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August 2005

A Tale of Vietnam

Sunday, August 28, 2005

"When he reached the river, the morphine had taken him to a new world. It was no longer a war, he was not shot, and not alone, and not leaking to death through the feet."
–Tim O’Brien, “July ‘69’

A transcendent story plumbs the horrors of Vietnam.


Two California tales, and a terrifying trip back in time.

Sunday, August 21, 2005

"Some family histories are forever silent, transmitting no echoes of discord into the future. Others are like seashells, those curved volutes of the mind…"
—Thane Rosenbaum, "Cattle Car Complex"

TRAFFIC by Ruben Mendoza read by Joe Mantegna
LOS ANGELES NOTEBOOK by Joan Didion read by Linda Hunt
CATTLE CAR COMPLEX by Thane Rosenbaum read by Mark Nelson


Strange Places

Sunday, August 14, 2005

"We, the children of the moon, cannot live unless we are free. When we are closed inside walls or bars we collapse inward. We become blind and deaf and in a few days our spirit detaches itself from the bones in our chest, and abandons us."
—Isabel Allende, "Walimai"

CAR GAMES by Frank Conroy read by John Shea
HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS by Ernest Hemingway read by Kate Burton and Michael Genet
WALIMAI by Isabel Allende read by Lazaro Perez


Watching Over Others

Sunday, August 07, 2005

"Mother would crack the window and let in the stars and turn out the flickering gaslight...I would lie and listen to the creaks and groans of the many bedsteads, and it seemed to me a fine and safe thing to have a big family."
—Dorothy West, "My Baby"

THE EPIPHANY BRANCH, by Mary Gordon read by Mary Cleere Haran
MAYBE A BRIDE, by Carol Bommarito, read by Isaiah Sheffer
MY BABY, by Dorothy West read by Carmen de Lavallade