Compact disc. 12 unabridged stories. Read by the authors and other guest artists.
Contents:
[Vol. 1] Disc 1. Introduction -- The other woman / Sherwood Anderson (read by John Updike) -- Theft / Katherine Anne Porter (read by Jill McCorkle) -- Crazy Sunday / F. Scott Fitzgerald (read by George Plimpton) -- Disc 2. Crazy Sunday (cont.) -- Gold coast / James Alan McPherson (read by the author) -- The interior castle / Jean Stafford (read by Mary Gordon) -- Disc 3. The interior castle (cont.) -- The German refugee / Bernard Malamud (read by Alan Cheuse) -- The shawl / Cynthia Ozick (read by the author) -- Disc 4. How to win / Rosellen Brown (read by the author) -- I want to live! / Thom Jones (read by the author) -- Disc 5. I want to live! (cont.) -- Birthmates / Gish Jen (read by the author) -- [Vol. 2] Disc 6. Wild plums / by Grace Stone Coates (read by Ashley Warlick) -- Here we are / by Dorothy Parker (read by Meg Wolitzer) -- Christmas gift / by Robert Penn Warren (read by Christopher Tilghman) -- The hitch-hikers / by Eudora Welty (read by Jill McCorkle) -- Disc 7. The hitch-hikers (cont.) -- The second tree from the corner / by E.B. White (read by Donald Hall) -- Gesturing / by John Updike (read by John Updike) -- A city of churches / by Donald Barthelme (read by Rick Moody) -- Disc 8. The things they carried / by Tim O'Brien (read by Tim O'Brien) -- Where I'm calling from / by Raymond Carver (read by Charles Baxter) -- Disc 9. Where I'm calling from (cont.) -- You're ugly, too / by Lorrie Moore (read by Lorrie Moore) -- Proper library / by Carolyn Ferrell (read by Carolyn Ferrell) -- Disc 10. Proper library (cont.) -- The best girlfriend you never had / Pam Houston (read by the author)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.