Popular tracks by brainpicker

David Foster Wallace: "This Is Water" (part 1)

Alan Watts: Sense of Nonsense

David Foster Wallace: "This Is Water" (part 2)

A.A. Milne reads from Winnie-the-Pooh, 1929

David Whyte reads his poem "The Truelove"

James Baldwin: The Artist's Struggle for Integrity (full lecture)

Mary Oliver reads from Blue Horses

Emily Levine reads "You Can't Have It All" by Barbara Ras

On Craftsmanship: The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice

David Bowie's isolated vocal track for "Ziggy Stardust"

David Whyte Reads "Sometimes"

Mary Oliver reads "Wild Geese"

Amanda Palmer reads "When I Am Among the Trees" by Mary Oliver

Meryl Streep reads "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath

Maya Angelou reads "Life Doesnt Frighten Me"

J.R.R. Tolkien reads from The Lord of the Rings

Christopher Ricks reads Paul Goodman on silence

Sylvia Boorstein reads "Keeping Quiet" by Pablo Neruda

T. S. Eliot reads "Burnt Norton" (1935)

"I measure every Grief I meet" (Maria Popova reads Emily Dickinson)

Sylvia Plath reads "Tulips": A Rare BBC Recording

Jeff Buckley on music and life

Sylvia Plath Reads "A Birthday Present" (1962)

The Universe in Verse: Janna Levin reads "A Brave and Startling Truth" by Maya Angelou

Amanda Palmer reads "Having It Out With Melancholy" by Jane Kenyon

Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act (1957)

Greil Marcus on the artificial divide between "high" and "low" art

T.S. Eliot Reads "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Neil Gaiman reads "What You Need to Be Warm"

"Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower" by Rainer Maria Rilke (read by Maria Popova)