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"Space Jockey" is another great science fiction story by Heinlein from 1947 published in the Saturday Evening Post. At the same time it is horribly quaint and seems a bit more like fantasy than science fiction. Someone moving from the gig economy to full time family-supporting employment? Not in this universe.
Episode 358: Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House (1)
EPisode 357: Shirley Jackson: The Lottery and Other Stories (2)
Episode 356: Shirley Jackson: The Lottery and Other Stories (1)
Episode 355: Jane Bowles: Stories
Episode 354: Jane Bowles: Two Serious Ladies (2)
Episode 353: Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies (1)
Episode 352: Mary McCarthy: Cannibals and Missionaries (3)
Episode 351: Mary McCarthy: Cannibals and Missionaries (2)
Episode 350: Mary McCarthy: Cannibals and Missionaries (1)
Episode 349: Mary McCarthy: Birds of America (2)
Episode 348: Mary McCarthy: Birds of America-1
Episode 347: Mary McCarthy: The Group (3)
Episode 346: Mary McCarthy: The Group (2)
Episode 345: Mary McCarthy, The Group (1)
Episode 344: Mary McCarthy: A Charmed Life (2)
Episode 343: Mary McCarthy: A Charmed Life (1)
Episode 342: Mary McCarthy: The Groves of Academe (Part 2)
Episode 341: Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe (1): Professors are Nuts
Episode 340: Mary McCarthy, The Oasis
Episode 339: Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps, Chapters 5-6
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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Black Beauty
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame