The Strange Recital is an audio anthology of short fiction. It is not genre-specific and delights in perceptions of reality that warp and fold in unexpected ways. The literary works we showcase might be odd, humorous, or surreal.... They might remind you of Borges, Nabokov, Kafka, Pynchon. Or none of the above.
Each podcast episode features one writer and runs about 25 minutes. It includes a story reading – the Recital – a brief musical interlude, and an author interview with a twist – the Post Recital. Subscribe to get a new episode twice a month. It's free.
"Cheek to the cold floor, thick sole on my back, I
began to sense my place in this moment in history. I had thought I
was playing the hero, arriving just in time to save my mom, when I
was put in a chokehold, thrown to the ground and tasered in the
groin."
A young Winston Smith faces a dramatic cultural
shift: lockdowns, masks, surveillance, riots. "How did we get
here?" he wonders, in a new satirical novel that looks back at the
last four years. Can this story end more happily than
Orwell's?
About the Podcast
The Strange Recital is an audio forum for short fiction. We delight in perceptions of reality that twist and fold in unexpected ways.