Meg Wolitzer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Our team includes Matthew Love, Drew Richardson, Mary Shimkin, Vivienne Woodward, and Magdalene Robleski.
The readings are recorded by Miles B. Smith.
Our programs presented at the Getty Center in Los Angeles are recorded by Phil Richards.
Our mix engineer for this episode was Joe Plourd.
Our theme music is David Peterson's That's the Deal, performed by the Deardorff Peterson Group.
Selected Shorts is supported by the Dunn-Gannon Foundation.
This program is also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Selected Shorts is produced and distributed by Symphony Space.
You know that phrase, a force of nature?
On the next Selected Shorts, we've got four strong stories to blow you away.
From our gardens to our weather, the great outdoors tests and defines us.
You're listening to Selected Shorts, where our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time.
Sometimes the setting of a story can matter as much as the characters, creating challenges for them, helping to define them, and giving the reader a visceral context for the narrative.
On this program, we share four stories in which nature has an impact.
I am not someone who spends a lot of time in nature, and as a result, I don't have too many nature metaphors to rely on when I write fiction.
Instead, my fiction tends to include nature's indoor parallel, by which I mean families in their native habitat gathering around the dinner table or sitting on the grassy plains of the shag carpeting in the den.
But I do appreciate writers who make the actual natural world vivid and original, using it in ways that amplify the emotional tension in a scene.
Landscape can sometimes be the most memorable character of all.