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On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a love letter written between novelist and short story writer Franz Kafka, and Felice Bauer.In the world of odd romances, this one rates somewhere in the top 10% I'm sure. Felice and Franz met in Pragu
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at "A Thief and His Master," a fairy tale originally published in 1812 by the Brother's Grimm.This is a strange one, as despite the title, it's less about a thief and more about a magician -- which makes
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a rejection letter written by Peter Bentley of Bentley and Son's Publishing House, to one Herman Melville, on the subject of Moby Dick.This is one of those time where you wish there was an alternate re
Welcome everyone, I'm Steve Spalding and this is Season Two of Steve Reads Stories. Sorry for the long delay, but I needed some time to find new things to read to you, and a bit of energy to put behing other projects.Honestly it's probably for
On today's episode, I introduce you to the secret project I've been talking about for the last few months. It's a serialized fiction collaboration between me and Jessica Kinghorn called, At the Midnight. If you like stories about hotel desk ma
On today's episode, I briefly discuss Season 2 of Steve Reads Stories, and I give you a preview of a full episode of a new project I've been working on, Inside Fictions. Take a listen, I think you'll like it. If you're interested in more Ins
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a letter written in 1956 by C.S. Lewis to a young fan named Joan Lancaster.C.S. Lewis is best known as the person who brought the Chronicles of Narnia, but he also wrote many other fascinating nove
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at Bearskin, a German folk tale brought to us by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen. Bearskin was originally published in 1670, under the title, "The Origin of the Name Bearskin." It's a folk t
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a letter written in 1586 by an unnamed and pregnant widow to her dead husband Eung-Tae Lee. This letter was discovered in 1996 in a tomb in Andong City, South Korea. Eung-Tae Lee, who was a member
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at The Singing Sword, an Eastern European folk tale brought to us from Estonia via Brooklyn. It was written in 1928 by Frances Jenkins Olcott, who was born in Paris and later moved to New York to becom
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a letter written in 1964 from George R.R. Martin to Stan Lee. George was 16 when he wrote this, and despite the generally gloomy tone his more recent works have taken, here you find a young man bur
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at The Raven, another German folk tale from the collection of the Brother's Grimm.The version we are interested in is found in the 1905 edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, and is of type 401, as classifie
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a letter written by Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir.Satre was famous for popularizing existentialism, and de Beauvoir for writing -- The Second Sex -- a book that formed the philosophical un
Tonight, we'll be looking at How The Devil Married Three Sisters, an Italian Folk Tale. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to write an intro for this one, since it's after 2AM and I've spent the last week lugging boxes into my new apartment
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a letter written in 1958 by John Steinbeck to his son Thom.In it, Steinbeck, the author of the seminal book of American literature -- The Grapes of Wrath -- offers advice to his son on falling in l
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at The Riddle, a German folk tale written by none other than the Brother's Grimm. This version orginally appears in the 1857 edition of "Children's and Household Tales -- Grimms' Fairy Tales," which w
Welcome everyone, I'm Steve Spalding and this is another episode of Steve Read's Stories. Tonight, we'll be looking at a letter written in 1998 by Ren and Stimpy creator John K to a 14 year old Amir Avni.Today Amir works as a professional
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at The Witch of Treva, a Cornish folk tale first brought to us by Robert Hunt. This version was published in 1881, in the third edition of, "Popular Romances of the West of England; or, The Drolls, Tr
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a letter written in 1940 from a 12 year old Fidel Castro to president Franklin Roosevelt.All things considered, the fact that this letter even exists is pretty amazing, not because of anything in i
On tonight's podcast, I'll be looking at For Ten Thousand Years, the fourth piece I wrote in January as a part of my Year of Stories project. When I'm recording this, it's somewhere near the end of April, and I've managed to gain a bit of pe
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at Little Red Cap, the most well known variant of Little Red Riding Hood story, brought to us by the brother's Grimm. This version was published in 1857, in the first volume of "Fairy tales collected
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a letter written in 1970 by Elvis Presley to President Richard Nixon.This is a odd little note. In it, Elvis has decided to ask the president to make him a federal agent. Why exactly this seemed li
On tonight's podcast, I'll be looking at Making A Deal, the third piece I wrote in January as a part of my Year of Stories project. Growing up, some of my favorite fiction involved people making deals -- really bad deals -- with devils and
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at The Blue Light, a German folk tale brought to us by the masters of the medium, the brothers Grimm.This version of the story comes from Children's and Household Tales, 7th Edition, published in 1857
On tonight's podcast, we'll be looking at a letter written in 1966 from Marlon Brando to an Airplane Stewardess.What you have to remember is that Brando was about 42 when he wrote this, and still six years away from The Godfather. While he
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