Disc 1: Jubilation, Florida / N.M. Kelby (28:38) --
The hat of my mother / Max Steele (36:17). Disc 2: The ultimate safari / Nadine Gordimer (33:22) --
Goodbye to all that / Joan Didion (26:50). Disc 3: Afternoon of the Sassanoa / Jason Brown (39:33) --
Liberty Hall / Ring Lardner (24:52).
Night the ghost got in / James Thurber ; read by Isaiah Sheffer (11:50) --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton ; read by Maria Tucci (23:12) --
Mak westing / Jack London ; read by Steven Gilborn (19:41) --
Rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence ; read by John Shea (38:11) --
Lottery / Shirley Jackson ; read by Marian Seldes (21:21) --
Most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; read by Charles Keating (37:38) --
Cathedral / Raymond Carver ; read by James Naughton (38:45).
Disc 1. Charles (11:48) / Shirley Jackson ; read by Lois Smith --
First confession (21:59) / Frank O'Connor ; read by Malachy McCourt --
Disc 2. Solomon's big day: a children's story (25:23) / Touré ; read by Daniel Alexander Jones --
The loudest voice (17:34) / Grace Paley ; read by Linda Lavin --
Disc 3. A life of crime (41:05) / Diane Leslie ; read by Jill Eikenberry --
Pride and joy (12:59) / Etgar Keret ; read by Robert Sean Leonard --
Boys (17:00) / Rick Moody ; read by B. D. Wong.
Disc 1: 1. Play by play / Roger Angell and A. Bartlett Giamatti (6:54) --
2. Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike (35:24) --
3. Polo grounds / Rolfe Humphries (4:15) --
4. Pitcher and base stealer / Robert Francis (2:15) --
5. Cobb would have caught it / Robert Fitzgerald (1:50) --
6. Game six / Roger Angell (11:47). Disc 2: 1. Glory / Yusef Komunyakaa (1:33) --
2. The thrill of the grass / W.P. Kinsella (23:44) --
3. The joy and melancholy baseball trivia quiz / Ken Kalfus (34:29). Disc 3: 1. The Hector Quesadilla story / T.C. Boyle (30:09) --
2. The green fields of the minds / A. Bartlett Giamatti (12:46).