The New Yorker magazine turns 100 this year, and on this week's selected shorts, we've collaborated with this iconic magazine to offer some groundbreaking stories from its new collection, A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker.

We hear Robert Cooper's story of an existential bar crawl and a powerful work by Cynthia

Ozick performed by Lois Smith.

With commentary by New Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treasman.

I'm Meg Walletzer. Stay with us.

We're listening to Selected Shorts, where our greatest actors transport us through the magic

of fiction, one short story at a time.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the country's most distinguished magazines.

It started as a lighthearted humor magazine

in the roaring 20s, but quickly deepened into a multifaceted reflection of the country.

And of course, great fiction was always part of the mix. The magazine recognized this

with the publication of a century of fiction in The New Yorker. At a live event celebrating

the release of the collection, we invited the magazine's

longtime fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, to host an evening featuring some of the

works in the anthology.

Here's Deborah Treisman from the stage at Symphony Space.

Hi, everyone.

Thank you.

You guys are easy.

Good evening and welcome to selected shorts.

I'm your host for tonight, Deborah Treasman.

I didn't know I was going to have like a shout out from the stage before even coming on stage.

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