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Antonia Stassi speaks with Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of Polish to English on her approach to translation across diverse genres, from gothic horror to children's literature. LLoyd Jones shares her experience working closely with authors, particularly Olga Tokarczuk, and the significance of understanding the writer's vision to deliver faithful translations. They also delve into Antonia Lloyd Jones' recent project, Warsaw Tales, an anthology of Polish short stories and non-fiction, and her process for curating voices that resonate.
Google Doc for Helene Recovery Resources LESBIAN. VAMPIRES. We read The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez for October's prompt to read a book in one of the following genres: monster/vampire/gothic. Content warning: We briefly talk about violence and murder. The book also contains scenes of the main character experiencing racism. Our next book is The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk and translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. If you want to read along with The Bookstore Challenge 2024, you can join us on The StoryGraph to see what others are reading for each month and get ideas for your TBR: The Bookstore Challenge 2024. Get two audiobook credits for the price of one at Libro.fm when you sign up using the code BOOKSTOREPOD. Website | Patreon
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Get it in AUSTRALIA from https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-empusium-a-health-resort-horror-story In the UK https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-empusium-a-health-resort-horror-story/ In the USA https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725957/the-empusium-by-olga-tokarczuk-translated-by-antonia-lloyd-jones/ Gateway books The Iliad and The Odyssey Dostoyevsky Chekhov Currently reading; Conversations with an Executioner by Kazimierz Moczarski Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov The Orphanage - Serhiy Zhadan Stories Bohumil Hrabal - Harlequin's Millions Bacacay - Witold Gombrowicz Tintin Joseph Conrad - Short Stories
Today we have with us - Kate Webster who is a translator based in London. She will be speaking about her Translation of "White Nights" written in Polish by Urszula Honek. 'White Nights' is long listed for International Booker Prize - 2024.Webster has translated many short stories and essays for publication in anthologies and online media and, in September 2018, took part in the Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme organised by the National Centre for Writing, where she was mentored by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. In 2022, she published her first book-length translation, The Map by Barbara Sadurska, for which she was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2023. You can buy 'White Nights' using the link given in the show notes.https://bit.ly/websterhonek* For your Valuable feedback on this Episode - Please click the link given below.https://harshaneeyam.captivate.fm/feedbackHarshaneeyam on Spotify App –https://harshaneeyam.captivate.fm/onspotHarshaneeyam on Apple App – https://harshaneeyam.captivate.fm/onapple*Contact us - harshaneeyam@gmail.com ***Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by Interviewees in interviews conducted by Harshaneeyam Podcast are those of the Interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Harshaneeyam Podcast. Any content provided by Interviewees is of their opinion and is not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual, or anyone or anything.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrpChartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
This episode we're discussing The Possessed, the great, almost-lost novel by Witold Gombrowicz, arguably Poland's greatest modernist writer. The Possessed is a Gothic-infused romp set in the roaring twenties, centred around an uncanny love story between Maja, an upper class tennis player, and her coach Leszczuk, but also featuring a haunted castle, lost treasure, and a mad prince…as every good Gothic novel should.It has been published by Fitzcarraldo in a lively and highly-readable translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and with a sharp-witted and insightful introduction by Adam Thirlwell, who join us to discuss it. Buy The Possessed: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/the-possessed-2*Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by many of Poland's leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as crime fiction, poetry and children's books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 International Booker Prize.Adam Thirlwell is the author of four novels. His work has been translated into thirty languages, while his awards include a Somerset Maugham Award and the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2018 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.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.
Bar Talk (our recommendations):Jessica is reading Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones); drinking a Noble Oak double oak whiskey + Wegman's apple cider.Damien is watching A Haunting in Venice (2023; dir. Kenneth Branagh); drinking Hibiki Japanese Harmony.Ryan is watching Deadwax (Shudder Series, 2018); drinking Evan Williams 100 Bottled-in-Bond.If you liked this week's story, read "The Anatomy Lesson" (short story) in Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales by Cody Goodfellow.Up next: Rontgen's Curse by Charles Crosthwaite.Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music! Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com
Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by many of Poland's leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as crime fiction, poetry and children's books. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. For ten years she was a mentor for the Emerging Translators' Mentorship Programme, and is a former co-chair of the UK Translators Association.In this episode, she spoke about her love for reading and writing which started at an early age, working with Polish Authors , organizations helping budding translators and about her work Stanislaw Lem's 'The Truth and other stories'.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podtrac - https://analytics.podtrac.com/privacy-policy-gdrpChartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
Antonia Lloyd-Jones in conversation with Daniel Hahn: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of Polish literature including Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Witold Gombrowicz's The Possessed, speaks to Daniel Hahn, translator of Portuguese, Spanish and French literature and author of Catching Fire: A Translation Diary, about her work to date, including the reasons why she started learning Polish, the dynamism of the translator's role and the necessity of producing a text that is ‘alive' in translation. Recorded at Young Space in September 2023. Edited by Frankie Wells. Music composed by Kwes Darko.
Kayla and Taylor continue discussing the themes and major beats in the second part of Mieko Kawakami's 2008 novel Breasts and Eggs. Topics include the inevitable end of the human race, the vastness of space, and the tragedy of being born. It's a really fun episode!This week's drink: Ume Highball via DiversivoreINGREDIENTS:1 oz whisky1 oz umeshu1 tsp ginger juice (from crushed or grated fresh ginger)3.5 oz soda chillediceginger thinly sliced, to garnishINSTRUCTIONS:Prepare the ginger juice by grating a portion of fresh ginger and squeezing/straining out the juice.Fill a tall glass with ice (I like a nice crushed ice here, but it does tend to melt fast - use large pieces if you're looking for a slow sipper). Combine the whisky, umeshu, and ginger in a small glass or cocktail shaker and pour down the side of the glass (rather than over the ice itself).Top with soda, once again pouring down the side of the glass. Stir gently and garnish with a ribbon of thinly sliced ginger. Serve immediately.Current Reads and Recommendations (and fun links!): All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick BringleyThe Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery (#1) by Craig JohnsonEileen by Ottessa MoshfeghThe Self-Esteem (CBT) Workbook for Adults by Marcee A. MartinThe Interstellar Age: The Story of the NASA Men and Women Who Flew the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Jim BellTranslating Myself and Others by Jhumpa LahiriBabel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. KuangStrange Beasts of China by Yan Ge (translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang)I am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy (translated from the Italian by Gini Alhadeff)On Lighthouses and Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes by Jazmina Barrera (translated from the Spanish by Christina Macsweeney)Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the second half of August's book, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by The Polish author Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones published in 2009 (from Chapter 9 on page 138 to the end if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll read the first half of a book together — one that I and perhaps you have never read) and then I'll share my thoughts in part 1 of the podcast published on the second Friday of the month. And then in part 2 (published on the last Friday of the month), I'll discuss the second half of the book. We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for September is The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (623pp) — we'll be reading up to page 325 (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside me). The first podcast will be on 9th September. Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: There are some violent scenes in the book. Please check the content before proceeding.This episode will be available until November but all episodes can be listened and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpgFuture Reads:September: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (623pp) October: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (152pp)November: The Castle by Franz Kafka (280pp)I'm delighted that this podcast has been voted in the Top 30 UK Books Podcasts at https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_book_podcasts/
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the first half of August's book, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by The Polish author Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones published in 2009 (up to Ch.9 ‘The Largest in the Smallest' if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first podcast, published on the second Friday of the month, we'll discuss the first half. And then in the second podcast (published on the last Friday of the month - 26thAugust), we'll look at the second half of the book (in this case from Chapter 9 on page 138 to the end). We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for September is The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (623pp) (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: There are some violent scenes in the book. Please check the content before proceeding.This episode will be available until November but all episodes can be listened and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpgFuture Reads:September: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (623pp) October: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (152pp)November: The Castle by Franz Kafka (280pp)I'm delighted that this podcast has been voted in the Top 30 UK Books Podcasts at https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_book_podcasts/
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the second half of July's book, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon published in 1973 (from Page 455 (US,383 - Part3 Section 8 - the paragraph starting 'A soft night') if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll read the first half of a book together — one that I and perhaps you have never read) and then I'll share my thoughts in part 1 of the podcast published on the second Friday of the month. And then in part 2 (published on the last Friday of the month), I'll discuss the second half of the book. We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for August is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) — we'll be reading up to Ch.9 on p.138 (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside me). The first podcast will be on 12th August. Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: I've removed obscene swear words (apologies to Pynchon). There are some very adult themes in the novel covering topics of sex, war and oppression.This episode will be available until October but all episodes can be listened and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpgFuture Reads:August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) 266pp. September: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (644pp.)October: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (152pp.)I'm delighted that this podcast has been voted in the Top 30 UK Books Podcasts at https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_book_podcasts/
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the first half of July's book, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon published in 1973 (up to Page 455 (US,383 - Part3 Section 8 - the paragraph starting 'A soft night') if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first podcast, published on the second Friday of the month, we'll discuss the first half. And then in the second podcast (published on the last Friday of the month - 29th July), we'll look at the second half of the book (in this case from Page 455 (US,383 - Part3 Section 8 - the paragraph starting 'A soft night')). We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube Channel or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for August is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: I've removed obscene swear words (apologies to Pynchon). There are some very adult themes in the novel covering topics of sex war and oppression.Future Reads:August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) September: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (644pp.)October: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (152pp.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the first half of July's book, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon published in 1973 (up to Page 455 (US,383 - Part3 Section 8 - the paragraph starting 'A soft night') if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first podcast, published on the second Friday of the month, we'll discuss the first half. And then in the second podcast (published on the last Friday of the month - 29th July), we'll look at the second half of the book (in this case from Page 455 (US,383 - Part3 Section 8 - the paragraph starting 'A soft night')). We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for August is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: I've removed obscene swear words (apologies to Pynchon). There are some very adult themes in the novel covering topics of sex war and oppression.This episode will be available until October but all episodes can be listened and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpgFuture Reads:August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) September: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (644pp.)October: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (152pp.)
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the second half of June's book, Howards End by E.M. Forster published in 1910 (from chapter 21 if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll read the first half of a book together — one that I and perhaps you have never read) and then I'll share my thoughts in part 1 of the podcast published on the second Friday of the month. And then in part 2 (published on the last Friday of the month), I'll discuss the second half of the book. We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for July is Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages) — we'll be reading up to page 455 (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside me). The first podcast will be on 8th July. Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: I've removed any swear words and I only raise themes already present in the novel.This episode will be available until September but all episodes can be listened and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpgFuture Reads:July: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages) August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (266 pages).September: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (644 pages) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the second half of June's book, Howards End by E.M. Forster published in 1910 (from chapter 21 if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll read the first half of a book together — one that I and perhaps you have never read) and then I'll share my thoughts in part 1 of the podcast published on the second Friday of the month. And then in part 2 (published on the last Friday of the month), I'll discuss the second half of the book. We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for July is Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages) — we'll be reading up to page 455 (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside me). The first podcast will be on 8th July. Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: I've removed any swear words and I only raise themes already present in the novel.This episode will be available until September but all episodes can be listened and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpgFuture Reads:July: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages) August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (266 pages).September: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (644 pages)
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the first half of June's book, Howards End by E.M. Forster published in 1910 (up to Chapter 21 if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first podcast, published on the second Friday of the month, we'll discuss the first half. And then in the second podcast (published on the last Friday of the month - 24th June), we'll look at the second half of the book (in this case from chapter 21). We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment at the BookShook YouTube Channel or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for July is Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerFuture Reads:July: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages) August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (266 pages).Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga TokarczukSeptember: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (644 pages) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the second half of June's book, Howards End by E.M. Forster published in 1910 (from chapter 21 if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll read the first half of a book together — one that I and perhaps you have never read) and then I'll share my thoughts in part 1 of the podcast published on the second Friday of the month. And then in part 2 (published on the last Friday of the month), I'll discuss the second half of the book. We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for July is Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages) — we'll be reading up to $NextReadUpTo$ (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside me). The first podcast will be on 8th July. Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerThis episode will be available until September but all episodes can be listened and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpgFuture Reads:July: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages) August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (266 pages).September: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (644 pages)
Welcome to BookShook! This episode is all about the second half of May's book, The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay published in 2020 (from page 140 if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll read the first half of a book together (that I and perhaps you have never read) and then I'll share my thoughts in part 1 of the podcast published on the second Friday of the month. And then in part 2 (published on the last Friday of the month), I'll discuss the second half of the book. We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation below or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. You can check out the podcast at bookshook.buzzsprout.com. The book we'll be reading for June is Howard's End by E.M. Forster (382pp) - we'll be reading up to Chapter 22 (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside me). The first podcast will be on 10th June. Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: There are adult themes in the novel (and some swearing). I have removed any swear words from dialogue. Please check the content of the novel before listening to the podcast.Future Reads:June: Howard's End by E.M. Forster (382pp) July: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages)August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) - 266 pages Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the second half of May's book, The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay published in 2020 (from page 140 if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll read the first half of a book together — one that I and perhaps you have never read) and then I'll share my thoughts in part 1 of the podcast published on the second Friday of the month. And then in part 2 (published on the last Friday of the month), I'll discuss the second half of the book. We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for June is Howard's End by E.M. Forster (382pp) — we'll be reading up to Chapter 22 (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside me). The first podcast will be on 10th June. Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: There are adult themes in the novel (and some swearing). I have removed any swear words from dialogue. Please check the content of the novel before listening to the podcast.This episode will be available until August but all episodes can be listened to and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpgFuture Reads:June: Howard's End by E.M. Forster (382pp) July: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages)August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) - 266 pages
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the first half of May's book, The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay published in 2020 (up to page 140 “I need a rinse under the tap and a lie-down” if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first podcast, published on the second Friday of the month, we'll discuss the first half. And then in the second podcast (published on the last Friday of the month - 27th May), we'll look at the second half of the book (in this case from page 140). We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for June is Howard's End by E.M. Forster (382pp) (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: There are adult themes in the novel (and some swearing). I have removed any swear words from dialogue. Please check the content of the novel before listening to the podcast.This episode will be available until August but all episodes can be listened and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpgFuture Reads:June: Howard's End by E.M. Forster (382 pages) July: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages)August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones - 266 pages) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to BookShook! This podcast is all about the first half of May's book, The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay published in 2020 (up to page 140 “I need a rinse under the tap and a lie-down” if you're reading alongside). The idea of the podcast is that we'll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first podcast, published on the second Friday of the month, we'll discuss the first half. And then in the second podcast (published on the last Friday of the month - 27th May), we'll look at the second half of the book (in this case from page 140). We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the BookShook YouTube channel (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for June is Howard's End by E.M. Forster (382pp) (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: There are adult themes in the novel (and some swearing). I have removed any swear words from dialogue. Please check the content of the novel before listening to the podcast.This episode will be available until August but all episodes can be listened and discussed at the BookShook YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-UchFXG7hqzGyGQ7l1YIpgFuture Reads:June: Howard's End by E.M. Forster (382 pages) July: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (902 pages)August: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones - 266 pages)
