"The Cell Phones" by Karen E. Bender

LeVar Burton Reads

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Arts, Performing Arts

4.9 • 17K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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A Rosh Hashanah service is interrupted by voices clamoring for attention. This story appears in the forthcoming collection THE NEW ORDER. This episode is sponsored by Bona Floor Cleaners (www.bona.com), The Great Courses (www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/LeVar), and the Sierra Club (www.beyondcoal.org/stories).

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Levar Burton, and this is Levar Burton Reads.
0:11.2	In every episode I hand-pick a different piece of short fiction, and I read it to you.
0:16.1	The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them, and I hope you will too.
0:28.0	Before we get started today, y'all, I have some pretty good news.
0:32.6	Maybe you've seen some indication of it on my Twitter feed, or on the Levar Burton Reads
0:37.3	Facebook discussion group.
0:39.1	So here it is.
0:41.2	I had such an amazing time traveling around and doing live tapings of the podcast this
0:45.4	past spring with authors and local musicians, so I'm gonna do it some more.
0:50.5	I'm hitting the road again, starting this Halloween.
0:54.7	This time I'll visit the East Coast of the United States and Canada with a little
0:58.6	John through the South, and that means I'm coming to Washington, D.C., Toronto, Ontario,
1:05.8	Brooklyn, Collinswood, New Jersey, Boston, Austin, Texas, Dallas, and Atlanta.
1:13.6	Check out Levar Burton Podcast dot com slash tour for updates and ticket links.
1:19.1	Tickets go on sale this Friday, September 21st.
1:22.7	It's very exciting, y'all.
1:24.3	Cannot wait to see you on the road.
1:27.8	So now that I have that out of my system, let's talk about today's story.
1:31.8	You may already know the author, Karen E. Bender.
1:35.3	She's a novelist and a short story writer.
1:37.8	Her last collection was a finalist for the National Book Award.
1:42.4	The story today is from Karen's forthcoming collection called The New Order.
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