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Alt.NPR’s “Love and Radio” brings the tawdry substitute for love.

A while ago, Kerry wrote about what might be our shared favorite episode of any radio program ever, “Strip” from the alt.NPR podcast, “Love and Radio.” Just, uh, I’m putting all the links after the jump, because it’s possible that some of these links might fall on just the other side of NSFW.

Public Radio Poetry, vol. 2: Sylvia Plath, “Fever 103″

I’m not a Sylvia Plath fan, exactly – I find many of her poems tedious in subject matter, and I don’t feel that she earns many of her metaphors, the “Daddy as Nazi” metaphor in “Daddy” being a prime example. But the woman is a master of sound. As tedious as I find “Daddy” to [...]

None of this is as I planned.

Driving to my parents’ home while listening to “All Things Considered,” I heard a couple stories that I wanted to write about for you guys. I even called Kerry and had her email me the stories I wanted to write about. I have just decided against them. I discovered “B-Side Radio,” another of the alt.NPR [...]