Broadcast Schedule

“The Schartz-Metterklume Method,” by Saki, performed by Marian Seldes
“Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe,” by Liliana Heker, performed by Hope Davis
“Cultural Relativity,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Regina King
“New York Day Women,” by Edwidge Danticat, performed by Laurine Towler

“Household,” by Yasunari Kawabata, translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Things We Knew When the House Caught Fire,” by David Drury, performed by Keith Szarabajka

“An Amateur’s Guide to the Night,” by Mary Robison, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by James Naughton
“Pride and Joy,” by Etgar Keret, translated by Sondra Silverston, performed by Robert Sean Leonard

“Adults Alone,” by A.M. Homes, performed by Christina Pickles
“The Knocking,” by David Means, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Love,” by Tibor Dery, translated by Ilona Duczynska, performed by Keir Dullea
“Silver Water,” by Amy Bloom, performed by Linda Lavin

“The Fall of Texas,” by Joyce Johnson, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Personal Letter No. 2,” by Sonia Sanchez, performed by Staceyann Chinn
“The Fix,” by Percival Everett, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Milestones,” by Hannah Tinti, performed by Laurie Anderson
“Wunderkind,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Kelli O’Hara

“Not Quite Home Alone,” by Krista McGruder, performed by Jacqueline Kim
“The Shared Patio,” by Miranda July, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Sphinx,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Kathleen Widdoes
“Privacy,” by Richard Ford, performed by René Auberjonois

“A Woman at the Window,” by James Lasdun, performed by Leenya Rideout
“Quadraturin,” by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov, performed by David Rakoff
“Flight,” by Deborah Joy Corey, performed by Leenya Rideout

“Life Story,” by Tenessee Williams, performed by Mia Dillon
“Violets,” by Edna O’Brien, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“The Life You Save May Be Your Own,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Lois Smith

“Strangers in the House,” by Nahid Rachlin, performed by Freda Foh Shen
“A Disappearance,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jane Kaczmarek

“Fruit and Words,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Rita Wolf
“La Conchita,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Six Days: Some Rememberings,” by Grace Paley, performed by Dana Ivey
“Dating Your Mom,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“A Plague of Tics,” by David Sedaris, performed by Robert Sean Leonard

“The Sphinx,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Kathleen Widdoes
“Minuet,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by René Auberjonois
“The Toys of Peace,” by Saki, performed by Dana Ivey
“Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” by Thomas Wolfe, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“What Happened Between Us,” by Rivka Galchen, performed by Jonathan Hadary
“Chivalry,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Christina Pickles

“The Creeping Siamese,” by Dashiell Hammett, performed by John Shea
“Make Westing,” by Jack London, performed by Steven Gilborn

“A Shock for Countess,” by C.S. Montanye, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“Katherine Comes to Yellow Sky,” by Mark Helprin, performed by Lisa Gay Hamilton

“Second-Hand Man,” by Rita Dove, performed by Audra McDonald
“The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping,” by Padgett Powell, performed by James Naughton

“The Year of Silence,” by Kevin Brockmeier, performed by Anthony Rapp
“Liberty Hall,” by Ring Lardner, performed by Christina Pickles

“Bible,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Jane Alexander
“The Appropriation of Cultures,” by Percival Everett, performed by Ruben Santiago Hudson

“The Summer People,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by René Auberjonois
“The Wrong Suitcase,” by Maeve Binchy, performed by Cynthia Nixon

“Gleason,” by Louise Erdrich, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Red,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Keith Szarabajka

“The Apology,” by Brock Clark, performed by Stephen Lang
“The Chairs,” by Joshua Ferris, performed by Ivy Austin
“Feeling Good, Feeling Fine,” by George Garrett, performed by BD Wong

“The Seventh Man,” by Haruki Murakami, performed by John Shea
“The Rememberer,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Marian Seldes

“The Long-Distance Runner,” by Grace Paley, performed by Laura Esterman
“A Conversation with My Father,” by Grace Paley, performed by Anne Pitoniak

“Alvin the Typesetter,” by Lydia Davis, performed by David Rakoff
“The Lie,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Stephen Colbert

