Short Stories
The Modern Age by Francis Juan.
Read by Dawn Akaimi Saito. (10:54)
Read by Dawn Akaimi Saito. (10:54)
Football by Elisabeth Crane.
"In my next life, I want to accept things as they are, and when people ask, 'Why?', I want to say, 'What do you mean,
why?' And when everyone comes back for Homecoming, I want to be already home.”
Read by Martha Levi. (14m 25s)
"In my next life, I want to accept things as they are, and when people ask, 'Why?', I want to say, 'What do you mean,
why?' And when everyone comes back for Homecoming, I want to be already home.”
Read by Martha Levi. (14m 25s)
The Chernobyl Memoir – A Solitary Human Voice by Ludmila Inatenko.
Read by Stockard Channing. (11m 50s)
Read by Stockard Channing. (11m 50s)
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Second-Hand Man by Rita Dove.
Rita Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1987 novel Thomas and Beaulah, and in 1993 was appointed Poet Laureate by
President Clinton. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. And Virginia is the name of the heroine of “Second-Hand Man”,
a woman who knows what she wants and simply will not settle for second best—or for being second best.
The reader is Broadway star, and Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald. (19m 13s)
Rita Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1987 novel Thomas and Beaulah, and in 1993 was appointed Poet Laureate by
President Clinton. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. And Virginia is the name of the heroine of “Second-Hand Man”,
a woman who knows what she wants and simply will not settle for second best—or for being second best.
The reader is Broadway star, and Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald. (19m 13s)
“The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping” by Padgett Powell
This story about a remarkable couple is Padgett Powell’s eccentric chronicle “The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping” which, in
addition to being a quirky Southern romance, set on the edge of a Florida swamp, is a real lesson in what to do with clutter!
Padgett Powell teaches creative writing at the University of Florida, and is the author of Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men among other
novels, and two collections of short stories, Typical and Aliens of Affection. This tour de force reading, at the Mahaiwe
Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, is by the two-time Tony-winning actor and director, James
Naughton. (37m 46s)
This story about a remarkable couple is Padgett Powell’s eccentric chronicle “The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping” which, in
addition to being a quirky Southern romance, set on the edge of a Florida swamp, is a real lesson in what to do with clutter!
Padgett Powell teaches creative writing at the University of Florida, and is the author of Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men among other
novels, and two collections of short stories, Typical and Aliens of Affection. This tour de force reading, at the Mahaiwe
Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, is by the two-time Tony-winning actor and director, James
Naughton. (37m 46s)