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Story Time
by JP Hastings-Spital
Reading's hard - let me tell you a story. It'll only be short, I promise.
Episodes
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Sean McGowan - Why I get all my news from a man trapped at the bottom of a well
I found Sean's work on McSweeney's (https://mcsweeneys.net) and, much like his political correspondent in this story, I've found a voice I can relate to in these trying times. If you (and he) can forgive my totally unwarranted application of a British accent to this story of an American man...
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Brain Eno - Introduction to Edge.org's "What Have You Changed Your Mind About?"
Brian Eno's insightful introduction to Edge.org's Annual Question from 2008: "What Have You Changed Your Mind About?". The book is filled with short 2- or 3-page responses from 150 "high-powered thinkers" detailing their 'most telling missteps and reconsiderations'. Well worth reading!
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Daniil Kharms - Blue Notebook No. 10
Daniil Kharms' Blue Notebook No. 10 (or 'The Red-Haired Man') is another splendidly surreal ultra-short story from "Incidences", a collection of similar, seemingly irrelevant works that–in their complete absurdity–manage to perfectly highlight some of the most basic and most ignored...
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Beryl Bainbridge - Goodnight Children, Everywhere
From "Ox-Tales (Air)", an original collection of short stories commissioned by Oxfam in 2009. Please consider donating: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/donate Beryl Bainbridge was born in Liverpool in 1934. She has written eighteen novels, five of which have been Booker-nominated. "Every Man for Himself"...
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Lewis Caroll - Jabberwocky
"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of an animal called 'the Jabberwock'. It was included in his 1871 novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There", a sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
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Kurt Schwitters - The Flat and Round Painter
Kurt Schwitters - The Flat and Round Painter by JP Hastings-Spital
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James Thurber - The Wonderful O (Chapter 1)
James Thurber - The Wonderful O (Chapter 1) by JP Hastings-Spital
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Reading's hard - let me tell you a story. It'll only be short, I promise.
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