Short Story Today

Oct 29 2024 140 ep. 60 mins 8
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A weekly podcast hosted by Jon DiSavino. It celebrates the enduring and compact literary form known as - you guessed it - the short story. But more importantly, it gives listeners an opportunity to hear the work of some of the best emerging writers of today. Each episode begins with an interview with the week's guest author, and ends with a professional audiobook production of a story by that author.Jon DiSavino is an actor and stage director. In the last few years he has begun producing and narrating audiobooks for Audible.com. His most recent release, Doctor Assassin: A Medical Science Thriller by Mark R. Belsky, was just published in December of 2021.

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Episode 116 - Marguerite Sheffer: "The Observer's Cage"

Oct 29 2024 75 mins  
New Orleans author Marguerite Sheffer is a Professor of Practice at Tulane University, where she teaches courses in design thinking and speculative fiction as tools for social change. Read her collection The Man in the Banana Trees (Univ of Iowa Press) to see how it's done. We read "The Observer's Cage," which was first published in The Offing. https://www.margueritesheffer.com/Sup

Episode 115 - Nina Schuyler: "Brethren and Sistren"

Oct 22 2024 73 mins  
Bay Area author Nina Schuler doesn't subscribe to the "write what you know" school of thought. For her, that would just be boring. In her fiction, she writes fearlessly about complex subjects like AI and the science of climate change, and makes us think about what roles we might take in an effort to make the world a better place. Karen Joy Fowler, author of Booth, has called her co

Episode 114 - Janis Hubschman: "Please See Me"

Oct 15 2024 71 mins  
New Jersey author Janis Hubschman was a marathon runner, so she understands the true meaning of endurance. The women in her debut story collection Take Me With You Next Time (Betty Books) are athletes and outdoorswomen who find themselves on terrain that challenges not only their bodies, but their hearts and minds, too. We read "Please See Me," which was first published in Chautauq

Episode 113 - Tara Isabel Zambrano: Ruined a Little When We Are Born

Oct 08 2024 49 mins  
Author Tara Isabel Zambrano is an electrical engineer by day, where she relies on her left brain in designing semiconductors. She balances that by ensuring that her right brain gets time to do some playing - particularly in the form of writing fiction. Of her new collection Ruined a Little When We Are Born (Dzanc Books), Laura Picklesimer, author of Kill For Love writes: "Enchantin

Episode 112 - Viggy Parr Hampton: "The Waiting Mortuary"

Oct 01 2024 55 mins  
Georgia author Viggy Parr Hampton discovered that the best way to find the satisfyingly scary horror stories she craved was to write them herself. She's just published her second novel, Much Too Vulgar, which has been described by Ronald Malfi, bestselling author of Small Town Horror as “A brash, unapologetic, and often funny novel with a delightful nasty streak." We read the sto

Episode 111 - Amy Stuber: "Dick Cheney Was Not My Father"

Sep 24 2024 56 mins  
Don't be misled by the title of Amy Stuber's debut collection SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press). It's full of humor. "The stories in SAD GROWNUPS are masterful. At turns funny, insightful, and wise. I couldn't stop reading." - Cara Blue Adams, author of YOU NEVER GET IT BACK. We read a story that was first published in The Common: "Dick Cheney Was Not My Father." https://www.amystube

Episode 110 - Kirti Bhadresa: "In a Name"

Sep 17 2024 63 mins  
Canadian author Kirti Bhadresa was born in Red Deer, Alberta to Indian parents who had travelled far and wide before settling there. In her debut collection An Astonishment of Stars, she honors the lives of women - sisters, wives and mothers - who are caught between two worlds. ECW Press has graciously permitted us to share an excerpt from "In a Name" taken form the audiobook editi

Episode 109 - Meg Pokrass: Six Stories From FIRST LAW OF HOLES

Sep 10 2024 66 mins  
In the fourteen years author Meg Pokrass has been writing flash, she has established herself as a key figure in the world of flash fiction. First Law of Holes, her newly-released volume of new and collected stories, represents the astonishing wealth of creativity generated during those years. Meg reads six of the stories from her collection. https://megpokrass.com/ Support the show

Episode 108 - Hollay Ghadery: Three Stories from WIDOW FANTASIES

Sep 03 2024 55 mins  
The flash stories in Canadian author Hollay Ghadery's debut collection Widow Fantasies are like portrait miniatures, capturing essential moments in the lives of each character with laser-like focus and clarity. We read three stories from the book: "Tarot of St. Petersburg," Audience as Patio Furniture," and "Tennis Whites."https://www.hollayghadery.ca/ https://hollay-ghadery.square

Episode 107 - Kathryn Mockler: Four Stories from ANECDOTES

Aug 27 2024 54 mins  
There's a lot on Canadian author Kathryn Mockler's mind when it comes to what sorts of things the future might hold. In her hybrid collection Anecdotes (Book*hug Press), she channels her anxiety about the planet into bold, original, and surprisingly humorous works that take aim at the indifference surrounding us in these perilous times. We read four stories from the section of the