Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast » Schwartz, Delmore http://www.miettecast.com Lay yourself down to sleep with the soothing soporific of Miette's purr as she reads you the world's greatest short stories and delivers them podcasterly. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:49:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2005-2010 miette@miettecast.com (Miette) miette@miettecast.com (Miette) 1440 http://www.miettecast.com/wp-content/themes/cutline-miettehack/images/mbsp-small.jpg Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast http://www.miettecast.com 144 144 Lay yourself down to sleep with the soothing soporific of Miette's purr as she reads you the world's greatest works of short fiction, in a style all her own and in a way only she can. World classics, known and unknown literary masterp[...] Lay yourself down to sleep with the soothing soporific of Miette's purr as she reads you the world's greatest works of short fiction, in a style all her own and in a way only she can. World classics, known and unknown literary masterpieces, and modern experimental titles are all represented in what's quickly becoming the most comprehensive (and most saucy) short fiction anthology. Sweet dreams. literature, short, stories, fiction, reading, books Miette Miette miette@miettecast.com no no In Dreams Begin Responsibilities http://www.miettecast.com/2008/11/26/in-dreams-begin-responsibilities/ http://www.miettecast.com/2008/11/26/in-dreams-begin-responsibilities/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:14:22 +0000 miette http://www.miettecast.com/2008/11/26/in-dreams-begin-responsibilities/ Well, pilgrims. It’s that day once again when the poisoned blankets of history are celebrated with turkey and squash. And I want to get all excited with you about Delmore Schwartz, and rave a while about how you should be able to listen to the rhythm of his narrative with an almost painful wistfulness for the days when poets were rockstars (even poets with given names like Delmore), and I’d love to get enthusiastically and prattily didactic about the structural inventions in this story and where they allowed fiction “to go” and so on etc ad blatherium. But then I remember: it’s That Day Once Again, and if I get you all excited about a story you might just suffer from some sort of post-tryptophanic hemorrhage before getting to the pumpkin pie, and that would be a disaster.

So maybe instead you should just sit back, undo the button on your bluejeans (but, uh, not in -that- way) and have a quiet listen.


Comments]]> http://www.miettecast.com/2008/11/26/in-dreams-begin-responsibilities/feed/ 4 0:28:09 Well, pilgrims. It’s that day once again when the poisoned blankets of history are celebrated with turkey and squash. And I want to get all excited with you about Delmore Schwartz, and rave a while about how you should be able to listen to t[...] Well, pilgrims. It’s that day once again when the poisoned blankets of history are celebrated with turkey and squash. And I want to get all excited with you about Delmore Schwartz, and rave a while about how you should be able to listen to the rhythm of his narrative with an almost painful wistfulness for the days when poets were rockstars (even poets with given names like Delmore), and I’d love to get enthusiastically and prattily didactic about the structural inventions in this story and where they allowed fiction “to go” and so on etc ad blatherium. But then I remember: it’s That Day Once Again, and if I get you all excited about a story you might just suffer from some sort of post-tryptophanic hemorrhage before getting to the pumpkin pie, and that would be a disaster. So maybe instead you should just sit back, undo the button on your bluejeans (but, uh, not in -that- way) and have a quiet listen. Miette no no