A War of Gifts: · An Ender Story Part 2

Sunday December, 14 2008

Orson Scott Card's Kids In Space saga with a holiday twist: religion and religious celebrations are not allowed in Battle School. But when Santa Clause gets banned, it proves too much for the soldiers-in-training to bear. Hilarity ensues. Plus some ugliness. More ugliness than hilarity, actually.

A War of Gifts: · An Ender Story Part 3 [conclusion]

Sunday December, 28 2008

The low-level rebellion has escalated and it's no longer harmless; the ugliness runs deeper than the rules can touch. As emotions and reprisals spin out of control, a seven-year-old named Ender Wiggin makes a command decision and pays the price for it.

Then We Came To The End · ...for real this time

Sunday January, 11 2009

Third--and FINAL--installment of excerpts from the oddly first-person-plural tragicomedy novel by Joshua Ferris, called "perceptive and darkly entertaining" by the New York Times. Archived versions of the first 2 installments are available on the "word in edgewise" page at kvmr.org for those who need to play catch-up, or just a refresher for those already in the know.

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

Sunday January, 25 2008

Quite possibly the weirdest thing ever read on this show; not to be missed. A few choice excerpts from this "novel" will induce uncontrolled laughter among the smarter oddballs who tune in. Jay McInerney calls author Mark Leyner "a twisted wizard, a genre-busting virtuoso, working at the outer edge of narrative convention." He's absolutely right.

A War of Gifts: · An Ender Story Part 1

Sunday November, 30 2008

Sinterklass ain't comin to town, boys. Fans of Ender's Game and Orson Scott Card rejoice: Part One of the 3- part novella A War of Gifts: An Ender Story begins, featuring the precocious pre-teen warriors-in-training of the International Fleet's orbiting Battle School, where cultures collide at Christmastime.

Ender's Game · Your Prelude

Sunday November, 16 2008

Earth is under attack and six-year-old Ender Wiggin may be our last, best hope. Join T. E. Wolfe and guests this Sunday at 8pm on a special edition of "A Word In Edgewise" for a quick delve into Orson Scott Card's future world of militarized children thru excerpts from his novel "Ender's Game" - a prelude to the three-part novella that will take us thru the end of 2008.

Then We Came To The End · Batch deux

Sunday November, 2 2008

Could a Ralph Waldo Emerson or Walt Whitman survive the mind-numbing soul-crushing world of corporate advertising? Join t. e. wolfe this Sunday at 8pm on "A Word In Edgewise" for the second batch of excerpts from Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris, the debut novel Kirkus Reviews called "both a wickedly incisive satire of office groupthink and a surprisingly moving meditation on mortality and the ties that bind."

That Feeling, You Can Only Say ...
What It Is in French...

Sunday October, 19 2008

That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French... you know the one? Like I've been here before, like slipping into a dream within a dream... don't you hate that? They say "hell is other people", but what if there aren't any? T.E. Wolfe October 19th installment of "A Word In Edgewise" settles these maddening questions and cryptic allusions. Let's put the "hell" back in "helloween" together, people.

Not recommended for children or the easily weirded-out. That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French is authored by Master Stephen King and Other People (from the Oct/Nov 2001 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) courtesy of Neil Gaiman.

The Emissary and The Price

Sunday October, 5, 2008

Cat and dog lovers take note--man's best friends have arrived from the October Country of the Soul to right the wrongs and unearth the unearthly in two eerie and beautiful stories: The Emissary by Ray Bradbury and The Price by Neil Gaiman. For older kids and adults.

Then We Came To The End

Sunday September, 21, 2008

"We were fractious and overpaid; our mornings lacked promise..." Sadly hilarious (and vice-versa) tales of working-day weirdness in a similar vein as TV's "The Office," in the late-nineties era of downsizing. These excerpts from the novel Then We Came To The End by Joshua Ferris will remind you why you left the corporate world... or why you should.

Twain and Vonnegut
... absurdity is not always funny

Sunday September, 7 2008

In a pre-emptive observation of 9-11, T. E. Wolfe will be reading two cautionary tales - "The War Prayer" and "The Children's Crusade" - by two of America's finest humorists - Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut - in a gentle reminder that absurdity is not always funny. Tune in this Sunday, September 7, at 8pm for your next dose of hard medicine on "A Word In Edgewise"

George Orwell's Animal Farm, part 3

Sunday August, 24 2008

Orwell that ends well, comrades. The tale of the Animal revolution and its degeneration comes to inevitable conclusion this Sunday, August 24 on the next edition of "A Word In Edgewise". Join T. E. Wolfe at 8pm on KVMR as we bid adieu to the denizens of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" -- punctuated once again with excerpts from the incredible Pink Floyd album "Animals".