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Selected Shorts: Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi

April 21, 2016 by Drew

It’s been a while since I last dropped by Symphony Space for one of their terrific Selected Shorts evenings – but I couldn’t pass up the unbelievable double-whammy of Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi, so my schedule has been clear for months. The fact that Isaac Fitzgerald was guest-hosting just sealed the deal and so it was that I arrived on a nearly-warm, spring-has-sprung kind of night with excitement brewing in my heart. Dani and I were discussing, as we […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Colby Minifie, Events, Features, Fiction, Get in Trouble, Helen Oyeyemi, Isaac Fitzgerald, Kelly Link, Kirsten Vangsness, Recaps, Selected Shorts, Short Stories, Symphony Space, What is Not Yours is Not Yours

Selected Shorts: Make Something Up with Chuck Palahniuk

May 21, 2015 by Drew

my terribly messy scribblings all over the program… Have you ever been to a Chuck Palahniuk reading? The last one I went to, I got hit in the face with a bag of Almond Joy (hurled by Mr. P himself), inflated a beach ball, and caught a severed arm. So. Didn’t quite know what to expect at a slightly more refined event – but I knew Palahniuk would find a way to meld his delightfully weird sensibility with whatever he was […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Alex Hurt, Becky Ann Baker, Charles Baxter, Chuck Palahniuk, Clive Barker, Events, Features, Make Something Up, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread, Mark Richard, Matthew Love, New York City, Recaps, Sam Underwood, Sarah Steele, Selected Shorts, Stephen King, Symphony Space

Selected Shorts: Welcome to Night Vale

March 19, 2015 by Drew

Cecil Baldwin reads from Will Eno / glows from his forehead third-eye If you’re an internet person – and, if you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re an internet person – you’ve heard of Welcome to Night Vale. The weird little-podcast-that-could following the goings on of a distinctly odd little community in the Southwestern United States has become a bonafide sensation: #1 podcast on iTunes, a touring live show, and a forthcoming novel from the creators. If you haven’t listened (or […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Carlos the Scientist, Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Events, Fantasy, Features, Horror, Jeffrey Fink, John Darnielle, Joseph Cranor, Mara Wilson, Matthew Love, New York Neo-Futurists, Night Vale, Performance, Reading, Recaps, Sci-Fi, Selected Shorts, Shirley Jackson, Short Stories, Symphony Space, The Mountain Goats, Theater, Weird, Welcome to Night Vale, Will Eno, WNYC

Selected Shorts: Teju Cole & Salman Rushdie

December 11, 2014 by Drew

(a hastily snapped photo during company bows at the end of the show – from L, Salman Rushdie, Zainab Jah, Michael Stuhlbarg, Teju Cole, Blythe Danner, Jeffrey Wright, Matthew Love) Well, it got sort of swept aside in all of the terrible new about human rights violations this week (and the past few weeks) but it turns out yesterday was Human Rights Day. And, as Matthew Love said at the top of the show, could you put better authors on stage […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Blythe Danner, Events, Fiction, In the South, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Stuhlbarg, NYC, Recap, Recaps, Salman Rushdie, Selected Shorts, Short Stories, Small Fates, Small Fates 2012, Symphony Space, Teju Cole, The New Yorker, Twitter, Zainab Jah

Selected Shorts: The Best American Short Stories 2014

November 20, 2014 by Dani

(ed. note – after much time thinking about it and a happy arrangement of circumstances that demanded it, we’re thrilled to bring you our first guest-written post here at RB. Dani’s bio can be found on the new contributor page. An immense thanks to Symphony Space and Selected Shorts – and to this new addition to the crew!) I should disclose two biases, which are that I love short stories, and I love being read aloud to. This is to say, I […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Amy Ryan, BASS14, Best American Short Stories 2014, Dani Lencioni, Dylan Baker, Events, Fiction, Guest Post, Jennifer Egan, Lauren Groff, Recaps, Selected Shorts, Short Stories, Symphony Space, T.C. Boyle, The Best American Short Stories

Selected Shorts 30th Anniversary

October 16, 2014 by Drew

Oh, the short story. So easy to fuck up – and yet, when done well, so absolutely transcendent. I have struggled with the form as a writer and, recently, as a reader: I find collections difficult to read and often don’t engage as much as I should with the individual stories that I do like. How it has taken me so long to discover Selected Shorts, I’ll never understand. For those unfamiliar, it’s a live event hosted at Symphony Space […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Amber Tamblyn, Anika Noni Rose, Christine Lahti, David Rakoff, Etgar Keret, Events, Features, Isaiah Sheffer, James Naughton, Michael Cerveris, New York City, Selected Shorts, Selected Shorts 30th Anniversary, Sherman Alexie, Symphony Space, Thomas Meehan

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