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

On this weeks SELECTED SHORTS, Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about love, or the next best thing. In Pam Houstons How to Talk to a Hunter a smart woman cant get enough of what her man cant of

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

In this bonus conversation, host Meg Wolitzer talks to friend and New Yorker humorist Patricia Marx about her story Singin in the Acid Rain, and writing funny.

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

We reprise a recent favorite this week: Guest host Jane Curtin presents a cornucopia of jokes, poems, and stories from a live program with comedian Mike Birbiglia and poet J. Hope Stein. The couple s

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 crossw

On this Selected Shorts we turn the show over to universally beloved author George Saunders. Saunders somehow finds the good, or at any rate the imperfectly human, in his characters. The result is a

In this bonus conversation, host Meg Wolitzer talks to friend and Booker Prize-winning author George Saunders about crafting short stories, where ideas come from, and how his work has evolved over the

Our new Too Hot episode features a story about memory, fantasy and a realm somewhere between the twoa place to which we might escape, for a price (calling all Black Mirror and Westworld fans).