Books Unbound
Series produced by WFHB
Radio reader series from Community Radio WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana.
Books burn; ideas endure. Books Unbound is a weekly showcase of literary works banned by those who fear the power of the pen. The program promotes literary reading and curiosity, challenging listeners to consider viewpoints that may be different from our own. Each week we bring you literature prohibited by governments, schools, and religious institutions. In the words of French philosopher Emile-Auguste Chartier, "nothing is as dangerous as an idea, when it’s the only one you’ve got."
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Two Men, the second novel by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902), was published in 1865, a mere two months after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Women we...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 58:01
The New England family saga Two Men continues as the patriarch dies and a long-lost heir visits briefly—leaving his 10-year-old daughter, Philippa,...
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 58:25
Two Men, the second novel by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902), was published in 1865, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, but is set before ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 58:10
Two Men, the second novel by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902), is a family saga published in 1865, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, but i...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 58:19
Two Men, the second novel by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902), is a family saga published in 1865, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. In th...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 58:04
The novel Two Men continues as rumor spreads of a Parke family heir’s affair with a biracial woman. The compressed, elliptical and sometimes satiri...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 58:22
Set in antebellum New England but published in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, the novel Two Men begins to draw together the nar...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 58:03
The death of the matriarch and the return of the family adventurer casts the future of the Parke dynasty in doubt, while an interracial love affair...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 57:55
The Civil War-era novel Two Men by Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902) heads into its final chapters. Spoiled by what we now label “white male privilege...
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 58:52
Marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War, Books Unbound’s summer series “Elizabeth Stoddard and the 1860s” concludes with...
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 58:07
A month of sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, and horror begins with two stories from W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1920 collection Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 05, 2015
- Length: 59:53
- Purchases: 1
A cultural horror of women’s bodies is the theme of the second episode of “American Girls Horror Stories,” juxtaposing two 19th-century American gh...
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 57:49
A hallucinatory, apocalyptic fervor pervades the 1860 short story “Circumstance” by Harriet Prescott Spofford, about a woman held all night by a my...
- Added: Oct 19, 2015
- Length: 58:03
Male fears of female domination form one of the strands of horror in “The Thing on the Doorstep” by H.P. Lovecraft, with marriage both transforming...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 58:25
“Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe is the featured story for the Halloween finale of “American Girls Horror Stories.” One of Poe’s lesser-known tales, “...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 56:01
The protagonist of "The Massacre of Yangzhou" is the southern Chinese city of Yangzhou, a rich and beautiful center of the failing Ming Dynasty as ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 59:28
- Purchases: 1
In response to the November 13 attacks in Paris, Books Unbound revisits an episode originally created in the wake of the January 7 attack on the of...
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 58:57
Contemporary women poets reimagine fairy tales and the cultural icon of the ballerina—especially of the black swan school—along with two unsettling...
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 2
Uyghur writer Nurmuhemmet Yasin’s poignant beast fable led to his imprisonment by the Chinese government on charges of inciting separatism. The tal...
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 58:26
- Purchases: 2
Christmas is the setting as sly women turn the tables on their menfolk in a pair of overlooked short stories from the classic era of magazine fiction.
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 3
