2007/2008 National Radio Series Reading List

Program 1: Week of October 6 - October 12, 2007
Various authors, Baseball Haiku, read by Alec Baldwin and Isaiah Sheffer
From: Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game (W.W. Norton)
T.C. Boyle, "The Hector Quesadilla Story," read by Jerry Zaks
From: T.C. Boyle: Stories (Viking)
Lawrence S. Ritter, "The Glory of Their Times" excerpt, read by Jonathan Rubinstein
From: The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It (Harper)
Rolphe Humphries, "Polo Grounds," read by Fritz Weaver
From: Baseball: A Literary Anthology, edited by Nicholas Dawidoff (The Library of America)

Program 2: Week of October 13 - October 19, 2007
Eudora Welty, "Why I Live at the P.O.," read by Stockard Channing
From: Welty: Stories, Essays, & Memoir (The Library of America) (Other stories by Welty on CD)
Juan José Millás, "Other Persons," read by James Naughton
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond, edited by Robert Shapard & James Thomas (Norton)
Lynn Freed, "Ma, A Memoir," read by Marian Seldes
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond, edited by Robert Shapard & James Thomas (Norton)
Melodie Edwards, "The Bird Woman," read by Kelli O'Hara, Unpublished

Program 3: Week of October 20 - October 26, 2007
Sherman Alexie, "Indian Country," read by John Lithgow
From: The Toughest Indian in the World (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Program 4: Week of October 27 - November 2, 2007
Harry Mathews, "Country Cooking from Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double)," read by Isaiah Sheffer
Collected in: The Next American Essay, edited by John D'Agata (Graywolf Press)
Laurie Colwin, "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant," read by Kelli O'Hara
From: Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen (Perennial)

Program 5: Week of November 3 - November 9, 2007
Ernest Hemingway, "A Clean Well-Lighted Place," read by Ron Cephas Jones
From: The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories (Scribner)
Haruki Murakami, "The Little Green Monster," read by Dana Ivey
From: The Elephant Vanishes (Vintage)
Ernest Hemingway, "After the Storm," read by John Turturro
From: The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories (Scribner)

Program 6: Week of November 10 - November 16, 2007
Hanna Krall, "The Woman from Hamburg," translated by Madeline G. Levine, read by Hope Davis
From: The Woman from Hamburg and Other True Stories (Other Press)
Nadine Gordimer, "The First Sense," read by Joanna Gleason
From: The New Yorker (December 18, 2006 / www.newyorker.com)
Ethan Canin, "Vivian, Fort Barnwell," read by Steven Gilborn
From: DoubleTake (Fall 1998)

Program 7: Week of November 17 - November 23, 2007
Anton Chekhov, "An Enigmatic Nature," translated by Constance Garnett, read by Fionnula Flanagan
From: The Tales of Chekhov, Volume 10: The Horse Stealers and Other Stories (Ecco Press)
Edna O'Brien, "Brother," read by Fionnula Flanagan
From: Lantern Slides (Penguin)
Tobias Wolff, "Awaiting Orders," read by Michael Cerveris
From: The New Yorker (July 25, 2005 / www.newyorker.com)

Program 8: Week of November 24 - November 30, 2007
Joseph Conrad, "Initiation," read by Tony Roberts
Collected in: The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (Oxford University Press)
Robert King, "Country Miles," read by Marian Seldes
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond, edited by Robert Shapard & James Thomas (Norton)

Program 9: Week of December 1 - December 7, 2007
Mavis Gallant, "Grippes et Poche," read by the author
From: The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant (Bloomsbury)

Program 10: Week of December 8 - December 14, 2007
Mary Gordon, "Storytelling," read by Lindsay Crouse
From: The Stories of Mary Gordon (Pantheon)
V.S. Pritchett, "Just a Little More," read by Rene Auberjonois
From: Essential Stories (The Modern Library)

Program 11: Week of December 15 - December 21, 2007
Kiran Desai, "The Sermon in the Guava Tree," read by Tazewell Thompson
From: Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Anchor)
Etgar Keret, "Crazy Glue," translated by Miriam Schlesinger, read by Chris Sarandon
From: The Nimrod Flip-Out (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Y. Camacho, "Buses and Subways," read by Isaiah Sheffer, Unpublished
S. Sharma, "The Cell of Silence," read by Sonia Manzano, Unpublished
W. Santalis, "Untitled," read by Sydia Cedeño, Unpublished
Maria Lakatosz, "Hardworking Mother Haiku," read by Michael Keck, Unpublished

