More procrastination than you can shake a stick at

Housebound with a convalescing child today, I found myself pottering round the (unlinkable to) iTunes podcast directory.  Now what follows may be old news to the rest of the world but I'm just catching up with how many tempting bookish podcasts there are for free download.

I already subscribe to BBC Radio Four's In Our Time and have dabbled with NPR's book programme, and Fresh Air, but since I last looked at the available podcasts several new ones seem to have appeared. (Note if you have iTunes you can find the programmes I've found under Podcasts> Arts> Literature and then click the link for 'see all')

The New Yorker has added a monthly feature of a writer reading another writer's story and discussing it with the magazine's fiction editor (note to Diana - including a Lorrie Moore story here), there are free selections of classic poetry, Emerson's essays, philosophers on philosophy, KCRW's bookworm programme and even one called 'I Should be Writing'.  Excellent.  More procrastination than you can shake a stick at.

Comments

[Diana]

Thanks! I'd heard of this feature but hadn't checked it out yet. The handy link saved me from having to wade through my computer clutter to find it. :)

I just started Self Help today. I might be getting a bit overloaded because I swing wildly from thinking she's overrated to thinking she's perhaps a genius...

[Sam Houston]

I've become a hopeless addict of literary podcasts and can hardly keep up...so much good stuff out there.