Monthly Audio Newsletter, Mostly About Nothing
It’s not really monthly, not really a newsletter, but it is audio. Each episode is an experiment in spoken word audio and music. I am your host, Matt Bucher.
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 5
- Years Active
- 2023
John Updike
This episode is mostly about the writer John Updike. We hear Updike read from several of his short stories, the foreword to The Early Stories, and we hear him speak with Charlie Rose on two different…
Gertrude Stein
Let Gertrude Stein read to you. Gertrude Stein, who died in 1946, was a legendary American novelist, poet, playwright, expatriate, and art collector. Some of the archival audio in this episode was e…
Randall Jarrell
Soft-spoken Randall Jarrell was a poet and writer who served in the position we now call "Poet Laureate of the United States." He died in 1965. In his life he published 15 books, including children's…
Vladimir Nabokov
In this episode, we hear Nabokov read from a variety of his works, including Lolita, Pale Fire, The Ballad of Longwood Glen, and other poems and translations. Nabokov holds forth on a variety of subj…
Anne Sexton
What do we know about Anne Sexton? What happened to her reputation in the 1980s and 90s? Is it possible to imagine her alive and writing? What is dingo-sweet?