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 Fiction - Nonfiction - Poetry - (Browse all subjects at Telltale) February 05, 2007Feed moved to http://www.alexwilson.com/telltale/podcast.xmlPodcast now at: http://www.alexwilson.com/telltale/podcast.xml
6 minutes, 24 seconds Unabridged Short Story 1895  A short story about a woman believing and hoping (and manipulating) that she may have both her security in marriage and passions outside of it. Read by Alex Wilson. 6 minutes, 24 seconds Unabridged Short Story 1895 A short story about a woman believing and hoping (and manipulating) that she may have both her security in marriage and passions outside of it. Read by Alex Wilson. Posted by alex at 01:55 PM  Feed moved to http://www.alexwilson.com/telltale/podcast.xml
6 minutes, 24 seconds Unabridged Short Story 1895 A short story about a woman believing and hoping (and manipulating) that she may have both her security in marriage and passions outside of it. Read by Alex Wilson. Posted by alex at 01:49 PM November 16, 2006Metamorphosisby Franz Kafka2 hours, 15 minutes Unabridged Novella 1915 
"One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin." So begins the classic existential tale about the traveling salesman who too late realizes what he's become.
Translation by David Wyllie. Read by Alex Wilson. Continue reading and/or download "Metamorphosis" Posted by alex at 04:59 PM November 05, 2006The Morals of Chessby Benjamin Franklin8 minutes, 52 seconds Unabridged Essay 1786 
American essaysist and humorist Benjamin Franklin on the game of chess, and its application to life.
Read by Alex Wilson.  Continue reading and/or download "The Morals of Chess" Posted by alex at 08:42 AM October 04, 2006NIMH: Social Phobiafrom the National Institute of Mental Health13 minutes, 37 seconds Unabridged NIMH Informational Brochure 1999 
This unabridged recording includes two freely available brochures from the National Institute of Mental Health: Social Phobia: A Real Illness and Facts about Social Phobia.Full text (including printable and redistributable brochures) available at the NIMH website. Continue reading and/or download "NIMH: Social Phobia" Posted by alex at 01:20 PM August 30, 2006The Girl Detectiveby Kelly Link46 minutes, 45 seconds Unabridged Short SF Story 1999  "Think of the underworld as the back of your closet, behind all those racks of clothes that you don't wear anymore. Things are always getting pushed back there and forgotten about. The underworld is full of things that you've forgotten about." First published in Event Horizon in 1999. Later reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection and Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen, a Salon Book of the Year and one of the Village Voice's 25 Favorite Books of 2001. Read by Alex Wilson. Continue reading and/or download "The Girl Detective" Posted by alex at 09:21 PM June 23, 2006Clarion My Wayward Son 1by Alex Wilson
48 minutes, 4 secondsUnabridged SF-related podcast 2006 Telltale founder Alex Wilson, preparing to attend the famous Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop, gives an introduction and "before" picture. Featuring Michael A. Burstein and Jason Erik Lundberg. Follow along with the adventures in Alex's Clarion Journal. The theme song "Untitled Pretention Pontificated by a Passive Voice" is available separately here. Photo by Jamie Bishop. Continue reading and/or download "Clarion My Wayward Son 1" Posted by alex at 10:13 AM May 31, 2006Waiting for the Zephyrby Tobias S Buckell
13 minutes, 19 secondsUnabridged Short SF Story 2000 When the fuel went, Mara's town turned to windpower. They struggled on as the lights left, as the cities fell fallow, and plastic became a memory. Their only link to the outside world is the Zephyr, and now it too has not shown up. Originally published in Jackhammer. Narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal of the Willamette Radio Workshop. Continue reading and/or download "Waiting for the Zephyr" Posted by alex at 10:19 AM April 28, 2006Dulce et Decorum Estby Wilfred Owen2 minutes, 5 seconds Unabridged Formal Poetry 1920 The classic war poem written by a British soldier during World War I. Read by Alex Wilson. Continue reading and/or download "Dulce et Decorum Est" Posted by alex at 02:44 PM March 15, 2006The Gettysburg Address
by Abraham Lincoln2 minutes, 22 seconds Unabridged Speech 1863 "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the propisition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great Civil War..." Given by US President Abraham Lincoln on the battlefield November 19, 1863, after the hard-fought, casualty-ridden, and turning-point Civil War battle near Gettysburg, PA. This speech is inscribed, along with Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Read by Alex Wilson. Continue reading and/or download "The Gettysburg Address" Posted by alex at 11:17 AM February 27, 2006The Tell-Tale Heart (Free for 24 Hours Only)
by Edgar Allan PoeUnabridged Horror Fiction Offered for 24 hours only, in celebration of Telltale Weekly's 2nd Anniversary. You may still purchase this recording for 75 cents or wait until October 2009 when it will be released here free (permanently) with a Creative Commons License. Learn more. Browse all works by Poe at Telltale Weekly. Continue reading and/or download "The Tell-Tale Heart (Free for 24 Hours Only)" Posted by alex at 12:01 AM February 18, 2006Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro [Complete]by Tobias S Buckell1 hour, 17 minutes Unabridged SF-Related Essays on Writing 2003 
Science fiction and fantasy author Tobias S. Buckell talks about a much-ignored period in the working writer's career: after one makes that first major professional story sale, but before he or she has turned that exception into the rule. Buckell discusses "the benefits, the experience, and the dangers of being a Joe Blow Neopro," along with "some strategies to move out of this stage in of our careers." These six columns originally appeared in Speculations in 2003, when Buckell was still a neopro. His advice is likely worth reading because his first novel, Crystal Rain, comes out this month from Tor Books. Spoken Alexandria podcasted the column twice weekly between February 1st through 18th, and now the bundled downloads are available free. Read by Alex Wilson. Continue reading and/or download "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro [Complete]" Posted by alex at 10:40 AM Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 6 of 6Plan Your Career Nowby Tobias S Buckell
