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Conan Doyle's 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles as a book of nature writing; the 1939 film of the same name as a horror picture; Carleton Hobbs, an excellent Holmes on BBC radio; surprises in "The Five Orange Pips"; plus baseball catchers and the Stanley Cup Finals
Talking with author and professor Bruce Pratt about If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope
F. Scott Fitzgeralds' The Great Gatsby, "Winter Dreams," "The Rich Boy," "The Sensible Thing," "How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year"
Talking about four more stories from If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope: "A Deuce Cross," "Red Sweatpants," "The Effect of Gravity Upon the Tub," and "Junction Regale"
Discussion of poems by Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Wallace Stevens, and Ralph Waldo Emerson
A piece on favorite John Lennon vocals and insight into the newly completed book, Just Like Them: A Piece by Piece Guide to Becoming the Ultimate Thinking Person's Beatles Fan
The Bruins' first round playoff series; the hockey player tasked with carrying the largest load for his team in NHL history; Dexter Gordon/Round Midnight cover story in JazzTimes; how Fleming writes what he writes; a Captain Waverly Underhill bridge-based episode of The Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater; the 1982 Boston Red Sox
The Ring-a-Ding Girl episode of The Twilight Zone, Mickey Mantle's "alleged" 565-foot home run and giving up the ghost of reason and science, an adaptation of M.R. James's "The Tractate Middoth" from an early 1950s TV episode of Lights Out, Pink Floyd live in Stockholm in 1967, and the virtues of lemon water
New short fiction, "Bobby Orr,"; a Led Zeppelin soundboard tape with "When the Levee Breaks" from 1975; the Who with a story-song at the Fillmore East in 1968; Orson Welles and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness; an unaired Boris Karloff series from the late 1950s
Webinar event: In conversation about the 33 1/3 book, Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
Stories five through eight in If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope
The music criticism of George Bernard Shaw, a radio adapation of W.W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw," early baseball slugger Gavvy Cravath, the hardest hockey team ever to beat in a seven game series, Red Sox pitcher Garrett Whitlock, the first take of the Smiths' "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"
JazzTimes feature on Jelly Roll Morton, Prince covers Radiohead, the 1983 Canadian horror film, Siege, George Bernard Shaw does a puppet play
The first four stories in If You [ ]: Fabula, Fantasy, F**kery, Hope
A new short story called "Desilva," behind the scenes of a Beatles recording session for Rubber Soul, Jamie T's "Alicia Quays," Jimmie Foxx tries to become a pitcher
Johnny Most on the call for his first Larry Bird game, Bob Dylan's Supper Club shows from 1993, the Quiet, Please episode, "The Pathetic Fallacy," the X Minus One episode, "The Last Martian," the nineteenth century baseball player, Chicken Wolf
The 1939 Disney cartoon, The Hockey Champ, old time baseball player, Ice Box Chamberlain, Carl Yastrzemski's 1968 season, the Escape radio episode of "Border Town," an episode of the Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater called "The Caller on Line One"
A radio episode of Conan Doyle's "The Ring of Thoth" from Escape, an early version of the Who's "Baby Don't You Do It," an acoustic Grateful Dead gig from April 1970, the first episode of The Honeymooners, the first episode of The Likely Lads, problems with baseball
A piece in The Smart Set on the Beatles' two best love songs, 1964's The Horror of Party Beach, Godard's All the Boys Are Called Patrick, Beethoven and Irish folk songs, numbers, Tolstoy
Scroll down to episodes #94 and #95 for a conversation and a follow-up conversation about the 33 1/3 book, Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
The Vaccines' "Headphones Baby," the 1939 film, Son of Frankenstein, the retirement of the Bruins' Tuukka Rask, "The McClain Matter" episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, a radio adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space"
Jean Vigo's 1933 film Zero for Conduct, the 1979 animated film The Lion, the Witch and the Wardbrobe, what ails the Star Wars franchise, the Kansas City 7's 1939 recording of "Lester Leaps In," and the Grateful Dead's longest version of "Dark Star"
Orson Welles as Falstaff on The Dean Martin Show, a Rolling Stones outtake of a Muddy Waters numbers from 1968, a crucial Green Day gig from 1992, pride, and discrimination
Pink Floyd's "Atom Heart Mother," versions of "Some Other Guy" by the Beatles and Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Judy Garland on Suspense, Poe's "Hop-Frog," the 1956 Topps baseball set
Avant-garde art discussion about works from Man Ray, Franz Kafka, Joseph Cornell, E.T. Hulme, and John Coltrane
