of the Universe,” by Simon Rich, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Tablecloth of Turin,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Edi Gathegi
08/08/2013
“Starting from Happy,” by Patricia Marx, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Occupy Jen’s Street,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“Audio Tour,” by Patricia Marx, performed by Anna Chlumsky
“The Swim Team,” by Miranda July, performed by Parker Posey
“The Meeting,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Kate Burton
08/01/2013
“Art of Cake,” by Michael Chabon, performed by David Furr
“True Loves,” by Mark Strand, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Trash Kites,” by Justin Torres, performed by Colman Domingo
07/25/2013
“Glittery Eyes,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Parker Posey
“What Animal Are You?” by Etgar Keret, performed by Willem Dafoe
“Sixty-Nine Cents,” by Gary Shteyngart, performed by Alex Karpovsky
“Flying Carpets,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Billy Campbell
07/18/2013
“It’s Six A.M., Do You Know Where You Are?” by Jay McInerney, performed by Jeremy Shamos
“Red from Green,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Patricia Kalember
07/11/2013
“Sir Henry,” by Lydia Millet, performed by John Lithgow
“Some Contemporary Characters,” by Rick Moody, performed by Mike Birbiglia and Aya Cash
07/04/2013
“Customer Service at the Karaoke Don Quixote,” by Juan Martinez, performed by Nate Corddry
“Ziggurat,” by Stephen O’Connor, performed by Tim Curry
06/27/2013
“In Dreams Become Responsibilities,” by Delmore Schwartz, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Lover of Horses,” by Tess Gallagher, performed by Kate Burton
06/20/2013
“Beg, SI Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep (Begin, Slip Together, Increase, Continue, Repeat),” by Amy Hempel, performed by Anika Noni Rose
“Sarah’s Story,” by Galina Vroman, performed by Jane Curtin
06/13/2013
“Scenes from a Life,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“The Vow,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Amber Tamblyn
“People Are Becoming Clouds,” by Joe Meno, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Storm,” by Kate Chopin, performed by Jane Curtin
06/06/2013
“The Grid,” by Rick Moody, performed by Josh Radnor
“Anaconda,” by Martha McPhee, performed by Lindsay Crouse
05/31/2013
“The History of Everything Including You,” by Jenny Hollowell, performed by Kyra Sedgwick
“Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” by Paul Broks, performed by Jane Curtin
“Getting Closer,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
05/24/2013
“Everything That Rises Must Converge,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Estelle Parsons
“Jesus is Waiting,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson
05/17/2013
“Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Out,” by Patricia Highsmith, performed by Tandy Cronyn
“Powder,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
05/10/2013
“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“The Night in Question,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Lou Antonio
“I Know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting,” by Frank Gannon, performed by David Sedaris
05/03/2013
“Here We Are,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Jane Alexander
“Just a Little One,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Dana Ivey
“The Waltz,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Parker Posey
04/26/2013
“Cryptology,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by David Rakoff
“Gomez Palacio,” by Roberto Bolano, performed by David Rakoff
04/19/2013
“Central Park,” by Colson Whitehead, performed by Leonard Nimoy
Bad Boy (excerpt), by Walter Dean Myers, performed by Eric Poindexter
“My Little Bit of Country,” by Susan Cheever, performed by Debra Monk
“The Green Fields of the Mind,” by A. Bartlett Giamatti, performed by A. Bartlett Giamatti
04/12/2013
“Leaving for Kenosha,” by Richard Ford, performed by David Strathairn
04/04/2013
“The Distance of the Moon,” by Italo Calvino, performed by Liev Schreiber
“All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Michael Cerveris
03/28/2013
“Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum,” by P.G. Wodehouse, performed by Jim Dale
“A Little Dinner Before the Play” (selection), by Agnes Jekyll, performed by Chip Kidd
“Below Stairs” (selection), by Margaret Powell, performed by Jayne Houdyshell
“The Reticence of Lady Anne,” by Saki, performed by BD Wong
03/21/2013
“The Baby-Sitter,” by Jane Yolen, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, performed by Dick Cavett
“The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Jamey Sheridan
“The Wood Duck,” by James Thurber, performed by Malachy McCourt
03/17/2013
“Reeling for the Empire,” by Karen Russell, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“The Dodo,” by Ben Loory, performed by André Holland
“The Secretary,” by Deborah Willis, performed by Arian Moayed
03/07/2013
“Cathedral,” by Raymond Carver, performed by James Naughton
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
02/28/2013
“Vanilla Bright Like Eminem,” by Michel Faber, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“North Country,” by Roxane Gay, performed by Adepero Oduye
02/21/2013
Bonfire of the Vanities (excerpt), by Tom Wolfe, performed by Danny Burstein
“Xingu,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Christina Pickles
02/14/2013
“Fires,” by Rick Bass, performed by Ted Marcoux
“A Singer's Romance,” by Willa Cather, performed by Marian Seldes
“What Do We Have in our Pockets?” by Etgar Keret, performed by David Rakoff
02/07/2013
“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D.H. Lawrence, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“The Book,” by Ben Loory, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
01/31/2013
“Miracle Polish,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn
01/24/2013
“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Stephen Colbert
“The Catbird Seat,” by James Thurber, performed by Leonard Nimoy
01/17/2013
“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Jane Curtin
“Fault Lines,” by Barbara Kingsolver, performed by Jill Eikenberry
01/10/2013
“The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs, performed by John Lithgow
“Two Words,” by Isabel Allende, performed by Lisa Fugard
01/03/2013
“Ed Has His Mind Improved,” by Walter R. Brooks, performed by Tony Roberts
“Exchange,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Rochelle Oliver
“Dreamtigers,” by Jorge Luis Borges, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
12/27/2012
“You Were Perfectly Fine,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Aya Cash and David Furr
“Unprotected,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“The Day the Dam Broke,” by James Thurber, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Center of the Universe,” by Simon Rich, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Tablecloth of Turin,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Edi Gathegi
12/20/2012
“Hanwell in Hell,” by Zadie Smith, performed by Richard Easton
12/13/2012
“A Priest in the Family,” by Colm Tóibín, performed by Lois Smith
“Dusk,” by James Salter, performed by Amy Ryan
“The Bureau,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
12/06/2012
“The Empty Room,” by Jonathan Lethem, performed by Tate Donovan
“Why Don't You Dance?” by Raymond Carver, performed by Corey Stoll
“Neighbors,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Jefferson Mays
11/29/2012
“Counting the Ways,” by Susan Perabo, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“The Pony Problem,” by Sloane Crosley, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
11/22/2012
“Heart of a Champion,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Dating Your Mom,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Lamentations of the Father,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“It Had Wings,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
11/15/2012
“A Bookshop of My Own,” by Sylvia Beach, performed by Martha Plimpton
“Setting Up Shop,” by Sylvia Beach, performed by Martha Plimpton
No Name in the Street (excerpt), by James Baldwin, performed by Gbenga Akinnagbe
“Hunger Was Good Discipline,” by Ernest Hemingway, performed by John Shea
“The Messy Joy of the Final Throes of the Dinner Party,” by Helen Phillips, performed by Kaneza Schaal
11/08/2012
“Where the Money Went,” by Kevin Canty, performed by Jack Davidson
One Day I Will Write About This Place (excerpt), by Binyavanga Wainaina, performed by Teagle Bougere
“My Flamboyant Grandson,” by George Saunders, performed by Harris Yulin
11/01/2012
“The Twenty-Seventh Man,” by Nathan Englander, performed by Michael Stuhlbarg
10/25/2012
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Terrence Mann
“The Black Cat,” Edgar Allan Poe, performed by René Auberjonois
“The Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Isaiah Sheffer, and Harris Yulin
10/18/2012
“Healthy Start,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Michael Tucker
“Hoodie in Xanadu,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“Best Worst American,” by Juan Martinez, performed by Cristin Milioti
10/11/2012
“Nephilim,” by L. Annette Binder, performed by Colby Minifie
“Balloon Night,” by Tom Barbash, performed by Tom Cavanaugh
“Cretan Love Song,” by Jim Shepard, performed by Joe Morton
10/04/2012
“Vaclav the Magnificent-Boy-Magician,” by Haley Tanner, performed by Sarah Steele
“Swept Away,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by René Auberjonois
09/27/2012
“In the Reign of Harad IV,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“Americca," by Aimee Bender, performed by Jane Levy
“Rocking Chair,” by Abigail Thomas, performed by Kate Burton
“Fatso” by Etgar Keret, performed by John Guare
09/20/2012
“A Prayer,” by Paul Simms, performed by Chip Zien
“Lamentations of the Father,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Storm,” by Jules Verne, performed by Tony Roberts
“Robbed,” by Ellen Currie, performed by Christina Pickles
09/13/2012
“My Backyard,” by Peter Lu, performed by Sonia Manzano
“A Room of My Own,” by Alanna Okun, performed by Rita Wolf
“Heirloom China,” by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Jonathan’s,” by Teo Soares, performed by David Rakoff
“Reading Aloud,” by Marina Keegan, performed by Rita Wolf
“Your Mother and I,” by Dave Eggers, performed by David Rakoff
“Visit,” by Barry Yourgrau, performed by James Naughton
09/06/2012
“Claire of the Sea Light,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Anika Noni Rose
“New York Day Women,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Laurine Towler
08/30/2012
“The Deal,” by Mike Birbiglia, performed by Mike Birbiglia
“Seeing the World,” by Louis Robinson, performed by Thomas Gibson
08/23/2012
“I Am Not a Jew,” by John Biguenet, performed by Denis O’Hare
“Everything In This Country Must,” by Colum McCann, performed by Amy Ryan
“Flying,” by Stephen Dixon, performed by Thomas Gibson
08/16/2012
“Free Fruit for Young Widows,” by Nathan Englander, performed by Michael Cerveris
“(She Owns) Every Thing,” by Anne Enright, performed by Mary-Louise Parker
“The Writers’ Model,” by Molly Giles, performed by Blair Brown
08/09/2012
“The Shape of the Sword,” by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by David A. Yates, performed by Charles Keating
“On the Honeymoon,” by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, performed by Ivan Hernandez
“William Burns,” by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews, performed by Michael Stuhlbarg
08/02/2012
“Ever After,” by Kim Addonizio, performed by Christine Ebersole
“Boys,” by Rick Moody, performed by BD Wong
“The Fortunes of Madame Organza,” by Natalie Babbitt, performed by Janel Moloney
07/26/2012
“Porte-Cochere,” by Peter Taylor, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“Enough,” by Alice McDermott, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
07/19/2012
“Liliana,” by Maile Meloy, performed by James Naughton
“Going to the Dogs,” by Richard Ford, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
07/12/2012
“Safari,” by Jennifer Egan, performed by Hope Davis
07/05/2012
“Neighbors,” by Julia Alvarez, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Flight Patterns,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by B.D. Wong
06/28/2012
“Ardour,” by Jonathan Keats, performed by Lili Taylor
“Little Pot,” by Ilya Kaminsky, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Blue-Bearded Lover,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed Betsey Lippitt
“Relic,” by Robert Olen Butler, performed by Ron Nakahara
“The Porcelain Man,” by Richard Kennedy, performed by Estelle Parsons
06/21/2012
“The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” by Saki, performed by Marian Seldes
“Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe,” by Liliana Heker, performed by Hope Davis
“Cultural Relativity,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Regina King
“New York Day Women,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Laurine Towler
06/14/2012
“Household,” by Yasunari Kawabata, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire,” by David Drury, performed by Keith Szarabajka
06/07/2012
“An Amateur's Guide to the Night,” by Mary Robison, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by James Naughton
“Pride and Joy,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
05/31/2012
“Adults Alone,” by A.M. Homes, performed by Christina Pickles
“The Knocking,” by David Means, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
Feature: interview with A.M. Homes
05/24/2012
“Love,” by Tibor Dery, performed by Keir Dullea
“Silver Water,” by Amy Bloom, performed by Linda Lavin
05/17/2012
“The Fall of Texas,” by Joyce Johnson, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Personal Letter 2,” by Sonia Sanchez, performed by Staceyann Chin
“The Fix,” by Percival Everett, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
Feature: Interview with Joyce Johnson
05/10/2012
“Milestones,” by Hannah Tinti, performed by Laurie Anderson
“Wunderkind,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Kelli O’Hara
Featured music: “Milestones,” by Miles Davis; Ludwig von Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 12
05/03/2012
“Not Quite Home Alone,” by Krista McGruder, performed by Jacqueline Kim
“The Shared Patio,” by Miranda July, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Sphinx,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Kathleen Widdoes
“Privacy,” by Richard Ford, performed by René Auberjonois
04/26/2012
“A Woman at the Window,” by James Lasdun, performed by Leenya Rideout
“Quadraturin,” by Sigizmund Krzhihanovsky, performed by David Rakoff
“Flight,” by Deborah Joy Corey, performed by Leenya Rideout
04/19/2012
“Life Story,” by Tennessee Williams, performed by Mia Dillon
“Violets,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Lois Smith
04/12/2012
“Strangers in the House,” by Nahid Rachlin, performed by Freda Foh Shen
“A Disappearance,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
Feature: Interview with Julie Otsuka
04/05/2012
“Fruit and Words,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Rita Wolf
“La Conchita,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
03/29/2012
“Six Days: Some Rememberings,” by Grace Paley, performed by Dana Ivey
“Dating Your Mom,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“A Plague of Tics,” by David Sedaris, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
03/22/2012
“Why I’m Not Where You Are,” by Jonathan Safran Foer, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Interview,” by Will Eno, performed by Will Eno
“All the Days and Nights,” by William Maxwell, performed by Tony Roberts
03/15/2012
“Airplane,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Parker Posey
“The Mirror,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Campbell Scott
“The Little Green Monster,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Dana Ivey
03/08/2012
“Smorgasbord,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by René Auberjonois
“Football,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Martha Lavey
03/01/2012
“The Leopard of Ti Morne,” by Mark Kurlansky, performed by Stephen Lang
“Graven Image,” by John O'Hara, performed by Denis O'Hare
02/23/2012
“Ron, Sixty-Seven-Piece Art Set, $65, Woodland Hills,” by Miranda July, performed by Miranda July and Tom Nelis
“Matilda and Domingo, Care Bears, $2-$4, Bell,” by Miranda July, performed by Miranda July, Adrian Martinez, and Olga Merediz
“Dina, Conair Hair Dryer, $5, Sun Valley,” by Miranda July, performed by Rebecca Naomi Jones and Miranda July
“Joe, Fifty Christmas-Card Fronts, $1, Los Angeles,” by Miranda July, performed by Tom Bloom and Miranda July
02/16/2012
A Selection from 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, performed by Miriam Silverman
“The Night Bookmobile,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Christina Pickles
02/09/2012
“La Vita Nuova,” by Allegra Goodman, performed by Marin Ireland
“The Secret Goldfish,” by David Means, performed by Charles Keating
02/02/2012
“Rapture of the Deep,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Wanting an Orange,” by Larry Woiwode, performed by Michael Keck
