Broadcast Schedule

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“Yours Truly,” by A.M. Homes, performed by Beth Malone
“Omakase,” by Weike Wang, performed by Jennifer Lim

“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

“Love and Hydrogen,” by Jim Shepard, performed by Sam Underwood
“The Coat,” by Carys Davies, performed by Becca Blackwell

“Miss Marple Tells a Story,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Lois Smith
“Accident,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Hugh Dancy

“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

“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

“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

“The Knowers,” by Helen Phillips, performed by Stockard Channing
“Three Little Maids,” by Alix Ohlin, performed by Mia Dillon

“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

“Correspondence,” performed Emily Skeggs
“The Discovery of Christmas,” performed by Amanda Quaid
“Sucker,” performed by Michael Cerveris

“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

“Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” by Jeanne Dixon, performed by Mia Dillon
“The Color Master,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Denis O’Hare

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The Trip,” by Bruce Jay Friedman, performed by Santino Fontana and Julie Halston
“Foes,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Joan Allen and Kyle MacLachlan

“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

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

"I Live on Your Visits," by Dorothy Parker, performed by Celeste Holm
"Snakebite," by Arthur Bradford, performed by John Benjamin Hickey

“Paddle to Canada,” by Heather Monley, performed by Jenna Ushkowitz
“A Family,” by Jamel Brinkley, performed by Brandon J. Dirden

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

“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

“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

“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

“Mortals,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Reading Lessons,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Marsha Stephanie Blake

“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

“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

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

“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

“A Wild Swan,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by Valorie Curry
Fox 8 (excerpt) by George Saunders, performed by John Cameron Mitchell

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.

“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

“La Sainte-Vierge,” by Daphne du Maurier, performed by Kathryn Erbe
“Pilgrimage to Earth,” by Robert Sheckley, performed by Paul Giamatti

“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

“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

“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

“The Luncheon,” by Jeffrey Archer, performed by Jefferson Mays
“Love Is Not A Pie,” by Amy Bloom, performed by Hope Davis

“American Dreams,” by Peter Carey, performed by David Strathairn
“Night Calls,” by Lisa Fugard, performed by Lisa Fugard

“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

“Moses and Gaspar,” by Amparo Dávila, performed by Peter Jay Fernandez
“The Pitch,” by Dennis Etchison, performed by Michael Shannon

“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

“Suburbia!” by Amy Silverberg, performed by Martha Plimpton
“Everything Is Far From Here,” by Cristina Henríquez, performed by Zabryna Guevara

“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

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

“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

“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

“Waiting for the Miracle,” by Lara Vapnyar, performed by David Costabile
“Beyond Lies the Wub,” by Philip K. Dick, performed by Denis O’Hare

“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

“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

“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

“The Juniper Tree,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“The Possibility of Evil,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Dana Ivey

“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

“Matrilineal,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Patricia Kalember
“In the Country,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Thomas Gibson

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Yancey,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Mia Dillon
“The Mappist,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Joe Spano

“Breadman,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Kyle MacLachlan
An excerpt from Heartburn by Nora Ephron, performed by Joan Allen

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Madame Lazarus,” by Maile Meloy, performed by René Auberjonois

“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

“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

“Miss Marple Tells a Story,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Lois Smith
“Accident,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Hugh Dancy

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

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

“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

“Last Night,” by James Salter, performed by Amy Ryan
“Joplin and Dickens,” by Padgett Powell, performed by John Cameron Mitchell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” by Jeanne Dixon, performed by Mia Dillon
“The Color Master,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Denis O’Hare

“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

“The Knowers,” by Helen Phillips, performed by Stockard Channing
“Three Little Maids,” by Alix Ohlin, performed by Mia Dillon

“República y Grau,” by Daniel Alarcón, performed by David Strathairn
“The Letter Writer,” by M.T. Sharif, performed by Joe Morton

“Blue Girl,” Elizabeth Crane, performed by Valorie Curry
“Little Man,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by Zach Grenier

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Resistance,” by Stephan Enter, performed by Michael Cerveris
“Gorilla My Love,” by Toni Cade Bambara, performed by Hattie Winston

“Evening on the Côte d’Azur,” by Richard Yates, performed by Edie Falco
“Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz,” by George Saunders, performed by Josh Radnor

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I Go Adventuring,” by Helen Keller, performed by Maggie Siff
“The Secrets of Bats,” by Jess Row, performed by Heather Goldenhersh

“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

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

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.

