Tag: Fantasy
Selected Shorts
Selected Shorts: Illusions
Sunday, February 03, 2013
Guest host Neil Gaiman introduces two tales of illusion.
Selected Shorts
Selected Shorts: Dreams and Schemes
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Guest host Neil Gaiman introduces two American classics.
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Selected Shorts: Money, Greed and Power
Saturday, November 10, 2012
SHORTS collaborated with the public radio show Planet Money to bring you two stories about spending and earning, and one about compulsory consumerism.
Features
Witchcraft: A Halloween Talk with Deborah Harkness
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
It’s nearly Halloween, so soon the streets will be thronged with superheroes and pirates and princesses and politicians. And, of course, witches and vampires.
Selected Shorts
Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic
Sunday, October 07, 2012
The new season of SELECTED SHORTS continues with a program bringing a touch of magic in two stories from contemporary authors.
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Selected Shorts: The Lives of Things
Sunday, September 30, 2012
The new season of SELECTED SHORTS begins with a program focusing on the mystery and allure of objects. In Steven Millhauser’s “In the Reign of Harad IV” a court miniaturist longs to create smaller and smaller worlds. Millhauser has commented on the fact that he moved from novels to short fiction—a reverse of the usual trend for authors—saying, “it’s as if the novel were a kind of preparation for the rigorous pleasures of the shorter form. For me, the shortness of a great story is part of its greatness.”
The Brian Lehrer Show
LARPing Along
Friday, May 25, 2012
Lizzie Stark, founder and editor of the literary journal Fringe, and the author of Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games, explains the world of Live Action Role-Playing games-- a kind of amalgam of improv, fantasy and historical reenactments.
→ EVENT: Book-signing at WORD: 126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn, NY | May 30 at 7 PM. More info here.
Soundcheck ®
Spring for Music: Fantasy Programs
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Last year marked the first-ever Spring for Music Festival – a Carnegie Hall-hosted celebration of orchestras who’ve brought unusual and imaginative programs to the stage. The series returns this May, as does the festival’s “Fantasy Program Contest” – when anyone can submit an idea and vote for the program of their dreams. (Last year’s crowd-chosen winner paired Strauss’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” with John Williams’ “Superman.”) Joining us to discuss is Tom Morris, the artistic director of Spring For Music.
Selected Shorts
Selected Shorts: Big City Women
Sunday, February 19, 2012
This program brings us two venturesome women in two big cities. The first part features an excerpt from Haruki Murakami’s prodigious novel 1Q84, and the second is an American story of a woman’s remarkable night-time encounters.
Selected Shorts
Selected Shorts: Love in Real Life
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Literary boyfriend trouble, and a lie comes to life in two stories from an evening at Symphony Space hosted by the protean fantasy writer Neil Gaiman.
The Takeaway
Daniel Wilson on Writing 'Robopocalypse'
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
As a kid I dreamed about robots and as an adult I built them. Now, I write about them. In retrospect, it’s all the same thing: I’m dreaming up how humans and machines interact on an everyday basis.