Broadcast Schedule

“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 Night the Ghost Got In,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“On the U.S.S. Fortitude,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Laura Esterman
“Things in the Wrong Hands,” by Roy Blount Jr., performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn

“Can’t We Cry a Little?” by Dawn Powell, performed by Ivy Austin
“Stop That Girl,” by Elizabeth McKenzie, performed by Mary Beth Hurt

“Amazon,” by Sylvia Brownrigg, performed by Joanna Gleason
“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Beth Hurt

“Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down,” by Ryan Harty, performed by George Bartenieff
“The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, performed by Christina Pickles

“Chac-Mool,” by Carlos Fuentes, performed by Simon Jones
“The Living Dead,” by David Sedaris, performed by David Sedaris

“Mr. Woo,” by James McBride, performed by Michael Genet
“D.P.” by Kurt Vonnegut, performed by Lawrence Clayton

“The Third of July,” by Elizabeth Cox, performed by Joan Allen
“Seventh House,” by R.K. Narayan, performed by Fionnula Flanagan

“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
“MS. Found in a Bottle,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by George Bartenieff

“Burn Your Maps,” by Robyn Joy Leff, performed by Leslie Hendrix

“Seeing the World,” by Lewis Robinson, performed by Thomas Gibson
“The American Embassy,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Sarita Choudhury

“Love,” by Zora Neale Hurston, performed by Karen Kandel
“Along the Frontage Road,” by Michael Chabon, performed by Jay O. Sanders
“Eulogy to a Shoelace,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Bird,” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Good Intentions,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Ceiling,” by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Paul Hecht

“Mlle. Dias de Corta,” by Mavis Gallant, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Peter and the Wolf,” by Angela Carter, performed by Joe Morton

“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Romance with Double-Bass,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Richard Schiff
“Fatso,” by Etgar Keret, performed by John Guare

“The Documentary Artist,” by Jaime Manrique, performed by BD Wong
“The Trickle-Down Effect,” by Annie Proulx, performed by James Naughton

“The Fullness of Life,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Jane Curtin
“The Daughter,” by Courtney Angela Brkic, performed by Patricia Kalember

“Petrified Man,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“My Singular Irene,” by José Alcántara Almánzar, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Stephen Colbert
“The Ambitious Guest,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, performed by Paul Hecht

“The Getaway,” by Dorothy Thomas, performed by Mia Dillon
“New York’s Bicycle Speedway,” by Stephen Crane, performed by Joe Grifasi
Swallow Canyon (excerpt), by Meghan Daum, performed by Jane Curtin

“It Had Wings,” by Allan Gurganus, performed by Marian Seldes
“Devotion,” by Adam Haslett, performed by John Shea

“Travis, B.” by Maile Meloy, performed by William Hurt
“A Soldier for the Crown,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

“Mrs. Manstey’s View,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“An Orange Line Train to Ballston,” by Edward P. Jones, performed by Sonia Manzano

“What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea
“Lemonade,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“A Warm Welcome to the President, Insh’Allah!” by Meera Nair, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“A Vectorial History of Leroy Pippin,” by Patrick Keppel, performed by Eli Wallach

“Skyshot,” by Manuel Muñoz, performed by Héctor Elizondo
“Knowledge,” by Gail Jones, performed by Christina Pickles

“Mother in the Trenches,” by Robert Olen Butler, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Time Between Trains,” by Anthony Bukowski, performed by Liev Schreiber

“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

“What Is Poetry?” by Debra Weinstein, performed by Laura Esterman
“The City,” by Linda Pastan, performed by Blair Brown
“The Reckoning,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Brenda Wehle

“Liberty Hall,” by Ring Lardner, performed by Christina Pickles
“The Namesake,” by Willa Cather, performed by John Shea

“The Walk with Elizanne,” by John Updike, performed by Fritz Weaver
“Loser,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Linda Emond

“Toba Tek Singh,” by Saadat Hasan Manto, translated from the Urdu by Richard McGill Murphy, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“Simple Exercises for the Beginning Student,” by Alix Ohlin, performed by Judith Ivey

“How To Relax While Broadcasting,” by James Thurber, performed by Eli Wallach
“The Ideal Man,” by John O’Hara, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“Safety Man,” by Dan Chaon, performed by Hope Davis

“Jubilation, Florida,” by N.M. Kelby, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Bulldog,” by Arthur Miller, performed by Denis O’Hare

“Driveway,” by Pia Z. Ehrhardt, performed by Hope Davis
“Roman Fever,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Maria Tucci

“The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Tritill, Litill and the Birds,” a traditional fairy tale, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Christina Pickles

“Ovrashki’s Trains,” by Lara Vapnyar, performed by Heather Raffo
“Eagles,” by Kader Abdolah, performed by Arian Moayed

“1919,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito
“Milford Junction, 1939: A Brief Encounter,” by Robert Coover, performed by Cynthia Nixon

“Happy Hour,” by Antonya Nelson, performed by Mia Dillon
“Xingu,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Christina Pickles

“My Father’s Life,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Rejection,” by Woody Allen, performed by John Guare
“The Spray,” by Jonathan Lethem, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Fatso,” by Etgar Keret, performed by William H. Macy