About this episode
This episode features stories about characters facing life-altering choices.
Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about characters who find themselves in a place in which they need to make a choice, something that will affect them for the rest of their lives. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic, “Direction of the Road,” an ancient being has to make hard choices in its role as a guardian and a force of nature. The reader is Nikki M. James. In Helen Schulman’s “The Shabbos Goy,” a divorcee and a rabbi develop an interesting relationship around their mutual love of poetry. The reader is Jessica Hecht.
People in this episode
Host: Meg Wolitzer
Topics covered
- choice
- relationships
- poetry
- fiction
- guardian
- divorce
Keywords
- choice
- fiction
- poetry
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Helen Schulman
- relationships
- Nikki M. James
- Jessica Hecht
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Direction of the Road, The Shabbos Goy
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