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Ep. 37: Jason Roberts: Every Living Thing

Page One Podcast - April 26, 2024 19:51 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Page One, produced and hosted by author Holly Lynn Payne, celebrates the craft that goes into writing the first sentence, first paragraph and first page of your favorite books. The first page is often the most rewritten page of any book because it has to work so hard to do so much—hook the reade...

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Grunts in Space II: The Forever War feat. GldPny

The Getting Lit Podcast - April 25, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Gldpny aka Erik joins me for part two of the two-part series on classic military science fiction. This episode is on Joe Haldeman's The Forever War, which is a "novel in response" to Heinlein's Starship Troopers, but also very much its own thing. And over on Patreon, we talk about online friend...

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Ottessa Moshfegh on bringing Eileen to the screen

The Shakespeare and Company Interview - April 24, 2024 22:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
A few weeks ago we welcomed Ottessa Moshfegh to Shakespeare and Company. That night we’re headed almost back to where it all began by revisiting Moshfegh’s second book Eileen, the small town noir that propelled this experimental writer into the bestseller charts and onto the Booker shortlist. Ei...

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Johnny Mack Brown, the Rose of Alabama Football

Alabama Short Stories - April 23, 2024 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
The University of Alabama accepted a bid to play in the 1926 Rose Bowl against powerhouse University of Washington. This was the first time a team from the South was invited to play in this historic event. The underdog Alabama team won the game in no small part because of the play of Johnny Mack...

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Big Little, Big Series II: Brother North-Wind's Secret feat. John and Yeerk.P

The Getting Lit Podcast - April 21, 2024 01:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Part 2 of our read-along of John Crowley's Little, Big. John joins me once again, and we have special guest star Yeerk (from the recent Mr Palomar episode) on the episode as well. Don't be a bitch and read this book about fairies with us! For extra content, including access to Getting Lit Podc...

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The Alabama gold rush

Alabama Short Stories - April 16, 2024 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
We have grown up hearing stories about the gold rush. But it’s always the California gold rush they are talking about. An event so huge that years later, San Francisco’s NFL team called themselves the ’49ers after the prospectors of the 1849 gold rush. But the first gold rush started in the east...

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*PREVIEW* Dhalgren (Rare Candy Gain of Fiction 30 feat. Matt Sini and E Rathke)

The Getting Lit Podcast - April 11, 2024 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
This is a cross post from Rare Candy's Gain of Fiction series featuring yours truly as well as former guest Eddy Rathke, hosted by Glen and Psi from RC. We look at Samuel R. Delany's classic and very wild science fiction experimental novel, Dhalgren. To access the full episode as well as Gettin...

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Percival Everett on James, his subversive reimagining of Huckleberry Finn

The Shakespeare and Company Interview - April 10, 2024 22:59 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
James—the new novel by Percival Everett—retells, reframes, and reimagines Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the black man whose flight from slavery quickly entangles with the journey of Huck, on the run after faking his own death to escape his violent f...

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Historical Perspectives: Constitution Grove (An Arbor Day Story) - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 09, 2024 23:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Constitution Grove (An Arbor Day Story), is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about history, ...

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Historical Perspectives: Arbor Day - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 09, 2024 23:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Arbor Day, is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about history, while reading, writing, and thinking deeply about prima...

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Irene Teel sees into the future

Alabama Short Stories - April 09, 2024 08:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Mrs. Irene, as she was known to neighbors, was born with a sixth sense. From a young age, she was able to find things, easter eggs, misplaced items, or the missing hunting dog. Her father tried to shield her from the scrutiny fortune tellers received in the community. Instead, Irene Teel became ...

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#287 The Tale of Sherri Papini: The Final Interrogation [Part 8]

The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast - April 08, 2024 22:00 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
The 2016 Kidnapping Hoax Carried Out By Northern California Wife & Mother Sherri Papini. On November 2, 2016 while out on a job, 34 year old Sherri Papini inexplicably went missing while on a jog.  When her husband Keith arrived home to find nobody there, he immediately began looking for Sherri...

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Grunts in Space I: Starship Troopers feat. GldPny (aka Erik Harris)

The Getting Lit Podcast - April 08, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Gldpny aka Erik joins me once more for a two-part series on classic military science fiction. First up is Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers. The next episode, released in a couple of weeks, will be on Joe Haldeman's The Forever War. And over on Patreon, we talk about the film Starship Trooper...

