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The Night of the Ugly Ones Updated: 2012-01-31 19:43:07 Description: Sometimes a story catches you by title alone. I have a real soft spot, personally, for "The Night of the" stories, no matter the medium. Hunters, Iguanas, Living Dead, even Comets (to a lesser degree)... all of these things weaken my articulated jo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Illusion by Jean Rhys (Redux) Updated: 2012-01-12 19:31:52 Description: Sometimes it just kills me how many stories I've read here. A lot, that's how many. And as much as I'm endeared to those earlier lo-fi bootleggy recordings, there are some stories which just aren't served by the lack of quality, and some stories th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Indiscretion Updated: 2011-12-15 20:17:33 Description: You'll have to excuse the fact that this sounds somewhat as if it might have been recorded in a submarine in the icy waters beneath an alien planet; I haven't been around for a while, and my audio equipment was dusty and had been playing bingo in a c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Young Workman’s Letter (Guest narrator: Chris King) Updated: 2011-11-11 19:21:29 Description: Usually, when I think about this humble little project, it fills me with all kinds of amourpropre. Even when I'm temporarily removed from my own devices (audiotorily speaking), I can't help but self-congratulatorily pat myself backwise (I'm flexible...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD I Am Awake (Guest narrator: Philip Shelley) Updated: 2011-10-27 16:12:41 Description: Tonight's guest narrator owns and operates The Devastationalist Manifesto, a project I desperately wish would soon revive itself from its two-year hiatus, and not just because I miss the occasional chance for self-gam-gawkery......more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Man Who Lost the Sea (Guest narrator: Shig Vigintitres) Updated: 2011-10-14 18:26:03 Description: Sturgeon's a presence which should have been established here long ago, and I was grateful beyond expression when tonight's guest reader volunteered to represent him. That said, I was only told there was......more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Enoch and the Gorilla (Guest Reader: Patrick Scott) Updated: 2011-10-07 16:13:20 Description: Some of you may remember the sweet sounds of Patrick Scott from earlier Miette Bailouts. When I put out the call for guest readers, he was quick to the case. But Patrick's a busy guy, now that he's a famous filmmaker, and so when you listen to his ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Frau Wilke (Guest narrator: Sam Jones) Updated: 2011-09-20 19:03:15 Description: If you know Sam Jones from various internet outlets, you will be neither surprised nor disappointed that he chose to read Walser for his guest stint here. However, if you know Sam Jones from various internet outlets alone, you might not know... ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Everything is Green (Guest narrator: George Carr) Updated: 2011-09-14 14:30:11 Description: The voice you are about to hear is not my own, though today's guest narrator insists his distinctive lilt can be attributed to "equal parts whisky, speed, and diction practice." Which means that it's probably closer to my voice than we'd think at fi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Order of Insects by William H. Gass Updated: 2011-08-03 16:55:54 Description: I know, it's been a while. I've been trying to Have A Summer over here, an effort thwarted by an adverse reaction to allergens purportedly getting caught up in butterfly currents on the other side of the world. Either that, or it's the Romantic Lad...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Two Gallants by James Joyce Updated: 2011-06-16 17:07:16 Description: Bloomsday is here again, as you surely know, and as is my ritual, here’s another story from the Dubliners. This is the 7th such reading, and sometimes, the thought of keeping this up for eight more years to finish the collection is one I tend t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD At the Anarchists’ Convention by John Sayles Updated: 2011-06-08 17:35:41 Description: I yanked tonight's story from The Best of American Short Stories 1980, a volume edited by the great Stanley Elkin. If you take one look at it, you'll see that 1980, while not considered a boon year for American fiction, perhaps should be. Donald Ba...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Truth and All Its Ugly Updated: 2011-05-09 20:45:25 Description: Whenever an internet missive or blip crosses my screen with Kyle Minor's name attached, I open it up in awe of his apparently continual reading and writing and thinking acutely about the finer side of the bookish life. I don't know whether this rele...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD First Confession Updated: 2011-04-07 16:19:59 Description: I hadn't read Frank O'Connor's stories in a very long time-- he fell into the gutter of authors I'd studied to a point of boredom as a student, and while I've spent a good deal of my adult life sweeping those gutters and asking absolution from what I...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Letter from a Hunchback Girl to a Metalworker Updated: 2011-03-15 15:43:47 Description: Fernando Pessoa has been a long-standing point of not insignificant fixation in the writerly pursuits of Your Faithful (If Not Schedularly Published) Storyteller, for reasons that will be forehead-smackingly obvious to some of you. As for the rest of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Killer Whales, Susan Daitch Updated: 2011-02-24 14:12:37 Description: There's a quite decent independent bookstore in the town in which I'm staying this week, a bookstore that will be closing soon for all the usual reasons. I plan to spend a fair amount of time later this morning vulturing my way through this store, a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Force Acting on the Displaced Body, Christopher Rowe Updated: 2011-01-28 18:39:47 Description: Are your toes frozen? I hope not. Especially if you're as big of a pansy about the weather as I am. Because the weather knows this about me and is a relentless jerk about this, my revenge is in the form of a seaside adventure story based largely o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Woman of Properties, Jack Matthews Updated: 2011-01-06 20:22:34 Description: Well, here we are having taken yet another circumnavigatory Gregorian tour together, and I hope that you've put away your party hats and crackers and are back to the grind, having disregarded all the unreasonable expectations you made of yourselves f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Balloon, Donald Barthelme Updated: 2010-12-13 19:50:15 Description: If you've been listening for a while, you may know that I have an unfortunate habit of whining, incessantly and irrepressibly, in those months when the cold has rendered my extremities indistinguishable from assorted varieties of freezer section meat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe Updated: 2010-11-23 21:39:04 Description: This story is brought to you by a very nice man named Jake, who requested it a while ago, and when I read Philip K Dick instead last week, expressed some disappointment. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Roog, Philip K. Dick Updated: 2010-11-17 22:14:48 Description: I got kicked in the inspiration after that bit of Nabokov (he has that effect), and was determined to give you new stories at least weekly. I'd cleared my schedule to dedicate more time to only these more self-satisfying projects, and then, disaster...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Vane Sisters, Vladimir Nabokov Updated: 2010-10-27 18:19:33 Description: It had been some years since I've read any Nabokov, which I can only blame a youthful use of mind-shrinking substances or a two-mile-long to-read list. But recently, I made a full-length audiobook of Dustin Long's Icelander, whose completion set me ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Here Be Dragons, Alfred Chester Updated: 2010-10-12 19:51:46 Description: The very first words of Gore Vidal's foreword to Alfred Chester's collected stories (Head of a Sad Angel Although it has been my misfortune to have at practically all the noted American writers of the last half century, I did have the great good luc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Helpmate, Ben Greenman Updated: 2010-08-23 18:08:56 Description: Not long ago, I found myself in the unfortunate position of being deeply ensconced in a marvelous book while on a crowded public transportation system. “Nothing unfortunate about that, Miette,” you’ve said. I heard you. The unfortun...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Disappearing Updated: 2010-07-23 17:58:17 Description: It's that time of year, my dears, where I'm about to head off to foreign parts for what's known in various circles as "vacation," "holidays," or "days spent without LCD bathing." I can't believe it, either, actually, and am not sure I'll be able to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Small Circle of Friends Updated: 2010-07-07 16:24:20 Description: I know; this is two posts in a row that make direct mention of ladies' underthings. I have three very good reasons for this: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD After the Race Updated: 2010-06-16 16:38:12 Description: Looking at the Bloomsday readings I've done to date, it's evident that my written prefaces have become some absurd equivalent of squealing fangirlish bra-tossing. I may (OR MAY NOT) be an excellent bra-tosser with perfect aim and pitch, and we all k...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sex and/or Mr. Morrison Updated: 2010-06-02 15:43:39 Description: A disclaimer for you on this happy June that will become self-evident soon enough: I love this story. I could read it a thousand times over and give you a thousand different insights. I love it in the peepish and borderline obsessive way its narrat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD In the Avu Observatory Updated: 2010-05-18 17:16:18 Description: A few days ago, I took a little trip to Toronto, where the jazz singers scat to sheet music, where wine is poured long before noon, and where the best booksellers refuse to serve the likes of me. While there, I spent a day in rooms full of brainy peo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sono and Moso Updated: 2010-04-29 17:19:52 Description: Last week's New Yorker magazine included a series of letters written by Saul Bellow to other writers. I've often thought epistolary exchange between writers to be the most nettly of writing, both the most effusive and the most sincere, the most pret...