Podcast appearances and mentions of alison lurie

Universities are home to reality warping bureaucracy, towering moral hubris, endemic charlatanism and rampant neoliberalism... according to the campus satire Jo and Adam discuss in this episode. Inspired by the new Nic Cage movie Dream Scenario and the return of Frasier Crane (this time returning as a Harvard professor), Adam and Jo are taking a deep dive into a world of satire that hits very close to home.... Featuring discussion of campus satire by such authors as David Lodge, Lorrie Moore, Anne Fine, Alison Lurie and, of course, Kingsley Amis. Also featuring an update on Adam's new research interest in continental breakfasts.

Artist Cornelia Parker is with the chef Jeremy Lee and presenter Harriett Gilbert, to pick their all-time favourite books. Cornelia chooses South by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the story of his extraordinary journey to Antarctica. Jeremy is a fan of the food writer Elizabeth David, and recommends her book of essays, Omlette and a Glass of Wine. Finally Harriett Gilbert suggests the novel Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie, centred on two American academics' escapades in London. Cornelia has recently had solo shows at the Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of New York; Jeremy is chef-proprietor of Quo Vadis restaurant in Soho and author of Cooking: Simply and Well, for One or Many. Comment on instagram: @agoodreadbbc Produced by Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio

Voici un petit hors-série issu de mes lives Twitch : le premier texte du recueil Personne ne t'a demandé d'écrire un roman, par l'autrice et penseuse féministe américaine Alison Lurie ! J'espère que vous me pardonnerez mon absence récente, que je vous explique dans ma nouvelle newsletter gratuite, All the Feels. Je reviens très vite dans vos oreilles ; si je vous manque, ne ratez pas ma nouvelle émission, Le Fab & Mymy Show (en podcast et sur YouTube) !Dans la vie, je suis créatrice de contenu indépendante sur Internet ; vous pouvez me rejoindre sur Twitch, sur Instagram, sur Twitter et sur Patreon. Je parle de féminisme et d'émotions, de jeux vidéo et de séries télé, de recettes de cuisine et de champignons, de bienveillance et de sel. Pour recevoir mes podcasts en avance et sans pub, abonnez-vous sur Patreon ! Cela inclut aussi en avant-première les replays podcasts de Game of Reroll, l'émission de jeu de rôle 100% joueuses à retrouver en live sur la chaîne Twitch de Fibre Tigre. Si vous voulez encore plus de Mymy dans vos oreilles, vous pouvez retrouver mes débriefs de série sur le flux Mymy Haegel débriefe les séries, m'écouter avec la créatrice de contenus Marikigai chaque mois dans le podcast BFF et me retrouver toutes les deux semaines en compagnie de Fabrice Florent dans notre émission Le Fab & Mymy Show ainsi que dans notre podcast cinéma Le Film Club. Merci de votre présence !

La scrittrice Alison Lurie disse: «Così come si va in Europa per vedere dal vivo il passato, bisogna andare nel sud della California per osservare il futuro». I giornalisti Francesco Costa e Michele Masneri hanno raccontato nei loro libri che aspetto ha oggi questo futuro. Nell'ultima edizione di Festivaletteratura i due hanno parlato delle contraddizioni di un luogo dove frammenti dell'utopia hi-tech della Silicon Valley convivono con una profonda crisi abitativa, e dove i primi violenti disastri provocati dalla crisi climatica fanno da sfondo alle guerre culturali che domani combatteremo anche da noi. Frank Lloyd Wright sosteneva che tutto quello che sul pianeta non ha un ancoraggio sufficientemente solido prima o poi scivola verso la California, ma oggi questo piano sembra inclinarsi nella direzione opposta.

https://bymattruff.com/ BIO: I was born in New York City in 1965. I decided I wanted to be a fiction writer when I was five years old and spent my childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. At Cornell University I wrote what would become my first published novel, Fool on the Hill, as my senior thesis in Honors English. My professor Alison Lurie helped me find an agent, and within six months of my college graduation Fool on the Hill had been sold to Atlantic Monthly Press. Through a combination of timely foreign rights sales, the generous support of family and friends, occasional grant money, and a slowly accumulating backlist, I've managed to make novel-writing my primary occupation ever since. My third novel, Set This House in Order, marked a critical turning point in my career after it won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, a Washington State Book Award, and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and helped me secure a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. My fourth novel, Bad Monkeys, also won multiple awards; it is currently under development as a Universal Studios film, with Margot Robbie attached to star. My sixth novel, Lovecraft Country, has been adapted as an HBO series by Misha Green, Jordan Peele, and J.J. Abrams. In 1998 I married my best friend, the researcher and rare-book expert Lisa Gold. We live in Seattle, Washington. #Matt Ruff #TheDestroyerofWorldsAReturntoLovecraftCountry #LovecraftCountry #TheDestroyerofWorlds VOX VOMITUS: Sometimes, it's not what goes right in the writing process, it's what goes horribly wrong. And VOX VOMITUS has been going “horribly wrong” in the best way possible for the past TWO YEARS! Host Jennifer Anne Gordon, award-winning gothic horror novelist and Co-Host Allison Martine, award-winning contemporary romance novelist have taken on the top and emerging new authors of the day, including Josh Malerman (BIRDBOX, PEARL), Paul Tremblay (THE PALLBEARERS CLUB, SURVIVOR SONG), May Cobb (MY SUMMER DARLINGS, THE HUNTING WIVES), Amanda Jayatissa (MY SWEET GIRL), Carol Goodman (THE STRANGER BEHIND YOU), Meghan Collins (THE FAMILY PLOT), and dozens more in the last year alone. Pantsers, plotters, and those in between have talked everything from the “vomit draft” to the publishing process, dream-cast movies that are already getting made, and celebrated wins as the author-guests continue to shine all over the globe. www.jenniferannegordon.com www.afictionalhubbard.com https://www.facebook.com/VoxVomituspodcast https://twitter.com/VoxVomitus #voxvomitus #voxvomituspodcast #authorswhopodcast #authors #authorlife #authorsoninstagram #authorsinterviewingauthors #livevideopodcast #livepodcast #bookstagram #Jenniferannegordon #allisonmartinehubbard #allisonmartine #allisonhubbard #liveauthorinterview #livepodcast #books #voxvomituslivevideopodcast #Jennifergordon --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/voxvomitus/support

This week we're traveling back to the 1930s with Night of the Hunter! Join us as we talk about the Bluebeard legend, ice cream, how much Rachel Cooper rules, itinerant preachers, and more! Sources: Charles Perrault, "“Blue Beard”," Fairy Tales and Other Traditional Stories, Lit2Go Edition, (0), accessed July 31, 2022, https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/68/fairy-tales-and-other-traditional-stories/4858/blue-beard/ . Casie E. Hermansson, Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition, (University Press of Mississippi, 2009). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvhxt  Alison Lurie, "Review: One Bad Husband: What the "Bluebeard" story tells us about marriage," American Scholar 74:1 (2005): 129-32. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41221385  British Library, "The History of Blue Beard," https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-history-of-blue-beard  Kelly Faircloth, "Something Is Wrong in This House: How Bluebeard Became the Definitive Fairy Tale of Our Era," Jezebel (17 October 2018). https://jezebel.com/something-is-wrong-in-this-house-how-bluebeard-became-1829596691  Comic: The times dispatch. (Richmond, Va.), 31 May 1903. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038615/1903-05-31/ed-1/seq-25/  Comic: The Washington herald. (Washington, D.C.), 29 Oct. 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1922-10-29/ed-1/seq-34/  Gillette ad: Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 05 Nov. 1939. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1939-11-05/ed-1/seq-114/  Modern-day Bluebeards: Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.), 04 Sept. 1931. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063730/1931-09-04/ed-1/seq-5/  The West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.), 06 May 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86072054/1920-05-06/ed-1/seq-1/  Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.), 10 Feb. 1905. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092356/1905-02-10/ed-1/seq-1/  Spirit of Jefferson.  (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]), 26 Oct. 1909. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026788/1909-10-26/ed-1/seq-1  Evening journal. (Martinsburg, W. Va.), 17 May 1912. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059585/1912-05-17/ed-1/seq-6/  Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.), 30 April 1920. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059586/1920-04-30/ed-1/seq-1/  The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.), 17 Nov. 1931. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014085/1931-11-17/ed-1/seq-10/  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Powers  https://www.wvpublic.org/radio/2019-03-18/march-18-1932-mass-murderer-harry-powers-executed-at-moundsville-state-penitentiary  Terrence Rafferty, "Night of the Hunter: Holy Terror," Criterion Collection, available at https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1657-the-night-of-the-hunter-holy-terror Faculty of Horror, Episode 44: https://www.facultyofhorror.com/2016/11/episode-44-if-i-could-turn-back-time-the-night-of-the-hunter-1955-and-the-innocents-1961/ Jeri Quinzio, "Ice Cream During the Depression." University of California Press Blog. Farrell Evans, "Why Ice Cream Soared in Popularity During Prohibition," History.com Jon Butler, "Forum: American Religion and the Great Depression," Church History 80, 3 (2011) Wayne Flynt, "Religion for the Blues: Evangelicalism, Poor Whites, and the Great Depression," Journal of Southern History 71, 1 (2005) Heather D Curtis, "God is Not Affected by the Depression: Pentacostal Missions During the 1930s," Church History 80, 3 (2011) Monroe Billington and Cal Clark, "Baptist Preachers and the New Deal," Journal of Church and State 33, 2 (Spring 1991)

In her 2019 collection, Alison Lurie wrote an essay, Their Harvard, which describes her life at Radcliffe in the 1940s. It has fascinating and humorous insight on her experience as a second-class citizen, a poorer relation to the men of Harvard. She also includes a passage, shocking by today's standards, about the men and war.

Teresa Sádaba es directora de ISEM Fashion Business School y además es profesora de Sistemas Políticos Comparados y especialista en política norteamericana. Viene hoy al Hotel a tomarse una copa y a charlar sobre esa convergencia de temas que tanto le interesa: moda, política y comunicación. Hablaremos sobre poder y moda a lo largo de la historia, de campañas políticas, de Los Simpson y Balenciaga, del apoyo a causas sociales de muchas marcas frente al escepticismo posmoderno de otra época, del 'ecopostureo', del tan comentado vestido de AOC en la MET Gala, de ese debate entre Moda Superficial vs. Política Serio, de espirales de silencio y olas de blanco, del papel de la primera dama y la moda, de ideales y valores sociales y de muchas más cosas. Como siempre, donde siempre. LIBROS Y ARTÍCULOS: - El punto clave, de Malcolm Gladwell: https://www.todostuslibros.com/libros/el-punto-clave_978-84-663-4244-5 - La espiral del silencio, de Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann: https://www.todostuslibros.com/libros/la-espiral-del-silencio_978-84-493-2432-1 - Moda y opinión pública, de Teresa Sádaba: https://nuestrotiempo.unav.edu/es/colaboran/moda-opinion-publica#:~:text=La%20moda%20es%20opini%C3%B3n%20p%C3%BAblica,no%20a%20las%20actitudes%20predominantes.&text=Ambos%2C%20imitaci%C3%B3n%20e%20influencia%2C%20son,los%20fundamentos%20de%20la%20moda. - Marcas de Moda: marcar estilo desde Armani a Zara, de Mark Tungate: https://www.todostuslibros.com/libros/marcas-de-moda_978-84-252-2212-2 - El lenguaje de la moda, de Alison Lurie: https://www.todostuslibros.com/libros/el-lenguaje-de-la-moda_978-84-493-2855-8 - What artists wear, de Charlie Porter: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/314/314590/what-artists-wear/9780141991252.html

Listen  Recorded on August 8, 2021 Book talk starts at 26:30 Our annual Mother Bear KAL is on!  Any Mother Bear that you have knit or crocheted in 2021 is eligible to post in our FO Thread.  One post per bear please.  Please see all the rules and participate in the Chatter Thread. #2021MBKAL2KL Virtual get-together via Zoom on Saturdays, 12 noon  PST - Details here   We are giving away 3 copies of Fredi Baker's Let's Shawl-a-Brate! pattern.  Leave a comment on the prize thread telling us how you feel about putting colors together - love it, get intimidated, or always buy the kit?  Thread will close August 15. Joining us on this podcast is our friend, Eileen, better known on Ravelry as Redsknits!  Eileen is a very accomplished knitter, spinner, quilter and wood Turner.   KNITTING Barb finished: Mother Bear #244 & #245   Barb continues to work on: Vanilla socks using Western Sky Knits Aspen Sock in the Concrete Sunset colorway That's My Jam by Steven Fegert, using a kit bought from Learning Men Fiber Arts, using their MCN blend Show Stealer. Another Bankhead Hat by Susie Gourlay, using leftover worsted weight yarn. My Oasis pullover by Ririko, using Neighborhood Fiber Co. Rustic Fingering in the Conton colorway and Neighborhood Fiber Co. Rustic Fingering Gradients in Shades of Emerald Barb has Cast On:   Mimosa by Boo Knits, using Hazel Knits Artisan Sock in the Giddy Up colorway Architexture Cowl by Jennifer Weismann, using Leading Men Fiber Arts Box Office in the Blue Ink colorway   Eileen has finished: Wildberry Shawl by Andrea Mowry and Annie Rowden, using Western Sky Knits Merino 17 Worsted Eileen  is working on: Stripes! by Andrea Mowry, using Jameson & Smith and Jameson and a Rowan yarn. A beret modeld on the motifs from her Forestland pullover by Jennifer Steingass Tracie has finished: 3 Mother Bears, #259 - #261 Calyx pullover by Elizabeth Doherty, using Cloudborn Fibers Pima Cotton DK in the Spring Green colorway Tracie is working on: Vanilla Socks in Lollipop Quintessential Gripes Still Crazy Fiddly Bits Cowl by Jana Pihota, using Tracie's handspun from fiber by Woolgatherings Polwarth/silk We discussed the our friend Shelley's cardigan, her Desert Sunset using the Stripes Forever pattern by Heidimarie Kaiser.  Such a beautiful sweater, with an interesting shoulder detail, and Shelley added afterthought pockets.  The sweater and pictures are below:   BOOKS: Tracie and Barb both read: PEEPS by Erin Gordon.  4 stars from Tracie, 5 stars from Barb!   Eileen read: My 25 Years in Provance by Peter Maille - 4-5 stars Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn - 3.5 - 4 stars Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Schute - 5 stars (but she didn't like the narrator of the Audible version!). A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follet - Eileen does NOT recommend it. Tracie read: The War Between the Tates by Alison Lurie - 3.5 stars The Argument by Victoria Jenkins - 3 stars

Matthew Bannister on Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi oil minister who presided over the 1970s embargo that caused crises for Western economies. Sidney Alford, the maverick explosives expert who created methods of defusing improvised explosive devices used in Northern Ireland, Afghanistan and the Middle East. He also demolished large buildings and created spectacular effects for film makers. Alison Lurie, the American novelist whose biting satires on academic life and manners have been compared to Jane Austen. Chris Barber, the jazz trombonist and band leader who was a leading figure in the trad boom of the 1960s. Producer: Neil George Interviewed guest: Dr Mai Yamani Interviewed guest: Javier Blas Interviewed guest: Jeffrey Robinson Interviewed guest: Roland Alford Interviewed guest: Prof Judith Newman Archive clips used: Panorama: BBC One, TX 20.11.1973; Book at Bedtime – Foreign Affairs: Radio 4, TX 11.10.2004; Desert Island Discs: Radio 4, TX 9.3.1985; 15 Minute Drama - Imaginary Friends: Radio 4, TX 11.7.2011; Chris Barber - Leader of the Band: Radio 2, TX 20.4.2011

http://www.bymattruff.com/ I was born in New York City in 1965. I decided I wanted to be a fiction writer when I was five years old and spent my childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. At Cornell University I wrote what would become my first published novel, Fool on the Hill, as my senior thesis in Honors English. My professor Alison Lurie helped me find an agent, and within six months of my college graduation Fool on the Hill had been sold to Atlantic Monthly Press. Through a combination of timely foreign rights sales, the generous support of family and friends, occasional grant money, and a slowly accumulating back list, I've managed to make novel-writing my primary occupation ever since. My third novel, Set This House in Order, marked a critical turning point in my career after it won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, a Washington State Book Award, and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and helped me secure a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. My fourth novel, Bad Monkeys, also won multiple awards and is being developed as a film, with Margot Robbie attached to star. My sixth novel, Lovecraft Country, has been produced as an HBO series by Misha Green, Jordan Peele, and J.J. Abrams. It will debut on Sunday, August 16. In 1998 I married my best friend, the researcher and rare-book expert Lisa Gold. We live in Seattle, Washington VOX VOMITUS: Sometimes, it's not what goes right in the writing process, it's what goes horribly wrong. Host/Gothic Horror novelist Jennifer Anne Gordon (with help from co-hosts/authors Allison Martine and Trisha Mckee) chat with some of the best authors of the day. www.jenniferannegordon.com www.trishamckee.com www.afictionalhubbard.com www.patreon.com/JenniferAnneGordon