Lauren W. will be co-hosting this non-fiction quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We share books we have already read and freely recommend, and also chat about the piles and shelves of books we are considering. Let us know your recommendations and where you hope to start in the comments, or join the conversation in Goodreads.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books we can recommend: Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi by TeffiSecondhand Timeby Svetlana AlexievichThe Unwomanly Face of Warby Svetlana AlexievichLast Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Pevear & VolokhonskyZinky Boysby Svetlana AlexievichVoices of Chernobyl (also titled Chernobyl Prayer) by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith GessenOther Russias by Victoria Lomasko, translated by Thomas CampbellThe Future is History by Masha Gessen Never Rememberby Masha Gessen, photography by Misha FriedmanWhere the Jews Aren't by Masha Gessen Pushkin's Children by Tatyana Tolstaya The Slynx by Tatyana TolstayaImperium by Ryszard Kapucinski, translated by Klara GlowczewskaA Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia's Most Seductive Spy by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy DronfieldPutin Country by Anne GarrelsLetters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke Sovietistan by Erika Fatland The Commissar Vanishes by David King Gulag by Anne Applebaum The Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum The Magical Chorus by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina Bouis Shostaskovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov The Tiger by John Vaillant Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut Please to the Table by Anya von Bremzen Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen Books we are considering: All Lara's Wars by Wojchiech Jagielski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesGulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Eric Ericson (there is a unabridged 1800+ pg, and an author approved abridged version, 400-some pages) Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, translated by Paul Stevenson, Max Hayward Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John GladRiot Days by Maria AlyokhinaSpeak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov The Life Written by Himself by Avvakum Petrov My Childhood by Maxim Gorky Teffi: A Life of Letters and Laughter by Edythe Haber Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam, tr. Max Hayward The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy by Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait. A Russian diary: a journalist's final account of life, corruption, and death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya Notes on Russian Literature by F.M. DostoevskyThe Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece by Kevin Birmingham The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin BirminghamLess than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky Tolstoy Together by Yiyun Li The Border by Erika Fatland Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder The Last Empire: Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii PlokhyThe Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii PlokhyChernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii PlokhyNuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii PlokhyMan with the Poison Gun: a Cold War Spy Story by Serhii PlokhyBabi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov, tr. David Floyd Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster by Kate Brown Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate BrownA Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate BrownOctober: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev Across the Ussuri Kray by Vladimir Arsenyev, translated by Slaght An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army by Vasily GrossmanThe Road by Vasily GrossmanStalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and Depraved of Chernobyl by Markiyan Kamysh Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia by David Greene Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine & beyond by Olia HerculesRed Sands by Caroline EdenBlack Sea by Caroline Eden Tasting Georgia by Carla Capalbo Other mentions:PEN list of writers against PutinNew Yorker article about Gessen siblings Thanksgivukkah 2013 League of Kitchens - Uzbek lessonLeague of Kitchens - Russian lessonMasha Gessen on Ezra Klein podcast, March 2022Related episodes:Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella) Episode 084 - A Worthy Tangent with Bryan Alexander Episode 138 - Shared Landscape with Lauren Weinhold Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022Episode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date Stalk us online:Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia)Lauren at GoodreadsLauren is @end.notes on InstagramJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.
LIT - Prague Books Guests: David Humphreys & Melissa Joulwan, Strong Sense of Place podcast Prague inspires people, and some of those people write books set there. We take a look at some books about the City of 100 Spires as well as some Prague lore with David Humphreys & Melissa Joulwan, who run the Strong Sense of Place podcast. See a video version on our YouTube channel. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our Buy Me a Coffee page! SECTIONS 01:25 - Prague: the First Episode of SSoP 02:39 - The Prague-Korea connection, living in a simulation, lighting Prague Castle 07:25 - Why they choose the books, Prague Noir 09:12 - The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain 11:45 - Prague Spring (and more Mawer) 13:43 - Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia, Slavic narrative styles 18:27 - HHhH 20:16 - More books about Prague all the time 23:26 - Book shopping is fun 24:32 - Books that Smudge the cat likes, This Is the World: A Global Treasury, cartooning around 26:29 - We live in the future Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info: Strong Sense of Place podcast FOLKS - Strong Sense of Place episode SSoP Podcast Episode 01 — Prague: Castles and Cobblestones LIT - Čas proměn' (Time of Changes) w/Mark Baker episode Buy Čas proměn online from Albatros Media Mark Baker's blog Mark Baker travel guides on Amazon The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Prague Noir, edited by Pavel Mandys, Miriam Margala (translator) The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sís Prague Spring by Simon Mawer The Glass Room by Simon Mawer Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer Gottland: Mostly True Stories from Half of Czechoslovakia by Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) The Way You Wear Your Hat by Bill Zehme HHhH - Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor (translator) The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor (translator) "The Man with the Iron Heart" "Anthropoid" The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips Prague in Black and Gold: The History of a City by Peter Demetz Maps Special Edition by Aleksandra Mizielinska & Daniel Mizielinski This Is the World: A Global Treasury by Miroslav Šašek For events in Prague, go to the Facebook page The Prague Haps Follow us on social for extras: Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of the 2021 Silver Davey Award and AVA Gold Award, the 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence and on numerous top 10 podcast lists. CONSPIRACY CLEARINGHOUSE - A rather skeptical look at conspiracies and mysteries. Each episode will examine conspiracy theories, most of which are not true, a few of which might be a little bit true and even a couple that turned out, in fact, to be true. This is the podcast that dares to look behind the curtain that's behind the curtain.
Jenny and Nadine reconvene to talk about reasons not to set reading goals, look back on the year, and discuss which books we've read and enjoyed lately. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 234: Punctuation Marks Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:Mr. Eternity by Aaron Their Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejner; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones History in Pieces (short story) by Beth GoderEm by Kim Thuy Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan, translated by Lisa C. HaydenOther mentions: Cloud Atlasby David MitchellThe Actual Starby Monica ByrneSvetlana Alexievichbethgoder.comThe Punctuation Factory by Beth Goder (short story. behind paywalll)How to Say I Love You w/ Wikipediaby Beth Goder (short story)Ru by Kim ThuyThe Space between Worlds by Micaiah JohnsonUnfollow Me: Essays on Complicity by Jill Louise BusbyThe Book of Magic by Alice HoffmanRelated episodes: Episode 008 - Gone Rogue with guests Steve Richardson, Libby Young, and Mike WiniskiEpisode 038 - Monica Byrne Wants to Make People (Want to) Scream with guest Monica ByrneEpisode 129 - Coming Back to Books with NadineEpisode 152 - Kill 'em and Leave with NadineEpisode 195 - Muchness with NadineEpisode 229 - Second Contact with Tom Episode 232 - Barkskins ReadalongStalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Nadine at GoodreadsAll links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Lost in the Never Woods, Ladies of the Secret Circus, Mixed Plate, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo by Jo Koy When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Please Come Off-Book (Button Poetry) by Kevin Kantor Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn by Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham Something’s Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear by Jory John and Erin Kraan Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab WHAT WE’RE READING: Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere by Tsedal Neeley Matrix by Lauren Groff Chouette by Claire Oshetsky MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: The Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye Scarlet Odyssey by C. T. Rwizi Delicates (Sheets) by Brenna Thummler The Two-Faced Queen by Nick Martell How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope by James Crews Night Rooms: Essays by Gina Nutt Wild Sweetness: Recipes Inspired by Nature by Thalia Ho Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector Floodpath by Emily B. Martin Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge Spark and the Grand Sleuth: A Novel (League of Ursus) by Robert Repino The Fall of Koli (The Rampart Trilogy Book 3) by M. R. Carey Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger The Vines by Shelley Nolden On Time and Water by Andri Snær Magnason, Lytton Smith (Translator) Francis Bacon: Revelations by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan Girls with Rebel Souls by Suzanne Young Danger in Numbers by Heather Graham Call It Horses by Jessie van Eerden You’ll Thank Me for This: A Novel by Nina Siegal Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi Every Vow You Break: A Novel by Peter Swanson The Consequences of Fear: A Novel by Jacqueline Winspear Kids on the March: 15 Stories of Speaking Out, Protesting, and Fighting for Justice by Michael Long The Other Emily by Dean Koontz Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World by Kimberly Nicholas PhD Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan Why Labelle Matters by Adele Bertei Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir by Daniel Barban Levin Creative Types: and Other Stories by Tom Bissell The Art of Losing: A Novel by Alice Zeniter, Frank Wynne (translator) Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro, Alfred MacAdam (translator) Mister Toebones: Poems by Brooks