Publisher Description
Selected Shorts: Falling in Love presents a collection of stirring tales of love and longing:
- Rick Bass' Fires, read by Ted Marcoux
- Padgett Powell's The Winnowing of Mrs. Schuping, read by Christina Pickles
- Laurie Colwin's The Lone Pilgrim, read by Hope Davis
- E. Nesbit's Melisande, read by Jane Curtin
- Edna O'Brien's Violets, read by Fionnula Flanagan
- Maile Meloy's Travis, B., read by William Hurt
Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors. The series originates at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City. The Selected Shorts radio series is a co-production of Symphony Space and WNYC, New York Public Radio, and is heard on public radio stations nationwide.
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About Rick Bass
Rick Bass is an American author of numerous award-winning works of fiction and nonfiction. His memoir Why I Came West was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His short fiction, which has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Esquire, and the Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes as well as NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. He was born and raised in Texas, worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana’s Yaak Valley for almost three decades.