Selected Shorts: Pushing the Limits
Guest host John Lithgow raises the curtain on five comic tales, classic and cutting-edge. First, “New Yorker” writer and Algonquin Round Table regular Dorothy Parker describes the hangover from hell in...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Romantic Disasters
Romantic confusion and comic advice for the lovelorn are offered in the five stories on this program.First, Patricia Marx tracks a difficult courtship in “Starting from Happy” in an excerpt from her...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Pushing the Limits
Guest host John Lithgow raises the curtain on five comic tales, classic and cutting-edge.First, “New Yorker” writer and Algonquin Round Table regular Dorothy Parker describes the hangover from hell in...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Love Songs?
Guest host Robert Sean Leonard presents a program of stories about finding love in unexpected places.First, from the fertile brain of Simon Rich, cave boy meets cave girl in “I Love Girl,” in which...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Pushing the Limits
Guest host John Lithgow raises the curtain on five comic tales, classic and cutting-edge.First, New Yorker magazine writer and Algonquin Round Table regular Dorothy Parker describes the hangover from...
View ArticleGrowing Up
This reading by Wyatt Cenac of Simon Rich’s coming-of-age story with a twist, “Unprotected,” is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “Pushing the Limits,” hosted by John Lithgow.
View ArticleGod, Get Over Yourself
This reading by Isaiah Sheffer of Simon Rich’s comic look at God’s dating problem is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “Pushing the Limits,” hosted by John Lithgow.
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Romantic Calamities
Romantic confusion and comic advice for the lovelorn are offered in the five stories on this program. First, Patricia Marx tracks a difficult courtship in “Starting from Happy” in an excerpt from her...
View Article99% Rejected
This reading by Wyatt Cenac of Simon Rich’s “Occupy Jen Street,” is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “Romantic Calamities,” hosted by Parker Posey.
View ArticleLove Songs and Other Promises
Guest host Robert Sean Leonard presents a program of stories about finding love in unexpected places.First, from the fertile brain of Simon Rich, cave boy meets cave girl in “I Love Girl,” in which...
View ArticleI Love Girl
This reading by Michael Ian Black of Simon Rich’s “I Love Girl,” is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “Love Songs?” hosted by Robert Sean Leonard.Simon Rich's Cro-Magnon love triangle.
View ArticleOccupy Jen’s Street
Wyatt Cenac reads “Occupy Jen’s Street,” by Simon Rich, as part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “Live is Funny” hosted by Cynthia Nixon.
View ArticleLove is Funny
Four tales about the lighter side of love, from rib-tickling to rueful.First, comic master and doyenne of the Algonquin Roundtable Dorothy Parker specialized in hilarious rants. In “The One on My...
View ArticleDavid Remnick on Bruce Springsteen.
In the July 30th issue of the magazine, David Remnick profiles Bruce Springsteen. Here Nicholas Thompson talks with David Remnick and Kelefa Sanneh about how Springsteen reconciles his songs about...
View ArticleSimon Rich on funny writing.
This week, Simon Rich's new novella "Sell Out" is being serialized on newyorker.com. It's the story of Simon Rich's great-great-grandfather, who falls into a pickle barrel and emerges, one hundred...
View ArticleRoad Trips
The woods, they noticed…had gotten stranger, thicker, wilder. Trees had grown to fantastic heights, with long bare trunks and fronded crests… Elizabeth Spencer, “The Weekend Travelers.”Guest host...
View ArticleAmazing Proposal Stories
This reading by Tracee Chimo of Simon Rich’s “Amazing Proposal Stories” is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “Road Trips,” hosted by Hope Davis.
View ArticleJokes and Poems with Mike Birbiglia and J. Hope Stein
We reprise a recent favorite this week: Guest host Jane Curtin presents a cornucopia of jokes, poems, and stories from a live program with comedian Mike Birbiglia and poet J. Hope Stein. The couple...
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