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April 7, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 225

Short story: Father’s Kill by Christopher Green, from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 2008. Recommended.


Poem: Scented Herbage of My Breast by Walt Whitman, listened to on The Voice Before the Void podcast. Highly Recommended..


Essay: Pillar of Ashoka, listened to on the BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects, from May 2010. Highly Recommended.


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Published on April 07, 2017 02:37

April 6, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 224

Short story: Worm Within by Cat Rambo, from Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2008. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Shiloh: A Requiem by Herman Melville, listened to on The Voice Before the Void podcast. Highly Recommended.


Essay: Moral Futures by Adam Gopnik, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from February 2016. Highly Recommended.


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Published on April 06, 2017 02:33

April 5, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 223

Short story: An Egyptian Cigarette by Kate Chopin, listened to on the Morning Short podcast. Recommended.


Poem: Hymn by Edgar Allan Poe, listened to through Librivox.


Essay: Ambivalence: For and Against by Mark O’Connell, listened to on the BBC’s Four Thought podcast,from November 2013. Highly Recommended.


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Published on April 05, 2017 02:30

April 4, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 222

Short story: The Log by Guy de Maupassant, listened to on the Morning Short podcast.


Poem: Well, I’m Back in North Dakota by Nina Farley Wishek, listened to on The Voice Before the Void podcast. Recommended.


Essay: Unknown Knows by John Gray, listened to on the BBC’s A Point of View podcast, from January 2014. Recommended.


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Published on April 04, 2017 02:13

April 3, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 221

Short story: Doc by V. N. Winnick, listened to on the Pseudopod podcast, from December 2015. Highly Recommended.


Poem: The Throstle by Alfred Lord Tennyson, listened to on The Voice Before the Void podcast. Recommended.


Essay: Astronomer Carole Mundell on the Big Bang, from the BBC’s A History of Ideas podcast, from January 2015. Highly Recommended.


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Published on April 03, 2017 02:06

April 2, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 220

Short story: Frequently Asked Questions by Casper Kelly, listened to on the Selected Shorts podcast, from December 2016. Recommended.


Poem: As Boredom is a Breakfast Food by E. E. Cummings, listened from the Poem of the Day podcast. Recommended.


Essay: Burgess and Populism/Class by Simon Riggie, listened to on the BBC’s The Essay podcast, from March 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on April 02, 2017 01:54

March 31, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 219

Short story: The Temple of Thirteen Pleasures by Laurence Raphael Brothers, listened to on the Far Fetched Fables podcast, from March 2017.


Poem: Courtship of the Alcoholic Floating in Space with Severed Umbilicus by Kaveh Akbar, listened to on the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Now podcast.


Essay: Burgess and Populism/Class by Simon Riggie, listened to on the BBC’s The Essay podcast, from March 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on March 31, 2017 23:55

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 218

Short story: Project Earth is Leaving Beta by J. W. Alden, from Nature magazine, May 2016.


Poem: The Temporary The All by Thomas Hardy, listened to through Librivox.


Essay: Odysseus Leaves Calypso by Jacke Wilson, listened to on The History of Literature podcast, from November 2015.


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Published on March 31, 2017 05:37

March 29, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 217

Short story: The Freeze-Dried Groom by Margaret Atwood, from Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales. Highly Recommended.


Poem: Ever After by Joyce Sutphen, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from March 2017. Recommended.


Essay: What I Learned from 2,000 Obituaries by Lux Narayan, listened to on the TEDTalks podcast, from March 2017. Highly Recommended.


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Published on March 29, 2017 23:25

March 28, 2017

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 216

Short story: Lucida Naturae by Margaret Atwood, from Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales.


Poem: There is no Frigate Like a Book by Emily Dickinson, listened to through Librivox. Recommended.


Essay: Infinity and Beyond, listened to on The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast, from October 2010. Recommended.


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Published on March 28, 2017 23:41