This would be a pleasant world if everbody could just ride and ride.
An excerpt from Suttree by Cormac McCarthy. Music by Chris Brokaw.
Erik Satie's "Sylvie" sung by Gonzague Van Bervesseles
I liked the way Gonzague Van Bervesseles sang "Sylvie" in Jean-Paul Civeyrac's A Paris Education (2018) so much that I recorded it so I could share it...
Don lived upstairs from the Blue Light
An excerpt from from a work in progress. Music by Mute Duo.
"Song of Myself"—Canto 27
I read Canto 27 of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" as part of a celebration of his 201st birthday. The entire poem, read by many people, here.
If a Tree Falls...
What happens when you set up a book talk and no one shows up? Paul Durica (of the Newberry Library) and I talk about Soviet Stamps and the writing rac...