Imagined Therefore Limitless #10 - Home, What We Heard

No one ever had a better home-warming than ITL. The range of ideas about home - from outer space to a fish's mouth, from poetry to fiction to drama to sports writing - just, wow. It feels like Imagined Therefore Limitless has found its place, which is a true gift. Thank you to the readers and listeners who crowded together on a cold night to share these.

Gonzalo Plaza - "We're Going to Spain!" by Story Musgrave from Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years and excerpt by Michael Collins from Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts by Robert Jacobs

heather hughes - "If you're a Super Bowl tourist, do NOT go outside" (Feb. 3, 2010), "I take it all back: I love you, Miami" (Feb. 5, 2010), and "Living under the influence of the Underground Weirdness Magnet" (Feb. 23, 2007) from The Miami Herald by Dave Barry

Jack Miller - "Shrunken Heads" by Nina Alonso Hathaway and "Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving" from hyperboleandahalf.com by Allie

Maithili Jha - "The Gentle Traveller" by Henry van Dyke, "Sky" by Anzhelina Polonskaya, "The Little Vagabond" by William Blake, and "Summer Song" by William Carlos Williams

Katherine Rose - excerpt from Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Dann Brown - excerpts from When Living Hurts by Sol Gordon

Robyn Gesek - "Cymothea Exigua" from cracked.com

Roxanne Halpine Ward - excerpt from Gilgamesh translated by David Ferry and "Each Night Before Going to Bed" from No Other Life by Gary Young

Susanna Lamey - excerpt from Watership Down by Richard Adams

Simeon Berry - excerpts from Post-Moxie by Julia Story

Fritz Ward - "The Forgotten Dialects of the Heart" by Jack Gilbert

heather hughes - "The Surreal Life at Fenway" (Oct. 19, 2004) from espn.com by Bill Simmons

Sarah Ernst-Edwards - excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Nora Long - "The Red Dancer" by Anne Sexton and excerpt from The Metamorphosis by Mary Zimmerman

Molly Zenobia - excerpts from Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson and from A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote