Just Listen Podcast

Just Listen Podcast

Paul Smethers

Episodes 85
Avg. Duration -
Activity Sporadic
Since Aug 2018
Latest Episode Mar 2025

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Monthly
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Episodic
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library.nashville.gov

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About This Podcast

Welcome to Just Listen, a celebration of American and English short stories and poetry for your listening pleasure. High school students will happily find many of their literature book selections recorded here, and students with reading challenges will find a ready assist in the audio recordings.

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Recent Episodes

"A Lodging for the Night"

Mar 24, 2025

Robert Louis Stevenson, famed author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, continues to provoke both hatred and idolatry, and there are now well over a hundred…

"The Lady or the Tiger?" and "The Discourager of Hesitancy"

Jan 27, 2025

“The Lady or the Tiger?” is one of the most anthologized short stories for adolescents and teens, often appearing in literature collections and possessing a unique place in the short story genre: it…

"The Revolt of 'Mother'"

Dec 02, 2024

Today’s author, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, sought to demonstrate her values as a feminist.

Christmas Poems

Nov 25, 2024

Today’s selections, a group of twenty-five Christmas poems, come from some of the greatest poetic voices of the English language.

"That Will Be Fine"

Jul 22, 2024

We return today to the fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi, made somewhat famous by William Faulkner as the locus for many of his short stories.

"The Sequel to a Divorce"

May 10, 2024

Today we examine another one of the three hundred short stories written by the French author Guy de Maupassant, who is featured here on Just Listen several times already but a great favorite of this…

"Little Selves"

Mar 25, 2024

Today’s author, Mary Lerner, had her 1916 story “Little Selves” published in the September issue of Atlantic Monthly.

"Mademoiselle Fifi"

Oct 30, 2023

"Mademoiselle Fifi" is a short story by Guy de Maupassant.

"The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes"

Sep 25, 2023

One of the things I most enjoy about presenting stories here is the great fun I find in discovering the personal lives of authors. Not only do our authors present us with brilliant literature, but…

"The Ledge"

Aug 28, 2023

Today’s story, “The Ledge” by Lawrence Sargent Hall, won first place in the 1960 O Henry Prize Collection, and has appeared in more than 30 anthologies.

"The Farmer's Children"

Jul 24, 2023

Today’s story, “The Farmer’s Children” by Elizabeth Bishop, an American poetry and short story writer, seems a showcase for the evil stepmother archetype.

"Desiree's Baby"

Jun 26, 2023

Among the stories in the collection Bayou Folk by Kate Chopin is today's story, "Désirée's Baby," a tale of miscegenation in antebellum Louisiana, first published in 1893.

"A Village Singer"

May 22, 2023

Through her different genres of work including children's stories, poems, and short stories, Mary Wilkins Freeman sought to demonstrate her values as a feminist.

"Two Friends"

Apr 24, 2023

Turning once again to one of America’s greatest fiction voices, we present today a story that displays Willa Cather’s keen observation and understanding of men, particularly when they are placed in a…

"The White Silence"

Mar 27, 2023

We are happy today to bring you our third Jack London story here.

"The Last of How It Was"

Feb 27, 2023

Thomas Reid Pearson, aka T.R. Pearson, is fun, fun, fun to read. If you haven’t yet encountered this very imaginative author, you’re in for a treat today.

"Roman Fever"

Jan 23, 2023

Today's story, by one of our foremost story contributors, Edith Wharton, has been the subject of scores of critical analyses and touches on numerous themes such as motherhood, aging, the accuracy of…

"Rip Van Winkle"

Dec 26, 2022

Almost anyone could tell you the story of Rip Van Winkle in a sentence or three. Today we get to enjoy the tale in its entirety as presented by one of our favorite authors, Washington Irving.

"The Yellow Wallpaper"

Oct 17, 2022

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, lived from July 3, 1860 to August 17, 1935, and witnessed everything from the American Civil War to the…

"A Pair of Silk Stockings"

Oct 16, 2022

The characters in Kate Chopin’s stories are usually residents of Louisiana, and many are Creoles of various ethnic or racial backgrounds. Many of her works are set in Natchitoches in north-central…

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Just Listen Podcast has published 85 episodes since August 2018, covering topics in Books, Fiction.

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