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Included are:
Shirley Jackson's Charles
Read by Lois Smith
Laurie's parents are dying to meet the most misbehaved boy in school.
Frank O'Connor's First Confession
Read by Malachy McCourt
A guilt-ridden Irish lad fears his first confession may be his last.
Toure's Solomon's Big Day: A Children's Story
Read by Daniel Alexander Jones
A little boy named Solomon escapes into the magical world of his paintings.
Grace Paley's The Loudest Voice
Read by Linda Lavin
This year's Christmas pageant stars a Jewish girl.
Diane Leslie's A Life of Crime
Read by Jill Eikenberry
Love and passion, Hollywood style, from a girl's-eye-view.
Etgar Keret's Pride and Joy
Read by Robert Sean Leonard
A young man struggles to save his shrinking parents.
Rick Moody's Boys
Read by B. D. Wong
The world of boys.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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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Selected Shorts: American Classics
- De: Amy Tan, Donald Barthelme, Eudora Welty, y otros
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Classic classics
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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- Timeless Classics
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General4 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 29
Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves, read by actors Frances Sternhagen, Robert Sean Leonard, Keir Dullea, Joanna Gleason, Harold Gould and Joanne Woodward. A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime in Do You Know Where I Am by Sherman Alexie. In Karen E. Bender's Eternal Love, a mother nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon.
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- Are We There Yet?
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- Narrado por: Keith Szarabajka, Joanna Gleason, Sonia Manzano, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 7 m
- Grabación Original
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General4 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.
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General4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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- Duración: 3 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic classics
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Selected Shorts
- Pets!
- De: Gail Godwin, Ana Menendez, Robertson Davies, y otros
- Narrado por: Jane Curtin, Jacqueline Kim, Charles Keating
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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General4 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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5 out of 5 stars
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General4 out of 5 stars 40
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Selected Stories of Grace Paley
- A Selection
- De: Grace Paley
- Narrado por: Grace Paley
- Duración: 5 h y 5 m
- Versión resumida
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Now available for the first time in audio as a digital download, a selection of stories from Grace Paley: Whether writing about relationships, little girls, loving and bickering couples, angry suburbanites, frustrated job-seekers, or Jewish children performing a Christmas play, Grace Paley captured the loneliness, poignancy, and humor of the human experience with matchless style. This audio collection is an abridgement of the full volume of Grace Paley's short story work.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best.
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De: Grace Paley
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Selected Shorts: Funny Business
- De: Simon Rich, R. T. Smith, David Schickler, y otros
- Narrado por: Wyatt Cenac, Isiah Sheffer, Kirsten Vangsness, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some very entertaining, some not
- De D. Littman en 11-22-14
De: Simon Rich, y otros
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Selected Shorts
- Travel Tales
- De: N.M. Kelby, Max Steele, Nadine Gordimer, y otros
- Narrado por: Mia Dillon, Paul Hecht, Christina Pickles, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 13
Selected Shorts: Travel Tales presents a collection of classic travel experiences. Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. 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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1 out of 5 stars
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not so much about travel
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Selected Shorts: A Touch of Magic
- De: Andrew Lam, Ray Bradbury, Haruki Murakami, y otros
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- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
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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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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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3 out of 5 stars
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Weak
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Selected Shorts
- Edith Wharton
- De: Edith Wharton
- Narrado por: Kathleen Chalfant, Maria Tucci, Brenda Wehle, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story has toured to the Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and other writers. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount, and featuring acclaimed actresses Kathleen Chalfant, Christina Pickles, Maria Tucci, and Brenda Wehle.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent readings, BUT...
- De Daniel en 05-08-10
De: Edith Wharton
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
- De: George Saunders
- Narrado por: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 678
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 527
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 520
For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An innovative and fresh listening experience
- De Scott Garrioch en 01-14-21
De: George Saunders
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Selected Shorts
- Falling in Love
- De: Rick Bass, Padgett Powell, Laurie Colwin, y otros
- Narrado por: Ted Marcoux, Christina Pickles, Hope Davis, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 5 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Selected Shorts: Falling in Love presents a collection of stirring tales of love and longing. Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. 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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5 out of 5 stars
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all of the selected shorts series are the best
- De D. Littman en 05-31-09
De: Rick Bass, y otros
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Miracle and Wonder
- Conversations with Paul Simon
- De: Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam
- Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam, Paul Simon
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,496
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,028
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,003
Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is part memoir, part investigation, and unlike any creative portrait you’ve ever heard before. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation between Simon, Gladwell, and Gladwell’s oldest friend and co-writer, journalist and Broken Record podcast co-host Bruce Headlam, the conversation flows from Simon’s music, to his childhood in Queens, NY, to his frequent collaborators including Art Garfunkel and the nature of creativity itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lifelong companion who will never know my name
- De scsurfer en 11-16-21
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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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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
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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3 out of 5 stars
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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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Happy-Go-Lucky
- De: David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 5,624
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,857
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4,825
Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great except for an audio glitch
- De Rynnkins en 06-01-22
De: David Sedaris
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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
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Collection!
- De Xine Segalas en 12-29-21
De: Evelyn Waugh, y otros
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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- deborah lozzi
- 05-18-21
Can I have my point back?
Was ok - should have been e. Loved Linda Lavin’s story best but not worth using a point for.
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- Reader
- 01-01-19
it’s a bunch of live performances
and thus not quite an audiobook per se, so it was a bit misleadingly presented, but the stories are good and all but one do relate to family matters. If you don’t mind your own listening experience interrupted by audience laughter and applause then it’s a good little collection. As a book it’s too short, could have included more stories and been twice as long.
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