The Junk Drawer

I had to refer to Dawn’s category rubric to know how to categorize this post; I do think the categories will grow more intuitive as we use them.

Anyway, most podcasts available in iTunes actually have a blog associated with them, and one I’ve found that I absolutely love is Escape Pod.  If you don’t have an iPod, and don’t even use iTunes, you can still download and listen to the podcasts via the website; podcasts are just MP3 files.

Escape Pod is an online audio fiction journal that publishes readings of science fiction and fantasy stories.  The Podcast you download will consist of a few minutes of commentary, followed by a complete story.  Whether the authors are professional or amateur, I don’t know; I know little about writers of this genre.  However, the readings are professional quality (no mispronunciations or annoying “ums”), and I find the stories to be generally well-written and the commentary literate and even a little scholarly.  Check it out, and make the most recent story, “L’Alchemista,” your first download.