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The Pampered Lapdog and the Misguided Ass

In Fables for the Frivolous

Read by Joyce Nussbaum

Guy Wetmore Carryl

One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

Richard Cory - Read by JN

In Richard Cory

Read by Joyce Nussbaum

Edwin Arlington Robinson

This was the weekly poetry project for 3 June 2006. Many “character” poems cut straight to the inmost psychology of their subjects, but here…

In Which the Same Subject is Pursued

In Vanity Fair

Read by Joyce Nussbaum

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like man…

Chapter 19

In Candide

Read by Joyce Nussbaum

Voltaire

Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never ope…

Rolls, Bread and Muffins

In Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

Read by Joyce Nussbaum

Rufus Estes

Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville …

Mrs. George Reece

In Spoon River Anthology

Read by Joyce Nussbaum

Edgar Lee Masters

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

The Pursuit of the House-Boat

Read by Emma Joyce

John Kendrick Bangs

This sequel to Bangs' A House-Boat on the Styx continues the "thought-experiment" of bringing various historical and fictional fig…

Combining Freedom and Diversity: The Challenge of Religious Difference

In Free Speech Debate

Read by Martha Nussbaum

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

Constucting and reading neuroimages

In Neurosociety Conference

Read by Kelly Joyce

Various

The theme of the conference was the rise of the brain and the emergence of the brain industry or 'neuro markets'. The aim was to explore how…