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#286 The Tale of Sherri Papini: The Final Interrogation [Part 7]

The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast - April 07, 2024 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 1.5K ratings
The 2016 Kidnapping Hoax Carried Out By Northern California Wife & Mother Sherri Papini. On November 2, 2016 while out on a job, 34 year old Sherri Papini inexplicably went missing while on a jog.  When her husband Keith arrived home to find nobody there, he immediately began looking for Sherri...

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Historical Perspectives: The Alamo - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 05, 2024 15:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The Alamo, is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about history, while reading, writing, and th...

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Historical Perspectives: Busy Signal (An Alexander Graham Bell story) - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 05, 2024 15:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Busy Signal (An Alexander Graham Bell story), is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about hist...

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Historical Perspectives: The Sound of His Story (An Alamo Story) - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 05, 2024 15:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The Sound of His Story (An Alamo Story), is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about history, ...

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Historical Perspectives: Alexander Graham Bell - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 05, 2024 15:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Alexander Graham Bell, is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about history, while reading, wri...

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Historical Perspectives: George Washington - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 03, 2024 01:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
George Washington, is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about history, while reading, writing...

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Historical Perspectives: Nutcracker Traditions - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 03, 2024 01:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Nutcracker Traditions, is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about history, while reading, wri...

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Historical Perspectives: Submission to the School Newspaper (A George Washington Story) - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 03, 2024 01:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Submission to the School Newspaper (A George Washington Story), is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your student...

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Historical Perspectives: Nutcrackers - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 03, 2024 01:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Nutcrackers, is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about history, while reading, writing, and ...

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Historical Perspectives: 100 Mile Surprises (A Statue of Liberty Story) - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 03, 2024 00:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
100 Mile Surprises (A Statue of Liberty Story), is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about hi...

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Historical Perspectives: The Statue of Liberty - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - April 03, 2024 00:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The Statue of Liberty, is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about history, while reading, wr...

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Sacred Harp Music

Alabama Short Stories - April 02, 2024 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Music is a vital part of our lives in Alabama, and it covers all genres. This story is about one genre of music called Sacred Harp. It is named after the book of songs of the same name. at the beginning of the 20th century, these songs sounded antiquated to modern listeners. Worried that this st...

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Ep. 36: Ramona Ausubel - THE LAST ANIMAL

Page One Podcast - March 29, 2024 18:35 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Page One, produced and hosted by author Holly Lynn Payne, celebrates the craft that goes into writing the first sentence, first paragraph and first page of your favorite books. The first page is often the most rewritten page of any book because it has to work so hard to do so much—hook the reade...

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Episode 74: The Soldier’s Lagoon with Pablo Álvarez-Mesa

Docs in Orbit - March 29, 2024 18:00 - 33 minutes
Hi everyone, Aylin Gökmen here, with a new episode featuring a conversation with Pablo Álvarez-Mesa about his film, The Soldier’s Lagoon (2024), which received the Docs in Orbit Invitation Award at Cannes Doc-Marché du Film last year. The Soldier’s Lagoon  is a strikingly beautiful and multi-la...

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On Allen Ginsberg: His life, his work and his archives, with Pat Thomas and Peter Hale

The Shakespeare and Company Interview - March 27, 2024 23:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 44 ratings
We were joined by countercultural historian Pat Thomas, and Peter Hale, manager of the Ginsberg estate, and discover their new collaboration Material Wealth Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg. * A prolific poet, raconteur, activist, and thinker, Allen Ginsberg was also a prolific co...

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Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald

Alabama Short Stories - March 26, 2024 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Zelda Sayre was born and raised in Montgomery, the daughter of a lawyer and politician. She was a socialite and caught the interest of young men from as far away as Atlanta. No one swept her off her feet until she met a young soldier stationed in Montgomery named F. Scott Fitzgerald. Their marri...

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Historical Perspectives: Lighting the Torch - 2024 Summer Olympics - Podcasts for Kids

Historical Perspectives with Mr. Mault - March 25, 2024 18:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Lighting the Torch - 2024 Summer Olympics is to be used with the resource Historical Perspectives from Mr. Mault's Marketplace on Teachers Pay Teachers. Check out all of the Historical Perspective packs by clicking here. These packs are the perfect way to have your students learn about history,...