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"There was a cloud of birds all right. I could see something that looked like spar up out of the water, and when I got up close, the birds all went up in the air and stayed all around me. The water was clear out there, and there was a spar sticking up, just out of the water. And when I came up close to it, I saw it was all dark under water, like a long shadow." –Ernest Hemingway, "After the Storm"
Two classic Hemingway tales, and a dark fantasy by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, make up a special program created by playwright John Patrick Shanley.
This broadcast is made up of three stories picked and introduced by the eminent Broadway playwright and screen writer John Patrick Shanley, author of such stage hits as "Doubt: A Parable," for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, and "Defiance." He is also an Oscar winner for the screenplay of “Moonstruck.” Shanley’s literary picks for SELECTED SHORTS include 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 breathe?”
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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