O Henry's Christmas Gift

"O. Henry's Christmas Gift" - A reading in the style of radio drama with Diana Heinlein and David Houston. Featured are "The Cop and the Anthem" and "The Gift of the Magi", stories by O. Henry, the late 19th / early 20th century short story writer. O. Henry was one of America's greatest story tellers. His final collection was published in the year of his death, 1910. 

Recorded at Southampton's Rogers Memorial Library. Thanks to Yvette Postelle and Penny Wright of the library.

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David Houston's dramatic readings performed at schools and libraries, unfortunately, have been discontinued.  

 

His web site: www.davidhouston.net/

Francesca Rheannon reads The Food Philosophe

Twenty years ago, WPKN's Francesca Rheannon spent several months living in southern France. Soon after her arrival, in the Fall of 2001, she became good friends with a couple living in the old Roman town of Apt.

On December 21, Marie Jo and Michel threw a dinner party to celebrate the Winter Solstice. The food was divine, the wine likewise, and the company convivial — and Francesca ended up learning a profound lesson about the French Art of Living. Francesca wrote up her experience in the story, “The Food Philosophe,” part of a longer memoir of her sojourn in Provence, titled Province of the Heart. 

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Shelter Island Poetry

 

Tonight we present three east end poets - George Held, Pauline Yeats and Virginia Walker - reading at the Shelter Island Library in June 2021 at the library’s annual Richard Varney poetry session.

Poetry lover Richard Varney grew up in Garden City and spent summers on Shelter Island.

He graduated from Harvard and worked in government and the corporate world. 

Varney took over the poetry roundtable at the Shelter Island Library in 2016.

After Varney died of cancer in 2018 his friends set up a poetry collection in his name at the library.

Tonight’s poetry session was organized by Shelter Island poet Virginia Walker.

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The compete poetry session recording is here

Diane Glancy & Spencer Reece

Long time friends Diane Glancy and Spencer Reece recorded by Canios Cultural Café in December 2020.

Diane Glancy is professor of English at Macalester College in Minneapolis Minesota.

Her Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears was published in 1998 by Mariner Books.

Her sequel, Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears tells the story of the Cherokees resettlement in the hard years following Removal.  It was published in  2009 by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Spencer Reece was born in 1963 in Hartford, Connecticut. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker and in many literary journals

His collection The Clerk’s Tale was published in 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A complete recording of the Zoom session is here