Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty (audiobook)
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Join me for a performance of one of my favorite short stories of all time: “Why I Live at the P.O.” by Eudora Welty. A free audiobook-style narration.
Note: This story contains a couple of uses of a racial slur which I have chosen not to say aloud.
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I think this is my favorite short story ever, by Welty or any other.
I think I do too!
I love the way you really tell the story. Thank you!💗
A wonderful reading! Brought back memories of visiting Jackson, MS and standing outside Miss Welty’s home. My great grandparents were Big papa and Big mama. It’s a timeless story. I have a Stella Rondo across the road from me 😹
Deborah McDonald You have a Stella Rondo?! I am afraid if I had one in my neighborhood, I would be calling out “Stella Rondo? Oo-ooo, Stella Rondo!” every time I saw her!
Hannah's Books I didn’t connect it until you read the story! I’ll have to avoid her now:) I also thought of the Countess Neroni from The Warden. She’s a Stella Rondo too. They’re everywhere!! Deb
Deborah McDonald Oh my goodness! I had completely forgotten that. Perhaps you can invite your SR over for some breast of chicken when the pandemic ends.
@@HannahsBooks! You beat me to it; “Stella Rondo? Oo-ooo, Stella Rondo!” was fairly bubbling on my very tongue. So well done, and thank you!
I have The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, and I followed along as you read this story. I thoroughly enjoyed your reading! You made the story come to life😍 Please do more videos like this one!
Janet Hughes You are so kind! Thank you for putting up with my accidental reading mistakes (and my deliberate editing out of one passage)!
I don’t know how I missed this till now. One of my favorite stories, perfectly read. Thank you so much, Hannah!
You brought the story alive! Being from the south, I laughed out loud at the use of the words “fixing to” and “conniption.”
Sherri Harte Thank you! My first week in college, I said to my northern dorm mates one evening that I was “fixing to go to supper” and asked if they wanted to join me at the cafeteria. Their eyes got very big...
Hannah, your delivery is fabulous! We thoroughly enjoyed this reading. Thanks!
Thank you very much! How lovely to hear!
Wonderful! One of my favorite stories from one of my favorite authors.
Beautifully read , so natural and easy and so listenable. Thankyou for this . I struggle to read and this author and your gentle reading have made my day .
Thank you very much!
Thank you!
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i’m having to read this story for my southern gothic literature class, and ur reading made it so much more enjoyable! thank you for your videos❤️
Thank you so much!
I need to read more Welty . . . You've such a great, smooth, dramatic voice (and I _loooooove_ listening to it). Great one, Hannah; really great! Thanks.
Just tagged you in the "Josh's Bread Book Tag!" btw . . .
Big Hard Books & Classics Thank you so much for your compliment! I am hoping to reread one of Welty’s novels, I think, sometime next year. She is an old favorite of my entire family. And thanks for the tag! I am horribly behind on booktube and hope to catch up At least a little bit tomorrow!
@@HannahsBooks _Whewww,_ don't I know it, "being late on BT!" I've disappointed a couple peeps--and myself--by missing buddy reads etc ... but Ive got it next month w Ellison 😉🕵😁
Big Hard Books & Classics Yay! But if one of us needs to delay, no problem for me.
This is awesome, Hannah! Christy Luis was just recommending Eudora W to us and I just scheduled in one of her short stories! Intro was great and loved the dramatic speaking :). Loved it! You’ve got to give us a behind-the-scenes look some day! Setting was beautiful and moved the birds singing.
Oh excellent! I can’t wait to see what y’all put together! Which story are you reading? I am thinking of doing an analytical video on this story as a pairing-possibly for tomorrow even if I can get my act together.
And yes, I promise to give a behind the scenes tour sometime soon. The birds were an excellent unplanned addition. (Could you hear the hum of our neighbor’s air conditioner?)
