Richard Peabody reads "Flea Wars"  "Not only is he a good writer, he is very entertaining and funny. And very  sexy, too." Michael Dirda When Richard Peabody came in-studio to record this excerpt from an absurd and frustrating story in The Reader, I was still in disbelief I hadn't read it in The New Yorker or The Atlantic or some other pedigree publication first. But, from the moment he uttered, almost farcical in his expressionlessness, "just dip the cats they say," he had me: I knew it belonged to Richard and to Richard alone. We recorded "Flea Wars" on the heels of recording "The … [Read more...]

Richard Peabody Reads "I'm in Love with the Morton Salt Girl" Peabody’s aesthetic is all-embracing – strands of punk, beat, experimental, feminist, and political protest literary influences blend with the purely romantic to create a body of work that is both profound and pleasing.  Eckleburg Book Club Morton Salt Girl is original Peabody. Creative, daring, and irreverent. His delivery on this recording is so sure you may conflate the poem with a yarn by Ronsard or Nash—though, a comparison wouldn't be far-fetched. But be assured, this sure person, somewhere compressed between humor, … [Read more...]