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Butterfly Updated: 2010-03-29 01:45:55 Description: I've been wanting to read James Hanley to you for a couple of months now, ever since he was reintroduced to me a few months ago while I was yearning for a bathematic submergence in a foreign hotel. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Fifth Story Updated: 2010-03-16 13:14:32 Description: I read recently about toxic bread in a sleepy French village, about mass hallucinations and the newly revealed hypothesis that the CIA was responsible for covert LSD experiments. Apparently, the same thing might have happened in the subways of New Yo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sir Henry Updated: 2010-02-27 20:12:48 Description: I have a good excuse to spare you my blathery scrawl about the show-stopping beauty in this story -- the hot cats at Electric Literature have done so in a flashier way, and before you even tap the PLAY button on your baubly mp3 players, you ought to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Trojan Horse Updated: 2010-02-10 16:12:54 Description: Sometimes I think you haven't lived until you've been given the shoulder by a drunken horse in a bar. Other times I think the very stuff of life happens from being the drunken horse in a bar. But usually, it has to do with neither of these things, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Sorrel Colt Updated: 2010-02-01 18:50:09 Description: The other day I was walking through a blistering, blustery, blinding-white below-zero snowstorm, cursing the day I decided not to live on a Caribbean island, and doubly cursing the day I decided not to be born with antifreeze for blood. Because if I...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gregory Updated: 2010-01-13 03:16:21 Description: So, I know very little about the author of tonight's story. He has no Wikipedia page in any language that I can gather, one used copy of an out-of-print collection of stories available in English (that I can cursorily find, anyhow), and a slight dus...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD DiGrasso Updated: 2010-01-06 14:00:24 Description: Oh, aren't we lucky!? A double-bluffed, double-dipped, double-headed dose of Isaac Babel. When you've had a listen here and discover that you're still running low on your recommended daily serving of Babel, you might head here to find a new recordi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD On Hope Updated: 2009-12-23 01:15:50 Description: I can think of nothing more apt for the rounding-out of a year than a fleeting little fable on outplaying inevitability. If you're anything like me, Inevitability is one collector you've managed to send off-course at least once this year, and that i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Emmy Moore’s Journal Updated: 2009-12-19 20:17:43 Description: There was a time when I was little (and I was so cute, and so little!) when I wanted to be Jane Bowles. I was obsessed with the puppet show, unhealthily so, though thinking back now, I can't think of any self-respecting adult who'd have introduced s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Interior Castle Updated: 2009-12-02 19:34:35 Description: I'm more than a little eager to introduce this bit of Jean Stafford-- in fact, the last time I was this eager, I was about to jump out of an airplane, an activity I was undertaking using age-faked identification, which was, to the best of my memory, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Bound Man Updated: 2009-11-19 16:40:13 Description: My friends, a confession: I am a sucker. Little stray kittens and musty books and vegetably steamed dumplings.... these things were basically made for me. And stories like this belong on the list of things for which I'm a true sucker, and by "like ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Pool of the Stone God Updated: 2009-10-30 22:35:30 Description: For those of you who will not be spending the weekend dressed scandalously and behaving just as badly, or scaring young children, or throwing personal hygiene product in the trees of your enemies, ......more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective Updated: 2009-10-21 19:17:33 Description: It was recommended some time ago by a guy named Alex that I read the entire four-story cycle of The Rajah's Diamond, and it is a request I'll perhaps fill someday. I'm in the throes of a mini Stevenson obsession right now, so it seems the proper and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Trouble at Pow Crash Creek Updated: 2009-10-07 20:53:33 Description: It's probably one of the better things in life -- right up there with creative breakthroughs and lasting love and the slurp of streetside oysters -- to have one's hat tipped to new and great authors. In my case, it doesn't happen often, because I'm ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD I Stand Here Ironing Updated: 2009-09-22 21:27:27 Description: So I have this tendency, as you may have noticed, to take a sharp left at matters of personal divulgences, which is a difficult thing to pull off today, given the severity and somber-ity of a story like this one. But so, okay, here you go, three ver...