Essays. – Pacifica Radio Archives

Fielding Dawson : new work.

Dawson reads his essay and short story.

August 24, 2025

Two tracts / Byron Bryant.

Readings from two l9th century tracts: an 1833 warning that no respectable person should be seen in a theatre, and an 1871 atheist tract explaining why no one should attend church.

August 24, 2025

Religion, morals, and science fiction / Theodore Sturgeon.

Sturgeon reads his essay from the collection Science Fiction : Today and Tomorrow.|RELIGION, MORALS, AND SCIENCE FICTION / Theodore Sturgeon. – Theodore Sturgeon reads his essay, “Religion, Morals, and Science Fiction”, from the Harper & Row collection “Science Fiction: Today and Tomorrow”, edited by Reginald Bretner. – BROADCAST: KPFK, 10 September 1973.

August 24, 2025

Reflections concerning the causes of liberty and social oppression / by Simone Weil ; produced by Hannah Mackay and Wilhelmina Van Ness.

Reading of the classic essay in four parts.

August 24, 2025

Four essays / written and read by Steve Katz.

Reading by author. |pt.1. Essay on arrogance. — pt.2. Essay on collaboration. — pt.3. Essay of swimming without getting wet. — pt.4. Essay on self-knowledge.

August 24, 2025

The Simple Art of Murder / Raymond Chandler ; read by John Thomas.

Reading of excerpts from Chandler’s essay.

August 24, 2025

Over the ramparts… / Roger Rapport and Robert Fitch ; interviewed by Denny Smithson.

Two contributors to Ramparts magazine discuss their articles in the November, 1971 issue. Rapport’s “Disney’s War Against theWilderness,” and Fitch’s “H. Ross Perot: America’s First Welfare Billionaire.”

August 24, 2025