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	Podcast:		Selected Shorts
	Episode:		After Life
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		01:05:02
	Publish Date:		2019-03-28 12:00:00
	Description:		Guest host John Darnielle presents favorite works that reflect on life and death and what comes after. He reads Robert Browning’s chilling poem “My Last Duchess,” and also offers up a new song, “Skeleton’s Tooth.” Molly Ringwald performs “No More Loves,” by Javier Marias, in which a ghost learns to read by proxy. Kirsten Vangsness reads Neil Gaiman’s “When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11 ¼; the child narrator doesn’t like what she finds in this magical place. The heroine of Robert Aickman’s “Le Miroir,” does like what she sees in an antique looking glass—but there’s a price to pay. The reader is Kathryn Erbe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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