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Space-Time for Springers Updated: 2009-08-24 16:22:21 Description: Can I tell you something about my speculative fiction habits? Of course I can-- this my barroom restroom wall and the red marker's in my slimy mitt. Here's the thing: I just love stories about sentient animals. I can't get enough of talking dogs ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Doctor’s Heroism Updated: 2009-08-14 17:05:45 Description: Well, I've been reading some unavoidable news about Death Panels and baby killing nazi zombies terrorizing in the Norwegian mountains and all sorts of incessant catfighty nastiness which I suppose our world can take, given that it's really all pretty...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD An Unbeliever Updated: 2009-08-05 21:15:47 Description: The other day I was lying in the woods, on a hammock on a mountaintop, reading aloud to young people, and wondered, for a second, why there was no professional job market for reading aloud on hammocks to young people, why there isn’t a real mar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Feathers Updated: 2009-07-09 21:23:41 Description: Oh ladies! Oh men and oh boys and girls, the sexiest man alive is BACK. Patrick has been threatening to start up Patrick's Bedtime Story Podcast, and with a voice this smooth, he might have to do it, much as I'd miss his occasional guest posts her...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Hollow Updated: 2009-07-01 19:47:20 Description: Breece D'J Pancake was brought to my attention only a couple of years ago, one of those writers who didn't leave a whole lot left behind for us to gluttonously swallow, and one who was willing to grab the short story by the balls of its form and stee...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD An Encounter Updated: 2009-06-15 17:35:40 Description: I'm so excited about Bloomsday that I'm sharing the love a day early this year. In fact, I was so excited that I almost went ahead and read all the stories from Dubliners that I haven't yet done for you, but then it hit me that I'd have to move forw...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Sailor-Boy’s Tale Updated: 2009-05-31 21:02:27 Description: Twice now I've sat down to read something from Isak Dinesen's Winter's Tales , and twice when pawing through for a good story, I've ended up spending hours re-reading the stories in here, to the point of distracted negligence, but to the point of gre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Silver Hilt Updated: 2009-05-11 13:04:12 Description: Okay, okay, you all keep asking for me to read writers you know, and I keep dipping into the well of obscurity to pick up writers you've never heard of. I know! I'll read the writers you know, maybe, but you have to tell me which ones you want to h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Game of Catch Updated: 2009-04-20 19:30:07 Description: It's always a little weird to me to read a sports story, with idioms like "burning one in" that are just so far removed from my patois that I can barely even get my mouth to go in that direction. And it's equally odd to try and project teenage boy-...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Burning City Updated: 2009-04-07 19:13:46 Description: Boy, I sure am all kinds of flushed with the Scandinavs these days. Maybe it's my compassion for others plying their way through long cold winters, or maybe it's my assertion that gravlaks is a flawless food, or maybe it's just what they're willing ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Madame de Luzy Updated: 2009-03-25 18:54:41 Description: Tonight’s story came from one of several boxes of books that were recently given to me by a stranger, someone apparently vying for the title of Miette’s Best Friend. And as I mention when reading tonight’s story, this alone makes to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Three Letters… and a Footnote Updated: 2009-03-09 15:11:43 Description: This is on the lighter end of Horacio Quiroga’s stories, which (of those I’ve read) tend to have more to do with death and desolation than the streetcar indiscretions we’ve got here. But it’s March, and I’m springing for...