Broadcast Schedule

“Waiting for the Miracle,” by Lara Vapnyar, performed by David Costabile
“Beyond Lies the Wub,” by Philip K. Dick, performed by Denis O’Hare

“Interview with God,” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, performed by James Naughton and Jayne Atkinson
“The Fir Tree,” by Hans Christian Andersen, performed by James Naughton
“A Present for Big Saint Nick,” by Kurt Vonnegut, performed by Tate Donovan

“The Broken Side-view Mirror” from Avenue of Mysteries, by John Irving, performed by Yul Vazquez
In One Person (excerpt), by John Irving, performed by Michael C. Hall
“Unhappy Mothers” from A Widow for One Year, by John Irving, performed by Heather Burns

“How to Travel with a Salmon,” by Umberto Eco, performed by Jin Ha
“Marabou,” by Joy Williams, performed by Michael Emerson
“The Twenty-Sixth Second,” by George Fox, performed by Linda Lavin
“The Hat,” by Patrick Modiano, performed by Robert Sean Leonard

“The Juniper Tree,” by Lorrie Moore, performed by Jill Eikenberry
“The Possibility of Evil,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Dana Ivey

“Top of the Food Chain,” by T.C. Boyle, performed by Zach Grenier
“A Prize for Every Player,” by A.M. Homes, performed by Jane Curtin

“Matrilineal,” by Tessa Hadley, performed by Patricia Kalember
“In the Country,” by Guy de Maupassant, performed by Thomas Gibson

“A Drama,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Rapture,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Robin Miles, Sam Underwood, Rainn Wilson, and Di Zhu
“Verotchka,” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Rainn Wilson
“Which Is Better?” by Anton Chekhov, performed by Rainn Wilson

“The Voter,” by Chinua Achebe, performed by Arthur French
“Occupy Jen’s Street,” by Simon Rich, performed by Wyatt Cenac
“Taking Ms. Kezee to the Polls,” by David Haynes, performed by Michael Genét

“Prologue to Middletown,” by Will Eno, performed by Cecil Baldwin
“The Beautiful Stranger,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Cecil Baldwin
“Lab Coats,” by Yoko Ogawa, performed by Marin Ireland
“List of Cross-Dressing Soldiers,” by Patricia Lockwood, performed by Dylan Marron
“Go Back to the Telephone Booth, Clark Kent, Clark Kent,” by Sarah Levy, performed by Sarah Levy, Meg Bashwiner, and Dylan Marron
“Texts from Peter Pan,” by Daniel Mallory Ortberg, performed by Dylan Marron and Mara Wilson

“The Orange,” by Benjamin Rosenbaum, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
“The Man, The Restaurant, and the Eiffel Tower,” by Ben Loory, performed by Stana Katic
“I, Gentile,” by David Gordon, performed by Michael Urie

“Yancey,” by Ann Beattie, performed by Mia Dillon
“The Mappist,” by Barry Lopez, performed by Joe Spano

“Breadman,” by J. Robert Lennon, performed by Kyle MacLachlan
An excerpt from Heartburn by Nora Ephron, performed by Joan Allen

“The Suitcase,” by Meron Hadero, performed by Renée Elise Goldsberry
“Bridge,” by Daniel J. O’Malley, performed by Joan Allen
“The Great Silence,” by Ted Chiang, performed by Elizabeth Rodriguez

“Feeding the Fussy,” by Laurie Colwin, performed by Tracee Chimo
“Home Turf,” by Kiran Desai, performed by Angel Desai
“Watkyn, Comma,” by Joan Aiken, performed by Sonia Manzano

“The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross,” by Henry Slesar, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Head Over Knees,” by Eric Schlich, performed by Robert Sean Leonard
“Dornicka and the St. Martin’s Day Goose,” by Helen Oyeyemi, performed by Colby Minifie

“Dog,” by Richard Russo, performed by Stephen Lang
“Tobermory,” by Saki, performed by René Auberjonois
“Take It from Cats,” by Helen Ellis, performed by Maria Dizzia
“Roslyn’s Dog,” by Arthur Bradford, performed by John Benjamin Hickey

“I Am the Bear,” by Wendy Brenner, performed by Kate Walsh
“All the Time We Have,” by David Rakoff, performed by Denis O’Hare
“Good Bones,” by Maggie Smith, performed by Busy Philipps

“Jane Eyre (excerpt),” by Charlotte Brontë, performed by Joanna Gleason
“Reader, She Married Me,” by Sally Vickers, performed by Chris Sarandon
“The Orphan Exchange,” by Audrey Niffenegger, performed by Tovah Feldshuh

“The Strawberry Window,” by Ray Bradbury, performed by Boyd Gaines
“Hell Diving Women” by Megan Mayhew Bergman, performed by Anika Noni Rose

“Second Hand,” by Andrés Neuman, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Dinner on the Rocks,” by Dawn Powell, performed by Christina Pickles
“Fortune Cookie,” by Hubert Selby, Jr., performed by Michael Imperioli

“The Parents,” by Kelly Cherry, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“The Women,” by Tom Barbash, performed by Michael Imperioli
“The Garlic War,” performed by Annie Proulx, performed by Shohreh Aghdashloo

“God Bless America,” by Steve Almond, performed by Michael Urie
“The Isles of Dr. Moreau,” by Heather O’Neill, performed by Valorie Curry

“Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer,” by S.J. Perelman, performed by James Naughton
“Shiftless Little Loafers,” by Susan Orlean, performed by Dave Hill
“The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message, or the Asp Strikes Again,” by Jean Shepherd, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“Awake,” by Jenny Allen, performed by Jane Kaczmarek

“The Princess Who Stood On Her Own 2 Feet,” by Jeanne Desy, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Beauty and the Beast or The Enormous Wound,” by Clarice Lispector, performed by Kate Burton

“Flotsam,” by Diane Cook, performed by Melora Hardin
“Paranoia,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Thomas Gibson
“A Tree, A Rock, a Cloud,” by Carson McCullers, performed by Lance Reddick

“The Walk,” by Elizabeth Strout, performed by Ellen Burstyn
“Listen,” by Susan Minot, performed by Jennifer Ikeda and Khris Lewin
“Speak! Speak!” by Julia Alvarez, performed by Selenis Leyva
“Lines to Ida B. Wells,” by Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman, performed by Crystal Dickinson
“Speech Delivered to Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio” (excerpt), by Sojourner Truth, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“Afmerica,” by Mary E. Ashe Lee, performed by Kaneza Schaal

“Tough as Bob War and Other Stuff,” by Molly Ivins, performed by Judith Ivey
“The Pony Problem,” by Sloane Crosley, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Waltz,” by Dorothy Parker, performed by Parker Posey
“Lamentations of the Father,” by Ian Frazier, performed by Isaiah Sheffer

“Snow Blind,” by Elizabeth Strout, performed by Melora Hardin
“August Evening,” by Joyce Carol Oates, performed by Sonia Manzano
“Half a Day,” by Naguib Mahfouz, performed by Bruce Altman

“Pie Dance,” by Molly Giles, performed by Cynthia Nixon
“Madame Lazarus,” by Maile Meloy, performed by René Auberjonois

“Jerry and Molly and Sam,” by Raymond Carver, performed by Ana Gasteyer
“Breaking the Pig,” by Etgar Keret, performed by Campbell Scott
“A Pale Pink Roast,” by Grace Paley, performed by Linda Lavin

“What We Talk About When We Talk About Doughnuts,” by Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwarz, performed by Joey Slotnick
“The Office Party,” by Corey Ford, performed by Jordan Klepper
“The Sorrows of Gin,” by John Cheever, performed by Kathleen Chalfant

