For book lovers, Linda Pack brings her immensely popular 50 minute public radio program, For the Love of Reading. She reads for you great writing, showcasing classic Novels, complete Short Stories, extraordinary Poetry, and thought-provoking Non-fiction, with background information and commentary, New episodes every month.
A Truly Grand Tour!
Vivid first person accounts and Brilliant nature writing:
"A visit to Niagara Falls", by Fanny Trollope, from Domestic Manners of Americans, 1832
"The Approach to the Valley" and "The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers: How the Valley Was Formed," by John Muir, from The Yosemite. 1912
"The Grand Canyon" by Major John Wesley Powell, from Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries. Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872 under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895
and
"A Curious Pleasure Excursion", by Mark Twain, An Advertisement published at the time of the "Comet Scare" 1874
2 May 2024
Eve's Diary
Originally published in Harper’s Magazine, Christmas 1905, it is widely believed that "Eve's Diary, (with interpolated extracts from Adam's Diary)" is Mark Twain’s tribute to his late, beloved wife, Olivia Langdon Clemons.
BONUS: this episode includes a selection of the tender recollections of Elizabeth Scholl of Ukiah from "Mendocino County
Remembered".
7 Mar 2024
Utter Nonsense
Selections from the genius of
Edward Lear:
Limericks, A Book of Nonsense, 1846;
The Pobble Who has No Toes, Laughable Lyrics, 1877;
To Make An Amblongus Pie, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, 1871;
“How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!”
and
Lewis Carroll:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865;
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1871
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