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Various Miracles Updated: 2009-02-24 19:50:46 Description: More Canadian Short Fiction? You damned well bet– just check the calendar. On that note, I’m starting to think Carol Shields herself is somewhat of a miracle. For starters, look at this, from an interview on Canada as a landscape for writ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Boat Updated: 2009-02-16 19:32:23 Description: Canadian Short Fiction Month continues, as promised, with a story that seems obviously designed to be delivered from the lips straight to the ears. There’s so much beauty tucked away in here of the sort you wouldn’t necessarily see on the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Orchard Updated: 2009-02-12 21:34:19 Description: If you’re reading this before listening to the podcast… and you know, I have no idea whether you read or listen first, or if you just read, or just listen, and find yourself lost on those rare occurrences where I can hold a thought long e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD It Was Updated: 2009-01-28 22:15:11 Description: I was sitting here eating little sugary hearts with terms of endearment printed on them. They’re pretty popular with the young people, and surely you must know them: cheap things, sort of disgusting in the way that totally fructosified food pro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Hyannis Port Story Updated: 2009-01-12 16:17:31 Description: I was talking to the resident genius here about false memories and the publishment thereof, when an idea emerged, an idea with such potential for industry salvation that there’s no choice but to document it here, in the interest of knowledge op...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD In Dreams Begin Responsibilities Updated: 2008-11-27 02:14:22 Description: Well, pilgrims. It’s that day once again when the poisoned blankets of history are celebrated with turkey and squash. And I want to get all excited with you about Delmore Schwartz, and rave a while about how you should be able to listen to the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Specialist’s Hat Updated: 2008-11-12 01:34:23 Description: So it was decided that I needed a table, but in thinking about the sort of table I might need, for the purpose the table would serve, it was further decided that the table needed to have certain bench-like properties. A hybrid, as we say in these tim...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Quilt Updated: 2008-10-21 17:17:37 Description: This was going to go up during Banned Books week, but then I got a nasty visit from Uncle Rhinovire, and then there was the trip to the Akvariet and then it hit me that neither a short story nor the oral presentation of one qualify, really, as a R...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD To the Open Water Updated: 2008-09-27 16:22:56 Description: As I noted in the whole wide verbal megillah setting up tonight’s reading, I’m taking great issue with the Wikipedia entry on tonight’s author. Here, again, is the first sentence, with my call to fix it: Jesse Hill Ford (December 28...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Spring Updated: 2008-09-20 01:25:49 Description: But in order to be mad scientists, first we had to learn how to be normal scientists. It’s funny, imagining John Fahey sitting in a hotel rampantly scrawling. Not because he’s so otherwise voiceless, or should relegate his expressiveness ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD When I Was Miss Dow Updated: 2008-09-08 03:54:33 Description: This story was brought to my attention a few months ago, making its way inbox-ward on the anniversorry of my trip down Amniotic Lane, timing not unintentional. Now, I would share with you my thoughts on why this was selected as a Birthday Story, but ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Of Angleworms and Others Updated: 2008-08-22 02:57:02 Description: So it’s summer right now, if you’re with me hemispherically. Although if you were to zoom in a little closer you’d see that in some places, we’re tying up that chapter, it’s cooling down, and that means it’s time t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Show-and-Tell Updated: 2008-08-11 02:27:52 Description: In the two days since first reading of tonight’s story, I’ve been deeply ensconced with this idea of show-and-tell, to the irrational (read: batshit) point of showing-and-telling the objects comprising the contents of my desk to the vario...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fun With Your New Head Updated: 2008-08-01 18:27:57 Description: A couplefew nights ago, catatonic with fatigue after a couple days of travel, I found just the right pace of entertainment watching my cat chase a furry little squeaker all around the place. My conscience wouldn’t let me object– it was na...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Self-Contained Compartment Updated: 2008-07-16 12:13:25 Description: During a trip by car I noticed a guy on the phone in a parking lot frantically trying to start his car, a kid really, a kid in trouble, just laying into the ignition while the engine was turning halfway over which indicated, to my limited capacity fo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Pukey Updated: 2008-06-30 03:34:32 Description: “But when it thinks, I feel like vomiting.” With these words, it is clear that if Nigel Dennis were still around I’d be his groupie. I’d start the FaceBook Club and make mashups on Youtube for him and disguise myself as an edi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eveline Updated: 2008-06-17 11:20:27 Description: Were I a listmaker, and perhaps I am, you would be the warm recipient of many reasons to be grateful when the internet goes for broke on Bloomsday. This list, were I to make one, would include the subcategories: FOR ME and FOR YOU. Topping the FOR YO...