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From wild and wacky to knee-slapping, laugh-out-loud fun, these humorous tales represent some of the best of recent seasons of the hit public radio series Selected Shorts. Comedian Wyatt Cenac gives a killer performance of Simon Rich’s hilarious tale of woe from the point of view of a condom in a young man’s wallet. Alec Baldwin gives a delightful over-the-top performance of James Thurber’s wonderfully silly classic tale of the day everybody in a small Ohio town thought the dam broke. Joe Meno’s playful and poignant “People Are Becoming Clouds,” slyly performed by Criminal Minds’ Kirsten Vangsness, tells the story of a wife who simply laughs and turns into a puff of soft white vapor every time her husband tries to kiss her. David Rakoff reads Dave Eggers’ sweet, good-humored story in which a father recounts to his son, while making dinner, how his parents saved the world together. Selected Shorts’ founding host Isaiah Sheffer recounts two tales: New Yorker contributor Ian Frazier’s wacky suggestion for young men today in “Dating Your Mom,” and David Schickler’s raucous tale of a family catering company’s crazy and delicious escapades in “Wes Amerigo’s Giant Fear.” With stories that cover all types of humor, this assorted collection of memorable stories is sure to leave listeners grinning.
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In "Center of the Universe", God struggles to balance the demands of his career with the needs of his long-term girlfriend. In "Magical Mr. Goat", a young girl's imaginary friend yearns to become more than friends. In "Unprotected", an unused prophylactic recalls his years spent trapped inside a teen boy's wallet. The stories in Simon Rich's new audiobook are bizarre, funny, and yet...relatable. Rich explores love's many complications--losing it, finding it, breaking it, and making it--and turns the ordinary into the absurd.
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Amusing at first...
- De T. Kelly en 04-05-13
De: Simon Rich
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Selected Shorts: Even More Laughs
- De: T. C. Boyle, Jonathan Lethem, Miranda July, y otros
- Narrado por: Jerry Zaks, Alec Baldwin, Christine Baranski, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
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From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts.
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Even more laughs than what?
- De Michael en 08-30-12
De: T. C. Boyle, y otros
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Elliot Allagash
- A Novel
- De: Simon Rich
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Seymour is the least popular student at Glendale, a private school in Manhattan. His new nickname, “Chunk-Style”, is in danger of entering common usage. But then he meets the new transfer student: Elliot Allagash, evil heir of America’s largest fortune. Elliot’s rampant delinquency has already gotten him expelled from dozens of prep schools. But despite his best efforts, he can’t get himself thrown out of Glendale; his father has simply donated too much money. Bitter and bored, Elliot amuses himself by transforming Seymour into the most popular student in the school.
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Great book.
- De Reid Robinson en 01-29-16
De: Simon Rich
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Selected Shorts
- Readers & Writers
- De: Evelyn Waugh, Molly Giles, Ray Bradbury, y otros
- Narrado por: Tony Roberts, John Shea, Leonard Nimoy, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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A boon for booklovers, this audio set features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word.
Tony Roberts reads a hilarious Walter R. Brooks story about how Ed - a talking horse - became a voracious reader of adventure tales and mysteries. In a story by Italo Calvino, read by John Shea, a man tries to make the most of his beach holiday by reading and making love at the same time.
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- De Xine Segalas en 12-29-21
De: Evelyn Waugh, y otros
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Wonderful Town
- New York Stories from The New Yorker
- De: Woody Allen, John Cheever, E. B. White, y otros
- Narrado por: Tyne Daly, Timothy Jerome, Joe Morton, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of 44 of its best stories from (so to speak) home.
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Great stories and readers, but technically sloppy
- De Alison en 09-08-04
De: Woody Allen, y otros
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Selected Shorts: New American Stories
- De: Aleksandar Hemon, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, y otros
- Narrado por: Boyd Gaines, Rita Wolf, Condola Rashad, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 59 m
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New American Stories presents diverse stories of contemporary American life and dreams lost and found, by four of the best young contemporary writers - Jhumpa Lahiri, Sherman Alexie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Aleksandar Hemon - as performed by terrific stage and screen actors. All four writers have a unique perspective on the American experience, which is reflected in their work.
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- De Michael en 08-30-12
De: Aleksandar Hemon, y otros
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Man Seeking Woman
- And Other Love Stories
- De: Simon Rich
- Narrado por: Simon Rich
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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In "Center of the Universe", God struggles to balance the demands of his career with the needs of his long-term girlfriend. In "Magical Mr. Goat", a young girl's imaginary friend yearns to become more than friends. In "Unprotected", an unused prophylactic recalls his years spent trapped inside a teen boy's wallet. The stories in Simon Rich's new audiobook are bizarre, funny, and yet...relatable. Rich explores love's many complications--losing it, finding it, breaking it, and making it--and turns the ordinary into the absurd.
