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Selected Shorts: Are We There Yet? (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story)

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A narration of short stories about traveling previously broadcasted on public radio stations.
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Like other choices in the Symphony Space series, this audio- book consists of short stories performed by professional actors in front of audiences. The seven stories in this collection are quite a mixed bag that share only a loose connection around a theme of people in transit; they were written over a period of nearly 70 years. The seven stories included in “Are We There Yet?”, as well as their authors and performers, are as follows: Stuart Dybek's 1981 "Pet Milk" (read by Keith Szarabajka); Martha Gellhorn's "Miami-New York" (read by Joanna Gleason); Edward P. Jones' "An Orange Line Train to Ballston" (read by Sonia Manzano); Annie Proulx's "The Trickle-Down Effect" (read by James Naughton); Dorothy Thomas' "The Getaway" (read by Mia Dillon); and James Thurber's "A Ride with Olympy" (performed by David Rakoff).

Thurber's "A Ride with Olympy” recounts a wild ride in a make-shift motor car in France during the 1930s. Eudora Welty's "No Place for You, My Love" tells of a couple who spontaneously take a meandering auto trip south of New Orleans. "Miami-New York" draws the reader into a World War II – era encounter between two strangers (a man and woman) on an airline. "Pet Milk" is a reminiscence of a romantic ride on the Chicago El. In Annie Proulx's "The Trickle-Down Effect" we follow an eccentric irresponsible character who hauls hay from Wisconsin to Wyoming, with devastating effects. "The Getaway" relates the unsuccessful attempt of a bored Kansas housewife to escape her family. In "An Orange Line Train to Ballston," the setting is the New York subway, where a single mother of three yearns to see the dread-locked stranger who occasionally shares her train.

Overall, I found these stories only mildly entertaining, and not too successful at holding my interest. My personal reaction to listening to these stories may or may not be shared by others. While Thurber’s story clearly had the live audience in stitches, it left me cold. Further, I am aware that the stories by Welty and Dybek are held in high regard in some quarters. My favorite of the stories is Gellhorn's "Miami-New York" – a skillfully written story of an airline trip that encompasses the whole history of a nascent relationship from formation through break-up.

Unfortunately, the collection of audio stories is not accompanied with any explanation as to full identity of the authors or the timing or context of their contributions. The absence of any background information is problematic, given the wide range of time frames and locales of the stories; it is especially disappointing in view of the fact that most potential listeners will be serious readers who care about this sort of thing. Readers unfamiliar with the authors will have to search the internet to find when and where the stories were actually written – something only the most motivated of readers will bother to do.

One sentence summaries for each of the stories are provided in my "Comments" on this listing. ( )
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