“I Live on Your Visits,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Celeste Holm
“Snakebite,” by Arthur Bradford, performed by John Benjamin Hickey

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“The Proxy Marriage,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Patricia Kalember
“The Worm and the Apple,” by John Cheever, performed by Anne Meara

“Mortals,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Reading Lessons,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Marsha Stephanie Blake

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.

“La Sainte-Vierge,” by Daphne du Maurier, performed by Kathryn Erbe
“Pilgrimage to Earth,” by Robert Sheckley, performed by Paul Giamatti

“On the Hill,” by Elizabeth Spencer, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Modern Girls,” by Teju Cole, performed by Zainab Jah

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The Juniper Tree,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“The Possibility of Evil,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Dana Ivey

“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

“Waiting for the Miracle,” by Lara Vapnyar, performed by David Costabile
“Beyond Lies the Wub,” by Philip K. Dick, performed by Denis O’Hare

“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

“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

“Small Fates,” by Teju Cole, performed by Blythe Danner and Jeffrey Wright
“In the South,” by Salman Rushdie, performed by Michael Stuhlbarg

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“The Voter,” by Chinua Achebe, read by Arthur French
“Occupy Jen's Street,” by Simon Rich, read by Wyatt Cenac
“Taking Ms. Kezee to the Polls,” by David Haynes, read by Michael Genet

“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

“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

“Matrilineal,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Patricia Kalember
“In the Country,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Thomas Gibson

“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

“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

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

“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

“The Moons of Jupiter,” by Alice Munro, performed by Holly Hunter
“She Unnames Them,” by Ursula LeGuin, performed by Joanna Gleason

“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Madame Lazarus,” by Maile Meloy, performed by René Auberjunois

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

“The 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

“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

“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

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

“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

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.

“Last Night,” by James Salter, performed by Amy Ryan
“Joplin and Dickens,” by Padgett Powell, performed by John Cameron Mitchell

“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

“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

“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

“The Lone Pilgrim,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Hope Davis
“The Night Bookmobile,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Christina Pickles

“Fiesta, 1980,” by Junot Díaz, performed by Felix Solis
“How Old, How Young,” by John O’Hara, performed by Alec Baldwin

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

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.

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Resistance,” by Stephan Enter, performed by Michael Cerveris
“Gorilla My Love,” by Toni Cade Bambara, performed by Hattie Winston

“The Portal,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“A Curtain of Green,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Frances Sternhagen

“Good Intentions,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Man Who Liked Dickens,” by Evelyn Waugh, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“República y Grau,” by Daniel Alarcón, performed by David Strathairn
“The Letter Writer,” by M.T. Sharif, performed by Joe Morton

“How I Met My Husband,” by Alice Munro, performed by Amy Ryan
“The Meeting,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Paul Hecht

“At the Anarchists Convention,” by John Sayles, performed by Jerry Stiller
“The Falls,” by George Saunders, performed by René Auberjonois

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Ambition,” by Jonathan Franzen, performed by Edie Falco
“From the Diary of a New York Lady,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Mary Louise Wilson

“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

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

“Pilgrims,” by Julie Orringer, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“The Life You Save May be Your Own,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Lois Smith

“Where the Cluetts Are,” by Jack Finney, performed by Philip Casnoff
“Lederhosen,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Aasif Mandvi

