But Jeff Alessandrelli — a 33-year-old Omahan and owner of the spoken-word-poetry vinyl record press Fonograf Editions — knew when he launched this endeavor last year that it wasn’t going to ...

Barbara Holdridge and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of such famous writers as Dylan Thomas and T.S. Eliot reciting their work. Holdridge died Monday at 95.

Barbara Holdridge, a pioneer for spoken-word recordings, dies at 95. In 1952, she and her friend Marianne Mantell founded Caedmon Records, putting out LP records of poets and authors reading their ...