01/26/2012
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Getaway,” by Dorothy Thomas, performed by Mia Dillon
01/19/2012
“Lederhosen,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“Ice Man,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Jane Curtin
01/12/2012
“My First Goose,” by Isaac Babel, performed by Joe Morton
“The Father,” by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, performed by Nina Arianda
“Rothschild's Fiddle,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Denis O'Hare
01/05/2012
“The Dead,” by James Joyce, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, and Isaiah Sheffer
12/29/2011
“The Dead,” by James Joyce, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, and Isaiah Sheffer
12/22/2011
“The Night the Ghost Got In,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Examining the Evidence,” by Alice Hoffman, performed by Joanna Gleason
“It Had Wings,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Marian Seldes
“Second-Hand Man,” by Rita Dove, performed by Audra McDonald
12/15/2011
“Troll Bridge,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Neil Gaiman
“The Circular Ruins,” by Jorge Luis Borges, performed by Boyd Gaines
“Tender,” by Carly Sachs, performed by Mary Brienza
12/08/2011
“But the One on the Right,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Christina Pickles
“A Bunch of Broccoli on the Third Shelf,” by Lara Vapnyar, performed by Heather Goldenhersh
12/01/2011
“More Life,” by Mark Strand, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Creeping,” by Maxine Swann, performed by Christine Ebersole
11/24/2011
“Bayonne,” by John Cheever, performed by Mary Kay Place
“Fjord of Killary,” by Kevin Barry, performed by James Naughton
11/17/2011
“Jamaica,” by David Schickler, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“On the U.S.S. Fortitude,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Laura Esterman
11/10/2011
“Wildwood,” by Junot Díaz, performed by Sonia Manzano
11/03/2011
“It’s Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?” by Jay McInerney, performed by Jeremy Shamos
“Red from Green,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Patricia Kalember
10/27/2011
“Sir Henry,” by Lydia Millet, performed by John Lithgow
“Some Contemporary Characters,” by Rick Moody, performed by Mike Birbiglia and Aya Cash
10/20/2011
“Sinners,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Black Flower,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Colum McCann
“Going for a Beer,” by Robert Coover, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
10/13/2011
“A Life in Fictions,” by Kat Howard, performed by Marin Ireland
“The Thing About Cassandra,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Josh Hamilton
10/06/2011
“Customer Service at the Karaoke Don Quixote,” by Juan Martinez, performed by Nate Corddry
“Ziggurat,” by Stephen O’Connor, performed by Tim Curry
09/29/2011
“Suddenly, a Knock on the Door,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Josh Radnor
“Lieland,” by Etgar Keret, performed by BD Wong
“Halibut,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Josh Radnor
“Fatso,” by Etgar Keret, performed by John Guare
09/28/2011
“Good Intentions,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“Lost and Found,” by Colson Whitehead, performed by Alec Baldwin
“My Mother,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Laurine Towler
“A Soldier for the Crown,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
09/21/2011
The Things They Carried (excerpt), by Tim O’Brien, performed by Dylan Baker
09/14/2011
“Popsy,” by Stephen King, performed by Michael Imperioli
“Night Calls,” by Lisa Fugard, performed by the author
09/07/2011
“Double Check,” by Thomas Walsh, performed by James Naughton
“False Alarm,” by Dave Barry, performed by Larry Keith
08/31/2011
“Breaking and Entering,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by B.D. Wong
08/24/2011
“Yurt,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Wild Plums,” by Grace Stone Coates, performed by Mia Dillon
08/17/2011
“Dracula’s Guest,” by Bram Stoker, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“The Masque of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
08/10/2011
“Sunflower Sutra,” by Allen Ginsberg, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Death of Jim Taylor,” by Elissa Hutson, performed by Boyd Gaines
“Barbara Stanwyck, It’s Your Time to Shine,” by Bianca Galvez, performed by Condola Rashad
“Good Living,” by Aleksandar Hemon, performed by Boyd Gaines
“The Thing Around Your Neck,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Condola Rashad
08/03/2011
Let the Great World Spin (excerpt), by Colum McCann, performed by Brian Stokes Mitchell
“Salt,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by David Strathairn
07/27/2011
“Disco Papa,” by Karen Russell, performed by Susanna Thompson
“Departure,” by Andrew Porter, performed by Khris Lewin
“Waiting for Rusty,” by William Cole, performed by Ted Marcoux
07/20/2011
“The Traveler,” by Wallace Stegner, performed by Jack Davidson
“Goin’ to Town,” by Wallace Stegner, performed by Lillo Way, Isaiah Sheffer, and Jack Davidson
07/13/2011
“The Briefcase,” by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber
“Diem Perdidi,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jayne Atkinson
07/06/2011
“Beyond the Pale,” by Joseph Epstein, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Ma, A Memoir,” by Lynn Freed, performed by Marian Seldes
06/29/2011
“The Palmist,” by Andrew Lam, performed by James Naughton
“The Occasional Garden,” by Saki, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“The Balloon,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Maria Tucci
“The Little Green Monster,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Dana Ivey
06/22/2011
“The H Street Sledding Record,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor,” by John Cheever, performed by Malachy McCourt
“A Visit from Saint Nicholas,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
06/15/2011
“For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,” by Nathan Englander, performed by Jefferson Mays
“A Second of Pleasure,” by Neil LaBute, performed by Andrew McCarthy and Maura Tierney
“Lies I’ve Told,” by Sue Allison, performed by Barbara Barrie and David Strathairn
06/08/2011
“The Mappist,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Joe Spano
“Devil of a Curve,” by Walter Kirn, performed by Roscoe Lee Browne
06/01/2011
“The Tell Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allen Poe, performed by Terrence Mann
“Gimpel The Fool,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Paring Knife,” by Michael Oppenheimer, performed by Steve Gilborn
05/25/2011
The Road Home (excerpt), by Rose Tremain, performed by Paul Hecht
“Cary Grant's Suit,” by Todd McEwen, performed by James Cromwell
05/18/2011
“My First Love,” by Moishe Nadir, performed by John Shea
“A Quiet Garden Spot,” by Sholem Asch, performed by Laura Esterman
“Job’s Jobs,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Anjelica Huston
05/11/2011
“Jesus is Waiting,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson
“No Other Country,” by Shaun Tan, performed by Campbell Scott
“Swimmers,” by Daniela Maristany, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson
“Number 10,” by Edna O'Brien, performed by Marian Seldes
05/04/2011
“The Death of Hector,” from The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, performed by Stephen Lang
“Cantos IV and V,” from Dante's Inferno, by Dante Aligheri, translated by Mark Strand and Daniel Halpern, performed by Phylicia Rashad
“Captain Ahab, A Novel by the White Whale,” by Paul West, performed by Diane Venora
04/27/2011
“She Shall Not Be Moved,” by Shereen Pandit, performed by Rita Wolf
“Loose Change,” by Andrea Levy, performed by Eve Best
“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Kate Burton
04/20/2011
“My Backyard,” by Peter Lu, performed by Sonia Manzano
“A Room of My Own,” by Alanna Okun, performed by Rita Wolf
“Heirloom China,” by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Jonathan’s,” by Teo Soares, performed by David Rakoff
“Reading Aloud,” by Marina Keegan, performed by Rita Wolf
“Your Mother and I,” by Dave Eggers, performed by David Rakoff
“Visit,” by Barry Yourgrau, performed by James Naughton
04/13/2011
“Claire of the Sea Light,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Anika Noni Rose
“New York Day Women,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Laurine Towler
04/06/2011
“The Deal,” by Mike Birbiglia, performed by Mike Birbiglia
“Seeing the World,” by Louis Robinson, performed by Thomas Gibson
03/30/2011
“A Prayer,” by Paul Simms, performed by Chip Zien
“Lamentations of the Father,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Storm,” by Jules Verne, performed by Tony Roberts
“Robbed,” by Ellen Currie, performed by Christina Pickles
03/23/2011
“The Bees,” by Dan Chaon, performed by Boyd Gaines
03/16/2011
“A Parisian Affair,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by René Auberjonois
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (excerpt), by Faiza Guene, performed by Sonia Manzano
“The Secret of the Old Music,” by Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, performed by Philippe de Montebello
03/09/2011
“Just a Little One,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Dana Ivey
“The Spray,” by Jonathan Lethem, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“The Swim Team,” by Miranda July, performed by Parker Posey
“Jesus Shaves,” by David Sedaris, performed by Tim Blake Nelson
03/02/2011
“I Am Not a Jew,” by John Biguenet, performed by Denis O’Hare
“Everything in this Country Must,” by Colum McCann, performed by Amy Ryan
“Flying,” by Stephen Dixon, performed by Thomas Gibson
02/23/2011
“(She Owns) Every Thing,” by Anne Enright, performed by Mary-Louise Parker
“Free Fruit for Young Widows,” by Nathan Englander, performed by Michael Cerveris
“The Writers’ Model,” by Molly Giles, performed by Blair Brown
02/16/2011
“The Shape of the Sword,” by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by David A. Yates, performed by Charles Keating
“On the Honeymoon,” by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, performed by Ivan Hernandez
“William Burns,” by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews, performed by Michael Stuhlbarg
02/09/2011
“Ever After,” by Kim Addonizio, performed by Christine Ebersole
“Boys,” by Rick Moody, performed by BD Wong
“The Fortunes of Madame Organza,” by Natalie Babbitt, performed by Janel Maloney
02/02/2011
“Porte-Cochere,” by Peter Taylor, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“Enough,” by Alice McDermott, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
01/26/2011
“Liliana,” by Maile Meloy, performed by James Naughton
“Going to the Dogs,” by Richard Ford, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
01/19/2011
“Safari,” by Jennifer Egan, performed by Hope Davis
01/12/2011
“Neighbors,” by Julia Alvarez, performed by Lili Taylor
“Flight Patterns,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by BD Wong
01/05/2011
“Ardour,” by Jonathan Keats, performed by Lili Taylor
“Little Pot,” by Ilya Kaminsky, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Blue-Bearded Lover,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed Betsey Lippitt
“Relic,” by Robert Olen Butler, performed by Ron Nakahara
“The Porcelain Man,” by Richard Kennedy, performed by Estelle Parsons
12/29/2010
“The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” by Saki, performed by Marian Seldes
“Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe,” by Liliana Heker, performed by Hope Davis
“Cultural Relativity,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Regina King
“New York Day Women,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Laurine Towler
12/22/2010
“Household,” by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire,” by David Drury, performed by Keith Szarabajka
12/15/2010
“An Amateur’s Guide to the Night,” by Mary Robison, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by James Naughton
“Pride and Joy,” by Etgar Keret, translated by Sondra Silverston, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
12/08/2010
“Adults Alone,” by A.M. Homes, performed by Christina Pickles
“The Knocking,” by David Means, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
12/01/2010
“Love,” by Tibor Dery, translated by Ilona Duczynska, performed by Keir Dullea
“Silver Water,” by Amy Bloom, performed by Linda Lavin
11/24/2010
“The Fall of Texas,” by Joyce Johnson, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Personal Letter No. 2,” by Sonia Sanchez, performed by Staceyann Chinn
“The Fix,” by Percival Everett, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
11/17/2010
“Milestones,” by Hannah Tinti, performed by Laurie Anderson
“Wunderkind,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Kelli O’Hara
11/10/2010
“Not Quite Home Alone,” by Krista McGruder, performed by Jacqueline Kim
“The Shared Patio,” by Miranda July, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Sphinx,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Kathleen Widdoes
“Privacy,” by Richard Ford, performed by René Auberjonois
11/03/2010
“A Woman at the Window,” by James Lasdun, performed by Leenya Rideout
“Quadraturin,” by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov, performed by David Rakoff
“Flight,” by Deborah Joy Corey, performed by Leenya Rideout
10/27/2010
“Life Story,” by Tenessee Williams, performed by Mia Dillon
“Violets,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Lois Smith
10/20/2010
“Strangers in the House,” by Nahid Rachlin, performed by Freda Foh Shen
“A Disappearance,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
10/13/2010
“Fruit and Words,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Rita Wolf
“La Conchita,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
10/06/2010
“Six Days: Some Rememberings,” by Grace Paley, performed by Dana Ivey
“Dating Your Mom,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“A Plague of Tics,” by David Sedaris, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
09/29/2010
“The Sphinx,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Kathleen Widdoes
“Minuet,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by René Auberjonois
“The Toys of Peace,” by Saki, performed by Dana Ivey
“Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” by Thomas Wolfe, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
09/22/2010
“What Happened Between Us,” by Rivka Galchen, performed by Jonathan Hadary
“Chivalry,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Christina Pickles
09/15/2010
“The Creeping Siamese,” by Dashiell Hammett, performed by John Shea
“Make Westing,” by Jack London, performed by Steven Gilborn
09/08/2010
“A Shock for Countess,” by C.S. Montanye, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Katherine Comes to Yellow Sky,” by Mark Helprin, performed by Lisa Gay Hamilton
09/01/2010
“Second-Hand Man,” by Rita Dove, performed by Audra McDonald
“The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping,” by Padgett Powell, performed by James Naughton
08/25/2010
“The Year of Silence,” by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Anthony Rapp
“Liberty Hall,” by Ring Lardner, performed by Christina Pickles
08/18/2010
“Bible,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Alexander
“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago Hudson
08/11/2010
“The Summer People,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by René Auberjonois
“The Wrong Suitcase,” by Maeve Binchy, performed by Cynthia Nixon
08/04/2010
“Gleason,” by Louise Erdrich, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Red,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Keith Szarabajka
07/28/2010
“The Apology,” by Brock Clark, performed by Stephen Lang
“The Chairs,” by Joshua Ferris, performed by Ivy Austin
“Feeling Good, Feeling Fine,” by George Garrett, performed by BD Wong
07/21/2010
“The Seventh Man,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by John Shea
“The Rememberer,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Marian Seldes
07/14/2010
“The Long-Distance Runner,” by Grace Paley, performed by Laura Esterman
“A Conversation with My Father,” by Grace Paley, performed by Anne Pitoniak
07/07/2010
“Alvin the Typesetter,” by Lydia Davis, performed by David Rakoff
“The Lie,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Stephen Colbert
06/30/2010
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
“Pride and Joy,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” by Jeanne Dixon, performed by Mia Dillon
“Boys,” by Rick Moody, performed by BD Wong
06/23/2010
“Adventures in Auto-eroticism,” by Neal Cassady, performed by Ted Marcoux
“Ambush,” by Tim O’Brien, performed by John Shea
“John Wayne: A Love Song,” by Joan Didion, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by Paul Hecht
06/16/2010
“Twenty Grand,” by Rebecca Curtis, performed by Jane Curtin
“Best Western,” by Anne de Marcken, performed by Laura Esterman
06/09/2010
“A Mouthful of Cut Glass,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Lois Smith
“Blowing Shades,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by James Naughton
06/02/2010
“Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July, performed by Amy Ryan
“Improvisation,” by Ed McBain, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
05/26/2010
“The Mathematician,” by Daniel Kehlmann, performed by BD Wong
“I Was Really Very Hungry,” by M.F.K. Fisher, performed by Christina Pickles
05/19/2010
“The Proposition,” by David Bezmozgis, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Modern Age,” by Frances Hwang, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
05/12/2010
“Stump Louie,” by Lisa Halliday, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Dome,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Alec Baldwin
05/05/2010
“Ad,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“A Piece of News,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Kathryn Markey
04/28/2010
“No Bikini,” by Ivan E. Coyote, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Kubuku Rides (This Is It),” by Larry Brown, performed by Myra Lucretia Taylor
04/21/2010
“Going, Going, Gone,” by Peter Blauner, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“The Purple Is Everything,” by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, performed by Christina Pickles
04/14/2010
“Lily Daw and the Three Ladies,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Marian Seldes
“The Key,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Sloane Shelton
04/07/2010
“Hell-Heaven,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Rita Wolf
03/31/2010
“Good Intentions,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“Lost and Found,” by Colson Whitehead, performed by Alec Baldwin
“My Mother,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Laurine Towler
“A Soldier for the Crown,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
03/24/2010
The Things They Carried (excerpt), by Tim O’Brien, performed by Dylan Baker
03/17/2010
“Popsy,” by Stephen King, performed by Michael Imperioli
“Night Calls,” by Lisa Fugard, performed by Lisa Fugard
03/10/2010
“Double Check,” by Thomas Walsh, performed by James Naughton
“False Alarm,” by Dave Barry, performed by Larry Keith
03/03/2010
“Breaking and Entering,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by BD Wong
02/24/2010
“Yurt,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Wild Plums,” by Grace Stone Coates, performed by Mia Dillon
02/17/2010
“Dracula's Guest,” by Bram Stoker, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“The Masque of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
02/10/2010
“Sunflower Sutra,” by Allen Ginsberg, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Death of Jim Taylor,” by Elissa Hutson, performed by Boyd Gaines, introduced by Felicity Tsikiwa
“Barbara Stanwyck, It's Your Time to Shine,” by Bianca Galvez, performed by Condola Rashad, introduced by William Carrington
“Good Living,” by Aleksandar Hemon, performed by Boyd Gaines
“The Thing Around Your Neck,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Condola Rashad
02/03/2010
Let the Great World Spin (excerpt), by Colum McCann, performed by Brian Stokes Mitchell
“Salt,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by David Strathairn
01/27/2010
“Disco Papa,” by Karen Russell, performed by Susanna Thompson
“Departure,” by Andrew Porter, performed by Khris Lewin
“Waiting For Rusty,” by William Cole, performed by Ted Marcoux
01/20/2010
“The Traveler,” by Wallace Stegner, performed by Jack Davidson
“Goin’ to Town,” by Wallace Stegner, performed by Lillo Way, Isaiah Sheffer, and Jack Davidson
01/13/2010
“The Briefcase,” by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber
“Diem Perdidi,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jayne Atkinson
01/06/2010
"Beyond the Pale," by Joseph Epstein, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
"Ma, A Memoir," by Lynn Freed, performed by Marian Seldes
12/25/2009
“The Palmist,” by Andrew Lam, performed by James Naughton
“The Occasional Garden,” by Saki, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“The Balloon,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Maria Tucci
“The Little Green Monster,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Dana Ivey
12/18/2009
“The H Street Sledding Record,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor,” by John Cheever, performed by Malachy McCourt
“A Visit from Saint Nicholas,” by James Thurber
12/18/2009
“For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,” by Nathan Englander, performed by Jefferson Mays
“A Second of Pleasure,” by Neil LaBute, performed by Andrew McCarthy and Maura Tierney
“Lies I've Told,” by Sue Allison, performed by Barbara Barrie and David Strathairn
12/11/2009
“The Mappist,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Joe Spano
“Devil of a Curve,” by Walter Kirn, performed by Roscoe Lee Browne
12/04/2009
“The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allen Poe, performed by Terrence Mann
“Gimpel the Fool,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Paring Knife,” by Michael Oppenheimer, performed by Steve Gilborn
11/27/2009
The Road Home (excerpt), by Rose Tremain, performed by Paul Hecht
“Cary Grant's Suit,” by Todd McEwen, performed by James Cromwell
11/20/2009
“My First Love,” by Moishe Nadir, performed by John Shea
“A Quiet Garden Spot,” by Sholem Asch, performed by Laura Esterman
“Job's Jobs,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Anjelica Huston
11/13/2009
“Jesus is Waiting,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson
“No Other Country,” by Shaun Tan, performed by Campbell Scott
“Swimmers,” by Daniela Maristany, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson
“Number 10,” by Edna O'Brien, performed by Marian Seldes
11/06/2009
“The Death of Hector,” from The Iliad, by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, performed by Stephen Lang
“Cantos IV and V,” from Dante's Inferno, by Dante Aligheri, translated by Mark Strand and Daniel Halpern, performed by Phylicia Rashad
“Captain Ahab, A Novel by the White Whale,” by Paul West, performed by Diane Venora
10/30/2009
“She Shall Not Be Moved,” by Shereen Pandit, performed by Rita Wolf
“Loose Change,” by Andrea Levy, performed by Eve Best
“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Kate Burton
10/23/2009
“The Bees,” by Dan Chaon, performed by Boyd Gaines
10/16/2009
“A Parisian Affair,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by René Auberjonois
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow (excerpt), by Faiza Guene, performed by Sonia Manzano
“The Secret of the Old Music,” by Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, performed by Philippe de Montebello
10/09/2009
“Just a Little One,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Dana Ivey
“The Spray,” by Jonathan Lethem, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“The Swim Team,” by Miranda July, performed by Parker Posey
“Jesus Shaves,” by David Sedaris, performed by Tim Blake Nelson
10/02/2009
“The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” by Saki, performed by Marian Seldes
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Sixth Borough,” by Jonathan Safran Foer, performed by Jerry Zaks
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn
09/25/2009
“Coo-Coo,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by John Edgar Wideman
“Escapes,” by Joy Williams, performed by Joy Williams
“That Room,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Tobias Wolff
“The Orphaned Swimming Pool,” by John Updike, performed by Campbell Scott
09/18/2009
“The Shawl,” by Cynthia Ozick, performed by Lois Smith
“Some Other Better Otto,” by Deborah Eisenberg, performed by Deborah Eisenberg
“Calling,” by Richard Ford, performed by Richard Ford
“Slow,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Joyce Carol Oates
“In This Country But in Another Language, My Aunt Refuses to Marry the Men Everyone Wants Her To,” by Grace Paley, performed by Grace Paley
“Plot on the Poem,” by Grace Paley, performed by Grace Paley
09/11/2009
“Wes Amerigo’s Giant Fear,” by David Schickler, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Doctor of Mental Health,” by Miranda F. Mellis, performed by David Rakoff
09/04/2009
“A Curtain of Green,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Frances Sternhagen
“Concerning Love,” by Anton Chekhov, translated by Ronald Hingley, performed by Joe Morton
08/28/2009
“Towel Season,” by Ron Carlson, performed by James Naughton
“A Bad Joke,” by Ha Jin, performed by B.D. Wong
08/21/2009
“The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful One Hoss Shay: A Logical Story,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, performed by John Lithgow
“Jabberwocky,” by Lewis Carroll, performed by Bill Irwin
“The Jumblies,” by Edward Lear, performed by Bill Irwin and John Lithgow
“If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso,” by Gertrude Stein, performed by Bill Irwin and John Lithgow
“The Tyger,” by William Blake, performed by John Lithgow
“The Monkey's Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs, performed by John Lithgow
08/14/2009
“Examining the Evidence,” by Alice Hoffman, performed by Joanna Gleason
“An Old Fashioned Story,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Mia Dillon
08/07/2009
“Sleeping with Dogs on a King Size Bed,” by Abigail Thomas, performed by Rochelle Oliver
“The Dog of the Marriage,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Joan Allen
“Heart of a Champion,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
07/31/2009
“Drunken Mimi,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Bernadette Quigley
“Death Watch,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Bernadette Quigley
“Your Man,” by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Shlesinger, performed by David Rakoff
“Shooting Tuvia,” by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Shlesinger, performed by David Rakoff
07/24/2009
“The Red Fox Fur Coat,” by Teolinda Gersão, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” by Karen Russell, performed by Joanna Gleason
07/17/2009
“Dissed Fish,” by Calvin Trillin, performed by Calvin Trillin
“Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses,” by Luis Alberto Urrea, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
07/10/2009
“The Dilettante,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Brenda Wehle
“The Muse’s Tragedy,” by Edith Wharton, performed by David Strathairn
07/03/2009
“How to Talk to a Hunter,” by Pam Houston, performed by Mia Dillon
“It Had Wings,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Canoeists,” by Rick Bass, performed by Neil Patrick Harris
“A Ride with Olympy,” by James Thurber, performed by David Rakoff
06/26/2009
“What Was Mine,” by Ann Beattie, performed by John Shea
“Shades,” by William Henry Lewis, performed by Curtis McClarin
06/19/2009
“The Sermon in the Guava Tree,” by Kiran Desai, performed by Tazewell Thompson
“Crazy Glue,” by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Schlesinger, performed by Chris Sarandon
06/12/2009
“Storytelling,” by Mary Gordon, performed by Lindsay Crouse
“Just a Little More,” by V.S. Pritchett, performed by René Auberjonois
06/05/2009
“Grippes and Poche,” by Mavis Gallant, performed by Mavis Gallant
05/29/2009
“Initiation,” by Joseph Conrad, performed by Tony Roberts
“Country Miles,” by Robert King, performed by Marian Seldes
05/22/2009
“An Enigmatic Nature,” by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Brother,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Awaiting Orders,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Michael Cerveris
05/15/2009
“The Woman from Hamburg,” by Hanna Krall, translated by Madeline G. Levine, performed by Hope Davis
“The First Sense,” by Nadine Gordimer, performed by Joanna Gleason
05/08/2009
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” by Ernest Hemingway, performed by Ron Cephas Jones
“The Little Green Monster,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Dana Ivey
“After the Storm,” by Ernest Hemingway, performed by John Turturro
05/01/2009
“Country Cooking from Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double),” by Harry Mathews, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Kelli O’Hara
04/24/2009
“Indian Country,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by John Lithgow
04/17/2009
“Why I Live at the P.O.,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Stockard Channing
“Other Persons,” by Juan José Millás, performed by James Naughton
“Ma, A Memoir,” by Lynn Freed, performed by Marian Seldes
“The Bird Woman,” by Melodie Edwards, performed by Kelli O’Hara
04/10/2009
“Baseball Haiku,” by Various Authors, performed by Alec Baldwin and Isaiah Sheffer
“The Hector Quesadilla Story,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Jerry Zaks
The Glory of Their Times (excerpt), by Lawrence S. Ritter, performed by Jonathan Rubinstein
“Polo Grounds,” by Rolfe Humphries, performed by Fritz Weaver
04/03/2009
“Sphinx,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Kathleen Widdoes
“Minuet,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by René Auberjonois
“The Toys of Peace,” by Saki, performed by Dana Ivey
“Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” by Thomas Wolfe, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
03/27/2009
“What Happened Between Us,” by Rivka Galchen, performed by Jonathan Hadary
“Chivalry,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Christina Pickles
03/20/2009
“The Creeping Siamese,” by Dashiell Hammett, performed by John Shea
“Make Westing,” by Jack London, performed by Steven Gilborn
03/13/2009
“A Shock for the Countess,” by C.S. Montanye, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Katherine Comes to Yellow Sky,” by Mark Helprin, performed by LisaGay Hamilton
03/06/2009
“Second-Hand Man,” by Rita Dove, performed by Audra McDonald
“The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping,” by Padgett Powell, performed by Christina Pickles
02/27/2009
“The Year of Silence,” by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Anthony Rapp
“Liberty Hall,” by Ring Lardner, performed by Christina Pickles
02/20/2009
“Bible,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Alexander
“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
02/13/2009
“The Summer People,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by René Auberjonois
“The Wrong Suitcase,” by Maeve Binchy, performed by Cynthia Nixon
02/06/2009
“Gleason,” by Louise Erdrich, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Red,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Keith Szarabajka
01/30/2009
“The Apology,” by Brock Clark, performed by Stephen Lang
“The Chairs,” by Joshua Ferris, performed by Ivy Austin
“Feeling Good, Feeling Fine,” by George Garrett, performed by BD Wong
01/23/2009
“The Seventh Man,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by John Shea
“The Rememberer,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Marian Seldes
01/16/2009
“The Long-Distance Runner,” by Grace Paley, performed by Laura Esterman
“A Conversation with My Father,” by Grace Paley, performed by Anne Pitoniak
01/09/2009
“Alvin the Typesetter,” by Lydia Davis, performed by David Rakoff
“The Lie,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Stephen Colbert
01/02/2009
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
“Pride and Joy,” by Etgar Keret, translated by Miriam Shlesinger and Sondra Silverston, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” by Jeanne Dixon, performed by Mia Dillon
“Boys,” by Rick Moody, performed by BD Wong
12/26/2008
“Adventures in Auto-eroticism,” by Neal Cassady, performed by Ted Marcoux
“Ambush,” by Tim O’Brien, performed by John Shea
“John Wayne: A Love Song,” by Joan Didion, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by Paul Hecht
12/19/2008
“Twenty Grand,” by Rebecca Curtis, performed by Jane Curtin
“Best Western,” by Anne de Marcken, performed by Laura Esterman
12/12/2008
“A Mouthful of Cut Glass,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Lois Smith
“Blowing Shades,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by James Naughton
12/05/2008
“Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July, performed by Amy Ryan
“Improvisation,” by Ed McBain, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
11/28/2008
“The Mathematician,” by Daniel Kehlmann, performed by BD Wong
“I Was Really Very Hungry,” by M.F.K. Fisher, performed by Christina Pickles
11/21/2008
“The Proposition,” by David Bezmozgis, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Modern Age,” by Frances Hwang, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
11/14/2008
“Stump Louie,” by Lisa Halliday, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Dome,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Alec Baldwin
11/07/2008
“Ad,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“A Piece of News,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Kathryn Markey
10/31/2008
“No Bikini,” by Ivan E. Coyote, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Kubuku Rides (This Is It),” by Larry Brown, performed by Myra Lucretia Taylor
10/24/2008
“Going, Going, Gone,” by Peter Blauner, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“The Purple Is Everything,” by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, performed by Christina Pickles
10/17/2008
