Podcast appearances and mentions of Andrei Codrescu

Larry Massset died last week. He was my mentor and my favorite radio producer. His stories was insane and brilliant and heretical and sublime. I wouldn't have become a radio producer without his guidance and his stories to inspire me. I'm going to run a series of his shows as a tribute to him. This first show is The Eyes of Sibiu, about a trip to Romania with Romanian-American poet and novelist Andrei Codrescu.

Recorded by Andrei Codrescu for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 18, 2024. www.poets.org

Almost immediately, he found himself as sideman for notable locals such as Kermit Ruffins, Michael Ward and The Reward, and Sun Ra trumpeter, Michael Ray.  In 1992 he co-founded the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars(NOKAS), a pioneering klezmer ensemble that infused that music with the vibrancy and energy of the funk, jazz and brass music of New Orleans. To date he has had opportunity to play with most of New Orleans' greatest musicians from across all genres.  NOKAS was playing some of his compositions, but by 1993 he found himself seeking outlets for his compositions in other styles and forms.  After playing with a plethora of combos and experimenting with many great local musicians he formed Naked On The Floor and eventually The Naked Orchestra. Naked on the Floor (quintet) and the Naked Orchestra (18-24 piece creative orchestra) play Freilich's original compositions exclusively and still play regularly in New Orleans. He has appeared at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 24 times as well as headlining the Berlin Jazz Festival with NOKAS. He has appeared at numerous other festivals inside and outside the country including Bonnaroo, the Ann Arbor Jazz Festival, The American Folklife festival at the Washington Monument, collaborations with poet, Andrei Codrescu at the Holocaust museum in NYC and many others. Other notable work includes appearances with Sam Rivers, Burton Greene, Marshall Allen, The Wild Magnolias and backing songwriters such as Robbie Robertson. He has done arrangements for a wide range of recordings from, Peter Stampfel to Hal Willner's presentation of U@ doing music of T-Rex. He is featured on over 21 recordings ranging from Klezmer to Afro-Cuban and avant-garde orchestra music. Recently he put out two CD's of a large orchestra playing his original compositions, a small group, and played on Marianne Faithfull's latest release.  Many of these recordings are either Big Easy or Offbeat entertainment award winners across a number of categories.  He also has music featured in films and TV shows (Andy Richter conquers the Universe, The Dukes of Hazzard(Warner Home Video) as well as commercials for companies such as Southwest Airlines and Mercedes.    n 2016 he produced and arranged an album, NOLA? for legendary Basque artist, Fermin Muguruza. Rearrangements of Muguruza's classic work utilizing the great players and sounds of New Orleans. That led to a very successful European run for the Basque New Orleans Orchestra. Other arranging credits include Hal Wilner and U2 tribute to T. Rex and Grammy Award winner, Peter Stampfel's 100 songs of the 20th century project.      His work includes 4 completed and performed operatic works: a comic-satirical opera, Bang the Law, about a couple of New Orleans lawyers and their movements through New Orleans class detritus after Hurricane Katrina, a two movement orchestral fantasy about Elias Cannetti at carnival, formation of a new quintet to play new original compositions, an octet reduction of Peter and the Wolf for a New Orleans Contemporary Art Center/Guggenheim foundation presentation; a second opera, ee me & cummings thee which premiered in New Orleans in Nov. 2011.   2019 saw the completion of two operas. One a hyper-collaborative project with writer, Bernard Pearce, The Coronation, on the selecting of queen bees. In June 2019 he wrote an operetta on the Dirty Letters of James Joyce to Nora Barnacle, titled Darling, Please do not be offended at what I wrote.  He is the subject of the one hour radio documentary Jonathan Freilich's Freedom Double-O Naked Klezmer Jazz Latin Boogaloo: The Radio Documentary by award winning documentarian, David Kunian and was the 2008 Louisiana Governors' Music Fellowship Award recipient.  This year he figured as a Rising Star guitarist in Downbeat's Critics Poll.  Freilich was born Oct.13, 1968 in Philadelphia, Pa.  He spent most of his early years, up until a late teenager in London, England before moving to Los Angeles in 1985.  Thereafter, he moved to Santa Cruz, Ca in 1987 before the 1989 move to New Orleans.  Currently, he is residing in Los Angeles after completing further studies in composition at California Institute of the Arts. Aside from music, Freilich is also a certified Iyengar yoga instructor and co-owner of a studio in New Orleans for many years.

