Sometimes a small story can help to paint a much bigger picture. That’s the case with The Feather Wars by James H. McCommons. Actually, his is not a small story at all, it’s a remarkable accounting of America’s assault on birds around the Gilded Age. McCommons writes about flocks of birds more than a hundred […]

Una nueva publicación de una vieja grabación de un cuento de la argentina Samanta Schweblin. Originalmente publicada hace algo más de 6 años aprovecho el énfasis en Argentina y la publico de nuevo. Your browser does not support the audio element.

You wrote and sweated over every word. You've revised, you've edited, you've done everything  to make this the best story of your life. You've even got a great cover. So what do you do to make that first sale and to keep it going? In other words, how do you "succeed?" The DRS Crew discusses. DRS caffeinates with Larry's Coffee. If you want to purchase fair-trade, organically grown beans that brew into smooth, balanced, never-bitter coffee, visit LarrysCoffee.com/drs, receive a free gift with your

This Weeks Featured Guest:Alan Richer,The Toga Chip Guy - The History And Culture Of Potato Chips If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here

The apocalypse is coming, whether you like it or not! This week, we talk about some of our favourite comic book apocalypses: the time-is-broken Assorted Crisis Events, a small sampling of the Ninja Turtles ends of the world (turns out there are several of them!), and, of course, your standard whoops-we-flooded-the-world trope represented by The Massive. We’ve even got an apocalyptic quiz to start us off! But even before that, Bry tells us all about Superman: War of the Worlds in the

Judeu Ateu, Estranho, Luki e Izzo (Dentro da Chaminé) conversam sobre a dissonância entre a idade dos personagens e a história, e a idade limite da juventude no mundo dos mangás.Apoie o AoQuadrado² no APOIA.seCronologia do episódio(00:00:00) Idade dos Personagens(01:05:20) Recomendação da Semana – The Ramparts of Ice

When should you distill an entire scene in a couple of sentences? Do you always have to write an entire scene to convey information? Also, how much foreshadowing is too much? The DRS Crew discusses. DRS caffeinates with Larry's Coffee. If you want to purchase fair-trade, organically grown beans that brew into smooth, balanced, never-bitter coffee, visit LarrysCoffee.com/drs, receive a free gift with your purchase, and help support The Dead Robots' Society. Our links: Paul's store:

This final episode of the podcast for the academic year features BA Arts graduate Dr Caleb O’Connor. After his degree in English and Psychology at then-WIT, he went on to do an MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture at UCD. He then wona UCD Ad Astra scholarship to complete a PhD in queer ecology and a Fulbright Award to pursue his studies at NYU. As well as lecturing at UCD, he has published in a variety of collections on queer ecology and also works as a Community and Outreach Engagement Lead at

A van conversion project that was supposed to take three days is now four months in and an eighth of the way done. Evan and Cormac dig into what actually happened and why an architect's brain might be the single biggest obstacle to finishing a personal fabrication project on time. They cover the scope creep hiding in "wouldn't you do it differently?", why one wrong cut forces every subsequent piece to compensate, and the design-build logic that makes real-time problem-solving both efficient and

The books we brought for this episode were not read, but we talked about them anyway. We did read some, but but not all. Still fun though. MUSICAL SPOTLIGHT: Music By JC DOWNLOAD Seamonsters And Superheroes By Scott Mills. Seamonsters … Continue reading →

Clay Cane has written a pretty remarkable book in a personal, novel way. Burn Down Master’s House is a fictional account of a variety moments of resistance by several separate slaves in the days before the civil war. He fictionalizes the stories into one strand that stands as its own narrative. As a descendant of slaves, […]

LibriVox recording of Dark Days by Hugh Conway. Read in English by Warren Kati. Basil North, a thirty-year-old medical doctor, leads a busy life establishing his medical practice in a large English provincial town....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Metadata

LibriVox recording of The Arkansas Race Riot by Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. In 1920, Ida B. Wells investigated and reported on the Elaine Massacre in Arkansas, a violent incident that occurred when black sharecroppers in Phillips County gathered to discuss better wa....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

Un nuevo episodio. Lectura de un cuento del escritor bogotano Alberto Rodríguez: La otra vidaYour browser does not support the audio element.

E. Faye Butler has been acting and performing for 48 years and has been proud to call Chicago her home. She is currently playing the title character in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ at The Goodman Theatre, and she joined Steve Dale in Booth 46 at Petterino’s. They discuss her groundbreaking work in theater and Chicago, […]

This Weeks Featured Guest:The Smoke Queen Winnie Yee - Author, Chinese-American Barbecue If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here

LibriVox recording of Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Winner of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize, Strange Interlude is a Freudian melodrama that seeks to explore the vast, unfathomable murk of the human unconscious....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

LibriVox recording of Sonnets by Louise Labé. Read in French by markleuning. À l’époque de Louise Labé, les femmes poètes étaient peu acceptées. Elle devient ainsi l’une des premières en France à faire entendre sa voix en se faisant publier et lire....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

LibriVox recording of Mourt's Relation; or Journal of the plantation at Plymouth by Edward Winslow. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Mourt's Relation is an account of the first year of the Plymouth Colony who arrived in Massachusetts, and is one of two books used as primary sources about the ....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Item Tile, Metadata, PNG, Spectrogram, VBR MP3

LibriVox recording of The American Bee Journal, Vol. XVII, No. 4 , January 26, 1881 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sale of pure honey....This item belongs to: audio/librivoxaudio.This item has files of the following types: 128Kbps MP3, 64Kbps MP3, Archive BitTorrent, Audiobook, DjVuTXT, Djvu XML, Item Tile, JPEG, JPEG Thumb, Metadata, OCR Page