May 9, 2012
About this episode's readers:
Ahna Clements (from The Tempest)
Year: junior Major: English (with psychology and secondary education minors)
Other: "An accomplished daydreamer and cheesecake baker - I hope to become the teacher that everyone wishes they had!"
Elizabeth Jumpe (from Hamlet)
Year: freshman Major: history and English (double major)
Other: "That incestuous, that adulterate beast. . ."
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For the second of three episodes in Literature Aloud's Shakespeare series we bring you a supernatural double feature. The first reading is the goddess Juno's marriage blessing from The Tempest (4.1.103-117). Our second reader has (as you can see above) been possessed by the Ghost of King Hamlet as she channels his Act 1 injunction to his son (Hamlet 1.5.42-91).
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April 22, 2012
read by Ying Zhao
About this episode's reader:
Ying Zhao is an exchange student at Bridgewater State University. We welcome her from Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), where she is a first-year graduate student in English.
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Ying's reading of this powerful passage from William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (3.1.51-73) is the first in our three-episode Shakespeare series. As did all of the readers you will hear in this series, she committed her passage to memory in order to perform it for us not from the page but from the heart.
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March 18, 2012
read by Cassie Ciancola and Elizabeth Jumpe
About this episode's readers:
Cassie Ciancola:
Year: sophomore Major: communications
Elizabeth Jumpe:
Year: freshman Major: history (with English minor)
Other (for both readers): "GOD HAS TAKEN YOUR MOTHER, MY HANDS WERE THE INSTRUMENT. GOD HAS TAKEN MY HANDS. I AM GOD'S INSTRUMENT."
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We are delighted at last** to bring you this suspense-taught reading from Chapter 8 of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany (New York: Ballantine, 1989. Print). Warning: this performance is not for the faint of ear!
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**After two weeks of near-constant malfunctioning of Podbean's site, delaying today's episode by a week, Literature Aloud is urgently seeking a new host: Podbean's "unusually heavy traffic; try again later" pop-up is becoming far too usual for the site to be depended on as a home for our readings. If any listeners have suggestions for us of other podcasting hosts, please drop a line to litaloud@hotmail.com.
Literature Aloud takes its spring break from now through around April 20, when our William Shakespeare series will start surfing the sound waves. In the meantime, keep your eyes on this space (those rare moments it's available, that is!) for announcements of a new cyber-address.
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February 25, 2012
read by Daniel Sterne
About this episode's reader:
Daniel has been writing poetry seriously for twenty-six years and has been published numerous times in the UMass Boston creative writing magazine Watermark. He represented UMass by reading his poetry at a gathering of students representing different area colleges. Daniel won the Marcia Keach poetry prize, and he was commissioned to write a poem about Orpheus. In addition, several of his poems have been set to music. He introduced other poets and read his own poetry on a weekly basis in Cambridge, MA for several years with a group called the Stone Soup Poets. Daniel currently leads informal poetry-writing and -reading workshops.
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Literature Loud is a podcast that keeps its (spoken) word. So at long last we fulfill our promise of bringing you more work by Daniel Sterne, read again by the poet himself. This reading--of "Pleasures of Sleep," "I Pass," "The Advantages of Not Having a Camera on Vacation," and "Creation with Limited Time"--took place at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts earlier this winter: that low-level background buzz you hear is the note of art appreciation. (For our first episode from this guest reader go to January 2011 in the archives.) *All rights are reserved by the author.*
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February 14, 2012
read by Victoria Large
About this episode's reader:
Victoria Large teaches in the English department at Bridgewater State University. Her research and teaching interests include creative writing, literary adaptations, and film.
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As the companion bookend to her September reading of Joyce--that is, as the finishing element that that upholds and proudly displays to advantage the work of her fall semester seminar students--our guest reader presents an excerpt from Denis Johnson's "Emergency" (Jesus' Son: Stories. New York: Picador Press, 1992. Print).
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Literature Aloud regrets the few days' delay in our posting of this episode; however, there was little your webpresario could do to expedite publication in the face of the never ending technical problems (always advertised as "unusually heavy traffic") of this podcast's web host, Podbean. As Podbean's customer "support" has met all our inquiries with a haughty and dignified silence, we cannot offer any additional details on the nature of the problems blocking our attempts to publish new material lately.
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January 29, 2012
read by
(the members of English 299--Short Stories on Film)
About this episode's readers:
(1) Lauren Mullally
Year: sophomore Major: sociology
Lauren presents an excerpt from F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tales of the Jazz Age story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (New York: Penguin Classics [Reprint Edition], 2008. Print).
(2) Alec Myers
Year: sophomore Major: accounting
Alec has provided us a multi-media recording of his performance of an excerpt from Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel" (available in The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2000. Print), complete with musical introduction.
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This episode constitutes our farewell to the second-year seminar collaboration that began last semester. . . or does it? Although this is our last episode featuring student readings from Short Stories on Film, in a fortnight we will bring you an auditory bookend from that course's professor. (For the critical other such bookend, please scroll down to the September 10 podcast!) So whereas there are those who contend that all good things must come to an end, we wonder whether some of the best never quite do.
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December 22, 2011
read by
(the members of English 299--Short Stories on Film)
About this episode's readers:
(1) Lauren Salois
Year: junior Major: art
Lauren reads from Annie Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain," originally published in the October 13, 1997 New Yorker and later collected in Proulx's Close Range: Wyoming Stories (New York: Scribner, 1999. Print).
(2) Matt Malcuit
Year: junior Major: physical education (exercise science concentration)
Matt presents us a passage from Philip K. Dick's "The Minority Report" (which can be found everywhere on line, it seems, but also in Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick. New York: Pantheon, 2002. Print).
(3) Victoria Sullivan
Year: sophomore (Double) Major: English and early education (special education concentration)
Victoria treats us to a suspense-taught passage from Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds" (Don't Look Now. New York: New York Review Books, 2008. Print).
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This solstice edition of the podcast will be our last until January 27, 2012 when Literature Aloud resumes its usual schedule to publish the fifth and final episode from Short Stories on Film. May your holidays be filled with welcome sounds.
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December 6, 2011
read by
(the members of English 299--Short Stories on Film)
About this episode's readers:
(1) Kara Sullivan
Year: senior Major: psychology
Kara reads from Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" (Carried Away. New York, London, Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, Everyman's Library, 2006. Print).
(2) Yvanna Osborne
Year: sophomore Major: communications (media studies concentration)
Yvanna reads from "The Adjustment Team" in Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick (New York: Pantheon, 2002. Print).
(3) Shelbi Farrell
Year: sophomore Major: early childhood education
Shelbi reads from Prize Stories: O. Henry Award Winners 1968 in order to bring us an excerpt from the Joyce Carol Oates story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" (Abrahams, William, ed. New York: Doubleday, 1968. Print).
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Three more Short Stories on Film students free fiction into the soundscape. Next fortnight will bring more readings from this seminar and deliver more narrative from its printed captivity.
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