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Lisa Samuels

Reading Tender Girl, Waipapa Taumata Rau Sound Studios, Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2019–20

Recording made by Tim Page and released in 2021


  1. Introduction and Prelude (6:01): MP3
  2. Chapter 1 (31:08): MP3
  3. Chapter 2 (20:05): MP3
  4. Chapter 3 (19:11): MP3
  5. Chapter 4 (27:34): MP3
  6. Chapter 5 (17:36): MP3
  7. Chapter 6 (22:13): MP3
  8. Chapter 7 (27:26): MP3
  9. Chapter 8 (29:43): MP3
  10. Chapter 9 (32:17): MP3
  11. Chapter 10 (21:50): MP3
  12. Chapter 11 (36:25): MP3
  13. Chapter 12 (29:50): MP3
  14. Chapter 13 (21:08): MP3
  15. Chapter 14 (16:27): MP3
  16. Postlude (8:28): MP3

Segue Series Reading at the Zinc Bar, NYC, April 11, 2015

  • Complete Reading (29:25): MP3

Reading for Heatstrings at Modernism Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, November 7, 2014

Readers, in order:

  1. Lesley Wheeler (05:37): MP3
  2. Tyrone Williams (05:48): MP3
  3. Dan Tobin (04:40): MP3
  4. Elizabeth Savage (04:20):MP3
  5. Lisa Samuels (04:23): MP3
  6. A.L. Nielsen (04:11): MP3
  7. Julia Lisella (03:14): MP3
  8. Meta DuEwa Jones (03:31): MP3
  9. Cynthia Hogue (04:46): MP3
  10. Jeanne Heuving (05:35): MP3
  11. Elisabeth Frost (04:31): MP3
  12. Jan Beatty (04:42): MP3
  13. Rachel Blau DuPlessis (11:09): MP3

Complete recording (1:08:37): MP3

Tomorrowland, Deep Surface Productions, 2012



  1. The argument (3:26): MP3
  2. It's all good (9:42): MP3
  3. Treasure Island (9:32): MP3
  4. Sirens (9:41): MP3
  5. Neptune's open mouth (8:53): MP3
  6. Bulwarks (18:28): MP3
  7. Landed gently (9:32): MP3
  8. A little history (9:49): MP3
  9. All the buildings made of voices (15:05): MP3
  10. The body's charge (13:49): MP3
  11. Circumference (3:29): MP3

Appearing on LA-Lit, Los Angeles, November 23, 2008

  • Part A (51:54): MP3
  • Part B (37:08): MP3

Reading for LA-Lit Clouds, Los Angeles, November 21, 2008

  • introduction by Stephanie Rioux (0:50): MP3
  • complete reading (13:55): MP3

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These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the Lisa Samuels. © 2015. Used with the permission of Lisa Samuels. Distributed by PennSound.