Selected Shorts features funny, surprising and poignant stories by controversial Yiddish writers -- Nobel prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholem Asch and Moishe Nadir -- who sometimes scandalized their mainstream critics.

The stories are performed by Laura Esterman, John Shea and Anjelica Huston. 

This week’s stories:

• An excerpt from The Road Home by Rose Tremain, read by Paul Hecht, from: The Road Home (Little, Brown and Company)
• "Cary Grant's Suit" by Todd McEwen, read by James Cromwell collected in: Granta: On the Road Again (Summer 2006, issue 94)

Hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, Selected Shorts features some of the finest artists of the American theater reading contemporary and classic short fiction-the most distinguished works of the early masters such as Chekhov, Maupassant, Malamud, and Singer, and the fresh, vivid, diverse works of a new generation of remarkable literary talents, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning Jhumpa LaHiri and literary catalyst Jonathan Franzen. In between: the words of Alice Munro, John Updike, Ethan Canin, John Edgar Wideman, Dorothy Parker, Grace Paley, William Trevor, Alice Walker, and dozens of others.