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We are joined by an amazing guest, Andrei Codrescu to discuss his new episodic podcast "The Second Oswald" released around the 60th anniversiary of the JFK assassination.Andrei Codrescu was born in Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania, and emigrated to the United States in 1966. He is the author of numerous books: poems, novels, and essays. He founded Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Books and Ideas. He was a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. He taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Baltimore, and Louisiana State University.To listen to the podcast, search for it wherever you listen or follow this link...https://soundcloud.com/rattapallax/sets/second-oswaldFor all things Andrei Codrescu, check out his website for more info!https://codrescu.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1181353/advertisement

Poet and philosopher Andrei Codrescu discusses AI jiu jitsu and discovers the surprising beauty of generative poetry.

Last week, we put on the proverbial raincoat and made like Columbo to investigate Peter Falk's claim that he recorded a special Cold War message telling Romanians to “put down their guns.” This week, we're back on the case, and what started out as a zany inquiry goes to some serious and surprising places. Part two of this caper, involves dubbers, propagandists, a couple of 90 year olds and the legacy of a brutal dictatorship. It's a story about celebrity, diplomacy, memory, and the limitations of all three—and about the power of television not to get Romanians to put down their guns, as Falk would have it, but to pick them up. This podcast was written by Willa Paskin who produces Decoder Ring with Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Joel Meyer. Derek John is Slate's executive producer of narrative podcasts. Merritt Jacob is senior technical director. Special thank you to Oana Godanu Kenworthy who was instrumental in figuring this all out as well as Andrada Lautaru who translated and worked with us from Romania. Thank you to: Andrei Codrescu, Cameron Gorman, Gabriel Roth, Ilinca Calugareanu, Harry Geisel, Elaine McDevitt, Michael Messenger, Gerald Krell, Ash Hawken, Tom Mullins, Jessica Leporin, Jerry Gruner and Marie Whalen. There's a number of documentaries that were instrumental to reporting this episode: Videograms from a Revolution; Chuck Norris vs Communism; The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, The Rise and Fall of Ceausescu: and Whatever Happened to Blood Sweat and Tears.  If you can't get enough Columbo, make sure to listen to our previous two-parter on McGruff the crime dog, who was directly inspired by Peter Falk's detective, and features a wild soundtrack. If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, we'd love for you to sign up for Slate Plus.  Slate Plus members get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads. Their support is also crucial to our work. So please go to www.slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week, we put on the proverbial raincoat and made like Columbo to investigate Peter Falk's claim that he recorded a special Cold War message telling Romanians to “put down their guns.” This week, we're back on the case, and what started out as a zany inquiry goes to some serious and surprising places. Part two of this caper, involves dubbers, propagandists, a couple of 90 year olds and the legacy of a brutal dictatorship. It's a story about celebrity, diplomacy, memory, and the limitations of all three—and about the power of television not to get Romanians to put down their guns, as Falk would have it, but to pick them up. This podcast was written by Willa Paskin who produces Decoder Ring with Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Joel Meyer. Derek John is Slate's executive producer of narrative podcasts. Merritt Jacob is senior technical director. Special thank you to Oana Godanu Kenworthy who was instrumental in figuring this all out as well as Andrada Lautaru who translated and worked with us from Romania. Thank you to: Andrei Codrescu, Cameron Gorman, Gabriel Roth, Ilinca Calugareanu, Harry Geisel, Elaine McDevitt, Michael Messenger, Gerald Krell, Ash Hawken, Tom Mullins, Jessica Leporin, Jerry Gruner and Marie Whalen. There's a number of documentaries that were instrumental to reporting this episode: Videograms from a Revolution; Chuck Norris vs Communism; The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, The Rise and Fall of Ceausescu: and Whatever Happened to Blood Sweat and Tears.  If you can't get enough Columbo, make sure to listen to our previous two-parter on McGruff the crime dog, who was directly inspired by Peter Falk's detective, and features a wild soundtrack. If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, we'd love for you to sign up for Slate Plus.  Slate Plus members get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads. Their support is also crucial to our work. So please go to www.slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week, we put on the proverbial raincoat and made like Columbo to investigate Peter Falk's claim that he recorded a special Cold War message telling Romanians to “put down their guns.” This week, we're back on the case, and what started out as a zany inquiry goes to some serious and surprising places. Part two of this caper, involves dubbers, propagandists, a couple of 90 year olds and the legacy of a brutal dictatorship. It's a story about celebrity, diplomacy, memory, and the limitations of all three—and about the power of television not to get Romanians to put down their guns, as Falk would have it, but to pick them up. This podcast was written by Willa Paskin who produces Decoder Ring with Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Joel Meyer. Derek John is Slate's executive producer of narrative podcasts. Merritt Jacob is senior technical director. Special thank you to Oana Godanu Kenworthy who was instrumental in figuring this all out as well as Andrada Lautaru who translated and worked with us from Romania. Thank you to: Andrei Codrescu, Cameron Gorman, Gabriel Roth, Ilinca Calugareanu, Harry Geisel, Elaine McDevitt, Michael Messenger, Gerald Krell, Ash Hawken, Tom Mullins, Jessica Leporin, Jerry Gruner and Marie Whalen. There's a number of documentaries that were instrumental to reporting this episode: Videograms from a Revolution; Chuck Norris vs Communism; The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, The Rise and Fall of Ceausescu: and Whatever Happened to Blood Sweat and Tears.  If you can't get enough Columbo, make sure to listen to our previous two-parter on McGruff the crime dog, who was directly inspired by Peter Falk's detective, and features a wild soundtrack. If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, we'd love for you to sign up for Slate Plus.  Slate Plus members get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads. Their support is also crucial to our work. So please go to www.slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week, we put on the proverbial raincoat and made like Columbo to investigate Peter Falk's claim that he recorded a special Cold War message telling Romanians to “put down their guns.” This week, we're back on the case, and what started out as a zany inquiry goes to some serious and surprising places. Part two of this caper, involves dubbers, propagandists, a couple of 90 year olds and the legacy of a brutal dictatorship. It's a story about celebrity, diplomacy, memory, and the limitations of all three—and about the power of television not to get Romanians to put down their guns, as Falk would have it, but to pick them up. This podcast was written by Willa Paskin who produces Decoder Ring with Katie Shepherd. This episode was edited by Joel Meyer. Derek John is Slate's executive producer of narrative podcasts. Merritt Jacob is senior technical director. Special thank you to Oana Godanu Kenworthy who was instrumental in figuring this all out as well as Andrada Lautaru who translated and worked with us from Romania. Thank you to: Andrei Codrescu, Cameron Gorman, Gabriel Roth, Ilinca Calugareanu, Harry Geisel, Elaine McDevitt, Michael Messenger, Gerald Krell, Ash Hawken, Tom Mullins, Jessica Leporin, Jerry Gruner and Marie Whalen. There's a number of documentaries that were instrumental to reporting this episode: Videograms from a Revolution; Chuck Norris vs Communism; The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, The Rise and Fall of Ceausescu: and Whatever Happened to Blood Sweat and Tears.  If you can't get enough Columbo, make sure to listen to our previous two-parter on McGruff the crime dog, who was directly inspired by Peter Falk's detective, and features a wild soundtrack. If you haven't yet, please subscribe and rate our feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And even better, tell your friends. If you're a fan of the show, we'd love for you to sign up for Slate Plus.  Slate Plus members get to listen to Decoder Ring without any ads. Their support is also crucial to our work. So please go to www.slate.com/decoderplus to join Slate Plus today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The modern jazz saxophone player, composer, and bandleader has recorded with his own trio as well as the Klezmer Allstars and Iris May Tango. His latest project with Anthony Cuccia, Klaas Hubner, and Kate Becker combines music, meditation, and breathwork. Tonight Rob joins the Troubled Men as they drag a few skeletons out of the closet. Topics include a recall effort, another speed camera ticket, Moon Landrieu RIP, nicknames, the Stalker Files revisited, a stabbing spree, R.J., Chris Walken, Michigan, music training, a miserable childhood, college, Robert Black, classical saxophone, French masters, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, the Cubs, Andy Wolf, leaving Chicago, the Little People’s Place, Kevin O’Day, composition, Benjamin Lyons, killing time, a bad pet, a new project, Andrei Codrescu, a terminal record, an honest man, TikTok, and much more. Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman Break Music: "20.05.22" by Rob Wagner and Klaas Hubner Outro music: "Sax_Bells" by Rob Wagner Support the podcast: Paypal or Venmo Join the Patreon page here. Shop for Troubled Men’s Shirts here. Subscribe, review, and rate (5 stars) on Apple Podcasts or any podcast source. Follow on social media, share with friends, and spread the Troubled Word. Troubled Men Podcast Facebook Troubled Men Podcast Instagram Iguanas Tour Dates René Coman Facebook Rob Wagner Homepage

