Podcasts about am homes

Will Jane's dreams of becoming a lounge crooner ever come true? Does Fi have an incredibly serious face? Can the pair still unlock their full potential?Jane and Fi are joined by sports broadcaster and host of "The High Performance" podcast, Jake Humphrey, for this week's edition of Wellness Wednesday.Also, author AM Homes discusses her new book "The Unfolding".If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radioAssistant Producer: Kate LeeTimes Radio Producer: Rosie CutlerPodcast Executive Producer: Ben Mitchell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In her latest novel, The Unfolding, the prize-winning AM Homes has created a compelling central character: a larger than life American patriot and family man. Undone by Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election, he collects together a band of like-minded men to spread their version of the American dream, and to reclaim it by force if necessary. AM Homes tells Tom Sutcliffe her Big Guy's fight to retain his influence is confounded by his failure to keep his own family from fracturing. Power, reputation and family dynamics are also central to Ibsen's play John Gabriel Borkman, now playing at the Bridge Theatre, directed by Nick Hytner, in a new version by Lucinda Coxon. Borkman was once a great man, who put wealth and influence ahead of his family and personal life. But now, disgraced and destitute after a financial scandal, he sits alone in an upstairs room obsessively planning his comeback. Families and dynastic power is at the heart of Simon Sebag Montefiore's history of The World: A Family History Of Humanity. The grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion and technology are told through the stories of the world's great dynasties as they battle to stay relevant and retain power through the ages. Producer: Katy Hickman Image credit: Photograph - Front l-r Simon Russell Beale (John Gabriel Borkman) and Sebastian De Souza (Erhart Borkman), photo by Manuel Harlan

"Even more than democracy, the language of freedom vs tyranny has characterized this year's mid-term election campaigns."The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. Flex your media muscles, become a monthly sustaining member for $3, $5, $12 at https://Patreon.com/theLFShow  Independent Media! Advertising free!

AM Homes won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 for her novel May We Be Forgiven, beating off stellar competition from Hilary Mantel, Kate Atkinson, Barbara Kingsolver and Zadie Smith. Kirsty Lang has been finding AM's darkly comic novels and short stories perfect reading for the lockdown. Her writing penetrates contemporary America, with characters who are pulled apart by accidents, trauma, jealousy, chance encounters and who must examine their lives in order to start over again. The stories are wickedly funny, relentless in their pace and often redemptive. In this extended Front Row interview, AM talks to Kirsty about recovering from Covid-19, growing up in Washington DC and her fascination with Nixon; why she loves to write male protagonists, her lack of inhibition when writing sex scenes - and the challenges of satirising our strange times. She also reads from and talks about her memoir, The Mistress's Daughter, which tells the story of how she was given up for adoption on the day she was born. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man. Thirty-one years later, her birth mother tracked her down. Presenter : Kirsty Lang Producer : Dymphna Flynn Studio Manager: Nigel Dix Harry Silver.....David Seddon Narrator.....Darcey Halsey Richard Novak.....Tony Pasqualini Emergency Operator.....Adriana Sevan Patty.....Lisa Pelikan Main image above: A. M. Homes

First Draft interview with AM Homes

(Are we time traveling? Yes, a technical glitch set this episode back a few months…) Kristen Roupenian’s short story “Cat Person” appeared in December 2017 issue of The New Yorker, and promptly became an internet sensation. Some critics pounced, some critics praised, some men were offended, some women were offended that men were offended…and on and on it went, as these things do in this day and age. It seems there is something about this story — something about its point of view and its depiction of gender relations —  that struck a nerve in the midst of #MeToo. We decided to read and discuss the story in addition to some older, and truly great, short story comps that work with similar themes. So if you read and loved (or hey, even if you read and hated) Cat Story, these are for you. “Stitches” by Antonya Nelson. And “A Real Doll” by AM Homes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why should you care about the right to free expression? Ask someone whose book was banned. (Published: August 28, 2013)

In this podcast we discuss and review Before Dawn, the debut feature-length film of Emmerdale star, Dominic Brunt. Following on from this we interview David Moody where we talk about Before Dawn, zombies, the Autumn series and the state of horror. We reference the likes of The End of Alice by AM Homes, Taken, The Seasoning … Continue reading