http://www.bymattruff.com/ I was born in New York City in 1965. I decided I wanted to be a fiction writer when I was five years old and spent my childhood and adolescence learning how to tell stories. At Cornell University I wrote what would become my first published novel, Fool on the Hill, as my senior thesis in Honors English. My professor Alison Lurie helped me find an agent, and within six months of my college graduation Fool on the Hill had been sold to Atlantic Monthly Press. Through a combination of timely foreign rights sales, the generous support of family and friends, occasional grant money, and a slowly accumulating back list, I’ve managed to make novel-writing my primary occupation ever since. My third novel, Set This House in Order, marked a critical turning point in my career after it won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, a Washington State Book Award, and a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and helped me secure a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. My fourth novel, Bad Monkeys, also won multiple awards and is being developed as a film, with Margot Robbie attached to star. My sixth novel, Lovecraft Country, has been produced as an HBO series by Misha Green, Jordan Peele, and J.J. Abrams. It will debut on Sunday, August 16. In 1998 I married my best friend, the researcher and rare-book expert Lisa Gold. We live in Seattle, Washington VOX VOMITUS: Sometimes, it's not what goes right in the writing process, it's what goes horribly wrong. Host/Gothic Horror novelist Jennifer Anne Gordon (with help from co-hosts/authors Allison Martine and Trisha Mckee) chat with some of the best authors of the day. www.jenniferannegordon.com www.trishamckee.com www.afictionalhubbard.com www.patreon.com/JenniferAnneGordon

This morning's episode pays tribute to the late Derek Mahon, one of Ireland's finest poets, and also considers the work of Louise Glück who has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. We also review the Abbey Theatre's production of Patrick Kavanagh's The Great Hunger at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. This week's Toaster Challenge is author Neil Hegarty whose novel The Jewel was published last year. Neil's choice is Alison Lurie's The War Between The Tates. Thanks to Gallery Press for permission to read two poem by Derek Mahon.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.Artwork by Freya SirrTo subscribe to Books for Breakfast go to your podcast provider of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google etc) and search for the podcast then hit subscribe or follow, or simply click the appropriate button above. If you want to be alerted when a new episode is released follow the instructions here for iPhone or iPad. For Spotify notifications follow the instructions here.

In her novel “Queen for a Day,” Maxine Rosaler tells the stories of mothers of children with autism. DeWitt Henry compared Queen for a Day to Tim O'Brien's “The Things They Carried.” “Like O’Brien, Rosaler explores the mettle and morality of Mimi Slavitt on the ‘battlefield of her existence…' In all, the writing is generously unsentimental, spiritually probing and filled with piercing intimacies.” At the center of the novel is the flawed heroine Mimi Slavitt, who drives herself beyond her limits to do everything she can to help her son Danny. Mimi is grief-stricken, frantic, neurotic and bold, with a keen sense of irony that serves to offset her frequent descents into despair. Kirkus Reviews, which nominated Queen for a Day for The Kirkus Prize, called it “An engrossing and compassionate collection showing motherhood in its most unrelenting form.” Midwest Book Reviews called it "an extraordinary read from beginning to end." Alison Lurie wrote of being impressed and moved by "the intelligence and sympathy with which the author presents her afflicted characters.” The novel has also been nominated for a National Book Award, among other prizes. As a writer of literary fiction who is also the mother of a child with autism, Maxine has been able to tell the story of the struggles of the mothers of children with disabilities in a way it has not been told before. Join Leonard for a conversation with Maxie about the important truths contained in this work of fiction.

Bloed aan de muur is een podcast vanuit een anarchafeministisch perspectief. In deze eerste aflevering bespreken we de muziek van Roxeanne Hazes, het boek 'Moxie' van Jennifer Mathieu, het boek 'We Were Feminists Once' van Andi Zeisler, het boek 'The Truth About Lorin Jones' van Alison Lurie, #metoo, en onze gast Asha draagt haar gedichten voor. Bekijk hier het filmpje van Roxeanne Hazes die we tijdens de uitzending bekeken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eOiKlh4L6A Heb je vragen of opmerkingen, mail dan naar poetsdiemuur@riseup.net

Errol Morris, the legendary filmmaker, joins Kate, Medaya, and Eric to discuss his new documentary "The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography." A loving investigation of the work of a longtime friend, the film represented a new challenge for a master celebrated for revealing the tortured souls of America's elite war criminals on the big screen. Errol Morris reveals a couple secrets of his craft; and his sense of what, at the end of the day, still remains. Also, Jonathan Lethem returns to recommend Alison Lurie's brilliant novel of transplants in LA, The Nowhere City.

