Broadcast Schedule

“Job’s Jobs,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Anjelica Huston
The Day of the Locust (excerpt), by Nathanael West, performed by Joanna Gleason
On the Road (excerpt), by Jack Kerouac, performed by Alec Baldwin
“New York is a Girl,” by Robert Sand, performed by Joe Grifasi

The Barbarous Coast (excerpt), by Ross McDonald, performed by Chris Sarandon
“The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by James Sheridan
“A Table at Ciro’s,” by Budd Schulberg, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Silent Snow, Secret Snow,” by Conrad Aiken, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“Pinhead, Moonhead,” by Chelsey Johnson, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“The Drama Bug,” by David Sedaris, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“What Was It?” by Fitz-James O’Brien, performed by Paul Hecht
“Boys,” by Rick Moody, performed by B.D. Wong

“U.F.O. in Kushiro,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by Ken Leung
“Lost and Found,” by Colson Whitehead, performed by Alec Baldwin

“The Shining Houses,” by Alice Munro, performed by Maria Tucci
“Story of a Parrot,” by Ana Menéndez, performed by Jacqueline Kim

“Red,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“Just Married,” by Tony Earley, performed by David Strathairn
“Like Dove Wings,” by Christine Lincoln, performed by Vinnie Burrows and Laurine Towler

“Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry,” by Elizabeth McCracken, performed by Dana Ivey

“The Undeclared Major,” by Will Weaver, performed by Stephen Lang
“Sarah’s Story,” by Galina Vromen, performed by Jane Curtin

“Coins,” by Mona Simpson, performed by Rachel Ticotin
“Bit-O-Honey,” by Bernard Cooper, performed by John O’Callaghan

“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Wren T. Brown
“The Way Love Works,” by Mary Yukari Waters, performed by Jacqueline Kim

“Here Is New York,” by E.B. White, performed by James Naughton
“In the City: A Photograph, Evidence and a Proverb,” by Shay Youngblood, performed by Sydia Cedeño

“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

“The Piano Tuner,” by Tim Gautreaux, performed by Robert Sean Leonard

“From Mutton Island,” by Beth Lordan, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Swan Song,” by Steve Stern, performed by Joe Grifasi

“Twenty Minutes,” by James Salter, performed by Keir Dullea
“The Joy and Melancholy Baseball Trivia Quiz,” by Ken Kalfus, performed by Jack Davidson

“Your Story,” by Rick DeMarinis, performed by Joe Morton
“Christ in the House of Martha and Mary,” by A. S. Byatt, performed by Leslie Uggams

“Like All Other Men,” by John McGahern, performed by John Shea
“The Skater,” by Joy Williams, performed by Mary Beth Hurt

“Shot,” by Elizabeth Hardwick, performed by Elaine Bromka
“Notes from a Bottle,” by James Stevenson, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“How Was It, Really?” by John Updike, performed by Harold Gould
“The Littoral Zone,” by Andrea Barrett, performed by Blair Brown

“Speaking of Courage,” by Tim O'Brien, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Africans,” by Sheila Kohler, performed by Lisa Fugard

“The Man Who Could See Radiance,” by John Jay Clayton, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Toys of Peace,” by Saki, performed by Dana Ivey

“The Children of Grupp,” by Penelope Lively, performed by Claire Bloom
“Fun With a Stranger,” by Richard Yates, performed by Marian Seldes

“Valor,” by Richard Bausch, performed by William Hurt

“Genevieve Thayer,” by Thomas McMahon, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“The Lone Pilgrim,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Hope Davis

“The Verger,” by W. Somerset Maugham, performed by Schuyler G. Chapin
“Partners,” by Veronica Geng, performed by Vinie Burrows
“True Love,” by Don Shea, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Breaking Up of the Winships,” by James Thurber, performed by Henderson Forsythe

“Watch the Animals,” by Alice Elliott Dark, performed by Deborah Rush
“One Holy Night,” by Sandra Cisneros, performed by Jacqueline Kim

“The Drover's Wife,” by Murray Bail, performed by René Auberjonois
“Jamaica,” by David Schickler, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Sharing,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by Susanna Thompson
“The Night in Question,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Lou Antonio
Featuring an interview with John Edgar Wideman

“214 Minutes,” by Adam Langer, performed by Teri Garr
“The Good Doctor,” by Adam Haslett, performed by Billy Campbell

“There Will Be Peace in Korea,” by Larry McMurtry, performed by Tim Guinee
When the Emperor Was Divine (excerpt), by Julie Otsuka, performed by Gedde Watanabe

“Smokers,” by Elizabeth Haas, performed by Teri Garr
“Devotion,” by Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, performed by John Shea
“Public Defenders and Other Fossils,” by George Singleton, performed by James Cromwell

“Sorrow Comes in the Night,” by Dan Chaon, performed by Thomas Gibson
“End of the Line,” by Jonathan Franzen, performed by Jane Kaczmarek

“House Raising,” by Chris Offutt, performed by Peter Gerety
“Keep Talking,” by Pam Durban, performed by Barbara Barrie

“Weight,” by John Edgar Wideman, performed by Terrell Tilford
“Mister Brother,” by Michael Cunningham, performed by Daniel Alexander Jones

“The Trip Back,” by Robert Olen Butler, performed by Alvin Epstein
“Four More Years,” by Myra Alperson, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“The Unknown Soldier,” by Luc Sante, performed by Jack Davidson
“Surtsey,” by Elizabeth Graver, performed by Maria Tucci

Selections from The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros, performed by Virginia Rambal
“My Lucy Friend Who Smells Like Corn,” by Sandra Cisneros, performed by Carmen Zapata
“Dating Your Mom,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The School,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Laura Esterman
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith