Check Your Local NPR Listings For My Selected Shorts Debut – Immediately!
Yaugh! I would have posted this sooner, but it seems I had the dates wrong. The Symphony Space site has it listed for the week of March 31 – April 6, but I’m getting word from folks that they’ve already heard it. Apparently this week, NPR’s Selected Shorts is airing my story “Football.” Since this program airs at dozens of different times around the country, you’ll have to poke aroundtheir site to find out what time it airs in your town. Strangely, it does not seem like it’s going to be aired in Chicago anytime soon... but, if this is the case in your city as well, I’m pretty sure you can also stream it online! I wish I could be more helpful than this and provide one tidy link but right now it’s all I’ve got so please take some time to look at your local listings online cuz I really happen to like this story a lot and I think you will too. Sorry this bulletin is so long.
posted by Elizabeth Crane @ 3/29/2007 05:46:00 PM
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Selected Shorts airs on WNYC in New York on Saturdays and Sundays at 4pm Eastern Time, 3pm Chicago time. You can listen to the live stream from their website, www.wnyc.org. Saturday will be a repeat of last Sunday's show, and the new show (with your story, I believe) will air on Sunday, April 1. Hope this helps!
It's Saturday nite at 7:30 and I just listened to "Football" over KERA in Dallas. It was a lark; we're never home on Sat. night and I'm NEVER hand washing dishes. Yet here I was, washing, looking out the window at an impossibily beautiful spring evening, listening. I was thrown back in time to the wishes and dreams I once had for my life. Made me wistful and weepy all at once. Then my hot husband grabbed me round the waist and said, "Put on your sweater, baby, it's a beautiful night; let's go catch some sky", reminding me again of the magic of love. Thank you for adding to it with your wonder-full story. All This Heavenly Glory indeed.
Hypatia, that is so nice! And it was so beautifully written!
I was just in my car on my way home listening to NPR and hear the reading of your wonderful short story, "Football". Having reached my garage only halfway through the reading I sat there, sweating in the Austin heat in my car, to hear it to the end. And when it ended and I sat there smiling with watered eyes I waited so I could hear the name of the author again so I could do a google search.
This is where I ended up and I noticed that I had the opportunity to leave you this comment and tell you how wonderful I thought the story was and how much it moved me. It's also a beautiful reading of it.
I hope I can find a stream of it on the NPR website so I can send a link to it for my mother and father to hear.
Thank you for the story.
Peter Greenstone
while peter sat in his car, I stood in my kitchen, which doesnt have a window like hypatia's... so i stared at the sink. beautifully written, moving. with no papaer handy, i had to write down the author and reader on my hand. looked up martha lavey who read it as if it were her own. spent a bunch of time on her steppenwolf ensemble page, before i came here... i loved it and it stuck in my head
peter, you can listen to it again as i have here www.wnyc.org/shows/shorts/episodes/2007/04/01
oh, and doing a complete 180,
i agree, dick in a box is the best music video ever
-sorry, that should probably have been on a totally different comment
I was driving home on this Sunday evening at about 5:30 bemoaning the fact that, yet again, my HS newspaper students were behind on the newspaper that I, yet again, spent an entire weekend working with them on. This means that, yet again, I will not be able to pay my creative writing students the attention they deserve. In fact, they are finishing their last pieces, and I haven't even decided what we will be writing next.
Then I had one of those wonderful moments in life when theuniverse and my thoughts come together (how wonderfully narcissisitic I am). Out of my car stereo which was, of course, tuned to NPR came your wonderful story "Football."
I realized that this was the perfect model for our next writing exercise. Many of my students are seniors, and this is the time of year where they, yet again, are losing their minds.
As they near the end of the school year, I can't think of a finer piece of writing to use to push them into being simultaneously introspective and forward looking, nostalgic and realistic, literary and honest.
Thank you, and you might be getting some comments from some of my students as we work through this process.
I would love to have them send you some of their work that is inspired by this piece, or any commentary you might want to share with these young writers about writing it.
Please feel free to email me, and thank you for making feel like a writer and a teacher, yet again.
-Matthew Connolly
Journalism and writing teacher, Akins HS, Austin Texas
mconnoll@austinisd.org
Sorry about some of the muddled grammar in that last post. I should have proofed my work.
Matthew, Peter and Brian, many many thanks for your kind words. You made my night!
Normally, crying on the 31-Balboa bus is something I would not blog about. Not that I have ever blogged about anything before.
I was and still am profoundly moved by this story. I cannot wait to ask for Elisabeth Crane's collected stories at my local independent bookstore. Thank you so very much.
Thanks so much, Jimmy B. I can't even say how much all these kind words mean to me.
Hi,
My name is Bart. I heard the story "Football" on the radio today. WXPR is in the middle of their spring fund raiser. I would LOVE to read a text copy of the story, "Football."
I'm almost tempted to transcribe the story myself. I'm thinking of those who are unable to hear the stream. Is there a complete work in which this short story is contained?
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jeez, this song reminded me (as I stood in a Bastrop TX pasture) of domestic death, suburbia, false hopes, gender stalemates, pusillanimous conformity, microcosmic minutiae, 1st world classicism, and of love, that wispy haunted breath of eagerness for now in the next.....WELL DONE CRANE< KUDOS< APPALAUSE< ENCORE?!
Thank you!
So good....
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I fear that I am a little behind on the comments since the story "Football" ran so many months ago, but I only found this page tonight.
Whenever I, as a writer, occasionally need inspiration, just listening to the reading of "Football" on my iPod puts me right back into the writing frame of mind.
Really, quite a beautiful story and a beautiful reading. I just wanted to thank you for the motivation.
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