Preface: Henry Miller and Sylvia Plath, featuring Eddie Pepitone and Jen Kirkman

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Henry Miller (Eddie Pepitone) and Sylvia Plath (Jen Kirkman) in the very first recorded version of The Dead Authors Podcast.

About 826:

826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers. 826 centers offer a variety of inventive programs that provide under-resourced students, ages 6-18, with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills. We also aim to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Last year our tutoring centers — located in Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC — served over 29,000 students.

For more information: http://826national.org/chapters/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is not huels this is Paul F.
0:03.6	Tompkins and I wanted to talk to you as myself for this this extra episode this
0:11.5	preface we're calling it. This was the very first episode that we recorded at the
0:18.6	UCB theater and it was weird to listen to it again.
0:25.0	But you'll hear why.
0:27.0	And I'll talk about it a little bit before you hear the episode.
0:29.2	But I just wanted to just kind of thank you all for listening to the show over the years and to just give you a little background on some of the stuff and how the show came to be.
0:41.0	It's been a really fun thing for me to do and I am you know just
0:47.8	sorry that I can't continue to do it on a monthly basis but you know I do have a job and I have my my actual work that
0:59.7	pays the bills and so it's it's been difficult to find the time to do all the production
1:05.8	work that is required to put on a monthly live show so you know I there still will be other shows and other recordings and those recordings will be paid downloads and all the proceeds will go to 826 LA.
1:23.0	So there will be more shows and you'll still be able to hear the show
1:28.0	and you'll be helping out a very worthy cause.
1:31.0	But let me tell you a little history of the Dead Authors
1:35.0	Podcast and the Dead Authors show. It was originally created by John Corn, who's a
1:41.5	guy that was working with 826 Valencia up in the Bay Area in Northern
1:46.6	California and it was called the Dead Authors Reading Series I believe and the
1:50.4	concept was they would have someone play a famous author from the
1:55.0	past and then they would take questions and it was very simple and the first time
2:00.3	I heard about it was a show down here that Patton
2:04.2	Oswald did for the Echo Park Time Travel Mart and he did a somewhat obscure
2:09.4	author named William Friar Harvey. But the idea was very intriguing to me.
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