On this show, Meg Wolitzer hands things off to guest host Hope Davis, who presents three stories about finding some kind of peace and stability in a variety of challenging circumstances. In Rabih Alam

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories in which some things are saved and some are left behind. Both stories also have a connection to the German language. In Haruki Murakamis Lederhosen, performed

Host Meg Wolitzer presents stories by Kurt Vonnegut in which the Slaughterhouse Five author somehow managed to make a bleak dystopia funny and a high school band teacher a hero. The stories explore th

Read by Jane Kaczmarek, author Roxane Gay's playful story somehow confronts alcoholism, matrimony, masculinity, the nuclear family and the failure of the American Dream, while making us laugh. And hos

On this Selected Shorts program, host Meg Wolitzer presents stories about journeysphysical and emotionalthat end in unexpected places. In A Woman Driving Alone, by Marie-Helene Bertino, the main

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