Podcasts about blazing art

Join Lexis, Dannelle, and Caroline as they continue to chip away at their To Be Read lists! On this episode, we'll be reviewing "Kindred" by Octavia Butler, "How the Word is Passed" by Clint Smith, "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" by Heather Morris, "What the River Knows" by Isabel Ibanez, "Sharks in the Time of Saviors" by Kawai Strong Washburn, and "Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath" by Heather Clark.

Looking to fit even more books into your life? We think audiobooks are a great solution. This week we chat about reading in different formats and settings and hen and how we both read audiobooks. We also share some of our favorite audio experiences, books, and authors!Summer Book ClubThe book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 has been chosen! It was pretty darn close!The episode discussing The Story of Lucy Gault will be Episode 86, coming out on August 8.ShownotesBooks* The Children of Dynmouth, by William Trevor* Fools of Fortune, by William Trevor* Felicia's Journey, by William Trevor* The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor* The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* The Wind that Lays Waste, by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews* Brickmasters, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, by Anne de Marcken* Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett* Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett* Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett* The Patron Saint of Liars, by Ann Patchett* State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett* A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh* The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett* Run, by Ann Patchett* Taft, by Ann Patchett* The Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchett* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling* The Trees, by Percival Everett* A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan* The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Ulysses, by James Joyce* Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle* The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot* Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders* The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann* The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David Grann* The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson * Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson* The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert* The Dead Zone, by Stephen King* Pet Sematary, by Stephen King* The Shining, by Stephen King* The Stand, by Stephen King* Fairy Tale, by Stephen King* You Like It Darker, by Stephen King* Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson* Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson* Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson* Lockwood & Co., by Jonathan Stroud* The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman* The Round House, by Louise Erdrich* Middlemarch, by George Eliot* Fourth of July Creek, by Smith Henderson* The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan* The Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson* Foster, by Claire Keegan* Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie* Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie* Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent* Day, by Michael Cunningham* Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir* “My Purple-Scented Novel,” by Ian McEwan* “Axis,” by Alice Munro* George and Lizzie, by Nancy PearlLinks* The New Yorker Fiction Podcast* The Writer's Voice Podcast* Episode 1: Bucket List BooksThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you'll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

How do we love poetry? Let us count the ways. This week, we're joined by Anthony Garrett to kick off National Poetry Month with a wonderful conversation about our favorite poems and poets, how and when we read poetry, and a discussion about how to approach this sometimes intimidating part of the literary landscape. Does poetry play a part in your reading life?We also announce the winners of our latest giveaway, so please join us!ShownotesBooks* Averno, by Louise Glück* The Obscene Bird of Night, by José Donoso, translated by Megan McDowell, Hardie St. Martin, and Leonard Mades* A Naked Singularity, by Sergio De La Pava* Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, by Kapka Kassabova* To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace, by Kapka Kassabova* Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs* The Fisherman, by John Langan* Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville* Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison* The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Rock Crystal, by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore* The End, by Attila Bartis, translated by Judith Sollosy* Divorcing, by Susan Taubes* Notes of a Crocodile, by Qin Miaogin, translated by Bonnie Huie* “The Waste Land,” by T.S. Eliot* “Today,” by Billy Collins* Poems 1962 - 2012, by Louise Glück* Different Hours, by Stephen Dunn* Picnic, Lightning, by Billy Collins* Half-light: Collected Poems 1965 - 2016, by Frank Bidart* Gabriel: A Poem, by Edward Hirsch* The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, by Edward Hirsch* “When Death Comes,” by Mary Oliver* “As One Listens to the Rain,” by Octavio Paz* “The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe* “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” by T.S. Eliot* Duino Elegies, by Rainer Maria Rilke* Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison, by Ted Kooser* Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry, by Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison* “Bullet Points,” by Jericho Brown* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* “Tulips,” by Sylvia Plath* Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz* When My Brother Was an Aztec, by Natalie Diaz* The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück* Winter Recipes from the Collective, by Louise Glück* Links* Anthony's Socials* X* Instagram* Atmospheric Quarterly* Episode 1: Bucket List Books, in which Trevor kicks War and Peace off his bucket list* Leaf by Leaf: Chris Via on War and Peace* Episode 15: Emily Dickinson* One Bright Book: Episode 23: The Wild Iris, by Louise Glück* Backlisted: Episode 208: All My Pretty Ones, by Anne Sexton* The New Yorker Poetry Podcast* Poetry Unbound Podcast* The Slow Down Podcast* The Great American Novel from The Atlantic* Lonesome Reader on The Great American NovelThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you'll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were just two poets who fell in love, until gender roles, mental illness, and misogyny got in the way. Our sophomore episode is diving into their marriage, Plath's life and craft, and how Hughes and his sister took advantage of Plath's work after her suicide at the age of 30.Additional narrations were provided by Sharon Hyland. Theme music is credited to Wendy Marcini, Elvin Vanguard, and Jules Gaia.Instagram: @literaryscandalsSelected bibliography:• Her Husband: Hughes and Plath – A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook• Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark• The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm• The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 2: 1956–1963 edited by Peter K. Steinberg & Karen V. Kukil

