Selected Shorts

Selected Shorts


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Holidays with Mom
December 19, 2024

Guest host Meg Wolitzer presents our holiday show--two stories about being home for the holidays and how you can count on your Mom to be there for youand possibly to complicate things. First, memoiri

Work of Art
December 12, 2024

Host Meg Wolitzer presents stories of inspiration small and large. In these tales, writers investigate moments in which art inspires life, or life inspires art, especially in a visual medium. In Eliza

Pushed from the Nest
December 05, 2024

On this weeks SELECTED SHORTS, Meg Wolitzer presents three stories that offer unpredictable life lessons, from characters who are adolescent, and those who love thema little eccentrically. In The

School Misrule
November 28, 2024

On this weeks SELECTED SHORTS, we're going to hear stories about students and schools that abandon the usual rules to follow their own, unusual, codes of behavior. In "Singin' in the Acid Rain," by

Handle with Care
November 21, 2024

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories that reflect on the beauty and vulnerability of the natural world. In Joyas Voladoras, by Brian Doyle, we hear the many different heartbeats of the natural kin

Domestic Rearrangements
November 14, 2024

A routine that never changes can get old. So this week on Selected Shorts, host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories that shake up domestic life, teaching the characters something new about themselves

Breaking Up is Hard to Do
November 07, 2024

Host Meg Wolitzer presents works that reflect on the loss of love, creatively imagined by a quartet of thoughtful writers. In The Space, by Christopher Boucher, a lost love is replaced byher absen

Too Hot For Radio: Carlos Greaves "Even I, Satan, Am Appalled by the State of the Republican Party"
November 04, 2024

Since political satire is a type of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics, it's a good time for today's story. And what makes it "too hot?" Well, some people find politics to

Love Object
October 31, 2024

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about objects of love, and feelings that can't be returned, for very different reasons. In A Love Letter by Greg Ames, a boy falls head over heels in a crosswa

History’s Clown Car with Andy Borowitz
October 24, 2024

Meg Wolitzer presents four works drawn from an evening of satirical stories about American political history, hosted by Andy Borowitz. Nothing is sacred. First, Joe Yan imagines Abraham Lincoln, huc