Hello and 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.
I am coming at you this morning from London, where we’ll be performing WORDS & Wickets: A Literary & Musical Celebration of Cricket on Monday, May 19th at The Crazy Coqs in Piccadilly, with proceeds benefiting WORDTheatre Campus, our work in schools! For more information visit WORDTheatreUK.org or WORDTheatre.org!

This week on the podcast, we’re bringing you a story from a Los Angeles event with author George Saunders. This short story is titled “Sparrow,” and was performed by the wonderful Alex Borstein, best known for her starring roles in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Family Guy. So let’s get on with the story!

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Here now is Sparrow by George Saunders

ALEX BORSTEIN PERFORMS THE STORY.

We hope you’ve enjoyed “Sparrow,” by George Saunders, who was in the room to enjoy this performance by Alex Borstein, along with hundreds of other enthusiast George Saunders fans, several of whom became supporting Members of WORDTheatre. For just $150 a year you too can support our work and keep this free podcast going. You will have access to videos of all our performances and be the first to know about upcoming events. Visit WORDTheatre.org for more information or if you are in the UK, visit WORDTheatreUK.org. And if you'd like to pick up books by the authors that you hear on this podcast, please visit Bookshop.org/shop/WORDTheatre, and you will be helping two non-profits!

On behalf of Kirsty Peart, my UK producing partner, and myself, we'd like to thank the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, Randy & Jane Sinisi and their Phiphen Studios | Post NJ, our Executive Coordinator, Scout Riley, Our Literary Coordinator, Jason Goodman, our podcast editor, Maya Johnson, as well as Emerson College, Loyola Marymount University, and UCLA because they send us fantastic interns.

Thank you for listening. This is Cedering Fox, until next week,, signing off!