{"id":4845,"date":"2013-12-12T22:25:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=4845"},"modified":"2013-12-22T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T15:23:21","slug":"storytime-chris-orcutt-reads-the-magnificent-murphy-his-homage-to-the-great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/storytime-chris-orcutt-reads-the-magnificent-murphy-his-homage-to-the-great-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytime: Chris Orcutt Reads \u201cThe Magnificent Murphy,\u201d His Homage to The Great Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"THE_GREAT_GATSBY\"Recent\u00adly I did a radio inter\u00adview with Stephen Camp\u00adbell, the ter\u00adrif\u00adic host of \u201cMur\u00adders, Mys\u00adter\u00adies and May\u00adhem\u201d on the Authors on the Air Glob\u00adal Radio Net\u00adwork<\/a>. The inter\u00adview went very well, and it is slat\u00aded to be avail\u00adable as a pod\u00adcast some\u00adtime in the next few weeks. I will of course post an update about the inter\u00adview the moment it becomes avail\u00adable.<\/p>\n

The rea\u00adson I men\u00adtion this inter\u00adview is that it got me think\u00ading about how all sto\u00adry\u00adtelling was orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly done oral\u00adly. I also had an excel\u00adlent micro\u00adphone my friend loaned me just sit\u00adting around, and I thought about my new short sto\u00adry col\u00adlec\u00adtion, The Man, The Myth, The Leg\u00adend<\/em>, and how some peo\u00adple might enjoy hav\u00ading one of the sto\u00adries from it read to them.<\/p>\n

One of the prob\u00adlems with the \u201cLook Inside This Book\u201d fea\u00adture for Ama\u00adzon Kin\u00addle books is that we authors can\u00adnot offer read\u00aders more than a few pages of a book as a free sam\u00adple. I real\u00adly wish they\u2019d allow us to give read\u00aders more\u2014especially in the case of my sto\u00adry col\u00adlec\u00adtion, since read\u00aders can\u2019t get a very clear idea as to what the book is about on the basis of half of one short sto\u00adry.<\/p>\n

I thought about sim\u00adply post\u00ading anoth\u00ader sto\u00adry from the book on this web\u00adsite, as a means of giv\u00ading you more of a sam\u00adple, but then I thought about read\u00ading the sto\u00adry to<\/em> you.<\/p>\n

Read aloud, the 5,000-word sto\u00adry is about a half-hour in length. I record\u00aded it on my iMac, using Garage\u00adband soft\u00adware, and since I know noth\u00ading<\/em> about audio pro\u00adduc\u00adtion, and since I am not<\/em> a pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal voice artist  (like a friend of mine, Jill Cas\u00adsidy<\/a>), there are some small glitch\u00ades in the record\u00ading and occa\u00adsion\u00adal hitch\u00ades in my voice.<\/p>\n

But the sto\u00adry itself is pret\u00adty damn good, and if you have half an hour to sit back and have a sto\u00adry read to you, maybe you\u2019ll think so, too.<\/p>\n

If this works out, I might record an excerpt from the cur\u00adrent Dako\u00adta Stevens work in progress. We\u2019ll see. For now, I hope you enjoy \u201cThe Mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent Murphy\u201d\u2014my homage to one of my favorite nov\u00adels, F. Scott Fitzger\u00adald\u2019s The Great Gats\u00adby<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Postscripts:<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n
1. Soon after I posted this audio story, <\/em>The Man, The Myth, The Legend<\/a> was voted by IndieReader as one of the Best Indie Books of 2013<\/a>.<\/em><\/h6>\n
2. If you are someone who prefers to read<\/span> stories before listening to audio versions of them, I strongly suggest that you not play this. Buy the book first<\/a>\u2014about the cost of a Starbucks latte\u2014and listen to my reading of the story later.<\/em><\/h6>\n

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\u201cThe Mag\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcent Mur\u00adphy\u201d by Chris Orcutt<\/strong>\u2014read by the author:<\/p>\n

Chris_Orcutt_Reads_The_Magnificent_Murphy<\/a><\/p>\n

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