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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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
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
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
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 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
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
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), was published in 1865, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, but is set before ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 58:10
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, a mere two months after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Women we...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 58:01
Books Unbound resumes the summer series “Elizabeth Stoddard and the 1860s” after an Independence Day break, with two short stories by this lesser-k...
- Added: Jul 13, 2015
- Length: 58:03
A special two-hour program broadcast on the Fourth of July, “The American Crisis” features readings from the Revolutionary era, contemporary poetry...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 01:56:57
The second part of Books Unbound’s summer series on Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902) features “Lucy Tavish’s Journey “ (1867), a romantic tale read b...
- Added: Jun 29, 2015
- Length: 57:45
Elizabeth Stoddard (1823–1902) wrote most of her published fiction in the 1860s, during the turbulent years encompassing the American Civil War. Wh...
- Added: Jun 22, 2015
- Length: 58:19
Books Unbound revisits “The Mulatto,” a short story that first appeared in 1837 in an anti-slavery magazine published by free people of color in Fr...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 58:24
- Purchases: 1
The Life Of Lazarillo de Tormes, His Fortunes and Misfortunes concludes with an improbably happy ending. Lazaro is a clueless but sly servant boy w...
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 58:02
The Life Of Lazarillo de Tormes, His Fortunes and Misfortunes is a classic of Spanish literature, written anonymously and one of only six novels on...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 58:29
“Not Somewhere Else But Here” is a companion piece to Books Unbound’s April 25th episode on Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, and was origi...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: May 25, 2015
- Length: 58:09
- Purchases: 1
Robert McAlmon was a ubiquitous presence among the “Lost Generation” of American expatriate writers during the 1920s and ’30s in Paris. Bisexual, h...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 58:25
“Exploring with Robert McAlmon” is a three-episode series of fiction and poetry by one of the lesser-known Modernists. McAlmon has been called a le...
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 01:03:45
