Meg Wolitzer
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Which is just what she does in all of her fiction.
It's no wonder the word visionary often comes to mind when thinking of Ursula K. Le Guin.
When we return, the divorcee, the rabbi, and the bookstore.
You're listening to Selected Shorts, recorded live in performance at Symphony Space in New York City and at other venues nationwide.
This is Selected Shorts, where our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time.
In our program today, we're hearing stories about forks in the road at which characters have to choose which way to go.
Our second piece is by writer Helen Shulman.
Her novels include This Beautiful Life and Lucky Dogs.
And whether she's writing a family drama, a satire, or a thriller, Shulman is always playing with big ideas.
The story we're about to hear about finding your center in a constantly changing world was published in her latest story collection, Fools for Love.
She's a Broadway regular whose credits include the recent Eureka Day, for which she earned a Tony nomination.
She's also recognizable for her many films and TV series, including Breaking Bad and The Boys.
And now, here's Jessica Hecht performing a slightly abridged version of The Shabbos Goy by Helen Schulman.
That was Jessica Heck reading The Shabbos Goy by Helen Schulman.
I know, I know, there's a version of this story in which the divorcee and the rabbi get together and open their own Yiddish-English-French bookstore.