The Monotonous Life

Far be it for me to tell people what they should and should not read/listen to. I think literature and music preferences are a bit of a personal choice (says the girl who until she was 18 didn’t admit that she listened to anything besides rap and r&b). But sometimes you come across something that you just want to tell anyone who’ll listen to you about. And that happened this past Sunday. I was behind on my podcasts I only got to listen to last week’s Selected Shorts then. And I don’t think I’m over exaggerating when I say that it changed my life. Okay, maybe I’m going a bit overboard there, but still.

One of the best since I started listening to it last October.

The main piece this week featured J. Robert Lennon’s “Eight Pieces for the Left Hand” which I found out was a part of the 2005 Best American Short Story Series. “Eight Pieces…” got extended into a full length novel called Pieces of the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes. I’m ordering it immediately. All eight pieces that was broadcasts was good and I don’t have any question that the entire book will be just as good.

So give it a listen. Please take note that the first part (the one with “Eight Pieces…”) is a good 25 minutes long. But it’s so worth it. I don’t see a link to listen to it on the page, but any podcast directory should have Selected Shorts in there. You won’t be sorry.