Selected Shorts

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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

Save the Date with Belletrist Book Club

Fork in the Road

Too Hot For Radio: Jonathan Lethem "The King of Sentences"

Elements of Nature

Jane Austen at 250

Tell Me More: Jodi Kantor

Extended Families

Remakes and Replicas

Selected Shorts Goes to the Movies with the Tribeca Film Festival

Best American Short Stories

Homewreckers

Meg Wolitzer Talks with Louise Erdrich

What Are the Odds?

Reality Checks

Meg Wolitzer Talks with Denis O'Hare

Too Hot For Radio: Paul La Farge "Another Life"

Haruki Murakami: Then and Now

Changing the Narrative

Problems without Solutions

I Contain Multitudes