The Evening Reader is a podcast for anyone who has ever felt something they couldn't quite put into words.

Every episode, Sara reads one classic short story aloud, drawn from the golden age of American literature, when writers were putting onto the page things that had never been said out loud before. The weight of what goes unsaid. The way a single moment on a ship, or in a parlour, or at the edge of a field can change everything inside you while nothing on the outside moves at all.

These stories are a hundred years old. They will feel like they were written about your life.

Each episode is intimate, unhurried, and made for evenings. Put your headphones in. Let someone tell you a story.

All of the stories on The Evening Reader are drawn from the public domain, written before 1928, mostly forgotten, and completely worth your time. Some were rejected by publishers for being too honest. Some were written under the cover of an ambiguous narrator because their authors had no other choice. Some were celebrated and then quietly disappeared. All of them deserve to be heard.

This is not a romance novel podcast. It's something older and stranger and more honest than that. These are classic literary short stories about what it actually feels like to be a person, read aloud for anyone who loves audio fiction, romantic fiction, or storytelling podcasts.

Authors featured include Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and other voices from the late 19th and early 20th century.

If you love audiobooks, literary fiction, romantic short stories, or slow atmospheric audio storytelling, The Evening Reader is for you.

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