Program 12: Week of December 22 - December 28, 2007
Ann Beattie, "What Was Mine," read by John Shea
From: What Was Mine and Other Stories (Vintage)
Merrill Markoe, "A Conversation with My Dogs," read by Patricia Kalember
From: What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned (Villard)
Collected in: The Greatest Dog Stories Ever Told, edited by Patricia M. Sherwood (Gramercy)
Saki, "The Occasional Garden," read by Daniel Gerroll
Collected in: The Garden of Reading: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Short Fiction About Gardens and Gardeners, edited by Michele Slung (Overlook Duckworth)

Program 13: Week of December 30, 2007 - January 4, 2008
Pam Houston, "How to Talk to a Hunter," read by Mia Dillon
From: Cowboys Are My Weakness (W.W. Norton)
Allan Gurganus, "It Had Wings," read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: White People (Vintage) (Buy this story now! On CD read by Marian Seldes)
Rick Bass, "The Canoeists," read by Neil Patrick Harris
From: The Lives of Rocks (Houghton Mifflin)
James Thurber, "A Ride with Olympy," read by David Rakoff
From: The Thurber Carnival (HarperCollins) (Buy this story now! On CD | Other stories by Thurber on CD | Cassette )

Program 14: Week of January 5 – January 11, 2008
Edith Wharton, “The Dilettante,” read by Brenda Wehle
Edith Wharton, “The Muse’s Tragedy,” read by David Strathairn (Other Wharton stories on CD | Timeless Classics)
Both from: The Muse’s Tragedy and Other Stories (Signet Classics)

Program 15: Week of January 12 – January 18, 2008
Calvin Trillin, “Dissed Fish,” read by the author
From: The New Yorker (September 6, 2004 / www.newyorker.com)
Luis Alberto Urrea, “Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses,” read by Robert Sean Leonard
From: Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction (Cinco Puntos Press)

Program 16: Week of January 19 – January 25, 2008
Teolinda Gersão, “The Red Fox Fur Coat,” translated by Margaret Jull Costa, read by Kathleen Chalfant
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond (Norton) (Buy this story now! On CD read by Marian Seldes)
Karen Russell, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” introduced by Stephen King, read by Joanna Gleason
From: The Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Stephen King (Houghton Mifflin)

Program 17: Week of January 26 – February 1, 2008
Aimee Bender, “Drunken Mimi,” read by Bernadette Quigley
From: The Girl with the Flammable Skirt (Anchor Books)
Aimee Bender, “Death Watch,” read by Bernadette Quigley
From: Willful Creatures (Doubleday)
Etgar Keret, “Your Man,” translated by Miriam Shlesinger, read by David Rakoff
Etgar Keret, “Shooting Tuvia,” translated by Miriam Shlesinger, read by David Rakoff (Other stories by Keret: Lots of Laughs | Family Matters)
Both from: The Nimrod Flipout (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Program 18: Week of February 2 – February 8, 2008
Abigail Thomas, “Sleeping with Dogs on a King Size Bed,” read by Rochelle Oliver
Unpublished
Amy Hempel, “The Dog of the Marriage,” read by Joan Allen
From: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (Scribner)
*T.C. Boyle, “Heart of a Champion,” read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: T.C. Boyle Stories (Penguin) (Buy this story now! Other stories by T.C. Boyle: Baseball | Food Fictions)

Program 19: Week of February 9 – February 15, 2008
Alice Hoffman, “Examining the Evidence,” read by Joanna Gleason
From: Local Girls (Berkeley)
Laurie Colwin, “An Old Fashioned Story,” read by Mia Dillon (Other stories by Laurie Colwin on CD | Cassette)
From: The Lone Pilgrim (HarperCollins)

Program 20: Week of February 16 – February 22, 2008
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost and others, selected poems, read by John Lithgow and Bill Irwin
From: The Poets’ Corner: The One-And-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family (Grand Central Publishing)
W.W. Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw,” read by John Lithgow
From: The Monkey’s Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by W.W. Jacobs, compiled by Gary Hoppenstand (Academy Chicago Publishers)

Program 21: Week of February 23 – February 29, 2008
*Ron Carlson, “Towel Season,” read by James Naughton
From: At the Jim Bridger (Picador) (Other Stories by Carlson On CD)
Ha Jin, “Bad Joke,” read by B.D. Wong
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond (W.W. Norton)

Program 22: Week of March 1 – March 7, 2008
Eudora Welty, “A Curtain of Green” read by Frances Sternhagen
From: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (Harcourt)
Anton Chekhov, “Concerning Love,” translated by Ronald Hingley, read by Joe Morton (Other stories by Chekhov on CD | Cassette)
From: The Russian Master and Other Stories (Oxford University Press World’s Classics)

Program 23: Week of March 8 – March 14, 2008
David Schickler, “Wes Amerigo’s Giant Fear” read by Isaiah Sheffer (Other stories by Schickler: Getting There From Here | Lots of Laughs)
From: The New Yorker (March 17, 2003 / www.newyorker.com
Miranda Mellis, “The Doctor of Mental Health,” read by David Rakoff
From: McSweeney’s (Issue #16 / http://store.mcsweeneys.net/)

Program 24: Week of March 15 – March 21, 2008
Readings and Remarks by Cynthia Ozick, Lois Smith, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Joyce Carol Oates and Grace Paley (Buy stories from this program on special CD collection, The Rea Award for the Short Story)

Program 25: Week of March 22 – March 28, 2008
Readings and Remarks by John Edgar Wideman, Joy Williams, Tobias Wolff, John Updike and Campbell Scott

Program 26: Week of March 29 – April 4, 2008
Saki, “The Schartz-Metterklume Method” read by Marian Seldes
From: The Complete Saki (Penguin Twentith-Century Classics)
T.C. Boyle, “I Dated Jane Austen” read by Isaiah Sheffer (Other stories by T.C. Boyle on Baseball, Food Fictions, Pets!)
From: T.C. Boyle Stories (Penguin Books)
Jonathan Safran Foer, “The Sixth Borough” read by Jerry Zaks
Published in: The New York Times (September 17, 2004)
Part of the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Mariner Books)
Donald Barthelme, “Game” read by David Strathairn
From: Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Program 27: Week of April 5 – April 11, 2008
*Alice McDermott, “Enough,” read by Kathleen Chalfant (Buy this story now on Food Fictions or Fictions For Our Times)
From: The New Yorker (April 10, 2000 / www.newyorker.com)
Jane Fonda, “On Golden Pond,” read by the author
From: My Life So Far (Random House)

Program 28: Week of April 12 – April 18, 2008
The Brothers Grimm, “The Old Woman in the Wood,” read by Stockard Channing
From: The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales (The Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
Saudin bin Labutau as told to Agnes Keith, “An Aborigine Among the Skyscrapers,” read by Michael Keck
Collected in: In Search of Eden, edited by Leo Hamalian (Mentor Books) (out of print)
Philip K. Dick, “Beyond Lies the Wub,” read by Denis O’Hare
From: The Best of Philip K. Dick (Del Ray)
George Saunders, “My Flamboyant Grandson,” read by Harris Yulin
From: In Persuasion Nation (Riverhead)

Program 29: Week of April 19 – April 25, 2008
Milt Gross, “De Smot Billy-Gut,” read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: Dunt Esk!! (Grossett and Dunlap) (out of print)
Dalton Trumbo, “To William Hunt, the Franklin Hotel, Rochester, Minnesota” read by James Naughton
Collected in: Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo 1942-1962, edited by Helen Manfull (M. Evans and Company, Inc.) (out of print)
Jorge Luis Borges, “Dreamtigers,” translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley, read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: Collected Fictions (Penguin)

Program 30: Week of April 26 – May 2, 2008
J. Robert Lennon, “Eight Pieces for the Left Hand,” read by Stephen Lang
From: Pieces for the Left Hand (Granta)
with Ned Rorem, “United States: Seven Viewpoints for String Quartet,” performed by the Ying Quartet
James Thurber, “The Wood Duck,” read by Malachy McCourt (Other stories by Thurber on CD | Cassette)
From: The Thurber Carnival (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Other stories by Thurber On CD (http://www.symphonyspace.org/store/item/1) On Cassette
(http://www.symphonyspace.org/store/item/15)

Program 31: Week of May 3 – May 9, 2008
Chris Offutt, “Second Hand,” read by Mary Beth Hurt
Collected in: Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South, selected by Anne Tyler and edited by Shannon Ravenel (Algonquin)
M.T. Sharif, “The Letter Writer,” read by Joe Morton
Collected in: The Best American Short Stories 1989, edited by Margaret Atwood and Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin)

