Napoleon and Abraham Joshua Heschel on pyramids and wonder, Shelley’s Ozymandias, Top Five Wonders of the Ancient World, some Modern Wonders, some Natural Wonders, some Undersea Wonders, Unbelievable Film Titles of the Week, including He’s a Cockeyed Wonder (1950), Invaluable Ancient Wonders Facts of the Week, readers send in “other” wonders, vote for the new seven wonders of the world, Bad Book Cover of the Week (War of the Worlds), the ghost-town Wonder, Nevada, Fleming’s Follies, Seven Wonders of the US Road Trip, readers write in with more on telephones, and so much more fun your head might explode! 30 Wonder-full minutes.

This week’s episode includes: Mark Twain and Fran Lebowitz on the ups and downs of the telephone, Allen Ginsberg’s “I Am a Victim of Telephone,” Top Five Telephone Songs, The Phone Ranger (2005) and other telephone film titles, Top Five Phones in Poetry, Invaluable Telephone Facts of the Week, Ogden Nash on wrong numbers, Fleming’s Follies, featuring the iPhone sendups from Conan O’ Brien and Mad TV, Bad Book Cover of the Week, viewer mail from the last week, and so much more you’ll want to turn your phone off and tune in! 30mins.

This week’s episode includes: George Washington on the highest bidder, Honest Abe on fooling some of the people some of the time, Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Woodrow Wilson on making enemies, top five presidential movies, left-handed presidents, presidential facial hair, Linda Lovelace for President, top ten cartoon eye-popping reactions to Olive Oyl, amazing presidential facts, Fleming’s Follies, Bad Book Cover of the Week - Slime, Jefferson City, Missouri, presidential collective nouns, cool presidential campaign slogans, top five presidents with the largest popular votes and top five with greatest electoral votes, and so much more, you just have to watch! Audio 50 mins, Video 30 mins.

This week’s episode includes: Somerset Maugham and Confucius, Thom Gunn’s “Sweet Things,” top five habits of highly ineffective coworkers, Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human and Sister Act II: Back, John Dryden, endlessbookshelf.net, Fleming’s Follies, featuring Eye Smoking Guy, Guinness Book of World Records guy who smokes seven packs at once, monkey scratching its ass, invaluable bad habit facts of the week, Mark Twain on habits, Bad Book Cover of the Week, Night of the Living Hell, book plots that hinge on the acquisition or loss of funds, an Australian in a funky Bedford nearly runs over a koala, Hooker, Okalahoma, top five superstitions, Ernest Hilbert’s poem “In Bed for a Week” from the New Criterion, reprint of Hilbert’s In Memoriam for Thom Gunn from the December 2004 issue of the Contemporary Poetry Review, and much more fun stuff. Check it out!

This week’s episode includes: Alexis de Tocqueville on vice, Nancy Mitford on headless chickens, Keith Douglas’s “Aristocrats,” top five royal deaths in the 20th century, King Kong Lives, Chesterton on the badly educated, Homer Simpson and the Queen, Charles in Charge, Catherine Tate at the Queen’s birthday bash, invaluable and sometimes unbelievable facts about the British royals, unbelievable book cover of the week (Unanswered Prayers), Cut-Off Louisiana, Thomas Jefferson on natural aristocracy, and so much more fun.

This week’s episode includes: Steve Smith’s “Liquid Knowledge,” Phyllis McGinley on not reading poetry, top five wonderful creatures from Australia, top five Australian movies, Robert Hughes’s Fatal Shore, facts and figures about Australia Day, The Saucy Aussie (1963), Blunder Down Under (1963), On Top Down Under (2000), a identification chart of men’s facial hair types, Banjo Patterson, people born on the unlucky day January 2nd, interview with New York book publishing insider and ex-pat Australian Virginia Lloyd, Jacket magazine, El Caminos in the Outback, Bruce Chatwin’s Songlines, chocolate marsupials, Kath and Kim, invaluable facts about Australia, Fleming’s Follies, featuring the famous cannonball beer ad, the Simpsons go to Australia, Dorothea Mackellar’s “My Country,” Virgin Heat, the worst book cover we’ve seen, Russell Crowe thanks Christ for Australia, fun Australian town names, Richard Dawkins’s Memes, Australian collective nouns, Jindyworobaks, and so much more fun.

This week’s episode includes: Mark Twain and G.K. Chesterton on New Year’s Day, “New Year Letter” by W.H. Auden, top five New Year’s traditions, the movie Bloody New Year, fun New Year’s facts, fun videos of U2, spiders on drugs, and scenes from around the world on Fleming’s Follies, hip hop guide to poetic feet, the world’s smallest country up for sale, the coolest and weirdest jobs, top five writers who practiced medicine, and so much more fun to ring in the new year.

This week’s episode includes: “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” Top Five Christmas Movies, funny sledding crashes, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Cool Christmas Facts, fun Christmas videos made with Star Wars figures, recipe for Orange Eggnog Punch, opening Star Wars presents in the 1970s, Fleming’s Follies, including the top viral videos for 2006 and a look at the mashup video of Scrubs and Charlie Brown’s Christmas, Stephen Millhauser’s Martin Dressler and the rise of luxury lifestyles, Top Five Things You Should Know About Chanukah, a Very Lovecraft Christmas, recipe for Peanut Brittle, Heat Miser’s MySpace page, recipe for Mulled Wine, a Sleigh of Santas, and so much more holiday fun.

This week’s episode includes: Erasmus on buying books, shopping as therapy, Wordsworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us,” top five celebrity quotes about shopping, funny shopping movies, Robert Pinsky’s “To Television,” Rodney Jones’s “TV,” the origins of

This is the first video broadcast of the literary podcast, E-Verse Radio. Todays episode features poetry and literary references to one of the world’s favorite love-hate relationship, television. We include poetry by Roald Dahl and Ernest Hilbert, Internet-only TV shows, TV Dinners, The Boss’ 57 Channels, TV Facts, Top TV catchphrases and a whole lot more.