We’ve got two wonderful authors and two great stories this week on Selected Shorts, both about people in trouble. The first is “Red from Green,” by Maile Meloy, performed by Patricia Kalember. “Red from Green” follows a teenage girl on a dangerous camping trip, where trouble comes not from the great outdoors, but from the [...]
One of the most exciting lit mags publishing today (besides One Story, of course) is Electric Literature. Their mission? “To use new media and innovative distribution to return the short story to a place of prominence in popular culture.” Last season Selected Shorts hosted an event at Symphony Space celebrating Electric Literature with some great actors reading work [...]
This week on Selected Shorts we feature two stories by the great Irish writer Edna O’Brien, celebrating the release of her latest collection of stories, Saints & Sinners (which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize last month). O’Brien began her career nearly 50 years ago with the publication of her first novel (part [...]
Earlier I was talking about The Post-It Note Diaries by Arthur Jones, and now it is finally out in the world. Click on the video below to find out more. And if you’re interested in reading about my near-death in a graveyard, get your copy of the book here.
In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of the King & Queen of Troy. One day the god Apollo fell in love with her and gave her the gift of predicting the future. But when she didn’t love him back, Apollo put a curse on Cassandra so no one would believe anything she said. Like [...]
There is a saying that every man’s life is a labyrinth, and sooner or later they will have to face their minotaur. I was reminded of this when I first heard Stephen O’Connor’s “Ziggurat,” featured on this week’s edition of Selected Shorts. But first I thought, what the heck is a Ziggurat? Well, a Ziggurat is a kind [...]