Alamo: A Radio Play by Rick Moody, Starring Miranda July and Ethan Hawke
In this radio drama, middle-aged, doctoral candidate Irving Paley is obsessed with a work of contemporary sculpture in downtown Manhattan, and the ways it affects those who pass by it regularly. On an answering machine he collects the stories of a range of New Yorkers, all of whom have some relationship to Alamo, aka “the Cube.” Over the course of an interview with a public radio reporter about the project, Paley reveals how the Cube has slowly consumed his life, while back at the sculpture, a mystery surrounding the artwork deepens.
Katelyn wrote:
Where did you find this one? I’ve listened to it halfway and now I have to go to work, but it’s so great and I’m so intrigued that I almost want to go buy an ipod, just so I could listen to this on the bus. Or maybe that would defeat the purpose. Maybe I should just listen on the bus, period.
Posted on 14-Apr-07 at 1:56 pm | Permalink