The Stories We Tell Ourselves with Brooke Gladstone

Selected Shorts

Symphony Space

Arts, Fiction, Books, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Host Meg Wolitzer presents stories chosen by On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone. Gladstone was our guest for a live Selected Shorts event in which all the stories explore the theme of tales we tell ourselves—and others. The title says it all in Mary Gordon’s “My Podiatrist Tells Me a Story about a Boy and a Dog” read by Bebe Neuwirth and Richard Masur. Two imaginative cooks reinvent themselves in a new country in Meron Hadero’s “A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times” read by Chinasa Ogbuagu. And a child imagines an absent parent through her postcards in “Love, Your Only Mother” by David Michael Kaplan, read by Bebe Neuwirth. In addition to Gladstone’s on-stage remarks, this episode features backstage interviews with actors Masur, Neuwirth and Ogbuagu.

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0:00.0	On this selected shorts WNYC's On the Media host Brooklaude Stone presents short fiction
0:12.8	that illuminates the hilarious, profound, and inspiring ways we seek to understand the
0:17.6	human condition.
0:18.6	I'm Meg Wallitzer, stay with me.
0:30.0	You're listening to selected shorts where our greatest actors transport us through
0:36.8	the magic of fiction, one short story at a time.
0:40.9	On this show, we're sharing some stories chosen by Brooklaude Stone for an evening she
0:44.8	hosted at Symphony Space.
0:46.5	Glad Stone is the longtime producer and host of WNYC's Radio Show and podcast on the media.
0:52.6	And here she is from the stage at Symphony Space.
0:56.3	Good evening everyone and welcome to selected shorts.
0:59.2	I'm your host for the evening Brooklaude Stone.
1:03.9	If you know me, it's probably from the radio show.
1:10.6	Now when the producers of selected shorts approached me about curating this evening, I thought,
1:16.2	please don't let this be about the media, please.
1:19.9	Let's focus instead on the stories we tell ourselves, the favorite part of my day job,
1:25.4	and they said sure.
1:26.8	So each of these stories are in a way about stories and the particular ways these characters,
1:35.6	some familiar, some less so, use them to define, shape, and remember who it is they and
1:43.0	we think we are.
1:46.0	That was Brooklaude Stone.
1:47.8	In response to her theme, we found three works that explore the idea of stories we tell
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