Guest host Josh Radnor presents two stories about expectation, hope and disenchantment.

Guest host Josh Radnor presents three stories about needy people.

Guest host David Strathairn presents four works that teach us a few things.

Read by Michael Urie

Guest host Sonia Manzano presents works by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.

Guest host Kate Burton presents four unusual love stories.

Guest host Josh Radnor presents two stories that are favorites of “The Wire” writer Richard Price, and Colson Whitehead remembers his New York.

Guest host Ruben Santiago-Hudson presents three stories about parallel lives.

Read by Michael Ian Black

Guest host Cynthia Nixon introduces readings from three chapters of Alice in Wonderland.