Broadcast Schedule

“Bill Boston,” by Charles Dickinson, performed by Alec Baldwin
“The Visit to the Museum,” by Vladimir Nabokov, performed by Fitz Weaver

“Dog,” by Richard Russo, performed by Stephen Lang
“Language, Truth and Lockjaw,” by Bernard MacLaverty, performed by James Naughton

“The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien, performed by Dylan Baker

“The Infinite Passion of Expectation,” by Gina Berriault, performed by Cherry Jones
“And Never Come Up,” by John Biguenet, performed by Jack Davidson

“He,” by Katherine Anne Porter, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“Little Dog,” by Langston Hughes, performed by Barbara Feldon

“The Songs of Reba Love Jackson,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by Leslie Uggams

“Women Like Us,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Lynne Thigpen
“Nijinsky,” by Maura Stanton, performed by Lillo Way

“A Whale’s Throat,” by Josip Novakovich, performed by Jerry Orbach
“The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, performed by Charles Keating

“Wild Plums,” by Grace Stone Coates, performed by Mia Dillon
“Here We Are,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Jane Alexander

“The Secret of the Old Music,” by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, performed by Phillipe de Montebello
“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D. H. Lawrence, performed by John Shea

“Broken Homes,” by William Trevor, performed by Meryl Streep

“The Sound of Waves,” by William Maxwell, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Towel Season,” by Ron Carlson, performed by William Hurt

“I Did Not Learn Their Names,” by Ralph Ellison, performed by Joshua Wolf Coleman
“The Lipstick Tree,” by Kiana Davenport, performed by Andrea Marcovicci

“From an Abandoned Work,” by Samuel Beckett, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Curtin

“The Magic Barrel,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by Joseph Wiseman
“Boa Constrictor and Rabbit,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by David Margulies

“A Run of Bad Luck,” by Annie Proulx, performed by Cherry Jones
“Snow,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Lee Grant
“This Morning,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Lois Smith
“The Fields,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Cherry Jones
“Happiness,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Lois Smith
“The Road Not Taken,” by Robert Frost, performed by Lois Smith
“On the Sale of My Farm,” by Robert Frost, performed by Lois Smith
“A Patch of Old Snow,” by Robert Frost, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“The Road There,” by Isaac Babel, performed by Michael Wager
“American Dreams,” by Peter Carey, performed by David Strathairn

“The Whole Truth,” by Stephen McCauley, performed by Christina Pickles
“Red Dress—1946,” by Alice Munro, performed by Jane Curtin

“A Lion on the Freeway,” by Nadine Gordimer, performed by Barbara Rosenblat
“The Boy Who Painted Christ Black,” by John Henrik Clarke, performed by Michael Keck
“A Curtain of Green,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Frances Sternhagen

“Goodbye Marcus, Goodbye Rose,” by Jean Rhys, performed by Anne Jackson
“Indian Giver,” by Max Apple, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“Big as Life,” by Rand Richards Cooper, performed by Paul Reiser
“The Case of the Rare Teeth,” by Scott Zaluda, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“A Bolt from the Blue,” by Laura Covello, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Telephone Game,” by William Trevor, performed by Joanna Gleason

“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 Enchanted Bluff,” by Willa Cather, performed by Stephen Lang
“The Sojourner,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Cynthia Harris

“Now I Lay Me,” by Ernest Hemingway, performed by Greg Naughton
“The Nightmare,” by Roxana Robinson, performed by Blair Brown

“Killing Time,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Philip Casnoff
“On the U.S.S. Fortitude,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Laura Esterman
“I Was Really Very Hungry,” by M.F.K. Fisher, performed by Tovah Feldshuh
“The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, performed by Christina Pickles

“The Third Level,” by Jack Finney, performed by Jack Davidson
“A Christmas Memory,” by Truman Capote, performed by John Shea

“Wallet,” by Allen Woodman, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Wig,” by Brady Udall, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Whore's Child,” by Richard Russo, performed by Harold Gould

