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Still a Classic?
by Still a Classic?
Leah Eichler and Susan Catto battle it out on whether books deemed classics still deserve that moniker. Listen in! esotericamagazine.substack.com
Episodes
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The Comfort of Ghosts
New offer for Founding Members: Join now and enjoy a 45-minute Zoom call where I help you turn one Substack post (1500 words or less) into a masterpiece. See my bio for credentials. While supplies last :) In Jamaica, I overhear my boyfriend Isac laughing in the next room. He says a few words I...
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What Lena Dunham's "Treasure" Got Right About Jewish Heritage Trips...and Wrong
(Spoiler alert! I will be revealing aspects of the plot in the following post.) What Lena Dunham's "Treasure" gets right -- and wrong -- about Jewish heritage trips. Growing up, my dad had this quirky saying that I was sure carried more meaning in its original Slovak than it did in his English...
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Suffering from nostalgia
Suffering from Nostalgia Can you experience PTSD from writing a memoir? At what point does looking back switch from personal growth to a damaging obsession? The other day I woke up to the sound of my dogs barking uncontrollably. Usually only the tiny Pomeranian makes a peep; my aging Black Lab...
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Strange Bedfellows
Edit email header and footer When Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University, I realize I had lost my way. It’s a strange reaction to have, considering I have zero connection to Harvard. Before her remarks at the congressional testimony, I doubt I would have been able to tell you…
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Episode Two: Still a Classic? The Remains of the Day
Esoterica’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. In episode two of Still a Classic, Leah and Susan talk about the 1989 novel The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, which follows Stevens, a head...
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Esoterica's The Interview: Junkyard Girl
In Junkyard Girl, Carlyn Montes De Oca describes how she needed to rebuild her identity at 57 after learning that she was adopted. Not only did her entire family (over 60 first cousins and many more second cousins, spouses, etc!) know about it, even childhood friends and acquaintances did. The...
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Esoterica's The Interview with Howard Lovy
Howard Lovy is a lifelong journalist, writer and developmental editor, who works with non-fiction writers and memoirists to bring out their story. “Everyone has a book in them,” explains Lovy. In terms of non-fiction Jewish topics, Lovy recalls how in the 2000s, there was talk about Jewish…
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Esoterica's The Interview with Terry Fallis
Also in this episode, Esoterica’s Susan Catto and Leah Eichler quiz Terry Fallis on the feminism in his books, how he captures the quintessentially Canadian ethos and if his engineering background helped with his writing structure. Spoiler alert: minor developments in Operation Angus are…
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Esoterica's The Interview speaks with Joseph Kertes
Joseph Kertes was born in Hungary but escaped with his family to Canada after the revolution of 1956. He studied English at York University and the University of Toronto, where he was encouraged in his writing by Irving Layton and Marshall McLuhan. His novel, Gratitude, won a Canadian National...
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Esoterica's The Interview
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Esoterica's The Interview
Hi all, In this episode of The Interview, Leah Eichler and Susan Catto discuss the controversy over the film, Blonde, and the bizarre critique of Joyce Carol Oates, who wrote the novel, Blonde, on which the film is based. It all gets very meta. We also chat about banned book week, and our fav...
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The F-Boys of Classic Literature?
We also discuss: * What makes a great short story, inspired by A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders * Life in the newsroom, inspired by Margaret Sullivan’s upcoming book, Newsroom Confidential * John Irving - It’s been 45 years since he published The World According to Garp. Boy, was…
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Esoterica's The Interview: Samantha Bailey
Best-selling author Samantha Bailey talks about her new thriller, Watch Out for Her, inspired by that nagging need mothers sometimes succumb to to be constantly on alert for their children. Bailey also talks about the myth of the overnight success and why you should never give up on your dreams....
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Esoterica's The Interview: Michael Arntfield
In this wide ranging interview with Michael Arntfield, a global expert and former detective who has devoted his career to solving cold cases, we discuss the rising interest of true crime stories, what it really means to have a case go cold and the fantasy that most killers get caught. Arntfield,...
