Selected Shorts: Whodunit? (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

Symphony Space

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9781934033104: Selected Shorts: Whodunit? (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

ISBN 10: 1934033103 ISBN 13: 9781934033104

Publisher: Symphony Space, 2009

Recorded live at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United States, these audio anthologies feature short stories from the Selected Shorts program that airs nationwide. More than 300,000 listeners tune in to this offering weekly to hear some of their favorite tales read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors.

A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hard-boiled detective stories alternately menacing and cozy, with exotic locales and murder in the mix are featured in this collection. Among the stories are Ed McBain's "Improvisation" read by Isaiah Sheffer, Louise Erdrich's "Gleason" read by Robert Sean Leonard, Nadine Gordiner's "Country Lovers" performed by Hattie Winston, the Dashiell Hammett classic "The Creeping Siamese" performed by John Shea, Shirley Jackson’s "The Summer People" performed by Ren� Auberjonois, and C. S. Montanye's "A Shock for the Countess" read by Fionnula Flanagan.

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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 AudioFile:

Murder, kidnapping, theft, and all their subtle and savage consequences are the subjects of yet another stellar Symphony Space collection. As always, the pieces are read before a live audience, and one can hear the anticipatory glee in the voices of Fionnula Flanagan, John Shea, and Isaiah Sheffer in their performances of crime classics by C.S. Montanye, Dashiell Hammett, and Ed McBain. The mood shifts with Ren� Auberjonois's deadpan reading of Shirley Jackson's eerie "The Summer People." Hattie Winston finds the sad destructiveness in the crime of apartheid in Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer's "Country Lovers." The last line of Louise Erdrich's contemporary gem, "Gleason," read by Robert Sean Leonard, may best sum up the collection. "He hadn't flinched." None of these elegant, penetrating short stories do. What fun. B.P. � AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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