Marcopocast: The Frank Marcopolos Podcast, with Frank Marcopolos

In this edition of Saturday Show Literary Podcast, Frank Marcopolos discusses chapters 11 through 13 of his work-in-progress, a novel. He also discusses his adventures while traveling on the Texas roads, including Realistic Taxidermy and Free Bibles. Connect with Frank Marcopolos on social media: Twitter – @frankmarcopolos Instagram – @frankzmarcopolos YouTube – YouTube.com/BrooklynFrank FrankMarcopolos.com ___ You should buy INFINITE ENDING because you enjoy literary fiction and short stories.

Saturday Show Literary Podcast, in which Frank Marcopolos discusses chapters 6 through 10 of his work-in-progress, a novel, as well as some personal stuff dealing with travel. Connect on social: Twitter Instagram YouTube Facebook ___ You should buy INFINITE ENDING because it has 10 short stories and you like short stories.

Saturday Show Literary Podcast #124, in which Frank Marcopolos–from the infamous jet black jet stream Jetta–discusses chapters 4 and 5 of his work-in-progress, a novel. If you’re a fan of “documenting the process,” this podcast just might be for you. Social hookups? Sure: Twitter – @frankmarcopolos Instagram – @frankzmarcopolos YouTube – YouTube.com/BrooklynFrank Home Base – FrankMarcopolos.com ______________ You might want to buy this 39-story anthology because it has stories written by Khaled “Kite Runner” Hosseini, Jeff “Avery Cates” Somers, Ann “Girl Detectives” Sterzinger, Nick Mamatas, Asha Anderson, Jim Munroe, Emerson Dameron, Rydell Bixby, the urban hermitt, Karl Koweski, Patrick King, Frank Marcopolos, and others.

In which Frank Marcopolos discusses the progress he is making on the final edit of his work-in-progress, a novel. He is up to Chapter 3. It is thrilling. Want to connect on social media? Sure: Twitter – @frankmarcopolos Instagram – @frankzmarcopolos YouTube – BrooklynFrank Web Home – FrankMarcopolos.com ____ You might want to purchase this book because with 39 awesome short stories for less than 10 bucks, it’s one helluva bargain.

Saturday Show Literary Podcast #122, in which Frank Marcopolos discusses where he’s at on his new novel. Socially inclined? Twitter – @frankmarcopolos Instagram – @frankzmarcopolos YouTube – YouTube.com/BrooklynFrank ____ You might want to buy INFINITE ENDING: Ten Stories (Affiliate Link) because you enjoy literary short stories. Or because you like supporting independent artists.

Saturday Show Literary Podcast #121, wherein Frank Marcopolos discusses what happens now after a developmental edit of his current work-in-progress, a novel. Connect on social: Twitter Instagram YouTube *** You might want to buy this paperback anthology because it contains 39 great short stories from the literary underground from 2000-2006.

Saturday Show Literary Podcast #120, in which Frank Marcopolos talks about a fresh start for the podcast from a Holiday Inn hotel room in Huntsville, Texas. From THE WHIRLIGIG to WOMYN DO, it’s been a long literary journey, and the fun is just beginning! Social hookups: Twitter Instagram YouTube __ You should buy two of my books because you’ve been searching for an alternative to mainstream literary fiction and they might be just what you need.

Lenore is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, and published in 1843. I Feel You by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100841 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Music licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/bu/4.0) from http://ccmixter.org by hepepe and radiotimes. Performed as an audiobook by Frank Marcopolos. Performance copyright 2016, Frank J. Marcopolos __ You might love reading my book because you like literary fiction.

You are listening to episode 118 of Saturday Show Literary Podcast. My name is Frank Marcopolos of http://frankmarcopolos.com and http://youtube.com/brooklynfrank. This episode will be a performance of Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. According to Wikipedia, the story, published in 1835, takes place in 17th century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne’s works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, but that God has destined some to unconditional election through unmerited grace. Hawthorne frequently focuses on the tensions within Puritan culture, yet steeps his stories in the Puritan sense of sin. In a symbolic fashion, the story follows Young Goodman Brown’s journey into self-scrutiny. Please enjoy Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne…. ____ You might love reading my book because you like literary fiction.

Ulalume is a public-domain poem written by Edgar Allan Poe a long time ago. On this episode of the podcast, it is performed by Frank Marcopolos of http://FrankMarcopolos.com. Musical accompaniment is provided as follows: Somber by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ . Air Prelude by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100337 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ . Sound effects from http://freesound.org. Comments? Questions? Drunken ramblings? Find Frank on social media and yak it all up… http://frankmarcopolos.com http://twitter.com/frankmarcopolos http://facebook.com/frankmarcopolos http://instagram.com/frankzmarcopolos

This is an audiobook performance of the public-domain short story, “The Cone.” It was written by H.G. Wells a long time ago, and performed by Frank Marcopolos of http://frankmarcopolos.com just recently. If you enjoy these free audiobooks, please subscribe to my YouTube channel (also free) at this URL: http://youtube.com/brooklynfrank. Thank you for listening! The Deadly Year by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ More? Sure… http://twitter.com/frankmarcopolos http://frankmarcopolos.com View profile at Medium.com https://www.facebook.com/frankmarcopolos

This is an audiobook performance of the public domain poem “The Death of the Hired Man” by Robert Frost. The voice-actors on the track are Frank Marcopolos and Sherry S. Thompson. Music was provided as follows: “Achilles – Strings” by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100463 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ “He is not afraid” by radiotimes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) Source: http://www.ccmixter.org/ According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost): “Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America’s rare “public literary figures, almost an artistic institution.” He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. On July 22, 1961, Frost was named Poet laureate of Vermont.

This story is also known as “The Beautiful Suit.” “He is not afraid” by radiotimes, 2015 – Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0). Herbert George “H.G.” Wells is known as the father of science fiction, having written “The Time Machine,” “The Island of Doctor Moreau,” “The Invisible Man,” and “The War of the Worlds.” However, he also wrote some fables. According to Wikipedia, “Wells’s earliest specialized training was in biology, and his thinking on ethical matters took place in a specifically and fundamentally Darwinian context. He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often (but not always, as at the beginning of the First World War) sympathising with pacifist views. His later works became increasingly political and didactic, and he wrote little science fiction, while he sometimes indicated on official documents that his profession was that of journalist. Novels like “Kipps” and “The History of Mr. Polly,” which describe lower-middle-class life, led to the suggestion, when they were published, that he was a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in “Tono-Bungay” (1909), a diagnosis of English society as a whole. A diabetic, in 1934 Wells co-founded the charity The Diabetic Association (known today as Diabetes UK).” While I provide a bit of a bio here as context for the story in the podcast, there is also a school of thought that advocates that the biographical information of the writer should be omitted or ignored when thinking about literary criticism for a specific work. I see both sides of the argument.

This is a performance of the poem “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot. Bent and Broken by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200087 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100199 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Auxiliary voice-work provided by Sherry Thompson. Performance by Frank Marcopolos. Translations provided below: Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. I’m not Russian at all, I come from Lithuania, a true German. Frisch weht der Wind / Der Heimat zu / Mein Irisch Kind, / Wo weilest du? Fresh blows the wind / To the homeland / My Irish darling / Where do you linger? Oed’ und leer das Meer / Desolate and empty the sea hypocrite lecteur!–mon semblable,–mon frère! hypocrite reader!–my double,–my brother! Et O ces voix d’enfants, chantant dans la coupole And, O those children’s voices singing in the dome! Poi s’ascose nel foco che gli affina. Then he hid himself in the fire that purifies them. Quando fiam uti chelidon When shall I become like the swallow? Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la tour abolie The prince of Aquitainia in the abandoned tower Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. Give. Sympathize. Control. Shantih = The Peace which passeth understanding.

This is an audiobook performance of “2 B R 0 2 B” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Per Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (/ˈvɒnᵻɡət/; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Vonnegut attended Cornell University, but dropped out in January 1943 and enlisted in the United States Army. He was deployed to Europe to fight in World War II, and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city by taking refuge in a meat locker. After the war, Vonnegut married Jane Marie Cox, with whom he had three children. He later adopted his sister’s three sons, after she died of cancer and her husband died in a train accident. Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952. The novel was reviewed positively, but was not commercially successful. In the nearly twenty years that followed, Vonnegut published several novels that were only marginally successful, such as Cat’s Cradle (1963) and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1964). Vonnegut’s magnum opus, however, was his immediately successful sixth novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. The book’s antiwar sentiment resonated with its readers amidst the ongoing Vietnam War, and its reviews were generally positive. After its release, Slaughterhouse-Five went to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list, thrusting Vonnegut into fame. He was invited to give speeches, lectures, and commencement addresses around the country and received many awards and honors. Later in his career, Vonnegut published several autobiographical essay and short-story collections, including Fates Worse Than Death (1991), and A Man Without a Country (2005). After his death, he was hailed as a morbidly comical commentator on the society in which he lived, and as one of the most important contemporary writers. Vonnegut’s son Mark published a compilation of his father’s unpublished compositions, titled Armageddon in Retrospect. Numerous scholarly works were released, examining Vonnegut’s writing and humor. Land of the Dead by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=land+of+the+dead Artist: http://incompetech.com/