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Cask of Amontillado Updated: 2008-06-11 12:17:41 Description: So I read in the news today about the Indonesian macaque monkeys who’ve learned to successfully catch fish, and how exciting this is for biology, and how it’s a living and breathing example of the adaptation of a species to its conditions...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Rose for Emily Updated: 2008-06-01 12:53:59 Description: So, my "identity" was stolen recently. And not for the sake of sordid members-only internet sites or international travel or a weekend of Spitzering other scandalous activities that, if you're going to have your identity stolen, would constitute The...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Note on the Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America Updated: 2008-05-03 03:45:15 Description: Fishing season began early this year for your Miette, with the streetside discovery of a freshly abandoned goldfish with wonky telescopic eyes, in its bowl and with a note reading: Free Fish! Please Give Steve Buscemi a good home. And of course I did...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Truth or Consequences Updated: 2008-04-19 01:33:18 Description: After a week of muscle-burning manual work and long long drives, some of us settle in with a nice cold beer. For others-- maybe like me, who's to say -- it takes more that that... way more, maybe, to relax muscles as sore as these and attempt to put...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Last Class Updated: 2008-04-04 17:00:48 Description: All week I've been wanting to read this to you, waking up more excited than the trashman on the day-after-Christmas, and running into my.... uh... recording studio (read: three paces from the bed) to see if it's quiet enough......more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Binoculars Updated: 2008-03-26 01:54:05 Description: A saw a sign the other day while out on a drive, a sign that said this: Frost Heaves. And I almost had to stop and compose myself, because I was so deeply distressed by the fact that frost can't heave in private (and I'm not a histrionic sort of ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Handful of Dates Updated: 2008-03-21 01:28:30 Description: The question that's been asked a few times of me now: why don't I read more African writers? Actually, it's been asked more than a few times... enough times, in fact, to warrant the sort of qualifier most accurately described as MANY. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD In a Hole Updated: 2008-03-13 03:07:48 Description: It's confusing, the name of tonight's author, right? I mean, the better known writer sharing this name didn't bother with a middle pseudonymous initial, and there's a slight tweak to the surname, but we readers would be none the wiser, push-to-shove...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lonesome Road Updated: 2008-02-29 02:23:18 Description: A mildly embarrassing problem when getting under way with tonight's story, confessed in full in these lines: when I first sat down to read it to you this evening, I got caught on a raft in a sea of lexical continental drift, and over and over I stam...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby Updated: 2008-02-20 01:43:07 Description: As I lay writhing on my sickbed I was catching up on my milehigh stack of unread periodicals, and made my way to an article about one of the leading competitors for an upcoming race for a high position of public office in the country in which I'm liv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer Updated: 2008-02-05 02:16:04 Description: A few days ago I was driving down the street behind a car which, as was warned by prominent display of rooftop sign, was being operated by a Student Driver... a sign which really wasn't necessary, given the stammering mid-intersection braking and sid...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD From the Mouths of Buildings Updated: 2008-01-29 20:35:27 Description: A message from the author of today's story: Do you ever wonder as you are reading a story, or hearing one, such as on a podcast, for example, what or whom has inspired a particular story? Picture this: imaginary "directions" or "instructions" for ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Youth, Beautiful Youth Updated: 2008-01-08 03:27:52 Description: Returning soon with a much-awaited all-new MBSP. Leaving you with a mightylong one to hold you till (the longest yet in one sitting, I think). For Dream, remembered always, and loved even longer....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fedya Davidovich Updated: 2007-12-15 02:58:23 Description: HEY, Internet, I want to tell you all about Earideas. Wow, that sounded a little snake-oily- let me try that again: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race Updated: 2007-12-04 18:19:00 Description: I was thinking about the last story I read to you, and thinking it’d be nice if other events of this variety, the sort of events that are difficult to explain to small children, were similarly reimagined. And not just on a large scale, either. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race Updated: 2007-11-28 22:27:04 Description: I hope those of you celebrating All Things Autumnal are settling into it well, the roast fowl and the hot cacao and woodfire smoke for dessert, and, well, you know the picture I'm aiming for here. It does wonders to the general countenance, I think:...