A Different Stripe: Multimedia Monday: Damion Searls in conversation with Christopher Lydon about Thoreau's Journal

June 14, 2010

Multimedia Monday: Damion Searls in conversation with Christopher Lydon about Thoreau's Journal

HDT's desk, from the NYPL digital archive

Damion Searls, editor and mastermind behind our edition of Thoreau's Journal, sat down to talk about Thoreau with Christopher Lydon. The podcast is called Radio Open Source, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Listen to the podcast.

Also: remember to post your favorite excerpt from Thoreau's Journal to be entered in a drawing to win a Thoreau baseball t-shirt from Novel-Ts. More details here.

Jun 14, 2010 1:46:12 PM | Authors and others, Multimedia

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