Holiday Hurdles
b'Guest host David Sedaris presents stories that reimagine holiday rituals. In Tobias Wolff\\u2019s \\u201cPowder,\\u201d a pre-Christmas snowstorm provides an adventure for a father and son. SELECTED SHORTS\\u2019 late host and founder Isaiah Sheffer is the reader. A long-established couple turn out to be able to surprise one another in Allegra Goodman\\u2019s gentle borrowing from an O. Henry classic. Dana Ivey and Michael Cerveris read her \\u201cGifts of the Jewish Magi.\\u201d And David Sedaris says English writer Jeanette Winterson captures the city to a \\u201cT\\u201d in \\u201cChristmas in New York,\\u201d a modern fairy tale with just a hint of magic, performed by Richard Masur.'