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MOSTLY ESSAYS
by P.Vernon
Mostly Essays presents essays, vignettes, observations, reflections, stories, letters and memoirs; artfully presented for persons who enjoy eclectic taste. Explore a multitude of emotions and experiences, uncovered within an artsy, literary, medical, nostalgic, pop culture, urban and philosophical realm. With a dash of edge, raunch, strange and anger; and a whole lot of honesty and 'laugh out loud.'
Episodes
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SEASON II Episode 107 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'American Romances Essays" - Rebecca Brown
Rebecca cleverly a likens reading to our need for food, in the excerpt from essay, "Extreme Reading". One review describes Rebecca's essays as ...."If Rebecca Brown's talent for prose were any tighter, it would be a lyric - to a pop standard. An homage - a menage - to America, exposing what's…
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SEASON II Episode 106 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'My Own Words' - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
An excerpt from the chapter, "Women's Progress at the Bar and on the Bench" from Ginsburg's 'serious and playful collection of writings'. Reminds us that "a sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change." And answers the question, "What does women's participation in numbers…
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SEASON II Episode 105 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'The Way We Listen Now & Other Writings On Music?' - Bayan Northcott
Northcott pulls us in, if only by the title itself. Highlighted essay, "But Is It Mozart?"Northcott dissects, contrasts, and approaches Mozart's technique in answering this question coupled with presenting the facts of the day, that in fact, Mozart was not the first all-time prodigy-his precedent...
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SEASON II Episode 104 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces' - Ian Frazier
People Magazine describes Frazier's writing as "Perfectly groomed comic prose....It is the essence of society as we know it that concerns Frazier. That he is hilarious is just a bonus." Essay, 'Blue Bloods" highlights the horseshoe crab's role in LAL science and it's enormous contribution to...
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SEASON II Episode 103 'The Martha Beck Collection : Essays for Creating your Right Life Vol I ' - Martha Beck
Martha instructs us on how to 'get still' in the essay, "Four steps to find your life's path", in part. An 'instructive' and nurturing read. Go ahead and try the deep breathing exercise! #MostlyEssaysPodcast #MarthaBeckEssays #GetStill #OMagazine #meditation #deepbreathingexercises
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SEASON II Episode 102 'Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays' - Jesse McCarthy
Title inspired by Gil Scott's song."Jesse McCarthy's bracing essays investigate with virtuosic intensity the art, music, literature and political stances that have defined the twenty-first century". McCarthy asks ' What can reparations mean when the damage cannot be accounted for in the only…
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SEASON II Episode 101 MOSTLY ESSAYS '12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos' - Jordan B. Peterson
Have a read especially, Rule #9. Where Peterson highlights, 'Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.' Here Jordan explains the meaning of conversation and defines the different types. www.understandmyself.com www.jordanbpeterson.com. #JordanBPeterson...
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SEASON II Episode 100 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Other People Takes & Mistakes' - Dave Shields
Take me out to the ball game! Dave Shields highlights scores of fun and entertaining commentary "takes and mistakes" made within the sports industry. A clever read for both sports and non-sports enthusiasts. #DaveShields # MostlyEssaysPodcast #TakesandMistakes #WordsCantDescribe #funpodcast...
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SEASON II Episode 99 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Why I Don't Write & Other Stories' - Susan Minot
Minot's story, "Listen" is creatively crafted in vignette style. "Listen", presents a timeless conversation that any human, anywhere, at any time can relate to. Check Susan Minot out on Facebook @OfficialSusanMinotAuthor. #MostlyEssayspodcast #StoryListen #SusanMinotAuthor...
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Episode 98 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Maeve In Anerica- Essays By A Girl From Somewhere Else' - Maeve Higgins
In essay, 'Small Talk' Maeve highlights the fact that every culture has its very own version of small talk. #SmallTalk @TinaFey @DavidSedaris #MostlyEssayspodcast
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Episode 97 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Ex Libris : Confessions of a Common Reader' - Anne Fadiman
Fadiman breaks down the different ways to love a book, in her lighthearted essay, 'Never Do That To A Book'. Who knew that could even be categorized! lol. @AnneFadiman #MostlyEssayspodcast #ExLibris #neverdothattoabook #podcastonbooks
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Episode 96 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Of Color' - J. Bolina
In prose like style Bolina's award winning collection presents, the essay, 'What I Tell Them'. Based on what he should be recommending to his poetry students on becoming poets and what he in fact does say - '...I tell them you'll need to let the poem overthrow you'. @JaswinderBolina...
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Episode 95 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Think, Write, Speak. Uncollected Essays, Reviews Interviews and Letters to the Editor' - Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov breaks down the creative process for us in more or less two Russian words, 'vostorg' and 'vdokhnavania'....listen for more insights. @VNabokov @MostlyEssays @editorBrianBoyd #Spotifypodcastoncreativeprocess
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Episode 94 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'The Tenth Muse' - Herbert Read
Herbert gives us reasons why the response to the question - 'tell me what it means?' Isn't so straight forward. @HerbertRead #MostlyEssayspodcast @thetenthmuse
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Episode 93 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'No One Asked For This' - Cazzie David
A true 'mega dose of self awareness ' in an excerpt that offers an 'unguarded' insight into, depression, anxiety and misanthropy. @CazzieDavid #ShitTalking #MostlyEssays #Spotifypodcastdepression
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Episode 92 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'You're Not Listening : What You're Missing and Why It Matters - K. Murphy
Murphy presents the social function of gossip. From a psychological, neuroscience and sociological viewpoint, as it applies when it comes to listening. We shouldn't worry, only 3-4% of gossip is mean-spirited. @KateMurphy #TheMoralityofListening #WhyGossipIsGoodForYou #YoureNotListening...
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Episode 91 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Typewriters, Bombs and Jellyfish Essays' - Tom McCarthy
An excerpt from essay, 'Semi-Connected Thoughts...' invites us to look at the word, 'Now' and to imagine the person who does, 'flyfishing'....It won't be long before one breaks out into poetry by Yeats. @TomMcCarthy #NowNowNow #MostlyEssaysPodcast #flyfishing #Spotifypodcastonhumorousessays
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Episode 90 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions and Librettos - Harry Partch
Essayist and music iconoclast Partch describes in expanded detail Yeats 'great passion and disillusionments' in regards to setting his texts to music - and the talented similarities they shared. @WBYeats @HarryPartch #essaysonpoetry #essaysonmusic #YeatsOedipus #nofeelingformusic...
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Episode 89 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'My Southern Journey' - Rick Bragg
In essay, "O'Christmas Sock' Bragg playfully enlightens us on the 'why' of Christmas stockings and gives us room to ponder on their 'previously bottomless stretch'. Happy Holidays! @RickBragg #MostlyEssayspodcast #christmasessays #humorousessays #Spotifyentertainingpodcasts
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Episode 88 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'The Prince of Minor Writers' - Max Beerbohm
"Clever fast paced humor with mixture of benign serenity and quiet intellectual authority", is wittyly displayed in highlighted essay, "At Covent Gardens". Beerbohm's take on his experience at the opera. #MostlyEssays @MaxBeerbohm @CoventGardens #funnypodcasts #Spotifyessaypodcasts...
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Episode 87 MOSTLY ESSAYS My Bookstore Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Place To Browse Read and Shop - Brian Selznick
Brian Selznick amongst a slew of celebrated authors 'pays tribute' to his favorite 'brick-and-mortar for books' - Warwick's located in La Jolla, California. #MostlyEssays @BrianSelznick @AdamRoss @JohnGrisham @TerryTempestWilliams @DaveEggers @WendellBerry @AnnPacker @AnnPatchett...
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Episode 86 MOSTLY ESSAYS "Nothing Is Wrong, Here Is Why - Essays" - Alexandra Petri
Described as the funniest person in Washington - Alexandra brings us to tears with a laugh out loud vignette list on available parenting styles. Did she miss any? lol #MostlyEssaysPodcast @AlexandraPetri #SpotifyPodcasts #HowToParentWrong #NothingIsWrongHereIsWhy #HelicopterParenting...
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Episode 85 MOSTLY ESSAYS "The Chemistry of Fire" - Essays by Laurence Gonzales
Gonzales shares his love for lenses here. Coupled with some reminders on questions we still have unanswered in this century, regarding. 'The All-Seeing Eye'. #MostlyEssays #Spotifypodcast #LaurenceGonzales #TheChemistryOfFire
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EPISODE 84 MOSTLY ESSAYS "The Jinn From Hyperspace & Other Scribblings - Both Serious & Whimsical" - Martin Gardner
Highlighted essay, 'The Night Before Christmas' is an informative and entertaining argument which presents us with a defense for keeping the Santa myth alive amongst children. Author of over 100 books, Gardner's work is described as, 'vital and original' (Shirley H.) #MostlyEssaysPodcast...
