Selected Shorts

Selected Shorts


Latest Episodes

The Me I Used to Be
July 25, 2024

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works about change. Yalcin Tosuns Muzaffer and Bananas explores the awkward rites of passage of two teenaged boys. Its performed by Arian Moayed. In Anya DeNir

Beyond Leprechauns
July 18, 2024

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works in which characters have unusual friends who change their liveswhether they like it nor not. In Unicorn Me, by Elizabeth Crane, a magical box delivers a unic

Building Worlds With N.K. Jemisin
July 11, 2024

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works of speculative fiction curated by best-selling author N.K. Jemisin. In John Scalzis When the Yogurt Took Over a popular breakfast staple decides its good for

Miracle Grow
July 04, 2024

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two works about growth helped along by some sort of fantastical assistance. The characters in these pieces are stuck—and consciously or not, they're looking for something to

Too Hot For Radio: Deirdre Coyle "Stakes"
July 01, 2024

Emma Roberts reads a story about a twenty-something's loneliness and longing at an Arizona Renaissance fair.

Picture Perfect
June 06, 2024

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works about idealized lives, and ideas about what constitutes an ideal life. Boy Meets Girl is Jen Kims humorous version of a Hollywood love story. Its read by

Mothers Know Best
August 10, 2023

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories featuring mothers and children, and entertains a special guesther own mother, Hilma Wolitzer. In Annette Sanfords Trip in a Summer Dress, a young woman is s

Tangled Lives
August 03, 2023

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about tangled lives; those situations; those people that pull you in and wont let you go. These works focus on encounters that affect a character's life in s

Behind Her Eyes
July 27, 2023

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about social masks and what might lie beneath. Truman Capotes A Lamp in a Window introduces an eccentric character with a secret. Its performed by Arian

Mcsweeney’s 25th Anniversary Extravaganza
July 20, 2023

Host Meg Wolitzer presents a celebration of the 25th anniversary of powerhouse indie publisher McSweeneys, known for clever, funny, playful, weird, and literary writing. Ophira Eisenberg reads Poor