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Amusing at first...
- De T. Kelly en 04-05-13
De: Simon Rich
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Selected Shorts: Even More Laughs
- De: T. C. Boyle, Jonathan Lethem, Miranda July, y otros
- Narrado por: Jerry Zaks, Alec Baldwin, Christine Baranski, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
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From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts.
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Even more laughs than what?
- De Michael en 08-30-12
De: T. C. Boyle, y otros
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Elliot Allagash
- A Novel
- De: Simon Rich
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Seymour is the least popular student at Glendale, a private school in Manhattan. His new nickname, “Chunk-Style”, is in danger of entering common usage. But then he meets the new transfer student: Elliot Allagash, evil heir of America’s largest fortune. Elliot’s rampant delinquency has already gotten him expelled from dozens of prep schools. But despite his best efforts, he can’t get himself thrown out of Glendale; his father has simply donated too much money. Bitter and bored, Elliot amuses himself by transforming Seymour into the most popular student in the school.
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Great book.
- De Reid Robinson en 01-29-16
De: Simon Rich
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Selected Shorts
- Readers & Writers
- De: Evelyn Waugh, Molly Giles, Ray Bradbury, y otros
- Narrado por: Tony Roberts, John Shea, Leonard Nimoy, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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A boon for booklovers, this audio set features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word.
Tony Roberts reads a hilarious Walter R. Brooks story about how Ed - a talking horse - became a voracious reader of adventure tales and mysteries. In a story by Italo Calvino, read by John Shea, a man tries to make the most of his beach holiday by reading and making love at the same time.
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Great Collection!
- De Xine Segalas en 12-29-21
De: Evelyn Waugh, y otros
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Wonderful Town
- New York Stories from The New Yorker
- De: Woody Allen, John Cheever, E. B. White, y otros
- Narrado por: Tyne Daly, Timothy Jerome, Joe Morton, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 20 m
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New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of 44 of its best stories from (so to speak) home.
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Great stories and readers, but technically sloppy
- De Alison en 09-08-04
De: Woody Allen, y otros
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Selected Shorts: New American Stories
- De: Aleksandar Hemon, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, y otros
- Narrado por: Boyd Gaines, Rita Wolf, Condola Rashad, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 59 m
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New American Stories presents diverse stories of contemporary American life and dreams lost and found, by four of the best young contemporary writers - Jhumpa Lahiri, Sherman Alexie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Aleksandar Hemon - as performed by terrific stage and screen actors. All four writers have a unique perspective on the American experience, which is reflected in their work.
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- De Michael en 08-30-12
De: Aleksandar Hemon, y otros
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Miracle Workers
- A Novel
- De: Simon Rich
- Narrado por: Simon Rich
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
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Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as "God") has been phoning it in. When God decides to retire (to pursue his lifelong dream of opening an Asian Fusion restaurant), he also decides to destroy Earth. The angels manage to strike a deal with their boss. He'll call off his Armageddon, if they can solve their toughest miracle yet: getting the two most socially awkward humans on the planet to fall in love.
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Fun book!
- De Melea en 04-22-13
De: Simon Rich
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Fierce Pajamas
- Selected Humor Writing from The New Yorker
- De: David Remnick, Henry Finder, editors
- Narrado por: Byron Jennings, Julie Halston
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era. This anthology gathers together, for the first time, the funniest work of more than seventy New Yorker contributors.
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great, but niche
- De Sue en 02-21-06
De: David Remnick, y otros
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Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic
- De: Andrew Lam, Ray Bradbury, Haruki Murakami, y otros
- Narrado por: James Naughton, Stephen Colbert, John Lithgow, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
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By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.
De: Andrew Lam, y otros
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Spoiled Brats (including the story that inspired the major motion picture An American Pickle starring Seth Rogen)
- Stories
- De: Simon Rich
- Narrado por: Simon Rich
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
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From "one of the funniest writers in America" comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars. Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies,
Spoiled Brats is about a generation of narcissists - and the well-meaning boomers who made them that way.
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3 ½ stars. Some clever ideas.
- De Jane en 12-20-14
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New Teeth
- Stories
- De: Simon Rich
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
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Laugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the “Serena Williams of humor writing” (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying to learn how not to be one.
