Broadcast Schedule

“The Night the Ghost Got In,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Examining the Evidence,” by Alice Hoffman, performed by Joanna Gleason
“It Had Wings,” by Allen Gurganus, performed by Marian Seldes
“Second-Hand Man,” by Rita Dove, performed by Audra McDonald

“The H Street Sledding Record,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Keith Szarabajka
“Christmas Morning,” by Frank O'Connor, performed by Malachy McCourt
“Occurrence on the Six-Seventeen,” by George Shephard, performed by Tony Roberts
“Christmas in Qatar” (poem), by Calvin Trillin, performed by Calvin Trillin

“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“The Night in Question,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Lou Antonio
“I Know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting,” by Frank Gannon, performed by David Sedaris

“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D.H. Lawrence, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“The Book,” by Ben Loory, performed by Jane Kaczmarek

“The Writers’ Model,” by Molly Giles, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“Creative Writing,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Alex Karpovsky
“On Keeping a Notebook,” by Joan Didion, performed by Parker Posey
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Unstuck,” by John Updike, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Playing with Dynamite,” by John Updike, performed by Sally Field

“The Lie,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Stephen Colbert
“Yma Dream,” by Thomas Meehan, performed by Christine Baranski
“Pride and Prejudice,” from “Twitterature,” performed by Wyatt Cenac

“Do You Know Where I Am?” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Keir Dullea
“Game,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by David Strathairn

“Solomon's Big Day,” by Touré, performed by Daniel Alexander Jones
“Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband,” by George Saunders, performed by James Naughton
“Charles,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Lois Smith

“The Cat That Went to Trinity,” by Robertson Davies, performed by Charles Keating
“The Bells,” by Edgar Allen Poe, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Isaiah Sheffer, and Harris Yulin
“Annabel Lee,” by Edgar Allen Poe, performed by René Auberjonois, Fionnula Flanagan, Isaiah Sheffer, and Harris Yulin
“The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allen Poe, performed by Wyatt Cenac

“Homegirls on St. Nicholas Avenue,” by Sonia Sanchez, performed by Marsha Stephanie Blake
“Strike and Fade,” by Henry Dumas, performed by Francois Battiste
“Fenstad’s Mother,” by Charles Baxter, performed by Edie Falco

“I Love Girl,” by Simon Rich, performed by Michael Ian Black
“When We Lived Together In the Belly of a Whale, Some Nights Were Perfect,” by Mara Sternberg, performed by BD Wong
“Jubilation, Florida,” by N.M Kelby, performed by Amy Ryan

“The Dome,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Cretan Love Song,” by Jim Shepard, performed by Joe Morton
“Subsoil,” by Nicholas Baker, performed by Thomas Gibson

“A Ride with Olympy,” by James Thurber, preformed by David Rakoff
“The Macbeth Murder Mystery,” by James Thurber, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery,” by James Thurber, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“How to Relax While Broadcasting,” by James Thurber, performed by Eli Wallach
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, performed by Wyatt Cenac

“Here We Are,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Jane Alexander
“Just a Little One,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Dana Ivey
“The Waltz,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Parker Posey

Bonfire of the Vanities (excerpt), by Tom Wolfe, performed by Danny Burstein
“Xingu,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Christina Pickles

“The Baby-Sitter,” by Jane Yolen, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, performed by Dick Cavett
“The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Jamey Sheridan
“The Wood Duck,” by James Thurber, performed by Malachy McCourt

“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Stephen Colbert
“The Catbird Seat,” by James Thurber, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“Cathedral,” by Raymond Carver, performed by James Naughton
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“You Were Perfectly Fine,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Aya Cash and David Furr
“Unprotected,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“The Day the Dam Broke,” by James Thurber, performed by Alec Baldwin
“Center of the Universe,” by Simon Rich, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Tablecloth of Turin,” by Ron Carlson, performed by Edi Gathegi

“Starting from Happy,” by Patricia Marx, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Occupy Jen’s Street,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“Audio Tour,” by Patricia Marx, performed by Anna Chlumsky
“The Swim Team,” by Miranda July, performed by Parker Posey
“The Meeting,” by Aimee Bender, performed by Kate Burton

“Art of Cake,” by Michael Chabon, performed by David Furr
“True Loves,” by Mark Strand, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Trash Kites,” by Justin Torres, performed by Colman Domingo

“Glittery Eyes,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Parker Posey
“What Animal Are You?” by Etgar Keret, performed by Willem Dafoe
“Sixty-Nine Cents,” by Gary Shteyngart, performed by Alex Karpovsky
“Flying Carpets,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Billy Campbell

“It’s Six A.M., Do You Know Where You Are?” by Jay McInerney, performed by Jeremy Shamos
“Red from Green,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Patricia Kalember

“Sir Henry,” by Lydia Millet, performed by John Lithgow
“Some Contemporary Characters,” by Rick Moody, performed by Mike Birbiglia and Aya Cash