“Lily Daw and the Three Ladies,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Marian Seldes
“The Key,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Sloane Shelton
10/10/2008
“Hell-Heaven,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Rita Wolf
10/03/2008
“The Palmist,” by Andrew Lam, performed by David Strathairn
“Football,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Martha Lavey
“Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” by Jeanne Dixon, performed by Mia Dillon
“Water Names,” by Lan Samantha Chang, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
09/26/2008
“Killing Time,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Jim True-Frost
“Insomnia,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Jim True-Frost
“He Couldn’t Boogie-Woogie Worth a Damn,” by Nelson Algren, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
09/19/2008
“Sorry Fugu,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Tony Roberts
09/12/2008
“Refresh, Refresh,” by Benjamin Percy, performed by Ted Marcoux
“Buzz Saw,” by Billie Hill-Hunt, performed by Joan Allen
“Ashbah,” by Sergeant Brian Turner, performed by Chris Chalk
“The Baghdad Zoo,” by Sergeant Brian Turner, performed by Stephen Lang
“3 A.M. in Bangor, Maine,” by Sergeant Michael A. Thomas, performed by Stephen Lang
09/05/2008
“A Solitary Human Voice,” by Lyudmilla Ignatenko, performed by Stockard Channing
“Do You Know Where I Am?” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea
08/29/2008
“The Trouble of Marcie Flint,” by John Cheever, performed by Fritz Weaver
08/22/2008
“The Secret Goldfish,” by David Means, performed by Charles Keating
“The Other Woman,” by Sherwood Anderson, performed by Keir Dullea
08/15/2008
“Taste,” by Roald Dahl, performed by John Lithgow
“How to Tell a Fine Old Wine,” by James Thurber, performed by Raphael Sbarge
08/08/2008
“The Debt,” by Edith Wharton, performed by James Naughton
“Aqua Boulevard,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
08/01/2008
“Justice Shiva Ram Murthy,” by Rishi Reddi, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“Bullhead,” by Leigh Allison Wilson, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
07/25/2008
“A Quick Look at Who Is Fighting This War,” by Captain Ryan Kelly, performed by Chris Chalk
“Camp Muckamungus,” by Staff Sergeant Parker Gyokeres, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Khost-Gardez,” by Specialist Ross Cohen, performed by Matthew Modine
“Reflections,” by Captain Michael Lang, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Brotherhood,” by Sergeant Dena Price Van den Bosch, performed by Joan Allen
“Road Work,” by Staff Sergeant Jack Lewis, performed by Stephen Lang
“Safekeeping,” by Commander Kathleen Toomey Jabs, performed by Joan Allen
“Dear Boys,” by Lieutenant Colonel Chris Cohoes, performed by Matthew Modine
07/18/2008
“The Eyes,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Charles Keating
07/11/2008
“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Kate Burton
“Grandfather Knows Best,” by Calvin Trillin, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Why I Love Cookbooks,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
07/04/2008
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, performed by Dick Cavett
“Things in the Wrong Hands,” by Roy Blount Jr., performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Renascence,” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, performed by Barbara Feldon
“The Voter,” by Chinua Achebe, performed by Arthur French
06/27/2008
“The Long Way Home,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Shohreh Aghdashloo
“Indigestion,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Bradley Whitford
“A Piece of Pie,” by Damon Runyon, performed by John Shea
06/20/2008
“A General in the Library,” by Italo Calvino, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Exchange,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Rochelle Oliver
“A Backward Glance: Henry James,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Brenda Wehle
06/13/2008
“Mudder Tongue,” by Brian Evenson, performed by David Strathairn
“Mr. Badger,” by Kenneth Grahame, performed by Samantha Eggar
06/06/2008
“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by Paul Hecht
“Extra,” by Yiyun Li, performed by Lois Smith
05/30/2008
“Ed Has His Mind Improved,” by Walter R. Brooks, performed by Tony Roberts
“Palais de Justice,” by Mark Helprin, performed by Keir Dullea
05/23/2008
“War Wounds,” by Tom Bissell, performed by Oskar Eustis
05/16/2008
“The Meeting,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Paul Hecht
“Mrs. Farrokhlaqa Sadraldivan Golchehreh,” by Shahrnush Parsipur, performed by Frances Sternhagen
“Pride and Joy,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
05/09/2008
“Second Hand,” by Chris Offutt, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“The Letter Writer,” by M.T. Sharif, performed by Joe Morton
05/02/2008
“Eight Pieces for the Left Hand,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Stephen Lang
“The Wood Duck,” by James Thurber, performed by Malachy McCourt
04/25/2008
“De Smot Billy-Gut,” by Milt Gross, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Letter #16 To William Hunt, the Franklin Hotel, Rochester, Minnesota-Los Angeles, California, December 9, 1958,” by Dalton Trumbo, performed by James Naughton
“Dreamtigers,” by Jorge Luis Borges, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
04/18/2008
“The Old Woman in the Wood,” by The Brothers Grimm, performed by Stockard Channing
“An Aborigine Among the Skyscrapers,” by Saudin bin Labutau, performed by Michael Keck
“Beyond Lies the Wub,” by Philip K. Dick, performed by Denis O’Hare
“My Flamboyant Grandson,” by George Saunders, performed by Harris Yulin
04/11/2008
“Enough,” by Alice McDermott, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“On Golden Pond,” by Jane Fonda, performed by Jane Fonda
04/04/2008
“The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” by Saki, performed by Marian Seldes
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Sixth Borough,” by Jonathan Safran Foer, performed by Jerry Zaks
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn
03/28/2008
“Coo-Coo,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by John Edgar Wideman
“Escapes,” by Joy Williams, performed by Joy Williams
“That Room,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Tobias Wolff
“The Orphaned Swimming Pool,” by John Updike, performed by Campbell Scott
03/21/2008
“The Shawl,” by Cynthia Ozick, performed by Lois Smith
“Some Other Better Otto,” by Deborah Eisenberg, performed by Deborah Eisenberg
“Calling,” by Richard Ford, performed by Richard Ford
“Slow,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Joyce Carol Oates
“In This Country But in Another Language, My Aunt Refuses to Marry the Men Everyone Wants Her To,” by Grace Paley, performed by Grace Paley
“Plot on the Poem,” by Grace Paley, performed by Grace Paley
03/14/2008
“Wes Amerigo’s Giant Fear,” by David Schickler, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Doctor of Mental Health,” by Miranda F. Mellis, performed by David Rakoff
03/07/2008
“A Curtain of Green,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Frances Sternhagen
“Concerning Love,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Joe Morton
02/29/2008
“Towel Season,” by Ron Carlson, performed by James Naughton
“A Bad Joke,” by Ha Jin, performed by BD Wong
02/22/2008
“The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful One Hoss Shay: A Logical Story,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, performed by John Lithgow
“Jabberwocky,” by Lewis Carroll, performed by Bill Irwin
“The Jumblies,” by Edward Lear, performed by Bill Irwin and John Lithgow
“If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso,” by Gertrude Stein, performed by Bill Irwin and John Lithgow
“The Tyger,” by William Blake, performed by John Lithgow
“The Red Wheelbarrow,” by William Carlos Williams, performed by Bill Irwin
“This Is Just to Say,” by William Carlos Williams, performed by Bill Irwin
“The Thinker,” by William Carlos Williams, performed by Bill Irwin
“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,” by Edward Lear, performed by Bill Irwin and John Lithgow
“The Monkey's Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs, performed by John Lithgow
02/15/2008
“Examining the Evidence,” by Alice Hoffman, performed by Joanna Gleason
“An Old Fashioned Story,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Mia Dillon
02/08/2008
“Sleeping with Dogs on a King Size Bed,” by Abigail Thomas, performed by Rochelle Oliver
“The Dog of the Marriage,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Joan Allen
“Heart of a Champion,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
02/01/2008
“Drunken Mimi,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Bernadette Quigley
“Death Watch,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Bernadette Quigley
“Your Man,” by Etgar Keret, performed by David Rakoff
“Shooting Tuvia,” by Etgar Keret, performed by David Rakoff
01/25/2008
“The Red Fox Fur Coat,” by Teolinda Gersão, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” by Karen Russell, performed by Joanna Gleason
01/18/2008
“Dissed Fish,” by Calvin Trillin, performed by Calvin Trillin
“Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses,” by Luis Alberto Urrea, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
01/11/2008
“The Dilettante,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Brenda Wehle
“The Muse’s Tragedy,” by Edith Wharton, performed by David Strathairn
01/04/2008
“How to Talk to a Hunter,” by Pam Houston, performed by Mia Dillon
“It Had Wings,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Canoeists,” by Rick Bass, performed by Neil Patrick Harris
“A Ride with Olympy,” by James Thurber, performed by David Rakoff
12/28/2007
“What Was Mine,” by Ann Beattie, performed by John Shea
“A Conversation with My Dogs,” by Merrill Markoe, performed by Patricia Kalember
“The Occasional Garden,” by Saki, performed by Daniel Gerroll
12/21/2007
“The Sermon in the Guava Tree,” by Kiran Desai, performed by Tazewell Thompson
“Crazy Glue,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Chris Sarandon
“Buses and Subways,” by Y. Camacho, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Cell of Silence,” by S. Sharma, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Untitled,” by W. Santalis, performed by Sydia Cedeño
“Hardworking Mother Haiku,” by Maria Lakatosz, performed by Michael Keck
12/14/2007
“Storytelling,” by Mary Gordon, performed by Lindsay Crouse
“Just a Little More,” by V.S. Pritchett, performed by René Auberjonois
12/07/2007
“Grippes and Poche,” by Mavis Gallant, performed by Mavis Gallant
11/30/2007
“Initiation,” by Joseph Conrad, performed by Tony Roberts
“Country Miles,” by Robert King, performed by Marian Seldes
11/23/2007
“An Enigmatic Nature,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Brother,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Awaiting Orders,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Michael Cerveris
11/16/2007
“The Woman from Hamburg,” by Hanna Krall, performed by Hope Davis
“The First Sense,” by Nadine Gordimer, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Vivian, Fort Barnwell,” by Ethan Canin, performed by Steven Gilborn
11/09/2007
“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” by Ernest Hemingway, performed by Ron Cephas Jones
“The Little Green Monster,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Dana Ivey
“After the Storm,” by Ernest Hemingway, performed by John Turturro
11/02/2007
“Country Cooking from Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double),” by Harry Mathews, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Kelli O’Hara
10/26/2007
“Indian Country,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by John Lithgow
10/19/2007
“Why I Live at the P.O.,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Stockard Channing
“Other Persons,” by Juan José Millás, performed by James Naughton
“Ma, A Memoir,” by Lynn Freed, performed by Marian Seldes
“The Bird Woman,” by Melodie Edwards, performed by Kelli O’Hara
10/12/2007
A selection of baseball haiku, performed by Alec Baldwin and Isaiah Sheffer
“The Hector Quesadilla Story,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Jerry Zaks
The Glory of Their Times (excerpt), by Lawrence S. Ritter, performed by Jonathan Rubinstein
“Polo Grounds,” by Rolfe Humphries, performed by Fritz Weaver
10/05/2007
“A Pair of Silk Stockings,” by Kate Chopin, performed by Susanna Thompson
“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” by Mark Twain, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Puddocky," a traditional fairy tale, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
Selections from Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Soul Murder,” by David Mamet, performed by Paul Hecht
09/28/2007
“My Grandmother Goes to Comiskey Park,” by James T. Farrell, performed by John Shea
Portnoy’s Complaint (excerpt), by Philip Roth, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Polo Grounds,” by Rolfe Humphries, performed by David Strathairn
“Glory,” by Yusef Komunyakaa, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Thrill of the Grass,” by W.P. Kinsella, performed by John Shea
“The Green Fields of the Mind,” by A. Bartlett Giamatti, performed by A. Bartlett Giamatti
09/21/2007
“What Is Poetry?” by Debra Weinstein, performed by Laura Esterman
“The City,” by Linda Pastan, performed by Blair Brown
“The Reckoning,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Brenda Wehle
09/14/2007
“Liberty Hall,” by Ring Lardner, performed by Christina Pickles
“The Namesake,” by Willa Cather, performed by John Shea
09/07/2007
“The Walk with Elizanne,” by John Updike, performed by Fritz Weaver
“Loser,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Linda Emond
08/31/2007
“Toba Tek Singh,” by Saadat Hasan Manto, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“Simple Exercises for the Beginning Student,” by Alix Ohlin, performed by Judith Ivey
08/24/2007
“How To Relax While Broadcasting,” by James Thurber, performed by Eli Wallach
“The Ideal Man,” by John O’Hara, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“Safety Man,” by Dan Chaon, performed by Hope Davis
08/17/2007
“Jubilation, Florida,” by N.M. Kelby, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Bulldog,” by Arthur Miller, performed by Denis O’Hare
08/10/2007
“Driveway,” by Pia Z. Ehrhardt, performed by Hope Davis
“Roman Fever,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Maria Tucci
08/03/2007
“The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Tritill, Litill and the Birds,” a traditional fairy tale, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Christina Pickles
07/27/2007
“Ovrashki’s Trains,” by Lara Vapnyar, performed by Heather Raffo
“Eagles,” by Kader Abdolah, performed by Arian Moayed
07/20/2007
“1919,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
“Milford Junction, 1939: A Brief Encounter,” by Robert Coover, performed by Cynthia Nixon
07/13/2007
“Happy Hour,” by Antonya Nelson, performed by Mia Dillon
“Xingu,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Christina Pickles
07/06/2007
“My Father’s Life,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Rejection,” by Woody Allen, performed by John Guare
“The Spray,” by Jonathan Lethem, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Fatso,” by Etgar Keret, performed by William H. Macy
06/29/2007
“One Christmas,” by Truman Capote, performed by John Shea
“Occurrence on the Six-Seventeen,” by George Shephard, performed by Tony Roberts
“Homecoming,” by William Maxwell, performed by Keir Dullea
06/22/2007
“Mark Twain: A Mini Drama,” by John Duffy, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Christmas Morning,” by Frank O’Connor, performed by Malachy McCourt
“A Visit from Saint Nicholas,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Icicles,” by Robert Pinsky, performed by Malachy McCourt
“Christmas in Qatar,” by Calvin Trillin, performed by Calvin Trillin
06/15/2007
The Spirit of St. Louis (excerpt), by Charles Lindbergh, performed by Keir Dullea
A Moveable Feast (excerpt), by Ernest Hemingway, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
My Life (excerpt), by Isadora Duncan, performed by Mia Dillon
06/08/2007
“The Paring Knife,” by Michael Oppenheimer, performed by Steven Gilborn
“The Fine Art of Sighing,” by Bernard Cooper, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Lone Pilgrim,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Susanna Thompson
“Death of the Right Fielder,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Stephen Lang
06/01/2007
“The Gifts of the Magician,” a traditional fairy tale, performed by Patricia Kalember
“The Story of the Sham Prince, or the Ambitious Tailor,” a traditional fairy tale, performed by John Shea
“The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarves,” a traditional fairy tale, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
05/25/2007
“My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age,” by Grace Paley, performed by Rochelle Oliver
“The Book of Miracles,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Sonia Manzano
05/18/2007
“How to Become a Writer,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Docent,” by R.T. Smith, performed by Dana Ivey