On today's episode Max is going to tell us about a samurai with a heart of gold (and biceps of steel) with "The Story of Umetsu Chubei", and Janey is going to take us on a journey to the fairy hill and back again with "Katherine Crackernuts." NOTE: At the end of this episode, we discuss the trope "Women in Refrigerators" and Janey incorrectly says the O.G. woman stuffed into a fridge was Marvel's Big Bertha. In fact, it is the Green Lantern's girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt. You can find more about the trope here.Starting a podcast? Try out Buzzsprout and get a $20 Amazon gift card to help pay for that new mic you've been looking at!Max's sources:"Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn," edited and introduced by Andrei Codrescu, foreword by Jack Zipes Janey's Sources: Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales (chosen and edited by Gordon Jarvie) 

Mental health is not your fault but it is your responsibility. Listen as we tell you the tale of how Addie and Zack survived Hurricane Katrina but in the end one of them let their mental health struggles take over and take not only some ones life but their own as well.  Thank you all so much for listening. Please don't forget to rate and review us on all listening platforms also, follow and like us on all our social media accounts:  Instagram: MacabreFamily  Facebook: The Macabre Family Podcast  TikTok:The Macabre Family Podcast   Email us at macabrefamilypod@gmail.com for any episode suggestions or for anything at all we love hearing from you!   Again, I want to say thank you to everyone who listens and supports our podcast. I know it means the world to myself and all my guest hosts aka my family. Stay spooky my Macabre Family. “How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Sometimes I think it was predestined.” — Andrei Codrescu

To follow up on my comments last week about differences between poetry as a recording of experience and poetry as a transformation of experience, I read surrealistic poems to affirm the importance of getting beyond the self-indulgent confessional voice that dominates (and, as I suggested last week, that suffocates) so much contemporary poetry. I read poems by André  Breton, Hans Arp, Andrei Codrescu, Helen Ivory, Philip Lamantia, James Tate, and Joyce Mansour.  I end the program with one of my own poems.

Andrei Codrescu a ajuns în SUA la 20 de ani, în 1966, cînd începeau revoltele tinerilor care au marcat poezia, muzica, arta, modul de viață al oamenilor. I-a cunoscut pe Allen Ginsberg și Lawrence Ferlinghetti și a luat de la americani dimensiunea cotidiană a poeziei, pe care a mixat-o cu dimensiunea ei verticală, deprinsă în România. Mare parte din opera sa este scrisă în engleză. Dar Andrei Codrescu a scris și poezie în limba română, pe care o putem citi în volumul „Visul diacritic“, apărut recent la Editura Nemira, în colecția Vorpal. Cartea nu-i o simplă antologie, pentru că poemele sînt însoțite de ample pasaje memorialistice care descriu contextul și fac din acest volum o poveste despre poezie și viață. Andrei Codrescu trăiește la New York. Am vorbit cu el despre poezie, despre marii poeți americani pe care i-a cunoscut, despre cele două limbi în care scrie, dar și despre cum arată New York-ul în plină pandemie. O emisiune de Adela Greceanu. Un produs Radio România Cultural. 

„Sînt alta” e cel mai recent volum de poezie al Svetlanei Cârstean, un volum apărut la Editura Nemira. E o carte unitară, care se poate citi pe fragmente dar care se poate citi și ca un lung poem. Ceea ce-i dă coerență sînt mai multe lucruri: vocea, preocuparea pentru identitate și cîteva teme: frumusețea, ideea de efect, ideea de a fi în pericol, ideea de inamic, ideea de țară. E o carte cu multe versuri memorabile. Am vorbit cu Svetlana Cârstean despre „Sînt alta“, despre cum se transformă realitatea în limbaj și despre identitatea poetică. De asemenea Svetlana Cârstean a anunțat un volum eveniment care va apărea în colecția Vorpal pe care o coordonează la Nemira: antologia de poezie în limba română a lui Andrei Codrescu, „Visul diacritic“.O emisiune de Adela GreceanuUn produs Radio România Cultural

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

Mircea Cărtărescu: publicado tras la censura comunista es un candidato recurrente en la lista del Premio Nobel. Como cuentista, afirma Andrei Codrescu, podemos compararlo a Kafka, Cortázar, Kundera. Igitur

Seeking a particular object. “In the Collection of Ancient Erotica in Rome” from The Repentance of Lorraine Andrei Codrescu

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman I remember walking out of the ocean. What struggle!Millions of mollusk years and shell games that hurt.I remember getting up from all fours and looking downon all my astonished variously shaped former friends.Not one of them wanted to look up at me now I was up.Bipedal and lonely until there were a bunch of others.I remember the first scene in 2001 where I killed another.I remember that every time I bent down to be closerto the busy world of things that crawled loped or burrowedI was condescending and they moved away from me.I remember towering over everything that wasn’t me.I remember the day I howled in pain because my back gave out.That was the day I knew my body was weakly hingedat the place where it first stood up, and I wanted down again.Lord, help me walk on all fours again. I know that it’s late.We only grow taller now like the towers we can’t stop building.Since we got language not one nonhuman creature deignsto speak to us though we pretend in vain to understand them.Animals find it more understandable when we shoot themthen when we kneel down and pretend we are their friends.We do kneel down often to pray not to commune but praythat we won’t suffer from the back pain that is our sign of Cain.I remember that I can still return to water and do flipsbut I’m in charge now of all the things I covered over.I remember kneeling to gods who were so tall I couldn’t see them.Their heads were in the clouds, we barely reached their sandals.Even the mono god was so tall he dropped the tablets on Mosesand made lightning to scare us all to the death we knew was coming.In the little world I live in I sell diminishment at one dollar an inchand practice quadripedal yoga every morning in my living roomhoping to walk one day into the street with my quadripedal brood.It will be the day of no pain and of trading language for nozzling.If we succeed it won’t be so hard to hope that learning screens hurtsless than when we first left the ocean, equally pushed by hubris.Our new weak spot is memory. A bad back and a lousy memorymay smooth our way to becoming humble and wild again and good.

In the third episode of our series reflecting on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Andrew Mueller explores the forms of resistance from within the Eastern Bloc. Whether led by peaceful playwrights, powerful trade unions or mutinous soldiers, how did people trapped behind the Iron Curtain fight back against the system? Andrew is joined by Andrei Codrescu, Michael Žantovský and Krzysztof Bobinski.

"The Ogg Couple" Aired December 21, 1967 It's the final go around for Vincent Price and Anne Baxter as Egghead and Olga in a story that should have been their first go around together.  It's pretty much a mess and this has turned out to be the shortest podcast review ever because of it.  But there are some hightlights including an opening that will have you talking and a discussion on how dangerous it is for Batgirl to be riding around on radioactive sparkplugs.   Joining John to work this all out is author and podcaster, Kevin Lauderdale.  Comment on the episode here or write thebatcavepodcast@gmail.com   Kevin Lauderdale has written essays and articles for the Los Angeles Times, The Dictionary of American Biography, Animato, mcsweeneys.net, and teevee.org; and his poetry has appeared in Andrei Codrescu's The Exquisite Corpse.  He has published fiction in several of Pocket Books' Star Trek anthologies, including Constellations, which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the original Star Trek.  His original fiction has appeared in Neo-opsis magazine and Cthulhu Unbound, the cross-genre Lovecraftian collection from Permuted Press.  He is a graduate of UCLA and a card-carrying member of SFWA.  In addition, Kevin is a host of his own podcast here on the network, It Has Come to My Attention and co-host of Mighty Movie: Temple of Bad.  Recently, Kevin took over as host of the old time radio podcast,Presenting the Transcription Feature.  Follow Kevin's exploits through his LiveJournal blog - http://kevinlauderdale.livejournal.com.