Haxton Flamefall by Rosaria Munda Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur The Nation of Plants by Stefano Mancuso, Gregory Conti (translator) The Theft of Sunlight (Dauntless Path #2) by Intisar Khanani The Secret Recipe for Moving On by Karen Bischer The Unbroken by C. L. Clark Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by Alberto Angela, Katherine Gregor (translator) Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans–and How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown Farthest South & Other Stories by Ethan Rutherford Raft of Stars: A Novel by Andrew J. Graff Meet Me in Paradise by Libby Hubscher Bruised by Tanya Boteju My Friend Natalia: A Novel by Laura Lindstedt, David Hackston (translator) Karolina and the Torn Curtain by Maryla Szymiczkowa, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) A Million Reasons Why by Jessica Strawser A Question Mark Is Half a Heart by Sofia Lundberg Half Life: A Novel by Jillian Cantor Seasons of Terror by Richard Chizmar The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family by Sarah Kapit Red Widow by Alma Katsu The Willow Wren: A Novel by Philipp Schott The Follower by Kate Doughty Your Heart, My Sky: Love in a Time of Hunger by Margarita Engle Across the Pond by Joy McCullough Eternal by Lisa Scottoline Missing Witches: Recovering True Histories of Feminist Magic by Risa Dickens, Amy Torok The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle by Rob Kenner Red Island House by Andrea Lee The Foreign Girls by Sergio Olguín, Miranda France (translator) A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson Renegade Flight by Andrea Tang White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing (Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction) by Jennifer De Leon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Jenny invited past guests and members of the Reading Envy Readers group in Goodreads to contribute their best reads of 2020. In true Reading Envy fashion, books were not necessarily published in 2020. We always like to hear if you read a book because you heard about it on the podcast! Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 209: Best Reads of 2020Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify New! Listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: Jenny's full list of 5-star reads for 2020Sovietistan by Erika FatlandThe Empire of Gold by S. A. Chakraborty The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Deacon King Kong by James McBrideDrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tolkarzcuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-JonesOne Hundred Twenty One Days by Michèle Audin, translated by Christiana Hills The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili, translated by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica translated by Sarah Moses Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Milkman by Anna BurnsThe Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahWar & Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Glass Hotel by Emily St John MandelA Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. FletcherNot Without Laughter by Langston Hughes Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi The Dutch House by Ann PatchettGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Fiebre Tropical by Juliana Delgado Lopera The Last Best League by Jim CollinsThe Mercury 13 by Martha Ackman Lauren The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart, translated from the French by Barbara BrayHow to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel ImmerwahrAftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm ed. by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBronLetters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Maria Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from German and Russian by Margaret Wettlin and Jamey GambrellOther mentions:Discussion of The Only Good Indians on the Shelf Wear PodcastDiscussion of Drive Your Plow... on the Book Cougars PodcastDiscussion of Drive Your Plow... on the Book Cougars Goodreads group Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy If you want to hear more from one of the guests who appeared on this episode, go to the episode guide and do a search. All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate.
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Barely Functional Adult, Ruinsong, Escape Pod, and more great books. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; Sips By; and Spellbreaker by Charlie N. Holmberg. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually by Meichi Ng What Cats Want: An illustrated guide for truly understanding your cat by Dr. Yuki Hattori Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology edited by Mur Lafferty & S.B. Divya Ruinsong by Julia Ember Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth by Kate Greene Seance Tea Party by Reimena Yee Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon, creator of Your Fat Friend WHAT WE’RE READING: Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: There’s Only One Danny Garvey by David F. Ross Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant All Lara’s Wars by Wojciech Jagielski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) I Remember Everything: Life Lessons from Dawson’s Creek by Erin Hensley, Julia Callahan, Jillian Barthold War Lord: A Novel (Saxon Tales) by Bernard Cornwell Water, Wasted by Alex Branson In Search of a Name: A Novel by Marjolijn van Heemstra The Diplomat’s Wife: A Novel by Pam Jenoff Dark Tides: A Novel by Philippa Gregory Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner’s Guide to Life in the Space Age by Kellie Gerardi Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition by Paul Celan, Pierre Joris (translator) Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black Carving Out a Humanity : Race, Rights, and Redemption by Janet Dewart Bell, Vincent Southerland Tomorrow Will Be Better: A Novel by Betty Smith Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories by Joe R. Lansdale Comes a Pale Rider by Caitlín R. Kiernan Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity (Sport and Society) by Cat M. Ariail See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss The Once and Future Witches, The Midnight Bargain, Ring Shout, and more great books. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s mystery thriller podcast, Read or Dead; Ritual; and Sourcebooks. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow In the Study with the Wrench: A Clue Mystery, Book Two by Diana Peterfreund Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter WHAT WE’RE READING: Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman The Redshirt by Corey Sobel The Bright Lands by John Fram MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Midnight’s Borders by Suchitra Vijayan Junk Boy by Tony Abbott They Never Learn by Layne Fargo Regal Lemon Tree by Juan José Saer, Sergio Waisman (translator) How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America (Voice of Witness) by Sara Sinclair The Gifted, the Talented, and Me by William Sutcliffe The Magnetic Fields by Andre Breton, Philippe Soupault, Charlotte Mandell (translator) How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back by Jeff Tweedy Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong Finding Your Harmony: Dream Big, Have Faith, and Achieve More Than You Can Imagine by Ally Brooke Wishes and Wellingtons by Julie Berry Lived Experience: Reflections on LGBTQ Life by Delphine Diallo The Sisters of Straygarden Place by Hayley Chewins Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky) by Rebecca Roanhorse How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices by Annie Duke American Utopia by David Byrne and Maira Kalman A Time for Mercy by John Grisham Christmas with Kim-Joy: A Festive Collection of Edible Cuteness by Kim-Joy The Blind Light: A Novel by Stuart Evers Chance: A Memoir by Uri Shulevitz A Stitch in Time by Kelley Armstrong The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book: An Interactive Guide to Life-Changing Books by Logan Smalley and Stephanie Kent People You Follow: A Memoir by Hayley Gene Penner The Lost Love Song: A Novel by Minnie Darke Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall Big Wednesday (Deluxe Anniversary Edition) by Denny Aaberg, John Milius Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds and Danica Novgorodoff This is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam The Heartbeat of Iran: Real Voices Of A Country and Its People by Tara Kangarlou Friends and Enemies: A Life in Vogue, Prison, & Park Avenue by Barbara Amiel Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron The Redshirt: A Novel by Corey Sobel A Lover’s Discourse by Xiaolu Guo Too Many Times: How To End Gun Violence in a Divided America edited by Melville House Invisible Girl: A Novel by Lisa Jewell Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow Simmer Down by Sarah Smith She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh Shelter in Place by David Leavitt All Lara’s Wars by Wojciech Jagielski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) The Last Interview: A Novel by Eshkol Nevo, Sondra Silverston (translator) You Know I’m No Good by Jessie Ann Foley What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic) by Adrian Daub Absolution: A Novel by Regina Buttner Negotiations by Destiny O. Birdsong The Historians: Poems by Eavan Boland Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America by Mark A. Bradley Goodnight Beautiful: A Novel by Aimee Molloy Midnight Train to Prague: A Novel by Carol Windley Mellybean and the Giant Monster by Mike White The Long Shadow by Anne Buist The Land by Thomas Maltman The Lost Shtetl: A Novel by Max Gross Wave If You Can See Me by Susan Ludvigson Cat Ninja by Matthew Cody, Yehudi Mercado The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J. Moore Cinders and Sparrows by Stefan Bachmann Lightbringer (The Empirium Trilogy) by Claire Legrand The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice by Lisa DeSelm Winter, White and Wicked by Shannon Dittemore Wishes and Wellingtons by Julie Berry The Tindalos Asset by Caitlín R. Kiernan Dracula, Motherf**ker by Alex de Campi, Erica Henderson Coconut & Sambal: Recipes from my Indonesian Kitchen by Lara Lee Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell Beyond the Ruby Veil by Mara Fitzgerald The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen We Saw Scenery: The Early Diaries of Merrill Markoe by Merrill Markoe All About Us by Tom Ellen The Emperor’s Wolves (The Wolves of Elantra Book 1) by Michelle Sagara Come On In: 15 Stories about Immigration and Finding Home by Adi Alsaid The Truth Project by Dante Medema Jeeves and the Leap of Faith: A Novel in Homage to P. G. Wodehouse by Ben Schott Above All Else by Dana Alison Levy The National Road: Dispatches From a Changing America by Tom Zoellner Meteorite: How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World by Tim Gregory Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 by Martin J. Sherwin Maids by Katie Skelly Concrete Kids (Pocket Change Collective) by Amyra León Ramifications by Daniel Saldaña París, Christina MacSweeney (translato Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance by Ntozake Shange Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee Ghosts by Dolly Alderton Revolutions of All Colors: A Novel by Dewaine Farria See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award Shortlist podcast, presented as part of International Literature Festival Dublin. In this special podcast series, Caelainn Hogan and Jessica Traynor explore each novel in detail as they chat exclusively to the authors and translators shortlisted for the award, the winner of which will be announced on the 22nd of October. For the first time, the winner announcement will take place as part of International Literature Festival Dublin, which like the award, is sponsored by Dublin City Council. You can book your free ticket to attend the online awards ceremony at www.ilfdublin.com. In this episode, Caelainn and Jessica discuss 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones', published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, and speak to the book's author, Olga Tokarczuk, and translator, Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
