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October 2006
Small Town
Sunday, October 29, 2006
"...[S]he reduced the story to a vignette; the vignette to an anecdote; the anecdote to an aphorism; and the aphorism at last to this haiku:
Tiny upstate town
Undergoes many changes
Nonetheless endures."
--J. Robert Lennon, “Eight Pieces for the Left Hand.”
An eerie glimpse of a small town, and a rural interlude from a comic master.
Robert Lennon's stories are available for purchase at
Amazon.com
Extreme Writing
Sunday, October 22, 2006
"Mr. F. expatiated on the traditions of Mr. F.; on the quality of Mr. F.’s eggs; on the celerity of Mr. F.’s service; on the splendor of Mr. F.’s taste—on the privilege that was ours of living in
Mr. F.’s hotel."
--Dalton Trumbo, "Letter #16 to William Hunt, the Franklin Hotel, Rochester, Minnesota-Los Angeles, California, December 9, 1958."
Extreme writing from a vintage cartoonist, a Hollywood screenwriter, and the incomparable Borges.
Johnny Got His Gun and other works by Dalton Trumbo available for purchase at
Amazon.com
Creatures Like Us
Sunday, October 15, 2006
“America to me should be shouting all the time—a bunch of shouting voices. Most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please! Not just one, droning, glamorous, reasonable voice.”
--George Saunders, “My Flamboyant Grandson”
Brave new worlds, and their creatures, including us, in a 1940s memoir and two fantasy tales.
Listeners’ favorite stories are available in unique CD compilations, available at Symphonyspacestore.org
Women
Sunday, October 08, 2006
“Begin, then, with the ice cream dishes, carried from the dining room into the narrow kitchen on a Sunday night…the clearing of the ice cream dishes was hers alone.”
--Alice McDermott, “Enough”
The lives of women in fiction and fact.
Listeners’ favorite stories are available in unique CD compilations, available at Symphonyspacestore.org
Women
Sunday, October 01, 2006
“They say, the smart dog obeys, but the smarter dog knows when to disobey. ‘Yes,’ she says ‘the smarter anything knows when to disobey. Now, for example.’”
--Amy Hempel, “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried”
The bonds of women’s friendships, strong and weak.
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