This week we set our sites on 2024! We share our reading plans, hopes, and dreams for the New Year and highlight some of the new releases we can't wait to add to our shelves. What books are you most excited to read and buy this year?Giveaway!We wanted to kick off the New Year with a giveaway! Both of us have read this on and highly recommend it: January, by Sara Gallardo, translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaugnessy! Archipelago Books recently released a lovely edition of this. Enter for a chance to win by sending us an email a DM or in some way letting us know you want to enter! We will put all names in a hat and draw the winner during our morning recording on Saturday, January 20. Good luck!Shownotes* January, by Sara Gallardo, translated from the Spanish by Frances Riddle and Maureen Shaugnessy* A Horse at Night: On Writing, by Amina Cain* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstroy, translated by Anthony Briggs* Can You Forgive Her?, by Anthony Trollope* Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, by Rebecca West* The Fortune of the Rougons, by Émile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson* Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy* Suttree, by Cormac McCarthy* The Orchard Keeper, by Cormac McCarthy* The Outer Dark, by Cormac McCarthy* Child of God, by Cormac McCarthy* Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry* Metamorphosis, by Ovid* Miss Mackintosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young* The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence, by Avril Horner* The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History, by Manjula Martin* The Book of Love, by Kelly Link* Your Utopia, by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur* James, by Percival Everett* Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, by Leslie Jamison* Clear, by Carys Davies* The Children of the Dead, by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Gitta Honegger* The Piano Teacher, by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Joachim Neugroschel* Traces of Enayat, by Iman Mersal, translated by Robin Moger* Blue Lard, by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton* Red Pyramid and Other Stories, by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton* Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber* The Unforgivable: And Other Writings, by Cristina Campo, translated by Alex Andriesse* Carson McCullers: A Life, by Mary V. Dearborn* Love Novel, by Ivan Sajko, translated by Mima Simić* The Brush, by Eliana Hernández-Pachón, translated by Robin Meyers* American Abductions, by Mauro Javier Cárdenas* Knife, by Salman Rushdie* Parade, by Rachel Cusk* Gliff, by Ali Smith* Rhine Journey, by Anne Schlee* Wind and Truth, by Brandon Sanderson* The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth BrowerAbout the PodcastThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another.Please join us! You can subscribe at Apple podcasts or go to the feed to import to your favorite podcatcher.Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. Patreon subscribers get regular bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

For this final episode of 2023, we finish our annual two episode best of the year extravaganza! Here we count down our top five favorite reads of 2023—and again we are joined by a cast of listeners who share some of their top books and best reading experiences of the year! Happy New Year! We will see you in 2024!Shownotes* Roman Stories, by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz* Disruptions, by Steven Milhauser* The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman* Solenoid, by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter* Blinding, by Mircea Cărtărescu, translated by Sean Cotter* After the Funeral, by Tessa Hadley* The Dry Heart, by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Frances Frenaye* Short stories of Djuna Barnes* Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes* Collected Works, by Lydia Sandgren, translated by Agnes Broomé* Forbidden Notebooks, by Alba de Céspedes, translated by Ann Goldstein* The House on the Hill, by Cesare Pavese, translated by Tim Parks* Conversations in Sicily, by Elio Vittorini, translated by Alane Salierno Mason* Nonfiction, by Julie Myerson* Wound, by Oksana Vasyakina, translated by Elina Alter* The Most Secret Memory of Men, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated by Laura Vergnaud* Bound to Violence, by Yamboi Oulologuem* My Rivers, by Faruk Šehić, translated by S.D. Curtis* The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal and Silvester Mazzarella* The Story of a Life, by Konstantin Paustovsky, translated by Doug Smith* The Light Room, by Kate Zambreno* Drifts, by Kate Zambreno* A Ghost in the Throat, by Doireann Ní Ghríofa* Elena Knows, by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* Die, My Love, by Ariana Harwicz, translated by Sarah Moses and Carolina Orloff* The Long Form, by Kate Briggs* Territory of Light, by Yuki Tsushima, translate by Geraldine Harcourt* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* Indeterminate Inflorescence, by Lee Seong-bok, translated by Anton Hur* If I Had Not Seen Their Sleeping Faces: fragments on death After Anna de Noailles, by Christina Tudor-Sideri* In Ascension, by Martin MacInnes* The Day The Call Came, by Thomas Hinde* The Peasants, by Władysław Reymont, translated by Anna Zaranko* Basic Black with Pearls, by Helen Weinzweig* The Young Bride, by Alessandro Baricco, translated by Ann Goldstein* Whale, by Cheon Myeong-Kwan, translated by Chi-Young Kim* Not Even the Dead, by Juan Gomez Barecna, translated by Katie Whittemore* Losing Music, by John Cotter* Denmark: Variations, by James Tadd Adcox* Rabbit Is Rich, by John Updike* Blind Rider, by Juan Goytisolo, translated by Peter Bush* Exiled from Almost Everywhere, by Juan Goytisolo, translated by Peter Bush* The Garden of Secrets, by Juan Goytisolo, translated by Peter Bush* The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy* Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy* When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West* The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope* Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope* The Warden, by Anthony Trollope* Can You Forgive Her?, by Anthony TrollopeAbout the PodcastThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another.Please join us! You can subscribe at Apple podcasts or go to the feed to import to your favorite podcatcher.Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. Patreon subscribers get regular bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

