Selected Shorts
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.
Latest Episode
Ken Burns Presents Willa Cather’s America (08.01.2026)
Previous Episodes
- Introducing Explain like I'm 5
- Too Hot For Radio: Carmen Maria Machado "Persephone Rides at the End of Days"
- The Role You Were Born to Play
- A Simple Solution
- Unwrapping the Holidays
- The Quiet Part Out Loud
- Bonus: Etgar Keret and Ira Glass
- Intervention
- Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
- Just the Thing
- Meg Wolitzer Talks to Author Michael Cunningham
- It’s About Time
- Too Hot For Radio: Pam Houston "Jackson Is Only One of My Dogs"
- Tell Me More: Kathryn Nicolai
- Too Hot For Radio: Roxane Gay "Requiem for a Glass Heart"
- Bonus: A.M. Homes interviews Margaret Atwood
- Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks with Judy Blume
- A Conversation with Andy Borowitz
- Too Hot For Radio: Ottessa Moshfegh "The Weirdos"
- Picture Perfect
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