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- De Curtis Hauge en 02-07-22
De: Simon Rich
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- Lots of Laughs!
- De: Nicholson Baker, John Updike, David Schickler, y otros
- Narrado por: Thomas Gibson, Charles Keating, David Rakoff
- Duración: 3 h y 5 m
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Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The readings are recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.
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Wonderful Radio Show
- De Steve en 11-26-05
De: Nicholson Baker, y otros
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Selected Shorts: American Classics
- De: Amy Tan, Donald Barthelme, Eudora Welty, y otros
- Narrado por: Freda Foh Shen, David Strathairn, Stockard Channing, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 45 m
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A compilation of classic tales by great American writers performed by terrific actors, with a lineup including Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and PEN Award winners.
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Classic classics
- De Michael en 08-30-12
De: Amy Tan, y otros
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- Pets!
- De: Gail Godwin, Ana Menendez, Robertson Davies, y otros
- Narrado por: Jane Curtin, Jacqueline Kim, Charles Keating
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
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The cast of characters in this compilation is a menagerie of animals: cats, dogs, birds, even a dragon - and their owners. These stories look at the myriad of experiences, and adventures, that pet ownership can bring. Join a medieval scholar who discovers that not all mythical creatures are extinct, stalk the night with the Cat of Frankenstein, kick that caffeine habit with a class of kindergartners, dance along with a divorcée and her dog, and more!
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Great stories but Not for Kids
- De Edward M. Tashjian en 01-02-08
De: Gail Godwin, y otros
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Glory Days
- Stories
- De: Simon Rich
- Narrado por: John Mulaney
- Duración: 4 h y 5 m
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From the Thurber Prize-winning author of New Teeth, hailed as “a triumph of sustained humor” (Sarah Lyall, New York Times Book Review), comes a hilarious and powerful collection of short stories chronicling the plight of aging millennials.
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Genuinely funny!
- De Susan B. en 10-05-24
De: Simon Rich
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Screwball
- De: Simon Rich
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello, Beck Bennett
- Duración: 39 m
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Before he was “Babe” or “The Sultan of Swat” or “The Great Bambino”, George Herman Ruth was just another teenage misfit at St. Mary’s School for Boys. But Ruth has something the other boys don’t, and when Baltimore Orioles manager Jack Dunn watches him throw a baseball over a building, Ruth gets the chance to punch his ticket out of the orphanage. All he has to do now is make the team.
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Great Story, not for kids
- De Stormy Jones en 07-06-19
De: Simon Rich
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Selected Shorts
- The William Hurt Collection
- De: Tobias Wolff, Ron Carlson, Richard Ford, y otros
- Narrado por: William Hurt
- Duración: 2 h y 57 m
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A collection of poignant, romantic and funny tales performed by Academy Award -winning actor William Hurt. This collection includes a bonus track of an exclusive interview with William Hurt. Hurt's readings are thoughtful, tender, romantic, and resonant. A treasure.
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amazing voice for audio
- De Lucca ate your Lunch! en 09-30-12
De: Tobias Wolff, y otros
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- Timeless Classics
- De: James Thurber, Edith Wharton, Jack London, y otros
- Narrado por: Maria Tucci, Charles Keating, James Naughton
- Duración: 3 h y 13 m
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Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The readings are recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.
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first rate
- De S. Lewis en 03-04-06
De: James Thurber, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Selected Shorts: Funny Business
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- D. Littman
- 11-22-14
Some very entertaining, some not
Would you try another book from the authors and/or the narrators?
Probably not. A whole book on a subject, including a comedy book, suits my taste better. These stories were of variable quality. A few hilarious, a couple just awful, very please when I got to the end. The narration of all the stories, excellent though. Sorry to sound like a curmudgeon on this volume.
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- Fr Kevin P.J. Coffey
- 08-23-21
Selected Shorts-Always a Pleasure
I have yet to be disappointed by Selected Shorts, although I was caught off guard when I continued one of the stories with my 4-year old grandson in the car. Some of the language wasn't appropriate. It was funny and within the story it was OK. I should have been a bit more attentive. That's on me.
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- Old Sub Sailor
- 10-05-19
This thing sucks
This really does suck, vacuums, creates a low pressure area, is; void of any substance, less than tenuous, worse than nebulous, inhales all life, is its own black hole, the Bermuda Triangle of audiobooks.
I am amazed they my phone has not imploded yet.
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- JoE Q
- 10-10-24
Boring
This title was boring, probably one one the worst purchased books in my almost decade of membership.
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