May 21, 2013 Listen Have You Ever Heard Virginia Woolf Speak? By Sadie Stein What follows is the only known surviving recording of Virginia Woolf, part of a BBC radio broadcast from 1937. The talk is titled “Craftsmanship.”
May 15, 2013 Listen Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood By Sadie Stein Via the 92nd Street Y, the only known recorded performance of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, which Thomas premiered at the Y in 1953.
January 7, 2013 Listen Zora Neale Hurston on Zombies By Sadie Stein In honor of Ms. Hurston’s birthday, this fascinating clip from a 1943 interview.
October 10, 2012 Listen Wallace Shawn Reads Denis Johnson By Sadie Stein Listen to a preview of the inimitable Wallace Shawn read from Denis Johnson’s “Car-Crash While Hitchhiking,” one of the stories included in the new anthology, Object Lessons. The full audio recording will be available shortly in a new book, Three Stories: An Audio Book, only available on the Paris Review app. Play Audio
June 4, 2012 Listen Flannery O’Connor Reads, 1959 By Sadie Stein It wasn’t until Open Culture shared this 1959 recording of Flannery O’Connor reading the title story of A Good Man Is Hard to Find that we realized we didn’t know what her voice sounded like. The thirty-four-year-old author’s Georgia accent is pronounced, and she puts over the story with a deadpan panache that brings out its full humor and horror. Truly a treat for a gray day.
May 23, 2012 Listen Arthur Miller Reads Death of a Salesman, February 1955 By Sadie Stein From the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center’s archives.