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EPISODE 83 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'The Souls Of Yellow Folk' - Wesley Young
Young takes us on a trip down memory lane. From 'the box' to Britney Spears, where he first saw her. #MostlyEssaysPodcasts #WesleyYoung @WesleyYoung @BritneySpears
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EPISODE 82 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'My Southern Journey' (True Stories From the Heart) - Rick Bragg
Bragg gets us ready for stuffed turkey day, or does'nt as the case may be here. Enlightening us as to why the idea of stuffed turkey, 'ain't even human.' #MostlyEssaysPodcast #RickBragg #PulitzerPrize #FullyDressed #MySouthernJourney
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EPISODE 81 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Languages Of Truth Essays' - Salman Rushdie
Rushdie highlights 'One Hundred Years Of Solitude" and Garcia Marquez's fondness for gross exaggeration. #MostlyEssays #SalmanRushdie #Spotify #Podcasts #PodcastsOnWriting #OneHundredYearsOfSolitude
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Episode 80 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Music To My Ears The Billboard Essays' - Timothy White
The Caribbean renowed Calypso musician is the heart of the feature essay, 'Lord Kitchener Still Rules Calypso.' Here we discover, the evolution of Calpyso and how Lord Kitchener, the Calypso King, worked to make it more 'imaginative.' #MostlyEssays #TimothyWhite #LordKitchener #CalypsoKing
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Episode 79 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Essays On American Humor Blair Through The Ages' - Walter Blair
This collection of essays presents Walter Blair's writings categorized by style - Old Southwest, Local Color and Literary Comedian Humor. In this excerpt Blair illustrates the Tall Tale in 'The Ugliest Man In The World'. A tale that is not only funny, it helps us to see a sense of history and...
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Episode 78 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Everything Is Awful & Other Observations' - Matt Bellassai
A comedic sketch on how not to make one's status as a health icon. A Run do not Walk - away from this lifestyle! Number twenty one may be the safest bet there at a minimum.lol #MostlyEssays #MattBellassai #everythingisawful #humorousessays
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Episode 77 MOSTLY ESSAYS "Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed' - Mark Beckoff
Based on the study of animal emotions, Beckoff's collection, highlights the query, 'Do Animals Have Spiritual Experiences?' #MostlyEssays #animalmind #MarkBeckoff #DoAnimalsHaveSpiritualExperiences #WhyDogsHumpandBeesGetDepressed
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Episode 76 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Will Everyone Please Stop?' - Jenny Allen
Have a thorough laugh at any vices you can relate to stated here by award winning humorist Jenny Allen; and whilst you're at it consider your own strengths - apart from ....well...'holding down the fort' lol. #MostlyEssays #JennyAllen #LifeLiterally #WillEveryonePleaseStop #mostmispronouncedwords...
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Episode 75 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Browsings' - Michael Dirda
An excerpt from Michael's essay 'Twilight Of An Author', spells out what many writers gradually experience 'in their later years' . #MostlyEssays #MichaelDirda #essaysonwriting #FrostProvideProvide
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Episode 74 MOSTLY ESSAYS "What Are You Looking At?" - Will Gompertz
Gompertz fills in our artist knowledge gap here - a read that will leave us more enlightened. We know alot about Van Gogh but what of his 'old friend and tormentor, Paul Gauguin?' Apparently Van Gogh should be forever indebted to him - regardless of his 'Primitivism' and 'childlike quality'…
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Episode 73 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Enchantment and Cruelty - on Peter Pan by J.M. Barries' - Mary Gaitskill
A recommended essay for persons who have not yet seen a non-Disney version of 'Peter Pan'. The original version Gaitskill reminds us that, - "nothing will stand still", "not the most powerful of feelings nor the deepest bond." #MostlyEssays #Peterpan #JMBarries #SpotifypodcastsMovies…
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Episode 72 MOSTLY ESSAYS "Honesty Is The Best Policy, but Lying Will Give You the Life You Want" - Rebecca Fishbein
Fishbein brings on the funny and insightful with her take on Photoshopping the Truth and the difference between being nice and good. In her essay "Honesty Is The Best Policy..." (Excerpt). #MostlyEssays #RebeccaFishbein #GoodThingsHappenToPeopleYouHate #hilariousessays #LOLessays
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Episode 71 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'The Inner Coast Essays' - Donovan Hohn
Enter, 'the geography of the imagination'. Hohn's highlighted introduction outlines expectations of his essays featuring, thin ice, illustrated encyclopedias, etymology and sociology paced with Thoreau's best remembered questions, 'Who are we?' and 'Where are we?' To help make sense of histories...
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Episode 70 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Art & Other Serious Matters' - Harold Rosenberg
Rosenberg encourages us to put our thinking hats on, until he uses, the quote from Phil Rizzuto to Yogi Berra the Yankee catcher which states otherwise,"When you think, you hurt the whole team". 'Art is a Special Way of Thinking', indeed; and as essay it is one of the most successful ways of...
