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We're joined by owner of Chapter House Books Annie Clymer, who tells us all about running a bookstore, giving old titles another chance, and the weird workings of memory. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Trapani, libreria del Corso [cropped]. CC BY 4.0 image courtesy HaguardDuNord and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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! Richard Ayoade The Unfinished Harauld Hughes Eve Babitz Ceren Beilin Blackfishing the IUD Ceren Beilin Revenge of the Scapegoat Ceren Beilin Sea, Poison Eula Biss On Immunity Brian Blanchfield Proxies: Essays Near Knowing Jorge Luis Borges Chapter House Books Chloë Clifton-Wright "Posterity Is Vulgar" Percival Everett Erasure Will Ferguson Hokkaido Highway Blues (now Hitching Rides with Buddha) Jonathan Franzen Frank Herbert Dune Dave Hickey Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy Rachel Ingalls Mrs. Caliban James Joyce Ulysses Stephen King Danse Macabre Stephen King On Writing Stanley Kubrick The Shining Dorothea Lasky Animal Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead Ottessa Moshfegh Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest and Relaxation Doireann Ní Ghríofa A Ghost in the Throat    Lauren Oyler Fake Accounts Lauren Oyler No Judgment Fernando Pessoa Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket The New York Review of Books The New Yorker David Foster Wallace "Consider the Lobster" John Williams Augustus John Williams Butcher's Crossing John Williams Stoner Joy Williams The Quick and the Dead Rachel Yoder Nightbitch  

Writer Lara Levitan joins us to talk about sticking to your craft, other authors' influence, and keeping the mystery alive. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Theda Bara, still from Madame Mystery [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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! Wes Anderson Moonrise Kingdom Wes Anderson The French Dispatch Annie Baker Janet PlanetJen Beagin Big Swiss Jen Beagin Pretend I'm Dead Jen Beagin Vacuum in the Dark Hans Blumenberg Paradigms for a Metaphorology Svetlana Boym Mark Frost / David Lynch Twin Peaks G. W. F. Hegel Nick Hunt Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence Miranda July All Fours Adam Kelly New Sincerity: American Fiction in the Neoliberal Age Abbas Kiarostami Lara Levitan The Secret Sugar Daddies Madame Pamita Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods Simon Morley, ed. The Sublime Kornél Mundruczó White God Orhan Pamuk The Black Book Orhan Pamuk Snow Rainer Maria Rilke "Archaic Torso of Apollo" Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies Salman Rushdie Christoph Rüter Hans Blumenberg—The Invisible Philosopher George Saunders Story Club with George Saunders Lowell Sheppard Chasing the Cherry Blossom: A Spiritual Journey Through Japan Peter Sloterdijk Critique of Cynical Reason Peter Sloterdijk You Must Change Your Life David Foster Wallace  A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again David Foster Wallace  The Pale King Ludwig Wittgenstein Rachel Yoder Nightbitch

Classicist and reader extraordinaire JC Boyle tells us about the Greeks, Ezra Pound, Thomas Bernhard, lending out your books, and so much more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy [cropped]. Wm. S. Kimball & Co., 1889. CC0 1.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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! V. C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic Aristophanes Peace Aristotle James Baldwin Honoré de Balzac The Unknown Masterpiece Roland Barthes Mythologies The Beatles Simone de Beauvoir The Mandarins Samuel Beckett Saul Bellow Andrei Bely Petersburg Ingmar Bergman Lauren Berlant Cruel Optimism Thomas Bernhard Concrete Thomas Bernhard Gathering Evidence & My Prizes John Berryman "Dream Song 14" John Berryman The Dream Songs Roberto Bolaño By Night in Chile Brockport Writers Forum John Berryman Interview William F. Buckley Ian Buruma "Who Did Not Collaborate?" (on Jean-Paul Sartre) Michael Cacoyannis The Trojan Women Julius Caesar Albert Camus Elias Canetti Auto-da-Fé Elias Canetti Crowds and Power Horacio Castellanos Moya Marcus Porcius Cato Catullus The Complete Poetry, translated by Frank O. Copley Louis-Ferdinand Céline Cicero Coffee House Press Criterion Collection Confucianism Dalkey Archive Gilles Deleuze Deborah Eisenberg Nawal El Saadawi The Nawal El Saadawi Reader Euripides Bacchae Euripides The Trojan Women Jon Fosse Septology William Gaddis Agapē Agape Maxim Gorky Stephen J. Gould David Graeber / David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Grove Atlantic Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Memories of Underdevelopment Mark Haber Lesser Ruins Mark Haber Saint Sebastian's Abyss John Haffenden The Life of John Berryman Byung-Chul Han The Burnout Society Heinrich Heine "Die Lorelei" Abbie Hoffman Steal This Book Homer Gitta Honegger Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian Gary Indiana James Joyce Dubliners Miranda July John Maynard Keynes Eugene Lim Fog & Car Literary Hub Nicole Loraux The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City Nicole Loraux / Laura M. Slatkin / Gregory Nagy Antiquities: Postwar French Thought vol. 3 Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain Gaius Marius Karl Marx Søren Mau A Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital Menander Henry Miller Black Spring Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer John Mullen Great Poets in Their Own Words Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea Mark Neocleous Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police New Directions NYRB Classics John O'Brien Kenneth Patchen Pamela Paul Raoul Peck Lumumba Bob Perelman The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky Plato Plutarch Lives Chad W. Post "Remembering John O'Brien"  Ezra Pound "Canto LXXXI" Hannah Proctor Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat Marcel Proust Gerard Reve The Evenings Walter Rodney How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Ellen Rutten Sincerity After Communism: A Cultural History J. D. Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction Sallust Arno Schmidt Ousmane Sembène Xala Socrates Solon Sophocles Antigone Scott Spillman Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today Benedict de Spinoza Heiny Srour The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived Gertrude Stein Bret Stephens Rabrindrinath Tagore Hunter S. Thompson Thucydides Leo Tolstoy Leon Trostsky The History of the Russian Revolution Jean-Pierre Vernant Pierre Vidal-Nauet Gregor von Rezzori Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories David Foster Wallace Émile Zola Louis Zukofsky

Tim Mather tells us about bringing Aristotle into contemporary life, and about keeping a famous family tree alive. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. Aristotle instructing Alexander the Great [cropped]. CC BY-SA 4.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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!   Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics Robert Caro The Passage of Power Anton Chekhov "The Boor" Winston Churchill "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last." John Cotton / Richard Mather The Bay Psalm Book Sebastian De Grazia Machiavelli in Hell Charles Dickens David Copperfield Anthony Doerr Cloud Cuckoo Land Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Benjamin Franklin       Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Finding Your Roots Jessica Hagy Indexed Michael Haneke The White Ribbon Samantha Harvey Orbital David Hume Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities Immanuel Kant The Critique of JudgmentSøren Kierkegaard The Sickness Unto Death John Landis An American Werewolf in London John Locke Ludacris Alasdair MacIntyre After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory Abijah P. Marvin The Life and Times of Cotton Mather Cotton Mather On Witchcraft David McCullough Morrissey Autobiography Mihkel Mutt The Inner Immigrant Mike Myers "Sprockets" Nextdoor Plato POYKPAC Comedy "Hipster Olympics" Vidkun Quisling Richard P. Rumelt The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists Douglas Rushkoff Get Back in the Box Sons of the American Revolution The Smiths "Ask" Eckhart Tolle The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Leo Tolstoy Childhood, Boyhood, Youth Leo Tolstoy "The Death of Ivan Ilych" Leo Tolstoy "The Kreuzer Sonata" Leo Tolstoy "Where There Is Love, There God Is Also" Stefan Zweig The World of Yesterday  

Biologist Caroline Turner joins us to talk about the challenges and rewards of reading outside your own culture. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: World map produced in Amsterdam, 1689 [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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! J. J. Abrams / Jeffrey Liebfer / Damon Lindelof Lost Svetlana Alexievich The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl Jokha Alharthi Celestial Bodies Poul Anderson "Kyrie" Hannah Arendt Isaac Asimov Short stories list Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Rick BassIn My Home There Is No More Sorrow: Ten Days in Rwanda Beaufort Wind Scale Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March Charlotte Beradt The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a NationDan Brown The Da Vinci Code Margaret Wise Brown Goodnight Moon Robyn Creswell "Bewildered Rhapsodies" (on translating the Qur'an) Roald Dahl Jana Damabrogio / Daniel Starza Smith "Emily Dickinson's Playful Letterlocking" Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene Stuart Dybek The Coast of Chicago Julia Fine The Upstairs House Louise Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy Jonathan Gottschall The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human  Stephen Jay Gould Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Jean Hatzfeld The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide Bong Joon Ho Parasite Bong Joon Ho Snowpiercer Marion Holland The Secret Horse Scott Huler Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry Andrey Kurkov Death and the Penguin Erik Larson The Devil in the White City Robert McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings Dominic A. Pacyga Chicago: A Biography Grace Paley Orhan Pamuk Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin Arthur Ransome Swallows and Amazons Jean Paul Richter Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces Christopher Robbins Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared Kristen Roupenian "Cat Person" Karen Russell "Orange World" Masaoka Shiki "Haiku on Shit" Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore John Steinbeck Cannery Row Amos Tutuola My Life in the Bush of Ghosts P. G. Wodehouse Leave It to PSmith  

Nature writer and podcaster Matt Stansberry tells us about the challenges of conservation and management—and the supernatural goings-on that come with it. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: The Squonk, illustrated by Coert Du Bois and William T. Cox [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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!   A. R. Ammons The Snow Poems Rudolfo Anaya Bless Me, Ultima Ted Andrews Animal-Speak: Understanding Animal Messengers, Totems, and Signs Aristotle John Baglow Hugh MacDiarmid: The Poetry of Self Frank Black "Los Angeles" James Cameron True Lies Mike Clelland The Messengers: Owls, Synchronicity and the UFO Abductee Mark Z. Danielewski House of Leaves Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker CreekDan Flores Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History Dan Flores Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in AmericaNell Greenfieldboyce Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life Lyanda Lynn Haupt Václav Havel Tom Hennen Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems Hub City Writers Project Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses Robin Wall Kimmerer The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World John Lane Abandoned Quarry: New and Selected Poems Dave Lucas Weather Hugh MacDiarmid James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover Alice Oswald / Paul Keegan Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology Rachel Pollack Tom Putnam The Dark Divide Robert Michael Pyle Rider Waite Smith Tarot Mary Ruefle Madness, Rack, and Honey Trevor Shikaze / WAWI Terrible, Glorious, & Useful Matt Stansberry "Rootless: Byrology as a Cure for Loneliness in the Landscape" Matt Stansberry Rustbelt Arcana: Tarot and Natural History in the Exurban Wilds Matt Stansberry / Sarah Rose The Campfire's Edge Matt Stansberry / David Wilson Rust Belt Arcana Tarot Deck Gavin Van Horn Paula Whyman Bad Naturalist: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop Virginia Woolf William Butler Yeats A Vision    

Chaplain, podcaster, and religion scholar George Schmidt joins us to talk William Blake, the support found in reading, and Star Wars galore! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Manny Warman, Columbia University Bicentennial panel exhibition on banned books [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Columbia University Archives and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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!   Saul D. Alinsky Rules for Radicals Richard Attenborough Shadowlands Augustine of Hippo James Baldwin / Nikki Giovanni Soul! Interview Lynne Reid Banks The Indian in the Cupboard Jean-Michel Basquiat  Gregory Bassham The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy William Blake Murray Bookchin Lenny Bruce How to Talk Dirty and Influence People Charles Bukowski "The Crunch" Edward T. Chambers Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice The Charlie Daniels Band "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" Cyberpunk Rodney Dangerfield Gilles Deleuze "Postrscript on the Societies of Control" The Doors Dungeons and Dragons Warren Ellis et al. Transmetropolitan Allen Ginsberg Wayne Glausser Rod Hilton "The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete Order" Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception Nicholas Hytner The History Boys Vasily Kandinsky John Keats Elias L. Khalil "Making Sense of Self-Deception" Emmanuel Levinas C. S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity George Lucas et al. Star Wars George R. R. Martin A Song of Ice and Fire series Julie E. Maybee "Hegel's Dialectics" China Miéville John Milton John Cameron Mitchell Hedwig and the Angry Inch Alan Moore Jerusalem José Esteban Muñoz Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics Jean-Luc Nancy New Criticism Reinhold Niebuhr Friedrich Nietzsche Marjorie Perloff Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media Marjorie Perloff Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century Marjorie Perloff Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary Jordan Peterson Todd Phillips Joker Plato The Republic Religion & Justice podcast Bruce Rogers-Vaughn Barb Rosenstock / Mary GrandPré The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series J. R. R. Tolkien The SilmarillionWendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice Ludwig Wittgenstein Sheldon S. Wolin Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism William Wordsworth  

Vahid Friedrich, advisor to financial advisors, is talking to us about storytelling—in sci-fi, video games, religion, and more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Cover of Science Fiction Quarterly, Nov. 1952 [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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! Archive of Our Own                                        Richard Bachman James Baldwin / Nikki Giovanni Soul! Interview Iain (M.) Banks John Banville Bashō The Beatles Benjamin Black Yosa Buson Johnny Cash "Hurt" Noam Chomsky Charles Dickens Dungeons & Dragons Percival Everett James Mark Ford W. Mark Ford Natalie Goldberg Three Simple Lines Natalie Goldberg Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within Frank Herbert Dune William J. Higginson The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku Isekai: "A Beginner's Guide to Isekai" (Introductory article on the genre by Amanda Pagan) Kobayashi Issa Stephen King John Landis An American Werewolf in London Larian Studios Baldur's Gate 3 Ursula K. Le Guin The Books of Earthsea David Lynch Dune Vladimir Nabokov Speak, Memory Nine Inch Nails "Hurt" Larry Niven "Flash Crowd" nobody103 Mother of Learning Terry Pratchett Royal Road Hiroaki Sato On Haiku Screen Actors Guild Settlers of Catan Peter Singer Practical Ethics Sleyca Super Supportive Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn Denis Villeneuve Dune David F. Walker / Mark Kwame Anderson Big Jim and the White Boy D. D. Webb The Gods Are Bastards William Carlos Williams Paterson Gene Wolfe

Art historian and writer Donato Loia joins us today to talk about the interplay of language, music, art and more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Three Girls in Yellow Straw Hats [cropped], August Macke. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Ryan Adams GoldAphex Twin Dore Ashton A Joseph Cornell Album Ingmar Bergman The Silence David Brooks Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got ThereB-Side Editions John Constable The Cure John D'Agata About a Mountain Leonardo da Vinci James Elkins Pictures and Tears James Elkins The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing James Elkins Weak in Comparison to Dreams Gustave Flaubert Granta The New Nature Writing Peter Heehs Spirituality Without God: A Global History of Thought and Practice Hungry BrainNicolas Jaar Karl Ove Knausgaard In the Land of the Cyclops Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle Donato Loia 1095 Short Sentences Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams New Wave Friedrich Nietzsche Ecce Homo Friedrich Nietzsche On the Genealogy of MoralityGerhard Richter Lisa Robertson "The Weather: A Report on Sincerity" Lisa Robertson The Weather Edoardo Sanguinetti Deborah Shapiro Leslie Stevens Incubus Wallace Stevens Henry David Thoreau Walden; Or, LIfe in the Woods Sarah Thornton Seven Days in the Art World Helen Vendler The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry Alejandro Zambra Chilean Poet

