The hotly-tipped American writer reads the title story from his debut collection of short fiction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/apr/09/books-podcast-wells-tower-short-story
PRI Selected Shorts - Haruki Murakami’s “The Seventh Man”
What unites this program’s two rather different stories is that both are tales of deepening insight, stories whose main characters undergo profound and life-altering experiences. The program begins with "The Seventh Man," by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and it starts with an old fashioned device: On a dark and stormy night, a group of men sit around a circle and tell their stories. The reader is John Shea. In our second tale, Aimee Bender’s "The Rememberer," the heroine’s lover undergoes a remarkable transformation that changes both their lives forever. The reader is Tony Award-winner Marian Seldes. A brief interview with Seldes follows the reading.
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Listen to Junot Díaz read his new story “Flaka” and the Q&A here.
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The New Yorker Fiction - James Salter’s “Last Night”
Thomas McGuane reads James Salter’s short story “Last Night,” and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.
Read the short story here:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/11/18/021118fi_fiction