About this episode
This episode features stories that explore the theme of scaling down the complexities of life.
Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works about scaling the outsized real world down to manageable proportions. A couple brings the Papal seat home in Ben Loory’s “The Vatican,” read by Santino Fontana; In “I Love Betty,” by Kaitlyn Greenidge, communication problems invite interesting solutions, in a story read by Nathan Hinton. And in Shirley Jackson’s “The Beautiful Stranger” a wife and mother wonders if she’s in the right life, but tries to fit into it. It’s read by Maggie Siff.
People in this episode
Host: Meg Wolitzer
Guests: Santino Fontana, Nathan Hinton, Maggie Siff
Topics covered
- remakes
- replicas
- communication
- identity
- scaling down
- fiction
Keywords
- remakes
- replicas
- fiction
- communication
- identity
- Shirley Jackson
- Kaitlyn Greenidge
- Ben Loory
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Vatican, I Love Betty, The Beautiful Stranger
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