Never mind the poetry, here’s the white bits. Frank has a wild night out with the Polish poet, Tadeusz Dabrowski. Poems Referenced: I Believe All Round the Clock - Tadeusz Dabrowski (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) Soiree - Tadeusz Dabrowski (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) Bunny Slope - Tadeusz Dabrowski (translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Dlaczego trudno przetłumaczyć książki Masłowskiej? Czy Polaków da się zrozumieć? O pierwszej styczności z językiem polskim, obyczajowości i seksie opowiedziała tłumaczka Antonia Lloyd-Jones. I najważniejsze: jak to jest tłumaczyć dzieła noblistki? Na rozmowę zapraszają Agnieszka Szydłowska i Dorota Masłowska.
If you’re a despot, there are two people you can’t lie to, your doctor and your chef. This is one of the nuggets explained to me by Witold Szabłowski, author of How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks (Penguin, 2020), translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. The author, a tireless journalist, used his skills at getting people to talk and his knowledge of cooking to convince those who served some of the 20th century's most infamous tyrants to open up about the men who employed them, what they ate, and what food can tell you about power. An enlightening, terrifying and deliciously informative read. Since I co-authored a book about Donald Trump, we had some things to discuss about cheeseburgers and fries as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If you're a despot, there are two people you can't lie to, your doctor and your chef. This is one of the nuggets explained to me by Witold Szabłowski, author of How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks (Penguin, 2020), translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. The author, a tireless journalist, used his skills at getting people to talk and his knowledge of cooking to convince those who served some of the 20th century's most infamous tyrants to open up about the men who employed them, what they ate, and what food can tell you about power. An enlightening, terrifying and deliciously informative read. Since I co-authored a book about Donald Trump, we had some things to discuss about cheeseburgers and fries as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics
If you’re a despot, there are two people you can’t lie to, your doctor and your chef. This is one of the nuggets explained to me by Witold Szabłowski, author of How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks (Penguin, 2020), translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. The author, a tireless journalist, used his skills at getting people to talk and his knowledge of cooking to convince those who served some of the 20th century's most infamous tyrants to open up about the men who employed them, what they ate, and what food can tell you about power. An enlightening, terrifying and deliciously informative read. Since I co-authored a book about Donald Trump, we had some things to discuss about cheeseburgers and fries as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If you’re a despot, there are two people you can’t lie to, your doctor and your chef. This is one of the nuggets explained to me by Witold Szabłowski, author of How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks (Penguin, 2020), translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. The author, a tireless journalist, used his skills at getting people to talk and his knowledge of cooking to convince those who served some of the 20th century's most infamous tyrants to open up about the men who employed them, what they ate, and what food can tell you about power. An enlightening, terrifying and deliciously informative read. Since I co-authored a book about Donald Trump, we had some things to discuss about cheeseburgers and fries as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It was written in the stars that someday we'd join forces with the Reading Glasses gals and create the nerdiest book event ever. Here it is. An hour of live book recommendations done over Zoom. If you missed out and would like us to do this again, reach out to us via twitter or email and let us know! Book requests and our recommendations" “I just finished the first book in The Witcher series and I’d love more fantasy short story recommendations.” Jill - Rogues (Anthology) https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780345537263 Dangerous Women https://www.overdrive.com/media/2052864/dangerous-women https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780765332073 Adam - Toil and Trouble (Anthology) https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781335016270 “Looking for a read-a-like for Little Women and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.” Mallory - Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780316204262 https://www.overdrive.com/media/650438/whered-you-go-bernadette When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781534432871 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4815623/when-we-were-magic The Girl Who Slept With God by Val Brelinki https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780143109433 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2015858/the-girl-who-slept-with-god “Looking for recommendations for books about small towns with quirky characters, with a sense of a small community where the characters get all up in each other’s business” Adam - Cedar Valley by Holly Throsby https://www.overdrive.com/media/4297634/cedar-valley Nathan Coulter by Wendell Berry https://www.overdrive.com/media/228070/nathan-coulter https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781582434094 Mallory - The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781492623441 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2139814/the-readers-of-broken-wheel-recommend “Looking for a read-a-like for Bunny by Mona Awad, something weird and creepy but with no violence and or horror.” Mallory - The Return by Rachel Harrison https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780593098660 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4838379/the-return Sarah Waters https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781594633928 https://www.overdrive.com/media/1742956/the-paying-guests Sarah Perry https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062856401 https://www.overdrive.com/media/5130366/melmoth Dare Me by Megan Abbott https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780316430173 https://www.overdrive.com/media/1089210/dare-me Adam - Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781101974445 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3108736/meddling-kids Jill - The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781683691433 https://www.overdrive.com/media/5038989/the-southern-book-clubs-guide-to-slaying-vampires “Looking for queer sci-fi.” Adam - The Disasters by M.K. England https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062657688 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3900835/the-disasters Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780316449274 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4659499/once-future Mallory - The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781481447942 https://www.overdrive.com/media/5038996/the-stars-are-legion “Looking for a book recommendation to get me out of a slump. I love sci fi and fantasy and need something that will really get its claws in me and get me excited and invested right away.” Adam - The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781524739010 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4775066/the-kingdom-of-back Brea - The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780765392107 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4500036/the-future-of-another-timeline Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781101886717 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2466122/sleeping-giants The Test by Sylvain Neuvel https://www.overdrive.com/media/4297407/the-test “Can you recommend any novellas? Big books are intimidating and hard to focus on.” Mallory - The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781250294807 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4288450/the-haunting-of-tram-car-015 Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780143198055 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3970894/split-tooth Phantom Twin by Lisa Brown https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781626729247 https://www.overdrive.com/media/5243308/the-phantom-twin Brea - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780525541332 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4159273/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead “Looking for recommendations along the lines of Ghost Maps, nonfiction about diseases.” Brea - The Great Influenza by John M. Barry https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780143036494 https://www.overdrive.com/media/204479/the-great-influenza New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People by Robert S. Desowitz https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780393304268 “Looking for a good stand alone middle grade novel.” Adam - Sunnyside Plaza by Scott Simon https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780316531207 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4669399/sunnyside-plaza Doll Bones by Holly Black https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781416963998 https://www.overdrive.com/media/1139037/doll-bones Mallory - Small Spaces by Katherine Arden https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780525515043 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3656348/small-spaces “I really love a teenage girl/young adult detective story. Any recommendations in that realm? Mallory - Goldie Vance https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781608868988 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3007148/goldie-vance-volume-1 Jill - The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780385343497 https://www.overdrive.com/media/199312/the-sweetness-at-the-bottom-of-the-pie Adam & Brea - A Study in Charllote by Brittany Cavallaro https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062398918 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2236808/a-study-in-charlotte “Looking for a read-a-like for Seanin McGuire/Mira Grant, historical or modern fantasy, maybe combined with a fairytale.” Mallory - The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781250147936 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4559254/the-hazel-wood Adam - Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781594634666 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4394966/gingerbread Brea - A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781250211668 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3750319/a-blade-so-black The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781481466516 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2988715/the-strange-case-of-the-alchemists-daughter “Looking for diverse mystery recommendations.” Jill - The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781492670124 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3877587/the-seven-deaths-of-evelyn-hardcastle Ruth Ware https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781501132957 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2526344/the-woman-in-cabin-10 Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062645234 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2962692/magpie-murders Mallory - Sarah Waters https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781573228732 https://www.overdrive.com/media/242291/affinity “I’ve been into nonfiction comics lately … looking for more.” Adam - The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781419718786 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3135209/the-best-we-could-do Brea - My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris “Looking for a read-a-like for the Wayward Children series, reverse portal fantasy.” Mallory - Ten Thousands Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780316421997 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4513546/the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january Brea - The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780385541213 https://www.overdrive.com/media/4716002/the-starless-sea “Looking for nihilistic YA… desperately want more reads with nihilistic young adults as they go through a crisis of self and get closer to university. ” Mallory - A.S. King Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future https://www.overdrive.com/media/1547918/glory-obriens-history-of-the-future Dig https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781101994917 Adam - The Rest of Us Just Live by Patrick Ness https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062403179 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2052828/the-rest-of-us-just-live-here “Read-a-like for an adult version of Yoon Ha Lee’s books, looking for a Star Trek vibe.” Brea - Space Opera by Catherynne Valente https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781481497503 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3442025/space-opera Dark Orbit by Carolyn Ives Gilman https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780765336309 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2875604/dark-orbit Jill - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780062444134 https://www.overdrive.com/media/2245998/the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet “Looking for lush historical horror a la Alma Katsu.” Mallory - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9781594484469 https://www.overdrive.com/media/552325/the-little-stranger The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell https://bookshop.org/a/4926/9780143131632 https://www.overdrive.com/media/3309311/the-silent-companions
This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss The House in the Cerulean Sea, Dragon Hoops, The Mountains Sing, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations; Flatiron Books, publisher of The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner; and Book of the Month. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkowa, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator) Beheld by TaraShea Nesbit Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim Umma’s Table by Yeon-sik Hong, Janet Hong (translator) The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai WHAT WE’RE READING: Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park by Andy Mulvihill and Jake Rossen MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: The Red Lotus: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian Why Writing Matters by Nicholas Delbanco My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora by Katherine Whitney (Editor), Leila Emery (Editor) A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems by Lawrence Joseph Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel All My Friends Are Ghosts by S.M. Vidaurri, Hannah Krieger Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin Future Minds: The Rise of Intelligence, from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe by Richard Yonck Goldie Vance: The Hotel Whodunit by Lilliam Rivera, Elle Power ApocalyptiGirl: An Aria for the End Times by Andrew MacLean Are Snakes Necessary? by Brian De Palma and Susan Lehman The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir by Sarah Ramey Ride the Devil’s Herd: Wyatt Earp’s Epic Battle Against the West’s Biggest Outlaw Gang by John Boessenecker Don’t You Know I Love You by Laura Bogart The Woman in the Mirror: A Novel by Rebecca James How to Be an Artist by Jerry Saltz When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations by Nick Flynn break your glass slippers (you are your own fairy tale) by Amanda Lovelace Sparrow by Mary Cecilia Jackson Cowboy by Rikke Villadsen Dressed: A Philosophy of Clothes by Shahidha Bari All the Pretty Things by Emily Arsenault The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben The Breach by M.T. Hill Suncatcher: A Novel by Romesh Gunesekera Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone by Madison Smartt Bell Sutherland Springs: God, Guns, and Hope in a Texas Town by Joe Holley Later: My Life at the Edge of the World by Paul Lisicky The Shape of Family: A Novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modernist Masterpiece by Alex Beam Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A true (as told to me) story by Bess Kalb Crush the King (A Crown of Shards Novel Book 3) by Jennifer Estep Pride of Eden by Taylor Brown All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban 88 Names: A Novel by Matt Ruff Frozen Beauty by Lexa Hillyer That Hair by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Eric M B Becker (translator) My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing by Harry Dodge Last Couple Standing: A Novel by Matthew Norman The Electric Heir (Feverwake) by Victoria Lee Hearts of Oak by Eddie Robson Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener by Kimberly A. Hamlin Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel The Eighth Girl: A Novel by Maxine Mei-Fung Chung Whiteout Conditions by Tariq Shah Little Wonders: A Novel by Kate Rorick After Me Comes the Flood: A Novel by Sarah Perry Girls with Razor Hearts by Suzanne Young A Radically Practical Guide to Conscious Eating: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet by Sophie Egan Super Adjacent by Crystal Cestari How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books by Jolenta Greenberg, Kristen Meinzer The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way by David Lindley Charles Darwin’s Barnacle and David Bowie’s Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels by Stephen B. Heard, illus. by Emily S. Damstra Let the People Pick the President The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman A Conspiracy of Bones by Kathy Reichs Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich The Runaways by Fatima Bhutto Take it Back by Kia Abdullah Compact Disc (Object Lessons) by Robert Barry Bird (Object Lessons) by Erik Anderson Ocean (Object Lessons) by Steve Mentz Cell Tower (Object Lessons) by Steven E. Jones
Anna and Annie discuss the 2020 Stella Prize shortlist and the Walter Scott Prize longlist. Our book of the week is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International Prize in 2018 for Flights and the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. This novel has been described as "thriller, comedy and political treatise" (Economist), and "a barbed, shrewd, parodic eco-noir" (Times Literary Supplement). Coming up: You Will Be Safe Here by Damien Barr. Follow us! Email: Booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Facebook: Books On The Go Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras
Happy International Women's Day! Anna and Annie discuss the 2020 Women's Prize Longlist. Our book of the week is Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. Joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood and now long-listed for the Women's Prize, this novel about 12 British women has had rave reviews. What did Anna and Annie think? Coming up: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, and Weather by Jenny Offill. Follow us! Facebook: Books On The Go Email: booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Twitter: @abailliekaras and @mister_annie Litsy: @abailliekaras Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz
My first interview with a translator of children’s books (from Polish to English). I chat with Antonia Lloyd-Jones about translating ‘Oscar Seeks a Friend’ by Pawel Pawlak and the role she plays in promoting literature from other countries to U.K. publishers. Fascinating!