“Firelight,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Thomas Gibson
“How Old, How Young,” by John O'Hara, performed by Alec Baldwin

“Lajitas and the NFL,” by Sam Shepard, performed by James McDaniel
“Why Don't You Dance?” by Raymond Carver, performed by Mark Nelson
“Imaginary Problems,” by Francine Prose, performed by Philip Casnoff

“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Kate Burton
“Folk Tales,” by Frederick Busch, performed by Larry Keith

“My Mother,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Laurine Towler
“Loving Wanda Beaver,” by Alison Baker, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Sculpture I,” by Angela Patrinos, performed by Lillo Way
“Braids,” by María Luisa Bombal, performed by Juanita Fleming

“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by Paul Hecht
“Puerto Vallarta,” by Jennifer Egan, performed by Cherry Jones

“The Crimean Hotel,” by Penelope Lively, performed by Maria Tucci
“Ocean Avenue,” by Michael Chabon, performed by Eli Wallach

“Through the Tunnel,” by Doris Lessing, performed by James Naughton
“The Texas Principessa,” by William Goyen, performed by Doris Roberts

“Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Dana Ivey
“All the Days and Nights,” by William Maxwell, performed by Tony Roberts

“The Customer,” by Keith Taylor, performed by Jeffrey Wright
“Night Calls,” by Lisa Fugard, performed by Lisa Fugard
“First Confession,” by Frank O’Connor, performed by Malachy McCourt

“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn
“False Alarm,” by Dave Barry, performed by Larry Keith
“The Nine Best Movies,” by Gregory Mcdonald, performed by Christina Pickles
“Movie-Going,” by John Hollander, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Porcelain Man,” by Richard Kennedy, performed by Estelle Parsons
“Oh She Gotta Head Fulla Hair,” by Ntozake Shange, performed by Tamara Tunie

“Who’s Irish?” by Gish Jen, performed by Freda Foh Shen
“Short Story Contest,” by Marcos Aguinis, performed by Jerry Zaks

“The Rocket Man,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Marian Seldes

“The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing,” by Melissa Bank, performed by Roxanne Hart

“The World of Tomorrow,” by E.B. White, performed by Judith Ivey
“Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,” by S.J. Perelman, performed by James Naughton
“Carpathia,” by Jesse Lee Kercheval, performed by Barbara Feldon
“The Poet’s Husband,” by Molly Giles, performed by Stephen Lee
“Mamie,” by Carl Sandburg, performed by Judith Ivey
“Population Drifts,” by Carl Sandburg, performed by Joe Morton
“Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem,” by Helene Johnson, performed by Joe Morton

“Forever After,” by Jim Thompson, performed by Ivy Austin
“At the End of the Mechanical Age,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Roscoe Lee Browne

“The Sensible Thing,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, performed by Billy Campbell
“Gorilla, My Love,” by Toni Cade Bambara, performed by Hattie Winston

“Sinking House,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Christina Pickles
“Violets,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Fionnula Flanagan

“My Dead Brother Comes to America,” by Alexander Godin, performed by Joseph Wiseman
“The Blues I’m Playing,” by Langston Hughes, performed by Joe Morton

“How I Came to Be Lawfully Wed,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“What He Was Like,” by William Maxwell, performed by Fritz Weaver
“The Man with the Lap Dog,” by Beth Lordan, performed by Harold Gould

“Sexy,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Samia Shoaib

“Modern Love,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Philip Casnoff
“The First Seven Years,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by Linda Lavin

“Worry,” by Ron Wallace, performed by Barbara Feldon
“The New Year,” by Pamela Painter, performed by Stephen Lee
“Powder,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Angel Levine,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by Louis Zorich

“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
“Things in the Wrong Hands,” by Roy Blount Jr., performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Seattle,” by R.A. Sasaki, performed by Freda Foh Shen
“The Liberation of Rome,” by Robin Hemley, performed by Michael Tucker