We're talking to fundraising and development maven Wendy Hustwit about the books that changed your life, where to find recommendations, and reading versus application. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Poster for the 1918 film Tengerparti álom [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Arts & Letters Daily Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Jean M. Auel The Clan of the Cave Bear Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex Simone Biles Judy Blume Forever Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American Michael Crichton Robert Day The Great American Beauty Contest Brian De Palma Carrie Nawal El Saadawi The Nawal El Saadawi Reader George Eliot Middlemarch Natalie Goldberg Three Simple Lines Natalie Goldberg Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within Nikole Hannah-Jones The 1619 Project Liam Heneghan Through Pleated Light: Confessions and Translations Zbigniew Herbert The King of the Ants: Mythological Essays Homer The Odyssey Søren Kierkegaard Daily Readings with Søren Kierkegaard Stephen King Carrie London Review of Books Judith McNaught Whitney, My Love Henry Miller Black Spring Madeline Miller Circe Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles José Esteban Muñoz Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics New York Review of Books Scott O'Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins Oprah's Book Club Nina Paley Sita Sings the Blues Robert D. Putnam Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Reese's Book Club Taylor Jenkins Reid Carrie Soto Is Back Taylor Jenkins Reid The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Scott Rosenfield "Eschaton: The World's Most Complicated Game?" (Article on the tennis game invented by David Foster Wallace) Hiroaki Sato On Haiku Deborah Shapiro   Silent Book Club Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy War and PeaceValmiki The Ramayana Sandy Welch Jane Eyre (BBC/PBS series) Edith Wharton Marion Zimmer Bradley The Mists of Avalon

We're joined by author and publisher Deborah Shapiro for conversation about working within limitations, publishing on your own terms, and even Columbo! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Book Manufacturing—Typesetting [cropped], Rand McNally and Company. Public domain image courtesy Newberry Library and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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! A. R.  Ammons The Snow Poems Roland Barthes Mythologies Walter Benjamin The Arcades Project John Berger Bento's Sketchbook Brian Blanchfield Proxies Marianne Brooker Intervals B-Side Editions James M. Cain Mildred Pierce Elias Canetti Auto-da-Fé Wah-Ming Chang Robert Cochrane / Joel Surnow 24 Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Brian Dillon Essayism George Eliot Middlemarch Peter Falk Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life Rainer Werner Fassbinder The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes Gustave Flaubert Heinrich Heine "Die Lorelei" Hercule Poirot Walter Isaacson Leonardo da Vinci Matthew Jacobson Immanuel Kant Jack Kerouac John Le Carré Nathalie Léger Suite for Barbara Loden Jonathan Lethem Richard Levinson / William Link Columbo Barbara Loden Wanda Donato Loia 1095 Short Sentences David Lynch Twin Peaks Herman Melville "Billy Budd" Henry Miller Black Spring Errol Morris The Pigeon Tunnel (John Le Carré documentary) Ian Penman Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time Rob Reiner The Princess Bride Theodore Roszak Flicker Theodore Roszak The Making of a Counter Culture W. G. Sebald The Rings of Saturn Deborah Shapiro Consolation Deborah Shapiro The Summer Demands Deborah Shapiro The Sun in Your Eyes Matthew Specktor The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood Helen Vendler The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar Wim Wenders Wings of Desire Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust Anthony E. Zuiker CSI: Crime Scene Investigation  

We're talking to environmental studies professor and author Liam Heneghan, who joins us to talk about sustained reading, the politics of biography, Samuel Beckett, and more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Samuel Beckett [cropped]. Public domain image by Roger Pic courtesy Bibliothèque national de France and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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! Anaximander Samuel Beckett Endgame                      Samuel Beckett Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable: A Trilogy Deirdre Blair Samuel Beckett: A Biography Patricia Claus "The Miletian School: Ancient Greece's Pioneers of Philosophy"                                                                       Hart Crane Charles Darwin The Origin of Species Charles DarwinVegetable Mould and Worms René Descartes David Foster Wallace  Infinite Jest Alan Garner The Owl Service "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" Jack Halberstam The Queer Art of Failure Thomas Hardy Václav Havel Liam Heneghan Through Pleated Light: Confessions and Translations David Hume James JoyceFinnegans Wake James Joyce Ulysses Patrick Joyce Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason John Locke London Review of Books Lucretius On the Nature of the Universe Mabinogion Louis MacNeice Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks David Marr Patrick White: A Life Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh Lapvona Ottessa Moshfegh McGlue Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest and Relaxation New York Review of Books Flannery O'Connor "Good Country People" Presocratics Roger Scruton Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story Socrates Wallace Stevens "The Three Little Pigs" Colm Tóibín "Seagulls as Playmates" Helen Vendler The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry Patrick White Riders in the Chariot Patrick White Voss  

We're talking to management professor and executive director of the Clifton Strengths Institute Tim Hodges, who joins us to talk about writing (or not!) in books, notes from your past self, third spaces, and more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: A page from A Midsummer Night's Dream with margin notes (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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!   A Novel Idea Bookstore Albert Bandura Ruha BenjaminRace After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Walter Benjamin"Unpacking My Library" David BrooksHow to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen David BrooksThe Road to Character Pascale CasanovaThe World Republic of Letters Don CliftonFirst, Break all the Rules CliftonStrengths Henry Cloud Mark FisherPostcapitalist Desire Stephen FrearsHigh Fidelity Adam Grant Chip and Dan HeathDecisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work Dan HeathWhat It's Like to Be… podcast Daniel Kahneman Tressie McMillan CottomLower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy James MerrillFrom the First Nine: Poems, 1946–1976 Leonard MichaelsThe Essays of Leonard Michaels C. Wright MillsWhite Collar Lukas MoodyssonTilsammens (Together) Vivek MurthyTogether: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World PBS News Hour Daniel H. PinkWhen: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Proverbs Psalms Tom Rath / Jim HarterWellbeing: The Five Essential Elements Howard Schultz / Joanne GordonOnward: How Starbucks Fought for its Life without Losing its Soul Studs TerkelWorking Richard H. Thaler / Cass R. SunsteinNudge J. D. VanceHillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Boris VianBlues for a Black Cat and Other Stories Tara WestoverEducated: A Memoir  

We're talking to literature scholar Niloofar Ghaemi about Hart Crane, the call of poetry, and memory and destruction. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Edward John Poynter, Erato, Muse of Poetry (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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!   Anna Akhmatova Walter Benjamin Renée L. Bergland The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects Pascale Casanova The World Republic of Letters Howard Caygill Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience Hart Crane "The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge" Kirby Dick / Amy Ziering Kofman Derrida: The Documentary T. S. Eliot "The Waste Land" Farugh Farrokhzad Aros Fioretos, ed. Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan Édouard Glissant Mahagony Langdon Hammer Martin Heidegger Edmund Husserl Alan Kaufman, ed. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry Jack Kerouac Osip Mandelstam The Noise of Time: Selected Prose Leonard Michaels The Essays of Leonard Michaels Isaac Newton B. P. Nichol The Martyrology Friedrich Nietzsche "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life" OuLiPo Georges Perec "Spoken in Jest: On the Continuing Importance of Georges Perec," by Darran Anderson Mary Ruefle Tupac Shakur Patti Smith Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty Tomas Tranströmer Selected Poems, 1954–1986 Antonio Zadra / Robert Stickgold When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds  

We're talking to poet Lewis Freedman about small presses, translations and talismans, and the interplay of sound and sense. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Illustration, Encyclopedic Dictionary, Calleja Rodriguez-Navas, 1909 [cropped]. CC BY-SA 4.0 image courtesy Correogsk and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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!  And you can also check out Woodland Pattern's subscription program here! ArtScroll Heimrad BäckerDocumentary Poetry Charles BaudelaireLes fleurs du mal Anselm BerriganPregrets The Beta Band"Dry the Rain" Black Lawrence Press Black Square Editions William Bronk J. R. ChurchHidden Prophecies in the Psalms Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)"About the Closure of Small Press Distribution: FAQ" Claire DeVoogdVia Stephen Frears High Fidelity Carol GuessInfodemic Gregory J. Hakim / Jérôme PatouxWeather: A Concise Introduction Hwang InChanWashing a Myna Andrew KlimekThe Flowers of Mel C. S. LewisThe Chronicles of Narnia Stephane Mallarmé "Saint"  Namaste America  Poetry in America Book of Psalms David RosenbergBlues of the Sky: Interpreted from the Original Hebrew Book of Psalms Wallace Stevens "The Emperor of Ice Cream" and "The Motive for Metaphor"  Winter Editions  Woodland Pattern

