StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups
StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups features stories you’ll love to hear – fiction, memoir, poetry, film, song, oral storytelling, and more. Listen as master storyteller Linda Tate talks about literature and other stories each week – and be sure to catch those special weeks when Linda reads the stories to you. Visit TheStoryWeb.com to learn more, share your thoughts about this week’s story, and subscribe to a free weekly email highlighting the featured story.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2018
134: Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins: "Here Comes Peter Cottontail"
This week on StoryWeb: Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins’s song “Here Comes Peter Cottontail.”
Every year as Easter approaches, I think of the perennial holiday classic, the beloved song “Here Comes Pete…
133: Martin Sexton: "Happy"
This week on StoryWeb: Martin Sexton’s song “Happy.”
For Jim, celebrating twenty-four years of new life
Several years ago, my friend Virginia called to invite me to a concert. Martin Sexton, one of h…
132: Kent Haruf: "Plainsong"
This week on StoryWeb: Kent Haruf’s novel Plainsong.
One of the pure delights in moving to Colorado eleven years ago was discovering a whole new crop of regional writers – in this case, Western write…
131: Hod Pharis: "I Heard the Bluebirds Sing"
This week on StoryWeb: Hod Pharis’s song “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing.”
In honor of the first day of spring
I first encountered Canadian songwriter Hod Pharis’s song “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing” on Pa…
130: Colin Higgins and Hal Ashby: "Harold and Maude"
This week on StoryWeb: Colin Higgins and Hal Ashby’s film, Harold and Maude.
The 1971 film Harold and Maude is a cult classic, a romantic dark comedy preserved in the Library of Congress’s National F…
129: Helen Matthews Lewis: "Living Social Justice in Appalachia"
This week on StoryWeb: Helen Matthews Lewis’s book Living Social Justice in Appalachia.
In honor of International Women’s Day, coming up this Wednesday, I want to pay tribute to one of the great teac…
128: James Baldwin and Raoul Peck: "I Am Not Your Negro"
This week on StoryWeb: James Baldwin and Raoul Peck’s film, I Am Not Your Negro.
I want to close out African American History Month with a look at a new documentary directed by Raoul Peck. I Am Not Y…
127: Beyonce: "Lemonade"
This week on StoryWeb: Beyoncé’s album Lemonade.
Beyoncé slays.
That’s the only word to describe her achievement on her most recent album, Lemonade.
Now I am not a big fan of hip hop or pop music or …
126: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: "Colored People"
This week on StoryWeb: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s memoir Colored People.
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is well known in the United States as a leading professor of African American Studies, director of H…
125: Solomon Northup: "Twelve Years a Slave"
This week on StoryWeb: Solomon Northup’s book Twelve Years a Slave.
Though slave narratives were widely read in the antebellum United States (and in fact were one of the most popular genres at that t…
124: "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
This week on StoryWeb: The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Who could turn the world on with her smile?
Mary Tyler Moore, of course!
Those of us who loved Mary Tyler Moore and her pioneering work as an actress…
123: Elton John and Bernie Taupin: "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy"
This week on StoryWeb: Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
When I was fifteen years old, my favorite album was Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Bro…
122: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream"
This week on StoryWeb: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream.”
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily d…
121: Jean Ritchie: "Singing Family of the Cumberlands"
This week on StoryWeb: Jean Ritchie’s book Singing Family of the Cumberlands.
If you’re looking for bona fide old-time mountain music – the real deal, before bluegrass, before the Carter Family even …
120: Neil Young: "Comes a Time"
This week on StoryWeb: Neil Young’s song “Comes a Time.”
StoryWeb celebrates stories of all kinds: novels and short stories and films and memoirs, of course, but also poems and songs and visual art t…
119: James Holman: "The Narrative of a Journey"
This week on StoryWeb: James Holman’s book The Narrative of a Journey.
For Jim, in honor of his birthday
In 2007, my husband, Jim, and I heard about Jason Roberts’s book, A Sense of the World: How a …
118: David Sedaris: "The Santaland Diaries"
This week on StoryWeb: David Sedaris’s essay “The Santaland Diaries.”
For Julia and Jim, my favorite David Sedaris fans
My sister, Julia, is one of David Sedaris’s biggest fans. She and my husband, J…
117: Albert and David Maysles: "Grey Gardens"
This week on StoryWeb: Albert and David Maysles’s film Grey Gardens
Watching the 1975 documentary film Grey Gardens is like slowing down to watch an accident in the next lane over. You know you shoul…
116: Leonard Cohen: "Hallelujah"
This week on StoryWeb: Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah.”
Last month during the same week that saw the U.S. presidential election, Canadian musician Leonard Cohen died at age 82. He was one of the gr…
115: Maya Angelou: "Still I Rise"
This week on StoryWeb: Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise.”
As the year draws to a close and the dark deepens, I reflect on the difficult election season and look for glimmers of light. Maya Angelou’s…