Podcasts about aram saroyan

Weekly shoutout: Check out Lynchpins at the coalition, our ongoing David Lynch tribute series! -- Hi there, Today I am delighted to be arts calling novelist Nancy Kricorian! (https://nancykricorian.net) About our guest: Nancy Kricorian, who was born and raised in the Armenian community of Watertown, Massachusetts, is the author of four novels about post-genocide Armenian diaspora experience, including Zabelle, which was translated into seven languages, was adapted as a play, and has been continuously in print since 1998. Her new novel, The Burning Heart of the World, about Armenians in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, will be published in April 2025. Her essays and poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Guernica, Parnassus, Minnesota Review, The Mississippi Review, and other journals. She has taught at Barnard, Columbia, Yale, and New York University, as well as with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in the New York City Public Schools, and has been a mentor with We Are Not Numbers since 2015. She has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a Gold Medal from the Writers Union of Armenia, and the Anahid Literary Award, among other honors. She lives in New York. THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD, now available from Red Hen Press! Bookshop | Barnes & Noble | Amazon Nancy Kricorian's The Burning Heart of the World tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of Zabelle, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and imbued with the timelessness of a folktale, The Burning Heart of the World is a sweeping saga that takes readers on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City. > Like colorful miniatures–from a childhood of elders haunted by the Armenian genocide, to girlhood and adolescence amidst war in Beirut, to marriage and children in New York at the time of 9/11—Nancy Kricorian finds just the right scale to bring her heroine's passage to vivid, reverberating life. > — Aram Saroyan > An arrestingly beautiful novel of how families draw us together, but also push us apart. Set amidst the backdrop of displacement and war, The Burning Heart of the World illuminates how we carry history deep into even the most forgotten corners of ourselves. Once you start reading about Vera and her family you won't be able to put this book down. > — Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Author of The Evening Hero Thanks for this amazing conversation, Nancy! All the best! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro. HOW TO SUPPORT ARTS CALLING: PLEASE CONSIDER LEAVING A REVIEW, OR SHARING THIS EPISODE WITH A FRIEND! YOUR SUPPORT TRULY MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN. Much love, j artscalling.com

In the history of Pulitzer Prizes and the Oscars, very few winners have turned down these awards. One of those who did was a famous Armenian-American, a writer from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. His name was William Saroyan. He turned down the Pulitzer for the drama called "The Time of Your Life" in 1940. Saroyan said he was opposed in principle to awards in the arts and was quoted as saying "such arts awards vitiate and embarrass art at its very source." His son Aram, a well-known poet in his own right, has written a lot about his father and his relationship with him. We asked him to talk about his book "Last Rites: The Death of William Saroyan."   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Read by Aram SaroyanProduction and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

James Jordan joins The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast to discuss his novel The Speed of Life: An Illustrated Novel. What happens when a brutal crime threatens a mother’s love for her son? An old Florida family and those in their orbit get caught in a torrent of passion, a deadly legal system, and the mythology of the Everglades, which runs as deep as this story does. Propulsive, engaging, evocative, beautiful writing. Tom Holland, writer of Psycho II, writer-director of Stephen King’s Thinner, Fright Night, Child’s Play "From the courtroom to the swamp primeval to the underpinnings of the universe, James Jordan takes us on a wild ride. A hugely ambitious and thoroughly enjoyable triumph of a first novel. All I can say is "Bravo!" T.C. Boyle Author of The Tortilla Curtain. "I hugely enjoyed this remarkable novel. It blends human courage & cruelties with solid astrophysics and with Seminole culture & mythology – resulting in a richness that held me tightly in its grip." Kip S. Thorne, Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics; Executive Producer, co-story writer, and science advisor for the movie "Interstellar." "The Speed of Life is a fast-paced, character-rich, thought-provoking novel that takes the reader from the heart of Western philosophy and civilization to the heart of millennial America. A fine storyteller, James Jordan knows his characters and where all their secrets are buried, and something more—the hope still strong in their restless, striving hearts. A remarkable debut." Aram Saroyan winner of the William Carlos Williams award for best poetry collection. "The Speed of Life, by James Victor Jordan, is a ground-breaking, scientific/philosophical novel wrapped in a Carl Hiaasen-flavored thriller. Jordan relates cutting edge theoretical physics to ancient Seminole shamanic practices and produces a credible explanation of why and how old magical methods may have tangible effects in our world. At the same time, this novel is sparklingly contemporary, bright and crisp around the edges of its plot, and ingenious in braiding elaborate story lines to bring an extraordinary cast of characters together. And it fires itself forward at a break-neck velocity; this is not a book you will want to put down." Madison Smartt Bell, winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award and National Book Award finalist for All Souls Rising. “Impressive . . . Descriptions . . . are primarily images that Jordan sears onto the pages.” Kirkus Reviews Get the book: https://amzn.to/3qG71Xd Sign up for Brian's mailing list and get access to exclusive content: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php

Victor Bockris special - in conversation with David Eastaugh Written about Lou Reed (and The Velvet Underground), Andy Warhol, Keith Richards, William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Blondie, Patti Smith, and Muhammad Ali.  He attended the British boarding school Rugby and Philadelphia's Central High School. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Literature in 1971. While still in Philadelphia, he founded Telegraph Books along with Andrew Wylie and Aram Saroyan. He also published two books of his own poetry, In America and Victor Bockris.