If Joe Blow Neopro were to run into himself ten years from now, what would he hope to be able to tell himself? [...] Many people we view as lucky were prepared, or hard workers. It is said an overnight success to the public was always ten years in the making behind the scenes. The sixth and final installment of Buckell's writing column for Speculations. Continue reading and/or download "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 6 of 6" Posted by alex at 10:26 AM February 15, 2006Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 5 of 6Taking it Up a Notchby Tobias S Buckell
Don't write for the market. Write at the level of the market, and write for the story itself. Writing for the market is stale; it puts preconceptions on the story. The fifth installment of Buckell's writing column for Speculations. Continue reading and/or download "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 5 of 6" Posted by alex at 05:05 PM February 11, 2006Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 4 of 6Professionalismby Tobias S Buckell
Not everyone will be Joe's friend. Some editors will not click with him. That's okay, he's introduced himself. It's not a battle, the editors are not pawns, and not making friends with everyone is okay. But Joe shouldn't make any enemies in his frustration. He still wants them to buy his stuff even if they never become friends. And being overly chummy with someone can be creepy as well. The fourth installment of Buckell's writing column for Speculations. Continue reading and/or download "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 4 of 6" Posted by alex at 09:55 AM February 08, 2006Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 3 of 6Original Source Creativityby Tobias S Buckell
Taking the step from imitation to innovation is important. There is nothing wrong with wanting to respond or emulate the writers that inspire us to do the same. But in order to successfully develop, Joe Blow Neopro must learn to come into the game with a feeling of freshness to get an edge on all the other competition. The third installment of Buckell's writing column for Speculations. Continue reading and/or download "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 3 of 6" Posted by alex at 12:20 PM February 05, 2006Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 2 of 6Putting in the Timeby Tobias S Buckell
It comes down to priorities. Do we really want to the be the Joe Blow Neopro that has beaten all the levels of the latest RPG, seen all the latest episodes of the latest SF/F shows, browsed every last online tech-site, and yet complains bitterly that they have no time to write? Or are we going to write, and write often? The second installment of Buckell's writing column for Speculations. Continue reading and/or download "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 2 of 6" Posted by alex at 08:32 AM February 01, 2006Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 1 of 6An Introductionby Tobias S Buckell
Science fiction and fantasy author Tobias S. Buckell talks about a much-ignored period in the working writer's career: after one makes that first major professional story sale, but before he or she has turned that exception into the rule. Buckell discusses "the benefits, the experience, and the dangers of being a Joe Blow Neopro," along with "some strategies to move out of this stage in of our careers." These six columns originally appeared in Speculations in 2003, when Buckell was still a neopro. His advice is likely worth reading because his first novel, Crystal Rain, comes out this month from Tor Books. The columns will be podcasted twice weekly starting February 1, after which additional, bundled downloads will be available. Read by Alex Wilson. Continue reading and/or download "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro 1 of 6" Posted by alex at 01:25 AM January 18, 2006Give Me Liberty or Give Me Deathby Patrick Henry6 minutes, 51 seconds Unabridged Speech 1775 Patrick Henry's address to the second Virginia Convention in March 23, 1775, where he offered a resolution that put the colony in a state of defense leading up to the American Revolution. A bestselling Telltale recording (and one of the first), now available free with a Creative Commons License. Read by Alex Wilson. Continue reading and/or download "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Posted by alex at 03:17 PM October 04, 2005Kubla Khan & The Pains of Sleepby Samuel Taylor Coleridge6 minutes, 58 seconds Unabridged Formal Poetry 1816 Two poems by one of the founders of the Romantic Movement.
Coleridge claimed that "Kubla Khan," one of his most famous works, came to him in an opium-inspired dream. Coleridge's symbolic pleasure-dome of Xanadu in this poem is referenced and even built in Orson Well's classic film, Citizen Kane. The full title of the poem is "Kubla Khan Or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment." Continue reading and/or download "Kubla Khan & The Pains of Sleep" Posted by alex at 11:46 AM July 26, 2005NIMH: Men and Depressionfrom the National Institute of Mental Health1 hour, 1 minute Unabridged NIMH Informational Brochure 2003 
A detailed booklet describing what you need to know about depression in men: how it looks, how it feels, getting help, and getting better. Read by Alex Wilson.Full text (including a printable and redistributable brochure) available at the NIMH website. Have you known a man who is grumpy, irritable, and has no sense of humor? Maybe he drinks too much or abuses drugs. Maybe he physically or verbally abuses his wife and his kids. Maybe he works all the time, or compulsively seeks thrills in high-risk behavior. Or maybe he seems isolated, withdrawn, and no longer interested in the people or activities he used to enjoy. Continue reading and/or download "NIMH: Men and Depression" Posted by alex at 06:09 PM |
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