Reading Short and Deep
Hosted by Eric Rabkin and Jesse Willis · Jesse Willis
4.8from 27 ratings
- 559
- Episodes
- 16
- Transcribed
- 27
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About Reading Short and Deep
Share the joys-and sharpen the skills-of deep reading. In each weekly half-hour podcast, Eric Rabkin and Jesse Willis mine together the riches of another marvelous short story, poem, or video. Each work, freely available on the RSD website, can be read in half an hour or less, and discussed for hours.
- Publisher
- Jesse Willis
- Category
- arts · arts · arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Feb 2016
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
16 of 559 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Reading, Short And Deep #558 - Job With A Future by Richard Welles
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Reading, Short And Deep #557 - A Secret For Two by Quentin Reynolds
30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Reading, Short And Deep #556 - The Night He Cried by Fritz Leiber
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Reading, Short And Deep #558 - Job With A Future by Richard Welles
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They're just guys in the neighborhood. And he used to be with a gang. And his mom expects him to pay board, a.k.a. for the food she's cooking for him, right? Doesn't say anything about rent, but, you know, you got to take care of your mom. But his dad's a loser. who died in the gutter, and he's going to show her, well, it doesn't work out. So it is a little story to scare you straight. You don't want to end up like this kid. But in the second reading for this story, I wrote, the story is about, quote, the essential state of isolation of every single individual. And at any point, if we were counseling this kid, we would steer him better, you know. […]
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