"The Ogg and I/How to Hatch a Dinosaur" Aired October 2/9, 1967 Vincent Price makes a welcome return to Batman as the villainous Egghead.  He is joined by Anne Baxter as Olga, Queen of the Bessarovian Cossacks.  Together they have plans for Gotham City.  In fact, are there too many plans?  What is the main scheme in this plot?  Who is in charge as it seems to change from episode to episode?  And what is the history of this two-parter in relation to the third episode that will follow in a few weeks' time? Joining John to talk about Vincent Price's triumphant and yet not so triumphant return to Batman is author and podcaster, Kevin Lauderdale.  Comment on the episode here or write thebatcavepodcast@gmail.com Kevin Lauderdale has written essays and articles for the Los Angeles Times, The Dictionary of American Biography, Animato, mcsweeneys.net, and teevee.org; and his poetry has appeared in Andrei Codrescu's The Exquisite Corpse.  He has published fiction in several of Pocket Books' Star Trek anthologies, including Constellations, which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the original Star Trek.  His original fiction has appeared in Neo-opsis magazine and Cthulhu Unbound, the cross-genre Lovecraftian collection from Permuted Press.  He is a graduate of UCLA and a card-carrying member of SFWA.  In addition, Kevin is a host of his own podcast here on the network, It Has Come to My Attention and co-host of Mighty Movie: Temple of Bad.  Recently, Kevin took over as host of the old time radio podcast,Presenting the Transcription Feature.  Follow Kevin's exploits through his LiveJournal blog - http://kevinlauderdale.livejournal.com.

Long before there were blogs or podcasts, Andrei Codrescu was writing online (much of it through his "hidden literary magazine" Exquisite Corpse) and publishing audio commentary (often as a commentator on NPR). He is the author of many books of poetry, essays and fiction, and has taught literature at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Baltimore and Louisiana State University, where he recently retired as the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English. Now, he's planning on developing a podcast of his very own. Today, we talk about this upcoming project, which comments on his previous radio work, the importance of peripheral locations, and changes in Romania from the fall of Communism to the present day. Show Notes and Links Andrei CodrescuWebsite Twitter: @acodrescu Exquisite Corpse:Click on the large No to enter site NPR archive Ioan CulianuMircea Eliade Lars Iyer The Original Brothers Grimm translated by Jack Zipes Lafcadio Hearn

(RIGHT CLICK THE IMAGE TO SAVE THIS EPISODE TO YOUR COMPUTER)   The Joker's latest scheme is art themed, but what is more important to Joker, the aesthetics of the art or the art of crime?  There are a lot of sendups of pop art in this two-part episode loved by many and looked upon as the last real laugh of The Joker in the 66 series.   Joining John to talk about the Joker's last outing of the second season and what the show's stance on pop art is is author and podcaster, Kevin Lauderdale. Comment on the episode here or write thebatcavepodcast@gmail.com. Take a moment to rate the episode by using our star system at the bottom of this entry.       Kevin Lauderdale has written essays and articles for the Los Angeles Times, The Dictionary of American Biography, Animato, mcsweeneys.net, and teevee.org; and his poetry has appeared in Andrei Codrescu's The Exquisite Corpse.  He has published fiction in several of Pocket Books' Star Trek anthologies, including Constellations, which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the original Star Trek.  His original fiction has appeared in Neo-opsis magazine and Cthulhu Unbound, the cross-genre Lovecraftian collection from Permuted Press.  He is a graduate of UCLA and a card-carrying member of SFWA.  In addition, Kevin is a host of his own podcast here on the network, It Has Come to My Attention and co-host of Mighty Movie: Temple of Bad.  Recently, Kevin took over as host of the old time radio podcast, Presenting the Transcription Feature.  Follow Kevin's exploits through his LiveJournal blog - http://kevinlauderdale.livejournal.com.

Su Zi is a passionate writer and artist dedicated to original work in a variety of media. Her unwavering commitment to originality in the arts extends to her work as an editor, publisher and curator. Her love for horses and compassion for animal life animate her writing and art. Su Zi was once described by poet & radio commentator Andrei Codrescu as a real poet, not a term he ever used lightly. It characterizes Su Zi's commitment to whatever she does, no matter how lightly other people may value what she does. 

Andrei Codrescu is a professor of English at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and the editor of the literary journal Exquisite Corpse. Born in Sibiu, Romania, he immigrated to the United States in 1966 and became a citizen in 1981. His experience as a foreigner lends his writing its fresh, unorthodox perspective and voice, reflected in such titles as The Dog With the Chip in His Neck and The Muse Is Always Half-Dressed in New Orleans. His many honors include the Peabody Award and the General Electric Foundation Poetry Prize. He appears regularly on a variety of television programs, including Nightline and The David Letterman Show.

Larry Massett travels back to Romania with Andrei Codrescu. And the ghosts are watching.

