Episode
Walking on Eggshells
- Podcast
- Selected Shorts
- Published
- Jul 16, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3510
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://soundcloud.com/selectedshorts/walking-on-eggshells
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/selected-shorts-2124093/episodes/walking-on-eggshells/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/selected-shorts-2124093/walking-on-eggshells.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Host Meg Wolitzer presents two works about being careful. The title says it all in George Saunders’ “Lars Farf, Excessively Fearful Father and Husband,” as the central character goes to greater and greater extremes to protect his family from—everything. The reader is BD Wong. And a couple tiptoe towards love in Lily King’s “Five Tuesdays in Winter,” read by Justin Kirk. A brief interview with King is included.