Guest host Jane Kaczmarek presents two stories about big moments in small lives. Teju Cole’s Twitter-based faction project “Small Fates 1912” (newspaper headlines rendered as short shorts) is performed by Blythe Danner and Jeffrey Wright. And old frenemies in Chennai are caught up in disaster in Salman Rushdie’s “In the South,” performed by Michael Stuhlbarg.
Spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen.
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