Welcome to WORDTheatre Weekly: The Short Story
Podcast where great authors and actors meet. I’m your host, Cedering Fox, WORDTheatre’s Founder & Artistic Director.

Today, you will be hearing stories from two of our favorite authors, Mary Gordon and David Means. We will be featuring both of them at our upcoming May 19th event in Manhattan, “Growing Pains.”

Mary Gordon is widely celebrated for her fiction, literary criticism, and memoirs, and in 2008 was named the Official State Author of New York.

David Mean’s work has earned numerous honors, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and many more.

Before we get started, please note that WORDTheatre holds the copyright to these recordings and no portion of anything you hear on WORDTheatre Weekly, our short story podcast, may be reproduced without permission.

And now, here is Kathryn Erbe performing “Out of the Fray” by Mary Gordon

ERBE PERFORMS THE PIECE.

And now, here is Kevin McKidd performing “The Project” by David Means.

MCKIDD PERFORMS THE PIECE.

You’ve just heard Kathryn Erbe perform “Out of the Fray” written by Mary Gordon and Kevin McKidd perform “The Project” written by David Means.

If you’re anywhere near Manhattan on May 19th, we welcome you to join us to meet both of these fantastic authors and hear their work performed live at our event, “Growing Pains,” a celebration of the release of the Pushcart Book of Twenty-First Century Poetry and Prose. We have found so many of our favorite authors in the pages of the Pushcart, and we can’t wait to honor this literary tradition with all of our favorite people. Tickets available at wordtheatre.org/events . It’s at “The Players” 16 Gramercy Pk S. Starting at 5:30, with performances starting at 6:30. We hope to see you there!

If you'd like to purchase books by either of these authors, visit bookshop.org/shop/wordtheatre and you’ll be helping two literary nonprofits.

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We’d like to thank Randy & Jane Sinisi & Palisades Post for their ongoing support. We’d also like to thank the LA Department of Arts & Culture. Thank you, everyone, for listening!

Until next week, this is Cedering Fox, signing off!