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September 2005
Boredom
Sunday, September 18, 2005
"He was hypnotized by pleasant boredom. It struck him that lots of people go through life without ever talking seriously about anything."
—Leonard Michaels, “Nachman from Los Angeles.”
A neurotic odyssey read by one of radio’s poets of the absurd.
Love, actually, in two quirky tales.
Sunday, September 11, 2005
"She had suffered badly during the period of poverty. Nothing, however, could shake the curious, sullen animal pride that animated each member of the family."
—D.H. Lawrence, "The Horse Dealer’s Daughter."
DISCLAIMER, by Ron Carlson, read by Tony Roberts
THE HORSE DEALER’S DAUGHTER, by D.H. Lawrence, read by Jon De Vries
Children Teach Us
Sunday, September 04, 2005
"'Goodbye, sir,' Owen said, and he fell in behind Corporal Costello…trying to match the cadet’s precise stride and rigid carriage. He didn’t even come close, and Dr. Booth knew that he never would. The distracted saunter he kept breaking into was not an accident of age, something to be outgrown, or overcome. It was, in truth, nothing less than Owen himself." – Tobias Wolff, "Nightingale."
Children lead us, in a fantasy about art and freedom, and a difficult memoir.
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