A Visit to the Bookstore: Annie Clymer
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We’re joined by owner of Annie Clymer, who tells us all about running a bookstore, giving old titles another chance, and the weird workings of memory. Intro and outro music: “” courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Trapani, libreria del Corso [cropped]. image courtesy HaguardDuNord and . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! Richard Ayoade Ceren Beilin Ceren Beilin Ceren Beilin Eula Biss Brian Blanchfield ...
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Mystery Prevails: Lara Levitan
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Writer joins us to talk about sticking to your craft, other authors’ influence, and keeping the mystery alive. Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Theda Bara, still from Madame Mystery [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! Wes Anderson Wes Anderson Annie Baker Jen Beagin Jen Beagin Jen Beagin Hans Blumenberg Mark Frost / David Lynch Nick Hunt Miranda July...
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In Search of Another Greece: JC Boyle
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Classicist and reader extraordinaire JC Boyle tells us about the Greeks, Ezra Pound, Thomas Bernhard, lending out your books, and so much more! Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy [cropped]. Wm. S. Kimball & Co., 1889. CC0 1.0 image courtesy and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! V. C. Andrews Aristophanes Honoré de Balzac Roland...
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Finding the Mean: Tim Mather
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tells us about bringing Aristotle into contemporary life, and about keeping a famous family tree alive. Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. Aristotle instructing Alexander the Great [cropped]. image courtesy . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! Wes Anderson Aristotle Robert Caro Anton Chekhov "" Winston Churchill "" John Cotton / Richard Mather Sebastian De Grazia ...
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Exploration and Rediscovery: Caroline Turner
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Biologist Caroline Turner joins us to talk about the challenges and rewards of reading outside your own culture. Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: World map produced in Amsterdam, 1689 [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! J. J. Abrams / Jeffrey Liebfer / Damon Lindelof Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexievich Jokha Alharthi Poul Anderson "" Isaac Asimov ...
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Nature and the Strange: Matt Stansberry
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Nature writer and podcaster tells us about the challenges of conservation and management—and the supernatural goings-on that come with it. Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: The Squonk, illustrated by Coert Du Bois and William T. Cox [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! A. R. Ammons Rudolfo Anaya Ted Andrews John Baglow Frank Black "" James Cameron ...
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Some of Them Wrote It Down: George Schmidt
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Chaplain, podcaster, and religion scholar joins us to talk William Blake, the support found in reading, and Star Wars galore! Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Manny Warman, Columbia University Bicentennial panel exhibition on banned books [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Columbia University Archives and . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! Saul D. Alinsky Richard Attenborough James...
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Stories Wherever You Find Them: Vahid Friedrich
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Vahid Friedrich, advisor to financial advisors, is talking to us about storytelling—in sci-fi, video games, religion, and more! Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Cover of Science Fiction Quarterly, Nov. 1952 [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! ...
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Language and Attention: Donato Loia
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Art historian and writer joins us today to talk about the interplay of language, music, art and more! Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Three Girls in Yellow Straw Hats [cropped], August Macke. Public domain image courtesy . Ryan Adams Dore Ashton Ingmar Bergman David Brooks John D'Agata James Elkins James Elkins James Elkins Granta Peter Heehs Karl Ove Knausgaard Karl Ove Knausgaard Donato Loia Barry Lopez Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche Lisa Robertson "" Lisa Robertson Leslie Stevens Henry David...
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Life-Changing Books: Wendy Hustwit
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We’re talking to fundraising and development maven Wendy Hustwit about the books that changed your life, where to find recommendations, and reading versus application. Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Poster for the 1918 film Tengerparti álom [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy . Margaret Atwood Jean M. Auel Simone de Beauvoir Judy Blume Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Heather Cox Richardson Robert Day Brian De Palma Nawal El Saadawi George Eliot Natalie Goldberg Natalie Goldberg Nikole Hannah-Jones Liam Heneghan ...
info_outlinePoet and educator L. S. McKee tells us about poetry and personas, the joys of secret venues, writing across science and art curricula, and even relics.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Joan Crawford holding mask of herself (cropped). Photoplay, 1932. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Want to learn more about the books—and music!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
Elizabeth Arnold The Reef
Anne Carson Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
Rachel Carson Silent Spring
Paul Celan "Death Fugue"
Julio Cortázar Blow-Up: And Other Stories
Julio Cortázar Hopscotch
Julio Cortázar The Winners
Frédéric Gros The Security Principle: From Serenity to Regulation
Luke Harding "'It's the new normal': in Kiev's newest book store, readers fear how Ukraine's story will end"
Hugh Haughton, ed. Second World War Poems
Zbigniew Herbert "The Prayer of the Traveler Mr. Cogito"
Homer The Iliad (transl. Emily Wilson)
Homer The Odyssey
Hope Jahren Lab Girl: A Memoir
Hope Jahren The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Brad J. Kallenberg By Design: Ethics, Theology, and the Practice of Engineering
Benjamín Labatut When We Cease to Understand the World
Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook
Primo Levi "The Molecule's Defiance" in A Tranquil Star: Stories
Primo Levi The Periodic Table
Janna Levin A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Christopher Logue War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
Georg Lukács The Theory of the Novel
L. S. McKee "Alva Watches the Previous President Fly Away"
L. S. McKee Creature Wing Heart Machine
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Maggie Nelson On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
George Oppen New Collected Poems
Jonathan Sumption The Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God
Greta Thunberg The Climate Book
Isabel Zapata In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation