Author and editor Kathie Klarreich and I talk about incarcerated people who are writing during a pandemic. Another one from the Miami Book Fair: https://www.miamibookfair.com Exchange For Change: https://www.exchange-for-change.org/kathieklarreich Buy Hear Us: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FS825T9
Maggie Smith is the author of Good Bones and many, many other amazing poems. We talk more about craft, read one of her poems and discuss what it means to peak as an artist. https://www.miamibookfair.com Buy The Life, By Carrie Fountain: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Penguin-Poets-Carrie-Fountain/dp/0143136011 Buy Goldenrod, by Maggie Smith: https://www.amazon.com/Goldenrod-Poems-Maggie-Smith/dp/1982185066/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Goldenrod&qid=1636694888&s=books&sr=1-1...
Maggie Smith is the author of Good Bones and many, many other amazing poems. We talk about craft, musicals, enjambment, and about Carrie Fountain's amazing book of poetry: The Life. We also discover that we are members of the same religion. https://www.miamibookfair.com Buy The Life, By Carrie Fountain: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Penguin-Poets-Carrie-Fountain/dp/0143136011 Buy Goldenrod, by Maggie Smith: https://www.amazon.com/Goldenrod-Poems-Maggie-Smith/dp/1982185066/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Golde...
Tiokasin and I discuss archeology, the academy, language, quantum physics, history, and gig we once did at the Met in NYC. it's a pretty interesting one. Listen to More Tiokasin: https://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org Tiokasin's Website: https://www.akantuinstitute.org Tiokasin's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Against-Wind-Jadina-Lilien/dp/099790500X
Magician and author Joshua Jay and I discuss David Byrne's How Music Works. I slightly nerd out about Joshua's magic accomplishments. MIAMI BOOK FAIR Info: miamibookfair.com access the author conversations, avail. for free at miamibookfaironline.com How Magicians Think by Joshua Jay (which I can't recommend highly enough) https://www.amazon.com/Misdirection-Magicians-Think-Joshua-Jay/dp/1523507438/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=how+magicians+think&qid=1634843723&sr=8-1 How Magicians Think Podcast: ...
Magician and author Joshua Jay and I discuss David Byrne's How Music Works. I slightly nerd out about Joshua's magic accomplishments. MIAMI BOOK FAIR Info: miamibookfair.com access the author conversations, avail. for free at miamibookfaironline.com How Magicians Think by Joshua Jay (which I can't recommend highly enough) https://www.amazon.com/Misdirection-Magicians-Think-Joshua-Jay/dp/1523507438/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=how+magicians+think&qid=1634843723&sr=8-1 How Magicians Think Podcast: ...
Joie and I talk about Smoke, by Ivan Turgenev and about her book, An Unofficial Marriage. Buy Smoke: https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Alma-Classics-Ivan-Turgenev/dp/1847493165/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3QD34D4CD6BW6&dchild=1&keywords=smoke%2C+ivan+turgenev&qid=1634162167&sr=8-1 Buy The Unofficial Marriage: https://www.amazon.com/Unofficial-Marriage-Novel-Joie-Davidow/dp/1950691780/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=the+unofficial+marriage&qid=1634162261&sr=8-2...
Dr. Lisa Bitel walks me through the ancient Irish Epic, The Tain. This book is also called "the Irish Iliad". I'd recommend reading this one AFTER listening to the episode. The Tain: https://www.amazon.com/Tain-Translated-Irish-Epic-Cuailnge/dp/0192803735 More Info about Dr. Bitel: https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003109 A Poem: The Surfing Irishman A nadb named dabd did misbehadb He stole another surfers wadb You’d think that he could be forgadb But poor old Dadb i...
We talk about Karl Popper, the fallacy of science, the purpose of literature, and brain scanners... ya know... nice lite accessible stuff. Buy Angus's book WonderWorks! It is truly fantastic! https://www.amazon.com/Wonderworks-Powerful-Inventions-History-Literature/dp/B08CY951JM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1K3FT80K81QM2&dchild=1&keywords=wonderworks+book&qid=1632431454&sprefix=wonder+works%2Caps%2C232&sr=8-1
Angus and I talk about the neuroscience of how Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers secretly turns your brain into the brain of an outlier. This is a book society first! We did an episode about Angus's book with author Judith Dupreé, here's that if you want to hear it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/judith-dupré/id1565589623?i=1000524195954 Also, Buy Angus's book WonderWorks! It is truly fantastic! https://www.amazon.com/Wonderworks-Powerful-Inventions-History-Literature/dp/B08CY951JM/ref=sr_1_1?c...
