June 29
James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, read by Dick Cavett; Roy Blount, Jr.’s Things in the Wrong Hands, read by Isaiah Sheffer; Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Renascence, read by Barbara Feldon; Chinua Achebe’s The Voter, read by Arthur French.
July 6
Molly Giles, “Pie Dance,” read by Kate Burton [from: Rough Translations (University of Georgia Press), collected in: You’ve Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe, edited by Ron Hansen (Harper Perennial)]; Calvin Trillin, “Grandfather Knows Best,” read by Isaiah Sheffer [from: Feeding a Yen (Random House)]; Laurie Colwin, “Why I Love Cookbooks,” read by Jane Kaczmarek [from: More Home Cooking (Harper Perennial)]
July 13
Edith Wharton, “The Eyes,” read by Charles Keating [from: Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1891-1910 (Library of America)]; plus additional stories by Wharton.
July 20
Captain Ryan Kelly, “A Quick Look at Who Is Fighting This War,” read by Chris Chalk; Staff Sergeant Parker Gyokeres, “Camp Muckamungus,” read by Isaiah Sheffer; Specialist Ross Cohen, “Khost-Gardez,” read by Matthew Modine; Captain Michael Lang, “Reflections,” read by Isaiah Sheffer; Sergeant Dena Price Van den Bosch, “Brotherhood,” read by Joan Allen; Staff Sargeant Jack Lewis, “Road Work,” read by Stephen Lang; Commander Kathleen Toomey Jabs, “Safekeeping,” read by Joan Allen; Lieutenant Colonel Chris Cohoes, “Dear Boys,” read by Matthew Modine.
[Above eight collected in: Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families edited by Andrew Carroll (Random House)].
July 27
Rishi Reddi, “Justice Shiva Ram Murthy,” read by Aasif Mandvi [from: Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi (Harper Perennial), collected in: The Best American Short Stories 2005, edited by Michael Chabon (Houghton Mifflin)]; Leigh Allison Wilson, “Bullhead,” by Leigh Allison Wilson [collected in: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond (Norton)].
August 3
Edith Wharton, “The Debt,” read by David Strathairn [from: Edith Wharton: Collected Stories 1891-1910 (Library of America)]; Maile Meloy, “Acqua Boulevard,” read by Isaiah Sheffer [from: Half in Love: Stories (Scribner)].
August 10
Roald Dahl, “Taste,” read by John Lithgow [from: Roald Dahl: Collected Stories (Everyman’s Library)]; James Thurber, “How to Tell a Fine Old Wine,” read by Raphael Sbarge [from: The New Yorker (February 24, 1934 / www.newyorker.com)].
August 17
David Means, “The Secret Goldfish,” read by Charles Keating [from: The Secret Goldfish: Stories (HarperCollins)]; Sherwood Anderson, “The Other Woman,” read by Keir Dullea [from: The Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories (BiblioBazaar)].
August 24
John Cheever, “The Trouble of Marcie Flint,” read by Fritz Weaver [from: The Stories of John Cheever (Vintage)];
August 31
Lyudmilla Ignatenko as told to Svetlana Alexievich, “A Solitary Human Voice,” translated by Keith Gessen, read by Stockard Channing [from: Voices from Chernobyl (Picador)]; Sherman Alexie, “Do You Know Where I Am?” read by Keir Dullea [from: Ten Little Indians (Grove)].
September 7
Benjamin Percy, “Refresh, Refresh” read by Ted Marcoux [from: Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf Press), collected in: The Best American Short Stories 2007, edited by Ann Patchett (Houghton Mifflin)]; Billie Hill-Hunt, “Buzz Saw,” read by Joan Allen; Sergeant Brian Turner, “Ashbah,” read by Chris Chalk.
Also, Sergeant Brian Turner, “The Baghdad Zoo,” read by Stephen Lang
Sergeant Michael A. Thomas, “3 A.M. in Bangor, Maine,” read by Stephen Lang
Above four collected in: “Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families” edited by Andrew Carroll (Random House)
September 14
(Pre-empted for Berkeley Symphony broadcast.)
September 21
Stuart Dybek, “Killing Time” and “Insomnia,” read by Jim True-Frost [from: the “Nighthawks” section of The Coast of Chicago (Picador)]; Nelson Algren, “He Couldn’t Boogie-Woogie Worth a Damn,” read by Isaiah Sheffer [from: The Neon Wilderness (Seven Stories Press) ].
September 28
Andrew Lam, “The Palmist,” read by David Strathairn [from: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond (Norton)]; Elizabeth Crane, “Football,” read by Martha Lavey [from: All This Heavenly Glory (Little, Brown and Company)]; Jeanne Dixon, “Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” read by Mia Dillon [collected in: The Best of Montana’s Short Fiction, edited by Willian Kittredge and Allen Morris Jones (Lyons Press)]; Lan Samantha Chang, “Water Names,” read by Dawn Akemi Saito [from: Hunger (Norton)].
