'Selected Shorts': Rea Award Winners

Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, John Updike, Elizabeth Richebourg Rea, John Edgar Wideman, and Cynthia Ozick at Rea Award celebration.

John Updike's 'The Orphaned Swimming Pool' read by Campbell Scott, Stuart Dybek's 'Killing Time,' read by Philip Casnoff, and more.

In 1987 the late Michael Rea and his wife Elizabeth established The Rea Award for the Short Story. Given for sustained contribution to the art of the short story, the Award honors one writer each year. In April 2007 a dazzling line up of past winners participated in a special program at Symphony Space celebrating the Award's 20th anniversary.

This program features the authors John Edgar Wideman, Joy Williams, and Tobias Wolff reading from their works, as well as "The Orphaned Swimming Pool," by John Updike, the 2006 Rea winner, read by Campbell Scott; and "Killing Time," by Stuart Dybek, the 2007 winner, read by Philip Casnoff.

There are currently a dozen "Selected Shorts" thematic CDs, which feature listeners' best-loved stories, including "Baseball!," "Timeless Classics," "Food Fictions," "Travel Tales," "Falling in Love," "Edith Wharton," and most recently, "Pets!," "Tales of Betrayal," "Family Matters" and "Wartime Lives." Visit the PRI Store to purchase CDs.

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