“The Proxy Marriage,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Patricia Kalember
“The Worm in the Apple,” by John Cheever, performed by Anne Meara

“Unstuck,” by John Updike, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Playing with Dynamite,” by John Updike, performed by Sally Field

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Vanilla Bright Like Eminem,” by Michel Faber, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“North Country,” by Roxane Gay, performed by Adepero Oduye

“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

“Another Life,” by Paul La Farge, performed by Josh Radnor
“The Big Cat,” by Louise Erdrich, performed by Keir Dullea

“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

“On the Hill,” by Elizabeth Spencer, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Modern Girls,” by Teju Cole, performed by Zainab Jah

“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

“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

“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

“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

“White Angel,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by James Naughton
“The Fine Art of Sighing,” by Bernard Cooper, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I Go Adventuring,” by Helen Keller, performed by Maggie Siff
“The Secrets of Bats,” by Jess Row, performed by Heather Goldenhersh

“The Distance of the Moon,” by Italo Calvino, performed by Liev Schreiber
“All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Michael Cerveris

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

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, read by Jeremy Shamos
“Yma Dream,” by Thomas Meehan, read by James Naughton

“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

“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

“Good Intentions,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Man Who Liked Dickens,” by Evelyn Waugh, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Jane Curtin
“Fault Lines,” by Barbara Kingsolver, performed by Jill Eikenberry

“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

“Small Fates,” by Teju Cole, performed by Blythe Danner and Jeffrey Wright
“In the South,” by Salman Rushdie, performed by Michael Stuhlbarg

“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

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.

“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

“St. George,” by Gail Godwin, performed by Jane Curtin
“The Trickle-Down Effect,” by Annie Proulx, performed by James Naughton

“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

“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

“Cryptology,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by David Rakoff
“Gomez Palacio,” by Roberto Bolano, performed by David Rakoff

“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

“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

“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

“The Dead,” by James Joyce (Part 2), performed by Cynthia Nixon and Colum McCann

“The Dead,” by James Joyce (Part 1), performed by Cynthia Nixon

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Ambition,” by Jonathan Franzen, performed by Edie Falco
“From the Diary of a New York Lady,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Mary Louise Wilson

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Feathers,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“The School,” by Donald Barthleme, performed by Laura Esterman

“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

“Do You Know Where I Am?” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Everything That Rises Must Converge,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Estelle Parsons
“Jesus is Waiting,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson

“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

“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

“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

“Sir Henry,” by Lydia Millet, performed by John Lithgow
“Some Contemporary Characters,” by Rick Moody, performed by Mike Birbiglia and Aya Cash

“Cryptology,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by David Rakoff
“Gomez Palacio,” by Roberto Bolano, performed by David Rakoff

“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

“Miracle Polish,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn

“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

“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

“The Moons of Jupiter,” by Alice Munro, performed by Holly Hunter
“She Unnames Them,” by Ursula K. Le Guin, performed by Joanna Gleason

“How I Met My Husband,” by Alice Munro, performed by Amy Ryan
“The Meeting,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Paul Hecht

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“In Dreams Become Responsibilities,” by Delmore Schwartz, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Lover of Horses,” by Tess Gallagher, performed by Kate Burton

“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

“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

“The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs, performed by John Lithgow
“Two Words,” by Isabel Allende, performed by Lisa Fugard

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

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 read by Gabriel Byrne, Stockard Channing, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Corey Stoll, and BD Wong.

“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

“The Lone Pilgrim,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Hope Davis
“The Night Bookmobile,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Christina Pickles

“St. George,” by Gail Godwin, performed by Jane Curtin
“The Trickle-Down Effect,” by Annie Proulx, performed by James Naughton

“The Treatment,” by Daniel Menaker, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Palais de Justice,” by Mark Helprin, performed by Jack Davidson

“Where the Cluetts Are,” by Jack Finney, performed by Philip Casnoff
“Lederhosen,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Aasif Mandvi

“At the Anarchists Convention,” by John Sayles, performed by Jerry Stiller
“The Falls,” by George Saunders, performed by René Auberjonois

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D.H. Lawrence, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“The Book,” by Ben Loory, performed by Jane Kaczmarek

“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

“Unstuck,” by John Updike, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Playing with Dynamite,” by John Updike, performed by Sally Field

“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

“Do You Know Where I Am?” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

Bonfire of the Vanities (excerpt), by Tom Wolfe, performed by Danny Burstein
“Xingu,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Christina Pickles

“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

“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Stephen Colbert
“The Catbird Seat,” by James Thurber, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“Cathedral,” by Raymond Carver, performed by James Naughton
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“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

“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, read by Kate Burton

“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

“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

“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

“Sir Henry,” by Lydia Millet, performed by John Lithgow
“Some Contemporary Characters,” by Rick Moody, performed by Mike Birbiglia and Aya Cash

“Customer Service at the Karaoke Don Quixote,” by Juan Martinez, performed by Nate Corddry
“Ziggurat,” by Stephen O’Connor, performed by Tim Curry

“In Dreams Become Responsibilities,” by Delmore Schwartz, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Lover of Horses,” by Tess Gallagher, performed by Kate Burton

“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

“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

“The Grid,” by Rick Moody, performed by Josh Radnor
“Anaconda,” by Martha McPhee, performed by Lindsay Crouse

“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

“Everything That Rises Must Converge,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Estelle Parsons
“Jesus is Waiting,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson

“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

“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

“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

“Cryptology,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by David Rakoff
“Gomez Palacio,” by Roberto Bolano, performed by David Rakoff

“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

“Leaving for Kenosha,” by Richard Ford, performed by David Strathairn

“The Distance of the Moon,” by Italo Calvino, performed by Liev Schreiber
“All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Michael Cerveris

“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

“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

“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

“Cathedral,” by Raymond Carver, performed by James Naughton
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Vanilla Bright Like Eminem,” by Michel Faber, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“North Country,” by Roxane Gay, performed by Adepero Oduye

Bonfire of the Vanities (excerpt), by Tom Wolfe, performed by Danny Burstein
“Xingu,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Christina Pickles

“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

“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D.H. Lawrence, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“The Book,” by Ben Loory, performed by Jane Kaczmarek

“Miracle Polish,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn

“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Stephen Colbert
“The Catbird Seat,” by James Thurber, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Jane Curtin
“Fault Lines,” by Barbara Kingsolver, performed by Jill Eikenberry

“The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs, performed by John Lithgow
“Two Words,” by Isabel Allende, performed by Lisa Fugard

“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

“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

“Hanwell in Hell,” by Zadie Smith, performed by Richard Easton

“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

“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

“Counting the Ways,” by Susan Perabo, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“The Pony Problem,” by Sloane Crosley, performed by Kirsten Vangsness

“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

“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

“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

“The Twenty-Seventh Man,” by Nathan Englander, performed by Michael Stuhlbarg

“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

“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

“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

“Vaclav the Magnificent-Boy-Magician,” by Haley Tanner, performed by Sarah Steele
“Swept Away,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by René Auberjonois

“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

“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

“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, read by James Naughton

“Claire of the Sea Light,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Anika Noni Rose
“New York Day Women,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Laurine Towler

“The Deal,” by Mike Birbiglia, performed by Mike Birbiglia
“Seeing the World,” by Louis Robinson, performed by Thomas Gibson

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Porte-Cochere,” by Peter Taylor, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“Enough,” by Alice McDermott, performed by Fionnula Flanagan

“Liliana,” by Maile Meloy, performed by James Naughton
“Going to the Dogs,” by Richard Ford, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Safari,” by Jennifer Egan, performed by Hope Davis

“Neighbors,” by Julia Alvarez, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Flight Patterns,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by B.D. Wong

