Selected Shorts

By: Symphony Space
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  • Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. New episodes every Thursday, from Symphony Space.
    2024 Symphony Space
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Episodes
  • Slippery Roads and Fancy Shorts

    Slippery Roads and Fancy Shorts
    Jan 23 2025

    Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories in which some things are saved and some are left behind. In Haruki Murakami’s “Lederhosen,” performed by Aasif Mandvi, the traditional German shorts become a singular obsession for one half of a married couple. In Elizabeth McCracken’s “Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark,” a couple and their son find themselves in over their heads. Mike Doyle is the reader.
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    58 mins
  • Banned Books with Judy Blume

    Banned Books with Judy Blume
    Jan 16 2025

    Host Meg Wolitzer presents stories that were presented as part of an evening with the writer Judy Blume that explored the issues around book banning, and featured works by two authors whose works have been banned. (Blume’s works have also frequently been banned.). First, Xu Mason’s witty “Finally a Book that Cannot be Banned,” imagines what it would take to write a work that could escape all censure. It’s read by Troy Iwata. Celebrated children’s author Roald Dahl cooks up the perfect murder in “Lamb to the Slaughter,” read by Catherine O’Hara. And David Sedaris recounts a challenging encounter with a young man in “Bruised,” read by Maulik Pancholy. Some of Blume’s onstage remarks are included.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks with Judy Blume

    Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks with Judy Blume
    Jan 16 2025

    Meg Wolitzer speaks with author Judy Blume about her life, her writing and the challenges of book banning.
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    15 mins

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