Przedstawiamy nagranie dyskusji panelowej Uwaga na tłumacza z udziałem Leszka Engelkinga, Magdy Heydel, Antonii Lloyd Jones, Julii Różewicz i Tomasza Swobody. Dyskusja odbyła się 5 czerwca 2019 roku w Centrum Kultury Zamek w Poznaniu i była częścią konferencji naukowej "Czynnik ludzki w przekładzie literackim - teorie, historie, praktyki" (5-7 czerwca 2019) zorganizowanej na Uniwersytecie Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu przez Humanistyczne Konsorcjum Naukowe, łączące Wydział Filologii Polskiej i Klasycznej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza oraz Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Rozmowę prowadzili Borys Szumański i Weronika Szwebs. Poruszono szereg tematów, m.in: Tomasz Swoboda o niedoskonałościach, błędach i niezrozumieniu oryginału w pracy tłumacza Leszek Engelking o językowej alienacji tłumacza, który z natury działa na pograniczu języków Magda Heydel dopowiada o niezrozumieniu oryginału oraz tłumaczeniu jako procesie poznawczym i interpretacyjnym Julia Różewicz o swojej perspektywie jako wydawczyni i tym, jak wpłynęła ona na jej pracę tłumaczki, a także o sytuacji na polskim rynku książki i poprawianiu oryginałów Antonia Lloyd Jones o realiach promowania polskiej literatury w świecie anglojęzycznym i Magda Heydel o widoczności tłumaczy A także wiele innych zagadnień, m.in. kwestię retranslacji (tłumaczenia na nowo książek mających już przekłady), presję rynku na jakość tłumaczeń, budowanie środowiska tłumaczy, poprawianie autorów nieżyjących itp. Autor fotografii: M.Kaczyński © CK ZAMEK Uwaga: W spotkaniu na żywo do wypowiedzi Julii Różewicz na temat liczby publikowanych w Polsce książek wkradł się błąd arytmetyczny. Tutaj, w wersji podcastowej, błąd został usunięty i dane podane w odcinku są miarodajne.
“The Riveting Interviews” with Rosie Goldsmith Rosie Goldsmith interviews Polish translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones Produced by London Video Stories
As part of Nonfiction in Translation Month at Three Percent, Polish translators Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Sean Bye came on the podcast to explain Polish Reportage, talk about some key figures and forthcoming books, and more or less introduce Open Letter's new nonfiction line. Some of the titles mentioned on this podcast include: Dancing Bears by Witold Szablowski (trans. by Antonia) Foucault in Warsaw by Remigiusz Ryziński (trans. by Sean) Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland by Ryszard Kapuscinski (trans. by ?? not on Penguin's site or Amazon) Chasing the King of Hearts by Hannah Krall (trans. by Philip Boehm) Roosters Crow, Dogs Whine by Wojciech Tochman (Antonia is working on a sample) History of a Disappearance by Filip Springer (trans. by Sean) You can find Antonia here, and Sean on the Cedilla & Co. website. The intro/outro music on this episode is from "On the Luna" by Foals. You can also follow Open Letter and Chad on Twitter and Instagram (OL, Chad) for book and baseball talk. If you don’t already subscribe to the Three Percent Podcast you can find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and other places. Or you can always subscribe by adding our feed directly into your favorite podcast app: http://threepercent.libsyn.com/rss
Join Lauren Weinhold (end.notes) and I as we discuss our favourite translations we read in 2018 Mentioned in this episode; Sphinx by Anne Garréta (translated by Emma Ramadan)Georges PerecA Void by Georges Perec (translated by Gilbert Adair)The Restless by Gerty Dambury (translated by Judith G. Miller)And the Birds Rained Down by Jocelyne Saucier (translated by Rhonda Mullins)Reading Envy (latest episode with Lauren talking about Science September)Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (translated by Tina Kover)The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet (translated by Sam Taylor)HHhH by Laurent Binet (translated by Sam Taylor)Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wisława Szymborska (translated by Clare Cavanagh)Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft)Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny by Witold Szabłowski (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) *Note, the author mentioned on Lauren’s Instragram post about this book that the term ‘gypsy’ was use as this was how the people described themselves.The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich (translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky)Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)Episode on Faces in the CrowdSidewalks by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)Tell me How it Ends by Valeria LuiselliAdrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz (translated by Frances Liardet)The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt (translated by Nick Caistor)Roberto BolañoThe Translation DatabaseGabriel García Márquez 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer) The Literary Discord Find Lauren Weinhold onlineInstagram: end.notesGoodreads: LaurenW Support the show via Patreon Social Media links Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.comTwitter: @translationspodInstagram: translationspodLitsy: @translationspodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/ Produced by Mccauliflower.
What's it like to be banned from your own country or to have your writing spark a row? Rana Mitter's guests talk identity, borders, forest landscapes and the long impact of the Ottoman empire. The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama is associated with the phrase "the end of history". His latest book Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment looks at what he sees as the threats to Liberalism. Alev Scott has travelled through 12 countries, talking to figures including warlords and refugees for her book Ottoman Odyssey: Travels Through a Lost Empire but she can't return to her birthplace. She's joined by New Generation Thinker Michael Talbot who teaches at the University of Greenwich and whose research has uncovered the drunken antics of soldiers in post World War I Istanbul. He's a contributor to http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/ and he reviews Like a Sword Wound by Ahmet Altan -published now in an English translation by Yelda Türedi and Brendan Freely. It's the first book in the Ottoman Quartet, a narrative that spans the history of Turkey during the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The writer is now in prison for life. The Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her novel Flights. Her latest novel to be translated into English by Antonia Lloyd Jones is called Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead and became the film Spoor directed by directed by Agnieszka Holland. Her writing has been called anti-Catholic. You can find more discussions about borders, home and belonging in this playlist of programmes https://bbc.in/2QALzkL
In our second episode of the series we head to the Edinburgh International Book Festival where we hear from the 2018 Man Booker International winner Jennifer Croft and fellow translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Joe then catches up with debut novelist and Man Booker 2018 longlisted Sophie Mackintosh about her appearance at the Festival and her dystopian book The Water Cure, before interviewing Man Booker 2018 prize longlistee, Pulitzer Prize and four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Richard Powers.
Join the Trinity Centre for Literary Translation and Literature Ireland for a unique 'translation duel' –– literary translators Antonia Lloyd-Jones and Cathal McCabe will be given a short prose poem by Paweł Huelle to work on in advance of the duel. The original text and their translations will be supplied to all members of the audience. At the slam, Aneta Stępień will chair a conversation about their translation choices, and audience members will be invited to share their own translations suggestions. PROBE is part of European Researchers' Night, taking place in cities across the continent on 29th September. PROBE is free and is open to everyone of all ages. Stayed tuned to see the full programme of events for 2017 soon, and keep in touch with us on our webpage, Facebook page, on Twitter, or by following #TCDProbe.
