Life is fleeting in these three works presented by guest host Michael Cerveris. Andy Warhol complains about fifteen seconds of fame in excerpts from his diaries read by Denis O’Hare. A novelist borrows someone else’s tragedy in “The Young Painters,” read by Heather Burns. And a young boy and his grandmother in rural Ireland make a dramatic decision in Claire Keegan’s “The Burning Palms,” read by Patricia Kalember.
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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