05/11/2007
“Purity,” by Billy Collins, performed by Billy Collins
“Monday Morning,” by Billy Collins, performed by Billy Collins
“Mother’s Son,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Shohreh Aghdashloo
“Forgetfulness,” by Billy Collins, performed by Billy Collins
05/04/2007
“Circus People,” by Cathy Day, performed by Kate Burton
“The Ultimate Safari,” by Nadine Gordimer, performed by Myra Lucretia Taylor
04/27/2007
“Draft Day,” by Rattawut Lapcharoensap, performed by BD Wong
“The Ramada Inn at Shiloh,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Ted Marcoux
04/20/2007
“The Red Fox Fur Coat,” by Teolinda Gersão, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Wife-Wooing,” by John Updike, performed by Alec Baldwin
“The Woman at the Store,” by Katherine Mansfield, performed by Peter Gerety
04/13/2007
“The Night Bookmobile,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Christina Pickles
“Radio Love Poem,” by Alison Townsend, performed by Ivy Austin
“A Serious Question,” by V.S. Pritchett, performed by James Naughton
04/06/2007
“The Palmist,” by Andrew Lam, performed by David Strathairn
“Football,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Martha Lavey
“Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” by Jeanne Dixon, performed by Mia Dillon
“Water Names,” by Lan Samantha Chang, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
03/30/2007
“Killing Time,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Jim True-Frost
“Insomnia,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Jim True-Frost
“He Couldn’t Boogie-Woogie Worth a Damn,” by Nelson Algren, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
03/23/2007
“Sorry Fugu,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Tony Roberts
03/16/2007
“Refresh, Refresh” by Benjamin Percy, performed by Ted Marcoux
“Buzz Saw,” by Billie Hill-Hunt, performed by Joan Allen
“Ashbah,” by Sergeant Brian Turner, performed by Chris Chalk
“The Baghdad Zoo,” by Sergeant Brian Turner, performed by Stephen Lang
“3 A.M. in Bangor, Maine,” by Sergeant Michael A. Thomas, performed by Stephen Lang
03/09/2007
“A Solitary Human Voice,” by Lyudmilla Ignatenko, performed by Stockard Channing
“Do You Know Where I Am?” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea
03/02/2007
“The Trouble of Marcie Flint,” by John Cheever, performed by Fritz Weaver
02/23/2007
“The Secret Goldfish,” by David Means, performed by Charles Keating
“The Other Woman,” by Sherwood Anderson, performed by Keir Dullea
02/16/2007
“Taste,” by Roald Dahl, performed by John Lithgow
“How to Tell a Fine Old Wine,” by James Thurber, performed by Raphael Sbarge
02/09/2007
“The Debt,” by Edith Wharton, performed by James Naughton
“Aqua Boulevard,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
02/02/2007
“Justice Shiva Ram Murthy,” by Rishi Reddi, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“Bullhead,” by Leigh Allison Wilson, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
01/26/2007
“A Quick Look at Who Is Fighting This War,” by Captain Ryan Kelly, performed by Chris Chalk
“Camp Muckamungus,” by Staff Sergeant Parker Gyokeres, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Khost-Gardez,” by Specialist Ross Cohen, performed by Matthew Modine
“Reflections,” by Captain Michael Lang, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Brotherhood,” by Sergeant Dena Price Van den Bosch, performed by Joan Allen
“Road Work,” by Staff Sergeant Jack Lewis, performed by Stephen Lang
“Safekeeping,” by Commander Kathleen Toomey Jabs, performed by Joan Allen
“Dear Boys,” by Lieutenant Colonel Chris Cohoes, performed by Matthew Modine
01/19/2007
“The Eyes,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Charles Keating
01/12/2007
“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Kate Burton
“Grandfather Knows Best,” by Calvin Trillin, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Why I Love Cookbooks,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
01/05/2007
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, performed by Dick Cavett
“Things in the Wrong Hands,” by Roy Blount Jr., performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Renascence,” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, performed by Barbara Feldon
“The Voter,” by Chinua Achebe, performed by Arthur French
12/29/2006
“The Long Way Home,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Shohreh Aghdashloo
“Indigestion,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Bradley Whitford
“A Piece of Pie,” by Damon Runyon,performed by John Shea
12/22/2006
“A General in the Library,” by Italo Calvino, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Exchange,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Rochelle Oliver
“A Backward Glance: Henry James,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Brenda Wehle
12/15/2006
“Mudder Tongue,” by Brian Evenson, performed by David Strathairn
“Mr. Badger,” by Kenneth Grahame, performed by Samantha Eggar
12/08/2006
“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by Paul Hecht
“Extra,” by Yiyun Li, performed by Lois Smith
12/01/2006
“Ed Has His Mind Improved,” by Walter R. Brooks, performed by Tony Roberts
“Palais de Justice,” by Mark Helprin, performed by Keir Dullea
11/24/2006
“War Wounds,” by Tom Bissell, performed by Oskar Eustis
11/17/2006
“The Meeting,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Paul Hecht
“Mrs. Farrokhlaqa Sadraldivan Golchehreh,” by Shahrnush Parsipur, performed by Frances Sternhagen
“Pride and Joy,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
11/10/2006
“Second Hand,” by Chris Offutt, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“The Letter Writer,” by M.T. Sharif, performed by Joe Morton
11/03/2006
“Eight Pieces for the Left Hand,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Stephen Lang
“The Wood Duck,” by James Thurber, performed by Malachy McCourt
10/27/2006
“De Smot Billy-Gut,” by Milt Gross, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Letter #16 To William Hunt, the Franklin Hotel, Rochester, Minnesota-Los Angeles, California, December 9, 1958,” by Dalton Trumbo, performed by James Naughton
“Dreamtigers,” by Jorge Luis Borges, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
10/20/2006
“The Old Woman in the Wood,” by The Brothers Grimm, performed by Stockard Channing
“An Aborigine Among the Skyscrapers,” by Saudin bin Labutau, performed by Michael Keck
“Beyond Lies the Wub,” by Philip K. Dick, performed by Denis O’Hare
“My Flamboyant Grandson,” by George Saunders, performed by Harris Yulin
10/13/2006
“Enough,” by Alice McDermott, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“On Golden Pond,” by Jane Fonda, performed by Jane Fonda
10/06/2006
“The Night the Ghost Got In,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“On the U.S.S. Fortitude,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Laura Esterman
“Things in the Wrong Hands,” by Roy Blount Jr., performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn
09/29/2006
“Can’t We Cry a Little?” by Dawn Powell, performed by Ivy Austin
“Stop That Girl,” by Elizabeth McKenzie, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
09/22/2006
“Amazon,” by Sylvia Brownrigg, performed by Joanna Gleason
“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
09/15/2006
“Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down,” by Ryan Harty, performed by George Bartenieff
“The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, performed by Christina Pickles
09/08/2006
“Chac-Mool,” by Carlos Fuentes, performed by Simon Jones
“The Living Dead,” by David Sedaris, performed by David Sedaris
09/01/2006
“Mr. Woo,” by James McBride, performed by Michael Genet
“D.P.” by Kurt Vonnegut, performed by Lawrence Clayton
08/25/2006
“The Third of July,” by Elizabeth Cox, performed by Joan Allen
“Seventh House,” by R.K. Narayan, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
08/18/2006
“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
“MS. Found in a Bottle,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by George Bartenieff
08/11/2006
“Burn Your Maps,” by Robyn Joy Leff, performed by Leslie Hendrix
08/04/2006
“Seeing the World,” by Lewis Robinson, performed by Thomas Gibson
“The American Embassy,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Sarita Choudhury
07/28/2006
“Love,” by Zora Neale Hurston, performed by Karen Kandel
“Along the Frontage Road,” by Michael Chabon, performed by Jay O. Sanders
“Eulogy to a Shoelace,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Bird,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
07/21/2006
“Good Intentions,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Ceiling,” by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Paul Hecht
07/14/2006
“Mlle. Dias de Corta,” by Mavis Gallant, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Peter and the Wolf,” by Angela Carter, performed by Joe Morton
07/07/2006
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Romance with Double-Bass,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Richard Schiff
“Fatso,” by Etgar Keret, performed by John Guare
06/30/2006
“The Documentary Artist,” by Jaime Manrique, performed by BD Wong
“The Trickle-Down Effect,” by Annie Proulx, performed by James Naughton
06/23/2006
“The Fullness of Life,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Jane Curtin
“The Daughter,” by Courtney Angela Brkic, performed by Patricia Kalember
06/16/2006
“Petrified Man,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“My Singular Irene,” by José Alcántara Almánzar, performed by Leonard Nimoy
06/09/2006
“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Stephen Colbert
“The Ambitious Guest,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, performed by Paul Hecht
06/02/2006
“The Getaway,” by Dorothy Thomas, performed by Mia Dillon
“New York’s Bicycle Speedway,” by Stephen Crane, performed by Joe Grifasi
Swallow Canyon (excerpt), by Meghan Daum, performed by Jane Curtin
05/26/2006
“It Had Wings,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Marian Seldes
“Devotion,” by Adam Haslett, performed by John Shea
05/19/2006
“Travis, B.” by Maile Meloy, performed by William Hurt
“A Soldier for the Crown,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
05/12/2006
“Mrs. Manstey’s View,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“An Orange Line Train to Ballston,” by Edward P. Jones, performed by Sonia Manzano
05/05/2006
“What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea
“Lemonade,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Leonard Nimoy
04/28/2006
“A Warm Welcome to the President, Insh’Allah!” by Meera Nair, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“A Vectorial History of Leroy Pippin,” by Patrick Keppel, performed by Eli Wallach
04/21/2006
“Skyshot,” by Manuel Muñoz, performed by Héctor Elizondo
“Knowledge,” by Gail Jones, performed by Christina Pickles
04/14/2006
“Mother in the Trenches,” by Robert Olen Butler, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Time Between Trains,” by Anthony Bukowski, performed by Liev Schreiber
04/07/2006
“A Pair of Silk Stockings,” by Kate Chopin, performed by Susanna Thompson
“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” by Mark Twain, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Puddocky," a traditional fairy tale, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
Selections from Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Soul Murder,” by David Mamet, performed by Paul Hecht
03/31/2006
“My Grandmother Goes to Comiskey Park,” by James T. Farrell, performed by John Shea
Portnoy’s Complaint (excerpt), by Philip Roth, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Polo Grounds,” by Rolfe Humphries, performed by David Strathairn
“Glory,” by Yusef Komunyakaa, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Thrill of the Grass,” by W.P. Kinsella, performed by John Shea
“The Green Fields of the Mind,” by A. Bartlett Giamatti, performed by A. Bartlett Giamatti
03/24/2006
“What Is Poetry?” by Debra Weinstein, performed by Laura Esterman
“The City,” by Linda Pastan, performed by Blair Brown
“The Reckoning,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Brenda Wehle
03/17/2006
“Liberty Hall,” by Ring Lardner, performed by Christina Pickles
“The Namesake,” by Willa Cather, performed by John Shea
03/10/2006
“The Walk with Elizanne,” by John Updike, performed by Fritz Weaver
“Loser,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Linda Emond
03/03/2006
“Toba Tek Singh,” by Saadat Hasan Manto, translated from the Urdu by Richard McGill Murphy, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“Simple Exercises for the Beginning Student,” by Alix Ohlin, performed by Judith Ivey
02/24/2006
“How To Relax While Broadcasting,” by James Thurber, performed by Eli Wallach
“The Ideal Man,” by John O’Hara, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“Safety Man,” by Dan Chaon, performed by Hope Davis
02/17/2006
“Jubilation, Florida,” by N.M. Kelby, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Bulldog,” by Arthur Miller, performed by Denis O’Hare
02/10/2006
“Driveway,” by Pia Z. Ehrhardt, performed by Hope Davis
“Roman Fever,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Maria Tucci
02/03/2006
“The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Tritill, Litill and the Birds,” a traditional fairy tale, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Christina Pickles
01/27/2006
“Ovrashki’s Trains,” by Lara Vapnyar, performed by Heather Raffo
“Eagles,” by Kader Abdolah, performed by Arian Moayed
01/20/2006
“1919,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
“Milford Junction, 1939: A Brief Encounter,” by Robert Coover, performed by Cynthia Nixon
01/13/2006
“Happy Hour,” by Antonya Nelson, performed by Mia Dillon
“Xingu,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Christina Pickles
01/06/2006
“My Father’s Life,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Rejection,” by Woody Allen, performed by John Guare
“The Spray,” by Jonathan Lethem, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Fatso,” by Etgar Keret, performed by William H. Macy
12/30/2005
“One Christmas,” by Truman Capote, performed by John Shea
“Occurrence on the Six-Seventeen,” by George Shephard, performed by Tony Roberts
“Homecoming,” by William Maxwell, performed by Keir Dullea
12/23/2005
“Mark Twain: A Mini Drama,” by John Duffy, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Christmas Morning,” by Frank O’Connor, performed by Malachy McCourt
“A Visit from Saint Nicholas,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Icicles,” by Robert Pinsky, performed by Malachy McCourt
“Christmas in Qatar,” by Calvin Trillin, performed by Calvin Trillin
12/16/2005
The Spirit of St. Louis (excerpt), by Charles Lindbergh, performed by Keir Dullea
A Moveable Feast (excerpt), by Ernest Hemingway, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
My Life (excerpt), by Isadora Duncan, performed by Mia Dillon
12/09/2005
“The Paring Knife,” by Michael Oppenheimer, performed by Steven Gilborn
“The Fine Art of Sighing,” by Bernard Cooper, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Lone Pilgrim,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Susanna Thompson
“Death of the Right Fielder,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Stephen Lang
12/02/2005
“The Gifts of the Magician,” a traditional fairy tale, performed by Patricia Kalember
“The Story of the Sham Prince, or the Ambitious Tailor,” a traditional fairy tale, performed by John Shea
“The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarves,” a traditional fairy tale, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
11/25/2005
“My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age,” by Grace Paley, performed by Rochelle Oliver
“The Book of Miracles,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Sonia Manzano
11/18/2005
“How to Become a Writer,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Docent,” by R.T. Smith, performed by Dana Ivey
11/11/2005
“Purity,” by Billy Collins, performed by Billy Collins
“Monday Morning,” by Billy Collins, performed by Billy Collins
“Forgetfulness,” by Billy Collins, performed by Billy Collins
“Mother’s Son,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Shohreh Aghdashloo
11/04/2005
“Circus People,” by Cathy Day, performed by Kate Burton
“The Ultimate Safari,” by Nadine Gordimer, performed by Myra Lucretia Taylor
10/28/2005
“Draft Day,” by Rattawut Lapcharoensap, performed by BD Wong
“The Ramada Inn at Shiloh,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Ted Marcoux
10/21/2005
“The Red Fox Fur Coat,” by Teolinda Gersão, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Wife-Wooing,” by John Updike, performed by Alec Baldwin
“The Woman at the Store,” by Katherine Mansfield, performed by Peter Gerety
10/14/2005
“The Night Bookmobile,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Christina Pickles
“Radio Love Poem,” by Alison Townsend, performed by Ivy Austin
“A Serious Question,” by V.S. Pritchett, performed by James Naughton
10/07/2005
“There’s No Future in It,” by H. E. Bates, performed by Victoria Tennant
“The Wrong Suitcase,” by Maeve Binchy, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Auditions for Actors,” by Al Hirschfeld, performed by Jane Curtin