Hannah's Books I believe it was A Worn Path. I’d have to have the schedule in front of me
The CodeX Cantina Brian is talking about it tomorrow!
What fun! Thank you.
kmwwrench Thanks for stopping by!
I love your readings. You truly should read for Audiobooks!
Thank you so much! I would love to have that opportunity sometime!
This is soo good!! Thank you for telling us about it!! Very well performed.
Thank you so much! I am always so glad to see people talking about Welty. She is one of my very favorite authors.
Love this story. Great reading!
Bookish Thanks very much, Brian. And thanks for inspiring me to make it. I can’t wait for your video!
Such a wonderful reading Hannah!
Lynn Simpson Thank you so much!
Namaste Hannah!😊This was so Good! 👍👍👍💖Enjoyed it thoroughly😊😆😄
Hamsavahini Vajraasthra I am so glad you enjoyed it! Welty is such an interesting author with such varied styles!
Just found this lovely story....on the Fourth of July....fabulous, thank you, Hannah.
What a great time to read this story!
this was so good. You captured the voice very well. Can imagine this being an audiobook x
Gagging4Lit Ha! This is the voice I had growing up, and the voice I have after a glass of wine...
Wonderful reading! Thank you!
💜 Thanks!
I love this , great story !
Thank you! It is one of my favorite short stories!
Hi Hannah, I read this on the internet a few days ago and just came up on your reading. I was brought up in Brooklyn but a lot of the residence and my project came from down south. So, kiss my foot and having a conniption fit was common conversation. When I was six I told her friend, you finished your homework my eye and she punched me in the eye lol. You read it beautifully and it was hilarious. I have to look up Eudora Welty. This was the first I read of her. Aloha
Thank you so much, Marilyn! How interesting to hear your background connections. Eudora Welty is wonderful--especially her short stories. I believe you mentioned that you liked Katherine Anne Porter, and Welty and Porter were peers.
Great reading. 👍
Stephanie J. Cohen Thank you!
Great Read. 👍
This was great! I'm slowly going through her collected works. I just read Clytie and loved it.
Vonterstellar Have you read Petrified Man yet? I think I need to sit down with it this week. It has been thirty years since I read it, but I think of it regularly. I wonder what I will think now?
@@HannahsBooks Not yet but I've just put it next in line. Look forward to hearing your thoughts!
Vonterstellar Please check in with yours, too!
@@HannahsBooks Will do! Thank you!
Best wishes for everyone who lives alone. 💕 God bless you. Believe in brighter future. Love and light upon humanity. ❤️ Namaste. 🙏🏽
Thank you Hannah. I also enjoyed A good Man is hard to Find, read by you.
Thank you so much, Cristine! If you are interested in more Welty or O'Connor, there are a couple of other stories on my channel by them. I am contemplating filming William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" soon, too. I am so glad you stopped by!
@@HannahsBooks awesome! I will have a look!
Brava! I worry that Eudora Welty will slip from our literary sight. That would be such a loss.
Theaelizabet Not if I can help it! Welty has been one of my favorites for-gah-forty years now... What a treasure her writing is!
One of my favorites, too!
Great reading! You really kept me engaged
Thank you very much! I am so glad!
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Thx!
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Aw. Thanks, Shawn.
Wow - I wish I could read like this! Perfect pronunciation and emotion. Very lively.
tripp Thanks so much! It was so much fun to do!
It would be well to let your listener know that you've taken it upon yourself to edit Welty and so provide an expurgated version of this story. If you're going to read it, be faithful; if you've got a problem with Welty's use of the word, "nigger," then you should choose something else to read: It's fine art; please don't try to make it into some personal ethical statement of position. And spare me any labeling you might direct at me for 'being racist." The artist is the one who always has to look, to see the world as it is. Art need not answer a question--simply raising a good one is quite enough.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I don’t agree that I should pick a different story rather than choose not to say the word aloud, but I absolutely should have acknowledged my elision in the description box. I have now added that in.
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