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).

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two gripping stories about people in flight. In Rebecca Makkais The Briefcase, performed by Victor Garber, an escaped prisoner assumes another mans identity. In Paradis

Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about quests and travel, which pose the question How far do we need to go to find what we want, whether that something be an ephemeral pleasure, a lasting relation

Meg Wolitzer presents three unexpected stories that let us see the holidays associationsfamily, friends, food, gifts, and goodwillin different ways. Amy Krouse Rosenthal presents a playful encount

Meg Wolitzer presents a show of stories about replacements and stand-ins. While we tend to crave the original, sometimes a substitute can bring more happiness. In Steve Almonds A Happy Dream, read

Meg Wolitzer presents a show of stories about our need to have proof of lovesome demonstration by those nearest and dearest of exactly how much they care. A lot, in Etgar Kerets sweetly improbabl