Today, two perspectives on loss and memory.“I close my eyes and I can hear the bells…ringing; each one rings differently. I can hear the splash of the fountains on the Marketplace, and the soughing of the fragrant trees, which the spring rain has washed clean of dust. It is coming up to ten o’clock and the place is so quiet that I can recognize the people going past by their footsteps as they hurry home for dinner. I recognize the footsteps of people who ceased to walk this earth long ago. There’s no one but shades clacking their heels on the well-worn pavement slabs.”So writes the Polish author Jozef Wittlin, conjuring up his native city of Lviv in his essay My Lwow, which he wrote in exile in New York in 1946.The essay has been recently translated into a whimsically lyrical English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and published in a haunting new book entitled City of Lions.Wittlin was fortunate to escape. He was in Paris at the outbreak of World War II. After the collapse of France he managed to escape via Portugal to the United States and continued writing. He passed away in 1976.Wittlin was baptized and considered a Christian writer. But he always spoke openly of his connection to the Jewish world. Before the Second World War, he published reviews of Polish Jewish poetry and foreign literature on Jewish subjects. Critics consider that the Holocaust inspired some of his best poems.Wittlin’s wry and often joyful reminiscences of his city were those of an early twentieth century Lviv still glittering with an imperial Austrian splendor. It was a city he called “Diversified, variegated, as dazzling as an oriental carpet.” And it was a city that ceased to exist by 1945.City of Lions includes the matching essay My Lviv by Philippe Sands, an international legal expert and professor of law at University College London. Sands’s essay echoes the Wittlin text by providing a parallel meditation on a very different Lviv as it is today.What brought Sands to Lviv? He writes, “I returned because of the darkness, not in spite of it… it felt like home, a place of origin, where family began.” Sands’s grandfather Leon was born in the city in 1904 but never spoke of it to his family. Sands came to see the wounds behind the silence.Sands observes “Lviv is an assault on the senses and the imagination. Much has been hidden, but nothing is lost, not completely, especially if you are willing to do your homework and search carefully.”And search he did, discovering also that two giants in international law, both considered creators of the modern human rights movement, studied law at Lviv University. Rafael Lemkin is famous as the man who invented the word “genocide.” Hersch Lauterpacht created the concept of “crimes against humanity.”The writer Eva Hoffman, in her preface to City of Lions, notes that both essays “are pervaded by a sense of the city’s almost magnetic fascination—and of great loss.”Wittlin concludes his elegiac paean to Lviv with a phantasmagorical scene. Historic characters from the city’s colorful past join forces in a surreally celebratory huge crowd that streams endlessly around the city center.Sands, in his ending, mirrors Wittlin’s procession through the ghosts of Lviv. Sands however is more measured and skeptical, calling out the failure of those in today’s Lviv to fully acknowledge all its history. Nonetheless Sands admits the ineffable spirit of the city ultimately seduces him. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Looking specifically at Modern Greek, Polish, Dutch, and Swedish, this event interrogates what it means to translate and publish marginalised and minor European languages into English. Translations from French, German and Spanish (and more recently, non-European giants such as Arabic and Chinese) dominate the contemporary literary scene. Arranged in a “conversazione” format, four translators discuss what it means to assert and champion the forgotten voices of minor and marginalised European languages. With Peter Mackridge (Oxford); Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Paul Vincent (UCL); Sarah Death Chair: Kasia Szymanska (Oxford).
It's been a few weeks since the last podcast, but Chad and Tom are back with a over-stuffed episode that starts with a recap of recent events before turning to Barnes & Noble's plans for their concept stores followed by a lengthy discussion about international crime authors. Here's a complete list of articles, authors, and books discussed in this episode: What Barnes & Noble Doesn't Get about Independent Bookstores; The 2016 Neustadt Prize (and corresponding article by Chad); The Point Reyes Indiegogo; East Bay Booksellers; Rage by Zygmunt Miłoszewski, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Giorgio Scerbanenco; Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö's Martin Beck series; Wolf Haas; Melville House International Crime Series; The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura, transalted from the Japanese by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates; Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama, translated from the Japanese by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies; The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei, translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang; The Hermit by Thomas Rydahl, translated from the Danish by K.E. Semmel; And finally, this is the addiction network commercial that Chad was going on about. This week's music is "Dis Generation" from We Got it from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, the new--and final--album by A Tribe Called Quest. Also, a reminder, since we changed our podcast feed, you may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe to the correct feed in iTunes at that link, or right here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/three-percent-podcast/id434696686 Or, you can just put this feed link into whichever is your podcast app of choice: http://threepercent.libsyn.com/rss And, as always, feel free to send any and all comments or questions to threepercentpodcast@gmail.com. Also, if you like the podcast, tell a friend and rate us or leave a review on iTunes.
Senior Editor, AmazonCrossing Interview starts at 17:02 and ends at 38:04 [Ayse Kulin] is one of many distinguished voices from diverse cultures that we've had the pleasure of publishing, and I think she's actually a really great example of what it is that we're trying to do here at AmazonCrossing News “Amazon Resumes Selling Amazon's Gadgets Four Years After Rift” by Shannon Pettypiece at Bloomberg - August 4, 2016 “Amazon to test drone delivery in partnership with UK government” by Nicky Woolf and Samuel Gibbs at The Guardian - July 25, 2016 Dromida Kodo drone Amazon Prime Air (YouTube video) - December 1, 2013 “Amazon's ‘Prime Air' Cargo Plane is Ready to Deliver Your Packages” at NBC - August 5, 2016 “See Amazon's Massive New ‘Prime Air' Cargo Jet Plane” at Time - August 5, 2016 “Amazon's latest weapon in the e-commerce wars: Its own air force” by Sarah Halzack at The Washington Post - August 5, 2016 Holy Stone RC dump truck at Amazon.com Tech Tips Kindle Unlimited audiobooks “7 Ways to Take Full Advantage of Your Kindle” by Joel Lee at MakeUseOf.com - August 4, 2016 Interview with Gabriella Page-Fort “How Amazon came to dominate fiction in translation” by Alison Flood at The Guardian - December 9, 2015 Love in Exile by Ayse Kulin, translated into English by Kenneth Dakan Other books translated from Turkish into English by Kenneth Dakan Last Train to Istanbul: A Novel by Ayse Kulin, translated into English by John W. Baker Books by Louise Erdrich Escape by Perihan Magden, translated by Kenneth Dakan Ali and Ramazan by Perihan Magden, translated by Ruth Whitehouse Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul by Ayse Kulin, translated into English by Kenneth Dakan Content Rage by Zygmunt Miloszewski, translated into English by Antonia Lloyd-Jones and available for free with a Kindle Unlimited subscription Vellum - a Mac app for formatting eBooks “Vellum Review: App offers a sleeker way to build ebooks” by Serenity Caldwell at Macworld - January 8, 2014 “Last Call for Summer Reading: 9 Books You'll Kick Yourself for Not Picking Up” by Adrian Liang at Amazon's Omnivoracious blog - July 28, 2016 Next Week's Guest Sara Nelson, Amazon's editorial director who last month moved to HarperCollins as vice president, executive editor and special advisor to the publisher. Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Plays go through many transformations on the way from a writer’s pen to the final performance, and for translated plays the journey of the text is often even more complex. Experienced theatre translator Sasha Dugdale and Chris Campbell, Literary Manager at the Royal Court, tracked the movement of a play text as it passed through the hands of a translator, writer, dramaturg, director and finally the actors, examining what a piece can gain through this process, and what gets left behind. 2015 FOUND IN TRANSLATION AWARD CEREMONY Polish Book Institute, Polish Cultural Institute London, and Polish Cultural Institute New York were delighted to present Ursula Phillips with the 2015 Found in Translation Award for her translation of Choucas by Zofia Nalkowska (2014, Northern Illinois University Press). Ursula Phillips is a translator of both literary and academic works and a writer on Polish literature. Her translations highlight the role of literature written by women. Previous recipients: Philip Boehm, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (twice), Bill Johnston, Danuta Borchardt, Clare Cavanagh, Stanislaw Baranczak and Joanna Trzeciak.
Polish poet, novelist, painter and translator Jacek Dehnel appeared at the shop in conversation with his translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones.Antonia Lloyd-Jones is a full-time translator of Polish literature and this evening was the occasion of her being presented with the Found in Translation Award for the second time (given by the Polish Book Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute London and the Polish Cultural Institute New York). Jacek talked with Antonia about how his writing reflects and interacts with literary and art historical tradition, as well as Polish culture, history and politics. This event was supported by the Polish Cultural Institute London. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this podcast, Jennifer Williams, SPL Programme Manager, talks to Polish poet, essayist, editor and critic Tadeusz Dąbrowski. They are joined by Kasia Kokowska of Interaktywny Salon Piszących w Szkocji, who came along to help with translating. He has also been the winner of numerous awards, among others, the Kościelski Prize (2009), the Hubert Burda Prize (2008) and, from Tadeusz Różewicz, the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Culture (2006). He is the author of six volumes of poetry, and edited the anthology Poza słowa. Tadeusz has been widely published and translated into 20 languages, and a collection of his poetry in English, Black Square, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, was published by Zephyr Press (http://www.polishculture.org.uk/literature/books/news/article/black-square-by-tadeusz-dabrowski-1625.html) in 2011. He lives in Gdańsk and says in this interview, “All art is something like self-recognition.”