Vince is tempted to join the young star Cobbler in London without his wife Harriet, so he seeks advice from his friend the seer Celeste. Who’s desperately trying to find ways to save her clients from new waves of despair. She tries to list reasons for gratitude , and they both end up practicing stichomancy with a text from before the birth of Christ .
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Vince is tempted to join the young star Cobbler in London without his wife Harriet, so he seeks advice from his friend the seer Celeste. Who’s desperately trying to find ways to save her clients from new waves of despair. She tries to list reasons for gratitude , and they both end up practicing stichomancy with a text from before the birth of Christ . Theme by Laurie Anderson Graphic design by Betsy Sarles. Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Vince is tempted to join the young star Cobbler in London without his wife Harriet, so he seeks advice from his friend the seer Celeste. Who’s desperately trying to find ways to save her clients from new waves of despair. She tries to list reasons for gratitude , and they both end up practicing stichomancy with a text from before the birth of Christ .
Theme by Laurie Anderson
Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.
Produced by Matty Rosenberg &amp; Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

The Nature of The Universe

‘Serial Tales’ are set in Littleburg, the Hudson Valley hamlet that time forgot, until time remembered it.
In Littleburg, the veil is so thin that the other world is in your face, and half the population are shamans. The psychic old guard must incorporate the post-Covid newbies , which leads to some powerful collective hallucinations, including, perhaps, the Second Coming. As a result , local hotel owner Vince and millionaire pop star renter Cobbler Martin think they have been given the mission to fight the darkness with light. Magical realism full of twists, laughs, and gut-punches told with a velvet voice, these stories owe a debt to Philip Pullman, MR James,  Saki, John Wyndham, and  ‘Lady Asquith’s Third Ghost Book’ These spoken serials began in September 2021 on Radio Free Rhinecliff with ‘The Companion Fog’ , an 8-chapter novella about a cloud you have custom-made to protect you from bad news. Season 1 of Littleburg is available at radiofreerhinecliff.org/joan-juliet-buckrsquos-serial-tales.html .


Laurie Anderson’s disquieting theme music sets the tone. 

Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ Radio Free Rhinecliff

© 2022 Joan Juliet Buck

Fiction

‘Serial Tales’ are set in Littleburg, the Hudson Valley hamlet that time forgot, until time remembered it. In Littleburg, the veil is so thin that the other world is in your face, and half the population are shamans. The psychic old guard must incorporate the post-Covid newbies , which leads to some powerful collective hallucinations, including, perhaps, the Second Coming. As a result , local hotel owner Vince and millionaire pop star renter Cobbler Martin think they have been given the mission to fight the darkness with light. Magical realism full of twists, laughs, and gut-punches told with a velvet voice, these stories owe a debt to Philip Pullman, MR James, Saki, John Wyndham, and ‘Lady Asquith’s Third Ghost Book’ These spoken serials began in September 2021 on Radio Free Rhinecliff with ‘The Companion Fog’ , an 8-chapter novella about a cloud you have custom-made to protect you from bad news. Season 1 of Littleburg is available at radiofreerhinecliff.org/joan-juliet-buckrsquos-serial-tales.html . Laurie Anderson’s disquieting theme music sets the tone. Graphic design by Betsy Sarles. Produced by Matty Rosenberg & Joan Juliet Buck @ Radio Free Rhinecliff © 2022 Joan Juliet Buck

‘Serial Tales’ are set in Littleburg, the Hudson Valley hamlet that time forgot, until time remembered it.
In Littleburg, the veil is so thin that the other world is in your face, and half the population are shamans. The psychic old guard must incorporate the post-Covid newbies , which leads to some powerful collective hallucinations, including, perhaps, the Second Coming. As a result , local hotel owner Vince and millionaire pop star renter Cobbler Martin think they have been given the mission to fight the darkness with light. Magical realism full of twists, laughs, and gut-punches told with a velvet voice, these stories owe a debt to Philip Pullman, MR James,  Saki, John Wyndham, and  ‘Lady Asquith’s Third Ghost Book’ These spoken serials began in September 2021 on Radio Free Rhinecliff with ‘The Companion Fog’ , an 8-chapter novella about a cloud you have custom-made to protect you from bad news. Season 1 of Littleburg is available at radiofreerhinecliff.org/joan-juliet-buckrsquos-serial-tales.html .


Laurie Anderson’s disquieting theme music sets the tone. 

Graphic design by Betsy Sarles.

Produced by Matty Rosenberg &amp; Joan Juliet Buck @ Radio Free Rhinecliff

© 2022 Joan Juliet Buck

Share The Nature of The Universe

Sign up to save your podcasts

The Nature of The Universe

The Nature of The Universe

More shows like Serial Tales - Joan Juliet Buck's Littleburg Tales

The Back Room with Andy Ostroy

The Rhinebeck Scoop

Correct me if I'm Norm

GynoCurious

Drinking on the Edge

The Week That Was

Class from the Past

Talk to Allison

Pilgrim's Progress

The Campaign Companion

STEAM with Kitty Pilgrim

Lazy & Entitled

Joan of Art

Objects of New York

The Pod Catch

Big & Salty

Poe's Basement

The Catch Up

Likeable