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 ...
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Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Screenshot, Anatomy of a Murder [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Jean M. Auel
The Earth's Children series
Jane Austen
Nicholson Baker
The Mezzanine
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Leonard Baskin
Carl Boyer
A History of Mathematics
Michael Connelly
Resurrection Walk
Alain Delon
Helen DeWitt
"Scribbling"
Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Emily Dickinson
"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"
Annie Dillard
The Writing Life
Malcolm Gladwell
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Edward Hirsch
"Fast Break"
Friedrich Hölderlin
Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (translated by Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover)
Nick Hornby
Ted Hughes
Crow
Jedidiah Jenkins
To Shake the Sleeping Self
Daniel Kahneman
Thinking, Fast and Slow
M. M. Kaye
The Far Pavilions
Marian Keyes
My Favorite Mistake
Mark Kurlansky
1968: The Year that Rocked the World
Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
London Review of Books
J. D. McClatchy, ed.
Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets
Colleen McCullough
The Thorn Birds
Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle)
Jean-Pierre Melville
Le Samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville
Un flic (A Cop)
Vincente Minnelli
Brigadoon
Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the Wind
Friedrich Nietzsche
Shaquille O'Neal
Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Poetry in America
Radiolab
J. K. Rowling
Edward Said
J. D. Salinger
Adam Shatz
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination
Shel Silverstein
The Giving Tree
Zadie Smith
David Strathairn
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Walt Whitman
"The Wound-Dresser"
Dick Wolf / Rick Eid
Law & Order