Podcast appearances and mentions of Aleksandar Hemon

Matrica: vstajenje. Anže in Pižama pogrešata Monico ter se sprašujeta, ali Aleksandar Hemon posluša Glave. Če so ti glave všeč, jih lahko podpreš in dobiš dodatno mini epizodo. Pridi se pogovarjat -> Discord: Apparatus klub Vprašaj Glave – Glave #1967Zapiski: The Matrix Resurrections The Wachowskis Aleksandar Hemon: “Tako imenovani navadni ljudje so doma v književnosti” […]

Bosansko-ameriški pisatelj skozi zgodbo svojih staršev zarisuje življenjsko izkušnjo celih generacij ljudi, ki so odraščali v socialistični Jugoslaviji»Resnična zgodovina se vedno odvija na osebni ravni«, nekje v romanu Moji starši zapiše bosansko-ameriški pisatelj Aleksandar Hemon. In vendar - ali pa morda prav zato - se to njegovo delo, v osnovi osredotočeno na življenjsko zgodbo njegovih staršev, bere skorajda kot neke vrste emocionalni zemljevid celih generacij s področja nekdanje Jugoslavije, generacij, ki so doživele vzpon socialistične družbe, njen vrhunec in njen končni razpad, obeležen s krvavo vojno, ki je mnoge - med drugim tudi Hemonove starše - pregnala v izseljenstvo. Knjigo, polno tudi v našem prostoru še vedno marsikomu znanih spominov, hrane, glasbe in čustev, ki je nedavno izšla pri založbi Goga, nam bo za tokratno Sobotno branje pomagala predstaviti prevajalka Irena Duša Draž. Oddajo je pripravila Alja Zore.   Vabljeni, da prisluhnete tudi oddaji o Hemonovem romanu Tole ni zate, ki smo ga v Sobotnem branju predstavili pred enim letom: Aleksandar Hemon: Tole ni zate

Uprizoritveno besedilo je dramatizacija esejističnega dela bosansko-ameriškega avtorja Aleksandra Hemona. Zgodbo mojih življenj sestavlja petnajst besedil oziroma življenjskih poglavij, ki v plesni predstavi zaživijo kot krpanka, v katero se vpisujejo vprašanja doma in domovine, odgovornosti, identitete v starem in novem kraju ter navsezadnje smisla izseljenstva. Se domači kraj da iztrgati iz posameznika? Režija, adaptacija besedila: Ivana Djilas Dramaturgija in avtorstvo adaptacije besedila: Goran Vojnović Koprodukcija: Anton Podbevšek Teater in Plesni Teater Ljubljana Oblikovanje videa: Vesna Vega Kostumografija: Jelena Proković Scenografija: Sara Slivnik Oblikovanje luči in tehnične rešitve: Janko Oven Glasba, video snemanje in oblikovanje zvoka: Beti Strgar Nastopajo: Murat, Veronika Valdés, Branko Potočan, Željko Božič

Aleksandar Hemon joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” by ZZ Packer, which was published in The New Yorker in 2000. Hemon, a winner of a MacArthur Fellowship and a PEN/W. G. Sebald Award, among others, is the author of eight books, including the novels “The Lazarus Project” and “The World and All It Holds,” the story collection “Love and Obstacles,” and two nonfiction works, “The Book of My Lives” and “My Parents: an Introduction.”Share your thoughts on The New Yorker's Fiction Podcast. As a token of our appreciation, you will be eligible to enter a prize drawing up to $1,000 after you complete the survey.https://selfserve.decipherinc.com/survey/selfserve/222b/76152?pin=1&uBRANDLINK=4&uCHANNELLINK=2

Wüllenkemper, Cornelius www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Wüllenkemper, Cornelius www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Wüllenkemper, Cornelius www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Bavarsko a naše? Boris Rabrenović razgovara sa Asmirom Šabićem iz udruženja balkaNet koje u Minhenu promoviše balkansku kulturu i muziku. Od kolege Zorana Stošića saznajemo kakvih novosti ima na muzičkoj sceni Hrvatske. Čućemo i freestyle rep-sučeljavanje hrvatskog premijera Plenkovića i predsednika Milanovića. Ne, oni nisu počeli da se bave muzikom, već je muzičar Alejuandro Buendija prizvao u pomoć veštačku inteligenciju jer ga je zanimalo kako bi taj muzičku duel zvučao. OK. I kako je ispalo? Von Boris Rabrenovic.

