Tony-winner James Naughton reads Andrew Lam’s “The Palmist,” in which a teenage boy learns about his future, on a bus. The English humorist Saki depicts upper-class horticultural snobbery in “The Occasional Garden.” Daniel Gerroll reads. Donald Barthelme’s surreal story “The Balloon” describes its sudden appearance in the sky over Manhattan. Maria Tucci reads with wry charm. The program closes with Haruki Murakami’s unsettling tale “The Little Green Monster,” which faces a repressed housewife with a deceptively nightmarish creature.
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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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PRI: Selected Shorts Podcast A Touch of Magic
Tony-winner James Naughton reads Andrew Lam’s "The Palmist," in which a teenage boy learns about his future, on a bus. The English humorist Saki depicts upper-class horticultural snobbery in "The Occasional Garden." Daniel Gerroll reads. Donald Barthelme’s surreal story "The Balloon" describes its sudden appearance in the sky over Manhattan. Maria Tucci reads with wry charm. The program closes with Haruki Murakami’s unsettling tale "The Little Green Monster," which faces a repressed housewife with a deceptively nightmarish creature.
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Selected Shorts - Couples and Mysteries from Haruki Murakami