Ray Bradbury Trio: Week 3

Author’s note: For now I am reading poems from John Keats. The short stories and collection of poems I acquired from the public domain.

Essays I collect from a wide range of sources: aeon.com, nautil.us, cleavermagazine.com, and many solo writers like Aldous Huxley and David Foster Wallace. I read anything that piques my interest.

Also a word about the essays, some of these behemoths are super long. While I will do my best to finish them in their entirety in a single day, I can and will read them over the course of several days if I have to.

Sunday

• Story: The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor – Arthur Conan Doyle
• Poem: Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
• Essay: Audiobooks don’t really count as reading Think again

Monday

• Story: In the Graveyard – Anton Chekhov
• Poem: To Kosciusko
• Essay: Common Sense by Thomas Paine – Public Domain

Tuesday

• Story: The Music of Erich Zann – H.P. Lovecraft
• Poem: On the Grasshopper and Cricket
• Essay: Cyborgs and Space

Wednesday

• Story: Oysters – Anton Chekhov
• Poem: Hymn to Apollo
• Essay: Curtis Brown agent claims some editors ‘uploading confidential manuscripts to ChatGPT to read quickly’
  • First thoughts just from the title: I am appalled.
  • Also note I am freely subscribed to thebookseller and this was one of my free articles

Thursday

• Story: The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet – Arthur Conan Doyle
• Poem: Sleep and Poetry
• Essay: Muscles Have Their Own Kind of ‘Memory’ – Here’s How It Works

Friday

• Story: The Swedish Match I – Anton Chekhov
• Poem: I stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill
• Essay: Aldous Huxley The Desert

Saturday

• Story: A Country Doctor – Franz Kafka
• Poem: Sonnet After Dark Vapours
• Essay: Up, Simba