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The Interview: Kurt Vonnegut Special
What would Kurt Vonnegut do (WWKVD)? Or, more accurately, what would he say about the last 15 years? Vonnegut died on April 11, 2007 and we can only imagine. Listen in on Esoterica's The Interview with Julia Whitehead, CEO of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Robert Basler, a lifelong, global…
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The Interview: Rethinking #IWD2022
In this week’s episode of The Interview, Susan Catto, an award-winning writer and editor who has contributed to The New York Times, The Economist and Time, talks to Esoterica’s Leah Eichler about the commercialization of International Women’s Day and offers concrete ways to make the holiday your...
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The Interview: Bruce Farrell Rosen talks about his uncle, the Jewish gangster, Myer Rush
Bombing, $100 million stock scams, surreptitious arms sales, being declared dead — twice! Bruce Farrell Rosen gives us the lowdown on an uncle who considered himself a modern day Robin Hood. The courts, and his victims, likely thought otherwise. Listen in: Get full access to Leah Eichler at...
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The Interview with Peter Edwards
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The Interview: Brian Hanley, the microbiologist who hacks his own genes
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Esoterica's The Interview with Enzo Silon Surin
Enzo Silon Surin is a Haitian-born award-winning poet, educator, publisher and social advocate. He is the author of three collections of poetry, including, When My Body Was A Clinched Fist, winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards for Poetry. In the interview, Enzo explains how “When…
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Esoterica's The Interview with Andrew Weisse
Please follow Andrew on his Substack, The Psychedelic Blog. Get full access to Leah Eichler at esotericamagazine.substack.com/subscribe
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Esoterica's The Interview with Oritte Bendory
Bendory is a writer of screenplays, short stories, novels and non-fiction. Her recent essay, in “Midlife on Fire,” tackles what it means to embrace motherhood in midlife and how that impacted her art. Listen in: Get full access to Leah Eichler at esotericamagazine.substack.com/subscribe
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Esoterica's The Interview: Barry Levine
The sordid tale of Jeffrey Epstein, and partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell, never seems to fall far from the news agenda. Legendary journalist Barry Levine separates the conspiracy theories from the truth. Listen in. Get full access to Leah Eichler at esotericamagazine.substack.com/subscribe
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Interview with Bethany Browning, emerging author of horror, mystery and dark humour
If you are anything like me, then, quite a lot keeps you up at night. A raging pandemic. Climate catastrophe. Civil and political unrest. In this episode of the Interview, Esoterica speaks with Bethany Browning, horror and mystery writer, on why we turn to scary stories even when the world seems...
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Author Jonathan Papernick on loneliness, polyamory and "chick lit for guys."
Happy New Year? I say that with hesitation, since, in Toronto at least, we are back in lockdown. The eternal optimist in me never imagined we’d start the new year this way. However, here we are and lucky for you, you have Esoterica as an antidote to the endless doom-scrolling. Near the end of…
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The Future is Psychedelic ...
Esoterica has been on a psychedelic kick lately. If you missed it, check out Psychedelics and the Holocaust: A Journey into Ancestral Memory by Seth Lorinczi. Get full access to Leah Eichler at esotericamagazine.substack.com/subscribe
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Excerpt: I Am My Beloveds
By Jonathan Papernick Ben sat alone on his and Shira’s sensible microfiber couch, laptop propped on his knees, entirely miserable. Shira was out canoodling with her girlfriend again, while Ben scrolled through a dizzying carousel of profile pics on Tinder, leaden heart thudding in his chest. It…
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The Interview: Author Judy Stanigar
Welcome to the first instalment of The Interview, where Esoterica Magazine gets to know San Diego author Judy Stanigar. Judy talks about being raised by Holocaust survivors, about immigrating to the United States as a teenager, and about how her early professional life, where she worked at a...
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Leah Eichler and Susan Catto battle it out on whether books deemed classics still deserve that moniker. Listen in! esotericamagazine.substack.com
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