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
114: Joseph Brackett, Jr.: "Simple Gifts"
This week on StoryWeb: Joseph Brackett, Jr.’s song “Simple Gifts.”
This week as we turn our thoughts to Thanksgiving, I am reminded of the beautiful Shaker song “Simple Gifts.” I have long loved the …
113: Rainer Maria Rilke: "Sunset"
This week on StoryWeb: Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Sunset.”
In memory of Dr. Kathryn Hobbs
On Saturday, I was privileged to attend the memorial service for Dr. Kathryn Hobbs, my beloved doctor and dea…
112: E.E. Cummings: "The Enormous Room"
This week on StoryWeb: E.E. Cummings’s book The Enormous Room.
While in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, I was fortunate enough to take a class on literature of the 1920s. Taught by Pr…
111: Ann McGovern: "The Velvet Ribbon"
This week on StoryWeb: Ann McGovern’s spooky story “The Velvet Ribbon.”
Like many pre-teens and teens, I played the same records over and over and over again. My poor mother! When I was ten, she had …
110: T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
This week on StoryWeb: T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
T.S. Eliot isn’t for everyone. His poetry is notoriously difficult to read – dense, packed, allusive, and elusive. I wr…
109: Arthur Miller: "The Crucible"
This week on StoryWeb: Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible.
Last week, I featured Kathleen Kent’s fascinating novel The Heretic’s Daughter, which tells the story of Martha Carrier, Kent’s ninth great-g…
108: Kathleen Kent: "The Heretic's Daughter"
This week on StoryWeb: Kathleen Kent’s novel The Heretic’s Daughter.
Those who know me or know my work understand that I am compelled by family histories. I especially love it when contemporary write…
107: Allen Ginsberg: "Howl"
This week on StoryWeb: Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl.”
On October 7, 1955, Allen Ginsberg made the literary world sit up and listen to his “Howl.” It premiered at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, with…
106: Richard Attenborough: "Shadowlands"
This week on StoryWeb: Richard Attenborough’s film Shadowlands.
“The pain then is part of the happiness now. That’s the deal.”
So says Joy Lewis to her husband, Jack, as they are enjoying their honey…
105: Michael Cunningham: "The Hours"
This week on StoryWeb: Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours.
In her fascinating book Virginia Woolf Icon, Brenda Silver examines all the ways Woolf has become a potent international symbol. You can b…
104: Virginia Woolf: "Mrs. Dalloway"
This week on StoryWeb: Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway.
“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” Has there ever been a more graceful first line of a novel than that? Virginia Wool…
103: Rebecca Harding Davis: "Life in the Iron Mills"
This week on StoryWeb: Rebecca Harding Davis’s short story “Life in the Iron Mills.”
In honor of Labor Day, StoryWeb focuses this week on a groundbreaking piece of American fiction that brought to na…
102: Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
This week on StoryWeb: Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights.
Ooh! Heathcliff! That’s who I think of when I think of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights.
Sure, there’s Catherine and Nelly …
101: Tim Burton: "Big Fish"
This week on StoryWeb: Tim Burton’s film Big Fish.
A witch. A giant. A werewolf. Conjoined twins. Daring feats of strength. A magical town.
Tim Burton’s 2003 film, Big Fish, has it all.
Based o…
100: Ernest Gaines: "The Sky Is Gray"
This week on StoryWeb: Ernest Gaines’s short story “The Sky Is Gray.”
I was first introduced to southern literature in 1978, when I was a first-year university student in Martha Baker’s Honors Writin…
099: Anzia Yezierska: "America and I"
This week on StoryWeb: Anzia Yezierska’s essay “America and I.”
Every American has heard stories of Eastern European and Southern European immigration to the United States in the late nineteenth and …
098: June Carter and Johnny Cash: "Ring of Fire"
This week on StoryWeb: June Carter and Johnny Cash’s song “Ring of Fire.”
For the bride and groom
“Ring of Fire” – written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore and recorded by Johnny Cash – is no ordinar…
097: Jimmy Santiago Baca: "A Place to Stand"
This week on StoryWeb: Jimmy Santiago Baca’s memoir and film, A Place to Stand.
For Karen Bowen
If you want a gritty, raw, punch-in-the-face but ultimately optimistic and life-affirming story, look n…
096: Muriel Barbery: "The Elegance of the Hedgehog"
This week on StoryWeb: Muriel Barbery’s novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Oh, how I love this quiet novel! Written in France in 2006 by philosopher Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog is i…
095: Jane Austen: "Pride and Prejudice"
This week on StoryWeb: Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice.
For my mother, Bonnie Burrows, in honor of her birthday
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a go…