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Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast

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Lay yourself down to sleep with the soothing soporific of Miette's purring voice reading you classic works of short fiction. Sweet dreams.


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The Pukey
“But when it thinks, I feel like vomiting.” With these words, it is clear that if Nigel Dennis were still around I’d be his groupie. I’d start the FaceBook Club and make mashups on Youtube for him and disguise myself as an editor at Rolling Stone Magazine to obtain his personal email address, which I [...]...

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[ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:34:32 +0000 ]


Eveline
Were I a listmaker, and perhaps I am, you would be the warm recipient of many reasons to be grateful when the internet goes for broke on Bloomsday. This list, were I to make one, would include the subcategories: FOR ME and FOR YOU. Topping the FOR YOU list, were such a thing [...]...

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[ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:20:27 +0000 ]


The Cask of Amontillado
So I read in the news today about the Indonesian macaque monkeys who’ve learned to successfully catch fish, and how exciting this is for biology, and how it’s a living and breathing example of the adaptation of a species to its conditions and environment, and really it was all astonishing stuff to read. But [...]...

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[ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:17:41 +0000 ]


A Rose for Emily
So, my "identity" was stolen recently. And not for the sake of sordid members-only internet sites or international travel or a weekend of Spitzering other scandalous activities that, if you're going to have your identity stolen, would constitute Theft in Style. No, my identity was used to buy clip art and stock photography and website services, which is about as exciting as cutting school to go and get a root canal, sneaking out of the house late at night to mow the lawn next door. You get th...

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[ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:53:59 +0000 ]


A Note on the Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America
Fishing season began early this year for your Miette, with the streetside discovery of a freshly abandoned goldfish with wonky telescopic eyes, in its bowl and with a note reading: Free Fish! Please Give Steve Buscemi a good home. And of course I did. I found an exceptional home for him, a home where he’s [...]...

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[ Sat, 03 May 2008 03:45:15 +0000 ]


Truth or Consequences
After a week of muscle-burning manual work and long long drives, some of us settle in with a nice cold beer. For others-- maybe like me, who's to say -- it takes more that that... way more, maybe, to relax muscles as sore as these and attempt to put together nerves which have been plucked to the bone. For that reason, perhaps it's best to just shut up and read (if you're me) or grab a beer and listen (if you're you) and maybe write the Pulitzer committee about considering a Podcasting category...

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[ Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:33:18 +0000 ]


Last Class
All week I've been wanting to read this to you, waking up more excited than the trashman on the day-after-Christmas, and running into my.... uh... recording studio (read: three paces from the bed) to see if it's quiet enough......

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[ Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:00:48 +0000 ]


Binoculars
A saw a sign the other day while out on a drive, a sign that said this: Frost Heaves. And I almost had to stop and compose myself, because I was so deeply distressed by the fact that frost can't heave in private (and I'm not a histrionic sort of girl), and saddened that a frost's heave has to be announced clearly for any old asshole who happens to be driving by......

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[ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:54:05 +0000 ]


A Handful of Dates
The question that's been asked a few times of me now: why don't I read more African writers? Actually, it's been asked more than a few times... enough times, in fact, to warrant the sort of qualifier most accurately described as MANY. ...

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[ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:28:30 +0000 ]


In a Hole
It's confusing, the name of tonight's author, right? I mean, the better known writer sharing this name didn't bother with a middle pseudonymous initial, and there's a slight tweak to the surname, but we readers would be none the wiser, push-to-shove, and would settle back with a cup of tea and upperclass accent. ...

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[ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:07:48 +0000 ]


Lonesome Road
A mildly embarrassing problem when getting under way with tonight's story, confessed in full in these lines: when I first sat down to read it to you this evening, I got caught on a raft in a sea of lexical continental drift, and over and over I stammered out the title only to have it read "Roadsome Load." No kidding: again and again. ...

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[ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:23:18 +0000 ]


Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby by

As I lay writhing on my sickbed I was catching up on my milehigh stack of unread periodicals, and made my way to an article about one of the leading competitors for an upcoming race for a high position of public office in the country in which I'm living. Because, you know, there aren't many articles written about this, which is surprising, because from the sound of things, the race for this public office is not of no importance.......