Piše: Sašo Puljarević, bere: Ivan Lotrič. »Nekoč pred davnimi časi, za devetimi gorami in devetimi vodami« je živel deček, ki je neko noč sam po Sarajevskih ulicah odtaval domov, deček, ki je počitnice preživljal na Jahorini, fant, ki je nekega dne leta 1992 odšel v ZDA in ostal dlje, kot si je predstavljal, fant, ki se je trmasto naučil angleščine in v tujem jeziku odrasel v pisatelja, ki se v delu Tole ni zate, vrača v preteklost in prevprašuje zgodbe, spomine, pripovedne sheme in mehanizme, ki so sestavili zgodbo o človeku Aleksandru Hemonu. Paberke Hemonovih spominov, vključno s tistimi najzgodnejšimi, ki so v izvirniku izšli skupaj z zgodbo o avtorjevih starših (My parents: An introduction), smo v slovenskem prevodu Irene Duše Draž dobili kot samostojno delo. Čeprav – kot tudi Hemon poudarja v različnih intervjujih – razgrinja globoko intimno, osebno izkušnjo Hemonovega otroštva in odraščanja, ostaja trdno vpeto v družbeno-zgodovinski kontekst in – kot nenazadnje vse pravljice, katerih diskurz mestoma pronica v besedilo – priča, da je narativizacija četudi še tako osebno manifestirane izkušnje, kot način organizacije resničnosti in posledično predvsem preteklosti lastna vsem. Prav dejstvo, da Hemon ne skriva, da gre za njegove spomine, verjetno prispeva k temu, da delo v različnih kontekstih nosi različno zvrstno oznako. V angloameriški tradiciji, kjer je ločnica med fikcijo in nefikcijo veliko bolj uveljavljena kot v drugih kulturno-jezikovnih okoljih, delo velja za nekašne memoare, medtem ko bi ga pri nas zlahka označili za spominsko prozo oziroma, kot beremo na zadnji platnici, celo za roman. Pa tudi o konceptualni zbirki kratkih zgodb, bi lahko razpravljali. Skratka, gre predvsem za odnos, ki ga bralstvo zavzame do dela, besedilo kot takšno pa je v tem smislu precej polivalentno ter zvrstno in žanrsko odprto. Oziroma če potenciram, se na tovrstne oznake požvižga. Hemonovo delo Tole ni zate pa je dialoško ne le na ravni zvrsti, temveč tudi na ravni sloga in vsebine. Pogosto neposredno nagovarja, pripoveduje z mislijo na sogovornika oziroma sogovornico, lapidarne povedi na meji zdaj z aforizmi, zdaj z meditacijami pa računajo na to, da je vsaj bralstvu z območja nekdanje skupne države kontekst znan in ga izziva, da ga z lastnim védenjem ves čas dograjuje. Prav s tem, ko evocira skupno izkušnjo, se delo odmika od intimnega izkustva sveta in – pa naj se avtor še tako zelo upira – apelira na univerzalnost pripovednih mehanizmov, s katerimi zaznavamo svet. Z vsem dolžnim spoštovanjem – za Hemonovo otroštvo mi je namreč prav malo mar, edino, kar me zanima, je tisto pripovedovalčevo. Pripovedovalec se torej vrača v »prejšnje življenje«, pripoveduje z jasnim zavedanjem, da je vse, o čemer lahko pripoveduje, le spomin na izkušnjo, ki je nepovratno minila, s tem pa v svoji pojavnosti ostaja nedosegljiva. Glavni poudarek dela ni v tem, česa se pripovedovalec spominja, temveč kako. Hemon korak za korakom in nepretenciozno razgalja mehanizem, ki je v osnovi vedno pripoveden, izkušnjo pa prek spomina shranjujemo kot pripovedno shemo. Kot pravi: »zaporedje vedno obstaja, nekakšna zgodba« oziroma na drugem mestu: »nobenih novoodkritih spominov ni«, »utapljam se v zgodbah«. In ne ustavlja se le pri ozaveščanju mehanizmov, temveč tudi te dekonstruira. To se morda še najjasneje kaže v odlomkih s spomini na vročične blodnje, v katerih ločila umanjkajo, pojavljajo se praznine, skratka tudi jezik razpade in ne služi več logično-posledični organizaciji izkušnje. Tovrstnega razpadanja na več ravneh, odlomkov, kjer se zdi, da se kar najbolj približamo izvirnemu izkustvu, Jaz-urejevalec pa je povsem onesposobljen, bi bilo v delu zlahka več. Kajti – kakšna je pravzaprav razlika med spominjanjem in blodnjami? Kot je iz povedanega, upam, očitno, se delo Aleksandra Hemona Tole ni zate na ta način elegantno izogiba pastem nostalgije, ki neizogibno vodijo v patetiko. Gradi namreč predvsem na algosu, bolečini, ki izvira iz zavedanja minljivosti, nedosegljivosti preteklosti in precej mazohistično koplje po razpoki, ki jo tovrstno zavedanje povzroča. In ne le nedosegljivost preteklosti, nelagodje povzroča tudi to, da se je pripovedovalec naselil v novem jeziku, s tem pa se je njegov svet, ki ga po njegovih besedah wittgensteinovsko omejuje jezik, razcepil na dvoje. A tu bi šlo delo lahko še korak naprej, namreč kaj če ne gre nujno za dva svetova, ki sta trčila in subjekt lahko le preskakuje iz enega v drugega, temveč lahko obstaja v obeh hkrati? Oziroma če gremo še dlje, kaj če obstaja le v enem, ki pa je toliko bolj kompleksen? Mar ni tudi enojezični svet velikokrat sklop različnih registrskih, kontekstualnih nians? Le da so te v primeru pripovedovalca toliko bolj kontrastirane? Gre torej le za še eno zgodbo? Zgodbo, ki si jo pripovedujemo o sebi. Z razkopavanjem in razgrajevanjem, razgaljanjem spominov kot pripovednih struktur pripovedovalec pride do sklepa, ki je v svoji totalnosti vsaj nelagoden. Kot pravi, »kaj, če je to, kar mislim, da sem – jaz –, le asemblaž delov, umov, jazov?« In dodaja: »lahko bi sestavil drugačno verzijo iz alternativne zbirke fragmentov; lahko bi se rodil iz drugačnih delov; lahko bi sestavil nekoga drugega«.

