Kids' Corner: Featuring the stories of Beatrix Potter, including The Tale of Peter Rabbit with text, pictures, and audio.
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Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, a dramatic audio
performance of the classic book.
"Delightful,"says The Guardian of London. |
Listen
to Charles Dickens' classic tale, A Christmas
Carol in audio. A dramatic audio performance by the Wired for Books Players.
"Critics'
Choice" --The Guardian |

The
Tragedy of Macbeth
by William Shakespeare, an audio performance.
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Shakespeare plays and poems at Wired for Books |
Listen to Archer Mayor, winner of the 2004 New England Book
Award for Fiction, tell how he switched from writing history
books to writing novels.
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Martin
Sheen reads Nobel Laureate Rabindranath
Tagore's famous poem, My Country Awake, at a rally
for the people of Appalachia.
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Robert Pinsky, US Poet
Laureate, reads three of his poems: ABC, Samurai Song,
and The Want Bone. Interviews by Mark Halliday and John Ray are included. |
Laura
Lee Parrotti reads the poetry of Emily
Dickinson including the Love series and the Life series.
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The African American Oral Tradition, an exploration of sermon, song,
and poetry, by Herbert
Woodward Martin. |
Joan Connor reads two of her short stories, The Joy of Being Comforted and Men in Brown. |
J.
Allyn Rosser reads her poetry, including Late Elvis, Sole Blessing, Password and Raven.
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Richard Sater reads selections from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
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Trifles:
A Play in One Act, written by Susan Glaspell
and directed by Karen Chan. |
Daniel
Keyes, author of Flowers for Algernon, and the real-life drama, The Minds
of
Billy Milligan, talks about his life of writing.
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The " master of prose conversation and deadpan charm" Jack
Matthews reads his short story, The Girl at the Window. |
Eloise
Klein Healy, poet, teacher, and winner of the Grand
Prize of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, reads her favorite poems. |
Mark
Halliday reads a few of his favorite poems, including Parkersburg, and Schnetzerday.
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Prize-winning
poet Sharmila Voorakkara reads her poems
from Fire Wheel. |
Lia
Purpura, author of Stone Sky Lifting, reads her poems for Wired for Books. |
Listen
to Wayne Dodd reading from his work,
including On Any Given Afternoon and Naming the Winter. |
Clea
Simon talks about her mystery novel, Mew is for Murder,
and her nonfiction books, including Mad House.
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Taken
hostage in the Lebanese civil war, Terry Anderson was imprisoned
for nearly seven years. He reads the Den
of Lions poems.
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Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in
poetry, Dave Smith reads fifteen of his favorite poems.
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Michelle Herman reads and sings her essay, Performance |
Darrell Spencer, winner of the Flannery
O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, presents his short story, Song
and Dance.
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Bonnie
Proudfoot reads her poetry, including Coping with Awe and News from the Edge of the World.
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Listen to an interview with Caroline Leavitt, author of Girls in Trouble. |
Thomas
Lynch is a poet and funeral director. He reads from The Undertaking and Grimalkin & Other Poems. |
Listen to an interview with novelist Rochelle Shapiro, author of Miriam the Medium. |
Richard
Compson Sater reads A. E. Housman's collection of poems, A
Shropshire Lad, including To An Athlete Dying Young. |
Listen
to The Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-Tale Heart, written
by the early master of gloom and horror, Edgar
Allan Poe. |
Cindy Bonner: Romance and Rascals in the Wild, Wild West an essay by Janis Butler Holm. |
Listen
to readings of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Extracts
from Adam's Diary,and Eve's Diary by Mark
Twain. |
Author
of On N'est Pas Serieux Quand On A Dix-sept Ans (Nobody Is Serious when They're
Seventeen), Barbara Samson talks about her life and
living
with HIV. |
Robert
Kinsley,
author of Field Stones, offers poems from his book. |
Racial
Realities and Amazing Alternatives: Studying the Works
of Samuel R. Delany by Jeffrey Allen Tucker. |
Poems
by Michael
Bugeja from his book, Talk. |
Richard Stevens reads a few of his
favorite classic English poems. |
Aethelred
Eldridge reads Milton by William Blake. |
Jamie
Tevis talks about Walter Tevis,
author of the novels The Hustler, The Color of Money, and The Man
Who Fell to Earth. |
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Atlas and Edgar Whan and special guests Daniel Born, Annette Oxindine,
Peter
Heidtmann and Vattel Rose as they discuss the stories of Raymond Carver,
Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Leo Tolstoy. |
The
Iliad - Book I - The story of a raging anger and its human
toll. The poem recounts "the rage of Achilles," the
greatest of the Greek heroes fighting in the war against Troy.
Listen to Stanley Lombardo read Homer's The Iliad
- Book I in ancient Greek. |
The
Aeneid - Book IV - Driven by fate to seek a new land for himself,
his family, and the survivors of Troy, Aeneas abandons Carthage
and his lover Dido. Valahfridus (Wilfried) Stroh reads Virgil's The Aeneid in Latin. |
Jack
Wright reads his short story, A Lost Wedding Ring: A Winter's
Tale. You can also watch his short documentary film, Primitive
Things. |
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"When Listening to Books Becomes Better than Reading Them"
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