May52012 |

The Mayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich on Novel Songs

A Listening Companion

The Letter - The Box Tops
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
Postcards from Paraguay - Mark Knopfler
Postcard from Italy - Beirut
Dear Yoko - John Lennon
Write Me A Letter - Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
Send a Message to Her - Beck
The Letter - PJ Harvey
We Used to Wait - Arcade Fire
You Did (Bomp Shooby Dooby Bomp - Chuck Prophet
Letter to Memphis - Pixies
Please Read the Letter - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

April282012 |

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson on Novel Songs

A Listening Companion

Let The Wolves Howl at the Moon - Super Furry Animals
Howlin’ For My Baby - Howlin’ Wolf
Howl - Florence + The Machine
Wolf I - Oh Land
Will the Wolf Survive? - Los Lobos
The Wolves and the Ravens - Rogue Valley
A Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio
Wolves - Josh Ritter
Bird Dog - The Everly Brothers
Hush a Bye - Dolly Parton
Barking at the Moon - Jenny Lewis

April212012 |

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett on Novel Songs

A Listening Companion

And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles
Blue Bird - Buffalo Springfield
Little Birds - Levon Helm
Birds On the Wing - Viva Voce
Black Rainbow - St. Vincent
Little Bird - The White Stripes
The Raven - The Stranglers
Spanish Song Bird - Keren Ann
Birds - Neil Young
Little Bird - Emmylou Harris
Like A Songbird That Has Fallen - Reeltime Travelers

April142012 |

The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman on Novel Songs

A Listening Companion

The Invisible Man - Elvis Costello
Be Here Now - George Harrison
You Can’t Do That - Beatles
I Want You (She’s So Heavy) - The Beatles
The Beatles - Daniel Johnston
Two of Us - Aimee Mann and Michael Penn
Feathers From Your Tree - Blue Cheer
The Hills Have Eyes - Electric Wizard
Invisible Hands - Joseph Arthur
To Be Invisible - Gladys Knight and The Pips

April72012 |

For Whom The Bell Tolls By Ernest Hemingway on Novel Songs

A Listening Companion

Look On Down from the Bridge - Mazzy Star
Brothers Under the Bridge - Bruce Springsteen
The Bridge - Neil Young
Still in Town - Johnny Cash
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
The Bridge - Elton John
Love Minus Zeron (No Limit) - Bob Dylan
Mood to Burn Bridges - Neko Case
Erie Canal - The Kingston Trio
On A Little Bamboo Bridge - Louis Armstrong
Burning Bridges - Glen Campbell
Ode to Billie Joe - Bobbie Gentry

March312012 |

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Show scheduled for today is Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom The Bell Tolls.”

We are having some technical difficulties at WMFO so the show may be delayed or postponed until next week.

March172012 |

Quite Honestly by John Mortimer on Novel Songs

Illustration by René Maldonado

A Listening Companion

Jewel Thief - The Kills
Hot Rock - Sleater-Kinney
Thieves - She & Him
Arms of A Thief - Iron and Wine
Criminal - Fiona Apple
Coal-Train Robberies - Elvis Costello
A Train Robbery - Levon Helm
Raised on Robbery - Joni Mitchell
Lawyers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon
Women’s Prison - Loretta Lynn
Once a Thief - The Kinks
Criminal - The Pretenders

March102012 |

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre on Novel Songs

Illustration by René Maldonado

A Listening Companion

Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison
So Alone - Juliana Hatfield
Loser - Beck
Lonely Stranger - Eric Clapton
All By Myself - The Bee Gees
Why Can’t a Man Stand Alone - Elvis Costello
Fashionably Lonely - Viva Voce
Some of These Days - Sophie Tucker
Blue Skies - Ella Fitzgerald
Lonely Lonely - Feist
Year to be Hated - Unitard

March32012 |

Varamo by César Aira on Novel Songs

A Listening Companion

Creque Alley - The Mamas and The Papas
And It Stoned Me - Van Morrison
Sugar Mountain - Neil Young
The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell
When We Was Fab - George Harrison
Legend in My Living Room - Annie Lennox
TB Blues - Jimmie Rodgers
Story of Bo Didley - Bo Didley
Safe European Home - The Clash
Sellout - Juliana Hatfield
Nutbush City Limits - Tina Turner
Hold On, Hold On - Neko Case

February252012 |

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami on Novel Songs (pt. 2)

Illustration by René Maldonado

A Listening Companion

Harlem Nocturne - Sam Taylor
Theme from Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann Blue Steel - Henry Mancini
Vendome - The Modern Jazz Quartet
Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles
I Go to Pieces - Peter and Gordon
I’ll Be Home - Pat Boone
Bags’ Groove - Miles Davis
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 - Casals
Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me - Duke Ellington
A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan

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