An Encounter with an Interviewer
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8 minutes, 42 seconds
Unabridged Humor/Literature
1874
Mark Twain deals with the media. Performed by Alex Wilson.
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17 minutes, 2 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1914
Sometimes romance needs a bit of deliberation; this is Joyce at his most satiric. "The Boarding House" is the seventh story in his collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland.
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1 hour, 2 minutes
Unabridged Humor/Ghost/Christmas Novella
1891
A Christmas mystery story where even the narrator can't be trusted to stay sober or keep his clothes on.
"There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas--something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails."
Performed by Susie Berneis and Robert Bethune.
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16 minutes, 7 seconds
Unabridged Humor/Storytelling/Essay
1878
Twain proposes some realistic sequels to three common morality tales.
Continue reading "About Magnanimous-Incident Literature"
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8 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.
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48 minutes, 4 seconds
Unabridged 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.
Expect the second and final Clarion podcast in the first half of 2007.
Continue reading "Clarion My Wayward Son 1 of 2"
Posted by alex at 10:13 AM
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9 hours, 24 minutes
Unabridged Adventure/Humor Novel
1885
Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn [...] But it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."
Big-river adventure and biting, laugh-out-loud satire in this classic "Great American Novel." Narrated by John Jennens.
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21 minutes, 12 seconds
Unabridged Humorous Story
1870
A comedic fable about gender issues, succession, identity crisis, and, yes, a bit of love and romance in a patriarchal kingdom in the year 1222. By the incomparable Mark Twain.
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27 minutes, 20 seconds
Unabridged Short SF Story
2001
"Sexy blond aliens invade New York City?" A short story from 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 "Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water"
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37 minutes, 26 seconds
Two Unabridged Humor Essays
1882,1899
Includes the Telltale Weekly comedic recordings of Mark Twain's "My First Lie (And How I Got Out of It)" and "On the Decay of the Art of Lying." From "My First Lie (and How I Got Out of It):"
"As I understand it, what you desire is information about 'my first lie, and how I got out of it.' I was born in 1835; I am well along, and my memory is not as good as it was. If you had asked about my first truth it would have been easier for me and kinder of you, for I remember that fairly well. I remember it as if it were last week. The family think it was the week before, but that is flattery..."
From "On the Decay of the Art of Lying:"
"Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the custom of lying has suffered any decay or interruption--no, for the Lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this club remains. My complaint simply concerns the decay of the art of lying..."
Two humorous essays/speeches read by Alex Wilson.
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3 hours, 36 minutes
Unabridged Fantasy/ Young Adult Novel
1900
The beloved novel about a quest to see a Wizard. Join Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, The Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion in an adventure that some would call the "first American fairy tale" (and, later, the inspiration for one of the most successful films ever made). Read by James Spencer.
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Posted by alex at 12:48 PM
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54 minutes, 33 seconds
Unabridged SF Story Collection
1999-2002
"Brilliant. 'Primordial Chili' is as delightful a debut story as I can recall."
--Mike Resnick
"All four are delightfully bizarre, and are read nicely by Gerencer. His comic timing is spot-on, and his authorial voice is so distinct that when I later read a story by him in hardcopy, I could almost hear his voice in my head."
--John Joseph Adams, Locus
Four short science fiction and fantasy stories, read by the author.
Primordial Chili
Have you ever had one of those days when everything just seems to go ? right? Even when it's wrong? "Primordial Chili" is a laugh-out-loud thrill-ride of culinary perfection, taken to cosmic proportions. The planets align, the gods speak, and supper turns out pretty good, too. First published in Science Fiction Age Magazine.
A Taste of Damsel
Anyone can slay a dragon. Well, provided they are dragonslayers, which Colson isn't. But even clerks from copy shops can have heroic qualities and even the very, very old can learn new tricks. First published in Realms of Fantasy Magazine.
Demo Mode
In the future, schools will be outdated and we'll all have knowledge grafted straight into our heads. Just make sure they configure the innoculotron correctly, or you might wind up contracting Esperanto by mistake! First published in Science Fiction Age Magazine.
Trailer Trash Savior
So the millennia have passed, and the time of the reckoning is once more nigh ... not to mention that you've got a busted velvet-Elvis and the oil heat isn't working. Find out what happens when the owner of a mullet and a used AMC Gremlin becomes "the chosen one," and has to battle demons, various and sundry. First published in Brutarian Magazine.
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29 minutes, 45 seconds
Unabridged Humorous Speeches
1899-1908
Five speeches by the master at making them interesting and witty.
Theoretical Morals (1899)
"A man can't become morally perfect by stealing one or a thousand green watermelons, but every little helps."
The Alphabet and Simplified Spelling (1907)
"Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can take it too far."
Education and Citizenship (1908)
"Now I want to tell a story about jumping to conclusions. It was told to me by Bram Stoker and it concerns a christening."
Layman's Sermon (1906)
"Now I am not modest. I was born modest, but it didn't last."
University Settlement Society (1901)
"Marvelous it is, to think of schools where you don't have to drive the children in, but drive them out! It was not so in my day."
Read by Alex Wilson.
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53 minutes, 1 second
Unabridged Speech on Technology and Business Issues
2004
On June 17, 2004, science fiction author and EFF spokesman Cory Doctorow talked to Microsoft Research Group and other interested parties about Digital Rights Management (DRM), copyright, and the technology that cleaves them together and apart. In five parts, Doctorow covers everything from DVD region coding and the player piano to the Apple iTunes Music Store and why Sony didn't create the digital successor to its once-ubiquitous Walkman. Everything you ever wanted to know about DRM, but were afraid to tell Microsoft.
20% of all revenues from the sale of this recording will be donated to the Cory Doctorow's charity of choice, which--to nobody's surprise--is the Electronic Frontier Frontier Foundation. This is in addition to the 1% of all Telltale Weekly revenues donates to the EFF. See the Mission page for details.
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1 hour, 19 minutes
Unabridged Lyrical Poetry Collection
1907
Thirty-four accessible, adventurous poems including the famous narrative oft-memorized poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee." This collection has also been published as "Songs of a Sourdough." Read by Craig R Currier. Complete audiobook collection includes:
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1 hour, 6 minutes
Full Cast Mystery/Comedy Radio Drama
2001
"Well, the decision has been made to go ahead with the killing. To tell you the truth, I'm kinda looking forward to it."
Retired cops in a Florida community seek out "The Wizard" whenever they need a smart guy to get them out of a jam. Now they come to him for help murdering Big Wally, who's cheated 'em out of their share of lottery winnings. Wiz's Plan A involves Woodside Village's resident prostitute, Secondhand Rose. Plan B is a diabolocal softball game. And Plan C---?
Full cast mystery/comedy radio drama. J. Carrol Enterprises presents the Hollywood Theatre of the Ear production. Taped before a live studio audience at the Museum of Television and Radio.
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6 minutes, 6 seconds
Unabridged Essay
1779
Wit and wisdom from the founding father best known for it. An essay on the value of... things. Read by Alex Wilson.
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27 minutes
Unabridged Short Story
1904
"This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company. I wish it would stay with the other animals. Cloudy to-day, wind in the east..."
The battle of the sexes begins in the Garden of Eden, as humourously told by Mark Twain, who "translated a portion" of "Adam's hieroglyphics." The word "Extracts" is actually part of the title; This is the full, unabridged short story. Read by Alex Wilson.
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20 minutes, 6 seconds
Unabridged Lecture
1883
With a professional's insight, an opinionated mind, and not a small amount of trademark dry wit, Oscar Wilde offers his advice on "what makes an artist and what does the artist make; what are the relations of the artist to his surroundings, what is the education the artist should get, and what is the quality of a good work of art." Read by Damian Hess.
"Art is the science of beauty, and Mathematics the science of truth: there is no national school of either... Nor is there any such thing as a school of art even. There are merely artists, that is all."
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22 minutes, 4 seconds
Unabridged Short Story
1907
"It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama--Bill Driscoll and myself-when this kidnapping idea struck us. It was, as Bill afterward expressed it, during a moment of temporary mental apparition; but we didn't find that out till later."
The classic humorous tale about a kidnapping gone awry by the beloved O Henry. Read by Alex Wilson.
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Posted by alex at 8:33 PM
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18 minutes, 27 seconds
Unabridged Essay
1729
"A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public." A satiric essay read by Alex Wilson.
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