Selected Shorts
Produced by Symphony Space. Sunday at 10 p.m. on 93.9FM.
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The New Yorker: A Century of Fiction
Host Meg Wolitzer presents a program celebrating the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker. One of the magazine’s strengths has always been its fiction, and honor of this winning liter... May 15, 2025
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about secrets that are just beneath the surface of the narratives and lives of the characters. In Walter Dean Myers’ “The Beast in the Labyrint... May 8, 2025
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Best American Short Stories 2022
Selected Shorts celebrates this important collection each year, and this show, presented by host Meg Wolitzer, reprises works from the 2022 Best American edition selected by guest edi... May 1, 2025
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Adios, Sayonara, Goodbye!
Host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories by contemporary Japanese writers that were featured during a live program created in collaboration with the Japan Society. Each touches on the... Apr 24, 2025
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Writers & Readers
Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories and two poems the celebrate the power and mystery of reading and writing. Billy Collins contributes magical verse from two perspectives in “Boo... Apr 17, 2025
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No Filter
Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about selves obscured and revealed, by characters whose own identities are mysteries to them. In Aimee Bender’s “Un-Selfie, a woman reveals her... Apr 10, 2025
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The Stories We Tell Ourselves
On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone was our guest for a live Selected Shorts event, and this week, host Meg Wolitzer presents some of the stories Gladstone chose. They all explore the the... Apr 3, 2025
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The Price of Admission
Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about belonging and sacrifice in two very different kinds of social orders. In Wolitzer’s own “The Summer Reading List” the intensity of youthful boo... Mar 27, 2025
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Secret Spaces
Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about secret spaces and what they represent. In N. K. Jemisin’s speculative fantasy “Elevator Dancer,” a security guard in a totalitarian regime is b... Mar 20, 2025
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Friendly Advice
Host Meg Wolitzer present three stories in which friendly advice is proffered, whether it’s wanted or not. The title of the first, by Meghana Indurti and Tyler Fowler, says it all: “... Mar 13, 2025