The Cariorker
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The Cariorker
Dreaming out loud in the over-cast cloud between New York City and Rio de Janeiro, The Cariorker brings podcast subscribers all the classic culture of "The Marvelous City," Rio de Janeiro. And yet, what you find here is in English, translated and performed by New York actor/writer Todd Conner. With...
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15 ຕອນPortraits: Cecília Afonsopena
What's in a name? In Rio de Janeiro you might be surprised. Cecília Afonsopena was born in Rio de Janeiro, but her family roots extend well into the c...
Go Filthy Get Filthy!
A man remembers a conversation he had many years ago on the terrace of the Theatre of São Pedro de Alcântara between acts of a play, which he doesn't...
Nuptial Song
Aging musical conductor Master Roman Pires is loved and respected by all -- a local celebrity, in fact. And yet, his dream has always been to compose....
Canary on the Brain
Macedo is an ornithologist (a scientist in the study of birds) who stumbles, literally, one day into a gloomy junk shop to discover a canary in a dila...
Among Saints
The perfect conclusion to The Cariorker's Lenten triptyche of stories leading up to Easter. Machado has set this tale of redemption and resurrection i...
The Church of the Devil
In this second of a triptych of stories on Biblical and ecclesiastic themes for the Lenten season, we join the Devil on his mission to start his own c...
Adam and Eve
In observance of the Lenten season, this is the first of three stories on Biblical and ecclesiastic themes, all of an unmistakably "Machadian" bent. <...
The Wallet
When the young lawyer, Honório, finds a wallet full of money on Assembly Street in Rio, we accompany him through the interior of the city during his o...
The Case of the Rod
A young seminarian escapes a monastery, seeking protection from his father's retribution while at the home of his godfather's sweetheart. Over the cou...
Chapter of the Hats
When a young wife demands that her husband stop wearing a hat beneath his station, his humiliating refusal causes her to rebel on the town with a more...
A Pair of Arms
The young wife of a legal solicitor in Lapa realizes that her husband's 15 year-old live-in clerk has fallen in love with her, because she always lea...
Midnight Mass
The storyteller recounts a Christmas Eve he spent alone with a Rio housewife when he was 17. With the distance of time and maturity, he still struggle...
The Mirror
Beneath a full moon over the hills of Santa Teresa in Rio de Janeiro, a gentleman fascinates his erudite friends by recounting a terrifying event in h...
The Card Reader
A young Rio man in love consults a card reader against his better judgement. What is finally revealed to him comes as a shock not only to his own noti...
Prologue: A Season With the Sorcerer
This first season of The Cariorker is dedicated to the contos (short stories) of "The Bruxo of Cosme Velho," Machado de Assis. This prologue is a disc...