Program 32: Week of May 10 – May 16, 2008
Aimee Bender, “The Meeting,” read by Paul Hecht
From: Willful Creatures (Doubleday)
Shahrnush Parsipur, “Mrs. Farrokhlaqa Sadraldivan Golchehreh,” translated from the Persian by Kamran Talattoff and Jocelyn Sharlet, read by Frances Sternhagen
From: Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran (The Feminist Press at CUNY)
*Etgar Keret, “Pride and Joy,” translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston, read by Robert Sean Leonard (Buy this story now | Buy other stories by Karet
From: The Nimrod Flipout (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Program 33: Week of May 17 – May 23, 2008
*Tom Bissell, “War Wounds,” read by Oskar Eustis (Buy this story now)
From: The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (Pantheon)

Program 34: Week of May 24 – May 30, 2008
Walter R. Brooks, “Ed Has His Mind Improved,” read by Tony Roberts
Collected in: In the Stacks, edited by Michael Cart (Overlook)
Mark Helprin, “Palais de Justice,” read by Keir Dullea (Buy this story now)
From: Ellis Island and Other Stories (Harvest Books)

Program 35: Week of May 31 – June 6, 2008
John Updike, “Learn a Trade,” read by Paul Hecht (Buy other stories by Updike on Baseball or Lots of Laughs
From: Trust Me (Ballantine Books)

Yiyun Li, “Extra,” read by Lois Smith
From: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Random House)

Program 36: Week of June 7 – June 13, 2008
Brian Evenson, “Mudder Tongue,” read by David Strathairn
From: McSweeney’s (Issue 16 / http://store.mcsweeneys.net/ )
Kenneth Grahame, “Mr. Badger,” read by Samantha Eggar
From: The Wind in the Willows (Aegypan)

Program 37: Week of June 14 – June 20, 2008
Italo Calvino, “A General in the Library,” read by Isaiah Sheffer
Ray Bradbury, “Exchange,” read by Rochelle Oliver
Both collected in: In the Stacks, edited by Michael Cart (Overlook)
Edith Wharton, “A Backward Glance: Henry James,” read by Brenda Wehle (Buy other stories by Wharton)
Collected in: Edith Wharton: Novellas & Other Writings (Library of America, Volume 47)

Program 38: Week of June 21 – June 27, 2008
Jhumpa Lahiri, “The Long Way Home,” read by Shohreh Aghdashloo (Buy other stories by Lahiri)
From: The New Yorker (September 6, 2004 / www.newyorker.com)
*Anton Chekhov, “Indigestion,” translated by Peter Constantine, read by Bradley Whitford (Buy this story now)
From: The New Yorker (December 23, 1996 / www.newyorker.com)
*Damon Runyon, “A Piece of Pie,” read by John Shea (Buy this story now)
From: Guys and Dolls: The Stories of Damon Runyon (Penguin)

Program 39: Week of June 28 – July 4, 2008
James Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” read by Dick Cavett (Other stories by Thurber on CD | Cassette)
From: My World – and Welcome To It (Harcourt) (Out of Print)
Roy Blount, Jr., “Things in the Wrong Hands,” read by Isaiah Sheffer (Buy this story now)
From: Crackers (Ballantine)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Renascence,” read by Barbara Feldon
From: Renascence, and Other Poems (Harper)
Chinua Achebe, “The Voter,” read by Arthur French
From: Girls at War and Other Stories (Anchor Books)

Program 40: Week of July 5 – July 12, 2008
*Molly Giles, “Pie Dance,” read by Kate Burton
From: Rough Translations (University of Georgia Press)
Collected in: You’ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe, edited by Ron Hansen (Harper Perennial) Buy This Story Now! On (http://www.symphonyspace.org/store/item/26)
Calvin Trillin, “Grandfather Knows Best,” read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: Feeding a Yen (Random House)
Laurie Colwin, “Why I Love Cookbooks,” read by Jane Kaczmarek (Other stories by Colwin on CD | Cassette)
From: More Home Cooking (Harper Perennial)

Program 41: Week of July 12 – July 18, 2008
Edith Wharton, “The Eyes,” read by Charles Keating (Other stories by Wharton on CD)
From: Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1891-1910 (Library of America)
Other Stories by Wharton (http://www.symphonyspace.org/store/item/22)

