STORY TIME WITH MITCH JESERICH

Two Grimm Folktales 30.06.2026 6:20 ↓

The Stolen Pennies & How Some Children Played At Slaughtering Support the show

Franz Kafka's Before The Law 29.06.2026 5:07 ↓

Franz Kafka’s parable Before The Law was first published as a short story in 1915 and the republished in his novel The Trial that was published after his death.  Support the show

THE CAFE AROUND THE CORNER: This Is America 19.06.2026 11:08 ↓

A story about a funeral, a cafe, and America.   Support the show

The Good Behind The Bad 04.06.2026 13:17 ↓

St. Augustine & The Pear Tree Support the show

LOOKING OUT MY WINDOW 29.05.2026 11:55 ↓

A meditation on how one seemingly unrelated thing leads to another. Support the show

THE GHOST OF MEMORY 25.05.2026 14:21 ↓

A reading of the short story A Wood Sprite by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1921.   Support the show

The First Battle For Disability Rights 17.05.2026 28:59 ↓

Mitch gives an update on what he has been up to, which includes narrating his first audiobook called An Independent Man: Ed Roberts & The Fight For Disability Rights by Scot Dan Forth.  Included in the podcast is the first chapter of the book that tells the incredible first battle for disability rights at U.C. Berkeley in the late 1960s. Support the show

Love (A Short Story) By William Maxwell 12.05.2026 11:08 ↓

Mitch reads and chats about William Maxwell's short story Love published in 1983 and found in A Century of Fiction in the New Yorker 1925-2025. Support the show

ERIC SWALWELL, CESAR CHAVEZ & ME 06.05.2026 17:43 ↓

The growing pains of a changing society and the reading of a short story by Kate Chopin called The Story of an Hour, published in 1894. Support the show

The Mystic & The Monk: The Art of Letting Things Alone 27.04.2026 19:47 ↓

Thomas Merton, Zhuangzi, and Why I Left Broadcast Journalism Support the show

THE ELEVATOR DOWN 21.04.2026 7:55 ↓

Passing Through Mongolia America Support the show

AFTER THE SORROW 31.12.2025 7:41 ↓

A Quote from Min Jin Lee: "Somewhere after being sorry, there has to be another day..." Support the show

A CHRISTMAS TALE 28.12.2025 21:11 ↓

Is This The Christmas Spirit? Support the show

A MONSTROUS BIRTH 29.11.2025 14:37 ↓

Reflections On Frankenstein & Going To The Movies Support the show

DICK CHENEY IS DEAD: But His Legacy of Executive Power Is Not 05.11.2025 16:24 ↓

DICK CHENEY IS DEAD: But His Legacy of Expanding Executive Power Is Not. Support the show

IN PRAISE OF THE OLD 24.10.2025 14:10 ↓

I Don't Believe In Ghosts, But I See Them Support the show

THE MAKING OF MONSTERS 14.10.2025 14:46 ↓

A Buddhist ghost story featuring Fragment by Lafcadio Hearn. Support the show

AUTUMN 02.10.2025 19:07 ↓

Henry David Thoreau's Autumnal Tints Support the show

A FIRE IN THE GARDEN 29.09.2025 18:14 ↓

Sitting through confrontation. Support the show

SPRING 28.09.2025 7:10 ↓

Waking up to wonder and pain. Support the show

SITTING WITH A CORMORANT 25.09.2025 9:49 ↓

Mitch was sitting quietly on a dock when a flying sea creature plopped next to him. Support the show