Outcasts in Love

Guest host Maulik Pancholy presents two stories in which social outliers strive for love. In “Tandolfo the Great,” by Richard Bausch, a sad-sack children’s clown falls head over heels—without a banana peel. Michael Ian Black is the reader. And American master Carson McCullers presents a complex theory about the nature of love, from a surprising source: a down-at-heels guy in a diner. Lance Reddick reads “A Tree, A Rock, a Cloud.”