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Guardian Short Storie
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Guardian Short Storie episodes
- James Salter reads Break it Down by Lydia DavisJames Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International prize29 min
- Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He gets his coordinates from ‘On Exactitude in Science’7 min
- Nathan Englander reads 'The Story of My Dovecote' by Isaac BabelNathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man’s inhumanity to man and pigeons in Isaac Babel’s ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’33 min
- Sebastian Barry reads 'Eveline' by James JoyceForty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce’s short story Eveline17 min
- Anita Desai reads The Postmaster by Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short story The Postmaster, says Anita Desai26 min
- Jon McGregor reads 'Notes from the House Spirits' by Lucy WoodLucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in ‘Notes from the House Spirits’, says Jon McGregor33 min
- Yiyun Li reads 'Three People' by William TrevorYiyun Li reads William Trevor’s ‘Three People’, a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’46 min
- AS Byatt reads 'At Hiruharama' by Penelope FitzgeraldPenelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt26 min
- Hanif Kureishi reads 'A Hunger Artist' by Franz KafkaFranz Kafka’s story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is ‘absurb, moving and timely’, says Hanif Kureishi27 min
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reads 'No Sweetness Here' by Ama Ata AidooChimamanda Ngozi Adichie admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘No Sweetness Here’47 min
About Guardian Short Storie
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Presented by the Guardian's Claire Armitstead and Lisa Allardice, each programme features an interview with a leading author and a reading of the author's favourite short story by another writer
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