Alex May

Alex Reads Old Stuff

Health EN ↓ 11 episodes

Alex Reads Old Stuff is the first sleep podcast to combine classic literature with the dulcet tones of host, Alex May. Each episode starts on a random page, sometimes in the middle of a sentence. These random beginnings are designed to relax your brain and help you fall asleep.

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Alex May

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EP. 11 - The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain 09.12.2025 48:40

For our season finale, we’re getting cozy and dozing to one of the all-time greats: Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Fun fact: he’s 18 in this photograph. Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com

EP. 10 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos 02.12.2025 48:49

Put on your tassels, bob that hair, and Charleston into bed because it’s back to the Roaring Twenties we go for this biting satire. Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com

EP. 09 - A General History of the Pirates by Captain Charles Johnson 25.11.2025 50:03

Aye, bring your arse to anchor for tonight we sail under the Black Flag to send your consciousness straight to Davy Jones’ locker in this titillating first account of pirates on the high seas. Sleep ho! Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com

EP. 08 - The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc 18.11.2025 47:25

Oh la la! For some reason, I uh did not read zis longest title zus far in ze AROS zeazon in a French accent. Maybe zis was a how-do-you-zay ‘missed opportunity’? Sound off in ze comments. Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com

EP. 06 - Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse 11.11.2025 47:24

I do say, sir: pip, pip cheerio off to Dreamland as Ernest Shackleton’s classmate, Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse weaves a tale of the tallest, silliest order. Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com

EP. 07 - The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 04.11.2025 42:19

Holy Boring, Batman! Can you imagine sitting across from Kant at a dinner party listening to him drone on and on in 18th century German?! Anyway, gute nacht. Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com

EP. 05 - Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole by Mary Seacole 28.10.2025 47:57

Oh, Mary Seacole. This contemporary of Florence Nightingale; slash nurse slash entrepreneur slash traveler slash boarding-house-keeper-for-invalid-soldiers will make you feel like you haven’t accomplished anything in life as you drift off to sleep. Sweet, career-anxiety dreams. Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com

EP. 04 - Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser 21.10.2025 48:11

Alex read this in college, but completely forgot what it’s about. Sorry, Dr. Farnan. Let him refresh his memory and lull you to sleep in this 1900 classic some have called the “greatest of all American urban novels.” Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com

EP. 03 - A Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto 14.10.2025 50:19

Close those peepers, pull up that duvet, and journey back to Meiji Restoration Japan. As you drift off to sleep, imagine a bunch of fierce samurai warriors in the 1870s only able to find menial work as desk clerks and doormen. Actually — don’t do that. Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com

EP. 02 - The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge 03.10.2025 48:41

What better way to drift off to sleep than the weighty, boring tome of Calvin Coolidge penned by the 30th president himself? Alex tries not to doze off while recounting Silent Cal’s salad days working in a law office in small-town Massachusetts. Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com

EP. 01 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 03.10.2025 46:11

Can’t sleep? Throw on those monogrammed pajamas as Alex transports you back to 1925 with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel where everyone drank too much and people were not who they said they were. Interested in being a sponsor for AROS? Email us at alexreadsoldstuff@gmail.com