Nayereh Doosti speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “The Little One,” which appears in The Common's most recent issue. Nayereh talks about the many inspirations behind this story, which follows an older Iranian man coming to America, where he feels out of place with his family members, the community, and the younger generations. Nayereh also discusses her time as an intern at The Common, her MFA program at BU, and her brand new Persian translation of Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of my Lives, out now in Tehran. Nayereh Doosti is an Iranian writer and translator based in Berkeley, California. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, and Nowruz Journal, among others. She holds an MFA from Boston University, and is a former intern at The Common. Read Nayereh's story “The Little One” in The Common at thecommonoline.org/the-little-one. The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag. Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her debut novel is forthcoming in 2025 from Putnam Books. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She was a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Nayereh Doosti speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “The Little One,” which appears in The Common's most recent issue. Nayereh talks about the many inspirations behind this story, which follows an older Iranian man coming to America, where he feels out of place with his family members, the community, and the younger generations. Nayereh also discusses her time as an intern at The Common, her MFA program at BU, and her brand new Persian translation of Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of my Lives, out now in Tehran. Nayereh Doosti is an Iranian writer and translator based in Berkeley, California. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, and Nowruz Journal, among others. She holds an MFA from Boston University, and is a former intern at The Common. Read Nayereh's story “The Little One” in The Common at thecommonoline.org/the-little-one. The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag. Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her debut novel is forthcoming in 2025 from Putnam Books. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She was a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Nayereh Doosti speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her story “The Little One,” which appears in The Common's most recent issue. Nayereh talks about the many inspirations behind this story, which follows an older Iranian man coming to America, where he feels out of place with his family members, the community, and the younger generations. Nayereh also discusses her time as an intern at The Common, her MFA program at BU, and her brand new Persian translation of Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of my Lives, out now in Tehran. Nayereh Doosti is an Iranian writer and translator based in Berkeley, California. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, and Nowruz Journal, among others. She holds an MFA from Boston University, and is a former intern at The Common. Read Nayereh's story “The Little One” in The Common at thecommonoline.org/the-little-one. The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag. Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her debut novel is forthcoming in 2025 from Putnam Books. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She was a 2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katrin Schumacher empfiehlt: "Sund" von Laura Lichtblau, den neuen Roman von Aleksandar Hemon mit dem Titel "Die Welt und alles, was sie enthält" sowie das Hörbuch zu Per Olov Enquists "Der Besuch des Leibarztes".

