Spoken Alexandria Project

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by Kate Chopin

by Kate Chopin
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.

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by Kate Chopin
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.

Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka
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.

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The Morals of Chess

by Benjamin Franklin
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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NIMH: Social Phobia

from the National Institute of Mental Health
13 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.

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The Girl Detective

by Kelly Link
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.

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Clarion My Wayward Son 1

by Alex Wilson
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.

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Waiting for the Zephyr

by Tobias S Buckell
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.

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Dulce et Decorum Est

by Wilfred Owen
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.

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The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln
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.

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The Tell-Tale Heart (Free for 24 Hours Only)

by Edgar Allan Poe
Unabridged 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.
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Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro [Complete]

by Tobias S Buckell
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.

Spoken Alexandria podcasted the column twice weekly between February 1st through 18th, and now the bundled downloads are available free. Read by Alex Wilson.
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Plan Your Career Now
by 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.

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Taking it Up a Notch
by 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.

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Professionalism
by 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.

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