* Amazing fiction podcast
* Best lit-oriented commercial parody ever
* Free public domain ebooks and audiobooks
* Goodreads free worldwide online book club
* Lit mags and blogs to check out
* Poetry out loud
* Short stories out loud
* Some good writers you may not know
* Amazing Fiction Podcast!
The greatest podcast I know for lit lovers is the Fiction Podcast of The New Yorker. Here you can find all of the episodes on iTunes. The format is brilliant: authors who have been published in The New Yorker are invited to read a story of their choosing from the magazine's archives, and to discuss the story with the mag's fiction editor before and after. The following are some of my favorite readings:
Tobias Wolfe's "A Bullet in the Brain" read by T.C. Boyle,
Alan Malamud's "A Summer's Reading" read by Aleksandar Hemond,
Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Village After Dark" read by Ben Marcus, Carson McCullers's "The Jockey" read by Karen Russell, and Raymond Carver's "Chef's House" read by David Means.
And please share your own finds with me. Enjoy, mis amigos!
Additional short stories out loud appear below.
* Best Lit-Oriented Commercial Parody Ever
Do yourself a favor and check out this commercial for The Brontë Sisters action figures. You won't be disappointed.
* Free Public Domain eBooks and Audiobooks
Two wonderful, noble endeavors which everyone should know about are Project Gutenberg and LibriVox. These San Francisco-based crowd-sourcing projects seek to make public-domain literature available to everyone -- for free. In essence, “public domain” works are those which are not under copyright protection. As a rule of thumb, as of 2012, works first published before 1923 are in the public domain -- in most cases. These projects depend on volunteers to scan books, in the case of Project Gutenberg, and to record audiobooks, in the case of LibriVox. I myself become a LibriVox volunteer in January, 2012, recording the poem “Bredon Hill,” to which I was introduced by my beloved tenth-grade English teacher. You can hear that recording below. Get your links right here:
To read free ebooks, visit Project Gutenberg.
To listen to free audiobooks, visit LibriVox.
“Bredon Hill” by A.E. Housman, read by me (scroll down the alphabetical list on the linked page)
"Jabberwocky" by Louis Carroll. Here you can sample thirty-four readers (at last count) performing this amazing absurdist poem. O frabjous day! Calloo! Callay! We chortle in our joy!
"Jabberwocky" by Louis Carroll. Here you can sample thirty-four readers (at last count) performing this amazing absurdist poem. O frabjous day! Calloo! Callay! We chortle in our joy!
Also, to access a huge database of poetry online, visit Bartleby.com
Enjoy!
* Goodreads: Very Very Good.
Goodreads is a free, online, worldwide community of book lovers. I've made wonderful literary pen pals and participated in fabulous discussions of books with people all over the country and all over the world. Check. It. Out.
Here's my Goodreads Author Profile btw.
* Goodreads: Very Very Good.
Goodreads is a free, online, worldwide community of book lovers. I've made wonderful literary pen pals and participated in fabulous discussions of books with people all over the country and all over the world. Check. It. Out.
Here's my Goodreads Author Profile btw.
* Lit Mags and Blogs to Check Out
McCovey Chronicles Look, there’s blogs and blogs and blogs and blogs, and baseball blogs chock full of great data and viewpoints (and not) abound -- but few bloggers combine baseball acumen and wit like Grant Brisbee of McCovey Chronicles. Dude helped me pass the dreaded off-season tolerably well, and that’s no mean feat! So check ... it ... out.
Sleet Magazine. I just like these folks too. They furnish a wonderful frame for literature, their stuff is good, and they don't have stuffy submissions guidelines. Check `em out!
* Poetry Out Loud
On this page of the website for Poetry Out Loud, you can hear wonderful actors and writers reciting great poetry. My favorite is the recitation of Shelley's "Ozymandias" by the actor N. Scott Momaday. Hooray, National Endowment for the Arts!
* Short Stories Out Loud
In addition to the stories in the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, above, here are some sensational readings:
* Coolest Baseball Story Ever ...
“The Hector Quesadilla Story” by T.C. Boyle, read wonderfully by Jerry Zaks on NPR’s
Selected Shorts. You will not be disappointed!
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell, a classic, performed magnificently on the radio program Suspense with Orson Welles as General Zaroff.
Grant Brisbee, McCovey Chronicles (above), is a baseball blogger supreme. Check it out.
"No Signal," a tale with the feel of a soft desert breeze.
Jenn Monroe, poet, is alright by me. Check out samples of her work.
