Selected Shorts

If You’d Only Listen

November 5, 2026·58 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about characters who need someone to listen to them.  In Jesse Eisenberg’s “If She Ran Into Me Now…” a high school failure wants to prove he did OK—and looks fabulous.  It’s read by Santino Fontana.  In Weike Wang’s“A Children’s Story,” read by Conrad Ricamora, a writer tries to please his aging mother with just the right story—for children.  And a curling enthusiast shares his passion with his girlfriend’s son in Frank Reilly’s “The Stirling Stone,” read by Chris Sullivan. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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