Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles Sumner, Monica Lewinsky, and Anita Loos; the Lincoln highway, joys of gardening, goldfish, skunk raising, and the cultivation of tobacco.

"Earthquakes" was co-authored by Louis Pakiser. (summary by Sue Anderson)
(5 hr 58 min)

Chapters

Bill Clinton's Apology to the Nation Regarding the Lewinsky Affair (1998)	3:50	Read by Glenn O'Brien
Daisy	4:06	Read by Bellona Times
Driving the Lincoln Highway, Chicago to Rochelle, Illinois, in 1915	20:18	Read by Sue Anderson
Earthquakes	33:38	Read by Roger Melin
Five American Contributions to Civilization	56:00	Read by Andrea Dion
Goldfish	7:13	Read by John N. Daily
The Handwriting on the Screen: An Interview with Anita Loos, Everybody's Magazi…	8:14	Read by Bellona Times
An Interview with Anita Loos, Wireless Magazine, 1922	8:00	Read by Bellona Times
No Tax On Books, 1864	8:03	Read by David Wales
On Gardening	14:54	Read by Garth Burton
On a New Kind of Rays	23:21	Read by Availle
Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression	14:35	Read by Rob Marland
The Philosophy of Religion, excerpts	30:07	Read by Craig Campbell
Practical Skunk Raising	21:32	Read by Roger Melin
The Questioning Mania	4:25	Read by Craig Campbell
A Swimmer's Status - Beaurepaire Ruled Not an Amateur	1:37	Read by Glenn O'Brien
A Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant	59:44	Read by Roger Melin
A Way of Life	39:22	Read by Luke Sartor

Reviews

(4 stars)

Andy Mak

Fun to listen even though some readers were incomprehensible.

the tabacco story is very interesting, plus others