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Today's podcast features excerpts from the title story from my collection, My Long-Playing Records and Other Stories. Instead of attending a reading—dressing up, driving to a venue—you can listen to this short reading I'm about to bring to you! And if you'd like to have a signed bookplate, send me a message using the contact box on my home page (see above), and I'll mail you one. ¶ This narrative is set in the early 1970s as a young seminarian struggles with his identity. Is he devout or heathen? Is he straight or gay? Married or once again single? The story employs the use of the narrator's favorite long-playing records, a motif that I develop throughout all the stories in this collection. Click the "Play" button to get started.
MUSIC TRACKS:
Chet Baker, vocal performance of "The Touch of Your Lips," by Ray Noble, recorded January 14, 1965, on Baby Breeze, Verve By Request 314 538 328-2.
Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Opus, 60, I, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Arturuo Toscanini, recorded July 19, 1942, RCA LM-6711.
Florence Henderson, vocal performance of "I've Been Invited to a Party," by Noël Coward, recorded December 1963, on The Girl Who Came to Supper, Columbia, KOL 6020.
George Olsen, saxophone performance of "Sax-O-Phun—A Study in Laugh and Slap Tongue," recorded May 1924-Jun3 1925, on George Olsen and His Music, Rivermont.
Led Zeppelin, vocal performance of "Heartbroken," by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham, recorded 1969, on Led Zeppelin II, Atlantic SD 8236.
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Krystian Zimerman (piano) and conducted by Sejii Ozawa, recorded 2003, Deutsche Grammophon.
NEXT TIME: New Yorker Fiction
Chet Baker, vocal performance of "The Touch of Your Lips," by Ray Noble, recorded January 14, 1965, on Baby Breeze, Verve By Request 314 538 328-2.
Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Opus, 60, I, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Arturuo Toscanini, recorded July 19, 1942, RCA LM-6711.
Florence Henderson, vocal performance of "I've Been Invited to a Party," by Noël Coward, recorded December 1963, on The Girl Who Came to Supper, Columbia, KOL 6020.
George Olsen, saxophone performance of "Sax-O-Phun—A Study in Laugh and Slap Tongue," recorded May 1924-Jun3 1925, on George Olsen and His Music, Rivermont.
Led Zeppelin, vocal performance of "Heartbroken," by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham, recorded 1969, on Led Zeppelin II, Atlantic SD 8236.
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Krystian Zimerman (piano) and conducted by Sejii Ozawa, recorded 2003, Deutsche Grammophon.
NEXT TIME: New Yorker Fiction
BEHIND THE BOOK: My Long-Playing Records & Other Stories. In these posts I speak of the creative process I use to write each story. Buy a copy here!
Date of Original Post:
11/13/14 — Introduction to My Long-Playing Records
11/20/14 — "My Long-Playing Records" — The Story
11/27/14 — "A Certain Kind of Mischief"
12/04/14 — "Ghost Riders"
12/11/14 — "The Best Mud"
12/18/14 — "Handy to Some"
12/25/14 — "Blight"
01/01/15 — "A Gambler's Debt"
01/09/15 — "Tales of the Millerettes"
01/15/15 — "Men at Sea"
01/22/15 — "Basketball Is Not a Drug"
01/29/15 — "Engineer"
02/05/15 — "Snarked"
02/12/15 — "Killing Lorenzo"
02/19/15 — "The Age I Am Now"
02/26/15 — "Bathed in Pink"
Date of Original Post:
11/13/14 — Introduction to My Long-Playing Records
11/20/14 — "My Long-Playing Records" — The Story
11/27/14 — "A Certain Kind of Mischief"
12/04/14 — "Ghost Riders"
12/11/14 — "The Best Mud"
12/18/14 — "Handy to Some"
12/25/14 — "Blight"
01/01/15 — "A Gambler's Debt"
01/09/15 — "Tales of the Millerettes"
01/15/15 — "Men at Sea"
01/22/15 — "Basketball Is Not a Drug"
01/29/15 — "Engineer"
02/05/15 — "Snarked"
02/12/15 — "Killing Lorenzo"
02/19/15 — "The Age I Am Now"
02/26/15 — "Bathed in Pink"
My Long-Playing Records Podcasts:
03/12/15 — "A Certain Kind of Mischief"
03/26/15 — "The Best Mud"
04/02/15 — "Handy to Some"
04/09/15 — "Tales of the Millerettes"
04/16/15 — "Men at Sea"
04/23/15 — "My Long-Playing Records"
03/12/15 — "A Certain Kind of Mischief"
03/26/15 — "The Best Mud"
04/02/15 — "Handy to Some"
04/09/15 — "Tales of the Millerettes"
04/16/15 — "Men at Sea"
04/23/15 — "My Long-Playing Records"
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