The Pupcast
by thedaracast
A weekly podcast for a pup, providing soothing, sometimes partially-dramatised readings of classic works of fiction by iconic female authors. Join me, as the many sounds, moods, characters and probably unintentionally silly voices come to life in exactly the way the iconic women who penned presumably would have wished. And by a man, no less! What better medium than podcasts to appreciate books, and what better person than a white man to read feminist literature?
Episodes
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Summer (with music)
This is Summer, a 1940 short story by Italian, Communist, author, parliamentarian, and woman Natalia Ginzburg, translated form the Italian by Alex Valente. This is something of a downer, concerning as it does the then-taboo subjects of depression, suicide, and a rejection of motherhood. BUT she's...
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Summer (no music)
This is Summer, a 1940 short story by Italian, Communist, author, parliamentarian, and woman Natalia Ginzburg, translated form the Italian by Alex Valente. This is something of a downer, concerning as it does the then-taboo subjects of depression, suicide, and a rejection of motherhood. BUT she's...
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What It Means When a Man Falls From The Sky (music)
What It Means When a Man Falls From The Sky is part of a 2017 collection of Short Stories, by the same name, by Lesley Nneka Arimah. It’s a sort of quasi-sci-fi magical realism where a whole world gets built deftly and almost indirectly, but very vividly. One that rewards paying attention to the...
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What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky (no music)
What It Means When a Man Falls From The Sky is part of a 2017 collection of Short Stories, by the same name, by Lesley Nneka Arimah. It’s a sort of quasi-sci-fi magical realism where a whole world gets built deftly and almost indirectly, but very vividly. One that rewards paying attention to the...
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Girl by Jamaica Kincaid (no music)
"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid appeared first in the New Yorker in June 1978. It is a very arresting and structurally unusual piece, which makes it singularly inapposite for reading alound, and it is foundationally connected to a mother-daughter relationship in the specific context of an Antiguan...
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Girl by Jamaica Kincaid (music)
"Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid appeared first in the New Yorker in June 1978. It is a very arresting and structurally unusual piece, which makes it singularly inapposite for reading alound, and it is foundationally connected to a mother-daughter relationship in the specific context of an Antiguan...
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Bonus ep (music): 50 of them YOU-nited States, and their capitals
You know the drill. I read the 50 states, alphabetically this time, as well as naming their capitals. You fall helplessly to sleep. Calculated as a sleep aid, but usable perhaps also as a pnemonic? Dealer's choice - it is your podcast after all. This is the musical version - backing track for the...
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Bonus ep: 50 of them YOU-nited States, and their capitals
You know the drill. I read the 50 states, alphabetically this time, as well as naming their capitals. You fall helplessly to sleep. Calculated as a sleep aid, but usable perhaps also as a pnemonic? Dealer's choice - it is your podcast after all. This is the instrumental version - version with…
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Demo: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
This one was done as "proof-of-concept" (I don't really know what that phrase means) and so is very much unedited, unfinished, and essentially unlistenable. This was the first short story that sprang to mind when I decided that short stories were to be the reading-fodder, but the dialogue-heavy...
About this show
A weekly podcast for a pup, providing soothing, sometimes partially-dramatised readings of classic works of fiction by iconic female authors. Join me, as the many sounds, moods, characters and probably unintentionally silly voices come to life in exactly the way the iconic women who penned presumably would have wished. And by a man, no less! What better medium than podcasts to appreciate books, and what better person than a white man to read feminist literature?
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