Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship

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The Best of Oscar Wilde

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Reviews

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Exiles

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A Pinch of Salt

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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Cantos I & II

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The Touchstone

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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman

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Diary of Samuel Pepys 1662

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Stalky & Co.

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Epistolae, the letters of Dante

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Twenty Two Goblins

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The Forest

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Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

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Magnificent Ambersons, The (Growth Trilogy Vol 2 Version 2)

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De Profundis (version 2)

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One Law for the Rich

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Major Barbara

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How to Cook Fish

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Diary of Samuel Pepys 1661

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Long Poems Collection 005

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Memoranda During the War: from Specimen Days

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Alexander's Bridge (version 3)

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The Tosa Diary

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Fireside Reading of The Call of the Wild

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B.J. Harrison Reads The Purloined Letter

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Gobseck

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Portrait of a Lady Vol 2

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The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I (version 2)

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The Book of Curses (Unabridged)

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West of Rehoboth

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Divine Rivals: A Novel

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Twisted Love

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A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive

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Nothing to See Here

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And Then There Were None

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From Blood and Ash

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The House in the Cerulean Sea

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If He Had Been with Me

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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Local Woman Missing

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Good Girls Don't

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When No One Is Watching: A Thriller

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Fairy Tale

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Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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The Bell Jar

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A Stolen Life: A Memoir

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The Dutch House: A Novel

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The Paris Apartment: A Novel

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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In Five Years: A Novel

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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

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The Ivy League Counterfeiter

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The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

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Hang the Moon: A Novel

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The Overstory

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Episode 36: As I Lay Dying, Part 1 of 2: This right here is an episode about William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying.

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Jerry Stahl Was Mistaken for ‘Kramer’ While at Auschwitz: Author Jerry Stahl didn’t know what his experience visiting Auschwitz would be like, but taking selfies with teenage strangers who had mistaken him for actor Michael Richards, who played Cosmo ‘Kramer’ on Seinfeld, was definitely not on the list.&n...

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Anita Hill on Believing Women

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TDF EP 211 – Brian Thompson loves Vonnegut: Brian Thompson (@Amsci) of the podcast QUIT IT http://amateurscientist.org/ is a comedy writer (Feb 19 UCB-LA) and a self-admitted, literary nerd. We are gathered to speak fo Kurt Vonnegut, and we do, we dork out hardcore on books for the hour. I do...

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Mona Simpson, author of “Commitment”: Mona Simpson is the bestselling author of seven novels including Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, A Regular Guy, Off Keck Road, My Hollywood, Casebook and, most recently, Commitment. Mona studied poetry at Berkley. She got her MFA from Columbia. During grad school, she published her first short stories in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review and Mademoiselle. She worked as an editor at The Paris Review for five years. She also teaches at UCLA. She knows the industry from several angles and has worked in it for decades. She joins Marrie Stone to talk about Commitment and writing multiple point-of-view novels. They talk about maintaining momentum in a novel’s middle, bringing bygone eras back to life, breathing life into your characters, playing the role of psychologist as writer, the role of research and much more. In many ways, Commitment might be considered a “what-if” novel. Some aspects bear resemblance to Mona’s life and other aspects are very diff

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Peter Coyote

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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story

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To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell: Marvell read by Classic Poetry Aloud: http://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/ Giving voice t...

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The “Sex” Scandal That Made Mae West: Before she hit the big-screen, the sultry actress starred in a 1927 tabloid trial.

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341 Constance and Henry - The Story of "Miss Grief"

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Caleb Crain Reads “Easter”: Caleb Crain reads his story “Easter,” from the September 26, 2022, issue of the magazine. Crain is the author of one book of nonfiction and two novels, “Necessary Errors” and “Overthrow,” which was published in 2019 and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. 

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Workshop 35: Jonathan Lethem: Jonathan Lethem is the best-selling author of Gun, with Occasional Music, Fortress of Solitude, and other novels, including the Naitonal Book Critics' Circle award-winning Motherless Brooklyn. He's known for reanimating and remixing genres - hard-boile...

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145 Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know - The Story of Lord Byron

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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr: Author and poet Saleena Godden joins John Mitchin…

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Bernardine Evaristo, MANIFESTO: On Never Giving Up

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59. How to Start a Book Club: The Ultimate Guide: Want to be in a brilliant book club? Here's how to start your own.

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Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith: Patricia Highsmith's novel Edith's Diary (1977) i…

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Hanif Kureishi in conversation with John Sutherland - Something To Tell You: Hanif Kureishi’s Something to Tell You is a cogitation on psychoanalysis as well as a murder story. John Sutherland, here in conversation with Kureishi, finds it unutterably moving, but with such comic vicissitudes that jokes leap out of the page to...

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Directing intimate scenes with Netflix Lady Chatterley's Lover director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

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Episode 76: Roger D. Hodge: Roger D. Hodge is the editor of Oxford American. "My career isn't all that interesting insofar as I've been an editor. I'm much more interested in talking about writers and stories. That's the main thing: telling these stories, creating this platform, th

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Jesus' Son: The Bookening talks Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson.

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Dana Brown, DILETTANTE: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster

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Workshop 27: Cynthia Ozick: The novelist, short story writer and essayist Cynthia Ozick's best known piece of writing is called The Shawl, a brutal, phantasmal story of a woman and two children marching to a Nazi concentration camp. The Holocaust and Jewish identity are recurring...

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SYMHC Classics: Walt Whitman, Poet of Democracy

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Jim Heynan: “Same Content/Different Form”: In this podcast, recorded on 6/19/07 at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival Elevenses novelist and poet Jim Heynen discusses the relationship between content and form. Heynen advises writers to revisit thematic "obsessions" and to attempt "re-exploring the

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Audio Book Club: The Submission by Amy Waldman: For Slate's September Audio Book club, Yale art historian and architect Kishwar Rizvi joins Emily Bazelon and Hanna Rosin to discuss The Submission, Amy Waldman's novel about memorializing 9/11.

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Amy Tan: Discovering My Voice: When Amy Tan wrote her first book, The Joy Luck Club, she was trying to portray the difficult relationship she had had with her mother, a Chinese immigrant to the United States, and the emotional voyage they took to understand each other. But the novel struck a universal chord, and it became a massive bestseller, launching Amy Tan’s career as a literary superstar. Tan talks here candidly about the traumas in her life (the death of both her father and her brother when she was 15), and about the unusual path she took to start writing fiction at the age of 33.

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Gertrude Stein: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Gertrude Stein, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1934. Recording courtesy of PennSound.

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Ogden Nash - A Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man: Ogden Nash on IndieFeed Performance Poetry.  Show number 1526.

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Hairy on the Inside: Teen Werewolves & Red Riding Hood: What is beastliness? Little Red Riding Hood stories used to be tales of warning for young women to manage their sexuality in the face of the dangerous beasts of court, who were smooth on the outside, but hairy on the inside. In the 21st century, paranormal teen romances use enchantment to transform the beasts into objects of desire. Dr. Nicola Welsh-Burke, a scholar of fairy tales and romance, is here to discuss hot wolf boys, brooding Byronic figures, pseudomarriage and pseudovirginity, hot villain discourse, and why young women need beastly men to unlock their sexuality.