“Breakfast,” by John Steinbeck, performed by Joe Morton
09/30/2005
“Mortals,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Dolls,” by Ian McEwan, performed by George Bartenieff
“A Profession Like Any Other,” by Ana María Shua, performed by Stephen Lang
09/23/2005
“The Diver,” by Lewis Robinson, performed by Peter Gallagher
“The Guilt,” by Rayda Jacobs, performed by Sigourney Weaver
09/16/2005
“Meeting Frederick,” by Jewell Parker Rhodes, performed by Laurine Towler
“Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses,” by Luis Alberto Urrea, performed by Ted Marcoux
09/09/2005
“Nachman from Los Angeles,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by David Rakoff
09/02/2005
“Disclaimer,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Tony Roberts
“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter,” by D. H. Lawrence, performed by Jon DeVries
08/26/2005
“Solomon’s Big Day: A Children’s Story,” by Touré, performed by Daniel Alexander Jones
“Nightingale,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by William Hurt
08/19/2005
“July ’69,” by Tim O’Brien, performed by William Hurt
08/12/2005
“Traffic,” by Rubén Mendoza, performed by Joe Mantegna
“Los Angeles Notebook,” by Joan Didion, performed by Linda Hunt
“Cattle Car Complex,” by Thane Rosenbaum, performed by Mark Nelson
08/05/2005
“Car Games,” by Frank Conroy, performed by John Shea
“Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway, performed by Kate Burton and Michael Genet
“Walimai,” by Isabel Allende, performed by Lazaro Perez
07/29/2005
“The Epiphany Branch,” by Mary Gordon, performed by Mary Cleere Haran
“Maybe a Bride,” by Carol Bommarito, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“My Baby…” by Dorothy West, performed by Carmen de Lavallade
07/22/2005
“Labors of the Heart,” by Claire Davis, performed by Peter Gerety
07/15/2005
“Our Lady of Peace,” by ZZ Packer, performed by Saidah Arrika Ekulona
“Evacuation Order No. 19,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jennifer Ikeda
07/08/2005
“Job’s Jobs,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Anjelica Huston
The Day of the Locust (excerpt), by Nathanael West, performed by Joanna Gleason
On the Road (excerpt), by Jack Kerouac, performed by Alec Baldwin
“New York is a Girl,” by Robert Sand, performed by Joe Grifasi
07/01/2005
The Barbarous Coast (excerpt), by Ross McDonald, performed by Chris Sarandon
“The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by James Sheridan
“A Table at Ciro’s,” by Budd Schulberg, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
06/24/2005
“Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” by Conrad Aiken, performed by Leonard Nimoy
06/17/2005
“Pinhead, Moonhead,” by Chelsey Johnson, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“The Drama Bug,” by David Sedaris, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
06/10/2005
“What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien, performed by Paul Hecht
“Boys,” by Rick Moody, performed by B.D. Wong
06/03/2005
“U.F.O. in Kushiro,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Ken Leung
“Lost and Found,” by Colson Whitehead, performed by Alec Baldwin
05/27/2005
“The Shining Houses,” by Alice Munro, performed by Maria Tucci
“Story of a Parrot,” by Ana Menéndez, performed by Jacqueline Kim
05/20/2005
“Red,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“Just Married,” by Tony Earley, performed by David Strathairn
“Like Dove Wings,” by Christine Lincoln, performed by Vinnie Burrows and Laurine Towler
05/13/2005
“Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry,” by Elizabeth McCracken, performed by Dana Ivey
05/06/2005
“The Undeclared Major,” by Will Weaver, performed by Stephen Lang
“Sarah’s Story,” by Galina Vromen, performed by Jane Curtin
04/29/2005
“Coins,” by Mona Simpson, performed by Rachel Ticotin
“Bit-O-Honey,” by Bernard Cooper, performed by John O’Callaghan
04/22/2005
“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Wren T. Brown
“The Way Love Works,” by Mary Yukari Waters, performed by Jacqueline Kim
04/15/2005
“Here Is New York,” by E.B. White, performed by James Naughton
“In the City: A Photograph, Evidence and a Proverb,” by Shay Youngblood, performed by Sydia Cedeño
04/08/2005
“The Night the Ghost Got In,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“On the U.S.S. Fortitude,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Laura Esterman
“Things in the Wrong Hands,” by Roy Blount Jr., performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn
04/01/2005
“Amazon,” by Sylvia Brownrigg, performed by Joanna Gleason
“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
03/25/2005
“Can’t We Cry a Little?” by Dawn Powell, performed by Ivy Austin
“Stop That Girl,” by Elizabeth McKenzie, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
03/18/2005
“Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down,” by Ryan Harty, performed by George Bartenieff
“The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, performed by Christina Pickles
03/11/2005
“Chac-Mool,” by Carlos Fuentes, performed by Simon Jones
“The Living Dead,” by David Sedaris, performed by David Sedaris
03/04/2005
“Mr. Woo,” by James McBride, performed by Michael Genet
“D.P.” by Kurt Vonnegut, performed by Lawrence Clayton
02/25/2005
“The Third of July,” by Elizabeth Cox, performed by Joan Allen
“Seventh House,” by R.K. Narayan, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
02/18/2005
“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
“MS. Found in a Bottle,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by George Bartenieff
02/11/2005
“Burn Your Maps,” by Robyn Joy Leff, performed by Leslie Hendrix
02/04/2005
“Seeing the World,” by Lewis Robinson, performed by Thomas Gibson
“The American Embassy,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Sarita Choudhury
01/28/2005
“Love,” by Zora Neale Hurston, performed by Karen Kandel
“Along the Frontage Road,” by Michael Chabon, performed by Jay O. Sanders
“Eulogy to a Shoelace,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Bird,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
01/21/2005
“Good Intentions,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Ceiling,” by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Paul Hecht
01/14/2005
“Mlle. Dias de Corta,” by Mavis Gallant, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Peter and the Wolf,” by Angela Carter, performed by Joe Morton
01/07/2005
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Romance with Double-Bass,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Richard Schiff
“Fatso,” by Etgar Keret, performed by John Guare
12/31/2004
“The Documentary Artist,” by Jaime Manrique, performed by BD Wong
“The Trickle-Down Effect,” by Annie Proulx, performed by James Naughton
12/24/2004
“The Fullness of Life,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Jane Curtin
“The Daughter,” by Courtney Angela Brkic, performed by Patricia Kalember
12/17/2004
“Petrified Man,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“My Singular Irene,” by José Alcántara Almánzar, performed by Leonard Nimoy
12/10/2004
“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Stephen Colbert
“The Ambitious Guest,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, performed by Paul Hecht
12/03/2004
“The Getaway,” by Dorothy Thomas, performed by Mia Dillon
“New York’s Bicycle Speedway,” by Stephen Crane, performed by Joe Grifasi
Swallow Canyon (excerpt), by Meghan Daum, performed by Jane Curtin
11/26/2004
“It Had Wings,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Marian Seldes
“Devotion,” by Adam Haslett, performed by John Shea
11/19/2004
“Travis, B.” by Maile Meloy, performed by William Hurt
“A Soldier for the Crown,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
11/12/2004
“Mrs. Manstey’s View,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“An Orange Line Train to Ballston,” by Edward P. Jones, performed by Sonia Manzano
11/05/2004
“What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea
“Lemonade,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Leonard Nimoy
10/29/2004
“A Warm Welcome to the President, Insh’Allah!” by Meera Nair, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“A Vectorial History of Leroy Pippin,” by Patrick Keppel, performed by Eli Wallach
10/22/2004
“Skyshot,” by Manuel Muñoz, performed by Héctor Elizondo
“Knowledge,” by Gail Jones, performed by Christina Pickles
10/15/2004
“Mother in the Trenches,” by Robert Olen Butler, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Time Between Trains,” by Anthony Bukowski, performed by Liev Schreiber
09/24/2004
“Genevieve Thayer,” by Thomas McMahon, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“The Lone Pilgrim,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Hope Davis
09/17/2004
“The Verger,” by W. Somerset Maugham, performed by Schuyler G. Chapin
“Partners,” by Veronica Geng, performed by Vinie Burrows
“True Love,” by Don Shea, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Breaking Up of the Winships,” by James Thurber, performed by Henderson Forsythe
09/10/2004
“Watch the Animals,” by Alice Elliott Dark, performed by Deborah Rush
“One Holy Night,” by Sandra Cisneros, performed by Jacqueline Kim
09/03/2004
“The Drover's Wife,” by Murray Bail, performed by René Auberjonois
“Jamaica,” by David Schickler, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
08/27/2004
“Sharing,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by Susanna Thompson
“The Night in Question,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Lou Antonio
Featuring an interview with John Edgar Wideman
08/20/2004
“214 Minutes,” by Adam Langer, performed by Teri Garr
“The Good Doctor,” by Adam Haslett, performed by Billy Campbell
08/13/2004
“There Will Be Peace in Korea,” by Larry McMurtry, performed by Tim Guinee
When the Emperor Was Divine (excerpt), by Julie Otsuka, performed by Gedde Watanabe
08/06/2004
“Smokers,” by Elizabeth Haas, performed by Teri Garr
“Devotion,” by Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, performed by John Shea
“Public Defenders and Other Fossils,” by George Singleton, performed by James Cromwell
07/30/2004
“Blind Jozef Pronek,” by Aleksandar Hemon, performed by William Hurt
07/23/2004
“House Raising,” by Chris Offutt, performed by Peter Gerety
“Keep Talking,” by Pam Durban, performed by Barbara Barrie
07/16/2004
“Weight,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by Terrell Tilford
“Mister Brother,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by Daniel Alexander Jones
07/09/2004
“The Trip Back,” by Robert Olen Butler, performed by Alvin Epstein
“Four More Years,” by Myra Alperson, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
07/02/2004
“The Unknown Soldier,” by Luc Sante, performed by Jack Davidson
“Surtsey,” by Elizabeth Graver, performed by Maria Tucci
06/25/2004
Selections from The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, performed by Virginia Rambal
“My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn,” by Sandra Cisneros, performed by Carmen Zapata
“Dating Your Mom,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The School,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Laura Esterman
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
06/18/2004
“Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, performed by Lia Chang
“Ramone,” by Judy Troy, performed by Angelina Phillips
06/11/2004
“Personal Testimony,” by Lynna Williams, performed by Cherry Jones
“The Wonder Spot,” by Melissa Bank, performed by Keira Naughton
06/04/2004
“Call If You Need Me,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Harris Yulin
“Anxious Objects,” by Zsuzsi Gartner, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“A Woman Without Prejudices,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by David Margulies
05/28/2004
“Revelation,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Estelle Parsons
05/21/2004
“He’s at the Office,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Philip Bosco
“Happy Endings,” by Margaret Atwood, performed by Linda Lavin
05/14/2004
“Arbitrage,” by André Aciman, performed by André Aciman
“The Moor,” by Russell Banks, performed by Jay O. Sanders
05/07/2004
“The Smoker,” by David Schickler, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
04/30/2004
“I Am Not a Jew,” by John Biguenet, performed by David Strathairn
“They Tell Me, Now I Know,” by Shay Youngblood, performed by Viola Davis
“Visit,” by Barry Yourgrau, performed by James Naughton
04/23/2004
“Stuart,” by Zadie Smith, performed by Paul Hecht
“Enough,” by Alice McDermott, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
04/16/2004
“The Fix,” by Percival Everett, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Men on the Moon,” by Simon J. Ortiz, performed by John Shea
04/09/2004
“The Third and Final Continent,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Aasif Mandvi
04/02/2004
“Nettles,” by Alice Munro, performed by Kate Burton
“Lies I've Told,” by Sue Allison, performed by Barbara Barrie and David Strathairn
03/26/2004
“There's No Future In It,” by H. E. Bates, performed by Victoria Tennant
“The Wrong Suitcase,” by Maeve Binchy, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Auditions for Actors,” by Al Hirschfeld, performed by Jane Curtin
“Breakfast,” by John Steinbeck, performed by Joe Morton
03/19/2004
“Mortals,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Dolls,” by Ian McEwan, performed by George Bartenieff
“A Profession Like Any Other,” by Ana María Shua, performed by Stephen Lang
03/12/2004
“The Diver,” by Lewis Robinson, performed by Peter Gallagher
“The Guilt,” by Rayda Jacobs, performed by Sigourney Weaver
03/05/2004
“Meeting Frederick,” by Jewell Parker Rhodes, performed by Laurine Towler
“Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses,” by Luis Alberto Urrea, performed by Ted Marcoux
02/27/2004
“Nachman from Los Angeles,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by David Rakoff
02/20/2004
“Disclaimer,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Tony Roberts
“The Horse Dealer’s Daughter,” by D. H. Lawrence, performed by Jon DeVries
02/13/2004
“Solomon’s Big Day: A Children’s Story,” by Touré, performed by Daniel Alexander Jones
“Nightingale,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by William Hurt
02/06/2004
“July ’69,” by Tim O’Brien, performed by William Hurt
01/30/2004
“Traffic,” by Rubén Mendoza, performed by Joe Mantegna
“Los Angeles Notebook,” by Joan Didion, performed by Linda Hunt
“Cattle Car Complex,” by Thane Rosenbaum, performed by Mark Nelson
01/23/2004
“Car Games,” by Frank Conroy, performed by John Shea
“Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway, performed by Kate Burton and Michael Genet
“Walimai,” by Isabel Allende, performed by Lazaro Perez
01/16/2004
“The Epiphany Branch,” by Mary Gordon, performed by Mary Cleere Haran
“Maybe a Bride,” by Carol Bommarito, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“My Baby…” by Dorothy West, performed by Carmen de Lavallade
01/09/2004
“Labors of the Heart,” by Claire Davis, performed by Peter Gerety
01/02/2004
“Our Lady of Peace,” by ZZ Packer, performed by Saidah Arrika Ekulona
“Evacuation Order No. 19,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jennifer Ikeda
12/26/2003
“Job’s Jobs,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Anjelica Huston
The Day of the Locust (excerpt), by Nathanael West, performed by Joanna Gleason
On the Road (excerpt), by Jack Kerouac, performed by Alec Baldwin
“New York is a Girl,” by Robert Sand, performed by Joe Grifasi
12/19/2003
The Barbarous Coast (excerpt), by Ross McDonald, performed by Chris Sarandon
“The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by James Sheridan
“A Table at Ciro’s,” by Budd Schulberg, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
12/12/2003
“Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” by Conrad Aiken, performed by Leonard Nimoy
12/05/2003
“Pinhead, Moonhead,” by Chelsey Johnson, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“The Drama Bug,” by David Sedaris, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
11/28/2003
“What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien, performed by Paul Hecht
“Boys,” by Rick Moody, performed by B.D. Wong
11/21/2003
“U.F.O. in Kushiro,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Ken Leung
“Lost and Found,” by Colson Whitehead, performed by Alec Baldwin
11/14/2003
“The Shining Houses,” by Alice Munro, performed by Maria Tucci
“Story of a Parrot,” by Ana Menéndez, performed by Jacqueline Kim
11/07/2003
“Red,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“Just Married,” by Tony Earley, performed by David Strathairn
“Like Dove Wings,” by Christine Lincoln, performed by Vinnie Burrows and Laurine Towler
10/31/2003
“Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry,” by Elizabeth McCracken, performed by Dana Ivey
10/24/2003
“The Undeclared Major,” by Will Weaver, performed by Stephen Lang
“Sarah’s Story,” by Galina Vromen, performed by Jane Curtin
10/17/2003
“Coins,” by Mona Simpson, performed by Rachel Ticotin
“Bit-O-Honey,” by Bernard Cooper, performed by John O’Callaghan
10/10/2003
“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Wren T. Brown
“The Way Love Works,” by Mary Yukari Waters, performed by Jacqueline Kim
10/03/2003
“Here Is New York,” by E.B. White, performed by James Naughton
