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February 2008

Figuring it Out

Sunday, February 24, 2008

“This was his last experimental journey for the firm. If it worked, he was going to be able to go on and on—towards the edge.”
—Ron Carlson, “Towel Season.”
A brilliant mind finds its way home, and two peasants rock a Communist regime.


Tales in Verse, and a Chiller

Sunday, February 17, 2008

“He dozed fitfully until a sudden wild cry from his wife woke him. ‘The paw,’ she cried wildly. ‘The monkey’s paw!’—W.W. Jacobs, “The Monkey’s Paw.”
Guest host John Lithgow’s favorite story-poems, and a chilling classic.


It’s Love

Sunday, February 10, 2008

“’So here you are, the little number they’ve got tucked away for brother Nelly. ‘I’m not tucked away for anyone.’ ‘No, on second thought, you wouldn’t be. Girls like you play for higher stakes—love or money, or preferably, both’." – Laurie Colwin, “An Old-Fashioned Love Story.”
Two stories about love when it’s least expected.


Best Friends: Dog Tales

Sunday, February 03, 2008



“I told him, about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way people flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn’t a compliment, it’s just efficient—a person getting more quickly to the end of you…Dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you. They know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is, there’s not an end to it." – Amy Hempel, “The Dog of the Marriage.”