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Jean Wilson

Bewitched - 10/31/2013

  • JOE NICKELL, investigative files "Voodoo in New Orleans", Vol. 26.1 (January/February 2002).

    Work - 9/1/2013

  • GEORGE ORWELL, except from Chapter Two of The Road to Wigan Pier.

    Secrets - 4/25/2013

  • STEVE COLL, article The Spy Who Said Too Much from the April 1, 2013 issue of The New Yorker.

    A Christmas Story - 12/8/2012

  • Did not read. Showed video of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie hosting a British Broadcasting Corporation Christmas Night television special.

    Dry - 9/25/2011

  • JOHN CHEEVER, excerpt from The Journals of John Cheever.

    Wet - 7/16/2001

  • News accounts of water shortages from New Statesman and English-language Al Jazeera.

    Gory/Gorey Valentine - 2/27/2011

  • LINDA H. DAVIS, excerpt from Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life.

    Villians - 9/11/2010

  • FLANNERY O'CONNOR, excerpt from "A Good Man is Hard to Find.
  • Heroes - 4/10/2010

  • SEAMUS HEANEY (trans.), excerpts from battles with Grendel and Grendel's mother from Beowulf.

    Hollywood/Bollywood - 11/14/2008

  • RICHMAL CROMPTON, excerpt about the village literary society's attempt to raise funds to buy a cinematograph, from William the Good.

    Rhymes with June 6/30/08

  • EDWARD LEAR, "The Owl and the Pussy Cat."

    Run for the Roses - 5/3/2008

  • ROBERT BENCHLEY, "They're Off!" from Benchley Lost and Found.

    Burns Night - 1/27/2008

  • Toast to Mrs. Robert Burns.

    Bounty - 11/18/2007

  • BIBLE (AUTHORIZED VERSION OF 1611), Psalm xxiii.

    Ghosts - 10/31/2007

  • H.P. LOVECRAFT, "The Hound."

    Ides of March - 3/18/2007

  • E.W. HORNUNG, selection from The Amateur Cracksman (published 1907).