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[ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:43:07 +0000 ]


Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer
A few days ago I was driving down the street behind a car which, as was warned by prominent display of rooftop sign, was being operated by a Student Driver... a sign which really wasn't necessary, given the stammering mid-intersection braking and sideview-mirror clipping taking place all the way down the road, and I had this great idea that it'd be a real public service - a true exercise of civic duty - if other drivers could collectively contribute to driving lessons, by driving like raving lun...

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[ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:16:04 +0000 ]


From the Mouths of Buildings
A message from the author of today's story: Do you ever wonder as you are reading a story, or hearing one, such as on a podcast, for example, what or whom has inspired a particular story? Picture this: imaginary "directions" or "instructions" for a story that the author creates-- after the story has been written--or told. Imagine that these "directives" led to this story--which in actuality they did not--well at least the author had no idea of any directives of any sort when the story came ...

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[ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:35:27 +0000 ]


Youth, Beautiful Youth
Returning soon with a much-awaited all-new MBSP. Leaving you with a mightylong one to hold you till (the longest yet in one sitting, I think). For Dream, remembered always, and loved even longer....

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[ Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:27:52 +0000 ]


Hermann Hesse: Youth, Beautiful Youth
Returning soon with a much-awaited all-new MBSP. Leaving you with a mightylong one to hold you till (the longest yet in one sitting, I think). For Dream, remembered always, and loved even longer....

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[ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:35:53 -0500 ]


Fedya Davidovich
HEY, Internet, I want to tell you all about Earideas. Wow, that sounded a little snake-oily- let me try that again: ...

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[ Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:58:23 +0000 ]


Fedya Davidovich
HEY, Internet, I want to tell you all about Earideas. Wow, that sounded a little snake-oily- let me try that again: Step right up folks and have a look at the one, the only, the world's finest, most discriminating, most hyperventilating-inducing collection of the web's best audio content: Earideas. There, that's a little less in your shopping cart of the internet sell-out mall. And I won't even mention that Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast is included in the Earideas directory of the inte...

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[ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:46:26 -0500 ]


The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race
I was thinking about the last story I read to you, and thinking it’d be nice if other events of this variety, the sort of events that are difficult to explain to small children, were similarly reimagined. And not just on a large scale, either. I’m talking about The Pulling of My Wisdom [...]...

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[ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:19:00 +0000 ]


J.G. Ballard: The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race
I was thinking about the last story I read to you, and thinking it'd be nice if other events of this variety, the sort of events that are difficult to explain to small children, were similarly reimagined. And not just on a large scale, either. I'm talking about The Pulling of My Wisdom Teeth Considered as a Jaunt Through a Daisy Field, or The Love Affair Between Gravity and my Ceiling, Considered as a Synchronized Swimming Spectacular. And here's another....

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[ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:30:08 -0500 ]


The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race
I hope those of you celebrating All Things Autumnal are settling into it well, the roast fowl and the hot cacao and woodfire smoke for dessert, and, well, you know the picture I'm aiming for here. It does wonders to the general countenance, I think:...

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[ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:27:04 +0000 ]


Alfred Jarry: The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race
I hope those of you celebrating All Things Autumnal are settling into it well, the roast fowl and the hot cacao and woodfire smoke for dessert, and, well, you know the picture I'm aiming for here. It does wonders to the general countenance, I think: case in point, we returned home not long ago to find the floor coated with the dust of construction detritus, and in the mood I was in, considered it almost as good as snow, a synaesthetic layering of scenariae which led this little brain of mine i...

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[ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:57:54 -0500 ]


Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
I read in the news yesterday that television writers here in the U.S. have gone on strike, and that because of the strike, everybody's arms are collectively thrown up in a great wide panic, because nobody knows what's going to happen on Charmed and because there's nobody to script the next great Wardrobe Malfunction, and this sounds like very bad news indeed and I was sorry to read it. ...

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[ Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:23:54 +0000 ]


Joyce Carol Oates: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
I read in the news yesterday that television writers here in the U.S. have gone on strike, and that because of the strike, everybody's arms are collectively thrown up in a great wide panic, because nobody knows what's going to happen on Charmed and because there's nobody to script the next great Wardrobe Malfunction, and this sounds like very bad news indeed and I was sorry to read it. Genuinely so, and not because of an audience's deprivation, nor out of concern for people fortunate enough to ...

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[ Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:35:58 -0500 ]


The Bell Tone
At times during my podcastressing career, I have stumbled upon authors about whom I know very little, and have been fortunate to find that you, resourceful mariners of the Internet's belly, have proven yourselves well worth your collective avoirdupois in gold and other fine metals, and for that, I thank you....

