Cristina Henríquez Reads “Everything is Far From Here”
What if she’s forgotten what he looks like? What if she’s gone crazy? What if he’s here, lying in one of those cribs, and she sees him every single day without realizing he’s her son? What if it’s bee...
18 Jul 201723min
Andrew Sean Greer reads “It’s a Summer Day”
Arthur Less recalls intercontinental-travel advice that his old flame Freddy once gave him: "They serve you dinner, you take your sleeping pill, they serve you breakfast, you're there." Learn ...
13 Jun 201744min
Will Mackin reads “Crossing the River No Name”
"One rainy night, in March, 2009, we crossed a muddy field to intercept a group of Taliban who’d come out of the mountains of Pakistan. They were walking west. We were patrolling north to arrive at a ...
6 Jun 201732min
Sherman Alexie reads “Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest”
"On a Tuesday morning, she knocked on the door of 213. A corner room. Larger than standard. With two big windows instead of one. Twenty more dollars a night. The guest had been there for three nights ...
3 Jun 201733min
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “Show Don’t Tell”
"A lot of the people in our program were nakedly emotional in a way that, in childhood, I had so successfully trained myself not to be that I almost really wasn’t. Before entering grad school, I had n...
30 Mai 201747min
Samantha Hunt Reads “A Love Story”
What’s the scariest sound a person can hear? In a quiet country house where the closest neighbors are pretty far away, the scariest possible sound is a man coughing outside at night. Learn m...
16 Mai 201751min
Etgar Keret Reads “Fly Already”
The guy on the roof nods—it looks like he heard something this time— and shouts at me,“How did you know? How did you know she died?” Someone always dies, I want to yell back. Always. Learn m...
9 Mai 201715min
Yiyun Li Reads “A Small Flame”
Bella wanted Miss Chu to know that she understood the indifference they both had to endure; she wanted Miss Chu to suffer less because she was suffering with her. Yet Miss Chu treated Bella with more ...
2 Mai 201747min