“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith
“Pride and Joy,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” by Jeanne Dixon, performed by Mia Dillon
“Boys,” by Rick Moody, performed by BD Wong

“Adventures in Auto-eroticism,” by Neal Cassady, performed by Ted Marcoux
“Ambush,” by Tim O’Brien, performed by John Shea
“John Wayne: A Love Song,” by Joan Didion, performed by Kathleen Chalfant
“Learn a Trade,” by John Updike, performed by Paul Hecht

“Twenty Grand,” by Rebecca Curtis, performed by Jane Curtin
“Best Western,” by Anne de Marcken, performed by Laura Esterman

“A Mouthful of Cut Glass,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Lois Smith
“Blowing Shades,” by Stuart Dybek, performed by James Naughton

“Roy Spivey,” by Miranda July, performed by Amy Ryan
“Improvisation,” by Ed McBain, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“The Mathematician,” by Daniel Kehlmann, performed by BD Wong
“I Was Really Very Hungry,” by M.F.K. Fisher, performed by Christina Pickles

“The Proposition,” by David Bezmozgis, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Modern Age,” by Frances Hwang, performed by Dawn Akemi Saito

“Stump Louie,” by Lisa Halliday, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Dome,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Alec Baldwin

“Ad,” by Elizabeth Crane, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“A Piece of News,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Kathryn Markey

“No Bikini,” by Ivan E. Coyote, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Kubuku Rides (This Is It),” by Larry Brown, performed by Myra Lucretia Taylor

“Going, Going, Gone,” by Peter Blauner, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“The Purple Is Everything,” by Dorothy Salisbury Davis, performed by Christina Pickles

“Lily Daw and the Three Ladies,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Marian Seldes
“The Key,” by Eudora Welty, performed by Sloane Shelton

“Hell-Heaven,” by Jhumpa Lahiri, performed by Rita Wolf

“Good Intentions,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“Lost and Found,” by Colson Whitehead, performed by Alec Baldwin
“My Mother,” by Jamaica Kincaid, performed by Laurine Towler
“A Soldier for the Crown,” by Charles Johnson, performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

The Things They Carried (excerpt), by Tim O’Brien, performed by Dylan Baker

“Popsy,” by Stephen King, performed by Michael Imperioli
“Night Calls,” by Lisa Fugard, performed by Lisa Fugard

“Double Check,” by Thomas Walsh, performed by James Naughton
“False Alarm,” by Dave Barry, performed by Larry Keith

“Breaking and Entering,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by BD Wong

“Yurt,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Wild Plums,” by Grace Stone Coates, performed by Mia Dillon

“Dracula's Guest,” by Bram Stoker, performed by Aasif Mandvi
“The Masque of the Red Death,” by Edgar Allan Poe, performed by Fionnula Flanagan

“Sunflower Sutra,” by Allen Ginsberg, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Death of Jim Taylor,” by Elissa Hutson, performed by Boyd Gaines, introduced by Felicity Tsikiwa
“Barbara Stanwyck, It's Your Time to Shine,” by Bianca Galvez, performed by Condola Rashad, introduced by William Carrington
“Good Living,” by Aleksandar Hemon, performed by Boyd Gaines
“The Thing Around Your Neck,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Condola Rashad

Let the Great World Spin (excerpt), by Colum McCann, performed by Brian Stokes Mitchell
“Salt,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by David Strathairn

“Disco Papa,” by Karen Russell, performed by Susanna Thompson
“Departure,” by Andrew Porter, performed by Khris Lewin
“Waiting For Rusty,” by William Cole, performed by Ted Marcoux

“The Traveler,” by Wallace Stegner, performed by Jack Davidson
“Goin’ to Town,” by Wallace Stegner, performed by Lillo Way, Isaiah Sheffer, and Jack Davidson

“The Briefcase,” by Rebecca Makkai, performed by Victor Garber
“Diem Perdidi,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jayne Atkinson

"Beyond the Pale," by Joseph Epstein, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
"Ma, A Memoir," by Lynn Freed, performed by Marian Seldes