“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

“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

“Household,” by Yasunari Kawabata, read by Fionnula Flanagan
“Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire,” by David Drury, read by Keith Szarabajka

“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

“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

“Love,” by Tibor Dery, performed by Keir Dullea
“Silver Water,” by Amy Bloom, performed by Linda Lavin

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Fruit and Words,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Rita Wolf
“La Conchita,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“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

“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

“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

“Smorgasbord,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by René Auberjonois
“Football,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Martha Lavey

“The Leopard of Ti Morne,” by Mark Kurlansky, performed by Stephen Lang
“Graven Image,” by John O'Hara, performed by Denis O'Hare

“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

A Selection from 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, performed by Miriam Silverman
“The Night Bookmobile,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Christina Pickles

“La Vita Nuova,” by Allegra Goodman, performed by Marin Ireland
“The Secret Goldfish,” by David Means, performed by Charles Keating

“Rapture of the Deep,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Wanting an Orange,” by Larry Woiwode, performed by Michael Keck

“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

“Lederhosen,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“Ice Man,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Jane Curtin

“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

“The Dead,” by James Joyce, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, and Isaiah Sheffer

“The Dead,” by James Joyce, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, and Isaiah Sheffer

“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

“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

“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

“More Life,” by Mark Strand, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Creeping,” by Maxine Swann, performed by Christine Ebersole

“Bayonne,” by John Cheever, performed by Mary Kay Place
“Fjord of Killary,” by Kevin Barry, performed by James Naughton

“Jamaica,” by David Schickler, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“On the U.S.S. Fortitude,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Laura Esterman

“Wildwood,” by Junot Díaz, performed by Sonia Manzano

“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

“Sir Henry,” by Lydia Millet, performed by John Lithgow
“Some Contemporary Characters,” by Rick Moody, performed by Mike Birbiglia and Aya Cash

“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

“A Life in Fictions,” by Kat Howard, performed by Marin Ireland
“The Thing About Cassandra,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Josh Hamilton

“Customer Service at the Karaoke Don Quixote,” by Juan Martinez, performed by Nate Corddry
“Ziggurat,” by Stephen O’Connor, performed by Tim Curry

“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

“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

The Things They Carried (excerpt), by Tim O’Brien, performed by Dylan Baker

“Popsy,” by Stephen King, performed by Michael Imperioli
“Night Calls,” by Lisa Fugard, performed by the author

“Double Check,” by Thomas Walsh, performed by James Naughton
“False Alarm,” by Dave Barry, performed by Larry Keith

“Breaking and Entering,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by B.D. Wong

“Yurt,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Wild Plums,” by Grace Stone Coates, performed by Mia Dillon

“Dracula’s Guest,” by Bram Stoker, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“The Masque of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Fionnula Flanagan

“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

Let the Great World Spin (excerpt), by Colum McCann, performed by Brian Stokes Mitchell
“Salt,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by David Strathairn

“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

“The Traveler,” by Wallace Stegner, performed by Jack Davidson
“Goin’ to Town,” by Wallace Stegner, performed by Lillo Way, Isaiah Sheffer, and Jack Davidson

“The Briefcase,” by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber
“Diem Perdidi,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jayne Atkinson

“Beyond the Pale,” by Joseph Epstein, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Ma, A Memoir,” by Lynn Freed, performed by Marian Seldes

“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

“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

“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

“The Mappist,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Joe Spano
“Devil of a Curve,” by Walter Kirn, performed by Roscoe Lee Browne

“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

The Road Home (excerpt), by Rose Tremain, performed by Paul Hecht
“Cary Grant's Suit,” by Todd McEwen, performed by James Cromwell

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Claire of the Sea Light,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Anika Noni Rose
“New York Day Women,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Laurine Towler

“The Deal,” by Mike Birbiglia, performed by Mike Birbiglia
“Seeing the World,” by Louis Robinson, performed by Thomas Gibson

