SUMMER STORIES *Special Guest*: Draxtor Despres with Selections from "Infinite Jest"

 

@ NOON: Draxtor Despres presents Selections from David Foster Wallace's  "Infinite Jest" (1996)

A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.

Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.

Infinite Jest has an unconventional narrative structure and includes hundreds of extensive endnotes, some with footnotes of their own, and is categorized as an encyclopedic novel. Wallace’s novel is featured in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.

A literary fiction bestseller after having sold 44,000 hardcover copies in its first year of publication, the novel has since sold more than a million copies worldwide

Guest and friend of the Library, Draxtor Despres, live in Voice.

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Thursday August 21st at 7:00pm: SHILLELAGH LAW pt2

 The cold seeped in through his skin

Shillelagh Law

When last we saw Tam Kirkpatrick, the shadows of Cambridge revealed themselves as more than shadows: trolls stalked him, a torc bound him, and the Morrígan’s name fell heavy in the dark. Saved by Áine—dancer turned warrior—and sheltered by his strange Uncle Bogs, Tam learned his blood is not only human, but Faery, marked as Unseelie and heir to a lost shillelagh. Now, with truth uncovered and enemies unrelenting, his story presses forward into peril.

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*Thematic Elements for tonight's story may include:

supernatural, celtic mythology, violence

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Thursday August 14th at 7:00pm: SHILLELAGH LAW pt1

The cold seeped in through his skin

Shillelagh Law

Tam Kirkpatrick, an ordinary Irish folklore student, is about to discover he's anything but ordinary. When dark Faery forces set their sights on his family's magical shillelagh - the source of his hidden Leprechaun power - Tam is thrust into a world where legend is real and danger lurks at every turn. Can he embrace his destiny, reclaim his heritage, and outrun the creatures of the night before it's too late? Oh, and save the girl??

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We ourselves do not provide or post text for non-Public Domain stories or books, on this blog, on our websites, YouTube channels, or other repository, except when given explicit permission from the rights holder. Read-a-Long links on this page are publicly available on the internet. Typically this information be found by a simple Google search for the title of the story. This text is in no way hosted by Storylink Radio or Seanchai Library. Please note that your storyteller may adapt the story for the intended audience, time allotted, dramatic purposes, etc. Efforts are made to remove or adapt instances of foul language from these stories before presenting. However, you may encounter such language as well as potentially disturbing thematic elements in the original text of the story if you choose to follow along with the read-a-long links. Any thematic elements in tonight's telling that we believe some audience members may find concerning are noted above under "Thematic Elements". It is our hope that audience members will find such elements to be neither extreme nor gratuitous, but rather enhancing to the story overall. We do understand that people's views and values may vary, and so while it is not our intent to provide an exhaustive nor industry compliant list of Thematic Elements of this story, we are attempting to provide a guide that we hope you may find useful if you have such concerns.

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SUMMER STORIES Continues Tonight, PLUS Russell Eponym in The Glen

 

@ NOON: Russell Eponym, Live in The Glen!

@7pm: THE FIRST STATE OF BEING Continues

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed forever.

It's August 1999. For twelve-year-old Michael Rosario, life at Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, Delaware, is as ordinary as ever—except for the looming Y2K crisis and his overwhelming crush on his fifteen-year-old babysitter, Gibby. But when a disoriented teenage boy named Ridge appears out of nowhere, Michael discovers there is more to life than stockpiling supplies and pining over Gibby.

Caledonia Skytower presents Erin Entrada Kelly's 2025 Newbery Medal-Winner, live on Stream.

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SUMMER STORIES - Monday, August 11th @ 7pm: Stories with Fayleen featuring Mark Twain

 

Summer Stories continue tonight Monday, August 11th at 7pm with more Stories with Fayleen as she explores the short works by American Author, Mark Twain.

Tonight: a potpourri of short adventures to delight & amuse including: "The Story of The Bad Little Boy" followed by the "The Story of the Good Little Boy."

Presented live in Voice.

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SUMMER STORIES Continue Tonight @7pm with "The First State of Being"

 

@ NOON: Russell Eponym, Live in The Glen!

@7pm: THE FIRST STATE OF BEING Begins

When twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed forever.

It's August 1999. For twelve-year-old Michael Rosario, life at Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, Delaware, is as ordinary as ever—except for the looming Y2K crisis and his overwhelming crush on his fifteen-year-old babysitter, Gibby. But when a disoriented teenage boy named Ridge appears out of nowhere, Michael discovers there is more to life than stockpiling supplies and pining over Gibby.

Caledonia Skytower presents Erin Entrada Kelly's 2025 Newbery Medal-Winner, live on Stream.

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SUMMER STORIES Begin Tonight, August 4 @ 7pm, with Fayleen

 

Summer Stories begin Monday, August 4th at 7pm as Fayleen Bellois begins a series of short tales by American author, critic, and journalist, Mark Twain.

TONIGHT: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” written in 1865, was Twain’s first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its original title) and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road."

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