Season 6: The Wendy Steiner Show: Women, Beauty and Choice

Season 6:  “The Wendy Steiner Show: Women, Beauty and Choice”  This will be the second time Wendy Steiner has been on our podcast - on the occasion of her most timely yet perennial book The Beauty Of Choice.  At the conclusion of our episode I was treated to a viewing of some of her paintings which are truly beautiful, one aspect of her immense talents with which I had been unaware, even after reading her now for close to four decades (!)  What in an earlier era would have been classified as "current events" came up often in this episode which is only fitting since her latest book is - to my mind - one of the most successful ones to merge a discussion of aesthetics and politics, and even, other realms, like biology and geopolitics.  I found the discussion of the Chaucer one of the most exciting I have ever had with another guest about any single - or singular work - of art - the greatest proof, if such proof were ever considered necessary, that a work of written art some six hundred years ago could be as forceful and relevant as if it had been written last week.  Something tells me that Steiner's book may very well be a reference for as long into the future.  I feel that our conversation that you will watch contains within it so much that the podcast is truly about. Wendy’s Bio: Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and a wide-ranging cultural critic who has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Nation, London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement. Links to Wendy’s new book and other works: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-beauty-of-choice/9780231215268 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/S/W/au5427647.html More links about Wendy and her beautiful work: https://web.english.upenn.edu/~wsteiner/  A sampling of stunning Wendy’s art work we spoke of  in our episode can be found on our show Facebook page, here: #chaucer #painting #kosovo #canterburytales #wifeofbath #loathlylady #metoo #feminism #democracy #anneapplebaum #timothysnyder #ukraine #russia #1990s #1970s #heroinatmemorial #1998 #balkans #newyorkcity #opera #comedy #tragedy #uk #italy #pristina #albania #yugoslavia #biology #evolution #freedom #beauty #choice #women #art #opera #ballet #music #classicalmusic #dance