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[ Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:52:07 +0000 ]


The Bell Tone
At times during my podcastressing career, I have stumbled upon authors about whom I know very little, and have been fortunate to find that you, resourceful mariners of the Internet's belly, have proven yourselves well worth your collective avoirdupois in gold and other fine metals, and for that, I thank you. Sometimes, in fact, I'll strike big, and an author him or herself will get in touch and fill me in on the missing t-crosses and so on, and so I ask again, who can tell me anything about the...

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[ Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:57:35 -0400 ]


The Lady of the House of Love
Andrea was kind enough to suggest and supply a sufficiently Halloweeny bit of ghoulishness to reconcile the setback of temporary lack of access to mine own troves. In the hopes of exponentially increasing the sympathy factor, let it be known that in addition to being without books, the chief operating offices of Miette's bedtime have been largely internet-free for the past weeks, in what would, under normal circumstances,...

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[ Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:25:37 +0000 ]


Angela Carter: The Lady of the House of Love
Andrea was kind enough to suggest and supply a sufficiently Halloweeny bit of ghoulishness to reconcile the setback of temporary lack of access to mine own troves. In the hopes of exponentially increasing the sympathy factor, let it be known that in addition to being without books, the chief operating offices of Miette's bedtime have been largely internet-free for the past weeks, in what would, under normal circumstances, leave a girl like me a little mildewy-eyed, save for the fact that, when...

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[ Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:36:34 -0400 ]


The Red Room
So listen, about today's story, well, as you'll know when you listen to the first minute, I'm running low on resources at the moment, tapped, so to speak, at least, until things are nice and orderlied again. ...

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[ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:36:58 +0000 ]


H. G. Wells: The Red Room
So listen, about today's story, well, as you'll know when you listen to the first minute, I'm running low on resources at the moment, tapped, so to speak, at least, until things are nice and orderlied again. And so those willing to share might send their finds and recommendations via the Electronic Scenicroadway to miette (at) hereabouts (domain-wise). And to repay you in advance, why not check here for one of the better audio finds I've made in these parts. But I think for best effect, tack...

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[ Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:11:44 -0400 ]


The Fly
While settling in and to avoid the appearance of mothballs, here's another Mansfield. And while this isn't the first time we've rocked her boat, she's a voice so nice I'll read her unspliced....

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[ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:07:11 +0000 ]


Katherine Mansfield: The Fly
While settling in and to avoid the appearance of mothballs, here's another Mansfield. And while this isn't the first time we've rocked her boat, she's a voice so nice I'll read her unspliced....

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[ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:11:44 -0400 ]


I See You Never
Last night, I was thinking of what to write to you today while starting to doze off just prior to handing over the wheel. I woke up with one of those Holy Mother I'm Dozing Off kind of starts, and, as I was now more alert than usual during this leg of the trip, I made the sad discovery that what I'd read as the Bikini Avenue Exit was actually something far more G-Rated, and significantly less scandalous....

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[ Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:51:23 +0000 ]


Ray Bradbury: I See You Never
Last night, I was thinking of what to write to you today while starting to doze off just prior to handing over the wheel. I woke up with one of those Holy Mother I'm Dozing Off kind of starts, and, as I was now more alert than usual during this leg of the trip, I made the sad discovery that what I'd read as the Bikini Avenue Exit was actually something far more G-Rated, and significantly less scandalous. Which was a drag for me, because I've spent months thinking, as I sleepily drove past the ...

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[ Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:11:44 -0400 ]


Fear
Where I am, dear listeners, it's hot. And for reasons which terrify some, confound others, and lead to the sort of mass collective eye-rolling that I'd rather avoid (because the energy produced therein would raise the outside temperature another half-degree), I'm not the sort to articondition the air. Which means: it's hot, here, big vats of frying oil hot, and there's no reprieve inside these walls. ...

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[ Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:12:22 +0000 ]


Rhys Davies: Fear
Where I am, dear listeners, it's hot. And for reasons which terrify some, confound others, and lead to the sort of mass collective eye-rolling that I'd rather avoid (because the energy produced therein would raise the outside temperature another half-degree), I'm not the sort to articondition the air. Which means: it's hot, here, big vats of frying oil hot, and there's no reprieve inside these walls. And while I'd like to reach out and cry for help, I'm not sure you'd be able to distinguish t...

