The Stolen Pennies & How Some Children Played At Slaughtering

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Franz Kafka’s parable Before The Law was first published as a short story in 1915 and the republished in his novel The Trial that was published after his death. 

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A story about a funeral, a cafe, and America.  

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St. Augustine & The Pear Tree

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A meditation on how one seemingly unrelated thing leads to another.

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A reading of the short story A Wood Sprite by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1921.  

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Mitch gives an update on what he has been up to, which includes narrating his first audiobook called An Independent Man: Ed Roberts & The Fight For Disability Rights by Scot Dan Forth.  Included in the podcast is the first chapter of the book that tells the incredible first battle for disability rights at U.C. Berkeley in the late 1960s.

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Mitch reads and chats about William Maxwell's short story Love published in 1983 and found in A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker 1925-2025.

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The growing pains of a changing society and the reading of a short story by Kate Chopin called The Story of an Hour, published in 1894.

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Thomas Merton, Zhuangzi, and Why I Left Broadcast Journalism

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