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Selected Shorts is a arts podcast hosted by Symphony Space. It has 33 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. New episodes every Thursday, from Symphony Space.

arts ·en-us ·33 episodes

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1

Tell Me More: Jodi Kantor

2

Extended Families

3

Remakes and Replicas

4

Selected Shorts Goes to the Movies with the Tribeca Film Festival

5

Best American Short Stories

6

Homewreckers

7

Meg Wolitzer Talks with Louise Erdrich

8

What Are the Odds?

9

Reality Checks

10

Meg Wolitzer Talks with Denis O'Hare

11

Too Hot For Radio: Paul La Farge "Another Life"

12

Haruki Murakami: Then and Now

13

Too Hot For Radio: Carmen Maria Machado "Persephone Rides at the End of Days"

14

Bonus: Etgar Keret and Ira Glass

15

Meg Wolitzer Talks to Author Michael Cunningham

16

Tell Me More: Kathryn Nicolai

17

Bonus: A.M. Homes interviews Margaret Atwood

18

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks with Judy Blume

19

A Conversation with Andy Borowitz

20

Too Hot For Radio: Ottessa Moshfegh "The Weirdos"

21

Picture Perfect

22

Bonus: A Conversation with Elizabeth Strout

23

Meg Wolitzer interviews Louise Erdrich

24

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks to Denis O’Hare

25

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Visits Her Favorite Indie Bookstore

26

Bonus: Margaret Atwood and A.M. Homes

27

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks to Alison Stewart

28

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks to Patricia Marx

29

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks with George Saunders

30

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer Talks to Elizabeth Strout

31

Host Meg Wolitzer Talks to Comedian Michael Ian Black

32

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer and Mona Eltahawy Talk Being a Dangerous Woman

33

Bonus: Meg Wolitzer and Alison Stewart Talk Fiction

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