Selected Shorts: For Better and For Worse: A Celebration of the Short Story (Selected Shorts: a Celebration of the Short Story)

Best AudioBooks of 2007, "AudioFile Magazine"

"Not much else beats the pleasure of a great story read aloud. This is the inspiration behind the marvelous "Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story" at New York City's Symphony Space." -"O, The Oprah Magazine"
"Like marriages themselves, "For Better and for Worse" has many wonderful moments, which make the collection worth committing to for a few hours." --"Publishers Weekly"

Recorded live at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City and at venues across the United States, these audio anthologies feature short stories from the Selected Shorts program that airs on public radio nationwide. More than 300,000 listeners tune in to this offering weekly to hear some of their favorite tales read aloud by distinguished actors.
From a couple's rocky, college love affair that lasts a lifetime and a mother who nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon to a supernatural tale of marriage and transformation and a grieving man who buries his young wife and makes amends with her family—this anthology captures the powerful and complicated lives of married couples. Among the stories are Sherman Alexie's "Do You Know Where I Am?" read by Keir Dullea; Karen E. Bender's "Eternal Love," read by Joanne Woodward; Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Wife's Story," read by Joanna Gleason; Shahrnush Parsipur's "Mrs. Farrokhlaqa Sadraldivan Golchehreh," translated by Kamran Talattof and Jocelyn Sharlet and read by Frances Sternhagen; and Luis Alberto Urrea's "Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses," read by Robert Sean Leonard.