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The Call of the Wild
When the wild calls, answer. Jack London's classic novel The Call of the Wild gets a digital upgrade with an e-text and audiobook version of the story. Each chapter of the online version is labeled with the Flesch-Kincaid level and...
Learn Out Loud
Learn Out Loud: Free American Classics
Over 150 audio texts from writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many others. The list includes many classics that are taught in middle school or high school.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: William Faulkner Banquet Speech
The Nobel Prize site offers a transcript of the speech William Faulkner gave after accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
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Learn Out Loud
Learn Out Loud: Literary History and Criticism [Free Audios]
More than twenty-five free audio or video files from renowned scholars which provide some in-depth literary criticism as well as the scope of literary history. Many of these are university lectures while others are interviews from...
PBS
Pbs.org: Gwendolyn Brooks Dramatic Reading
Actual audio/video of Brooks reading. Also included are excellent quotes from the author.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: A Streetcar Named Desire
National Public Radio presents a feature on Tennessee Williams' famous play.
Other
Literary Arts: The Archive Project: Tracy K. Smith
A podcast [1:07:17] of Tracy K. Smith, the 2017 U.S. Poet Laureate, reading her poetry and discussing the cultural importance of literature. Published February 16th, 2017.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Emma Walton Hamilton
A former actress, Emma Walton Hamilton worked in theater, film, and television for 10 years before turning her attention to directing, producing, educating and writing. She is one of the founders of Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park, Korean American author of children's fiction, has been an avid reader and writer her entire life. In fact, she began poetry and story writing before kindergarten - at the age of four. Growing up outside of Chicago, one...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Laurence Yep
Laurence Yep grew up in an African-American neighborhood in San Francisco in the 1950s. His father worked long hours in their corner grocery store, often with the help of Laurence and his brother. Laurence bussed to a bilingual Jesuit...
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: The Grapes for Wrath
Resource provides a description and a guide to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project...
Other
Wired for Books: Art Buchwald
Great interview audio of Art Buchwald and Don Swain. Among other things the two discuss politics, NYC and the media. Includes portrait photo.
Other
Wired for Books: Audio Interview With Chaim Potok
Here, listen to a 1985 interview with Chaim Potok. Interview is thirty-three minutes long and requires RealPlayer.
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