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Selected Shorts

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.

Selected Shorts Goes to the Movies with the Tribeca Film Festival

58 mins; April 02, 2026

Best American Short Stories

58 mins; March 26, 2026

Homewreckers

58 mins; March 19, 2026

Meg Wolitzer Talks with Louise Erdrich

14 mins; March 19, 2026

What Are the Odds?

59 mins; March 12, 2026

Reality Checks

59 mins; March 05, 2026

Meg Wolitzer Talks with Denis O'Hare

16 mins; March 05, 2026

Too Hot For Radio: Paul La Farge "Another Life"

28 mins; March 02, 2026

Haruki Murakami: Then and Now

58 mins; February 26, 2026

Changing the Narrative

57 mins; February 19, 2026

Problems without Solutions

58 mins; February 12, 2026

I Contain Multitudes

58 mins; February 05, 2026

On the Couch

58 mins; January 29, 2026

To the Rescue

61 hours 41 mins; January 22, 2026

Surprising Interventions

58 mins; January 15, 2026

Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America

59 mins; January 08, 2026

Too Hot For Radio: Carmen Maria Machado "Persephone Rides at the End of Days"

20 mins; January 05, 2026

The Role You Were Born to Play

62 hours 46 mins; January 01, 2026

A Simple Solution

59 mins; December 25, 2025

Unwrapping the Holidays

58 mins; December 18, 2025

The Quiet Part Out Loud

57 mins; December 11, 2025

Bonus: Etgar Keret and Ira Glass

35 mins; December 11, 2025

Intervention

57 mins; December 04, 2025

Now You See Him, Now You Don’t

57 mins; November 27, 2025

Just the Thing

57 mins; November 20, 2025

Classics with a Twist

58 mins; November 13, 2025

Meg Wolitzer Talks to Author Michael Cunningham

22 mins; November 13, 2025

It’s About Time

59 mins; November 06, 2025

Accidental Revelations

58 mins; October 30, 2025

Fooling Yourself

57 mins; October 23, 2025

Generation Gap

57 mins; October 16, 2025

Too Hot For Radio: Pam Houston "Jackson Is Only One of My Dogs"

33 mins; October 13, 2025

Off the Leash

63 hours 1 min; October 09, 2025

Uprooted

58 mins; October 02, 2025

Better with You?

59 mins; September 25, 2025

The Way I See It

59 mins; September 18, 2025

Tell Me More: Kathryn Nicolai

32 mins; September 15, 2025

Reinventing the Wheel

59 mins; September 11, 2025

Tangled Lives

56 mins; September 04, 2025

Meet the Neighbors

56 mins; August 28, 2025

McSweeney’s 25th Anniversary Extravaganza

58 mins; August 21, 2025

Perfectly Unmatched

58 mins; August 14, 2025

Come Out Swinging

59 mins; August 07, 2025

Too Hot For Radio: Roxane Gay "Requiem for a Glass Heart"

38 mins; August 04, 2025

Classics from The New Yorker

65 hours 41 mins; July 31, 2025

Reading Between the Lines

59 mins; July 24, 2025

Sizzling Summer Travels

59 mins; July 17, 2025

Sleight of Hand

58 mins; July 10, 2025

Bonus: A.M. Homes interviews Margaret Atwood

17 mins; June 26, 2025

Too Hot For Radio: Rachel B. Glaser "Ira and the Whale"

35 mins; June 02, 2025

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks with Judy Blume

14 mins; January 16, 2025

A Conversation with Andy Borowitz

13 mins; October 24, 2024

Too Hot For Radio: Ottessa Moshfegh "The Weirdos"

42 mins; September 02, 2024

Picture Perfect

61 hours 30 mins; June 06, 2024

Bonus: A Conversation with Elizabeth Strout

10 mins; April 04, 2024

Meg Wolitzer interviews Louise Erdrich

14 mins; February 15, 2024

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks to Denis O’Hare

16 mins; February 08, 2024

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Visits Her Favorite Indie Bookstore

15 mins; June 29, 2023

Bonus: Margaret Atwood and A.M. Homes

17 mins; June 15, 2023

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks to Alison Stewart

9 mins; June 08, 2023

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks to Patricia Marx

12 mins; February 09, 2023

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks with George Saunders

20 mins; January 12, 2023

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks to Elizabeth Strout

10 mins; September 08, 2022

Host Meg Wolitzer Talks to Comedian Michael Ian Black

19 mins; July 21, 2022

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer and Mona Eltahawy Talk Being a Dangerous Woman

21 mins; June 16, 2022

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer and Alison Stewart Talk Fiction

9 mins; April 14, 2022

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