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Episode 69 MOSTLY ESSAYS "The Browser's Ectasy" - Geoffrey O'Brien
A fun take on the love for reading. Described by O'Brien as 'about living with, and through and among and inside many, many, books and making countless connections among them.' #MostlyEssays # GeoffreyOBrien #literarypodcast #whatshallireadnext #MeditationOnReading #TheBrowsersEctasy
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Episode 68 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Blues For Vincent ' - Geoff Dyer
Geoff draws us in here on his introspective view on music as 'shelter', especially the blues. "..as long as there are people on earth they will have need of this music." #MostlyEssays #GeoffDyer #essaysonmusic #effectivelistening #BluesForVincent #VanGogh #OtherwiseKnownAsTheHumanCondition
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Episode 67 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'About Bathrooms' - A.P. Herbert
For author and legal writer of over eighty books, the subject matter of bathrooms is no laughing matter. Herbert feels modern civilization has gotten the "whole attitude toward bathrooms wrong". For one the bathroom needs to be "opulent and full of pictures." #MostlyEssays #essayonbathrooms...
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Episode 66 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'More Alive Less Lonely' - Jonathan Letham
Calling All Moby Dick Fans! Letham conveys a love for Moby Dick through his essay, "Engulf and Devour". 'Dear reader arrive at page one with expectations, anticipations, your breath held...' Have a listen and see if you can relate, in regards to any book you too may have wholeheartedly…
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Episode 65 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Selected Short Stories' - Guy De Maupassant (a translation)
Maupassant's robust storytelling in selected short story, "An Old Man" cleverly amuses...wait for it, wait for it.... #MostlyEssays #GuydeMaupassant #my #oldageessay #AnOldManEssay #lolessay
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Episode 64 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Always Beginning' Essays on Life in Poetry - Maxine Kumin
This essay uses Frost's poem 'Provide, Provide', to describe Frost's use of rhetoric, irony and rhyming triplets. 'The multiple rhyme does not banter but it does swagger a little'. #MostlyEssays #RobertFrost #poemProvideProvide #AlwaysBeginningKumin #MaxineKumin
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Episode 63 'Michelangelo's Sculpture Selected Essays' - Leo Steinberg
Do you know of a particular piece of art that makes you "cranky"? Check out Michelangelo's "young archer" more commonly described as a "Cupid" or sometimes "Manhattan Cupid", what are your thoughts? Steinberg does not hold back here on his disapproval of the figure's proportions. 'As he sees it,...
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Episode 62 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Black Music Essays' - Leroi Jones
On Coltrane, Jones illustrates, 'he is turning his attention to that old problem in jazz of improvising on a simple and terribly strict melodic line.....' #MostlyEssays #LeroiJones #AmiriBaraka #essaysonmusic #jazzessay
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Episode 61 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Reflections On Art' - Susan K. Langer
Langer's selected essay by Brelet, makes a distinction between form and silence. The essay also considers types of silences and form and contemplates why 'sound must fade away and die'. #SusanKLanger #MostlyEssays #ReflectionsOnArt #Music&Silence #essayonmusicphilosophy #podcastonmusicphilosophy
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Episode 60 MOSTLY ESSAYS' Intuition And The Aesthetic Experience' - Clemente Greenberg
'No One Can Teach Or Show You Intuit' - A giant in the art criticism world, Greenberg gives us an "expansive view on taste and quality of art". #ClementGreenberg #MostlyEssays #ArtCritic #EssaysOnTaste #Intuition&AestheticExperience
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Episode 59 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'The Joy Of Reading' - Charles Van Doren
From a collection of over two hundred beloved reads. Essayist, Montaigne is highlighted - for 'he writes what he feels and what he knows to be true'. But above all, 'you will recognize yourself in him - human nature.' (no matter that he was from the sixteenth century). #MostlyEssays #Montaigne...
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Episode 58 MOSTLY ESSAYS 'Be The Change' - Ed & Deb Shapiro
What does meditation have in common with bread baking? This way to an inspiring collection of writings by top mind, body, and spirit leaders - presented by worldwide teachers Ed and Deb Shapiro. The selected excerpt by Mark Jensen, looks at how the role of meditation could co-exist within…
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Mostly Essays presents essays, vignettes, observations, reflections, stories, letters and memoirs; artfully presented for persons who enjoy eclectic taste. Explore a multitude of emotions and experiences, uncovered within an artsy, literary, medical, nostalgic, pop culture, urban and philosophical realm. With a dash of edge, raunch, strange and anger; and a whole lot of honesty and 'laugh out loud.'
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