Selected Shorts
Spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen. Listen free on your computer or mobile device. Symphony Space, the home of Selected Shorts, was founded almost 40 years ago in the belief that the arts bring people together, transcend barriers, and celebrate both our similarities and our differences. That belief remains our guiding principle and is more important now than ever. Your generosity during the Co...
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Episodes (30)
Best American Short Stories
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Homewreckers
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What Are the Odds?
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Reality Checks
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Meg Wolitzer Talks with Denis O'Hare
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Haruki Murakami: Then and Now
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Changing the Narrative
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Problems without Solutions
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I Contain Multitudes
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On the Couch
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To the Rescue
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Surprising Interventions
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Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
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The Role You Were Born to Play
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A Simple Solution
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Unwrapping the Holidays
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The Quiet Part Out Loud
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Just the Thing
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Classics with a Twist
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It's About Time
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Accidental Revelations
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Fooling Yourself
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Generation Gap
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Off the Leash
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Uprooted
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Better With You?
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The Way I See It
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Reinventing the Wheel
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Tangled Lives
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Meet the Neighbors
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