Sunday 7 – 8 pm

Hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story presents some of the finest artists in American theater and screen reading short fiction by classic, contemporary and bold new writers. Each program is recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in Manhattan. The programs have featured works by master writers, from Chekhov to Wharton and Hemingway; stories by contemporary greats from John Updike to Alice Walker; and the fresh works of new literary talents, from Pulitzer Prize-winning Jhumpa Lahiri to promising newcomers like Rattawut Lapchararoensap and Etgar Keret.
This Week on Selected Shorts
This SELECTED SHORTS program features two stories about remarkable couples. Rita Dove's "Second-Hand Man" pairs the strong-willed Virginia with a beau with a way with words--and a secret. The reader is Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald. Padgett Powell's eccentric chronicle "The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping" brings a headstrong Southern woman and a real Florida sheriff together in a swamp-side courtship. Tony-winning actor James Naughton is the reader.

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