A Writer’s Garden of Sound

(), an online sound library that features short recordings of writers and other artists reading encountered texts, find themselves on a rich green landing page laced with the outlines of brighter green leaves. At the page’s center is both a signpost and a button: Enter Garden, which upon clicking dissipates into several icons abstractly reminiscent of buds. Select one and it blooms, both into visuals and sound: “This is Mimi Lok reading for Oral Florist,” a voice might say as a five-petaled yellow flower twists into view and, spinning slowly, accumulates an array of purple spokes. “Today I’m going to read you an excerpt from the manual for the Jeep Wrangler JL, which is a miniature radio-controlled