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These Small Hours

Russell Cordell Staker

These Small Hours is a convergence of language and voice featuring Essays written by Russell Cordell Staker. The podcast is an effervescent and curious consideration of Russell’s varied and omnivorous reading–intellectual, heartfelt, and nuanced. russellcordellstaker.substack.com

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36:31

What Fresh Hell Is This?!

These Small Hours ·

2023/11/28

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5:00

Welcome To Wichita!

These Small Hours ·

2023/11/28

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79:21

Contented With The Time, Here & Now At Christmas

These Small Hours ·

2022/12/19

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50:12

Narrative Cat

These Small Hours ·

2022/11/01

I studied English Literature as an undergraduate. I won’t bore you with the grammatical grace that comes with an immersive study of language—particularly the Queen’s English. The truth is I don’t pay much attention to grammar anyway—I am more interested in the manner in which words lead to ideas. In essence, conversation—intelligent, thoughtful conversation—requires a willingness to engage with language. Norman Maclean intimated in his wonderful memoir A River Runs Through It that some of the words

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52:14

While It Is Still Good Dark--An Afterword To Whitman

These Small Hours ·

2022/08/24

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69:27

Reading Whitman (portion-6) 1855 Leaves of Grass

These Small Hours ·

2022/07/14

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66:55

Reading Whitman (portion-5) 1855 Leaves of Grass

These Small Hours ·

2022/07/07

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47:48

Reading Whitman (portion-4) Leaves of Grass

These Small Hours ·

2022/06/22

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55:59

Reading Whitman (portion-3) 1855 Leaves of Grass

These Small Hours ·

2022/06/09

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50:48

Reading Whitman (portion-2) 1855 Leaves of Grass

These Small Hours ·

2022/05/24

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39:04

Reading Whitman (portion-1) 1855 Leaves of Grass

These Small Hours ·

2022/05/05

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23:54

Some Thoughts & A Prelude To Whitman

These Small Hours ·

2022/04/16

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31:14

Audio for ...it doesn't matter (part ii)

These Small Hours ·

2022/02/17

Earlier today I published the second part of my ongoing and emerging column under the These Small Hours umbrella, entitled …it doesn’t matter (part ii) - Keep A Running List of Books and Plays Read. I subsequently produced the accompanying podcast which you can listen to here if you’d like. Feel free to follow my podcast These Small Hours wherever you prefer to listen.I go a bit deeper into the context for the writing I produced and published in my column earlier today. I think you’ll enjoy it—it

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22:37

English Major

These Small Hours ·

2021/12/15

**(The recording above provides an updated Author’s Note to the previously released and recorded essay on These Small Hours Podcast and thesesmallhours.com in July of 2020)I transferred to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah after two years abroad. Halfway through my sophomore year I was failing college and dead broke. I was as low as I had ever been. The varnish with its lustrous shine was off the Y. I was taking a cold discerning look at the school and its benefactor, the Church of Jesus

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28:35

A Fortunate Shore

These Small Hours ·

2021/12/06

**(Previously released, recorded on These Small Hours Podcast and thesesmallhours.com in June of 2021)At the time of his death, Camus had been at work on a novel which mortality forbad him to complete. What he managed to put on the page was published, as he left it, thirty-five years after his end. The novel is entitled The First Man. It tells the story of a young boy named Jacques Cormery as he grows up and verges upon manhood. Near the middle of the manuscript Jacques is nine years of age and

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48:34

Approaching That Naked Reality

These Small Hours ·

2021/12/05

**(Previously released, recorded on These Small Hours Podcast and thesesmallhours.com in July of 2021)Taped to the bottom of the monitor at my writing desk are the words: Novelist plumbed the soul’s depths. These words, now yellowed, are taken from a newspaper clipping of a Los Angeles Times obituary I carefully cut from the paper on the morning of November 2nd, 2006. William Styron was dead. Now that he was gone, I took only minor comfort in knowing that his books still existed on my shelves and

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64:36

Worth The Trouble--A Hymn Of Sorts

These Small Hours ·

2021/12/03

**(Previously released, recorded on These Small Hours Podcast and thesesmallhours.com in May of 2021)I believe God made me for a purpose; He also made me a wordsmith and then promptly left the sentence of my life unwritten, bidding I set out and write it. I have no tangible memory of God. And why should I? There are a few ideas from earlier programming still tossing about in the closed-circuit loop of my being that are sure to remain for the duration of this, my one and only, cloak and dagger

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66:11

Nuance

These Small Hours ·

2021/12/01

(**Previously published March 2021 on These Small Hours Podcast and thesesmallhours.com)Recently, I revisited a particular scene in Mel Stuart’s 1971 musical fantasy, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. Of a heavy evening, the poor paper boy Charlie Bucket arrives at the laundry where his mother, Mrs. Bucket is working late. He offers to walk her home, but the impromptu visit is really intended to lessen the burden of his own broken heart. Mrs. Bucket unfortunately cannot leave her work and so

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9:49

The Novella "In These Small Hours"

These Small Hours ·

2021/11/30

This is merely the trailer segment to my Novella In These Small Hours. If you would like to listen to the entire work (which I have read and released in six audio segments) please locate my podcast These Small Hours via your favorite podcast location and give it a listen. I would be delighted to hear from you once you’ve heard it. You can email me directly at russell.staker@thesesmallhours.com —Russell Cordell Staker This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other

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