My New Addictions

As I have indicated here over the past couple of months, I have some new addictions. One of these is The New Yorker‘s fiction podcast. I commend this to you for several reasons, not least is that hearing short stories, and hearing people talk about how to read them, has the potential to help make you a better reader, a better hearer of Story. We need more of that kind of competence.

Another is The Mountain Goats. As I mentioned before, these songs are to me like listening to Flannery O’Connor in song.

But a third addiction is a new one. My friend Mark Traphagen, a.k.a. The Foolish Sage, has begun pod-casting short stories (mostly about his life) in his League of Inveterate Poets Podcast. These are fun, humorous, and entertaining, and often with more than a hint of redemption thrown in.

If you have 9 minutes to spare as you walk about with your iPod (and if you have or would like to develop a category of “Redemptive Use of the F-Bomb” [i.e., consider yourself warned, there is strong language in this (but why do I feel compelled to tell you that about a podcast when I'd commend a movie with F-bombs without a second thought?)]), I commend to you his short story, “The Bus, the Bench, and the Chamber of Doom.”

One Response to “My New Addictions”

  1. Mark Traphagen July 29, 2010 at 7:21 pm #

    Well thanks for the shout out! Wish I’d had time to get another podcast done before my next chemo infusion tomorrow. Will probably knock me out for about a week. I’ll try to get another episode up soon

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