Selected Shorts: About
Airs Saturdays at 10PM on 93.9 FM and Sundays at 1PM on AM 820
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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Show Archive
Show Staff
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Stu Kennedy
Stu Kennedy began his radio career in high school, hosting a jazz show at WIUP in his hometown of Indiana, Pennsylvania. After finishing degrees in jazz and recording technology, he worked at WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as a concert engineer, and engineer for the station's music and talk programs.
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Sarah Montague - Producer, Selected Shorts
Sarah Montague, in her fourteenth year as producer for the SELECTED SHORTS program on the radio, is an award-winning producer/director with over twenty years' experience in creating cultural programming for public radio, including the drama series "The Radio Stage" and the documentaries "Titanic: Unsinkable Myth"; "They Made America" (with Sir Harold Evans); and "The Fall of the City: Prophetic Classic.” Most recently, she directed the revival of Archibald MacLeish's "The Fall of the City" for the opening of WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. The production won a 2009 Gracie Award for Best Drama.
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Isaiah Sheffer - Host, Selected Shorts
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!
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Miles Smith
Miles Smith is a freelance audio engineer based in the Boston area, and is currently on staff at WGBH Radio in Boston. He has recorded every SELECTED SHORTS live performance at Symphony Space since its second season in 1986. He is also Chief Engineer for the Spanish Beisbol Network, and works with “This American Life” as a consultant, and as location engineer for the program’s live shows.