The Lonely Voice

Peter Orner, Yvette Benavides
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The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner

  1. FEB 1

    The Lonely Voice: 'Berries' and 'At Night' by Varlam Shalamov

    Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss "Berries" and other stories from Kolyma Stories by Varlam Shalamov. The author underscores the horrors of totalitarianism and the will to survive of the characters in the stories that are based on all-too real events and situations that the author himself experienced.

    46 min

  2. JAN 11

    The Lonely Voice: Four stories by Mavis Gallant

    To celebrate the fiftieth episode of "The Lonely Voice" podcast, Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss the four stories in the "Edouard, Juliette, Lena" story cycle — "A Recollection," "The Colonel's Child," "Rue de Lille," and "Lena."

    1h 3m

  3. 12/28/2025

    The Lonely Voice: 'Out with the Old' by Richard Yates

    Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss “Out with the Old” by Richard Yates. The setting is a tuberculosis ward in a veterans' hospital on December 31,1950. Dreams have faded for these patients whose best years seem to be behind them. For the character of McIntyre something miraculous happens. This is a powerful New Year’s Eve story.

    59 min

  4. 12/21/2025

    The Lonely Voice: 'The Loudest Voice' by Grace Paley

    In Grace Paley's "The Loudest Voice," a young Jewish girl from an immigrant family is chosen to narrate her school's Christmas pageant. This is an open-hearted story — just right for us now during the holidays — or any day at all.

    38 min

  5. 12/07/2025

    The Lonely Voice: 'Fun with a Stranger' by Richard Yates

    Miss Snell isn’t as fun as other third grade teachers. Come the last day of school before the Christmas holiday, she holds a regular class day. There are no treats to eat and no presents. What can the students learn from their disappointment? What are the larger lessons for the rest of us? Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss “Fun with a Stranger” by Richard Yates.

    37 min

  6. 11/16/2025

    The Lonely Voice: ‘Love’ by William Maxwell

    On this episode of "The Lonely Voice," Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss the story “Love” by William Maxwell. A man recalls his fifth-grade teacher—a young woman who was kind and thoughtful. She becomes the center of a very hard lesson the protagonist learns in childhood about the impermanence of things.

    43 min

  7. 11/02/2025

    The Lonely Voice: 'Panteón de Dolores' and 'Emergency Room Notebook, 1977' by Lucia Berlin

    Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss two stories by Lucia Berlin— "Panteón de Dolores" and "Emergency Room Notebook, 1977." In these stories we find family dysfunction and tragedy set against the backdrop of another country and its culture and rituals — or in a hospital, another place with its protocols and routines. Except within all that is expected in these settings there is something totally new to make us pay attention to situations and people to whom we might never have given a second thought.

    58 min

  8. 10/27/2025

    The Lonely Voice: 'The Rain' and 'Elegy of Fortinbras' by Zbigniew Herbert

    Nicholas Regiacorte joins Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides to discuss two poems by Zbigniew Herbert.

    1h 3m
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The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner

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  • Creator
    Peter Orner, Yvette Benavides
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    The Lonely Voice

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