Professor of theology and religious studies Jacqueline Hidalgo tells us about extractive reading, myths of innocence, and recovering the enjoyment of books. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Newspaper ad for 1921 film I Am Guilty (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—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! Christina Aguilera Hilton Als White Girls Johann Sebastian Bach Anne Carson Paul Celan Ally Condie The Matched Trilogy Roald Dahl "William and Mary" Jacques Derrida Ecclesiastes Aros Fioretos, ed. Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan Federico García Lorca Justo L. González Glenn Gould Leo Guardado Church as Sanctuary: Reconstructing Refuge in an Age of Forced Displacement Dave Hickey Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy Edward Hirsch "Fast Break" Edward Hirsch How to Read a Poem Edward Hirsch The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration Sylvester A. Johnson The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity Maia Kotrosits R. F. Kuang Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Libby Burton L. Mack A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins Terrence Malick Badlands Terrence Malick The Tree of Life Karl Marx Writings on alienation Cherríe L. Moraga A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010 Morrissey You Are the Quarry Shaquille O'Neal The Onion"Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu" Elizabeth Pérez "Sorry Cites: The (Necro) Politics of Citation in the Anthropology of Religion" RadioArt(r) The Phone Book Joanne Ramos The Farm Lou Reed "Hangin' Round" Keri Russell Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading" Britney Spears The Woman in Me Ben Stiller Reality Bites Justin Timberlake Michelle Williams  

  Children's librarian Louise Tripp talks with us about graphic novels, reading in groups, and even horror films! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Eighth page from the story "lupa sin" in the zine kijetesantakalu monsuta [cropped], jan pana pi lipu monsuta. CC BY-SA 4.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and films!—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! Melissa Broder Death Valley Tomas Alfredson Let the Right One In Dario Argento Suspiria Joseph Barbera / William Hanna The Jetsons Betsy Bird Truman Capote In Cold Blood Jeremiah S. Chechik Diabolique Johnnie Christmas Swim Team Henri-Georges Clouzot Les diaboliques Gavin de Becker The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence Charles Dickens Julia Ducournau Raw Evanston Public Library 101 Great Books for Kids List William Friedkin The Exorcist Sarah Gerard Carrie Carolyn Coco Mia Goth Alastair Gray Lanark: A Life in Four Books Luca Guadagnino Suspiria Wolfgang Hildesheimer Tynset HiLoBrow Jim Jarmusch Only Lovers Left Alive Dakota Johnson (article by Bethy Squires at Vulture) Kanopy Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey Kekla Magoon The Secret Library Nida Manzoor We Are Lady Parts Joseph Moncure March The Wild Party David Robert Mitchell It Follows Daniel Myrick / Eduardo Sánchez The Blair Witch Project The Nation School Library Journal Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath The Letters of Sylvia Plath, vol. 1 Marjane Satrapi Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood W. G. Sebald Art Spiegelman Maus: A Survivor's Tale George Takei They Called Us Enemy Craig Thompson Blankets Alberto Toscano Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea Fernanda Trías Pink Slime Raymond Tyler / Summer McCinton Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars Logan Ury How Not to Die Alone: The Surprising Science that Will Help You Find Love Emily Van Duyne Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation Anjana Vasan Ti West X Trilogy(article by Scott Roxborough at The Hollywood Reporter) Marguerite Young Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

Engineer and runner Muna Mitchell joins us to discuss the pleasures of process, thinking in stories, and even book art. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Screenshot, Anatomy of a Murder [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! Jean M. Auel The Earth's Children series Jane Austen Nicholson Baker The Mezzanine James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain Leonard Baskin Carl Boyer A History of Mathematics Michael Connelly Resurrection Walk Alain Delon Helen DeWitt "Scribbling" Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Emily Dickinson                                     "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" Annie Dillard The Writing Life Malcolm Gladwell Yuval Noah Harari                                 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Edward Hirsch "Fast Break" Friedrich Hölderlin Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (translated by Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover) Nick Hornby Ted Hughes Crow Jedidiah Jenkins To Shake the Sleeping Self Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow M. M. Kaye The Far Pavilions Marian Keyes My Favorite Mistake Mark Kurlansky 1968: The Year that Rocked the World Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo London Review of Books J. D. McClatchy, ed. Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets Colleen McCullough The Thorn Birds Jean-Pierre Melville Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle) Jean-Pierre Melville Le Samouraï Jean-Pierre Melville Un flic (A Cop) Vincente Minnelli Brigadoon Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Friedrich Nietzsche Shaquille O'Neal Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values Poetry in America Radiolab J. K. Rowling Edward Said J. D. Salinger Adam Shatz Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree Zadie Smith David Strathairn Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery: An Autobiography Walt Whitman "The Wound-Dresser" Dick Wolf / Rick EidLaw & Order  

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  

We're talking in this episode to poet and editor Rachel Mennies, who tells us about writing into and through uncertainty, what keeps us writing, and what it's like to be part of a journal's editorial staff. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Filipp Malyavin, A Secret (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! Agni  Ruth Awad / Rachel Mennies  The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry Booktalk  Lucy Brock-Broido                               Stay, Illusion Roberto Calasso                                   Literature and the Gods Arkadii Dragomoshchenko                  Dust Peter Hammond                                  Sapphire & Steel HomerThe Iliad Homer The Odyssey Lewis Hyde                                           The Gift                                                Stephen King                                        On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft      Mario Levrero                                      The Luminous Novel                            David Lynch                                         Twin Peaks                                           J. D. McClatchy, ed.                             Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets Rachel Mennies                                   "Less than Certain: How to Teach Bewildering Poems" Rachel Mennies                                   The Naomi Letters Madeline Miller                                   Circe Madeline Miller                                   The Song of Achilles                             Christopher Nolan                               Interstellar Alice Oswald                                        Memorial                                             Ezra Pound Mark Rothko Jean-Paul Sartre                                   No Exit Elaine Scarry                                        On Beauty and Being Just Talmudic stories Chris Van Dusen Bridgerton W. B. Yeats  

Hiker, podcaster, and professor of philosophy and religious studies Zach Simpson tells us about autobiography, the way we're shaped by reading, and the skilled misdirections of detective fiction. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Los Angeles County Museum of Art and 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! 4 Non Blondes                                      Al-Ghazali                                         Deliverance from Error                           Dante Alighieri                                 The Divine Comedy             Augustine of Hippo                          The Confessions                                                                               Marcus Aurelius                                                                                                                             Averroes                                                  Walter Benjamin  The Book of Judges     Jorge Luis Borges Bill Bryson                                        A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail                     Roberto Calasso                               Literature and the Gods Italo Calvino                                     If On a Winter's Night a Traveler      Car and Driver                                Lee Child                                          Jack Reacher series  Cicero  Michael Connelly                             Harry Bosch series Michael ConnellyThe Lincoln Lawyer series                       Gilles Deleuze      Mark Fisher                                                 Gustave Flaubert                                            Sigmund Freud                                                              Gabriel García Márquez                                                Alasdair Gray                                   Lanark: A Life in Four Books                                                                                    The Greens and Blues 14er Podcast Frederic Gros                                   A Philosophy of Walking  Barbara Guest                                  Herself Defined: H. D. and Her World  Rob Harvilla                                     Sixty Songs that Explain the Nineties                                                 Václav Havel                                                                                                          Martin Heidegger                                 Hermann Hesse                             Dave Hickey                             Homer Aldous Huxley                                  Island                                                      Isocrates                                                                                         Samuel Johnson / James Boswell    A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland / The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides John Kaag                                         Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are           Margery Kempe             Lamentations                                                             John Locke                                       Essay Concerning Human Understanding                                     Martin Luther Table Talk Robert Macfarlane                          The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Daniel Mendelsohn                                                                                        Metallica                                          "Enter Sandman"                                         Georg Misch                                    A History of Autobiography in Antiquity   Thomas More                                  Utopia        Maggie Nelson                       Friedrich Nietzsche                          Ecce Homo Oprah's Book Club  Eric Ellis OvermeyerBosch Reese's Book Club                                                                                             Rick Riordan                                     Percy Jackson and the Olympians                                                                          Gerry Roach  Jean-Jacques Rousseau                  Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau                   Origins of Inequality Jean-Jacques Rousseau                   The Social Contract                          Saturday Night Live "Thank You, Scott" William Shakespeare                       The Tempest   William Shakespeare                       Henry IV       Zachary Simpson                                   The Paradoxes of Modernity                                                                                Sophocles       Sports Illustrated  Taylor Swift  Ibn Tufayl                                         Hayy ibn Yaqzan                              Article on the tale by Marwa Elshakry             Mark Twain                                      Roughing It                      Emily Wilson