What is the relationship between aesthetic presentation of thought and scientific conceptions of cognition? Torsa Ghosal's Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative (Ohio State UP, 2021) answers this question by offering incisive commentary on a range of contemporary fictions that combine language, maps, photographs, and other images to portray thought. Situating literature within groundbreaking debates on memory, perception, abstraction, and computation, Ghosal shows how stories not only reflect historical beliefs about how minds work but also participate in their reappraisal. Out of Mind makes a compelling case for understanding narrative forms and cognitive-scientific frameworks as co-emergent and cross-pollinating. To this end, Ghosal harnesses narrative theory, multimodality studies, cognitive sciences, and disability studies to track competing perspectives on remembering, reading, and sense of place and self. Through new readings of the works of Kamila Shamsie, Aleksandar Hemon, Mark Haddon, Lance Olsen, Steve Tomasula, Jonathan Safran Foer, and others, Out of Mind generates unique insights into literary imagination's influence on how we think and perceive amid twenty-first-century social, technological, and environmental changes. Arnab Dutta Roy is Assistant Professor of World Literature and Postcolonial Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

What is the relationship between aesthetic presentation of thought and scientific conceptions of cognition? Torsa Ghosal's Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative (Ohio State UP, 2021) answers this question by offering incisive commentary on a range of contemporary fictions that combine language, maps, photographs, and other images to portray thought. Situating literature within groundbreaking debates on memory, perception, abstraction, and computation, Ghosal shows how stories not only reflect historical beliefs about how minds work but also participate in their reappraisal. Out of Mind makes a compelling case for understanding narrative forms and cognitive-scientific frameworks as co-emergent and cross-pollinating. To this end, Ghosal harnesses narrative theory, multimodality studies, cognitive sciences, and disability studies to track competing perspectives on remembering, reading, and sense of place and self. Through new readings of the works of Kamila Shamsie, Aleksandar Hemon, Mark Haddon, Lance Olsen, Steve Tomasula, Jonathan Safran Foer, and others, Out of Mind generates unique insights into literary imagination's influence on how we think and perceive amid twenty-first-century social, technological, and environmental changes. Arnab Dutta Roy is Assistant Professor of World Literature and Postcolonial Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

What is the relationship between aesthetic presentation of thought and scientific conceptions of cognition? Torsa Ghosal's Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative (Ohio State UP, 2021) answers this question by offering incisive commentary on a range of contemporary fictions that combine language, maps, photographs, and other images to portray thought. Situating literature within groundbreaking debates on memory, perception, abstraction, and computation, Ghosal shows how stories not only reflect historical beliefs about how minds work but also participate in their reappraisal. Out of Mind makes a compelling case for understanding narrative forms and cognitive-scientific frameworks as co-emergent and cross-pollinating. To this end, Ghosal harnesses narrative theory, multimodality studies, cognitive sciences, and disability studies to track competing perspectives on remembering, reading, and sense of place and self. Through new readings of the works of Kamila Shamsie, Aleksandar Hemon, Mark Haddon, Lance Olsen, Steve Tomasula, Jonathan Safran Foer, and others, Out of Mind generates unique insights into literary imagination's influence on how we think and perceive amid twenty-first-century social, technological, and environmental changes. Arnab Dutta Roy is Assistant Professor of World Literature and Postcolonial Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

What is the relationship between aesthetic presentation of thought and scientific conceptions of cognition? Torsa Ghosal's Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative (Ohio State UP, 2021) answers this question by offering incisive commentary on a range of contemporary fictions that combine language, maps, photographs, and other images to portray thought. Situating literature within groundbreaking debates on memory, perception, abstraction, and computation, Ghosal shows how stories not only reflect historical beliefs about how minds work but also participate in their reappraisal. Out of Mind makes a compelling case for understanding narrative forms and cognitive-scientific frameworks as co-emergent and cross-pollinating. To this end, Ghosal harnesses narrative theory, multimodality studies, cognitive sciences, and disability studies to track competing perspectives on remembering, reading, and sense of place and self. Through new readings of the works of Kamila Shamsie, Aleksandar Hemon, Mark Haddon, Lance Olsen, Steve Tomasula, Jonathan Safran Foer, and others, Out of Mind generates unique insights into literary imagination's influence on how we think and perceive amid twenty-first-century social, technological, and environmental changes. Arnab Dutta Roy is Assistant Professor of World Literature and Postcolonial Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

Aleksandar Hemon: Die Welt und alles, was sie enthält / Asne Seierstad: Land der vielen Wahrheiten. Drei Leben in Afghanistan / Wytske Versteeg: Die goldene Stunde / Durs Grünbein: Der Komet / Hörbuch: Claire Keegan - Kleine Dinge wie diese / Das literarische Rätsel

Löffler, Sigridwww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Studio 9

Löffler, Sigridwww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Studio 9

Löffler, Sigridwww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Studio 9

Bosansko-ameriški pisatelj, pesnik, kolumnist in predavatelj kreativnega pisanja na ugledni ameriški univerzi Princeton Aleksandar Hemon velja za enega največjih mojstrov pisane besede s tega prostora, ki mu je uspelo na zelo zahtevnem in konkurenčnem ameriškem trgu. Že več kot 30 let živi v Združenih državah Amerike, kjer se je znašel tik pred krvavim razpadom Jugoslavije in pozneje čez lužo tudi ostal.V Sloveniji ga na knjižnem področju že dobro poznamo, saj je prevedenih kar nekaj njegovih knjig. Hemon velja za razmišljujočega misleca in kritičnega opazovalca družbe brez dlake na jeziku. V zadnjem času pa najraje sliši na ime Cielo Hemon, ki je njegovo umetniško ime, kadar ustvarja kot didžej. Gašper Andrinek se z njim pogovarja o nevarnosti kolektivne nostalgije, vse bolj radikalni Ameriki, o tem, kaj se lahko zgodi, če zmaga Trump, ter o tem, da nič ni večno, tudi družbene ureditve ne. Aleksandar Hemon je bil tudi nedeljski gost.

In the two hundredth episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Rivka Galchen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Bees, Part 1,” by Aleksandar Hemon, which was published in The New Yorker in 2002. Galchen's books include the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch.”

Prejšnji teden je v Sloveniji gostoval bosansko-ameriški pisatelj, esejist in scenarist Aleksandar Hemon. Leta 1992 je pri osemindvajsetih letih obiskal Združene države in zaradi vojn ob razpadu Jugoslavije tam tudi ostal. Na univerzi Northwestern je magistriral iz angleščine in že leta 2000 v angleščini izdal tudi zbirko kratkih zgodb Vprašanje Bruna. Čeprav so bila njegova dela precej hitro dobro sprejeta, je še poseben uspeh doživel z romanom Projekt Lazar, ki se je uvrstil v ožji izbor za kar dve prestižni ameriški literarni nagradi: ameriško državno nagrado za književnost in nagrado Nacionalnega združenja književnih kritikov. Hemon danes predava kreativno pisanje na univerzi v Princetonu, kot soscenarist pa je sodeloval tudi pri scenariju za četrti del filma Matrica. Nedavno je pri založbi Goga v slovenskem prevodu Irene Duša izšlo njegovo delo Tole ni zate. Avtor je ob tej priložnosti obiskal Slovenijo, z njim se je pogovarjal Sašo Puljarević.

En ambisiøs roman som tar deg fra Sarajevo til Shanghai. Ukas kritikerlag: Gerd Elin Stava Sandve, Knut Hoem og Anne Cathrine Straume. Hør episoden i appen NRK Radio

durée : 00:28:45 - L'Entretien littéraire de Mathias Enard - par : Mathias Énard - Le roman "Un monde de ciel et de terre" d'Aleksandar Hemon, paru aux éditions Calmann-Levy, a reçu le Grand prix de littérature américaine. Mathias Enard s'entretient avec Aleksandar Hemon. - invités : Aleksandar Hemon Écrivain

