Selected Shorts: An Evening with Richard Ford

Best known for his Frank Bascombe novels (including the Pulitzer-winning Independence Day) and short-story collection Rock Springs, Ford's latest, Canada, is a segmented tale about a teenager exiled to the north when his parents are arrested for an attempted bank robbery. Tonight, David Strathairn, Dawn Akemi Saito and more read work by Ford, Robert Olen Butler and Binnie Kirshenbaum.