Recently — and by chance — we purchased two american compilations on vinyl, one entitled ‘10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces’ (1975) and the other ‘New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media: Women In Electronic Music’ (1977). While the first record is focused on american sound poetry, the second one is a careful introduction to the heroines of mid Seventies electronic music milieu. After this coincidental buy we discovered that both records were published by 1750 Arch Records, an American avant-garde music label, founded in the sixties in the homonymous recording / archival studio located at 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, California. The episode features: Aram Saroyan, Laurie Spiegel, Beth Anderson, Ruth Anderson, John Giorno, Megan Roberts, Clark Coolidge, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, Johanna M. Beyer, Anthony Gnazzo, Laurie Anderson, Charles Dodge, Annea Lockwood and Charles Amirkhanian.

This video short exhibits classic concrete poetry, from the Calligrammes of Apollinaire, the mouse’s tail in Alice; the worldwide concrete “renaissance” of the early sixties, featuring works by Eugen Gomringer, Emmett Williams, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Mason Williams, Aram Saroyan and others, all the way to contemporary visual, animated, and kinetic concrete poetry (including haiku) by poets such as Marlene Mountain, Anita Virgil, Carlos Colon, Richard Brautigan, and much more.

"Find the common, shine a light" es el título de un trabajo que su autor define de respuesta a la situación política y social, "una llamada urgente por el cambio". En esta edición de 'Club de Jazz' del 5 de octubre de 2017 escuchamos el proyecto Catharsis del trombonista Ryan Keberle, que es quien firma este manifiesto luminoso junto a Camila Meza (voz), Mike Rodríguez (tp), Jorge Roeder (b) y Eric Dobb (bt). Además, "Cash and Carry", grabación de The Rempis Percussion Quartet, cuarteto con dos bateristas (Tim Daisy y Frank Rosaly) y el contrabajista Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, liderado por el saxofonista Dave Rempis; el trompetista Nate Wooley presenta "KNKNIGHGH, Minimal poetry for Aram Saroyan", proyecto junto a Chris Pitsiokos (sa), Brandon Lopez (cb) y Dre Hocevar (bt); "Still now (if you still)" es el encuentro de los serbios Szilárd Mezei (vla) y Marina Dzukljev (p) con el catalán Vasco Trilla (bt). Un programa que también reflexiona (o lo intenta) a través de la música en días de pasiones inflamadas en España y Catalunya. Toda la información y derechos: http://www.elclubdejazz.com

"Find the common, shine a light" es el título de un trabajo que su autor define de respuesta a la situación política y social, "una llamada urgente por el cambio". En esta edición de 'Club de Jazz' del 5 de octubre de 2017 escuchamos el proyecto Catharsis del trombonista Ryan Keberle, que es quien firma este manifiesto luminoso junto a Camila Meza (voz), Mike Rodríguez (tp), Jorge Roeder (b) y Eric Dobb (bt). Además, "Cash and Carry", grabación de The Rempis Percussion Quartet, cuarteto con dos bateristas (Tim Daisy y Frank Rosaly) y el contrabajista Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, liderado por el saxofonista Dave Rempis; el trompetista Nate Wooley presenta "KNKNIGHGH, Minimal poetry for Aram Saroyan", proyecto junto a Chris Pitsiokos (sa), Brandon Lopez (cb) y Dre Hocevar (bt); "Still now (if you still)" es el encuentro de los serbios Szilárd Mezei (vla) y Marina Dzukljev (p) con el catalán Vasco Trilla (bt). Un programa que también reflexiona (o lo intenta) a través de la música en días de pasiones inflamadas en España y Catalunya. Toda la información y derechos: http://www.elclubdejazz.com

15e émission de la 36e session... Cette semaine, départ en douceur avec du jazz spirituel, jazz cosmique, soul-jazz puis transition vers du free jazz ! En musique: Bennie Maupin sur l'album The Jewel in the Lotus  (ECM, 1974); Hampshire and Foat sur l'album Galaxies Like Grains of Sand  (Athens of the North, 2017); Cosmic Analog Ensemble sur l'album Les Sourdes Oreilles  (My Bags, 2017); Vibration Black Finger sur l'album Blackism  (Enid, 2017); Brandon Seabrook Die Trommel Fatale  (New Atlantis, 2017); Noah Kaplan Quartet sur l'album Cluster Swerve  (hatOLOGY, 2017); Nate Wooley sur l'album Knknighgh (Minimal Poetry for Aram Saroyan)  (Clean Feed, 2017)...

