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Host Richard Kraft invites writers, artists, scientists, musicians and people from all areas of life to select eight talismanic books, which have profoundly affected them. Richard’s probing, insightful questions open doors not only to the books, but also

Richard Kraft


    • Jan 15, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 1h 15m AVG DURATION
    • 10 EPISODES


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    Phong Bui

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 81:38


    Phong Bui, the publisher and artistic director of the Brooklyn Rail, speaks with Richard about frozen glimpses, trusting in one's anxiety, the difference between being and becoming, and learning English by watching television, as well as his choice of eight books.

    Mónica de la Torre

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 77:47


    Poet and translator, Mónica de la Torre speaks with Richard about subversion, multiplicity, her youth in Mexico City, dreaming in both Spanish and English, and her eight talismanic books.

    Thomas Evans

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 73:28


    Thomas Evans speaks with Richard about his love of autodidacts, resisting specialization, the ethos of domesticity, and getting tattooed in Burma, as well as his choice of eight talismanic books.

    Peter Gizzi

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 82:25


    Peter Gizzi speaks with Richard about poetry as a form of prayer, New York City in the 1980's, his love of the night, being told to do his homework by Allen Ginsberg, and his choice of eight talismanic books.

    Patrick A. Howell

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 57:14


    Patrick A. Howell tells Richard about his eight talismanic books, being a realist and an optimist, walking with his head in the clouds, and why Muhammad Ali was more powerful than Jimmy Carter.

    Ann Lauterbach

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 89:55


    Richard speaks with poet Ann Lauterbach about radical idealism, disobedient choices, the color of chaos, and living with groundhogs, as well as her list of eight talismanic books.

    Jonathan Lethem

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 79:56


    Jonathan Lethem tells Richard about his eight talismanic books and also talks about obscure heroes, his love of the search, growing up in the era of New York's "dystopian abandonment," and what he learned from watching his father paint.

    Albert Mobilio

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 75:19


    Writer Albert Mobilio talks with Richard about his eight talismanic books, the difference between games and play, the "zone of perplexity," and the custom-built bookcase made by his father to house The World Book Encyclopedia.

    Lisa Pearson

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 60:49


    Publisher Lisa Pearson speaks with Richard about dangerous books, resisting the center, sticking up for the underdog, and why she was more comfortable living in Berlin than Wisconsin, as well as her choice of eight talismanic books.

    Marjorie Perloff

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2022 74:01


    Richard talks with the renowned critic, Marjorie Perloff about her choice of eight talismanic books, fleeing Vienna as the Nazis came to power, why poets must embrace the new and why she regrets changing her name from Gabriele Mintz to Marjorie Perloff.

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