“In the City: A Photograph, Evidence and a Proverb,” by Shay Youngblood, performed by Sydia Cedeño
09/26/2003
“Game Six,” by Roger Angell, performed by Roger Angell
“The Green Fields of the Mind,” by A. Bartlett Giamatti, performed by A. Bartlett Giamatti
The Glory of Their Times (excerpt), by Lawrence S. Ritter, performed by John Rubinstein
“Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,” by S.J. Perelman, performed by James Naughton
09/26/2003
“Communist,” by Richard Ford, performed by William Hurt
09/19/2003
“Part of the Story,” by Stephen Dobyns, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
09/12/2003
“The Baby-Sitter,” by Jane Yolen, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by David Margulies
“Recognition,” by William Maxwell, performed by Héctor Elizondo
“Neighbors,” by Julia Alvarez, performed by Lili Taylor
09/05/2003
“Vivian, Fort Barnwell,” by Ethan Canin, performed by Steven Gilborn
“Mother Savage,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Alan Rosenberg
“The Fourth Prussian Dynasty,” by Karen Bender, performed by Frances Sternhagen
08/29/2003
“Nineteen Fifty-Five,” by Alice Walker, performed by Viola Davis
“Seizing Control,” by Mary Robison, performed by Mia Dillon
08/22/2003
“In the Country,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Thomas Gibson
“But It Got Better,” by Abigail Thomas, performed by Joanna Gleason
“The Cooking Poet,” by Samrat Upadhyay, performed by Leonard Nimoy
08/15/2003
“Awakening,” by Isaac Babel, performed by Joseph Wiseman
“Like Mother Used to Make,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Don Stephenson
08/08/2003
“Big Bend,” by Bill Roorbach, performed by James Cromwell
08/01/2003
“War Doll Hotel,” by Kiana Davenport, performed by Maria Tucci
“The 5:22,” by George Harrar, performed by Arliss Howard
07/25/2003
“The Six Sillies,” by Andrew Lang, performed by Edie McClurg
“Moving Pictures,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Rocky Carroll
“The Big Hunger,” by John Fante, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
07/18/2003
“The Unfound Pig,” by Max Steele, performed by Steven Gilborn
“Music for Airports,” by Charles Baxter, performed by Héctor Elizondo
“What I Saw From Where I Stood,” by Marisa Silver, performed by Billy Campbell
07/11/2003
“The Fortunes of Madame Organza,” by Natalie Babbitt, performed by Janel Moloney
“In the Spring,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Marg Helgenberger
“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Jane Curtin
07/04/2003
“Dog Life,” by Mark Strand, performed by Andre Gregory
“A Look at Organized Crime,” by Woody Allen, performed by Jane Curtin
“A Conversation with My Father,” by Grace Paley, performed by Anne Pitoniak
“Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” by Thomas Wolfe, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“What I Have Been Doing Lately,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Erica Gimpel
06/27/2003
“The Piano Tuner,” by Tim Gautreaux, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
06/20/2003
“From Mutton Island,” by Beth Lordan, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Swan Song,” by Steve Stern, performed by Joe Grifasi
06/13/2003
“Twenty Minutes,” by James Salter, performed by Keir Dullea
“The Joy and Melancholy Baseball Trivia Quiz,” by Ken Kalfus, performed by Jack Davidson
06/06/2003
“Your Story,” by Rick DeMarinis, performed by Joe Morton
“Christ in the House of Martha and Mary,” by A. S. Byatt, performed by Leslie Uggams
05/30/2003
“Like All Other Men,” by John McGahern, performed by John Shea
“The Skater,” by Joy Williams, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
05/23/2003
“Shot,” by Elizabeth Hardwick, performed by Elaine Bromka
“Notes from a Bottle,” by James Stevenson, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
05/16/2003
“How Was It, Really?” by John Updike, performed by Harold Gould
“The Littoral Zone,” by Andrea Barrett, performed by Blair Brown
05/09/2003
“Speaking of Courage,” by Tim O'Brien, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Africans,” by Sheila Kohler, performed by Lisa Fugard
05/02/2003
“The Man Who Could See Radiance,” by John Jay Clayton, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Toys of Peace,” by Saki, performed by Dana Ivey
04/25/2003
“The Children of Grupp,” by Penelope Lively, performed by Claire Bloom
“Fun With a Stranger,” by Richard Yates, performed by Marian Seldes
04/18/2003
“Valor,” by Richard Bausch, performed by William Hurt
04/11/2003
“Genevieve Thayer,” by Thomas McMahon, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“The Lone Pilgrim,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Hope Davis
04/04/2003
“The Verger,” by W. Somerset Maugham, performed by Schuyler G. Chapin
“Partners,” by Veronica Geng, performed by Vinie Burrows
“True Love,” by Don Shea, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Breaking Up of the Winships,” by James Thurber, performed by Henderson Forsythe
03/28/2003
“Watch the Animals,” by Alice Elliott Dark, performed by Deborah Rush
“One Holy Night,” by Sandra Cisneros, performed by Jacqueline Kim
03/21/2003
“The Drover's Wife,” by Murray Bail, performed by René Auberjonois
“Jamaica,” by David Schickler, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
03/14/2003
“Sharing,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by Susanna Thompson
“The Night in Question,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Lou Antonio
Featuring an interview with John Edgar Wideman
03/07/2003
“214 Minutes,” by Adam Langer, performed by Teri Garr
“The Good Doctor,” by Adam Haslett, performed by Billy Campbell
02/28/2003
“There Will Be Peace in Korea,” by Larry McMurtry, performed by Tim Guinee
When the Emperor Was Divine (excerpt), by Julie Otsuka, performed by Gedde Watanabe
02/21/2003
“Smokers,” by Elizabeth Haas, performed by Teri Garr
“Devotion,” by Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, performed by John Shea
“Public Defenders and Other Fossils,” by George Singleton, performed by James Cromwell
02/14/2003
“Sorrow Comes in the Night,” by Dan Chaon, performed by Thomas Gibson
“End of the Line,” by Jonathan Franzen, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
02/07/2003
01/31/2003
“House Raising,” by Chris Offutt, performed by Peter Gerety
“Keep Talking,” by Pam Durban, performed by Barbara Barrie
01/24/2003
“Weight,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by Terrell Tilford
“Mister Brother,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by Daniel Alexander Jones
01/17/2003
“The Trip Back,” by Robert Olen Butler, performed by Alvin Epstein
“Four More Years,” by Myra Alperson, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
01/10/2003
“The Unknown Soldier,” by Luc Sante, performed by Jack Davidson
“Surtsey,” by Elizabeth Graver, performed by Maria Tucci
01/03/2003
Selections from The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, performed by Virginia Rambal
“My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn,” by Sandra Cisneros, performed by Carmen Zapata
“Dating Your Mom,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The School,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Laura Esterman
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
12/27/2002
“Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, performed by Lia Chang
“Ramone,” by Judy Troy, performed by Angelina Phillips
12/20/2002
“Personal Testimony,” by Lynna Williams, performed by Cherry Jones
“The Wonder Spot,” by Melissa Bank, performed by Keira Naughton
12/13/2002
“Call If You Need Me,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Harris Yulin
“Anxious Objects,” by Zsuzsi Gartner, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“A Woman Without Prejudices,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by David Margulies
12/06/2002
“Revelation,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Estelle Parsons
11/29/2002
“He’s at the Office,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Philip Bosco
“Happy Endings,” by Margaret Atwood, performed by Linda Lavin
11/22/2002
“Arbitrage,” by André Aciman, performed by André Aciman
“The Moor,” by Russell Banks, performed by Jay O. Sanders
11/15/2002
“The Smoker,” by David Schickler, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
11/08/2002
“I Am Not a Jew,” by John Biguenet, performed by David Strathairn
“They Tell Me, Now I Know,” by Shay Youngblood, performed by Viola Davis
“Visit,” by Barry Yourgrau, performed by James Naughton
11/01/2002
“Stuart,” by Zadie Smith, performed by Paul Hecht
“Enough,” by Alice McDermott, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
10/25/2002
“The Fix,” by Percival Everett, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Men on the Moon,” by Simon J. Ortiz, performed by John Shea
10/18/2002
“The Third and Final Continent,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Aasif Mandvi
10/11/2002
“Nettles,” by Alice Munro, performed by Kate Burton
“Lies I’ve Told,” by Sue Allison, performed by Barbara Barrie and David Strathairn
10/04/2002
“The Law,” by Robert M. Coates, performed by Cynthia Harris
“How to Talk to a Hunter,” by Pam Houston, performed by Mia Dillon
“Pet Milk,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“What I Have Been Doing Lately,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Erica Gimpel
09/27/2002
“Turbulence,” by Joshua Henkin, performed by James Naughton
“The Kugelmass Episode,” by Woody Allen, performed by Joe Grifasi
09/20/2002
“Robbed,” by Ellen Currie, performed by Christina Pickles
“Notes to My Biographer,” by Adam Haslett, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
09/13/2002
“In the Woods,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Jane Curtin
“A Temporary Matter,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Aasif Mandvi
09/06/2002
“Nogales,” by Tim O’Brien, performed by Mariette Hartley
“The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs, performed by Frank McCourt
08/30/2002
“The Blind Neighbor,” by Mary Gordon, performed by Joe Spano
“Scaring the Baddest Animal,” by Chris Spain, performed by Ted Marcoux
08/23/2002
“The Nightingale and the Rose,” by Oscar Wilde, performed by Blair Brown
“Ax of the Apostles,” by Erin McGraw, performed by Richard Schiff
08/16/2002
“San,” by Lan Samantha Chang, performed by Ann Hu
“Little Nightmares, Little Dreams,” by Rachel Simon, performed by Maria Tucci
08/06/2002
“The Monster,” by Bertolt Brecht, performed by Helen-Jean Arthur
“Bush Pigs,” by Richard Dooling, performed by Mark Nelson
08/02/2002
“Dusk,” by James Salter, performed by John Shea
“Patriotic,” by Janet Kauffman, performed by Lindsay Crouse
07/26/2002
“Paper Son,” by Melissa Hardy, performed by Keith Szarabajka
07/19/2002
“Stolen Horses,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Anthony Michael Hall
“Afternoon of the Sassanoa,” by Jason Brown, performed by Bradley Whitford
07/12/2002
“My Husband’s Best Friend’s Second Wife,” by Michael Frank, performed by Cynthia Harris
07/05/2002
“The Worm in the Apple,” by John Cheever, performed by Anne Meara
“The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” by Saki, performed by Marian Seldes
“Yma Dream,” by Thomas Meehan, performed by Christine Baranski
“The Second Tree from the Corner,” by E.B. White, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
06/28/2002
“Bill Boston,” by Charles Dickinson, performed by Alec Baldwin
“The Visit to the Museum,” by Vladimir Nabokov, performed by Fitz Weaver
06/21/2002
“Dog,” by Richard Russo, performed by Stephen Lang
“Language, Truth and Lockjaw,” by Bernard MacLaverty, performed by James Naughton
06/14/2002
“The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien, performed by Dylan Baker
06/07/2002
“The Infinite Passion of Expectation,” by Gina Berriault, performed by Cherry Jones
“And Never Come Up,” by John Biguenet, performed by Jack Davidson
05/31/2002
“He,” by Katherine Anne Porter, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“Little Dog,” by Langston Hughes, performed by Barbara Feldon
05/24/2002
“The Songs of Reba Love Jackson,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by Leslie Uggams
05/17/2002
“Women Like Us,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Lynne Thigpen
“Nijinsky,” by Maura Stanton, performed by Lillo Way
05/10/2002
“A Whale’s Throat,” by Josip Novakovich, performed by Jerry Orbach
“The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, performed by Charles Keating
05/03/2002
“Wild Plums,” by Grace Stone Coates, performed by Mia Dillon
“Here We Are,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Jane Alexander
04/26/2002
“The Secret of the Old Music,” by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, performed by Phillipe de Montebello
“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D. H. Lawrence, performed by John Shea
04/19/2002
“Broken Homes,” by William Trevor, performed by Meryl Streep
04/12/2002
“The Sound of Waves,” by William Maxwell, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Towel Season,” by Ron Carlson, performed by William Hurt
04/05/2002
“Game Six,” by Roger Angell, performed by Roger Angell
“The Green Fields of the Mind,” by A. Bartlett Giamatti, performed by A. Bartlett Giamatti
The Glory of Their Times (excerpt), by Lawrence S. Ritter, performed by John Rubinstein
“Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,” by S. J. Perelman, performed by James Naughton
03/29/2002
“Communist,” by Richard Ford, performed by William Hurt
03/22/2002
“Part of the Story,” by Stephen Dobyns, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
03/15/2002
“The Baby-Sitter,” by Jane Yolen, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by David Margulies
“Recognition,” by William Maxwell, performed by Héctor Elizondo
“Neighbors,” by Julia Alvarez, performed by Lili Taylor
03/08/2002
“Vivian, Fort Barnwell,” by Ethan Canin, performed by Steven Gilborn
“Mother Savage,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Alan Rosenberg
“The Fourth Prussian Dynasty,” by Karen Bender, performed by Frances Sternhagen
03/01/2002
“Nineteen Fifty-Five,” by Alice Walker, performed by Viola Davis
“Seizing Control,” by Mary Robison, performed by Mia Dillon
02/22/2002
“In the Country,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Thomas Gibson
“But It Got Better,” by Abigail Thomas, performed by Joanna Gleason
“The Cooking Poet,” by Samrat Upadhyay, performed by Leonard Nimoy
02/15/2002
“Awakening,” by Isaac Babel, performed by Joseph Wiseman
“Like Mother Used to Make,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Don Stephenson
02/08/2002
“Big Bend,” by Bill Roorbach, performed by James Cromwell
02/01/2002
“War Doll Hotel,” by Kiana Davenport, performed by Maria Tucci
“The 5:22,” by George Harrar, performed by Arliss Howard
01/25/2002
“The Six Sillies,” by Andrew Lang, performed by Edie McClurg
“Moving Pictures,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Rocky Carroll
“The Big Hunger,” by John Fante, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
01/18/2002
“The Unfound Pig,” by Max Steele, performed by Steven Gilborn
“Music for Airports,” by Charles Baxter, performed by Héctor Elizondo
“What I Saw From Where I Stood,” by Marisa Silver, performed by Billy Campbell
01/11/2002
“The Fortunes of Madame Organza,” by Natalie Babbitt, performed by Janel Moloney
“In the Spring,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Marg Helgenberger
“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Jane Curtin
01/04/2002
“Dog Life,” by Mark Strand, performed by Andre Gregory
“A Look at Organized Crime,” by Woody Allen, performed by Jane Curtin
“A Conversation with My Father,” by Grace Paley, performed by Anne Pitoniak
“Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” by Thomas Wolfe, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“What I Have Been Doing Lately,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Erica Gimpel
12/28/2001
“The Piano Tuner,” by Tim Gautreaux, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
12/21/2001
“From Mutton Island,” by Beth Lordan, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Swan Song,” by Steve Stern, performed by Joe Grifasi
12/14/2001
“Twenty Minutes,” by James Salter, performed by Keir Dullea
“The Joy and Melancholy Baseball Trivia Quiz,” by Ken Kalfus, performed by Jack Davidson
12/07/2001
“Your Story,” by Rick DeMarinis, performed by Joe Morton
“Christ in the House of Martha and Mary,” by A. S. Byatt, performed by Leslie Uggams
11/30/2001
“Like All Other Men,” by John McGahern, performed by John Shea
“The Skater,” by Joy Williams, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
11/23/2001
“Shot,” by Elizabeth Hardwick, performed by Elaine Bromka
“Notes from a Bottle,” by James Stevenson, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
11/16/2001
“How Was It, Really?” by John Updike, performed by Harold Gould
“The Littoral Zone,” by Andrea Barrett, performed by Blair Brown
11/09/2001
“Speaking of Courage,” by Tim O'Brien, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Africans,” by Sheila Kohler, performed by Lisa Fugard
11/02/2001
“The Man Who Could See Radiance,” by John Jay Clayton, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Toys of Peace,” by Saki, performed by Dana Ivey
10/26/2001
“The Children of Grupp,” by Penelope Lively, performed by Claire Bloom
