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Selected Shorts

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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Grace Paley Centennial

    The unique, unquenchable writer and activist Grace Paley would have turned 100 in 2022. On this Selected Shorts, host Meg Wolitzer shares our tribute to the influential and outspoken ... Mar 6, 2025