It's About Time

Selected Shorts

Symphony Space

Arts, Fiction, Books, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about the nature of time and how it shapes our lives. In Helen Phillips’ “The Knowers,” a woman chooses to learn a vital fact about her future, while her husband does not. Stockard Channing reads this thought-provoking fantasy. In Anita Felicelli’s “Time Invents Us” a chance encounter turns the clock back for an aging artist. It’s read by Kirsten Vangsness.

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0:00.0	At Selected Shorts, we love What If Stories.
0:11.1	What if you could turn back the clock and retrieve a lost moment or a lost love?
0:16.5	On this week's show, two stories that ask those questions.
0:20.4	I'm your host, Meg Wallitzer, and you're listening to Selected Shorts, where our greatest
0:25.2	actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time.
0:43.8	Time flies.
0:45.3	If I could put time in a bottle, it's about time.
0:48.7	Love you till the end of time.
0:50.1	I have wasted time and now time duff waste me.
0:53.7	It's closing time.
0:55.8	When we were thinking about the theme for this show, we realized the extent to which time
0:59.8	is a constant in our lives.
1:02.2	It's not just that we live in and through time, that's a given.
1:06.0	But the idea of time has pervaded our language colloquially and lyrically.
1:11.2	We spend our lives moving through time, and yet again and again, we're shocked, shocked
1:16.0	to see it pass.
1:17.7	So we decided to move past the tropes and cliches and consider two very different stories
1:23.2	on the nature of time and its effects on us.
1:26.2	In one, a woman chooses knowledge over comfortable ignorance.
1:30.3	In the other, a chance encounter turns the clock back for an aging artist.
1:35.7	Our first story, The Knowers, is by a Selected Shorts favorite Helen Phillips, whose
1:40.6	demure and dangerous works of fantasy have beguiled us over the years.
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