Frank Delaney

Welcome to Re:Joyce, Frank Delaney's spirited, smart and satisfying deconstruction of James Joyce's Ulysses, in a five-minute podcast. Here is the Introduction and the first episode, and to your right you'll find the entire archive, working backward from the most recent, and added to each week.

The Organist

The Organist is a monthly experimental arts-and-culture program produced and distributed by KCRW. The editors of the award-winning monthly magazine the Believer, published in San Francisco by McSweeney’s, produce ten annual episodes of the podcast, which includes reported stories, interviews, comic radio drama, reviews, and more.

Late Night Library

Brooklyn- and Portland-based Late Night Library is a series of podcasts featuring writers, not yet well known, yet well worth knowing. The podcasts are here.

The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor

“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.”

—Paul Rudnick

Visit the website and subscribe in iTunes for a daily dose of Garrison Keillor.

What is The Bat Segundo Show?

The Bat Segundo Show is a cultural and literary podcast that involves very thorough long-form interviews with contemporary authors and other assorted artists. Standard questions that have been asked of guests over and over are avoided, whenever possible.

The show is updated (ideally) every week and sometimes every two weeks. There are at least five podcasts unveiled to the listening public every month and, more often than not, considerably more.

The Fiction Podcast

A monthly reading and conversation with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

This month, ZZ Packer reads Stuart Dybek’s “Paper Lantern.”

Thoughtcast, a podcast featuring conversations with authors and intellectuals

Jenny Attiyeh, host of Thoughtcast, had a recent conversation with Tom Perrotta about the influence of Flannery O'Connor on his work: www.thoughtcast.org

Perrotta discusses, among other topics, O'Connor's misanthropy, and how she reconciles it with her Christianity.

Books and Authors

Hosted by Mariella Frostrup and James Naughtie, this podcast features Open Book and Bookclub - conversations with leading authors about their work.

The Writers' Block is a weekly reading series featuring stories, essays and poetry by all kinds of writers -- from accomplished beginners to established authors. The program includes all genres, from fiction and non-fiction to poetry and plays.

James Joyce and Ulysses

A weekly podcast taking you through the novel, 3-5 minutes at a time, courtesy of author and former BBC broadcaster Frank Delaney.

Pick up a good book.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. The Big Read brings together partners across the country to encourage reading for pleasure and enlightenment.

Listen to radio programs, watch video profiles, and read brief essays about classic authors.

Podcasts of interviews with Jimmy Breslin and Art Spiegelman

Jimmy Breslin tells the story behind his most recent book The Good Rat: A True Stor, followed by a Q&A session with moderator Daniel Menaker and the audience.

New York native Jimmy Breslin is a long-time investigative journalist, columnist, and author of over twenty books, including The Church That Forgot Christ, The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, and the biography of newsman/writer Damon Runyon, Damon Runyon: A Life. The recipient of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Breslin has also received the George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting in honor of his work in Newsday. His most recent book is The Good Rat: A True Story.

Art Spiegelman discusses his most recent book,Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! during a Q&A session with moderator Daniel Menaker and the audience.

Art Spielgelman is the creator of several critically-acclaimed comic books, including the best-selling In the Shadow of No Towers, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust narrative Maus. Widely published in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and elsewhere, he has continued to be a singular force in reviving critical interest in the comic book genre. He is also a Guggenheim Fellow, and was recently inducted into the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. His most recent book is Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!

Recorded at National Book Foundation Sponsored Events or Featuring National Book Award Authors.

Naeem Murr

Enough with the Poetry Already!

Click on the title above to listen to a reading by Naeem Murr from his essay "My Poet." From the July / August issue of Poetry. 07.26.07

Naeem Murr's most recent novel, The Perfect Man, has just been published by Random House. It won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book of Europe and South Asia. Photo by Alan Cross.

John Updike

Three Short Poems

Click on the title above to listen to three very short poems by John Updike, Emperor Hadrian and an anonymous erotic Sanskrit poem. 04.07.06

John Updike (1932 - 2009) An acclaimed and award-winning writer of fiction, essays, and reviews, John Updike has also been writing poetry for most of his life. Growing up in Pennsylvania, his early inspiration to be a writer came from watching his mother, an aspiring writer, submit her work to magazines. In an interview Updike stated, “I began as a writer of light verse, and have tried to carry over into my serious or lyric verse something of the strictness and liveliness of the lesser form.” In his teens, he was already publishing poems in magazines.  Though he knew that he would not make a living by writing only poetry, he has said that his writing career began in 1954 whenThe New Yorker accepted one of his poems, followed by a short story. His first book, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures (1958), was a collection of poems.  Updike’s career as a writer has been remarkably prolific and varied. In addition to poetry, his work has included novels (The Witches of Eastwick, Rabbit Redux, and Rabbit, Run), short stories, music criticism (Concerts at Castle Hill), and essays on art (Just Looking: Essays on Art) and golf (Golf Dreams: Writing on Golf). His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (for both Rabbit Is Rich in 1981, and Rabbit at Rest in 1991), the American Book Award for fiction, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for both fiction and criticism.  His poetry, starting as light verse, encompasses a variety of forms and topics. He has been praised for his wit and precision, and for his ability to focus on common subjects and on places near and distant—from Schilling, Pennsylvania (the town of his childhood), to Venice, Italy. His collections of poetry include Facing Nature: Poems, Collected Poems: 1953–1993, and Americana and Other Poems (2001). -Taken from Poetry magazine

Podium Literary Journal

Check out Podium, the Unterberg Poetry Center's online literary magazine. 

Read student work and author interviews, listen to podcasts, watch videoclips and more -- free! 

The featured photographer is Jason Geller.

Carnegie Hall Podcasts

* I love to listen to music while I'm reading and stumbled upon this awesome series. Click on the title below and browse. Enjoy!

Sound Insights Carnegie Hall’s Podcast
Carnegie Hall presents the second season of Sound Insights, a podcast on music, music personalities, and, of course, Carnegie Hall.