Selected Shorts: Even More Laughs

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.

Selected Shorts: Lots of Laughs!

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Nicholson Baker, John Updike, David Schickler, and others
• Narrated By Thomas Gibson, Charles Keating, David Rakoff

Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The readings are recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. 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: American Classics

• ORIGINAL (3 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Amy Tan, Donald Barthelme, Eudora Welty, and others
• Narrated By Freda Foh Shen, David Strathairn, Stockard Channing, and others

A compilation of classic tales by great American writers performed by terrific actors, with a lineup including Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and PEN Award winners.