PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast

This program is made up of three stories selected and introduced by the eminent Broadway playwright John Patrick Shanley, author of such hits as "DOUBT" and "DEFIANCE." Shanley's literary picks includes Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," ...

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This program features two stories about unsettling moments. The first is by the Indian writer Kiran Desai, whose novel THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS won her England's version of the Pulitzer, the Man Booker Prize. "Sermon in the Guava Tree," follows the uneven ...

This program features Mary Gordon's reflective tale "Storytelling," read by Lindsay Crouse. It is indeed revealing about the craft of writing--its joys and heartaches--and Gordon also took the time to discuss her work with us in a brief interview ...

This program celebrates the remarkable writer Mavis Gallant, a long-time contributor to The New Yorker. In the 1950s Canadian-born Gallant quit a steady journalism job to move to Paris and take a risk on fiction writing, with great success. The tale ...

Hollywood and Broadway star Tony Roberts reads "Initiation," by Joseph Conrad, a gripping tale of a young naval officer's first encounter with maritime disaster and the fickle nature of the sea. The story has all the lush and powerful hallmarks of a work ...