Broadcast Schedule

“Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, performed by Lia Chang
“Ramone,” by Judy Troy, performed by Angelina Phillips

“Personal Testimony,” by Lynna Williams, performed by Cherry Jones
“The Wonder Spot,” by Melissa Bank, performed by Keira Naughton

“Call If You Need Me,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Harris Yulin
“Anxious Objects,” by Zsuzsi Gartner, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“A Woman Without Prejudices,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by David Margulies

“Revelation,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Estelle Parsons

“He’s at the Office,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Philip Bosco
“Happy Endings,” by Margaret Atwood, performed by Linda Lavin

“Arbitrage,” by André Aciman, performed by André Aciman
“The Moor,” by Russell Banks, performed by Jay O. Sanders

“The Smoker,” by David Schickler, performed by Robert Sean Leonard

“I Am Not a Jew,” by John Biguenet, performed by David Strathairn
“They Tell Me, Now I Know,” by Shay Youngblood, performed by Viola Davis
“Visit,” by Barry Yourgrau, performed by James Naughton

“Stuart,” by Zadie Smith, performed by Paul Hecht
“Enough,” by Alice McDermott, performed by Kathleen Chalfant

“The Fix,” by Percival Everett, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Men on the Moon,” by Simon J. Ortiz, performed by John Shea

“The Third and Final Continent,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Aasif Mandvi

“Nettles,” by Alice Munro, performed by Kate Burton
“Lies I’ve Told,” by Sue Allison, performed by Barbara Barrie and David Strathairn

“The Law,” by Robert M. Coates, performed by Cynthia Harris
“How to Talk to a Hunter,” by Pam Houston, performed by Mia Dillon
“Pet Milk,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“What I Have Been Doing Lately,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Erica Gimpel

“Turbulence,” by Joshua Henkin, performed by James Naughton
“The Kugelmass Episode,” by Woody Allen, performed by Joe Grifasi

“Robbed,” by Ellen Currie, performed by Christina Pickles
“Notes to My Biographer,” by Adam Haslett, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“In the Woods,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Jane Curtin
“A Temporary Matter,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Aasif Mandvi

“Nogales,” by Tim O’Brien, performed by Mariette Hartley
“The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs, performed by Frank McCourt

“The Blind Neighbor,” by Mary Gordon, performed by Joe Spano
“Scaring the Baddest Animal,” by Chris Spain, performed by Ted Marcoux

“The Nightingale and the Rose,” by Oscar Wilde, performed by Blair Brown
“Ax of the Apostles,” by Erin McGraw, performed by Richard Schiff

“San,” by Lan Samantha Chang, performed by Ann Hu
“Little Nightmares, Little Dreams,” by Rachel Simon, performed by Maria Tucci

“The Monster,” by Bertolt Brecht, performed by Helen-Jean Arthur
“Bush Pigs,” by Richard Dooling, performed by Mark Nelson

“Dusk,” by James Salter, performed by John Shea
“Patriotic,” by Janet Kauffman, performed by Lindsay Crouse

“Paper Son,” by Melissa Hardy, performed by Keith Szarabajka

“Stolen Horses,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Anthony Michael Hall
“Afternoon of the Sassanoa,” by Jason Brown, performed by Bradley Whitford

“My Husband’s Best Friend’s Second Wife,” by Michael Frank, performed by Cynthia Harris

“The Worm in the Apple,” by John Cheever, performed by Anne Meara
“The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” by Saki, performed by Marian Seldes
“Yma Dream,” by Thomas Meehan, performed by Christine Baranski
“The Second Tree from the Corner,” by E.B. White, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“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

“Game Six,” by Roger Angell, performed by Roger Angell
“The Green Fields of the Mind,” by A. Bartlett Giamatti, performed by A. Bartlett Giamatti
The Glory of Their Times (excerpt), by Lawrence S. Ritter, performed by John Rubinstein
“Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,” by S. J. Perelman, performed by James Naughton

“Communist,” by Richard Ford, performed by William Hurt

“Part of the Story,” by Stephen Dobyns, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“The Baby-Sitter,” by Jane Yolen, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party,” by Bernard Malamud, performed by David Margulies
“Recognition,” by William Maxwell, performed by Héctor Elizondo
“Neighbors,” by Julia Alvarez, performed by Lili Taylor

“Vivian, Fort Barnwell,” by Ethan Canin, performed by Steven Gilborn
“Mother Savage,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Alan Rosenberg
“The Fourth Prussian Dynasty,” by Karen Bender, performed by Frances Sternhagen

“Nineteen Fifty-Five,” by Alice Walker, performed by Viola Davis
“Seizing Control,” by Mary Robison, performed by Mia Dillon

“In the Country,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Thomas Gibson
“But It Got Better,” by Abigail Thomas, performed by Joanna Gleason
“The Cooking Poet,” by Samrat Upadhyay, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“Awakening,” by Isaac Babel, performed by Joseph Wiseman
“Like Mother Used to Make,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Don Stephenson

“Big Bend,” by Bill Roorbach, performed by James Cromwell

“War Doll Hotel,” by Kiana Davenport, performed by Maria Tucci
“The 5:22,” by George Harrar, performed by Arliss Howard

“The Six Sillies,” by Andrew Lang, performed by Edie McClurg
“Moving Pictures,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Rocky Carroll
“The Big Hunger,” by John Fante, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“The Unfound Pig,” by Max Steele, performed by Steven Gilborn
“Music for Airports,” by Charles Baxter, performed by Héctor Elizondo
“What I Saw From Where I Stood,” by Marisa Silver, performed by Billy Campbell

“The Fortunes of Madame Organza,” by Natalie Babbitt, performed by Janel Moloney
“In the Spring,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Marg Helgenberger
“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Jane Curtin

“Dog Life,” by Mark Strand, performed by Andre Gregory
“A Look at Organized Crime,” by Woody Allen, performed by Jane Curtin
“A Conversation with My Father,” by Grace Paley, performed by Anne Pitoniak
“Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” by Thomas Wolfe, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“What I Have Been Doing Lately,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Erica Gimpel