Andrew Osborn

The Reading Hour

Arts EN ↓ 52 episodes

Host Andrew Osborn reads aloud from novels, stories, essays, and poems in the public domain—works of literary accomplishment published before 1930. Most episodes include parts of at least one long work read serially over a number of weeks; recent examples include Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse , Henry David Thoreau's The Maine Woods , and Sarah Orne Jewett's A Country Doctor . A professor of literature and poetry-journal editor, Osborn sometimes offers interpretive commentary on what he voices, but the focus is always on sharing the language of great writers. Welcome!

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Author

Andrew Osborn

Episodes

V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Part 1, chs. 4-6; H. Bergson on Duration (Creative Evolution) 12.01.2026 1:03:59

Episode 2 continues our reading from Part 1 of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and concludes with an excerpt of the French philosopher Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution on the concept of le durée (duration or felt time).

V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Part 1, chs. 1-3; W. James, "Stream of Consciousness" 11.01.2026 58:26

Episode 1 inaugurates The Reading Hour radio show and podcast with the first three chapters of Virginia Woolf's modernist British novel To the Lighthouse , part 1, The Window and the late-19th-century American philosopher William James's chapter "The Stream of Consciousness."