15e émission de la 36e session... Cette semaine, départ en douceur avec du jazz spirituel, jazz cosmique, soul-jazz puis transition vers du free jazz ! En musique: Bennie Maupin sur l'album The Jewel in the Lotus  (ECM, 1974); Hampshire and Foat sur l'album Galaxies Like Grains of Sand  (Athens of the North, 2017); Cosmic Analog Ensemble sur l'album Les Sourdes Oreilles  (My Bags, 2017); Vibration Black Finger sur l'album Blackism  (Enid, 2017); Brandon Seabrook Die Trommel Fatale  (New Atlantis, 2017); Noah Kaplan Quartet sur l'album Cluster Swerve  (hatOLOGY, 2017); Nate Wooley sur l'album Knknighgh (Minimal Poetry for Aram Saroyan)  (Clean Feed, 2017)...

Still Night in L.A. (Three Rooms Press)Michael Shepard, a detective with his own set of problems, is hired one morning by a fashionable young woman at her Hollywood apartment. Soon he’s embroiled in a murder investigation that may shed light on a nearly forgotten tragedy. A divorced father wondering how to set his son on a better course in life, the detective gets into deepening trouble as he negotiates a vivid panorama of the town’s modern-day beautiful and damned. Author Aram Saroyan harnesses the hardboiled styles of Chandler, Hammett, and Ross MacDonald into a contemporary tale of information age intrigue. The text is supplemented with cell phone photos taken by Saroyan in the same environs in which the story unfolds.Praise for Still Night in L.A.“Aram Saroyan nurses the accelerator in a deceptively laconic way, channeling the faultless ratiocination of Charles Willeford (Miami Blues) and Paul Cain (Seven Slayers). Still Night in L.A. keeps still until, at just the right moment, he floors it.”--Barry Gifford, author, Wild at Heart“Readers of California-dream-correction fiction may have their particular favourites -- Day of the Locust, The Slide Area, I Should Have Stayed Home, My Face for the World To See, The Long Goodbye. Aram Saroyan’s Still Night in L.A. brings long experience and practiced narrative craft to earn his place in this line.”--Tom Clark, author, The Exile of Celine“Still Night in L.A. is a novel where the magic is all in the language, in the evocation of the detective’s incongruously sweet and gentle personality, and in his astoundingly accurate takes on a world where kids have a hard time growing up before they hit middle age, and where the hard thing is not to become a movie star but to get someone to remember your name.”--Gerald Nicosia, author, Home to War: The Untold Story of the Vietnam Veterans Movement“Still Night in L.A. moves mysteriously through the late American day and ends up inscrutably in the lost hour of the early morning. In between, crazy humans reign supreme. Aram Saroyan’s prose is as elegant as emeralds and ice.”--G. A. Hausman, author, The Mythology of Horses“Aram Saroyan’s Still Night in L.A. cruises the mean streets and trendy brunch boites of Los Angeles, this city of angels and psychopaths. His shamus Michael Shepard is a Marlowe for our digital times.”--Richard Setlowe, author, The Haunting of Suzanna Blackwell"A writer who looks deeply into himself and his own experience, confronts what he finds there with real courage and reports what he has experienced with a measure of candor that is both breathtaking and, at moments, heartbreaking."--Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesAram Saroyan is the author of the true crime Literary Guild selection Rancho Mirage, as well as many other books of prose and poetry. His Complete Minimal Poems received the 2008 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is featured in the documentary film One Quick Move or I’m Gone: Jack Kerouac at Big Sur and his comments appear in the oral biographies George Being George: George Plimpton’s Life and Salinger. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, painter Gailyn Saroyan.

Door to the River: Essays and Reviews from the 1960s into the Digital Age (Black Sparrow Books) On the occasion of the release of this new book of nonfiction by the acclaimed writer Aram Saroyan, and the fortieth anniversary of Black Sparrow Press, we're pleased to present Aram Saroyan in conversation with Black Sparrow publisher David Godine. Aram Saroyan is an internationally known poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright. The recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts poetry awards (one of them for his controversial one-word poem "lighght"). Saroyan is a past president of PEN USA West and a current faculty member of the Masters of Professional Writing Program at USC. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the painter Gailyn Saroyan. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS JULY 22, 2010.

Editor, The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan The late Ted Berrigan---s influence on the New York School of Poets is discussed by his friend and editor.