“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

“The Bees,” by Dan Chaon, performed by Boyd Gaines

“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

“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

“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, read by Thomas Gibson

“(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

“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

“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

“Porte-Cochere,” by Peter Taylor, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“Enough,” by Alice McDermott, performed by Fionnula Flanagan

“Liliana,” by Maile Meloy, performed by James Naughton
“Going to the Dogs,” by Richard Ford, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Safari,” by Jennifer Egan, performed by Hope Davis

“Neighbors,” by Julia Alvarez, performed by Lili Taylor
“Flight Patterns,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by BD Wong

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Adults Alone,” by A.M. Homes, performed by Christina Pickles
“The Knocking,” by David Means, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Love,” by Tibor Dery, translated by Ilona Duczynska, performed by Keir Dullea
“Silver Water,” by Amy Bloom, performed by Linda Lavin

“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

“Milestones,” by Hannah Tinti, performed by Laurie Anderson
“Wunderkind,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Kelli O’Hara

“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

“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

“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

“Strangers in the House,” by Nahid Rachlin, performed by Freda Foh Shen
“A Disappearance,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jane Kaczmarek

“Fruit and Words,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Rita Wolf
“La Conchita,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“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

“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

“What Happened Between Us,” by Rivka Galchen, performed by Jonathan Hadary
“Chivalry,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Christina Pickles

“The Creeping Siamese,” by Dashiell Hammett, performed by John Shea
“Make Westing,” by Jack London, performed by Steven Gilborn

“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

“Second-Hand Man,” by Rita Dove, performed by Audra McDonald
“The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping,” by Padgett Powell, performed by James Naughton

“The Year of Silence,” by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Anthony Rapp
“Liberty Hall,” by Ring Lardner, performed by Christina Pickles

“Bible,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Alexander
“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago Hudson

“The Summer People,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by René Auberjonois
“The Wrong Suitcase,” by Maeve Binchy, performed by Cynthia Nixon

“Gleason,” by Louise Erdrich, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Red,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Keith Szarabajka

“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

“The Seventh Man,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by John Shea
“The Rememberer,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Marian Seldes

“The Long-Distance Runner,” by Grace Paley, performed by Laura Esterman
“A Conversation with My Father,” by Grace Paley, performed by Anne Pitoniak

“Alvin the Typesetter,” by Lydia Davis, performed by David Rakoff
“The Lie,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Stephen Colbert

“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

“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

“Twenty Grand,” by Rebecca Curtis, performed by Jane Curtin
“Best Western,” by Anne de Marcken, performed by Laura Esterman

“A Mouthful of Cut Glass,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Lois Smith
“Blowing Shades,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by James Naughton

“Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July, performed by Amy Ryan
“Improvisation,” by Ed McBain, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“The Mathematician,” by Daniel Kehlmann, performed by BD Wong
“I Was Really Very Hungry,” by M.F.K. Fisher, performed by Christina Pickles

“The Proposition,” by David Bezmozgis, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Modern Age,” by Frances Hwang, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito

“Stump Louie,” by Lisa Halliday, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Dome,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Alec Baldwin

“Ad,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“A Piece of News,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Kathryn Markey

“No Bikini,” by Ivan E. Coyote, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Kubuku Rides (This Is It),” by Larry Brown, performed by Myra Lucretia Taylor

“Going, Going, Gone,” by Peter Blauner, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“The Purple Is Everything,” by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, performed by Christina Pickles

“Lily Daw and the Three Ladies,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Marian Seldes
“The Key,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Sloane Shelton

“Hell-Heaven,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Rita Wolf

“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

The Things They Carried (excerpt), by Tim O’Brien, performed by Dylan Baker

“Popsy,” by Stephen King, performed by Michael Imperioli
“Night Calls,” by Lisa Fugard, performed by Lisa Fugard

“Double Check,” by Thomas Walsh, performed by James Naughton
“False Alarm,” by Dave Barry, performed by Larry Keith

“Breaking and Entering,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by BD Wong

