Folklore, Fantasy, and the Power of Language: Kenzie Grubitz Simpson

We're talking today to linguist and grant writer Kenzie Grubitz Simpson about folklore, the power of embodiment and language—and even the weather!  Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Virginia Frances Sterret (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and shows!—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! David Abram  The Spell of the Sensuous                          Theodor Adorno Daniel Allison House of Legends podcast Daniel Allison Scottish Myths & Legends                        J. L. Austin How to Do Things with Words            Beowulf Svetlana Boym Paul Celan  Raymond Chandler                              Red Wind Susanna Clarke                                    Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Aleister Crowley John Crowley                                       The Aegypt Cyle  John Crowley Ka                                                        John Crowley Little, Big                                              Terrence Deacon Jacques Derrida                                   Joan Didion                                         "The Santa Anas" Merlin Donald A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness Moshe Feldenkrais                               Aris Fioretos, ed. Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan         Allen Grossman True-Love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing Che Guevara Werner Herzog                                    Grizzly Man Hildegarde of Bingen Samuel Johnson/ James Boswell A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland / The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Alfred Kroeber George Lakoff / Mark Johnson Metaphors We Live By Urusla K. Le Guin "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction"   Urusla K. Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea Urusla K. Le Guin Buffalo Gals Urusla K. Le Guin Tales from Earthsea Urusla K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness Urusla K. Le Guin The Other Wind Urusla K. Le Guin The Telling Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook John Sayles The Secret of Roan Inish Viktor ShklovskyKnight's Move Denis Villeneuve Arrival Ludwig Wittgenstein Frances A. Yates The Art of Memory William Tell