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A Student Writes a Rejection Letter Rejecting Harvard’s Rejection Letter (1981): Hear It Read by Actor Himesh Patel
The documentary filmmaker and sports editor Paul Devlin has won five Emmy awards, but he may…
Hear De La Soul’s Highly Acclaimed & Influential Hip-Hop Albums Streaming Free for the First Time
If you don’t listen to rap, you’ve heard the same questions over and over in response…
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 50: Hear It Get Psychoanalyzed by Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin
Coming after the maturation of the market for high-fidelity stereo systems but before the advent of…
How The Beatles Reviewed Songs Topping the Charts During the 1960s: Hear Their Takes on the Beach Boys, Ray Charles, the Byrds, Joan Baez & More
In the year 1966, “it seemed to Western youth that The Beatles knew — that they…
Hear Neil Gaiman Read A Christmas Carol Just Like Charles Dickens Read It
In Christmases past, we featured Charles Dickens’ hand-edited copy of his beloved 1843 novella A Christmas Carol.…
Hear the Best of Angelo Badalamenti (RIP) from 1986-2017: Features Music from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks & More
The late Angelo Badalamenti composed music for singers like Marianne Faithfull and Nina Simone, for movies…
An Old-Time Radio Yuletide: Hear 20+ Hours of Vintage Christmas Radio Shows (1938-1956)
As Christmas approaches, we reach for our bookshelves and pull down Charles Dickens’ beloved tale of…
Hear 149 Vintage Halloween Radio Shows from the Golden Age of Radio
As Halloween radio broadcasts go, it would be hard to displace in American cultural memory the…
Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Tilda Swinton, Stephen Fry, John Waters & Many Others
“Moby-Dick is the great American novel. But it is also the great unread American novel. Sprawling,…