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[ Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:10:50 -0400 ]


Virtuoso
Herbert Goldstone, what are you going to tell me about him? Writes crazy sci-fi about thinking machines more human than man. This story in dozens of brilliant anthologia. Very little else to be found. The wiki draws a blank. This story is not a drop shy of Wondrous. ...

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[ Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:24:09 +0000 ]


Virtuoso
Herbert Goldstone, what are you going to tell me about him? Writes crazy sci-fi about thinking machines more human than man. This story in dozens of brilliant anthologia. Very little else to be found. The wiki draws a blank. This story is not a drop shy of Wondrous. And so, Internet, how about a little game of Be My Research Assistant?...

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[ Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:53:28 -0400 ]


How the World Was Saved
A delivery truck pulled out in front of me the other day, freshly deflowered by a graffiti artist who chose to express him- or herself by relaying the following, in big blue caps: I LOVE SARAH, KINDA? ...

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[ Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:06:38 +0000 ]


Stanislaw Lem: How the World Was Saved
A delivery truck pulled out in front of me the other day, freshly deflowered by a graffiti artist who chose to express him- or herself by relaying the following, in big blue caps: I LOVE SARAH, KINDA? Which is nice, but only kinda. And some advice to other budding young taggers in need of epic gestures of romance: maybe you might consider keeping the paint safe in the can until you're a little more sure of things, right? And if that specific Sarah is reading, I'm sure he or she was just hav...

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[ Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:16:16 -0400 ]


Sarah Cole
Some days, as a podcastress, you find that it's about a billion and two degrees of sour sunshined degrees outside, measured by the scales of Daniel or Anders either/or, and while the last thing you feel like doing might involve heavy lifting dressed in black, the next to last thing, on days such as those, might involve trying to get discernible sound and meaning to emerge from your throat. ...

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[ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:09:43 +0000 ]


Russell Banks: Sarah Cole
Some days, as a podcastress, you find that it's about a billion and two degrees of sour sunshined degrees outside, measured by the scales of Daniel or Anders either/or, and while the last thing you feel like doing might involve heavy lifting dressed in black, the next to last thing, on days such as those, might involve trying to get discernible sound and meaning to emerge from your throat. And on days like these, you, as a podcastress, would be grateful for offers from your listeners, to musc...

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[ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:31:45 -0400 ]


Araby
Happy Bloomsday to you, and happy third Bloomsday podcast from your Miette, an event which many of you will remember is dear to me....

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[ Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:00:04 +0000 ]


James Joyce: Araby
Happy Bloomsday to you, and happy third Bloomsday podcast from your Miette, an event which many of you will remember is dear to me. And I can hear you now: "Oh, that's nice Miette, but Bloomsday is about Ulysses. When are you going to read Ulysses?" Well, I didn't do the entire thing (maybe next year) but with my friends at Librivox, we've managed to satisfy the best sort of Bloomophile. I'm serious. Really so....

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[ Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:01:41 -0400 ]


Inflexible Logic
Dearest listeners of the internet, I know. I've been gone. Many of you have pointed this out to me, though by the time I returned to read your pleas and queries, I was back, relieved of goneness, and racked with guilt over how abandoned you'd all been left, was at a loss at what I might read to redeem myself....

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[ Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:23:01 +0000 ]


Russell Maloney: Inflexible Logic
Dearest listeners of the internet, I know. I've been gone. Many of you have pointed this out to me, though by the time I returned to read your pleas and queries, I was back, relieved of goneness, and racked with guilt over how abandoned you'd all been left, was at a loss at what I might read to redeem myself. And excuse me for saying so, but I think I've outdone myself here. QED: tonight's story involves mention of Proust and Montaigne, chimpanzees, booze, guns, the laws of probability, and...

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[ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:29:41 -0400 ]


Everything
A caveat for you listeners. Hell, a full-out warning: this is a long one, today's story, long and, dare I say it, a little dark, and not in the "change the bulb" sort of way. Which is just my way of saying to you:...

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[ Wed, 23 May 2007 21:42:52 +0000 ]


Ingeborg Bachmann: Everything
A caveat for you listeners. Hell, a full-out warning: this is a long one, today's story, long and, dare I say it, a little dark, and not in the "change the bulb" sort of way. Which is just my way of saying to you: this is not a first-date sort of story, really not, and it's probably not an endorphinator to be enjoyed on the treadmill. It's more a story, for you know, rainy nights and whiskey, or something to fill a long silence of a spat with friends or loved ones, or to drown out the sound ...

