Kirstin Valdez Quade Reads "Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224)"
Gertrude holds her belly in skeletal arms. She sinks to her knees before Christina, pulls at Christina’s limp hands. “Please let me keep it,”she begs.“Please, Christina. I know you can intercede with ...
25 Heinä 201749min
Cristina Henríquez Reads “Everything is Far From Here”
What if she’s forgotten what he looks like? What if she’s gone crazy? What if he’s here, lying in one of those cribs, and she sees him every single day without realizing he’s her son? What if it’s bee...
18 Heinä 201723min
Andrew Sean Greer reads “It’s a Summer Day”
Arthur Less recalls intercontinental-travel advice that his old flame Freddy once gave him: "They serve you dinner, you take your sleeping pill, they serve you breakfast, you're there." Learn ...
13 Kesä 201744min
Will Mackin reads “Crossing the River No Name”
"One rainy night, in March, 2009, we crossed a muddy field to intercept a group of Taliban who’d come out of the mountains of Pakistan. They were walking west. We were patrolling north to arrive at a ...
6 Kesä 201732min
Sherman Alexie reads “Clean, Cleaner, Cleanest”
"On a Tuesday morning, she knocked on the door of 213. A corner room. Larger than standard. With two big windows instead of one. Twenty more dollars a night. The guest had been there for three nights ...
3 Kesä 201733min
Curtis Sittenfeld Reads “Show Don’t Tell”
"A lot of the people in our program were nakedly emotional in a way that, in childhood, I had so successfully trained myself not to be that I almost really wasn’t. Before entering grad school, I had n...
30 Touko 201747min
Samantha Hunt Reads “A Love Story”
What’s the scariest sound a person can hear? In a quiet country house where the closest neighbors are pretty far away, the scariest possible sound is a man coughing outside at night. Learn m...
16 Touko 201751min
Etgar Keret Reads “Fly Already”
The guy on the roof nods—it looks like he heard something this time— and shouts at me,“How did you know? How did you know she died?” Someone always dies, I want to yell back. Always. Learn m...
9 Touko 201715min
