SELECTED SHORTS celebrates its late host and creator Isaiah Sheffer in this special program hosted by Colum McCann. 

Paris in the 1920s and 1930s saw an explosion of painting, sculpture, music, and literature, and helped create a Bohemian lifestyle on the Left Bank.  This program features some of the literary figures who helped define the era, and more.

SHORTS collaborated with the public radio show Planet Money to bring you two stories about spending and earning, and one about compulsory consumerism. 

An old-fashioned waitress, and a poet at high tide, in stories by an American master and a contemporary Irish writer.