What Becomes Us (Outpost 19) In What Becomes Us, the new novel by Micah Perks, twin fetuses tell the story of their mild-mannered mother who abandons her controlling husband to start fresh in a small town in upstate New York. But her seemingly ideal neighbors are violently divided by the history Evie is teaching at the high school—the captivity and restoration of colonist Mary Rowlandson, a watershed conflict that leads our little narrators to ask big questions about love, survival, coveting the man next door and what exactly is a healthy appetite. Praise for What Becomes Us "Micah Perks' book has everything a reader could hope for -- her language is lively, her characters appealing. Set in a storied landscape, with themes of independence and community. Romance! History! Food! Plus a tale to tell and some surprising people to tell it. There is real magic here. Micah magic! Completely original, completely delightful."- Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves “Micah Perks is one of the most radiantly original writers around. What Becomes Us, exhilarating and terrifying, is a novel I love for its wild beauty, its offbeat inventiveness, it’s effervescent language, and the artfulness with which it has been shaped. This is a brilliant novel.”- Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen "No matter where we come from, we all get born again American. Micah Perks is our literary doula working beside the midwives who haunt our American beginnings: Mary Rowlandson, Queen Weetamoo, and civil disobedient missionary Ma -- rebirthing us even as we are fetal captives in generational cycles of puritanical pioneering and savagery. We emerge with insatiable hunger, innocent and corruptible, and Micah Perks, with gentle wit and deft storytelling, coaxes us to love and song."- Karen Tei Yamashita, author of I Hotel “Micah Perk's wonderful and surprising new novel proves that the life of a small-town schoolteacher can be by turns comic, dramatic, joyful, and violent. For one thing, its wise and observant narrators are unborn twins.”- Alison Lurie, author of Foreign Affairs and The Language of Houses "I've been obsessed with Mary Rowlandson for 20 years, and was delighted to find that Micah Perks writes about her with fireworks. This is a warm, wild, hilarious, eccentric and moving book." - Lauren Groff Micah Perks is the author of a novel, We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan Time, and a long personal essay, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch, Zyzzyva, Tin House, The Toast, OZY and The Rumpus, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for The Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. Michelle Tea is the author of twelve books, most recently the dystopic half-memoir Black Wave. She curates the Amethyst Editions series for Feminist Press. Her writing has appeared in Harpers, Cosmopolitan, The Believer, Marie Claire and other discordant publications. 

Former M15 head Eliza Manningham-Buller and Turkish author and commentator Elif Shafak discuss favourite books with presenter Harriett Gilbert. Choices of a good read are: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's latest, Americanah; Michael Chabon's ripping yarn set a thousand years ago, Gentlemen of the Road; and The War Between the Tates, Alison Lurie's dissection of a marriage breakdown.

Alison Lurie is the author of ten novels, including The Truth About Lorin Jones, Truth and Consequences, and the Pulitzer-prizewinning Foreign Affairs. She has also published two collections of essays on children's literature and edited three books of traditional folktales for children, as well as a nonfiction book on the semiotics of dress, The Language of Clothes, and a forthcoming nonfiction book, The Language of Houses. She was one of the first women hired by the Cornell English Department and is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of American Literature emerita there. Lurie read from her work on September 19, 2013, in Cornell’s Goldwin Smith Hall. This interview took place earlier the same day.

This episode, we highlight lab lit fiction from Pamela Beason, John Banville and Alison Lurie; and interview novelist James Meek. Join Jenny and Richard in London for all this as well as the latest from the world of science in art, literature and popular culture.

Alison Lurie is not only a part-time professor of English at Cornell University where she teaches creative writing and children's literature, but she is also a very successful novelist. "Her seven novels", writes Malcolm Bradbury, "collectively form a biting record of American social, moral and sexual mores from the early 1960s to the present." In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her work and she chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro - Overture by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Telephone

Alison Lurie is not only a part-time professor of English at Cornell University where she teaches creative writing and children's literature, but she is also a very successful novelist. "Her seven novels", writes Malcolm Bradbury, "collectively form a biting record of American social, moral and sexual mores from the early 1960s to the present." In conversation with Roy Plomley, she talks about her work and she chooses the eight records she would take to the mythical island. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: The Marriage Of Figaro - Overture by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: The Oxford Book of English Verse Luxury: Telephone