Two stories about passionate pursuits—cerebral and visceral. A young math wizard comes of age, and a food writer remembers the meal of a lifetime.
”And space itself: a straight line from every point to every other point, from this roof to this cloud, to the sun, and back to the roof. Points making lines, lines making planes, planes making bodies... The fine curve of space was almost visible from here.”
--Daniel Kehlmann, “The Mathematician”
Two stories about passionate pursuits—cerebral and visceral.
In Daniel Kehlman’s “The Mathematician”, a young math wizard grapples to understand the world on his own brilliant terms, alternatively dazzling and alienating his mentors along the way. Kehlmann was born in Munich and lives in Vienna. The story is derived from his novel “Measuring the World,” about the eccentric 19th-century mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, and was translated by Carol Brown Janeway. The reader is the multiple award-winning Broadway actor and regular on the TV series “Law and Order,” B.D. Wong.
The late food writer M.F.K. Fisher, was celebrated for her lavish descriptions of favorite foods and meals, and none can rival this epic memoir of a perfect meal taken at a French country inn, “I Was Really Very Hungry.” Fisher’s other gourmet writings include The Gastronomical Me; Serve It Forth; and How to Cook a Wolf. The reader, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, was five-time Emmy nominee (“St. Elsewhere”) Christina Pickles, and you can hear her relishing every bite.
“The Mathematician” by Daniel Kehlmann, read by B.D. Wong “I Was Really Very Hungry” by M.F.K. Fisher, read by Christina Pickles
For additional works featured on SELECTED SHORTS, please visit Symphony Space
--Daniel Kehlmann, “The Mathematician”
Two stories about passionate pursuits—cerebral and visceral.
In Daniel Kehlman’s “The Mathematician”, a young math wizard grapples to understand the world on his own brilliant terms, alternatively dazzling and alienating his mentors along the way. Kehlmann was born in Munich and lives in Vienna. The story is derived from his novel “Measuring the World,” about the eccentric 19th-century mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, and was translated by Carol Brown Janeway. The reader is the multiple award-winning Broadway actor and regular on the TV series “Law and Order,” B.D. Wong.
The late food writer M.F.K. Fisher, was celebrated for her lavish descriptions of favorite foods and meals, and none can rival this epic memoir of a perfect meal taken at a French country inn, “I Was Really Very Hungry.” Fisher’s other gourmet writings include The Gastronomical Me; Serve It Forth; and How to Cook a Wolf. The reader, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, was five-time Emmy nominee (“St. Elsewhere”) Christina Pickles, and you can hear her relishing every bite.
“The Mathematician” by Daniel Kehlmann, read by B.D. Wong “I Was Really Very Hungry” by M.F.K. Fisher, read by Christina Pickles
For additional works featured on SELECTED SHORTS, please visit Symphony Space
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Comments [3]
Peace,
I'm trying to find out which book was being read from this past Sunday, November 23, 2008. It was being read by a woman who was relating her experiences on a flight. It was quite funny.
I caught a short excerpt and would like to know the author and the work.
Thanks, peace, Jane
From the producer:
Dear Ms. Schreiber:
The story you heard this past Sunday was Miranda July's "Roy Spivey." Please check our website, selectedshorts.org, for information about where you can find this story in print.
I love your stories! Keep up the great work!
Craig
Hi ~
Where can I get the CD of this week's Selected Shorts,"Food Fiction" by MFK Fisher?
Dear Dorothy:
Please check our website, www.selectedshorts.org,
for information about ordering CDs.
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