# Remakes and Replicas

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Podcast: [Selected Shorts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/selected-shorts-2124093)
Published: 2026-04-09T17:00:38+00:00
Episode link: https://soundcloud.com/selectedshorts/remakes-and-replicas
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## Resource

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.

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