This episode Adam is joined by John Freeman to bid farewell to his game-changing literary journal Freeman's. They discuss the pleasures and challenges faced in setting up and running a magazine John's editorial philosophy, some of his favourite events, and why the final issue's theme of “Conclusions” offers up more surprising avenues than readers might expect. The episode also features readings from Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Rebecca Makkai, and Mieko Kawakami read by translator Hitomi YoshioBuy Freeman's Conclusions: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/freemans-conclusionsFeaturing new work from Rebecca Makkai, Aleksandar Hemon, Louise Erdrich, Mieko Kawakami and more, the tenth and final instalment of the boundary-pushing literary journal Freeman's explores all the ways of coming to an end.John Freeman was the editor of Granta until 2013. His books include Dictionary of the Undoing, How to Read a Novelist, Tales of Two Americas, and Tales of Two Planets. His poetry includes the collections Maps, The Park, and Wind, Trees. In 2021, he edited the anthologies There's a Revolution Outside, My Love with Tracy K. Smith, and The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story. An executive editor at Knopf, he also hosts the California Book Club, a monthly online discussion of a new classic in Golden State literature for Alta magazine. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review and has been translated into twenty-two languages.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a sequel of sorts to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-englandListen to Alex Freiman's latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I en annen verden, i et annet liv, kunne Pinto bedtmorgenbønn, holdt šaharit, bedt om å få slippe sin avskyelige lidenskap. Men den eneste bønnen som falt ham inn, var at Herren måtte hjelpe ham med å holde på Osman til tidens slutt, at stemmen hans ble det siste han hørte før han gled inn i la gran eskuridad.Rafael Pinto er en ung jødisk apoteker i Sarajevo, Bosnia, med store drømmer og en forkjærlighet til opium. En junidag i 1914 blir han vitne til attentatet på erkehertug Franz Ferdinand, og brått kastes Pinto inn i livet som soldat i første verdenskrig. I felten møter han Osman, en vakker muslimsk soldat som sjarmerer Pinto med sin modighet og talent for historiefortelling, og en grenseløs kjærlighet blomster mellom dem, som skal følge dem gjennom krigen og til verdens ytterpunkter.Aleksandar Hemons Verden og alt den rommer (til norsk ved John Erik Bøe Lindgren) er en storslått historisk roman som kombinerer fortidens fakta med en rik og fabulerende prosa. Med handlingen satt til et multikulturelt Europa i stor sosial omveltning, bruker Hemon bevisst et lyrisk språk som blander uttrykk fra alle kanter og kulturer, som viser en bred historie og reflekterer en mangfoldig verden. Resultatet er en original, men også arketypisk fortelling om urokkelig kjærlighet og én manns kamp for å berge noe å leve for når verden slik han kjenner den er i ferd med å gå under.Bosnisk-amerikanske Aleksandar Hemon er en av sin generasjons mest sentrale forfattere. Med romaner som blant annet Lazarus-prosjektet (til norsk ved Bente Lodgaard) og Nowhere Man (Knut Ofstad), i tillegg til sine mange noveller, har han skrevet seg inn i en moderne amerikansk kanon og fått lesere over hele verden. I år er han ute med Verden og alt den rommer, hans kanskje mest ambisiøse prosjekt så langt.I samtale med Hemon er kritiker, redaktør og forfatter John Freeman. Han har fulgt Hemons forfatterskap i mange år, og de to møttes til samtale om kjærlighet i krig og litteraturens sprengkraft. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In some other world, in some other life, Pinto might've prayed in the morning, prayed his šaharit, prayed to be relieved of his abhorrent passion. But the only prayer that came to his mind now was to the Lord to let him keep Osman for the rest of time, for his voice to be the last thing he would hear before slipping into la gran eskuridad. Rafael Pinto is a young Jewish apothecary in Sarajevo, Bosnia, with big dreams and a penchant for opium. One summer day in 1914 he witnesses the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand, and suddenly Pinto is thrust into life as a soldier in the Great War. There he meets Osman, a handsome Muslim soldier who charms Pinto with his bravery and talent for storytelling, and between them blossoms a boundless love which shall follow them through the war and to the ends of the Earth.Aleksandar Hemon's The World and All That It Holds is a grandiose historical novel that combines historical fact with a rich and fabulous prose. With events set in a multicultural Europe in great social upheaval, Hemon deploys a distinctly lyrical prose, mixing in languages and expressions from all corners and cultures, showing a broad history and a multiform world. The result is a highly original, yet archetypal story of undying love and one man's fight to save something worth living for as the world as he knows it is collapsing around him.Bosnian American Aleksander Hemon is one of the most central authors of his generation. With novels such as The Lazarus Project and Nowhere Man, alongside his many short stories, Hemon has written himself into the contemporary American canon and garnered readers all over the world. This year, he returns with The World and All That It Holds, perhaps his most ambitious project yet.In conversation with Hemon is renowned author, critic, and editor John Freeman. He has long followed Hemon's career as a writer and metHemon on stage for a conversation on love in wartime and the explosive power of literature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On May 25th 2020, in Minneapolis, a black man named George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer named Derek Chauvin who put his knee on George Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, thus asphyxiating him. That tragic event had an immediate global impact, sparking off demonstrations and riots, not just in the US but across the world. But who was George Floyd? Where did he come from? What was he like? What was his life? These questions are all addressed in the book co-authored by my guest today, Robert Samuels, and Tolu Olorunnipa called “His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life & Struggle for Racial Justice” which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction this year. It's a superbly researched book which provides a look at George Floyd's ancestry and how the trauma of slavery & discrimination is typically passed down in Black families in America. In today's interview, I ask Robert Samuels what the research was like given the raw emotions that must have been omnipresent. This is obviously a difficult subject, but one that must be discussed and this book certainly helps to open our eyes and instigate these important conversations.  Books mentioned in the episode: Favourite book I've never heard of: “Nowhere Man” by Aleksandar Hemon (2002) Favourite book of the last 12 months: “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak & Other Stories” by Jamil Kochai (2022) The book that he would take to a desert island: “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck The book that changed his mind: “Locking Up Our Own” by James Forman Jr. (2017) Buy Robert Samuels book: https://amzn.eu/d/jeix2UR Follow me ⁠⁠⁠@litwithcharles⁠⁠⁠ for more book reviews and recommendations!

Today I talked to Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel The World and All That It Holds (MCD, 2023). As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can't put in perspective. And then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic storyteller; Pinto's protector and lover. Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches, survive near-certain death, tangle with spies and Bolsheviks. Over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto's love for Osman--with the occasional opiatic interlude--that keeps him going. AJ Woodhams hosts the "War Books" podcast. You can subscribe on Apple here and on Spotify here. War Books is on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I talked to Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel The World and All That It Holds (MCD, 2023). As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can't put in perspective. And then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic storyteller; Pinto's protector and lover. Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches, survive near-certain death, tangle with spies and Bolsheviks. Over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto's love for Osman--with the occasional opiatic interlude--that keeps him going. AJ Woodhams hosts the "War Books" podcast. You can subscribe on Apple here and on Spotify here. War Books is on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Today I talked to Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel The World and All That It Holds (MCD, 2023). As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It's not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled student days in libertine Vienna, but it's nothing a dash of laudanum from the high shelf, a summer stroll, and idle fantasies about passersby can't put in perspective. And then the world explodes. In the trenches in Galicia, fantasies fall flat. Heroism gets a man killed quickly. War devours all that they have known, and the only thing Pinto has to live for are the attentions of Osman, a fellow soldier, a man of action to complement Pinto's introspective, poetic soul; a charismatic storyteller; Pinto's protector and lover. Together, Pinto and Osman will escape the trenches, survive near-certain death, tangle with spies and Bolsheviks. Over mountains and across deserts, from one world to another, all the way to Shanghai, it is Pinto's love for Osman--with the occasional opiatic interlude--that keeps him going. AJ Woodhams hosts the "War Books" podcast. You can subscribe on Apple here and on Spotify here. War Books is on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/historical-fiction

Ep 018 - Fiction. What can World War One, one of the world's most destructive conflicts, teach us about language, love, & same-sex partnerships? Aleksandar Hemon joins me to discuss his incredible new novel, "The World and All That It Holds."Support local bookstores & buy Aleksandar's book here:https://bookshop.org/a/92235/9780374287702Subscribe to the War Books podcast here:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@warbookspodcastApple: https://apple.co/3FP4ULbSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3kP9scZFollow the show here:Twitter: https://twitter.com/warbookspodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/warbookspodcastInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/warbookspodcast/

EPISODE 1446: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to author of THE WORLD AND ALL THAT IT HOLDS, Aleksandar Hemon, about Sarajevo, Jerusalem and the political power of "macaronic" language Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles. He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation, and the 2020 Dos Passos Prize. He lives in Chicago. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aleksander Hemon's new novel, The World and All That it Holds starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, and then takes us from Bosnia, to Uzbekistan, to China and elsewhere, covering a convulsive period of history in which the technological advances, the political turbulence, and the displacement of people bear striking similarities to those of our own time. At it's heart, though—not exactly beneath the grand sweep, but entwined with it—is a love story between two men, Pinto and Osman, and a novel that never loses sight of the fact that within beneath History, there are humans living, humans loving, humans losing and, crucially, humans coming to understand the scale at which the decisions they make can count.Buy The World and All That it Holds: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/5273994/hemon-aleksandar-the-world-and-all-that-it-holds*Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo and lives in Chicago. He is the author of The Question of Bruno, Nowhere Man, Love and Obstacles, and The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work also appears regularly in the New Yorker and Granta, among other publications.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel Feeding Time here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/product/7209940/biles-adam-feeding-timeListen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris Power talks to Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel The World and All That It Holds

The World And All That It Holds starts off in Sarajevo, in 1914, when shots ring out and World War I begins. It changes the course of protagonist Rafael Pinto's life, as he goes on to travel across time and conflict to find a twin flame in another Bosnian soldier named Osman. In today's episode, author Aleksandar Hemon paints a poetic backdrop for his striking new novel. He tells NPR's Scott Simon about the concept of macaronic language, a bilingual mix of ways to communicate, and how Pinto and his partner build their own unique dialect to express their love for one another.