Program 42: Week of July 19 – July 25, 2008
Captain Ryan Kelly, “A Quick Look at Who Is Fighting This War,” read by Chris Chalk
Staff Sergeant Parker Gyokeres, “Camp Muckamungus,” read by Isaiah Sheffer
Specialist Ross Cohen, “Khost-Gardez,” read by Matthew Modine
Captain Michael Lang, “Reflections,” read by Isaiah Sheffer
Sergeant Dena Price Van den Bosch, “Brotherhood,” read by Joan Allen
Staff Sargeant Jack Lewis, “Road Work,” read by Stephen Lang
Commander Kathleen Toomey Jabs, “Safekeeping,” read by Joan Allen
Lieutenant Colonel Chris Cohoes, “Dear Boys,” read by Matthew Modine
Above eight collected in: Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families edited by Andrew Carroll (Random House)

Program 43: Week of July 26 – August 1, 2008
Rishi Reddi, “Justice Shiva Ram Murthy,” read by Aasif Mandvi
From: Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi (Harper Perennial)
Collected in: The Best American Short Stories 2005, edited by Michael Chabon (Houghton Mifflin)
Leigh Allison Wilson, “Bullhead,” by Leigh Allison Wilson
Collected in: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond (Norton)

Program 44: Week of August 2 – August 8, 2008
Edith Wharton, “The Debt,” read by David Strathairn (Other stories by Wharton on CD)
From: Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1891-1910 (Library of America)
Maile Meloy, “Acqua Boulevard,” read by Isaiah Sheffer (Other stories by Meloy: Falling in Love | Wartime Lives)
From: Half in Love: Stories (Scribner)

Program 45: Week of August 9 – August 15, 2008
*Roald Dahl, “Taste,” read by John Lithgow (Buy this story now on CD | Cassette)
From: Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (Everyman’s Library)
James Thurber, “How to Tell a Fine Old Wine,” read by Raphael Sbarge (Buy this story now on CD | Cassette)
From: The New Yorker (February 24, 1934 / www.newyorker.com)

Program 46: Week of August 16 – August 22, 2008
David Means, “The Secret Goldfish,” read by Charles Keating
From: The Secret Goldfish: Stories (HarperCollins)
Sherwood Anderson, “The Other Woman,” read by Keir Dullea
From: The Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories (BiblioBazaar)

Program 47: Week of August 23 – August 29, 2008
John Cheever, “The Trouble of Marcie Flint,” read by Fritz Weaver (Other stories by Cheever on CD | Cassette)
From: The Stories of John Cheever (Vintage)

Program 48: Week of August 30 – September 5, 2008
Lyudmilla Ignatenko as told to Svetlana Alexievich, “A Solitary Human Voice,” translated by Keith Gessen, read by Stockard Channing
From: Voices from Chernobyl (Picador)
Sherman Alexie, “Do You Know Where I Am?” read by Keir Dullea
From: Ten Little Indians (Grove)

Program 49: Week of September 6 – September 12, 2008
*Benjamin Percy, “Refresh, Refresh” read by Ted Marcoux (Buy this story now)
From: Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf Press)
Collected in: The Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Ann Patchett (Houghton Mifflin)
Billie Hill-Hunt, “Buzz Saw,” read by Joan Allen
Sergeant Brian Turner, “Ashbah,” read by Chris Chalk
Sergeant Brian Turner, “The Baghdad Zoo,” read by Stephen Lang
Sergeant Michael A. Thomas, “3 A.M. in Bangor, Maine,” read by Stephen Lang
Above four collected in: Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families edited by Andrew Carroll (Random House)

Program 50: Week of September 13 – September 19, 2008
*T.C. Boyle, “Sorry Fugu,” read by Tony Roberts (Buy this story | Other stories by Boyle on Baseball, Pets!)
From: T.C. Boyle Stories (Penguin)

Program 51: Week of September 20 – September 26, 2008
Stuart Dybek, “Killing Time” and “Insomnia,” read by Jim True-Frost
From: the “Nighthawks” section of The Coast of Chicago (Picador) (Buy other stories by Dybek on CD )
Nelson Algren, “He Couldn’t Boogie-Woogie Worth a Damn,” read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: The Neon Wilderness (Seven Stories Press)

Program 52: Week of September 27 – October 3, 2008
Andrew Lam, “The Palmist,” read by David Strathairn
From: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond (Norton)
Elizabeth Crane, “Football,” read by Martha Lavey
From: All This Heavenly Glory (Little, Brown and Company)
Jeanne Dixon, “Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” read by Mia Dillon
Collected in: The Best of Montana’s Short Fiction, edited by Willian Kittredge and Allen Morris Jones (Lyons Press)
Lan Samantha Chang, “Water Names,” read by Dawn Akemi Saito
From: Hunger (Norton)