This week on Selected Shorts, we collaborated with The New Yorker magazine, known for, among other things, it's spectacular short fiction.

We're excited to bring you New Yorker mainstays like William Maxwell and contemporary contributors like Tobias Wolf and Ion Lee.

I'm Meg Wallitzer. Stay with me for a page-turning listening experience. You're listening to Selected Shorts

where our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time.

The New Yorker magazine turned 100 this year. In 1925, Harold Ross, the magazine's

founding editor, envisioned a magazine of wit, reporting, fiction, art, and criticism, a reflection

in word and picture of metropolitan life. There was nothing like it at the time. And while it started

by reflecting metropolitan life,

it soon embraced the breadth of American culture in all its forms.

And one of those forms is its fiction.

Writers who have been featured in the magazine throughout their careers

include Raymond Carver, Jumpa Lahiri, Laurie Moore,

Haruki Murakami, and John U Updike, to name just a few members

of its extended fictional family. In honor of this winning literary streak, this year saw the

release of the collection, A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker. And we had selected shorts

thought that was a reason to celebrate. So we invited the magazine's longtime fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, to host an evening featuring some of the works included in the anthology.

You can think of this program as a sort of New Yorker sampler.

It includes a pithy satire by E.B. White. A tender recounting of an adolescent crush by William Maxwell.

A powerful reversal of fortune by Tobias Wolf. And an intriguing tangle of truths and half-truths by Ewan Lee.

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

This was a project that ate up a huge amount of my reading time for almost a year.

Doing all this reading was time-consuming,

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