Selected Shorts

Isaiah Sheffer

Airs Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00pm on AM 820

"Selected Shorts has been a long-running hit for almost twenty years by now-on both the stage and on radio. The amazing thing, though, is that it always feels NEW--new stories, new authors, new readers--that it's always opening night!"
--Isaiah Sheffer

“He loved words as much as he loved people, because words were the way he said what he wanted about people.”
--Aimee Bender

Selected Shorts features some of the finest artists of the American theater reading contemporary and classic short fiction-the most distinguished works of the early masters such as Chekhov, Maupassant, Malamud, and Singer, and the fresh, vivid, diverse works of a new generation of remarkable literary talents, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning Jhumpa LaHiri and literary catalyst Jonathan Franzen. In between: the words of Alice Munro, John Updike, Ethan Canin, John Edgar Wideman, Dorothy Parker, Grace Paley, William Trevor, Alice Walker, and dozens of others.

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