The Weekly Reading

The Weekly Reading

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The Weekly Reading episodes

  • S201 The End of the World
    In this episode, perhaps the only of Season 2, Joe ponders viruses, snow, aging, and the end of the world. Transcript: This morning, Friday, March 13, snow has come to Portland. This is how the world ends. Or begins. I’m not sure. This recording is not, really, a Weekly Reading. I’ve debated how to continue… Continue reading S201 The End of the World
    5 min
  • Loss (memoir): Ep46
    “It is a Sunday night, and I, with my cat, am in my mother’s basement: a forty-seven-year-old man, who earlier that day delivered a sermon on Ecclesiastes to a congregation of Lutherans, surrounded by that tan masonite paneling, corresponding with a woman in Oregon on an online dating app, and thinking he ought to exercise,… Continue reading Loss (memoir): Ep46
    10 min
  • Wallace’s Takeover (story): Ep45
    “It was after the third attempt, the one with the pills, that Wallace really understood the business of suicide.” Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
    6 min
  • How Eleanor Whitney Lost Her Limp (story): Ep44
    “When Eleanor Whitney was young, the nipple on her left knee was a simple oddity. And like many genetic oddities (birthmarks, cleft chins, red hair), Eleanor’s was easy to ignore: it had always been there.” Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
    19 min
  • Certainty (theology): Ep43
    “I don’t think I’m going through a midlife crisis, that barrage of decisions and doubts that hit (according to movies and TV) men turning 40.” Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
    15 min
  • Pre-K Graduation (poem): Ep42
    “They stand on stage like individually / wrapped, Halloween Kit-Kats and Hershey’s bars, / fun-size adults in rayon packaging.” Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
    6 min
  • Homecoming (poem): Ep38
    Soldiers return to America and face home in this poem and companion flash fiction. Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
    5 min

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Featuring stories, poems, essays, scraps of theology, and other items published and unpublished by Joseph JP Johnson.