Bill and I talk about birth, death, and leopards. Hole In The Head Review: https://www.holeintheheadreview.com
What do Julian Bream, nuclear power, and the internet have in common? Here's a link to George's Book, Analogia, which I can't recommend highly enough: https://www.amazon.com/Analogia-Emergence-Technology-Programmable-Control/dp/0374104867
George and I talk about Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke and the nature of British Men. Here's a link to George's Book, Analogia, which I can't recommend highly enough: https://www.amazon.com/Analogia-Emergence-Technology-Programmable-Control/dp/0374104867
Zach and I conclude our discussion about the books of Mosses. We talk about weird, sexy things that the old testament god created. Is the bible total non-sense? One 19th Century Chautauqua speaker certainly thought so. Some Mistakes Of Moses: https://www.amazon.com/Some-Mistakes-Moses-Classic-Reprint/dp/1330756118 Free Ebook Version: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38099/38099-h/38099-h.htm Free Audiobook: https://librivox.org/mistakes-of-moses-by-robert-g-ingersoll/...
Is the bible total non-sense? One 19th Century Chautauqua speaker certainly thought so. Some Mistakes Of Moses: https://www.amazon.com/Some-Mistakes-Moses-Classic-Reprint/dp/1330756118 Free Ebook Version: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38099/38099-h/38099-h.htm Free Audiobook: https://librivox.org/mistakes-of-moses-by-robert-g-ingersoll/
Flynn and I talk about native poetry, intersectionality, genocide and meeting strangers on airplanes. Buy Flynn's Book: https://flynncoleman.community/my-book Buy When The Light Of The World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: https://www.amazon.com/Light-World-Subdued-Songs-Through/dp/0393356809/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ODN3G2FI9TQX&dchild=1&keywords=when+the+light+of+the+world+was+subdued&qid=1626195404&sprefix=When+the+Light+of+the+world+w%2Caps%2C211&sr=8-1 Buy A Random Weird Th...
Robert and I talk about The Dodgers and 1950s propaganda films. I gush about his podcast The Hidden History of LA. Buy Stealing Home: https://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Home-Angeles-Dodgers-Between/dp/1541742214/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1625870716&sr=8-3 HHLA Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hidden-history-of-los-angeles/id666596114?mt=2 1950s Propaganda film with an amazing score: https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/and-ten-thous...
Literary agent Peter Rubie and I talk about Art and Fear and nearly get into a bar fight.
We talk about 19th century Jewish homesteaders in the Dakotas and propose a plausible theory for the etymology of the phrase "a roll in the hay".
Ben and I talk about Thrillers and drunken marathons.
Most Civilizations in history grew up around rivers, lakes, and in places with rain. So what's up with the American West? Why and how are we even here? And how long can this last?
Judith Dupré and I talk about literature and art and buildings and, very briefly, Bertrand Russell.
Me and Daniel Murfet talk about marginal revolutions, sustainable growth, and air conditioning.
Eric and I talk about art, social media, and birds.
Dyalekt and I talk about Hitler's American Model by James Q Whitman. We have a pretty intense conversation about racism in America and our own experience as people of color. Dyalekt gives me grace for misunderstanding the term "passing" and we discuss one of Jim Henson's lesser know projects.
Cliff and I talk about Watchmen, Zach Snyder, Richard Nixon, Lost, and other stuff. I get confused about who went to the moon. There is also a level 10 nerd question in there that I seriously want an answer to.
Conductor, Composer and Candidate Julian Gallant and I discuss the greatest novel ever written: Middlemarch. We talk about the reform act that I'd never heard of but everyone in the UK knows about and we postulate that one Middlemarch inhabitant is a refugee form another novel. There's also something about The Office in there... Julian's British so it all sounds very high brow. There's a bit in there about Stalin as well...
Renowned Author Esmeralda Santiago and I talk about There, There by Tommy Orange, and House Made Of Dawn by M. Scott Momaday. We talk about what it means to "belong" to a culture and I relive a time where I embarrassed myself in front of 2,000 people.
Jesse Cameron Alick and I talk about N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy, make a pretty good case that black women are the best sci-fi writers and forget, for a moment, that the sun exists.
