Biblio File
Summer Shorts
Detail from Youth on Coney Island Beach, 1991. Image ID: 5033980
This summer, NYPL staff members are reading you their favorite short stories to offer you a brief escape from the heat and the haze. Each week, listen as they read their delightful selections and describe what makes these stories special to them — then be sure to check out these stories and more at your local library.
"All You Have to Do" by B.J. Novak
"Murder in the Dark" by Margaret Atwood
"Silence" by Alice Munro
"Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl
"The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" by H.P. Lovecraft
"Beneath the Cellars of Our Town" by Stephen Millhauser
"The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis" by Karen Russell
"A Temporary Marriage" by Krys Lee
"The Necklace and Other Tales" by Guy de Maupassant
"A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote
"Letter to a Funeral Parlor" by Lydia Davis
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