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Our favorite oxymoron at Symphony Space is the term “guest host,” the term we use to describe the distinguished literary personages who sometimes work with us to create special evenings of stories that have great meaning for them.

This broadcast is made up of three stories picked and introduced by the eminent Broadway playwright John Patrick Shanley, author of such hits as “DOUBT” and “DEFIANCE.” Shanley’s literary picks includes Ernest Hemingway’s “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” and “After the Storm,” as well as Haruki Murakami’s fantasy, “The Little Green Monster.” The readers are Ron Cephas Jones, Dana Ivey, and John Turturro. Worth the price of admission is Shanley’s rich, robust and poetic introductions. As he says, “Why do storytellers tell stories and why do you listen to them? We might as well ask, “Why do we breath?”

A Clean Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway read by Ron Cephas Jones The Little Green Monster by Haruki Murakami read by Dana Ivey After the Storm by Ernest Hemingway read by John Turturro

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