Nonsenseorship: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Nonsenseorship by George Palmer Putnam: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 16 original MP3 tracks, 4:27:31 running time and a link to listen.
Nonsenseorship, credited to George Palmer Putnam, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Nonsenseorship by George Palmer Putnam. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. An entertaining collection of humorous essays and poems on the topic of “nonsenseorship” (censorship) in American life circa 1920 by sixteen different authors, including Wallace Irwin, Dorothy Parker, and Frank Swinnerton. Caution: The introduction and the poem “Bootleg” (Section 13) each contain an insulting and dehumanizing anti-black term. - Summary by Winnifred Assmann
Recording facts
- Recording title: Nonsenseorship
- Author credits: George Palmer Putnam
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 16
- Listed recording duration: 4:27:31
Catalogue topics
- poetry
- humor
- essays
- censorship
- 1920s
- prohibition
Track guide
- 00 - We Have With Us Today by G. P. Putnam — 10:15
- 01 - Evolution-Another of Those Outlines by George S. Chappell — 2:19
- 02 - Nonsenseorship by Heywood Broun — 16:06
- 03 - Literature and the Bastinado by Ben Hecht — 23:44
- 04 - The Woman's Place by Ruth Hale — 18:08
- 05 - Owed to Volstead by Wallace Irwin — 9:50
- 06 - The Censorship of Thought by Robert Keable — 22:30
- 07 - The Uninhibited Flapper by Helen Bullitt Lowry — 22:35
- 08 - The Wowzer in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien — 17:14
- 09 - Reformers: A Hymn of Hate by Dorothy Parker — 5:08
- 10 - Prohibition by Frank Swinnerton — 19:31
- 11 - A Guess at Unwritten History by H. M. Tomlinson — 25:54
- 12 - In Vino Demi-Tasse by Charles Hanson Towne — 17:28
- 13 - Bootleg by John V. A. Weaver — 8:06
- 14 - And the Playwright by Alexander Woollcott — 26:05
- 15 - The Oracle That Always Says "No" by Clinton W. Gilbert — 22:38
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