Oct 28, 202659 minS4
In Episode 51, Newland Archer seeks ways of imbuing his marriage to May with Ellen Olenska's vitality; as a junior partner of a legal firm, he is consulted regarding the prudence of Ellen's suing for divorce from the...
About this Podcast:
Host Andrew Osborn reads aloud from novels, stories, essays, and poems in the public domain—works of literary accomplishment published before 1930. Most episodes include parts of at least one long work read serially over a number of weeks; recent examples include Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse , Henry David Thoreau's The Maine Woods , and Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor . A professor of literature and poetry-journal editor, Osborn sometimes offers interpretive commentary on what he voices, but the focus is always on sharing the language of great writers. Welcome!
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What is The Reading Hour about?
Host Andrew Osborn reads aloud from novels, stories, essays, and poems in the public domain, works of literary accomplishment published before 1930. Most episodes include parts of at least one long work read serially over a number of weeks; recent examples include Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Henry David Thoreau's The Maine Woods, and Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor.
What has The Reading Hour covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book 1, chs. 10&11; U.S. Constitution, Article I" (28 October 2026, 59 minutes), "Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book 1, chs. 7-9" (21 October 2026, 57 minutes), and "Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, Book 1, chs. 4-6" (14 October 2026, 57 minutes).
How often does The Reading Hour publish?
The Reading Hour publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 59 minutes.
How hard is it to get booked on The Reading Hour?
Booking probability for The Reading Hour is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Reading Hour requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Reading Hour's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for The Reading Hour are Artists, Writers & Performers. The Reading Hour has an arts audience.
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Oct 21, 202657 minS4Episode 50 introduces us to the reserved Louisa and Henry van der Luyden, at the tip of the New York elite's "slippery" social pyramid, as they seek to rectify a slight against another high-stationed family. Meanwhile...
Oct 14, 202657 minS4Episode 49 relates the first of Newland Archer and May Welland's betrothal visits to the house of Mrs. Manson Mingott, Mr. Sillerton Jackson's dinner with the Archers, and the rarefied life of the New York elite "in a...
Oct 7, 202658 minS4In episode 48, The Reading Hour begins its fourth season with the opening three chapters of The Age of Innocence (1920), in which Edith Wharton introduces us to the milieu of New York City's Gilded-Age elite including...
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Sep 30, 20261h 1mS3Episode 47 concludes our reading of My Ántonia with the remaining two and a half chapters of Book V, "Cusak's Boys," in which Jim Burden recalls his lifelong Bohemian friend's generous, generative firing of "images in...
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Sep 23, 202658 minS3Episode 46 includes all of Book VI, "The Pioneer Woman's Story," in which the elderly Widow Steavens relates the tale of Ántonia Shimerda's betrothal and motherhood. Jim Burden then jumps forward to relate, in Book V...
Sep 16, 20261h 7mS3Episode 45 presents the whole of My Ántonia 's short third book, entitled "Lena Lingard," in which narrator Jim Burden relates highlights of his first year as a student of Classics in Lincoln. (I offer my insights...
Sep 9, 202659 minS3Episode 44 concludes the second book of Willa Cather's My Ántonia , "The Hired Girls," with chs. 12 through 15, in which Jim Burden delivers his Commencement address, enjoys a restful day on the river among the...
Sep 2, 202658 minS3Episode 43 begins with a warning about ch. 7 of Book II, in which the fictive narrator Jim Burden describes a "negro" entertainer in language that listeners may find prejudicially pejorative. (Those who wish to skip the...
Aug 26, 20261h 1mS3Episode 42 introduces the second of My Ántonia 's five books, which begins a couple of years after Book I left off. First Jim then Ántonia move to Black Hawk and adjust to life in town.
Aug 19, 20261 hourS3Episode 41 concludes the first of My Ántonia 's five books with Jim's account of his and the Shimerdas' first year in Nebraska. Even as spring and summer return, a chill settles over the former friendship between those...
Aug 12, 20261h 1mS3Episode 40 continues with five chapters from Book 1 of My Ántonia in which Jim Burden describes his first Christmas in Nebraska, a blizzard, and a death in the Shimerda family. The hour ends with two poems by the...
Aug 5, 20261h 1mS3Episode 39 offers our second reading from Cather's 1918 novel, My Ántonia , in which Jim and "Tony" visit Russian Peter and Pavel, encounter an enormous rattlesnake, hear a harrowing tale of wolves at a winter wedding...
Jul 29, 20261 hourS3Episode 38, the first of The Reading Hour's third season, begins the American novelist Willa Cather's fourth book of plainspoken narrative fiction, My Ántonia (1918), which seeks to depict the spark and tenacity of a...
Jul 15, 202658 minS2In Episode 36, Thoreau loses track of his companion as night sets along the Webster Brook, a cow-moose is shot and skinned, and the party heads south and east on the Grand Lake Matagamon to the East Branch of the...
Jul 8, 202658 minS2Episode 35 is only the second of season 2's episodes not to include a reading from Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor , which concluded in Episode 34; the full hour is devoted to "The Allegash and East Branch," in...
Jul 1, 202659 minS2Because we conclude A Country Doctor therein, Episode 34 begins with Jewett then rounds out the hour with additional pages from the third essay of The Maine Woods , in which Thoreau enters Apmoojenegamook (the largest...
Jun 24, 202657 minS2Episode 33 continues with Thoreau and his companion striving to navigate the carry to Mud Pond on foot then catalogues the molesting insects encountered before concluding the day with observations about the loon; the...
Jun 17, 202658 minS2In Episode 32, Thoreau paddles through narrow waterways and seeks to carry his sixty-pound sack to Mud Pond by a path more swamp-like than muddy; we then conclude the 19th "Friends and Lovers" chapter of Jewett's A...
Jun 10, 20261h 1mS2Episode 31 continues with Thoreau's third adventure in the Maine woods, during which he interests himself in his Indian guide's sensibilities regarding how to conduct oneself on a Sunday; the episode concludes with the...
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