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[ Wed, 23 May 2007 13:06:23 -0400 ]


The Dancing Bear
As a rule, yours (very) truly takes a big dollop of pleasure in knowing just a little something about the authors I'm reading to you. Where there are exceptions, they are serious exceptions, resuscitated from beyond the brink and leaving their snot in my mouth....

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[ Wed, 09 May 2007 21:34:07 +0000 ]


Etienne Barsony: The Dancing Bear
As a rule, yours (very) truly takes a big dollop of pleasure in knowing just a little something about the authors I'm reading to you. Where there are exceptions, they are serious exceptions, resuscitated from beyond the brink and leaving their snot in my mouth. And today's could be considered one of those exceptions except I expect one of you may be able to present me with A Clue. And so, consider this a Bedtime Story Challenge: ply me with the choicest bits of biographical enumeration on to...

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[ Wed, 09 May 2007 13:55:00 -0400 ]


A Literary Adventure
Never having been one for bandwagonry (after all, the bumper's too high for me to jump, and I don't have much in the way of carnival skills from which is allegedly derived the phrase), but it can't be helped: if everybody and their thrice-removed step-great-uncle...

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[ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:09:39 +0000 ]


Roberto Bolano: A Literary Adventure
Never having been one for bandwagonry (after all, the bumper's too high for me to jump, and I don't have much in the way of carnival skills from which is allegedly derived the phrase), but it can't be helped: if everybody and their thrice-removed step-great-uncle (or is it great, then step?) is talking about Bolano, the only thing for the likes of me to do is to just talk Bolano....

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[ Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:15:13 -0400 ]


Richard Bausch: Nobody in Hollywood
If I were a state fair judge offering blue ribbons after thoroughly scrutinizing the stories that have been read to you to-date, tonight's would be a heavy competitor for Most Gut-Bursting Opener in American Short Fiction, specifics of which, there's nobody can offer sympathy like me. And I'm pitting this as the prizewinning hen against the Great Openers, which you can see for yourself if you look at the archives. And since I've received permission to read this to you (for sometimes, it j...

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[ Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400 ]


Two Gentle People
Riding the big train today and started to daydream, in the daydreamy style of reductive logic unique to the accompaniment of a train horn, the subject which was What I Might Read to the Internet Tonight. ...

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[ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:23:50 +0000 ]


Graham Greene: Two Gentle People
Riding the big train today and started to daydream, in the daydreamy style of reductive logic unique to the accompaniment of a train horn, the subject which was What I Might Read to the Internet Tonight. And so, in the comparatively confined space of that dreamscape, the decision of What To Read, usually answered with the same response to the question "What am I reading right now? or "Who's the First Writer That Comes to Mind... NOW?" become exponentially more imposing, as the question, in mid-...

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[ Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:39:42 -0400 ]


Daniel Curley: Love in the Winter
Given that Tonight's Story invokes the Mann Act, and given that the Mann Act is bar-none the best Congressional Act of 1910 (and I dare you to find a better one. I mean, Chuck Berry was charged with violating the Mann Act. Frank Lloyd Wright too.) Now, I know it's been a hundred years and the Act's been amended to reflect the century's (uh) progress, but I'm wondering if it's possible for me to get arrested for the Mann Act (enumeration: I mean, could one be charged with a violation in the origi...

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Barton Midwood: One's Ship
The news today tells us that a respected literary journal (not to be named here) has just released a list of names they consider to be The Best Young American Novelists, and among them, a full third of these names have not yet had a novel published.  And that's kind of odd.  Now, in other forums you might find your Miette boxing soap on matters like this, but here, I was genuinely tempted to call this one of the Best Young American Bedtime Story Podcasts, but instead, replay today's weather. ...

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Love in the Winter
Given that Tonight's Story invokes the Mann Act, and given that the Mann Act is bar-none the best Congressional Act of 1910 (and I dare you to find a better one. I mean, Chuck Berry was charged with violating the Mann Act. Frank Lloyd Wright too.) ...

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[ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:03:27 +0000 ]


One’s Ship
The news today tells us that a respected literary journal (not to be named here) has just released a list of names they consider to be The Best Young American Novelists, and among them, a full third of these names have not yet had a novel published. And that's kind of odd. ...

