![]() ![]() ![]() Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby in Battery Park and a Walt Whitman celebration on the 100-year anniversary of the writer's death. She recalled his creativity in organizing literary festivals like a reading of F. "Isaiah's spirit of adventure was boundless," said Katherine Minton, Symphony Space's director of literary programs, who organized Selected Shorts with Sheffer. Family, co-workers and actors whose lives were touched by Sheffer shared stories about the 76-year-old Bronx native, who was best known for masterminding "Selected Shorts," a nationally syndicated radio program in which famous actors read popular short stories, and "Bloomsday on Broadway," an annual front-to-back reading of James Joyce's Ulysses. ![]() Last week, Symphony Space held a memorial celebration for Isaiah Sheffer, the theater's co-founder who passed away in November. ![]()
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