Selected Shorts: Travel Tales

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Joan Didion
• Narrated By Diane Keaton

Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood’s heyday as a countercultural center.

Selected Shorts: Falling in Love

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Rick Bass, Padgett Powell, Laurie Colwin, and others
• Narrated By Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Hope Davis, and others

Selected Shorts: Falling in Love presents a collection of stirring tales of love and longing. Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.

Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Andrew Lam, Ray Bradbury, Haruki Murakami, and others
• Narrated By James Naughton, Stephen Colbert, John Lithgow, and others

By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.

Selected Shorts: Readers & Writers

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Evelyn Waugh, Molly Giles, Ray Bradbury, and others
• Narrated By Tony Roberts, John Shea, Isaiah Sheffer, and others

A boon for booklovers, this audio set features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word.

Tony Roberts reads a hilarious Walter R. Brooks story about how Ed - a talking horse - became a voracious reader of adventure tales and mysteries. In a story by Italo Calvino, read by John Shea, a man tries to make the most of his beach holiday by reading and making love at the same time.

Selected Shorts: Are We There Yet?

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Stuart Dybek, Martha Gellhorn, Edward P. Jones, and others
• Narrated By Keith Szarabajka, Joanna Gleason, Sonia Manzano, and others

A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.