- "Towel Season" by Ron Carlson from
At the Jim Bridger(read on
Selected Shorts here)
- "The Secret Goldfish" by David Means from
The Secret Golfish(read on
Selected Shorts here)
- "Wes Amerigo's Giant Fear" by David Schickler from
The New Yorker, March 17, 2003
(read on
Selected Shorts here)
- "Symbols and Signs" by Vladimir Nabokov from
The New Yorker, May 15, 1948
(read on
The New Yorker podcast
here)
- "Kubuku Rides (This is It)" by Larry Brown from
Facing the Music(read on
Selected Shorts here)
- "Gleason" by Louise Erdrich from
The New Yorker, March 20, 2006
(read on
Selected Shorts here)
- "The Year of Silence" by Kevin Brockmeier from
The View From the Seventh Layer
(read on
Selected Shorts here)