Beginning this summer, the Modern Hotel and RadioBoise will host Modern Campfire Stories, produced by Christian Winn. On Monday nights throughout the summer and fall, hear the best writers Idaho has to offer. June 16, 2014 features J. Reuben Appelman and Matthew R.K. Haynes ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Matthew R. K. Haynes is an assistant professor of English at College of Western Idaho. He was a State of Idaho Writing Fellow in 2010, named Honors Professor of the Year in 2005 and 2011. He earned his M.A. in Fiction and M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Boise State University. His first novel, Moving Towards Home, was published 1999. Subsequently, his work has appeared in several anthologies and journals including SOMA Literary Journal, O’iwi, Native Literatures, Fringe and Yellow Medicine Review. He was been a finalist for the Faulkner Award in Nonfiction and Writer’s Digest Award in Fiction. His collection of multi-genre writing, titled Shall We Not Go Missing, has been chosen for the Wayne Kaumuali’i Westlake Monograph Series, and is forthcoming from Kuleana Press. READING: I will be reading short short fiction for a new working collection, which are in, or about, Hawai'i. The collection began with the idea: why do we go to Hawai'i? The genesis story attempts to answer this question when a couple leave for Kona to celebrate their second honeymoon after a renewal of vows. Maybe people go to Hawai'i to see a new version of their lover, or a better version of themselves. But, can that version/illusion maintain beyond the "power" of the islands? Is Hawai'i the geographical version of buying a dog, buying a house, having a kid, renewing a vow? Each story connects to the next, by character. For the Modern, I'll be reading a batch that address what it means to want, and how that might be different than what it means to desire, and how, if at all, either can lead to a state of receiving, having, accepting. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ J. Reuben Appelman has spent the past ten years working as a film writer, scripting and producing documentaries such as Jens Pulver: Driven (Warner Bros.) and Playground, a film about the child sex trade, Executive Produced by George Clooney. All of last year he hosted The Writers Block radio show on Boise’s KRBX, interviewing writers, artists, politicians, reporters, ex porn stars, and other manner of people with a story to tell. His writing projects and research, focused on issues related to commercial sexual exploitation, child endangerment, and related law enforcement issues, have earned him a spot as a guest lecturer on the issue of Human Trafficking for the Honor’s College at Boise State University. His work has been featured by National Public Radio literary reviewer, Andrei Codrescu, American Public Media’s “The Story, with Dick Gordon,” and by the glossy arts quarterly, BOMB Magazine, which featured Appelman’s poetry collection, Make Loneliness, as an international Editor’s Pick. He has received multiple writing grants, including a prestigious State of Idaho Writing Fellowship for Investigative Writing. He currently works full time as a fraud investigator for the medical insurance industry. Project Description: In 1977, a man fitting the description of a suspected serial killer tried to abduct Appelman from a shopping mall outside of Detroit. He fled and told no one. In his late thirties, the memory of that near abduction sent him on a five-year mission to solve a decades-old cold case whose police files told the story of ongoing cover-ups, moneyed confidence men, child pornography rings, and high-level corruption. He worked with surviving family members, original task force cops from the 1970s, and a variety of anonymous sources who came out of the shadows. The deeper he dug into the case, the closer it hit to home. At some point, he looked around the casket of a failed marriage and there was nothing left on its walls but the photos of four dead kids nobody but Appelman seemed to be thinking about anymore. 37 Winters is the story of his hunt for their killer. ++++++++++++++++++++++++ About The Series: Produced by Christian Winn, who also produces Storyfort, the literary add-on to this year’s Treefort Music Fest, who invites writers from around Idaho to read their work. Original fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenplays and more will be offered from Boise's rich literary community.

(RIGHT CLICK THE IMAGE TO SAVE THIS EPISODE TO YOUR COMPUTER)   The Joker is back in Gotham City and he has a new scheme to hold the city for ransom while ruining Batman's good name.  Can Batman figure out the Joker's plan before it's too late? Joining John to talk about the Joker's last outing of the first season is author and podcaster, Kevin Lauderdale. Comment on the episode here or write thebatcavepodcast@gmail.com. Take a moment to rate the episode by using our star system at the bottom of this entry.       Kevin Lauderdale has written essays and articles for the Los Angeles Times, The Dictionary of American Biography, Animato, mcsweeneys.net, and teevee.org; and his poetry has appeared in Andrei Codrescu's The Exquisite Corpse.  He has published fiction in several of Pocket Books' Star Trek anthologies, including Constellations, which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the original Star Trek.  His original fiction has appeared in Neo-opsis magazine and Cthulhu Unbound, the cross-genre Lovecraftian collection from Permuted Press.  He is a graduate of UCLA and a card-carrying member of SFWA.  In addition, Kevin is a host of his own podcast here on the network, It Has Come to My Attention and co-host of Mighty Movie: Temple of Bad.  Recently, Kevin took over as host of the old time radio podcast, Presenting the Transcription Feature.  Follow Kevin's exploits through his LiveJournal blog - http://kevinlauderdale.livejournal.com.

