Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles Sumner, Monica Lewinsky, and Anita Loos; the Lincoln highway, joys of gardening, goldfish, skunk raising, and the cultivation of tobacco. "Earthquakes" was co-authored by Louis Pakiser.

Latest episodes of the podcast Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036 by Various

• Bill Clinton's Apology to the Nation Regarding the Lewinsky Affair (1998)
• Daisy
• Driving the Lincoln Highway, Chicago to Rochelle, Illinois, in 1915
• Earthquakes
• Five American Contributions to Civilization
• Goldfish
• The Handwriting on the Screen: An Interview with Anita Loos, Everybody's Magazine, 1917
• An Interview with Anita Loos, Wireless Magazine, 1922
• No Tax On Books, 1864
• On Gardening
• On a New Kind of Rays
• Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression
• The Philosophy of Religion, excerpts
• Practical Skunk Raising
• The Questioning Mania
• A Swimmer's Status - Beaurepaire Ruled Not an Amateur
• A Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant
• A Way of Life