Turns About Town

Turns About Town

LibriVox · Audiobook · 29 episodes

Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." Most of these pleasant pieces appeared originally in various American newspapers and magazines. - Summary by Tom Penn

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Episodes

The Hotel Guest

Episode 1 · 12:36
A Humorist Misfits at a Murder Trial

Episode 2 · 18:15
Queer Thing, Bout Undertakers Shops

Episode 3 · 13:24
The Haircut that Went to My Head

Episode 4 · 12:56
Seeing Mr. Chesterton

Episode 5 · 21:50
When is a Great City a Small Village?

Episode 6 · 13:20
The Unusualness of Parisian Philadelphia

Episode 7 · 13:10
Our Last Social Engagement as a Fine Art

Episode 8 · 12:43
Writing in Rooms

Episode 9 · 23:44
Taking the Air in San Francisco

Episode 10 · 13:13
Bidding Mr. Chesterton Good-Bye

Episode 11 · 24:20
No System at all to the Human System

Episode 12 · 13:20
Seeing the Situations Wanted Scene

Episode 13 · 17:02
Literary Lives

Episode 14 · 16:37
So Very Theatrical

Episode 15 · 12:35
Our Steeplejack of the Seven Arts

Episode 16 · 19:54
Former Tenant of His Room

Episode 17 · 11:41
Only She Was There

Episode 18 · 16:22
A Humorists Note-Book

Episode 19 · 16:24
Including Studies of Traffic Cops

Episode 20 · 11:05
Three Words about Literature

Episode 21 · 7:41
Recollections of Landladies

Episode 22 · 21:31
An Idiosyncrasy

Episode 23 · 24:44
The Sexless Camera

Episode 24 · 7:02
I Know an Editor

Episode 25 · 7:35
A Dip into the Underworld

Episode 26 · 13:23
Nosing Round Washington

Episode 27 · 55:06
Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 1

Episode 28 · 28:20
Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 2

Episode 29 · 27:51