DISC 1
Introductions by Isaiah Sheffer, Elizabeth Richebourg Rea and Ann Beatie
Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl” read by Lois Smith
Comments by Cynthia Ozick
Introduction of the writers by Ann Beattie
Deborah Eisenberg reads from “Some Other Better Otto”
Richard Ford reads from “Calling”
Joyce Carol Oates reads “Slow”

DISC 2
Grace Paley reads “In This Country But in Another Language, My Aunt Refuses to Marry the Men Everyone Wants Her To” and “Plot on the Poem”
John Edgar Wideman reads “Coo-Coo”
Joy Williams reads from "Escapes"
Tobias Wolff reads “That Room”
John Updike's "The Orphaned Swimming Pool" read by Campbell Scott
Comments by John Updike