Selected Shorts

I listen to Selected Shorts from WNYC and thought I'd pass along the link.  
http://www.symphonyspace.org/shorts 

They always do interesting works read by talented actors.  The website isn't great and it's kind of hard to actually get to the downloadable part but have patience because the payoff is well worth it. 







The most recent show has a marvelous version of 'Boys' by Rick Moody, performed by actor B. D. Wong.  
 
To make a good thing even better, Selected Shorts partners with my beloved One Story and with the good folks at Houghton Mifflin and their Best American Short Stories series, which is also quite beloved by me.  (There is much beloving going on here at Chez Next.)  Indulge yourself and enjoy.

Many thanks

I really appreciate the feedback about the look of the blog.  It has been very positive and quite helpful.  I've made a few more tweaks per your suggestions and think I might be done tinkering for now.

 

Also, I'd like to thank the nice folks at Bloomsbury USA for the copy of Reporting at Wit's End, a collection of pieces by St. Clair McKelway.  I've just started it and am taken back to an old New York and an old New Yorker.  The intro is by Adam Gopnik so the right tone is set right away.  At just over 600 pages, it'll take a while but I look forward to posting my thoughts about it.  The book just came out. 

Another big thanks to my friend at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for a recent care package.  I've finished Save the Deli by David Sax (just completed a draft of my forthcoming post) and am fifty pages deep in Howard Norman's upcoming novel, What Is Left the Daughter.  I've never read him but have always heard good things and am happy to report I'm most intrigued so far.