“Miss Marple Tells a Story,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Lois Smith
“Accident,” by Agatha Christie, performed by Hugh Dancy
With commentary by Megan Abbott

“Apocalypse,” by Jack Handey, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Encounters with Unexpected Animals,” by Bret Anthony Johnston, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“The Wish,” by Roald Dahl, performed by Pablo Schreiber
“Indianapolis (Highway 74),” by Sam Shepard, performed by Bryan Cranston

“The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl, performed by Sam Underwood
“Four O’Clock,” by Price Day, performed by Zachary Quinto
“Perchance to Dream,” by Charles Beaumont, performed by Zach Grenier

“Wedding Announcement,” by Colin Nissan, performed by John Cameron Mitchell
“The Eyes of the Soul,” by Michel Faber, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Lime Pickle,” by James Lasdun, performed by David Schwimmer

“Last Night,” by James Salter, performed by Amy Ryan
“Joplin and Dickens,” by Padgett Powell, performed by John Cameron Mitchell

“Yeltsin Dancing,” by Padgett Powell, performed by Arian Moayed
“State Facts for the New Age,” by Amy Sauber, performed by Amy Ryan
“Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby,” by Donald Barthelme, performed by Joe Grifasi

“The Smoking Room,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Cristin Milioti
“Company for Dinner,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Stephen Kunken
“The Bus,” by Shirley Jackson, performed by Paul Giamatti

“Bee Beard,” by Ryan Boudinot, performed by Tony Hale
“The Dummy,” by Susan Sontag, performed by Justin Kirk
“The Swim Team,” by Miranda July, performed by Parker Posey

“Ancient Rome,” by Kyle McCarthy, performed by Tavi Gevinson
“The Thing Around Your Neck,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, performed by Condola Rashad

“Brothers,” by Sherwood Anderson, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Diem Perdidi,” by Julie Otsuka, performed by Jayne Atkinson

“The Texas Principessa,” by William Goyen, performed by Doris Roberts
“Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish,” by David Rakoff, performed by Jackie Hoffman
“The Canoeists,” by Rick Bass, performed by Neil Patrick Harris

“The Pangs of Love,” by Jane Gardam, performed by Jane Kaczmarek
“Hat Trick,” by Edith Pearlman, performed by Sharon Gless

“Charity” (excerpt), by Joy Williams, performed by Patricia Kalember
“Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child,” by Joy Williams, performed by David Rakoff
“Escapes,” by Joy Williams, performed by Joy Williams

“The Greatest Man in the World,” by James Thurber, performed by Michael Ian Black
“A Warm Welcome to the President, Insh’Allah!” by Meera Nair, performed by Aasif Mandvi

“The Ambush,” by Donna Tartt, performed by Patricia Kalember
“My Father’s Life,” by Leonard Michaels, performed by Isaiah Sheffer
“The Secret Lives of Chefs,” by Lisa Hanawalt, performed by Mario Batali

“They Tell Me, Now I Know,” by Shay Youngblood, performed by Viola Davis
“A Small Sacrifice For an Enormous Happiness,” by Jai Chakrabarti, performed by Bhavesh Patel

“The Sock,” by Lydia Davis, performed by Kaneza Schaal
“Deep Lie the Woods,” by Meg Wolitzer, performed by Blythe Danner
“Nightblooming,” by Kenneth Calhoun, performed by Josh Charles

“The Dreamlife of Toasters,” by Heather O’Neill, performed by Yvette Nicole Brown
“The Invisible Collection,” by Stefan Zweig, performed by René Auberjonois

“When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11¼,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Kirsten Vangsness
“Evening Primrose,” by John Collier, performed by Neil Gaiman
“July Tale,” by Neil Gaiman, performed by Neil Gaiman

“Distractions,” by Simon Rich, performed by Erinn Hayes
“Love in a Kitchen Garden,” by Douglas Lawson, performed by Richard Kind
“Brand Values,” by Emily Buckler, performed by Maulik Pancholy