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Selected Shorts for September 25, 2007
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: James T. Farrell, “My Grandmother Goes to Comiskey Park,” read by John Shea
From: My Baseball Diary (Southern Illinois University Press)
Philip Roth, Selection from Portnoy’s Complaint, read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: Portnoy’s Complaint (Vintage)
Rolfe Humphries, “Polo Grounds,” read by David Strathairn
Collected in: Baseball: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)
Yusef Komunyakaa, “Glory,” read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: “Magic City” in Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (Wesleyan University Press)
W.P. Kinsella, “The Thrill of the Grass,” read by John Shea
From: The Thrill of the Grass (Penguin)
A. Bartlett Giamatti, “The Green Fields of the Mind,” read by the author
Collected in: A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti, edited by Kenneth S. Robson (Algonquin Books)
Each week on National Public Radio, great actors from stage, screen and television bring short stories to life. Selected Shorts is an award-winning, one-hour program featuring readings of classic and new short fiction, recorded live at New York’s Symphony Space. One of the most popular series on the airwaves, this unique show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer and produced for radio by Symphony Space and WNYC Radio.
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