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Updated: 2007-11-09 16:23:54 Description: I read in the news yesterday that television writers here in the U.S. have gone on strike, and that because of the strike, everybody's arms are collectively thrown up in a great wide panic, because nobody knows what's going to happen on Charmed and b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Bell Tone Updated: 2007-10-26 03:52:07 Description: At times during my podcastressing career, I have stumbled upon authors about whom I know very little, and have been fortunate to find that you, resourceful mariners of the Internet's belly, have proven yourselves well worth your collective avoirdupoi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Lady of the House of Love Updated: 2007-10-12 18:25:37 Description: Andrea was kind enough to suggest and supply a sufficiently Halloweeny bit of ghoulishness to reconcile the setback of temporary lack of access to mine own troves. In the hopes of exponentially increasing the sympathy factor, let it be known that i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Fly Updated: 2007-09-17 18:07:11 Description: While settling in and to avoid the appearance of mothballs, here's another Mansfield. And while this isn't the first time we've rocked her boat, she's a voice so nice I'll read her unspliced....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD I See You Never Updated: 2007-08-27 16:51:23 Description: Last night, I was thinking of what to write to you today while starting to doze off just prior to handing over the wheel. I woke up with one of those Holy Mother I'm Dozing Off kind of starts, and, as I was now more alert than usual during this leg ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Virtuoso Updated: 2007-07-21 22:24:09 Description: Herbert Goldstone, what are you going to tell me about him? Writes crazy sci-fi about thinking machines more human than man. This story in dozens of brilliant anthologia. Very little else to be found. The wiki draws a blank. This story is not a ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD How the World Was Saved Updated: 2007-07-11 21:06:38 Description: A delivery truck pulled out in front of me the other day, freshly deflowered by a graffiti artist who chose to express him- or herself by relaying the following, in big blue caps: I LOVE SARAH, KINDA? ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sarah Cole Updated: 2007-06-30 06:09:43 Description: Some days, as a podcastress, you find that it's about a billion and two degrees of sour sunshined degrees outside, measured by the scales of Daniel or Anders either/or, and while the last thing you feel like doing might involve heavy lifting dressed ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Araby Updated: 2007-06-16 09:00:04 Description: Happy Bloomsday to you, and happy third Bloomsday podcast from your Miette, an event which many of you will remember is dear to me....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Inflexible Logic Updated: 2007-06-14 00:23:01 Description: Dearest listeners of the internet, I know. I've been gone. Many of you have pointed this out to me, though by the time I returned to read your pleas and queries, I was back, relieved of goneness, and racked with guilt over how abandoned you'd all b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Everything Updated: 2007-05-23 21:42:52 Description: A caveat for you listeners. Hell, a full-out warning: this is a long one, today's story, long and, dare I say it, a little dark, and not in the "change the bulb" sort of way. Which is just my way of saying to you:...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Dancing Bear Updated: 2007-05-09 21:34:07 Description: As a rule, yours (very) truly takes a big dollop of pleasure in knowing just a little something about the authors I'm reading to you. Where there are exceptions, they are serious exceptions, resuscitated from beyond the brink and leaving their snot ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Literary Adventure Updated: 2007-04-26 07:09:39 Description: Never having been one for bandwagonry (after all, the bumper's too high for me to jump, and I don't have much in the way of carnival skills from which is allegedly derived the phrase), but it can't be helped: if everybody and their thrice-removed st...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Two Gentle People Updated: 2007-04-03 06:23:50 Description: Riding the big train today and started to daydream, in the daydreamy style of reductive logic unique to the accompaniment of a train horn, the subject which was What I Might Read to the Internet Tonight. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Love in the Winter Updated: 2007-03-15 04:03:27 Description: Given that Tonight's Story invokes the Mann Act, and given that the Mann Act is bar-none the best Congressional Act of 1910 (and I dare you to find a better one. I mean, Chuck Berry was charged with violating the Mann Act. Frank Lloyd Wright too.) ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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