Ed Falco On the Air
Ed Falco reading his own short stories, as well as stories by Steve Gibson, Alyson Hagy, Kristina Gorcheva Newberry, Kyle Minor, Matthew Vollmer--and Nathaniel Hawthorne. More info about ed falco is available at https://www.edfalco.us
Episodes
37 episodes
S2E1: Acid by Ed Falco
Ed Falco begins Season 2 of Ed Falco on the Air by reading his short story, "Acid," the title story of his 1996 collection from The University of Notre Dame Press. The collection was published as winner of The Richard Sullivan Prize. "...
S2E2 Among the Tootalonians by Ed Falco
Ed Falco reading "Among the Tootalonians," a story that's set in 2001, in the anxious days and weeks after the 9-11 terrorist attack in New York. Val, the central character in the story, is living in Boise, Idaho, where his young wife has recen...
S2E3 The Heart of Things by Kristina Gorcheva Newberry
In her short story "The Heart of Things," Kristina Gorcheva Newberry explores the fraught relationship between three women: a mother and her two adult daughters. Carmen, the younger daughter, has been living in the U.S. for 17 years, while her ...
S2E4 "Oh Land of National Paradise . . ." by Matthew Vollmer
In Matthew Vollmer's short story "Oh Land of National Paradise, How Glorious Are They Bounties," the life of a young man working as a waiter in Yellowstone Park gets complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's girlfriend—and even m...
S2E5 "Wild Girls" by Ed Falco
"Wild Girls" begins in a bar in the East Village, where a succesful middle-aged artist who earns a living as a mentor and teacher of young, aspiring artists, finds himself in the company of two young women, one a current and the other a former ...
S2E6 The Revenant by Ed Falco
A veteran of the war in Vietnam takes his teenage daughter to a Marilyn Manson concert, where a string of disturbing events begin.
S2E7 Dooley's G_ill & Tavern by Steve Gibson
A neighborhood bar where the floors are sticky, the air is thick with smoke, and the past lingers just beneath the surface of every conversation. An award-winning short story by Steve Gibson.
S2E8 Semper Paratus by Alyson Hagy
A short story by Alyson Hagy. “Semper Paratus”—the Coast Guard motto, meaning “Always Ready”—follows Randall, the lone woman in a Coast Guard rescue crew stationed on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, nicknamed the graveyard of the Atlantic. T...
S2E9 Glossolalia by Kyle Minor
Kyle Minor's short story, “Glossolalia,” consists entirely of dialogue between a young man and woman negotiating the rifts between faith and desire. Part of Minor's collection, Praying Drunk, “Glossolalia” is about many things, including langua...
S2E10 Little America by Ed Falco
A short story by Ed Falco, narrated by Anthony, a New Yorker crossing the country by van with his fiancée, Vivian, who has spent her life in the West and loves it with something like devotion. As they drive through Wyoming, Anthony finds himsel...
S2E11 Balls by Ed Falco
In Chicago, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated, fires are burning, violence has broken out on the west side, and a young man who lives alone in a sixth-floor walkup is annoyed by a banging on his bedroom wall coming from th...
S2E12 The Ministers Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic short story about the mask we wear in public and the chaos of individual identity that lives confused and potentially dangerous beneath that mask.
S1, E1 The Strangers
To inhabit the planet, they had to eliminate the Earth’s indigenous human population. Trouble was, they missed a few.The story begins with a storm . . .
S1, E2 The Strangers
In Episode 1, Severn and Vi had just been attacked after starting for town. When we left them, they’re were both unconscious in the road as a storm hit. That’s were we pick up with Episode 2.
S1, E3 The Strangers
At the end of Episode 2, Severn had just returned from town to find Vi and Sage alive, though battered. We left him as he entered the Epperson house and heard a glass break followed by a curse. As far as we—and Severn--knew, everyone in t...
S1, E4 The Strangers
At the end of Episode 3, Severn and the kids—Tommy and Vi—had returned to his house with Sage and were getting ready to go into town, where they expected to meet other survivors. Before leaving, Severn asked Tommy to help him bury Sarah, ...
S1, E5 The Strangers
At the end of Episode 4, Severn had given the kids, Tommy and Vi, powerful sleeping pills to knock them out for what appeared to be the beginning of another lurching. At the end of the episode, they were all sleeping. That's where we pick up Ep...