Monthly Archives: June 2015

Read to Me

Read to Me was a program broadcast on radio station CJBC in Toronto, circa 1960. The host was Alan Small, and I can only hope I’ve heard and spelled his name right because I’ve never seen it in print. I’m … Continue reading

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Kafka, Eliot, more Poe

Some new additions today: Franz Kafka: “Report for an Academy,” “The Hunger Artist” T. S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Hollow Men,” “Gerontion” Edgar Allan Poe: “The Masque of the Red Death”

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The Primordial Raven

In 1972, I recorded Poe’s “The Raven” as an exercise for a graduate seminar led by Prof. John Fraser, who was then teaching in the Department of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax. I remember parts of the next meeting of … Continue reading

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Gatsby Fix-up

I recorded Gatsby 18 months ago, with a microphone not nearly as well suited to the job as the one I use now, and less recording experience than I have now. The voice signal is too weak and there’s too much bass in … Continue reading

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Site Mission

The purpose of this site is to showcase audiobook recordings by me for public consumption in an informal setting. Recordings that make the cut will eventually be moved to the Suborion online store as either free or premium offerings. At … Continue reading

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Site Launch

The Audiobooks site went live sometime during the night of June 10-11. Still “discouraging” the search engines pending the need for fixes and refinements that will pop up during the first weeks of regular use, so I’m not expecting traffic at this point. … Continue reading

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