Adventures in History, Adventures in the Library: Ollie Shane

Our wide-ranging conversation with poet and library fan Ollie Shane covers European history, contemporary poetry, Somerset Maugham, and more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Student at the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1981 (cropped). Image with no known copyright restrictions courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and movies!—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!   Theodor Adorno et al.                         Aesthetics and Politics                                                   Richard Aldrich                                   Colonialism and Homosexuality       Joseph Barbera & William Hanna      The Jetsons                                     Antony Beevor                                   The Second World War      Walter Benjamin                                 "The Work of Art in the Mechanical Age of Reproduction"                                                    Bertolt Brecht                                      Love Poems             Bertolt Brecht                                      Mother Courage and Her Children Richard Burton                                    "The Terminal Essay"                                                 CAConrad                                            While Standing in Line for Death                          Louis-Ferdinand Céline Oscar Chan                                          Nazi Titanic Chris-Chan (Christine Weston Chandler) Joseph Conrad                       Guy Debord Len Deighton                                        Winter Jacques Derrida                                   Specters of Marx           Philip K. Dick                                        The Man in the High Castle Charles Dickens Caroline Elkins                                     Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya                                                    Caroline Elkins                                     Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire                                                                           Tan Twan Eng                                      The House of Doors Bob Fosse                                            Cabaret Michel Foucault                                                                                                                                Frankfurt School Kurt Gödel              Veit Harlan                                             Jud Süss Stefano Harney & Fred Moten              The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study                                                                      Selina Hastings                                     The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography                                                   Fritz Hippler                                           The Eternal Jew Martin Jay                                              Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure                                                    François Jullien                                      In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics                                                    Philip Kerr                                              Berlin Noir Philip Kerr                                              Hitler's Peace   Rudyard Kipling                                                         Chris Kraus                                             I Love Dick Chris Kraus                                             Where Art Belongs Erik Larson                                              In the Garden of Beasts Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller                  Bad Gays: A Homosexual History Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller                  Bad Gays podcast Janna Levin                                             A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Gabriel García Márquez                          Until August Airea D. Matthews                                   Bread and Circus W. Somerset Maugham                          The Narrow Corner W. Somerset Maugham                          Of Human Bondage Ted Morgan                                             Maugham: A Biography Maggie Nelson Russell Nieli                                             Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language Friedrich Nietzsche                                                   Luis Puenzo                                            The Official Story           Assotto Saint                                            Sacred Spells: Collected Works Sam Sax                      Diane Seuss                                             Four-Legged Girl Diane Seuss                                             Frank: Sonnets Diane Seuss                                             Modern Poetry William Shakespeare                               Hamlet Ollie Shane                                              I Do It So It Feels Like Hell Ollie Shane                                              Notes from the Void Danez Smith                                            Bluff Frank Spotnitz (creator)                            The Man in the High Castle (series) Torquato Tasso                                        Jerusalem Delivered (esp. Anthony M. Esolen translation)                                                    Alan Turing Morten Tyldum                                         The Imitation Game Michael Verhoeven                                  The Nasty Girl        Eric Voegelin   Wolfram von Eschenbach                        Parzifal Michael Warner                                        Publics and Counterpublics Bill Watterson                                           Calvin and Hobbes Oscar Wilde Ludwig Wittgenstein                                 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus