Mister Ron's Basement #1607

Mon, Mar 01 2010

Mister Ron's Basement #1607 

Our Monday novel serialization is Stephen Leacock's 1912 masterpiece, 'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.' 

If you haven't yet, please do go back and start with Chapter One of this fabulous book! They're ALL worth listening to!

You'll find them in the Stephen Leacock Index below. 

Today, in Chapter Eight, Mr. Pupkin brings his sweetheart along on thirty-one canoe rides, among other things, in 'The Fore-ordained Attachment of Zena Pepperleigh and Peter Pupkin' 

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Time: approx twenty-eight and a half minutes

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Also, do check out the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor web site at:

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John Kelly of The Washington Post has written a lively piece about the Basement. You can read it here.  

There is a nifty interview with Mister Ron in issue #59 of iProng Magazine (now called 'Beatweek') which can be downloaded as a free pdf file here. 

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