Worst Case Scenarios

Selected Shorts | Dec 29, 2016

Guest host Hope Davis presents funny four tales about things going wrong. George Saunders imagines “Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband,” as read by James Naughton. A kindergartener has a secret in “Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, read by Lois Smith. The big bang is coming, in “Game,” by Donald Barthelme, read by David Strathairn. And Isaiah Sheffer offers up “Lamentations of the Father,” by Ian Frazier.

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