“Customer Service at the Karaoke Don Quixote,” by Juan Martinez, performed by Nate Corddry
“Ziggurat,” by Stephen O’Connor, performed by Tim Curry

“In Dreams Become Responsibilities,” by Delmore Schwartz, performed by Leonard Nimoy
“The Lover of Horses,” by Tess Gallagher, performed by Kate Burton

“Beg, SI Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep (Begin, Slip Together, Increase, Continue, Repeat),” by Amy Hempel, performed by Anika Noni Rose
“Sarah’s Story,” by Galina Vroman, performed by Jane Curtin

“Scenes from a Life,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“The Vow,” by Sherman Alexie, performed by Amber Tamblyn
“People Are Becoming Clouds,” by Joe Meno, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Storm,” by Kate Chopin, performed by Jane Curtin

“The Grid,” by Rick Moody, performed by Josh Radnor
“Anaconda,” by Martha McPhee, performed by Lindsay Crouse

“The History of Everything Including You,” by Jenny Hollowell, performed by Kyra Sedgwick
“Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” by Paul Broks, performed by Jane Curtin
“Getting Closer,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Everything That Rises Must Converge,” by Flannery O’Connor, performed by Estelle Parsons
“Jesus is Waiting,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Stuart Masterson

“Where the Door is Always Open and the Welcome Mat is Out,” by Patricia Highsmith, performed by Tandy Cronyn
“Powder,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried,” by Amy Hempel, performed by Mary Beth Hurt
“The Night in Question,” by Tobias Wolff, performed by Lou Antonio
“I Know What I'm Doing About All the Attention I've Been Getting,” by Frank Gannon, performed by David Sedaris

“Here We Are,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Jane Alexander
“Just a Little One,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Dana Ivey
“The Waltz,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Parker Posey

“Cryptology,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by David Rakoff
“Gomez Palacio,” by Roberto Bolano, performed by David Rakoff

“Central Park,” by Colson Whitehead, performed by Leonard Nimoy
Bad Boy (excerpt), by Walter Dean Myers, performed by Eric Poindexter
“My Little Bit of Country,” by Susan Cheever, performed by Debra Monk
“The Green Fields of the Mind,” by A. Bartlett Giamatti, performed by A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Leaving for Kenosha,” by Richard Ford, performed by David Strathairn

“The Distance of the Moon,” by Italo Calvino, performed by Liev Schreiber
“All Summer in a Day,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Michael Cerveris

“Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum,” by P.G. Wodehouse, performed by Jim Dale
“A Little Dinner Before the Play” (selection), by Agnes Jekyll, performed by Chip Kidd
“Below Stairs” (selection), by Margaret Powell, performed by Jayne Houdyshell
“The Reticence of Lady Anne,” by Saki, performed by BD Wong

“The Baby-Sitter,” by Jane Yolen, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” by James Thurber, performed by Dick Cavett
“The Pedestrian,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Jamey Sheridan
“The Wood Duck,” by James Thurber, performed by Malachy McCourt

“Reeling for the Empire,” by Karen Russell, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“The Dodo,” by Ben Loory, performed by André Holland
“The Secretary,” by Deborah Willis, performed by Arian Moayed

“Cathedral,” by Raymond Carver, performed by James Naughton
“I Dated Jane Austen,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Vanilla Bright Like Eminem,” by Michel Faber, performed by Daniel Gerroll
“North Country,” by Roxane Gay, performed by Adepero Oduye

Bonfire of the Vanities (excerpt), by Tom Wolfe, performed by Danny Burstein
“Xingu,” by Edith Wharton, performed by Christina Pickles

“Fires,” by Rick Bass, performed by Ted Marcoux
“A Singer's Romance,” by Willa Cather, performed by Marian Seldes
“What Do We Have in our Pockets?” by Etgar Keret, performed by David Rakoff

“The Rocking-Horse Winner,” by D.H. Lawrence, performed by Fionnula Flanagan
“The Book,” by Ben Loory, performed by Jane Kaczmarek

“Miracle Polish,” by Steven Millhauser, performed by Paul Hecht
“The Open Window,” by Saki, performed by Tandy Cronyn

“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Stephen Colbert
“The Catbird Seat,” by James Thurber, performed by Leonard Nimoy

“Melisande,” by Edith Nesbit, performed by Jane Curtin
“Fault Lines,” by Barbara Kingsolver, performed by Jill Eikenberry

“The Monkey’s Paw,” by W.W. Jacobs, performed by John Lithgow
“Two Words,” by Isabel Allende, performed by Lisa Fugard

“Ed Has His Mind Improved,” by Walter R. Brooks, performed by Tony Roberts
“Exchange,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Rochelle Oliver
“Dreamtigers,” by Jorge Luis Borges, performed by Isaiah Sheffer