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Nellie Was a Lady: 1945 Radio Dramatization of Pioneering Journalist Nellie Bly’s Life
Nellie Was a Lady: 1945 Radio Dramatization of Pioneering Journalist Nellie Bly’s Life

“The life, loves, and laughter of one of America’s most fascinating women.”

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Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Book”
Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Book”

“When I close a book I open life… I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss…”

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Things Nabokov Hates
Things Nabokov Hates

Why you should never, ever use the phrase “the moment of truth” in your writing.

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Tolstoy Reads from His ‘Calendar of Wisdom’ in a Rare Recording Shortly Before His Death
Tolstoy Reads from His ‘Calendar of Wisdom’ in a Rare Recording Shortly Before His Death

The beloved Russian author, shortly before his death, on the object of life.

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Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich on Art vs. Design and the Joy of Losing Yourself in Purposeful Work
Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich on Art vs. Design and the Joy of Losing Yourself in Purposeful Work

“Art pushes the limit of human experience and language for its own sake, while Design might do this but only to humanize and integrate people’s lives in the context of an economy.”

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On Craftsmanship: The Only Surviving Recording of Virginia Woolf’s Voice, 1937
On Craftsmanship: The Only Surviving Recording of Virginia Woolf’s Voice, 1937

“Words belong to each other.”

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E. E. Cummings Reads “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” (Harvard, 1953)
E. E. Cummings Reads “Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town” (Harvard, 1953)

“…and noone stooped to kiss his face…”

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Work Alone: Ernest Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel Acceptance Speech
Work Alone: Ernest Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel Acceptance Speech

“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”

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Gertrude Stein Reads “A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson”
Gertrude Stein Reads “A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson”

“Very fine is my valentine and mine, very fine very mine and mine is my valentine.”

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Dear John: Rare Recording of a Vietnam War Soldier Reading a Breakup Letter from Home
Dear John: Rare Recording of a Vietnam War Soldier Reading a Breakup Letter from Home

“Dear John I love you so, Dear John you’ve got to go.”

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