Selected Shorts
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Selected Shorts

by Symphony Space

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.

64 episodes
EN-US language
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1
Homewreckers
58:48 Mar 19, 2026
2
Meg Wolitzer Talks with Louise Erdrich
14:52 Mar 19, 2026
3
What Are the Odds?
59:24 Mar 12, 2026
4
Reality Checks
59:05 Mar 5, 2026
5
Meg Wolitzer Talks with Denis O'Hare
16:01 Mar 5, 2026
6
Too Hot For Radio: Paul La Farge "Another Life"
28:10 Mar 2, 2026
7
Haruki Murakami: Then and Now
58:34 Feb 26, 2026
8
Changing the Narrative
57:25 Feb 19, 2026
9
Problems without Solutions
58:26 Feb 12, 2026
10
I Contain Multitudes
58:41 Feb 5, 2026
11
On the Couch
58:54 Jan 29, 2026
12
To the Rescue
1:01:41 Jan 22, 2026
13
Surprising Interventions
58:53 Jan 15, 2026
14
Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America
59:33 Jan 8, 2026
15
Too Hot For Radio: Carmen Maria Machado "Persephone Rides at the End of Days"
20:38 Jan 5, 2026
16
The Role You Were Born to Play
1:02:46 Jan 1, 2026
17
A Simple Solution
59:20 Dec 25, 2025
18
Unwrapping the Holidays
58:06 Dec 18, 2025
19
The Quiet Part Out Loud
57:50 Dec 11, 2025
20
Bonus: Etgar Keret and Ira Glass
35:19 Dec 11, 2025
21
Intervention
57:46 Dec 4, 2025
22
Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
57:30 Nov 27, 2025
23
Just the Thing
57:50 Nov 20, 2025
24
Classics with a Twist
58:15 Nov 13, 2025
25
Meg Wolitzer Talks to Author Michael Cunningham
22:54 Nov 13, 2025
26
It’s About Time
59:00 Nov 6, 2025
27
Accidental Revelations
58:06 Oct 30, 2025
28
Fooling Yourself
57:14 Oct 23, 2025
29
Generation Gap
57:14 Oct 16, 2025
30
Too Hot For Radio: Pam Houston "Jackson Is Only One of My Dogs"
33:48 Oct 13, 2025
31
Off the Leash
1:03:01 Oct 9, 2025
32
Uprooted
58:15 Oct 2, 2025
33
Better with You?
59:32 Sep 25, 2025
34
The Way I See It
59:29 Sep 18, 2025
35
Tell Me More: Kathryn Nicolai
32:49 Sep 15, 2025
36
Reinventing the Wheel
59:04 Sep 11, 2025
37
Tangled Lives
56:46 Sep 4, 2025
38
Meet the Neighbors
56:14 Aug 28, 2025
39
McSweeney’s 25th Anniversary Extravaganza
58:15 Aug 21, 2025
40
Perfectly Unmatched
58:06 Aug 14, 2025
41
Come Out Swinging
59:39 Aug 7, 2025
42
Too Hot For Radio: Roxane Gay "Requiem for a Glass Heart"
38:37 Aug 4, 2025
43
Classics from The New Yorker
1:05:41 Jul 31, 2025
44
Reading Between the Lines
59:06 Jul 24, 2025
45
Sizzling Summer Travels
59:58 Jul 17, 2025
46
Sleight of Hand
58:08 Jul 10, 2025
47
Bonus: A.M. Homes interviews Margaret Atwood
17:54 Jun 26, 2025
48
Too Hot For Radio: Rachel B. Glaser "Ira and the Whale"
35:22 Jun 2, 2025
49
Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks with Judy Blume
14:59 Jan 16, 2025
50
A Conversation with Andy Borowitz
13:32 Oct 24, 2024
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