Selected Shorts: Even More Laughs (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

Symphony Space

3.27

318 ratings by Goodreads

9781934033142: Selected Shorts: Even More Laughs (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

ISBN 10: 1934033146 ISBN 13: 9781934033142

Publisher: Symphony Space, 2010

From silly chuckles and rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series, Selected Shorts. Featuring some of the biggest names in Hollywood as performers, this collection finds Emmy Award winning actor Alec Baldwin enacting Julia Slavin’s Covered,” a far-out funny story of an unraveling thread and its grip on the protagonist. Queen of the Indies” Parker Posey deliciously explains how to teach a group of daffy seniors to swim without a pool in Miranda July’s The Swim Team.” Emmy Award winning comedian Stephen Colbert performs T. C. Boyle’s The Lie,” relating the yarn of a man who is drawn deeper and deeper into a tangled web of deceit and hilarity. Isaiah Sheffer hysterically delivers an epic once-in-a-lifetime recipe to challenge the bravest cook in Harry Mathews’ Country Cooking from Central France: Roast Boned Rolled Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double).” Tony Award winner Christine Baranski recreates Thomas Meehan’s wacky whimsy about a cocktail party guest list composed of two syllable celebrity names in Yma Dream” the most popular comic tale in the history of the series.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Symphony Space is a performing arts center based in New York City that fosters artistically and culturally diverse performing arts, literary, and film programs that bring artists and audiences together in an atmosphere of exploration and intimacy. This organization reaches audiences throughout New York City, the wider metropolitan area, and—through distribution of programs via media such as radio, recordings, podcasts, and touring—the nation.

From Publishers Weekly:

Symphony Space and its distinguished cast bring these favorite humorous short stories to the world of recorded audio. This compilation blends classics, such as Saki's "The Schartz-Metterklume Method" (performed with sly humor by Marian Seldes) and Philip Roth's "The Conversion of the Jews" (read with verve by Jerry Zaks) with more recent works, including Miranda July's "The Swim Team" (milked for every laugh by Parker Posey). Thomas Mehan's "Ima Dream" (performed with perfect timing by Christine Baranski) and Harry Mathews's "Country Cooking from Central France" (given rather too much weight by Isaiah Sheffer) are one-line jokes that go on for too long. These entertaining stories will provide much-needed comic relief to combat winter's coming chill. and other adversities. (Oct.) (c)
Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.