KZYX For the Love of Reading

A Truly Grand Tour! Vivid first person accounts and  Brilliant nature writing: "A visit to Niagara Falls", by Fanny Trollope, from Domestic Manners of Americans, 1832 " The Approach to the Valley" and "The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers: How the Valley Was Formed," by John Muir, from The Yosemite. 1912 "The Grand Canyon" by Major John Wesley Powell, from Exploration of the Colorado River of the West an...

Originally published in Harper’s Magazine, Christmas 1905, it is widely believed that "Eve's Diary, (with interpolated extracts from Adam's Diary)" is Mark Twain’s tribute to his late, beloved wife, Olivia Langdon Clemons.  BONUS: this episode includes a selection of the tender recollections of Elizabeth Scholl of Ukiah from "Mendocino County  Remembered".

Selections from the genius of   Edward Lear:  Limericks, A Book of Nonsense, 1846;   The Pobble Who has No Toes, Laughable Lyrics, 1877;    To Make An Amblongus Pie, Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, 1871;   “How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!”  and   Lewis Carroll:   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865; Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, 1871

Meet Kindred Spirits: Great fiction featuring Unusual allies, Surprising companions, and Unlikely friendships of wonderful fictional characters: from the novel The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim; Makes the Whole World Kin, a short story by O. Henry, and the poetry of archy & mehitiabel by Don Marquis. Read for you by Linda Pack 

A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Being a Ghost Story for Christmas, by Mr. Charles Dickens   Brought to life with music and special effects in an original, 1-hour Radio adaptation by R. Bobby, Michael Ducharme, and Linda Pack This production was designed and directed by Linda Pack, and recorded by Alicia Bales at the KZYX Studio in Philo. The sound was mixed by Peter Temple at Peter Temple Studio in Albion. CAS...

Featuring works by Carl Sandburg and Willa Cather, and the true story of Helen Carpenter’s "Journey by Ox Cart to Potter Valley in 1856." Read for you by Linda Pack and Special Guest Kate Magruder. Special Thanks to Judy Mayhan for her recording of "Everything Must Change".

A literary feast about our greatest love,  Food!  A veritable smorgasbord of stories  by Carl Sandburg,  Saki (H.H. Munro)  and  O. Henry  accompanied by some tasty tidbits of culinary history.

This program features selections from Banned Books.  Hear what many people, over centuries, have not wanted you to hear! Featured authors include: Nicholas Copernicus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain,George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, James Joyce This program is in honor of Banned Books Week, an annual event sponsored each September by the American Library Association, celebrating the First Amendment an...

A tale from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction by one of the foremost creators of the classic mystery story, The Baroness Emma Orczy, and featuring The Old Man in the Corner,   the first "armchair detective,” Intriguing, Entertaining, Ingenious!

Poems, memoirs, and short stories about Our Best Friends, featuring  Rudyard Kipling’s "The Cat That Walked By Himself"  and  "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog", by O.Henry.

A selected condensation of Virginia Woolf’s luminous, thought-provoking masterwork. Beautiful, compassionate, and truly human. Read for you by Linda Pack.

In the 1970’s & 80’s, the spiritual, questing exodus of people seeking something other than the status quo created a unique constellation of talent and energy in Mendocino County.  Lenny Laks, Bobby Markels, Antonia Lamb, Bonnie Sanger, Chester Anderson were among those artists in an extraordinary place, in an extraordinary time. This is some of their work. For all selections, use was granted...

An unabashed appreciation of the joy of being literate! Featuring the first few chapters of the 1907 novel “Parnassus on Wheels”  a delightful story of that caravan of culture, the rural American Travelling Bookstore. Read for you by Linda Pack and special guest Jamie Roberts.

Published in the California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1941. (courtesy of The California Historical Society) The saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl who in 1862, when she was 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy was in her 90's, she told her story to her neighbor in Covelo, Edith Van Allen Murphe...

A literary exploration of of sleep, wakefulness, and dreaming with works by Marcel Proust, Dorothy Parker, Shakespeare; along with the mesmerizing tale of Ceux and Alcyone by Ovid.

Stories from around the world to Celebrate the Return of the Light! The Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Roman Saturnalia, Norse and Celtic Yule feasts, the Jewish holiday of Hannukah, an Inuit tale of Raven, the Soyal Festival of Southwest Native Americans, and more! Share in the fortune telling tradition of the ancient Persian festival of Yalda Night with writings of the esteemed Persian po...

Classical and Contemporary, Comforting, Funny, Epic, and Passionate Read for you by Linda Pack, Kate Magruder and Nichole Phillips Rakes with Special Thanks to Michael Ducharme for his expert and kind assistance. FEATURED POETS: Edgar Lee Masters (from Spoon River Anthology), Devereaux Baker, Robert Frost, Charlotte Mew, Patricia Karch, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker (from Enough Rope), L...

THE MIRACULOUS PITCHER is from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 collection of classic Greek and Roman myths: A Wonder Book, telling the story of a kind old couple’s generosity rewarded by the gods. Read for you by Linda Pack.

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a revolutionary short story, written in 1892, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which will leave you wondering: “Does the narrator go mad or is she set free?”  Read for you by Linda Pack

A special episode: From Pooh Corner: featuring selections from Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, plus the world premiere of a previously unknown Pooh poem, and the tender story surrounding its creation. Read for you by Linda Pack

For the Love of Reading is now a Podcast! Featuring selections from Novels, complete short stories, poetry and non-fiction, read for you by Linda Pack. The First Episode, A Special Program for Pooh Corner, will drop on September 8, with new episodes every month. From KZYX and Z, Mendocino County Public Broadcasting.