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Never Bet The Devil Your Head was written by Edgar Allan Poe to mock his critics. It’s wit is as sharp as Voltaire’s Candide and it’s smirk is as wide as Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court,… Read moreNever Bet The Devil Your Head by Edgar Allan Poe
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed is a satiric poem by Jonathan Swift. It was first published in 1731. One Wikipedia editor describes it like this: It features Corinna, “a young woman preparing for bed by deconstructing.” It’s awful,… Read moreA Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed by Jonathan Swift
Heather Ordover has a great new book at the center of of her splendid CraftLit podcast. It’s Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift! You can read the shownotes HERE. |MP3| Podcast feed: http://craftlit.libsyn.com/rss And, if you’re not into crafts, as much… Read moreCraftLit/Just The Books: Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Gregg Margarite recorded only one poem for LibriVox.org. I find it highly appropriate. It’s by one of his favourite authors, Jonathan Swift. Here’s Gregg’s reading of The Logicians Refuted |MP3|. Posted by Jesse Willis
I’ve just finished listening to the new BBC Radio 4 Classic Serial adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels. And now I must tell you that this version, written by Matthew Broughton and directed by Sam Hoyle for BBC Cymru/Wales, is one the… Read moreBBCR4 + RA.cc: Gulliver’s Travels – a magnificent new RADIO DRAMA adaptation
Episode #151 of The Science Fiction Book Review Podcast is a special episode on Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and similar time travel tales. It is both special and strange. First it’s strange because it’s the… Read moreSFBRP #151: Time Travel Special, part 1 – Mark Twain – A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court