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Podcast: Selected Shorts
Episode: Reading Between the Lines
Description: Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about the things she loves most: books and words and why they matter. In Ben Looryâs âThe Book,â a contrarian volume becomes a literary sensation, and alters one womanâs life. The reader is Jane Kaczmarek. In âThings I Know to be Trueâ by Kendra Fortmeyer, originally published in One Story, a damaged veteran uses words to hold his life together. The reader is Calvin Leon Smith. And in a special feature, Wolitzer visits a favorite indie bookstore, Three Lives & Company: http://threelives.com/who.html The Greenwich Village icon, which was founded in the 1980s, is a ha...