Aleksandar Hemon talks to Neil about his latest novel The World And All That It Holds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“At any given time, there's a choir of ideas and nagging voices in my head — chatter that I had to contend with I guess — in the end it ends up with this model of working and living in which everything is happening simultaneously.”   Aleksandar Hemon, author of National Book Award Finalist The Lazarus Project, has no shortage of accomplishments, including screenwriting credits on Sense8 and The Matrix: Revolutions. He's back with The World and All That it Holds, an epic love story spanning decades, countries, and political boundaries. Hemon joins us to talk about his multitudinous (and simultaneous) projects, his music career as Cielo Hemon, being a romantic (or not) and more with Poured Over's host, Miwa Messer.    Featured Books:  The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon  The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon    Featured Books (TBR Topoff):   The Passion by Jeanette Winterson  This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone    Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays with occasional Saturdays.  

In this episode, host Douglas Cowie and his guest, Professor Robert Eaglestone discuss The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon, published in 2008. The conversation looks at the novel's structure, and its development of themes of immigrant and refugee identity, ethnic cleansing, trauma, language, and much more.

Today's poem is New Town by Aleksandar Hemon. This episode was originally released on May 12, 2022.

John Freeman talks works in translation with French author Jakuta Alikavazovic, Yugoslav-born writer Lana Bastašić, and novelists & memoirist Aleksandar Hemon.

Aleksandar Hemon, bh. pisac sa adresom u Americi, gost je N1 podcasta Jedan sat.Međunarodno priznati i višestruko nagrađivani Hemon nam priča kako je produciranje elektronske muzike počelo da ga okupira, kako je pisanje zapravo ozbiljna rabota unatoč neozbiljnom dojmu koji ponekad ostavlja, te kako jezik zapravo njegova opsesija. U "Jednom satu" pitamo i o čemu piše u novom romanu, koji će doživjeti i prevod na bosanski jezik. Razgovor nas je odveo i u Ukrajinu, odakle Hemoni vuku porijeklo, ali i neminovno zadržao u njegovom rodnom Sarajevu i BiH, čijim društveno političkim okolnostima smo pokušali dati adekvatnu dijagnozu.

In addition to sneak peaks of their  books arriving in early 2023, Rebecca and Aleksandar discuss her new literary initiative Around the World in 84 Books, wherein she will read a single book from 84 different countries beginning in September 2022. 

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Amitava Kumar in conversation with Aleksandar Hemon, discussing Amitava Kumar's new novel "A Time Outside This Time" published by Alfred Knopf. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis. You can purchase copies of "A Time Outside This Time" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/new-fiction-in-hardcover/time-outside-this-time/ Amitava Kumar is a writer and journalist. He was born in Ara, India, and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing poverty, and delicious mangoes. Kumar is the author of the novel "Immigrant, Montana," as well as several other books of nonfiction and fiction. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he is Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair at Vassar College. Aleksandar Hemon is the author of "The Lazarus Project," which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: "The Question of Bruno;" "Nowhere Man," which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and "Love and Obstacles." He was the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation, and the 2020 Dos Passos Prize. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey. This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation

Today's poem is New Town by Aleksandar Hemon

This week, AWM Program Director Allison Sansone chats with editor Jennifer Minton Quigley about her recent anthology Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century. They are joined by contributing writers Bindu Bansinath, Aleksandar Hemon, and Laura Lippman. This conversation originally took place [...]

In this week's episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by author Jenny Offill and literary and film critic James Plath. First Offill shares her reaction to the insurrection and attempted coup at the Capitol last week, and discusses her latest novel, Weather, out in paperback next week. Then, Plath explores the origins of conspiracy theories in history and literature and how right-wing extremists have weaponized them under Trump, and talks about editing Critical Insights: Conspiracies.  To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. And check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel. This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Jenny Offill Weather Last Things Dept. of Speculation James Plath Critical Insights: Conspiracies “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conspiracy”   Others: “The American Abyss,” by Timothy Snyder, The New York Times Magazine On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder Hannah Arendt The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Three Days of the Condor (film) by Sydney Pollack  Utopia (TV series) by Gillian Flynn “Stop Making Sense, or How to Write in the Age of Trump” by Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice “Jenny Offill: 'I don't miss the world as much as, perhaps, I should'” by Alex Preston, The Guardian JFK (film) by Oliver Stone Libra by Don DeLillo Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon V (TV series)  Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison “The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories” by Brielle A. Marino, Psychology Today Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison “The Hull Case” by Peter Ho Davies “Teen Names Family Who Harassed A Black Woman On Video,” Buzzfeed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices