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 The Spoken Alexandria Project is creating a free Creative Commons library of spoken word recordings, consisting of classics in the public domain and modern works (with permission). AAC, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 audiobooks available for free download and redistribution. Learn more on the Mission page. January 23, 2008 An Encounter with an Interviewer
8 minutes, 42 seconds Unabridged Humor/Literature 1874  Mark Twain deals with the media. Performed by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info about "An Encounter with an Interviewer" 
December 13, 2007 Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 03: Apollo and Daphne, Etc
23 minutes, 11 seconds Unabridged Mythology/Literature 1913  Here we have Apollo and Daphne and how one of them refuses the other's advances and becomes a laurel tree. Then we have Pyramus and Thisbe, the love story that inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, or at least the bloody parts of it. And finally: Cephalus and Procris and how the wind is slutty and how misunderstanding can inspire uxoricide. Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info about "Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 03: Apollo and Daphne, Etc"
November 7, 2007 Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 02: Prometheus and Pandora
18 minutes, 40 seconds Unabridged Mythology/Literature 1913 Creation myths! Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info about "Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 02: Prometheus and Pandora"
October 12, 2007 Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 01: Introduction
24 minutes, 44 seconds Unabridged Mythology/Literature 1913 An introduction to the stories and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, and an overview of the pantheon. Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info about "Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 01: Introduction"
February 3, 2007 The Kiss
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. Keep reading for more info about "The Kiss"
November 16, 2006 Metamorphosis
2 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. Keep reading for more info about "Metamorphosis"
November 5, 2006 The Morals of Chess
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. Keep reading for more info about "The Morals of Chess"
October 4, 2006 NIMH: Social Phobia
13 minutes, 37 seconds Unabridged NIMH Informational Brochure 1999  Full text (including printable and redistributable brochures) available at the NIMH website. Keep reading for more info about "NIMH: Social Phobia"
August 30, 2006 The Girl Detective
46 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. Keep reading for more info about "The Girl Detective"
June 23, 2006 Clarion My Wayward Son 1 of 2
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. Keep reading for more info about "Clarion My Wayward Son 1 of 2"
May 31, 2006 Waiting for the Zephyr
13 minutes, 19 seconds Unabridged 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. Keep reading for more info about "Waiting for the Zephyr"
April 28, 2006 Dulce et Decorum Est
2 minutes, 5 seconds Unabridged Formal Poetry 1920 The classic war poem written by a British soldier during World War I. Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info about "Dulce et Decorum Est"
March 15, 2006 The Gettysburg Address
2 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. Keep reading for more info about "The Gettysburg Address"
February 1, 2006 Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro
1 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. Columns included:
Keep reading for more info about "Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro"
January 18, 2006 Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
6 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. Keep reading for more info about "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
October 4, 2005 Kubla Khan & The Pains of Sleep
6 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." Keep reading for more info about "Kubla Khan & The Pains of Sleep"
July 26, 2005 NIMH: Men and Depression
1 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. Keep reading for more info about "NIMH: Men and Depression"
July 19, 2005 Dubliners: Araby
15 minutes, 54 seconds Unabridged Short Story 1914  The adventure and frustration of a first crush. "Every morning I lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. The blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that I could not be seen. When she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. I ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. I kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, I quickened my pace and passed her. This happened morning after morning. I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood." The third coming-of-age story in James Joyce's collection Dubliners, classic tales dealing thematically with miscommunication, isolation, class differences, and emotional paralysis in Joyce's Ireland. Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info about "Dubliners: Araby"
July 12, 2005 NIMH: Eating Disorders
15 minutes, 56 seconds Unabridged NIMH Informational Brochure 2001  A detailed booklet that describes symptoms, causes, and treatments, with information on getting help and coping. Full text (including a printable and redistributable brochure) available at the NIMH website. Keep reading for more info about "NIMH: Eating Disorders"
July 5, 2005 Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water
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. Keep reading for more info about "Most of My Friends Are Two-Thirds Water"
April 19, 2005 Jason Erik Lundberg (Small Press Startup) Interview
1 hour, 15 minutes Unabridged Interview 2005 
Publisher and writer Jason Erik Lundberg of Two Cranes Press talks to multimedia artist Jamie Bishop about the ups and downs of launching a small press startup, collaborating with fantasy artist Janet Chui, publishing science
fiction and fantasy work by Jeff VanderMeer, Nalo Hopkinson, Bruce Boston, Mike Jasper, and others, and releasing a short story collection by Big Fish author Daniel Wallace. Candid, informative listen for anyone interested in starting up her or his own publishing venture.Keep reading for more info about "Jason Erik Lundberg (Small Press Startup) Interview"
March 1, 2005 The Dumb Man
4 minutes, 28 seconds Unabridged Short Story/Prose Poem 1921 Prose-poem? Short story? Riddle? A short narrative as told by a mute narrator, free to download to celebrate Telltale Weekly's first anniversary. Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info about "The Dumb Man"
December 21, 2004 The Bill of Rights
4 minutes, 27 seconds Unabridged Reading of a Historical Document 1789 / 1791 The ten original amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America--passed by Congress September 25,1789 and ratified December 15, 1791. This recording may be freely shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info about "The Bill of Rights"
August 27, 2004 Inaugural Address 1961
15 minutes, 4 seconds Unabridged Formal Poetry 1961 On January 20, 1961, Kennedy called on Americans to be active in their citizenship. This recording is in the public domain. Keep reading for more info about "Inaugural Address 1961"
August 6, 2004 The Dungeon
2 minutes, 21 seconds Unabridged Formal Poetry 1798 A poem by one of the founders of the Romantic Movement. Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info about "The Dungeon"
February 27, 2004 The Glove and the Lions
1 minute, 54 seconds Unabridged Formal Poem 1836 "'No Love,' quoth he, 'but vanity sets love a task like that...'" A famous lyrical poem by James Leigh Hunt. Read by Alex Wilson. Keep reading for more info about "The Glove and the Lions"
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Newsletter: Welcome new listeners! While Telltale started out with multiple, weekly releases in February 2004, the focus is now on fewer, longer works and making fun of the site name.  Other Literature Podcasts: Escape Pod Librivox Podiobooks Latest Telltale Releases: An Encounter with an Interviewer Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 03: Apollo and Daphne, Etc Dubliners: The Boarding House Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 02: Prometheus and Pandora When the World Was Young Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable 01: Introduction The Masque of the Red Death Two for a Cent Darkness Told After Supper  
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