Emma Roberts

Selected Shorts is literature performed live.

You are also being recorded.

So we want the mic to be able to also recognize your gorgeous voices.

So we're going to start with you just giving us a, will you as an actor just give us a little bit of an example of what I'm talking about?

Now we're going to give what we call the Roberts belly laugh.

So Weinstein's work has always kind of struck us as literary black mirror with a grounded soul, and this story is no exception.

Reading tonight's story is the wildly charming actor who you know from series including Fresh Off the Boat, WandaVision, and movies such as Always Be My Maybe.

He also recently released his directorial debut, Shortcomings, which everybody should see.

Now performing, We Only Wanted Their Happiness, and I'm just going to warn you, this story is going to fuck with you.

Now performing, We Only Wanted Their Happiness by Alexander Weinstein, please welcome Randall Park.

Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Selected Torts.

Thank you for schlepping up to the Getty.

We started the online literary community Bellatrist in 2017, in part because we lived on different coasts.

I live in New York.

And we were constantly recommending books to one another.

And we kind of had this de facto book club.

And we had an idea to open our friendship book club to a larger, entirely online community of readers on Instagram and beyond.

We are here tonight because the good folks at Selected Shorts, who saw a Venn diagram between Shorts and Bellatrist, asked us to come co-host this with them, and we're so grateful.

They've chosen authors that we've chosen for our book club, Carmen Maria Machado, Britt Bennett, Jennifer Egan, Tiare Jones, the list goes on.

And given our backgrounds, the theatrical nature of Shorts, collaborating made perfect sense.