I Contain Multitudes
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English - January 25, 2024 18:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MB - ★★★★ - 2.5K ratingsPerforming Arts Arts Books leadership interview entrepreneur business entrepreneurship health Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about complex characters and the many different roles they play in each other’s lives and in the world around us. Cherline Bazile’s “Tender,” which guest editor Min Jin Lee included in Best American Short Stories 2023, reflects the contradictory nature of friendship. It’s read by Anna Uzele. The show features Min Jin Lee’s on-stage remarks about the story and contemporary fiction. Our second story, Grace Paley’s “The Contest,” reflects the contradictory nature of courtship, as the bewildered narrator is alternatively flattered and bullied by a girl with way more on the ball than he has. He tells us so himself, in the voice of actor Justin Bartha.