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[ Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:04:19 +0000 ]


The Hour of Letdown
What we’ve got going on here, for those assiduous enough to parse their eyes over these words (and I suspect that I’m not speaking about many of you, that most of you just download the listening bits, which is quite all right) — but for those of you reading, I thought I’d thank you with [...]...

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[ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:43:36 +0000 ]


Tobermory
At times, this little podcast of ours is thought of not unlike a nice helping of ice milk-- not bad for you, tasty even, in the right circumstances, but of questionable nutritional value. Not harmful, necessarily, but nothing that might be considered Useful For You. At then sometimes, someone will say otherwise, and that's not bad, usefulness....

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[ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:37:49 +0000 ]


Saki: Tobermory
At times, this little podcast of ours is thought of not unlike a nice helping of ice milk-- not bad for you, tasty even, in the right circumstances, but of questionable nutritional value. Not harmful, necessarily, but nothing that might be considered Useful For You. At then sometimes, someone will say otherwise, and that's not bad, usefulness. That said, for the most part, what we have here may or may not be available online, as they are plucked at whimsy from Miette's Own Library, but for ...

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[ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:35:06 -0500 ]


Guy Davenport: The Haile Selassie Funeral Train
Okay, so with this one your loyal Miette may be accused once again of the instigation of mind-bleeding ear pops, which is not minded, but in answer to which we may turn to today's author himself for further elucidation:The earliest indication of a mesoblast is manifested by a slight haziness at one single point within the ectoblast, close against its wall.Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast: Guy Davenport: The Haile Selassie Funeral TrainMiette's Low Key Story Podcast: Guy Davenport: The Haile Selass...

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Leonard Michaels: The Deal
Listening to this one earlier, I noticed something. A noise, behind the entire story, not unpleasant, entirely, but a nuisance, distracting, and not unfamiliar. And then it hits: The dog, oft noted in these recordings, had used the moments of storytelling to enjoy an early repast. And given the fact that a) the dog lacks lips and b) dog food is crunchy, this provided a good backing track that might have interrupted your listening enjoyment.And so, until now unprecedented in the history of Mi...

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E. B. White: The Hour of Letdown
What we've got going on here, for those assiduous enough to parse their eyes over these words (and I suspect that I'm not speaking about many of you, that most of you just download the listening bits, which is quite all right) -- but for those of you reading, I thought I'd thank you with a nice double feature, off the books, Easter Eggy, as is known in certain dialects of geek, or maybe just Miette the Shrewd rearing her head to test the loyalty of the likes of you. Reading on? Here's the link...

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The Haile Selassie Funeral Train
NOTA BENE This podcast is published with permission of the Guy Davenport estate. To further enjoy the works of Mr. Davenport, please see amazon.com or abebooks....

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[ Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:45:06 +0000 ]


The Deal
Listening to this one earlier, I noticed something. A noise, behind the entire story, not unpleasant, entirely, but a nuisance, distracting, and not unfamiliar. And then it hits: The dog, oft noted in these recordings, had used the moments of storytelling to enjoy an early repast. And given the fact that a) the dog lacks lips...

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[ Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:08:21 +0000 ]


The Westinghouse Brake
Plenty of you (because I'm supposing you're all geniuses) are aware of the arguably unattributable (King Solomon? Buddha? Lincoln? Miette?) aphorism, idiom, and, notably, universally applicable phrase "This Too Shall Pass....

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[ Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:28:24 +0000 ]


The Necrophil by

While I suspect that some of you might be nursing a yen for happy wishful and firmly resolved pick-me-up for annus novus, be warned that it's not going to happen with today's story, with which you should prepared. If, on the other hand, you need a story in preparation for dirtying your hands or drinking too much, consider yourself In Luck....

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[ Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:37:59 +0000 ]


Felipe Alfau: The Necrophil
While I suspect that some of you might be nursing a yen for happy wishful and firmly resolved pick-me-up for annus novus, be warned that it's not going to happen with today's story, with which you should prepared. If, on the other hand, you need a story in preparation for dirtying your hands or drinking too much, consider yourself In Luck.Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast: Felipe Alfau: The NecrophilMiette's LOWER BAND Story Podcast: Felipe Alfau: The Necrophil -- LOBAND...

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