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_outlineClassicist 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: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy [cropped]. Wm. S. Kimball & Co., 1889. CC0 1.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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V. C. Andrews
Flowers in the Attic
Aristophanes
Peace
Aristotle
James Baldwin
Honoré de Balzac
The Unknown Masterpiece
Roland Barthes
Mythologies
The Beatles
Simone de Beauvoir
The Mandarins
Samuel Beckett
Saul Bellow
Andrei Bely
Petersburg
Ingmar Bergman
Lauren Berlant
Cruel Optimism
Thomas Bernhard
Concrete
Thomas Bernhard
Gathering Evidence & My Prizes
John Berryman
"Dream Song 14"
John Berryman
The Dream Songs
Roberto Bolaño
By Night in Chile
Brockport Writers Forum
John Berryman Interview
William F. Buckley
Ian Buruma
"Who Did Not Collaborate?" (on Jean-Paul Sartre)
Michael Cacoyannis
The Trojan Women
Julius Caesar
Albert Camus
Elias Canetti
Auto-da-Fé
Elias Canetti
Crowds and Power
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Marcus Porcius Cato
Catullus
The Complete Poetry, translated by Frank O. Copley
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Cicero
Coffee House Press
Criterion Collection
Confucianism
Dalkey Archive
Gilles Deleuze
Deborah Eisenberg
Nawal El Saadawi
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader
Euripides
Bacchae
Euripides
The Trojan Women
Jon Fosse
Septology
William Gaddis
Agapē Agape
Maxim Gorky
Stephen J. Gould
David Graeber / David Wengrow
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Grove Atlantic
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Memories of Underdevelopment
Mark Haber
Lesser Ruins
Mark Haber
Saint Sebastian's Abyss
John Haffenden
The Life of John Berryman
Byung-Chul Han
The Burnout Society
Heinrich Heine
"Die Lorelei"
Abbie Hoffman
Steal This Book
Homer
Gitta Honegger
Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian
Gary Indiana
James Joyce
Dubliners
Miranda July
John Maynard Keynes
Eugene Lim
Fog & Car
Literary Hub
Nicole Loraux
The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City
Nicole Loraux / Laura M. Slatkin / Gregory Nagy
Antiquities: Postwar French Thought vol. 3
Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Gaius Marius
Karl Marx
Søren Mau
A Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
Menander
Henry Miller
Black Spring
Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer
John Mullen
Great Poets in Their Own Words
Iris Murdoch
The Sea, The Sea
Mark Neocleous
Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police
New Directions
NYRB Classics
John O'Brien
Kenneth Patchen
Pamela Paul
Raoul Peck
Lumumba
Bob Perelman
The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky
Plato
Plutarch
Lives
Chad W. Post
"Remembering John O'Brien"
Ezra Pound
“Canto LXXXI”
Hannah Proctor
Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
Marcel Proust
Gerard Reve
The Evenings
Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Ellen Rutten
Sincerity After Communism: A Cultural History
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction
Sallust
Arno Schmidt
Ousmane Sembène
Xala
Socrates
Solon
Sophocles
Antigone
Scott Spillman
Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today
Benedict de Spinoza
Heiny Srour
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
Gertrude Stein
Bret Stephens
Rabrindrinath Tagore
Hunter S. Thompson
Thucydides
Leo Tolstoy
Leon Trostsky
The History of the Russian Revolution
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Pierre Vidal-Nauet
Gregor von Rezzori
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories
David Foster Wallace
Émile Zola
Louis Zukofsky