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Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
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“The Long Haul,” by Ken Cormier *** Subscribe to The Benjy Section.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2019
  • Length: 05:40
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Auto Composition 51: “Dogs,” by Ken Cormier

  • Added: Feb 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:26
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Three Auto Compositions (“I Ran a Red Light,” “Digging Up a Clam,” “Gabe Kaplan”) & background music by Ken Cormier

  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 04:46
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“The Sounds of Lunch,” by Ken Cormier

  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 03:04
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“Eulogy,” by Ken Cormier Background music: “Earresponsibility,” by David Salowich (from The Blister Pack)

  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 03:39
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Rob MacClanahan reads chapters 3 & 4 of H G Well's 1895 classic, "The Time Machine"

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:25:52
Caption: Alexander Kime Audio Producer
In the first half of this conversation with writer Keegan Jennings Goodman reads an excerpt of his most recent book. Edited by Alex Kime.

  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 22:19
Caption: Amy Ryan
Two short plays. In Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet, a professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone) an...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle part one, directed by Jason Merrin, composed by...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:44
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My friend Archie Meade is developing a new literary genre. It's called "arithmefiction." He said "it's like science fiction, only it's about math...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:49
Caption: Joe Bev & Lorie Kellogg read "My Brunch with A", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg. Great for Wallace Shawn's birthday, the anniversary of "My Dinner with Andre", ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 09:31
Caption: Joe Bev & Lorie Kellogg Read "Godot (Not Home) Revisited", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. Great for Samuel Beckett's birthday, the anniversary of "Waiting for Go...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 09:34
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Our Spring 2012 Edition features five short stories specially adapted to audio. Unique sound design illuminates the best contemporary short fictio...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
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The Pawn chronicles a meth addict’s transformative journey to the river and back.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 21:47
Caption: Julia Child, Credit: Christopher Hirscheimer
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. We hear Julia introducing her late friend, M.F.K. Fisher, who takes us out for a staggeringly gluttonous me...

Bought by KSJD, KSFR, KZYX, and WTIP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 4
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It sucks we lose so many talented people so young, perhaps they're not gone after all...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 09:18
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An original comedic adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic.

Bought by WEZU and KDUR


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: www.williamhrdina.com
A series of 5 very short stories from the POV of soda, water, corn chips, cigarettes, and a can of potted meat

  • Added: Jun 13, 2008
  • Length: 09:18
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Sometimes we look for secrets, sometimes the secrets find us.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 17:22
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Arrange all materials within reach. Make yourself comfortable. Begin.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Travel. Adventure. Romance. Inexplicable narratives from the man in the window seat.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
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The light is flashing on your answering machine. Pick up.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 10:54
  • Purchases: 1
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The meeting went well. Didn't it?

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Finally, some practical information on how to handle life in corporate America! Feel free to take notes. There will be a test on this material.

Bought by KUNM and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2007
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 2