Andrei Codrescu is an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist and NPR commentator. He edits the online journal Exquisite Corpse and taught literature and creative writing at Louisiana State University for 25 years before retiring in 2009 as the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English. His recent work includes The Poetry Lesson, The Posthuman Dada Guide, and Jealous Witness: Poems. ( www.codrescu.com) Part of a day-long celebration of literature presented at the 8th annual CityLit Festival.Recorded On: Saturday, April 16, 2011

A public lecture by award-winning writer Andrei Codrescu

An hour with poet, novelist Andrei Codrescu on WorldStreams

Born in Transylvania just after the Holocaust, Codrescu immigrated to the United States as a teenager and eventually settled in New Orleans. Through the evolution of his now-famous surname, Codrescu reveals something about his own identity as a Jew, a poet, and an immigrant.

Max Cafard's Surre(gion)alist Manifest first appeared in Exquisite Corpse in 1990 and was afterwards republished with a preface by New Orleans poet Andrei Codrescu. Arguing for the eminence of the local as a point of view, the manifesto urged readers to consider their own perspective, political and culture, as the outcome of their existence at a certain place and time. It argued that only in radical utopian moments such as May 1968 do individuals become able to envision life beyond the bounds of their own history. The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto excavates radical European and Chinese philosophy for a new political philosophy appropriate to twenty-first century America. It looks back to the radical individual Taoism of Lao Tse, the utopian experiments of nineteenth-century Europe, the anarchist/individualist critique of Dada, and the radical Situationist Internationale of 1960s Paris, searching for a utopian logic that respects the radical difference of place and individual will. The intellectual roots here are serious: the analysis of psychogeography pioneered by Bachelard, Dubord, and De Certeau, combined with the Henri Lefebvre's critique of capitalism. Cafard reduces, engineering a new dialectic of liberation, a landscapey recipe, the navigation between the "utopian nowhere of meaning and the topian density of earth."In the Manifesto, attention to local landscape offers a movement towards political and economic liberation. Cafard urges, Strive to reject the people who would manage you from another place far away, whether they are capitalists or teachers. Try not to be like them: try to live instead in the landscape of your journey, taking lessons from the cities and seasons where you find yourself. This injunction to inhabit the local first, as a beginning of a radical politics, is explained more fully in another fine essay, "Deep Play in the City." Here Cafard applies radical psychogeography as an instruction set for looking at urban landscapes. Landscapeyness becomes the beginning of radical political freedom. The video version of the Manifesto is here presented by Cafard's student Andrew Goodrich. If you'd prefer the text version, you can find it here.

WSN is proud to bring you Andrei Codrescu! Andrei Codrescu (www.codrescu.com) has been a commentator on All Things Considered since 1983. He is an homme-de-lettres whose novels, essays and poetry have been infiltrating the American psyche since he emigrated from his native Romania to Detroit in 1965. He is the author of forty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and the founder of Exquisite Corpse.He has received a Peabody award for the PBS version of his film Road Scholar, and has reported for NPR and ABC News from Romania (1989) and Cuba (1996). His new books are The Posthuman Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Jealous Witness: New Poems (Coffee House Press), with a CD of Storm Songs by The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars. Andrei lives in New Orleans and the Ozarks. http://www.codrescu.com/livesite/

WSN is proud to bring you Andrei Codrescu! Andrei Codrescu (www.codrescu.com) has been a commentator on All Things Considered since 1983. He is an homme-de-lettres whose novels, essays and poetry have been infiltrating the American psyche since he emigrated from his native Romania to Detroit in 1965. He is the author of forty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and the founder of Exquisite Corpse.He has received a Peabody award for the PBS version of his film Road Scholar, and has reported for NPR and ABC News from Romania (1989) and Cuba (1996). His new books are The Posthuman Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Jealous Witness: New Poems (Coffee House Press), with a CD of Storm Songs by The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars. Andrei lives in New Orleans and the Ozarks. http://www.codrescu.com/livesite/

An hour with poet, novelist Andrei Codrescu on WorldStreams

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