“Yurt,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Wild Plums,” by Grace Stone Coates, performed by Mia Dillon

“Dracula's Guest,” by Bram Stoker, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“The Masque of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Fionnula Flanagan

“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

Let the Great World Spin (excerpt), by Colum McCann, performed by Brian Stokes Mitchell
“Salt,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by David Strathairn

“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

“The Traveler,” by Wallace Stegner, performed by Jack Davidson
“Goin’ to Town,” by Wallace Stegner, performed by Lillo Way, Isaiah Sheffer, and Jack Davidson

“The Briefcase,” by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber
“Diem Perdidi,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jayne Atkinson

"Beyond the Pale," by Joseph Epstein, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
"Ma, A Memoir," by Lynn Freed, performed by Marian Seldes

“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

“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

“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

“The Mappist,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Joe Spano
“Devil of a Curve,” by Walter Kirn, performed by Roscoe Lee Browne

“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

The Road Home (excerpt), by Rose Tremain, performed by Paul Hecht
“Cary Grant's Suit,” by Todd McEwen, performed by James Cromwell

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The Bees,” by Dan Chaon, performed by Boyd Gaines

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“A Curtain of Green,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Frances Sternhagen
“Concerning Love,” by Anton Chekhov, translated by Ronald Hingley, performed by Joe Morton

“Towel Season,” by Ron Carlson, performed by James Naughton
“A Bad Joke,” by Ha Jin, performed by B.D. Wong

“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

“Examining the Evidence,” by Alice Hoffman, performed by Joanna Gleason
“An Old Fashioned Story,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Mia Dillon

“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

“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

“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

“Dissed Fish,” by Calvin Trillin, performed by Calvin Trillin
“Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses,” by Luis Alberto Urrea, performed by Robert Sean Leonard

“The Dilettante,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Brenda Wehle
“The Muse’s Tragedy,” by Edith Wharton, performed by David Strathairn

“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

“What Was Mine,” by Ann Beattie, performed by John Shea
“Shades,” by William Henry Lewis, performed by Curtis McClarin

“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

“Storytelling,” by Mary Gordon, performed by Lindsay Crouse
“Just a Little More,” by V.S. Pritchett, performed by René Auberjonois

“Grippes and Poche,” by Mavis Gallant, performed by Mavis Gallant

“Initiation,” by Joseph Conrad, performed by Tony Roberts
“Country Miles,” by Robert King, performed by Marian Seldes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Indian Country,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by John Lithgow

“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

“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

“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

“What Happened Between Us,” by Rivka Galchen, performed by Jonathan Hadary
“Chivalry,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Christina Pickles

“The Creeping Siamese,” by Dashiell Hammett, performed by John Shea
“Make Westing,” by Jack London, performed by Steven Gilborn

“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

“Second-Hand Man,” by Rita Dove, performed by Audra McDonald
“The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping,” by Padgett Powell, performed by Christina Pickles

“The Year of Silence,” by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Anthony Rapp
“Liberty Hall,” by Ring Lardner, performed by Christina Pickles

“Bible,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Alexander
“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

“The Summer People,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by René Auberjonois
“The Wrong Suitcase,” by Maeve Binchy, performed by Cynthia Nixon

“Gleason,” by Louise Erdrich, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Red,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Keith Szarabajka

“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

“The Seventh Man,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by John Shea
“The Rememberer,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Marian Seldes

“The Long-Distance Runner,” by Grace Paley, performed by Laura Esterman
“A Conversation with My Father,” by Grace Paley, performed by Anne Pitoniak

“Alvin the Typesetter,” by Lydia Davis, performed by David Rakoff
“The Lie,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Stephen Colbert

“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

“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

“Twenty Grand,” by Rebecca Curtis, performed by Jane Curtin
“Best Western,” by Anne de Marcken, performed by Laura Esterman

