Selected Shorts: Miracles Can Happen
This program includes two stories featuring improbable events, one involving the 1960s, the other an uncanny go-to guy.
Selected Shorts
Airs Saturdays at 10PM on 93.9 FM and Sundays at 1PM on AM 820
Sunday, May 20, 2012
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I love, though not in the carnal sense, me some Jane Curtain. A special treat to have her reading a ...
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I have attended these selected shorts in L.A. at the Getty Center. Love this format. Baldwin is great over the ...
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I love love love “Wes Amerigo’s Giant Fear,” by David Schickler. The story appeals to me at a personal level. ...
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recent EPISODES AND ARTICLES
Selected Shorts: A Literary Mix Tape
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Two tales of urgency and change, inspired by music.
Selected Shorts: All Modern Conveniences
Sunday, May 06, 2012
This program features neighbors and other strangers in four diverse tales.
Selected Shorts: What is Real?
Sunday, April 29, 2012
On this program, appearances are deceiving in stories about apartments and neighbors.
Selected Shorts: Tennessee, Edna, and Flannery
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Each of the three works on this program, by masters Tennessee Williams, Edna O’Brien, and Flannery O’Connor, offers us intense and provocative close-ups of its main characters.
Selected Shorts: Arrivals and Departures
Sunday, April 15, 2012
A couple with a rocky marriage learn a life lesson when their home is invaded, and a whole community disappears in a powerful story about the Japanese internment, leaving their bewildered, or blinkered, neighbors behind.