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Podcast: Selected Shorts
Episode: Classics from The New Yorker
Description: Meg Wolitzerpresents three stories featured in the anthology A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker.The magazine celebrates its 100th birthday, and this is the second of two programs this season in which we join the party. Robert Cooverâs âGoing for a Beerâ begins with a date and a drink, but youâll be surprised where it ends up. The reader is SELECTED SHORTSâ late founder and host, Isaiah Sheffer. Cynthia Ozickâs moving story âThe Shawlâ pulls grace from the worst of circumstances in a powerful reading by Lois Smith. And V.S. Pritchett turns a ladder into a sly sym...