“A Mouthful of Cut Glass,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Lois Smith
“Blowing Shades,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by James Naughton

“Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July, performed by Amy Ryan
“Improvisation,” by Ed McBain, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“The Mathematician,” by Daniel Kehlmann, performed by BD Wong
“I Was Really Very Hungry,” by M.F.K. Fisher, performed by Christina Pickles

“The Proposition,” by David Bezmozgis, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Modern Age,” by Frances Hwang, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito

“Stump Louie,” by Lisa Halliday, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Dome,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Alec Baldwin

“Ad,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“A Piece of News,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Kathryn Markey

“No Bikini,” by Ivan E. Coyote, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Kubuku Rides (This Is It),” by Larry Brown, performed by Myra Lucretia Taylor

“Going, Going, Gone,” by Peter Blauner, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“The Purple Is Everything,” by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, performed by Christina Pickles

“Lily Daw and the Three Ladies,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Marian Seldes
“The Key,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Sloane Shelton

“Hell-Heaven,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Rita Wolf

“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

“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

“Sorry Fugu,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Tony Roberts

“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

“A Solitary Human Voice,” by Lyudmilla Ignatenko, performed by Stockard Channing
“Do You Know Where I Am?” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea

“The Trouble of Marcie Flint,” by John Cheever, performed by Fritz Weaver

“The Secret Goldfish,” by David Means, performed by Charles Keating
“The Other Woman,” by Sherwood Anderson, performed by Keir Dullea

“Taste,” by Roald Dahl, performed by John Lithgow
“How to Tell a Fine Old Wine,” by James Thurber, performed by Raphael Sbarge

“The Debt,” by Edith Wharton, performed by James Naughton
“Aqua Boulevard,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Justice Shiva Ram Murthy,” by Rishi Reddi, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“Bullhead,” by Leigh Allison Wilson, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito

“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

“The Eyes,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Charles Keating

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Mudder Tongue,” by Brian Evenson, performed by David Strathairn
“Mr. Badger,” by Kenneth Grahame, performed by Samantha Eggar

“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by Paul Hecht
“Extra,” by Yiyun Li, performed by Lois Smith

“Ed Has His Mind Improved,” by Walter R. Brooks, performed by Tony Roberts
“Palais de Justice,” by Mark Helprin, performed by Keir Dullea

“War Wounds,” by Tom Bissell, performed by Oskar Eustis

“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

“Second Hand,” by Chris Offutt, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“The Letter Writer,” by M.T. Sharif, performed by Joe Morton

“Eight Pieces for the Left Hand,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Stephen Lang
“The Wood Duck,” by James Thurber, performed by Malachy McCourt

“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

“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

“Enough,” by Alice McDermott, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“On Golden Pond,” by Jane Fonda, performed by Jane Fonda

“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

“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

“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

“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

“A Curtain of Green,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Frances Sternhagen
“Concerning Love,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Joe Morton

“Towel Season,” by Ron Carlson, performed by James Naughton
“A Bad Joke,” by Ha Jin, performed by BD Wong

“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

“Examining the Evidence,” by Alice Hoffman, performed by Joanna Gleason
“An Old Fashioned Story,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Mia Dillon

“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

“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

“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

“Dissed Fish,” by Calvin Trillin, performed by Calvin Trillin
“Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses,” by Luis Alberto Urrea, performed by Robert Sean Leonard

“The Dilettante,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Brenda Wehle
“The Muse’s Tragedy,” by Edith Wharton, performed by David Strathairn

“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

“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

“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

“Storytelling,” by Mary Gordon, performed by Lindsay Crouse
“Just a Little More,” by V.S. Pritchett, performed by René Auberjonois

“Grippes and Poche,” by Mavis Gallant, performed by Mavis Gallant

“Initiation,” by Joseph Conrad, performed by Tony Roberts
“Country Miles,” by Robert King, performed by Marian Seldes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Indian Country,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by John Lithgow

“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

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

“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

“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