Assistive Media | Topic: Fiction

THE ADVENTURE OF THE STOCKBROKER'S CLERK

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publication: 1922 Sherlock Holmes
Read by: Ken Phifer
Length: 33 minutes

WE

We all got married.

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Mary Grimm
Publication: 1988
Read by: Pamela Lewis
Length: 26 minutes

KISS

Lipstick, cigarettes, and the taste of candy

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Tobias Wolf
Publication: 2001 The New Yorker
Read by: Kathleen Starling
Length: 36 minutes

JEALOUS HUSBAND RETURNS IN FORM OF PARROT

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Topic: Fiction
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Author: Robert Olen Butler
Publication: 1996 The New Yorker
Read by: Jason Starling
Length: 18 minutes

IT COUNTS AS SEEING

A tale of mulitiple perspective and random violence.

Topic: Fiction
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Author: David Means
Publication: 2000 Harper's Magazine
Read by: June Spence
Length: 20 minutes

IN DEFIANCE OF CLUB RULES

A short story by Tim Parks, who was born in Manchester in 1954. Tim Parks grew up in London, studied at Cambridge and Harvard and now resides in Italy.

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Tim Parks
Publication: 2003 The New Yorker
Read by: Pamela Lewis
Length: 25 minutes

COMPLICITIES

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Alice Adams
Publication: 1996 Michigan Quarterly Review
Read by: June Spence
Length: 16 minutes

COMMUTER MARRIAGE

Long distance.

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Joan Wickersham
Publication: 1992
Read by: Badria Jazerie
Length: 31 minutes

CHIROMANCY

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Max Garland
Publication: 1995 The New England Review
Read by: Pamela Lewis
Length: 29 minutes

A TREE--A ROCK--A CLOUD

A transient stops at an all-night cafe and explains to the owner and a paperboy how the science of love helped him to recover after his wife left him.

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Carson McCullers
Publication: 1979
Read by: June Spence
Length: 21 minutes

A REAL LIFE

A man came along and fell in love with Dory Beck. At least, he wanted to marry her.

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Alice Munroe
Publication: 1998 The New Yorker
Read by: Kathleen Sullivan
Length: 66 minutes

Exhibiting all the characteristics for which O'Connor is best known: a contrast of violent action with humorously and carefully drawn characters and a philosophy that underscores her devout Roman Catholic faith.

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publication: 1979
Read by: Kathleen Sullivan
Length: 43 minutes

SUMMER CROSSING

Truman Capote at thirty-one in 1955, twelve years after writing his newly discovered first novel, "Summer Crossing."

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Truman Capote
Publication: 2005 The New Yorker
Read by: Matthew Phenix
Length: 35 minutes

MEN OF IRELAND

A lifetime after leaving, a man returns to his home village to settle an account with the old priest.

Topic: Fiction
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Author: William Trevor
Publication: 2005 The New Yorker
Read by: Pamela Lewis
Length: 29 minutes

BEAVERS

The classic author's short story about a man who contemplates killing a beaver on his property.

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Arthur Miller
Publication: 2005 Harper's Magazine
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Length: 21 minutes

A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND

A contrast of violent action with humorously and carefully drawn characters and a philosophy that underscores the author's devout Roman Catholic faith.

Topic: Fiction
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Author: Flannery O'Connor
Publication: Independent publication
Read by: Kathleen Sullivan
Length: 43 minutes