THE ELEVATOR DOWN

THE GHOST OF MEMORY

A reading of the short story A Wood Sprite by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1921.   Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2541037/support]

The First Battle For Disability Rights

Mitch gives an update on what he has been up to, which includes narrating his first audiobook called An Independent Man: Ed Roberts & The Fight For Disability Rights by Scot Dan Forth.  Included in the podcast is the first chapter of the book that tells the incredible first battle for disability rights at U.C. Berkeley in the late 1960s. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2541037/support]

Love (A Short Story) By William Maxwell

Mitch reads and chats about William Maxwell's short story Love published in 1983 and found in A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker 1925-2025. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2541037/support]

ERIC SWALWELL, CESAR CHAVEZ & ME

The growing pains of a changing society and the reading of a short story by Kate Chopin called The Story of an Hour, published in 1894. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2541037/support]

The Mystic & The Monk: The Art of Letting Things Alone

Thomas Merton, Zhuangzi, and Why I Left Broadcast Journalism Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2541037/support]