Nick Rossi, cofounder and editor of Sobotka Literary Magazine and Ursus Americanus Press, joins us to talk about why we write, the way art shapes community, and even those words we're never sure how to pronounce. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Berenice Abbott, Two children at the Harlem Community Arts Center in 1939 (cropped). Public doman image courtesy New York Public Library and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books 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!   Eric Benick CM Burroughs "Dear Incubator"  Italo Calvino  Emily Capers In Between My Bodies  Fyodor Dostoevsky                                                                    Forvo  Christopher Gilbert                                    Across the Mutual Landscape Christopher Gilbert "Listening to Monk's Misterioso" Featured in Roger Reeves, "The Uses of Memory"  Nikolai Gogol  Roy Jacobsen                                              Borders  Franz Kafka                                               The Trial  Franz Kafka                                               The Metamorphosis  Rupi Kaur  Chris Kraus  Long Day Press  Plato Phaedrus                                                                  Plato                                                           Symposium  Daniel Pujol  Sobotka Literary Magazine  Sherry Turkle                                              Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other                                                             Ursus Americanus Press Kurt Vonnegut  William Carlos Williams  

Join in on our conversation wtih religion and philosophy professor J. R. Hustwit—on sci-fi and wiki writing projects, horology, portals, and tons more. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: "Coming thru the portal" (cropped). CC BY 2.0 image courtesy ˆMissiˆ and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books, films, 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!   William Blake                                                            Octavia E. Butler                                                              Gotham Chapra Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story Mark Z. Danielewski House of Leaves Jacques Derrida                                                                   Kirby Dick / Amy Ziering Kofman            Derrida: The Documentary Joseph Fink/ Jeffrey Cranor Welcome to Night Vale Michael Gondry/ Charlie Kaufman            Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Brandon R. Grafius                                    Lurking Under the Surface: Horror, Religion, and the Questions That Haunt Us Alasdair Gray Lanark: A Life in Four Books Jürgen Habermas                                        Hall & Oates                                                                   Dave Hickey Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy LockPickingLawyer                                                                H. P. Lovecraft "The Rats in the Walls" Geoff Manaugh A Burglar's Guide to the City Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian Michael McDonald                                     Metallica  "The Call of Ktulu" Paul North The Problem of Distraction Meredith Ann Pierce Birth of the Firebringer Poe                                                             Poison "Every Rose Has its Thorn" QNTM There Is No Antimimetics Division                                                               Paul Ricoeur The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language Paul Ricoeur The Symbolism of Evil Kim Stanley Robinson The Ministry for the Future SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) Kevin Smith Clerks Kevin Smith Dogma Kevin Smith Mallrats                                                                   Steely Dan                                                 The Music Swap "What Is Yacht Rock?" Keenen Ivory Wayans Scary Movie Ben Woodard Slime Dynamics  

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                                                                    

Poet, publicist, and reading series host Carrie Olivia Adams joins us to talk about rereading,  problematic literature, and bringing people together. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Marcel Proust, by Otto Wegener, 1895 (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books 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!   Bashō Aase Berg                                Dark Matter Joanna Biggs                           A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again Black Ocean Jacques Bouveresse              Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious Joseph Clayton Mills Józef Czapski                         Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp Lydia Davis Toi Derricotte                           The Undertaker's Daughter Lucy Ellmann                           Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann                           Things Are Against Us William Faulkner Nikky Finney Sigmund Freud Martin Heidegger                     Poetry, Language, Thought Susan Howe Kobayashi Issa June Jordan James Joyce                              Ulysses Hubert McAlexander Elsa Morante Kelly Norman Ellis Marjorie Perloff       Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary The Plagiarists Marcel Proust                             In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust                             The Prisoner Marcel Proust                             Swann's Way Mary Ruefle                                Madness, Rack, and Honey Janaka Stucky Frank X. Walker Anna Wiener                               Uncanny Valley: A Memoir Ludwig Wittgenstein                 Tractatus Logico Philosophicus Mary Wollstonecraft                  The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Andrew Zawacki      

Our first episode of season 2 features violist Kalindi Bellach and alto Kay White, who let us in on perfectionism in performance, writing and reading about music, and the for-fun books that everyone needs. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Photo Collage: Musician Playing Triangle, photo collage by Juan Pedro Chabalgoity (MET, 2017.68.15), cropped. CC0 1.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and music!—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 André Aciman Woody Allen                                              Midnight in Paris American Museum of Natural History      Sperm Whale and Giant Squid Matthew Aucoin                                         "Alone in Paradise" W. H. Auden Johann Sebastian Bach                             The Art of the Fugue Muriel Barbery                                           The Elegance of the Hedgehog Neal Barnard Steven Beller                                                 Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction Wendell Berry Benjamin Britten   Brené Brown                                                The Gifts of Imperfection   Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti,       and Leticia Sabsay                                 Vulnerability in Resistance    Camille T. Dungy                                        Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden    Epictetus                                                    How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life   Gabriel Fauré   Mark Fisher   George Frideric Handel                              Messiah   Harlem Renaissance   Paul Kingsnorth                                             Alexandria   Paul Kingsnorth                                             Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist   Paul Kingsnorth                                             The Wake   Anne McCaffrey                                            Dragonriders of Pern   Sarah J. Maas                                                  A Court of Thorn and Roses   Maurice Merleau-Ponty   Olivier Messiaen                                            Quartet for the End of Time   David Mitchell                                                Cloud Atlas   Haruki Murakami                                           Sputnik Sweetheart   The Onion                                                        "Mothership Accidentally Descends on Hootie Concert"   Giovanni Battista Pergolesi                           Stabat Mater   Meredith Ann Pierce                                      The Firebringer Triolgy   Richard Powers                                           Generosity: An Enhancement   Richard Powers                                           The Gold Bug Variations   Richard Powers                                             Orfeo   Richard Powers                                           The Overstory   Richard Powers                                           The Time of Our Singing   Marcel Proust                                                In Search of Lost Time   Emily Raboteau                                             "A New Environmental Canon"   Damien Rice   Alex Ross   Vikram Seth                                                    An Equal Music   Samantha Shannon                                       The Priory of the Orange Tree   Gertrude Stein                                               The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas   Donna Tartt                                                  The Goldfinch   Donna Tartt                                                    The Little Friend   Donna Tartt                                                    The Secret History   Donald Francis Tovey   Hanya Yanagihara                                       A Little Life   Rebecca Yarros                                             Iron Flame      

Poet and educator L. S. McKee tells us about poetry and personas, the joys of secret venues, writing across science and art curricula, and even relics. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Joan Crawford holding mask of herself (cropped). Photoplay, 1932. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and music!—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!   Elizabeth Arnold                                    The Reef Ingeborg Bachmann                              Elizabeth Bishop                                    Anne Carson                                          Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse Rachel Carson                                        Silent Spring Paul Celan                                              "Death Fugue" Tyler Childers                                         Julio Cortázar                                         Blow-Up: And Other Stories Julio Cortázar                                         Hopscotch Julio Cortázar                                         The Winners Kurt Gödel                                             Frédéric Gros                                         The Security Principle: From Serenity to Regulation Gruppe  47                                             Luke Harding                                          "'It's the new normal': in Kiev's newest book store, readers fear how Ukraine's story will end" Hugh Haughton, ed.                              Second World War Poems Zbigniew Herbert                                   "The Prayer of the Traveler Mr. Cogito" Homer                                                     The Iliad (transl. Emily Wilson) Homer                                                     The Odyssey Hope Jahren                                          Lab Girl: A Memoir Hope Jahren                                          The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here Brad J. Kallenberg                                 By Design: Ethics, Theology, and the Practice of Engineering Jack Kerouac                                          Yusef Komunyakaa                                Benjamín Labatut                                  When We Cease to Understand the World T. E. Lawrence                                       Doris Lessing                                         The Golden Notebook Primo Levi                                              "The Molecule's Defiance" in A Tranquil Star: Stories Primo Levi                                              The Periodic Table Janna Levin                                            A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines Christopher Logue                                War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad Georg Lukács                                        The Theory of the Novel L. S. McKee                                            "Alva Watches the Previous President Fly Away" L. S. McKee                                            Creature Wing Heart Machine Haruki Murakami                                   The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Maggie Nelson                                       On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint George Oppen                                       New Collected Poems William Shakespeare                             Jonathan Sumption                               The Age of Pilgrimage: The Medieval Journey to God Greta Thunberg                                     The Climate Book Alan Turing                                            Jesmyn Ward                                         James Wright                                         Isabel Zapata                                         In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation

Join us as we talk to professor of musicology and religion Dirk von der Horst about time, religion, activism, and more. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Aaron Willard, Banjo Clock MET (cropped). Public domain-dedicated 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!   Theodor Adorno                                    Dante Alighieri                                       Arne Arnbom (dir.)                                 Aniara (TV opera version) Naim Stifan Ateek                                 Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation St. Augustine                                         Karl-Birger Blomdahl                             Aniara (opera) Adam Conover                                      "Why You Don't Actually Want to Live on Mars" Simon Critchley                                     Jacques Ellul                                         The Technological Society David Graeber/David Wengrow            The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Ernst-August Gutt                                 Translation and Relevance: Cognition and Context Conner Habib                                        Hawk Mountain Václav Havel                                          Carter Heyward                                     Wolfgang Hilbig                                     The Interim Ayana Elizabeth Johnson/Katharine K. Wilkinson, eds. All We Can Save: Truth ,Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis Pella Kagerman/Hugo Lilja                    Aniara (film) Adam Kotsko                                         Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital Adam Kotsko                                         What Is Theology? Christian Thought and Contemporary Life Robert Jay Lifton                                   Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry Harry Martinson                                     Aniara Adam McKay, dir.                                  Don't Look Up Thomas Merton                                     Marcel Ophuls                                       The Sorrow and the Pity Marianna Ritchey                                  Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era Herman J. and Rosemary Radford Ruether The Wrath of Jonah: Crisis of Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Edward Said                                          The Question of Palestine Elisabeth Schüssler-Fiorenza                In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins Dorothee Sölle                                       Greta Thunberg                                     The Climate Book Greta Thunberg                                     "Our House is on Fire" Dirk von der Horst                                 Jonathan's Loves, David's Laments: Gay Theology, Musical Desires, and Historical Difference Dirk von der Horst                                 The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness ("From Queer Musicology to Indecent Theology") Dirk von der Horst                                 "A Music Theologian Engages with Pope Francis' Favorite Music:  An Interview with Dirk von der Horst" Dirk von der Horst, et al, ed.                 Voices of Feminist Liberation: Writings in Celebration of Rosemary Radford Ruether Amy Webb                                            The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity Anonymous                                           The Cloud of Unknowing  

Poet and teacher Lisa Dordal joins us to talk about memory, the imagination, clearing up misconceptions about poetry, and so much more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Leon Kowalsi, Nostalgia (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commmons. 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!   Claire-Louise Bennett             Pond Joe Brainard                           I Remember Oliver Burkeman                     Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Willa Cather                            Lucy Gayheart Gaius Valerius Catullus          Catullus: The Complete Poetry, transl. Frank. O. Copley Leonard Cohen                       "Anthem" Julio Cortázar                          Hopscotch Simon Critchley                       The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology Simon Critchley                       Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance Emily Dickinson           Lisa Dordal                              Mosaic of the Dark Lisa Dordal                              Next Time You Come Home Lisa Dordal                              Water Lessons T. S. Eliot                                  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Vilém Flusser                           Gestures Robert Frost    Ross Gay          David Guterson                        Snow Falling on Cedars Kent Haruf       Václav Havel    Martin Heidegger                     Poetry, Language, Thought John Keats       Claire Keegan  Jack Kerouac                           On the Road Maxine Kumin                          "Woodchucks" Alice McDermott        Julie Otsuka                             When the Emperor Was Divine Per Petterson  Poets & Writers Marcel Proust                           In Search of Lost Time series Patrick Radden Keefe              Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Rumi                                        "A Great Wagon" W. G. Sebald    William Shakespeare  Percy Bysshe Shelley               "Ozymandias" Clint Smith                               Above Ground Clint Smith                               How the Word Is Passed Dorothee Sölle            Elizabeth Strout          Thao Thai                                 Banyan Moon Natasha Trethewy       William Wordsworth  The Writer's Chronicle Antonio Zadra/Robert Stickgold When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds                                

Artist, designer, and author Tiffany Gholar joins us to delve into the nature of art and creative production, fashion dolls, and even game show appearances. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Mopsy Modes, from Mopsy, 1(1), 1948 (cropped). Public domain image by Gladys Parker, 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!   Julie Aigner-Clark                                   Baby Einstein Ted Chiang                                             Stories of Your Life and Others David X. Cohen/Matt  Groening             Futurama Kristin Kobes Du Mez                            Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Tiffany Gholar                                        The Unforeseeable Future Tiffany Gholar                                         A Bitter Pill to Swallow Tiffany Gholar                                        The Doll Project Tiffany Gholar                                         Post-Consumerism Tiffany Gholar                                         Imperfect Things Stephen King                                         The Stand Mario Levrero                                         Empty Words Mario Levrero                                         The Luminous Novel Judith McNaught                                   Daniel Myrick Eduardo Sánchez            The Blair Witch Project Anne Helen Petersen                             Culture Study newsletter David Quammen                                    Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic David Quammen                                    Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus David Quammen                                    The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest Elizabeth Rush                                       Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore Elizabeth Rush                                       The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth Rebekah Weatherspoon                        Cowboys of California series  

Molecular and cellular biologist Roya Huang joins us to talk about studying another language by discussing its poetry, reading in different disciplines, the benefits of small-group study, and more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: A leaf from a Farsi manuscript of poetry (cropped). Public domain image courtesy San Diego Museum of Art and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and films!—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!   Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah                 Friday Black Anna Akhmatova                                   Refaat Alareer                                        Nick Bantock                                          Griffin and Sabine Italo Calvino                                           Why Read the Classics? Aimé Césaire                                          Suzanne Césaire                                    Jacques Derrida                                     The Gift of Death Jacques Derrida                                     Speech and Phenomena: And Other Essays on Husserl's Theory of Signs Junot Díaz                                              The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao William Empson                                     Seven Types of Ambiguity Forough Farroukhzad                              "The Wind-up Doll" (and others!) Homer                                                    The Iliad Homer                                                    The Odyssey James Joyce                                          Ulysses Abbas Kiarostami                                   Stieg Larsson                                         The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (transl. Reg Keeland) Else Lasker-Schüler                                Jasbir K. Puar                                        The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability Alexander Pushkin                                 Eugene Onegin (transl. Vladimir Nabokov) George Saunders                                   Elaine Scarry                                         The Body in Pain Peter-Klaus Schuster                             Franz Marc: Postcards to Prince Jussuf Wallace Stevens                                    Helen Vendler                                        Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire Helen Vendler                                        On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems  

Hollis Phelps joins us to talk about the importance of exploration, pleasure, and taking a break—and tells us about psilocybin!  Episode artwork: Pestonji Bomanjee, At Rest (cropped). Public domain image courtesy National Gallery of Modern Art (India) and Wikimedia Commons. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay 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!   Nicolas/Maria Abraham/Torok          The Wolf Man's Magic Word Augustine of Hippo                             Karl Barth                                             Emily Chase                                     The Girls of Canby Hall James Davies                                   Cracked: Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm than Good James Davies                                   Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis Osamu Dazai                                    No Longer Human Gilles Deleuze                                     Jacques Derrida                                  Fyodor Dostoevsky                           The Brothers Karamazov Micha Frazer-Carroll                         Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health Jean Genet                                          Greta Gerwig / Noah Baumbach        Barbie Vince Gilligan                                     Breaking Bad Soren Kierkegaard                             Fear and Trembling Stephen King                                       Jack Kirby/Stan Lee/Chris Claremont  X-Men Kevin Lambert                                     Querelle of Roberval Emily Martin                                        Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture James Michener                                  Poland Hiroko Oyamada                                 The Hole Hiroko Oyamada                                 The Factory Walter N. Pahnke                                The Good Friday Experiment Francine Pascal                                  Sweet Valley High Robert Penn Warren                          Larry Rubin                                          All My Mirrors Lie Andrew Scull                                       Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness W. G. Sebald                                       William Shakespeare                          Romeo and Juliet Edward Shorter                                   How Everyone Became Depressed Upton Sinclair                                      Juan Gabriel Vásquez                        The Shape of the Ruins Robert Whitaker                                  Anatomy of an Epidemic Owen Whooley                                   On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing  

Katy and Matt are joined by Kay White and Jovita Scrogin, who fill us in on reading while parenting, parenting while reading, the joys of audiobooks and fantasy, and so much more! Episode image: Amy Carter and Jimmy Carter participate in a speed reading course at the White House, 1977 (cropped). Public domain image courtesy National Archives and Records Administration and Wikimedia Commons. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Want to learn more about the books, authors, shows, and films 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!   Hanif Abdurraqib Sherman Alexie Isabel Allende V. C. Andrews                                    Flowers in the Attic Fredrik Backman James Baldwin                                   Giovanni's Room Judy Blume                                        Blubber Judy Blume                                        Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great Judy Blume                                        Superfudge Angeline Boulley                                Firekeeper's Daughter Angeline Boulley                                Warrior Girl Unearthed Carl B. Boyer                                     A History of Mathematics Betsy Byars                                       The Pinballs Emily Chase                                      The Girls of Canby Hall David Crane & Marta Kauffman         Friends Franklin W. Dixon                              The Hardy Boys series Fyodor Dostoevsky                           The Brothers Karamazov Driven Lifestyle                                  duPont REGISTRY Louise Erdrich Walter Farley                                     The Black Stallion William Faulkner                                The Sound and the Fury Louise Fitzhugh                                  Harriet the Spy David Foster Wallace                         Infinite Jest Bette Greene                                      Summer of My German Soldier Marguerite Henry                               Brighty of the Grand Canyon Robin Hobb                                        Assassin's Apprentice Heinrich Hoffmann                             Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures (English translation) James Howe                                      Bunnicula John Irving James Joyce                                      Ulysses Tony Judt                                            Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century Carolyn Keene                                    Nancy Drew series Stephen King                                      The Dark Tower series Stephen King                                      The Eyes of the Dragon Stephen King                                      Holly Stephen King                                      Misery Barbara Kingsolver                             Demon Copperhead Jon Krakauer Harper Lee                                          Go Set a Watchman C. S. Lewis                                          The Chronicles of Narnia Laurie Lico Albanese                           Hester Sarah J. Maas                                     A Court of Thorns and Roses series Christopher Maclehose, ed.                Leopard II: Turning the Page Gemma Marino                                   Das wasserscheue Krokodil George R. R. Martin                            A Game of Thrones Ramón Menéndez & Tom Musca        Stand and Deliver Daniel Nayeri                                      Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story) Celeste Ng                                          Little Fires Everywhere Sigrid Nunez                                       A Feather on the Breath of God Sigrid Nunez                                       The Friend Christopher Paolini                             The Inheritance Cycle Francine Pascal                                  Sweet Valley High Solveig Paulson Russell                     Jan und sein Zahn Dav Pilkey                                           Dogman series The Princeton Review                         Princeton Grammar Smart Annie Proulx                                        Fen, Bog and Swamp Rick Riordan                                        Percy Jackson and the Olympians series J. K. Rowling                                       Harry Potter series J. D. Salinger                                      The Catcher in the Rye Philippe Sands                                    The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage Cilly Schmitt Teichmann                      Die Struwelliese Maurice Sendak                                  Where the Wild Things Are A. F. Steadman                                   Skandar and the Unicorn Thief series Bernie Taupin                                      Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me J. R. R. Tolkien                                    The Lord of the Rings series Sybille von Flüe                                   Pingu e un bisogno urgente Margery Williams                                 The Velvetine Rabbit Margaret Wise-Brown & Clement Hurd Goodnight Moon

Housing and tenants rights advocate Jay Forth comes on to talk about why reading both critical theory and poetry are so helpful in thinking about and interacting with the world around you. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Frantz Fanon at a press conference during a writers' conference in Tunis, 1959 (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books 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!   Grace Lee Boggs Hélène Cixous Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, & Stephen Merchant The Office Jacques Derrida Rikki Ducornet                                                         The Fountains of Neptune Frantz Fanon Julian Forth                                                              "Jean-Luc Nancy" Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm                                       Rumepstiltskin Richard Hofstadter                                                   Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno                        Dialectic of Enlightenment Henri Lefebvre                                                         Hegel, Marx, Nietszsche: or the Realm of Shadows Herman Melville                                                       Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street Jean-Luc Nancy                                                       Sexistence Patrick Radden Keefe                                              Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Slavoj Žižek                                                              On Belief

We explore with writer and journalist Juan Carlos Hernández the nature of memoir, the connections made over cooking, and the importance of staying grounded. Episode artwork: Footballer André Roosenburg in Florence, 1953. Image with no known copyright restrictions courtesy Nationaal Archief and Wikimedia Commons. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Want to learn more about the books—and films!—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!   Anthony Bourdain                Kitchen Confidential Anna Burns                          Milkman  Mary Karr                            The Liars' Club  Mary Karr                            The Art of Memoir Rachel Cusk                        The Outline Trilogy Lisa Dordal                          Next Time You Come Home Xuan Carlos Hernández      Lost and Found on the Camino de Santiago Norton Juster                       The Phantom Tollbooth Stephen King                       On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Karl Ove Knausgaard          My Struggle series Mario Levrero                      The Luminous Novel Valeria Luiselli                     Lost Children Archive Alejandra Márquez Abella   A Million Miles Away Rigoberta Menchú               I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Tim O'Brien                         The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien                         In the Lake of the Woods Jordan B. Peterson             Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Thomas Piketty                  Capital in the Twenty-First Century Sally Rooney                      Beautiful World, Where Are You Maurice Sendak                 Where the Wild Things Are Michelle Zahner                 Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Scholar and philosopher Wesley Barker talks about living your life when you deal every day with complex thought—as well as the importance of getting out of your head and embracing being a beginner. Episode artwork: Władysław Czachórski, Zadumana (Deep in Thought), 1883. US public domain image courtesy The National Museum in Warsaw and Wikimedia Commons.  Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay 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!   Dante Alighieri                                     The Divine Comedy Augustine of Hippo                                            Robert B. Brandom                              A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology                                                                                                  Jasmine Cobb                                     New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair                                                                                         Simon Critchley                                   Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance                                                                  Larry David                                            Curb Your Enthusiasm Michel Foucault                                   The History of Sexuality                                                                                                               Michel Foucault                                   Confessions of the Flesh                                                              Michel Foucault                                   "About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self" in Religion and Culture (ed. Jeremy R. Carrette)             Witold Gombrowicz                             A Kind of Testament                         Witold Gombrowicz                             Ferdydurke                                                                                                    G. W. F. Hegel                                    The Phenomenology of Spirit           Luce Irigaray    Mark. D. Jordan                                                           Norton Juster                                      The Phantom Tollbooth                                                                                Jean-François Lyotard                        The Confession of Augustine                                                           Herman Melville                                  Moby Dick                                                                                               Tom Nichols                                        The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters                                                                                 Boris Pasternak                                  Doctor Zhivago                                                                                            Philip Roth                                          The Human Stain                                                                                          Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold  When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds

Pastor and author Ben Dueholm drops by to talk about the value of bleak reading, the intrigue of magic, and even Lou Reed! Episode artwork: Magician Paul LePaul, 1937. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Want to learn more about the books, authors—and films!—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!   Adonis                                     Concerto al-Quds Dietrich Bonhoeffer                Letters and Papers from Prison Louis Paul Boon                      My Little War Joe Brainard                            The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard John  Bunyan                          The Pilgrim's Progress Tara Isabella Burton                Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from da Vinci to the Kardashians Louis-Ferdinand Céline David Chase                            The Sopranos Hélène Cixous                         Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang Robertson Davies                   The Cornish Trilogy Robertson Davies                   The Deptford Trilogy Fredrik deBoer                        How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement Joan Didion                             "Self-Respect: Its Source, Its Power" Louise Fitzhugh                       Harriet the Spy David Foster Wallace              Infinite Jest Michel Foucault                       The Archaeology of Knowledge Thomas Hardy                         Tess of the D'urbervilles Will Hermes                             Lou Reed: The King of New York Andrew Hineraker                   The Magic Play Norton Juster                          The Phantom Tollbooth John LeCarré                           A Perfect Spy John LeCarré                           A Private Spy John LeCarré                           Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Cormac McCarthy                   All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy                   Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy                   The Border Trilogy Cormac McCarthy                   Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy                   The Crossing Cormac McCarthy                   No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy                   The Passenger Cormac McCarthy                   The Road Cormac McCarthy                   Stella Maris Herman Melville                      Moby Dick Toni Morrison                          Sula Toni Morrison                          Song of Solomon Vladimir Nabokov                    Pale Fire George Orwell "                      "Politics and the English Language" Marilynne Robinson                Gilead Marilynne Robinson                Reading Genesis Salman Rushdie                      Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie                      Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie                      The Satanic Verses David Simon                            The Wire Jonathan D. Spence               The Death of Woman Wang Sam Tanenhouse                    Whitaker Chambers: A Biography Christian Wiman                     He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art Christian Wiman                     My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer Christian Wiman                     "The Preacher Addresses the Seminarians"  

Evolutionary biologist Zachary Blount tells us why you have to read widely to be a good scientist, as well as what makes for good horror and great bookstores. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker, image with no known copyright restrictions courtesy Smithsonian Institution and Wikimedia Commons Want to learn more about the books, authors—and films!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon!   Mary Beard                        Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World Walter Benjamin                 "Unpacking My Library" Barbara Butcher                What the Dead Know: Learning about Life as a New York City Death Investigator Hélène Cixous                   Double Oblivion of the Ourang-Outang Johnny Compton               The Spite House Mark Z. Danielewski          House of Leaves Adrian Goldworthy             Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry Kathleen Hale                    Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls Grady Hendrix                   Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Dave Hickey                      Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy Tom Holland                      Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age Nick Hornby                       High Fidelity Brad J. Kallenberg             By Design: Ethics, Theology, and the Practice of Engineering Stephen King                     The Dark Tower Stephen King                     Holly Victor Klemperer                The Language of the Third Reich James Merrill                     From the First Nine. Poems 1946–1976 David Robert Mitchell         It Follows David Morrell                      Thomas DeQuincy Series Jordan Peele                      Get Out Thomas Pynchon               The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon               Mason & Dixon Paul Tremblay                    The Beast You Are                                                  Harry Turtledove Gore Vidal                          Kalki Anna Wiener                      Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Journalist, writer, and podcaster Wes Ferguson talks to us about what makes a good story—and how in telling others' stories, you often have to reflect on your own. Episode artwork: CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED imagae courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Want to learn more about the books we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon!   Hilton Als                                               My Pinup Hilton Als                                               White Girls Louis Paul Boon                                    My Little War Joel Ebert and Erik Schelzig                 Welcome to Capitol Hill: Fifty Years of Scandal in Tennessee Politics John R . Erickson                                 Hank the Cowdog Wes Ferguson                                      The Blanco River Wes Ferguson                                      Devil Town Wes Ferguson                                      Running the River Wes Ferguson                                      Standoff Wes Ferguson                                      "When Angels in America Came to East Texas" William T. Harper                                  Eleven Days in Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Hunstville, Texas Elmer Kelton                                         The Time It Never Rained Tony Kushner                                        Angels in America Geert Mak                                             In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century James McBride                                     The Good Lord Bird Annie van den Oever                            Life Itself: Louis Paul Boon as Innovator of the Novel

How does poetry help both writers and readers heal, and how does it build community? Ohio's poet laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour, stops by with fellow Women of Appalachia Project member Kristi Stephens Walker to talk about how essential poetry is. Find Kari at https://www.karigunterseymourpoet.com/. And the Women of Appalachia at https://www.womenofappalachia.com/about. Kristi shared with us a list of Barbara Kingsolver's recommendations for Appalachia-related reading—which has generated a great deal of feeling! Find it at the New York Times. Episode image: Henri-Jean Guilliame Martin, "Poetesses on a Lake Shore" (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Want to find out more about the books we talked about on the show? Here's a list! You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon! Roy Bentley                             My Mother's Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986–2020 Svetlana Boym                        Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet Susanna Connelly Holstein, Cheryl Denise, Kirk Judd, and Sherrell Runnion Wigal     Porch Poems Boubacar Boris Diop                Murambi, The Book of Bones Ellis Elliott                                Break in the Field Barbara Kingsolver                  Demon Copperhead Kinsgsolver reading list (Kristi!)             Geert Mak                                In Europe: Travels Throuogh the Twentieth Century Linda Parsons                          Valediction: Poems and Prose Catherine Pritchard Childress  Outside the Frame Jamie Quatro                           Fire Sermon Jamie Quatro                           I Want to Show You More Margaret Renkl                        Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss Shawna Kay Rodenberg         Kin: A Memoir Paul Seabright                        The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri           Writing on the Soil: Land and Landscape in Literature from Easter and Southern Africa

Before we get going with interviews, this introduction will let you get to know our hosts and learn what they're hoping to do here. How and why do we read—and why can't we stop talking about it all? Want to keep track of the books and authors we mentioned? Check out what comes close to a comprehensive list below! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay   Gaston Bachelard      The Practice of Everyday Life Don Clifton                 StrengthsFinder 2.0 Hernan Díaz              Trust Gustav Eckstein        The Body Has a Head; also Lives, in which the mentioned story, "Two Lives," is included  Jonathan Franzen     How to Be Alone ("Lost in the Mail") Paolo Freire               Pedagogy of the Oppressed Christopher Gilbert    Turning into Dwelling Pierre Hadot              Philosophy as a Way of Life Liam Heneghan         A Primer on Human Impacts on the Environment John Irving                 Avenue of Mysteries Jack Kerouac             Atop an Underwood Barbara Kingsolver    Demon Copperhead Karl Ove Knausgaard My Struggle (vol. 6) László Krasznahorkai The Melancholy of Resistance Julia Kristeva              New Maladies of the Soul Alan Lomax                The Land Where the Blues Began Cormac McCarthy      All the Pretty Horses Matthew McConaughey  Greenlights                   Katja Oskamp             Marzahn, mon amour Orhan Pamuk             The Museum of Innocence James Rebanks          The Shepherd's Life Katy Scrogin               "Complex Adaptive Democracy" Bruce Springsteen       Born to Run Wallace Stevens          The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination J. R. R. Tolkien            The Silmarillion Walt Whitman              Poetry & Prose RadioArt(r)                   The Phone Book Ryan Iverson               Werner Herzog Reads   Authors:  Walter Mosley                                       Sarah Orne Jewett