Liars
An Audio Reading
by Nathaniel Bellows
Nathaniel Bellows’s revealing and enlightening short story introduces Nan, a compassionate reader who tends to get lost in other people’s stories. An invitation to read unsolicited manuscripts for a local literary magazine challenges her optimism as she learns to trust her own judgment and intuition. Bellows reads this story in his deep, reverberating voice, adding to our sense of Nan’s bafflement about her place in the world.
AUDIO
Narrative Outloud
Nathaniel Bellows was born in Boston and received a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. He is the author of the novel On This Day and a collection of poetry, Why Speak? In addition, his work has been collected in Poems of New York and The Best American Short Stories 2005. Bellows lives in New York City.