“Fun With a Stranger,” by Richard Yates, performed by Marian Seldes
10/19/2001
“Valor,” by Richard Bausch, performed by William Hurt
10/12/2001
“Genevieve Thayer,” by Thomas McMahon, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“The Lone Pilgrim,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Hope Davis
10/05/2001
“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn
“False Alarm,” by Dave Barry, performed by Larry Keith
“The Nine Best Movies,” by Gregory Mcdonald, performed by Christina Pickles
“Movie-Going,” by John Hollander, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Porcelain Man,” by Richard Kennedy, performed by Estelle Parsons
“Oh She Gotta Head Fulla Hair,” by Ntozake Shange, performed by Tamara Tunie
09/28/2001
“Who’s Irish?” by Gish Jen, performed by Freda Foh Shen
“Short Story Contest,” by Marcos Aguinis, performed by Jerry Zaks
09/21/2001
“The Rocket Man,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Marian Seldes
09/14/2001
“The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing,” by Melissa Bank, performed by Roxanne Hart
09/07/2001
“The World of Tomorrow,” by E.B. White, performed by Judith Ivey
“Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,” by S.J. Perelman, performed by James Naughton
“Carpathia,” by Jesse Lee Kercheval, performed by Barbara Feldon
“The Poet’s Husband,” by Molly Giles, performed by Stephen Lee
“Mamie,” by Carl Sandburg, performed by Judith Ivey
“Population Drifts,” by Carl Sandburg, performed by Joe Morton
“Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem,” by Helene Johnson, performed by Joe Morton
08/31/2001
“Forever After,” by Jim Thompson, performed by Ivy Austin
“At the End of the Mechanical Age,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Roscoe Lee Browne
08/24/2001
“The Sensible Thing,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, performed by Billy Campbell
“Gorilla, My Love,” by Toni Cade Bambara, performed by Hattie Winston
08/17/2001
“Sinking House,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Christina Pickles
“Violets,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
08/10/2001
“My Dead Brother Comes to America,” by Alexander Godin, performed by Joseph Wiseman
“The Blues I’m Playing,” by Langston Hughes, performed by Joe Morton
08/03/2001
“How I Came to Be Lawfully Wed,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“What He Was Like,” by William Maxwell, performed by Fritz Weaver
“The Man with the Lap Dog,” by Beth Lordan, performed by Harold Gould
07/27/2001
“Sexy,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Samia Shoaib
07/20/2001
“Modern Love,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Philip Casnoff
“The First Seven Years,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by Linda Lavin
07/13/2001
“Worry,” by Ron Wallace, performed by Barbara Feldon
“The New Year,” by Pamela Painter, performed by Stephen Lee
“Powder,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Angel Levine,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by Louis Zorich
07/06/2001
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
“Things in the Wrong Hands,” by Roy Blount Jr., performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Seattle,” by R.A. Sasaki, performed by Freda Foh Shen
“The Liberation of Rome,” by Robin Hemley, performed by Michael Tucker
06/29/2001
“Rembrandt’s Hat,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by Marian Seldes
“A Recollection,” by Mavis Gallant, performed by Theodore Bikel
06/22/2001
“Psychoanalysis Changed My Life,” by Amy Bloom, performed by Cherry Jones
“How to Give the Wrong Impression,” by Katherine Heiny, performed by Lillo Way
06/15/2001
“A Box of Rocks,” by Tess Gallagher, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“A Constellation of Events,” by John Updike, performed by Barbara Feldon
06/08/2001
“The Man Who Was the God of Love,” by Ruth Rendell, performed by Cynthia Harris
“The Green Hills of Earth,” by Robert A. Heinlein, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
06/01/2001
“Saboteur,” by Ha Jin, performed by Joel Gray
“Two Words,” by Isabel Allende, performed by Lisa Fugard
05/25/2001
“A Gentleman's C,” by Padgett Powell, performed by Stephen Lee
“Tea Leaves,” by Janet Burroway, performed by Barbara Feldon
“Wallet,” by Allen Woodman, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Gold Coast,” by James Alan McPherson, performed by James McDaniel
05/18/2001
“The War of the Wall,” by Toni Cade Bambara, performed by Hattie Winston
“The Trip to Halawa Valley,” by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, performed by Blair Brown
05/11/2001
“The Composition,” by Antonio Skármeta, performed by Steven Gilborn
“A Visit,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Stephen Lang
05/04/2001
“The Brick,” by Katherine Min, performed by Jacqueline Kim
“The Hammer of God,” by G. K. Chesterton, performed by Malachy McCourt
04/27/2001
“20/20,” by Linda Brewer, performed by Stephen Lee
“Hurray for Hollywood,” by George Garrett, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Eternal Love,” by Karen Bender, performed by Joanne Woodward
04/20/2001
“The Golem,” by Avram Davidson, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“Naked Woman Playing Chopin,” by Louise Erdrich, performed by Anjelica Huston
04/13/2001
“Getting Into the Movies,” by Layle Silbert, performed by Barbara Feldon
“Miami-New York,” by Martha Gellhorn, performed by Joanna Gleason
04/06/2001
“The Law,” by Robert M. Coates, performed by Cynthia Harris
“How to Talk to a Hunter,” by Pam Houston, performed by Mia Dillon
“Pet Milk,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“What I Have Been Doing Lately,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Erica Gimpel
03/30/2001
“Turbulence,” by Joshua Henkin, performed by James Naughton
“The Kugelmass Episode,” by Woody Allen, performed by Joe Grifasi
03/23/2001
“Robbed,” by Ellen Currie, performed by Christina Pickles
“Notes to My Biographer,” by Adam Haslett, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
03/16/2001
“In the Woods,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Jane Curtin
“A Temporary Matter,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Aasif Mandvi
03/09/2001
“Nogales,” by Tim O'Brien, performed by Mariette Hartley
“The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs, performed by Frank McCourt
03/02/2001
“The Blind Neighbor,” by Mary Gordon, performed by Joe Spano
“Scaring the Baddest Animal,” by Chris Spain, performed by Ted Marcoux
02/23/2001
“The Nightingale and the Rose,” by Oscar Wilde, performed by Blair Brown
“Ax of the Apostles,” by Erin McGraw, performed by Richard Schiff
02/16/2001
“San,” by Lan Samantha Chang, performed by Ann Hu
“Little Nightmares, Little Dreams,” by Rachel Simon, performed by Maria Tucci
02/09/2001
“The Monster,” by Bertolt Brecht, performed by Helen-Jean Arthur
“Bush Pigs,” by Richard Dooling, performed by Mark Nelson
02/02/2001
“Dusk,” by James Salter, performed by John Shea
“Patriotic,” by Janet Kauffman, performed by Lindsay Crouse
01/26/2001
“Paper Son,” by Melissa Hardy, performed by Keith Szarabajka
01/19/2001
“Stolen Horses,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Anthony Michael Hall
“Afternoon of the Sassanoa,” by Jason Brown, performed by Bradley Whitford
01/12/2001
“My Husband’s Best Friend’s Second Wife,” by Michael Frank, performed by Cynthia Harris
01/05/2001
“The Worm in the Apple,” by John Cheever, performed by Anne Meara
“The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” by Saki, performed by Marian Seldes
“Yma Dream,” by Thomas Meehan, performed by Christine Baranski
“The Second Tree from the Corner,” by E.B. White, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
12/29/2000
“Bill Boston,” by Charles Dickinson, performed by Alec Baldwin
“The Visit to the Museum,” by Vladimir Nabokov, performed by Fitz Weaver
12/22/2000
“Dog,” by Richard Russo, performed by Stephen Lang
“Language, Truth and Lockjaw,” by Bernard MacLaverty, performed by James Naughton
12/15/2000
“The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien, performed by Dylan Baker
12/08/2000
“The Infinite Passion of Expectation,” by Gina Berriault, performed by Cherry Jones
“And Never Come Up,” by John Biguenet, performed by Jack Davidson
12/01/2000
“He,” by Katherine Anne Porter, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“Little Dog,” by Langston Hughes, performed by Barbara Feldon
11/24/2000
“The Songs of Reba Love Jackson,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by Leslie Uggams
11/17/2000
“Women Like Us,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Lynne Thigpen
“Nijinsky,” by Maura Stanton, performed by Lillo Way
11/10/2000
“A Whale’s Throat,” by Josip Novakovich, performed by Jerry Orbach
“The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, performed by Charles Keating
11/03/2000
“Wild Plums,” by Grace Stone Coates, performed by Mia Dillon
“Here We Are,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Jane Alexander
10/27/2000
“The Secret of the Old Music,” by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, performed by Phillipe de Montebello
“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D. H. Lawrence, performed by John Shea
10/20/2000
“Broken Homes,” by William Trevor, performed by Meryl Streep
10/13/2000
“The Sound of Waves,” by William Maxwell, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Towel Season,” by Ron Carlson, performed by William Hurt
10/06/2000
“I Did Not Learn Their Names,” by Ralph Ellison, performed by Joshua Wolf Coleman
“The Lipstick Tree,” by Kiana Davenport, performed by Andrea Marcovicci
09/29/2000
“From an Abandoned Work,” by Samuel Beckett, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Curtin
09/22/2000
“The Magic Barrel,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by Joseph Wiseman
“Boa Constrictor and Rabbit,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by David Margulies
09/15/2000
“A Run of Bad Luck,” by Annie Proulx, performed by Cherry Jones
“Snow,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Lee Grant
“This Morning,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Lois Smith
“The Fields,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Cherry Jones
“Happiness,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Lois Smith
“The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, performed by Lois Smith
“On the Sale of My Farm,” by Robert Frost, performed by Lois Smith
“A Patch of Old Snow,” by Robert Frost, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
09/08/2000
“The Road There,” by Isaac Babel, performed by Michael Wager
“American Dreams,” by Peter Carey, performed by David Strathairn
09/01/2000
“The Whole Truth,” by Stephen McCauley, performed by Christina Pickles
“Red Dress—1946,” by Alice Munro, performed by Jane Curtin
08/25/2000
“A Lion on the Freeway,” by Nadine Gordimer, performed by Barbara Rosenblat
“The Boy Who Painted Christ Black,” by John Henrik Clarke, performed by Michael Keck
“A Curtain of Green,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Frances Sternhagen
08/18/2000
“Goodbye Marcus, Goodbye Rose,” by Jean Rhys, performed by Anne Jackson
“Indian Giver,” by Max Apple, performed by Leonard Nimoy
08/11/2000
“Big as Life,” by Rand Richards Cooper, performed by Paul Reiser
“The Case of the Rare Teeth,” by Scott Zaluda, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“A Bolt from the Blue,” by Laura Covello, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Telephone Game,” by William Trevor, performed by Joanna Gleason
08/04/2000
“The Dead,” by James Joyce, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, and Isaiah Sheffer
07/28/2000
“The Dead,” by James Joyce, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, and Isaiah Sheffer
07/21/2000
“The Enchanted Bluff,” by Willa Cather, performed by Stephen Lang
“The Sojourner,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Cynthia Harris
07/14/2000
“Now I Lay Me,” by Ernest Hemingway, performed by Greg Naughton
“The Nightmare,” by Roxana Robinson, performed by Blair Brown
07/07/2000
“Killing Time,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Philip Casnoff
“On the U.S.S. Fortitude,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Laura Esterman
“I Was Really Very Hungry,” by M.F.K. Fisher, performed by Tovah Feldshuh
“The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, performed by Christina Pickles
06/30/2000
“The Third Level,” by Jack Finney, performed by Jack Davidson
“A Christmas Memory,” by Truman Capote, performed by John Shea
06/23/2000
“Wallet,” by Allen Woodman, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Wig,” by Brady Udall, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Whore's Child,” by Richard Russo, performed by Harold Gould
06/16/2000
“Firelight,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Thomas Gibson
“How Old, How Young,” by John O'Hara, performed by Alec Baldwin
06/09/2000
“Lajitas and the NFL,” by Sam Shepard, performed by James McDaniel
“Why Don't You Dance?” by Raymond Carver, performed by Mark Nelson
“Imaginary Problems,” by Francine Prose, performed by Philip Casnoff
06/02/2000
“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Kate Burton
“Folk Tales,” by Frederick Busch, performed by Larry Keith
05/26/2000
“My Mother,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Laurine Towler
“Loving Wanda Beaver,” by Alison Baker, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
05/19/2000
“Sculpture I,” by Angela Patrinos, performed by Lillo Way
“Braids,” by María Luisa Bombal, performed by Juanita Fleming
05/12/2000
“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by Paul Hecht
“Puerto Vallarta,” by Jennifer Egan, performed by Cherry Jones
05/05/2000
“The Crimean Hotel,” by Penelope Lively, performed by Maria Tucci
“Ocean Avenue,” by Michael Chabon, performed by Eli Wallach
04/28/2000
“Through the Tunnel,” by Doris Lessing, performed by James Naughton
“The Texas Principessa,” by William Goyen, performed by Doris Roberts
04/21/2000
“Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Dana Ivey
“All the Days and Nights,” by William Maxwell, performed by Tony Roberts
04/14/2000
“The Customer,” by Keith Taylor, performed by Jeffrey Wright
“Night Calls,” by Lisa Fugard, performed by Lisa Fugard
“First Confession,” by Frank O’Connor, performed by Malachy McCourt
04/07/2000
“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn
“False Alarm,” by Dave Barry, performed by Larry Keith
“The Nine Best Movies,” by Gregory Mcdonald, performed by Christina Pickles
“Movie-Going,” by John Hollander, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Porcelain Man,” by Richard Kennedy, performed by Estelle Parsons
“Oh She Gotta Head Fulla Hair,” by Ntozake Shange, performed by Tamara Tunie
03/31/2000
“Who’s Irish?” by Gish Jen, performed by Freda Foh Shen
“Short Story Contest,” by Marcos Aguinis, performed by Jerry Zaks
03/24/2000
“The Rocket Man,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Marian Seldes
03/17/2000
“The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing,” by Melissa Bank, performed by Roxanne Hart
03/10/2000
“The World of Tomorrow,” by E.B. White, performed by Judith Ivey
“Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,” by S.J. Perelman, performed by James Naughton
“Carpathia,” by Jesse Lee Kercheval, performed by Barbara Feldon
“The Poet’s Husband,” by Molly Giles, performed by Stephen Lee
“Mamie,” by Carl Sandburg, performed by Judith Ivey
“Population Drifts,” by Carl Sandburg, performed by Joe Morton
“Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem,” by Helene Johnson, performed by Joe Morton
03/03/2000
“Forever After,” by Jim Thompson, performed by Ivy Austin
“At the End of the Mechanical Age,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Roscoe Lee Browne
02/25/2000
“The Sensible Thing,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, performed by Billy Campbell
“Gorilla, My Love,” by Toni Cade Bambara, performed by Hattie Winston
02/18/2000
“Sinking House,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Christina Pickles
“Violets,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
02/11/2000
“My Dead Brother Comes to America,” by Alexander Godin, performed by Joseph Wiseman
“The Blues I’m Playing,” by Langston Hughes, performed by Joe Morton
02/04/2000
“How I Came to Be Lawfully Wed,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“What He Was Like,” by William Maxwell, performed by Fritz Weaver
“The Man with the Lap Dog,” by Beth Lordan, performed by Harold Gould
01/28/2000
“Sexy,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Samia Shoaib
01/21/2000
“Modern Love,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Philip Casnoff
“The First Seven Years,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by Linda Lavin
01/14/2000
“Worry,” by Ron Wallace, performed by Barbara Feldon
“The New Year,” by Pamela Painter, performed by Stephen Lee
“Powder,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Angel Levine,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by Louis Zorich
01/07/2000
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
“Things in the Wrong Hands,” by Roy Blount Jr., performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Seattle,” by R.A. Sasaki, performed by Freda Foh Shen
“The Liberation of Rome,” by Robin Hemley, performed by Michael Tucker