Truly, Madly

Selected Shorts

Symphony Space

Arts, Fiction, Books, Society & Culture

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about the course of true love, from two very different perspectives. Sigrid Nunez explores a roller-coaster romance in a small town in “This Is It,” performed by Christina Pickles, and Simon Rich offers up Stone-Age love and humor in a small cave in “I Love Girl.” It’s performed by Michael Ian Black, who also chats with Wolitzer about what he’s been reading and the tricky business of being funny.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Love Kindles ignles ignites and explodes in a tale by Seagrid Nunez and Simon Rich imagines
0:14.0	imagine love before fire is invented.
0:17.0	I'm Meg Walitzer.
0:19.0	Stick around for a show about the world's oldest story,
0:22.0	told in fresh new ways.
0:24.0	You're listening to selected shorts where our greatest actors
0:36.6	transport us through the magic of fiction one short story at a time. Reading is
0:41.9	such a private activity but I love hearing a performance that makes
0:45.5	it a truly shared experience. That's why I'm excited to bring you these stories on selected
0:50.3	shorts. On this program we travel down the rocky road to love.
0:54.9	In one story, young lovers ignite and burn out, observed by older wiser friends.
1:00.5	In the other, the origin story of Boy Meets Girl.
1:04.0	The two stories play on the cliches of love,
1:06.8	undying passion and unrequited love,
1:09.3	but in each there's a stylish manipulation of old tropes in new forms.
1:14.5	Our first story is This is It, by Sigrid Nunez.
1:18.1	Nunez won the National Book Award for her novel The Friend.
1:21.1	Her most recent is, What Are You Going Through?
1:23.9	Nunez is interested in the interstitial
1:26.4	an emotional place that is not quite empathy.
1:30.0	This is it charts the course of a stormy love affair at one remove.
1:34.4	An older couple has introduced the pair and they watch the emotional roller coaster ride
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