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Oct 5, 2026
Aparna NancherlaHOST
His writing has been featured in journals including Bull and Red Rock Review.
Aparna NancherlaHOST
This story about miscreants, dads, and miscreant dads was listed in The Best American Short Stories collection as one of their distinguished stories of the year.
Aparna NancherlaHOST
And we will speak with Austin after the performance.
Aparna NancherlaHOST
The actor reading it is Will Brill.
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Jim Shepherd has written eight novels, including the Book of Aaron, as well as six short story collections.
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He is the recipient of many honors, including having nine stories selected for Best American Short Stories, most recently from this collection, and being a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Jim will be in conversation with Tania James, whose most recent novel, Loot, was long listed for the 2023 National Book Award.
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Please join me in welcoming Jim Shepherd and Tania James to Politics and Prose.
Brad ListiHOST
She won the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Brad ListiHOST
And, uh, her work has been published all over the place, including the Best American Short Stories, the New Yorker magazine, The Atlantic, Harper's, Zoetrope, and, uh, many other publications.
Brad ListiHOST
Tea is originally from the former Yugoslavia and now resides in Wyoming.
Brad ListiHOST
And I'm just so happy to have her here on the show to, uh, read for all of us.
Deborah TreismanHOST
That was Colm Tóibín reading "Awaiting Orders" by Tobias Wolff.
Deborah TreismanHOST
The story appeared in The New Yorker in July of 2005 and was included in Wolff's collection, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories, which was published in 2008, as well as in the 2006 Best American Short Stories anthology.
Deborah TreismanHOST
So Colm, Morse is someone who wants to have rules and orders in his life.
Deborah TreismanHOST
He's a career soldier.
Bianca MaraisHOST
Everyone, today's guest is the author of the story collections The Dream Life of Astronauts, named one of the best books of the year by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub, Refinery29, and Electric Literature, and longlisted for the Story Prize, and Send Me.
Bianca MaraisHOST
His work has appeared in the Best American Short Stories, the anthology Tales of Two Cities, and elsewhere.
Bianca MaraisHOST
The former associate editor of Granta, he is the current editor-in-chief of the literary magazine One Story.
Bianca MaraisHOST
He lives in New York City.
Sean Dagony-ClarkGUEST
Yeah, sure.
Sean Dagony-ClarkGUEST
So I've been very into, and this isn't leadership stuff, this is just what I'm reading, but if anybody's interested, the Best American Short Stories series are just wonderful.
Sean Dagony-ClarkGUEST
Right now I'm reading one from 2007 because I've read all of the recent ones, but they always have a guest editor for that year's series.
Sean Dagony-ClarkGUEST
This one's Stephen King, so there's some stuff in there that's sort of King-y, suspenseful.