This week's publisher episode focuses on one of our very favorites: Dalkey Archive. Founded nearly 40 years ago, Dalkey specializes in “lesser-known and often avant-garde works.” Trevor and Paul each share a few of their favorite titles and announce an exciting Dalkey giveaway. Be sure to share your favorite for a chance to win!Giveaway DetailsWe are excited to give away three Dalkey Archive books to a lucky listener with a U.S. address*.Please send us an email (or dm on Instagram or Twitter) telling us your interest in The Dalkey Archive! That's it! We recommend getting these to us by the end of day Friday, December 15 because we will be drawing the winner early the next day!*Unfortunately, due to high shipping costs, this giveaway is limited to U.S. addresses. We are sorry! We do love our international listeners!Shownotes* Basic Black with Pearls, by Helen Weinzweig* The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal and Sylvester Mazzarella* The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal* Fair Play, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal* The True Deceiver, by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal* Joseph and His Brothers, by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods* Afterword, by Nina Schuyler* Christmas at Thompson Hall: And Other Christmas Stories, by Anthony Trollope* A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens* The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, by L. Frank Baum* A Merry Christmas: And Other Christmas Stories, by Louisa May Alcott* The Night Before Christmas, by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Konstantin Makovsky* The Nutcracker, by E.T.A. Hoffmann, translated by Joachim Neugroschel* The Warden, by Anthony Trollope* Can You Forgive Her?, by Anthony Trollope* The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* Vlad, by Carlos Fuentes, translated by E. Shaskan Bumas and Alejandro Branger* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young* Atagony, by Luis Goytisolo, translated by Brendan Riley* Götz and Meyer, by David Albahari, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac* Bottom's Dream, by Arno Schmidt, translated by John E. Woods* At Swim-Two-Birds, by Flann O'Brien* The Dalkey Archive, by Flann O'Brien* Reticence, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, translated by John Lambert* Europeana: A Brief History of the 20th Century, by Patrik Ouredník, translated by Gerald Turner* Suicide, by Edouard Levé, translated by Jan Steyn* Through the Night, by Sting Sæterbakken, translated by Seán Kinsella* Autoportrait, by Edouard Levé, translated by Lorin Stein* Trilogy, by Jon Fosse, translated by May-Brit Akerholt* Demolishing Nisard, by Eric Chevillard, translated by Jordan Stump* Eros the Bittersweet, by Anne CarsonAbout the PodcastThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another.Please join us! You can subscribe at Apple podcasts or go to the feed to import to your favorite podcatcher.Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. Patreon subscribers get regular bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

For many of us, reading is like taking a holiday. But this week, we dive into true literary holidays as we discuss some of our favorite bookish destinations, as well as a few that are on our bucket lists. Where are your top literary destinations?ShownotesBooks* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* The Bridge of Beyond, by Simone Schwarz-Bart, translated by Barbara Bray* Shady Hollow, by Juneau Black* The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs* Divorcing, by Susan Taubes* Transit, by Anna Seghers, translated by Margaret Bettauer Dembo * Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee* The Expendable Man, by Dorothy B. Hughes* Thus Were Their Faces, by Silvina Ocampo, translated Daniel Balderston* Motley Stones, by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Isabel Fargo Cole* Rock Crystal, by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore* Temptation, by János Székely, translated by Mark Baczoni* Mary Olivier: A Life, by May Sinclair* Hons and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford* Virgin Soil, by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett* The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, translated by R.W. Flint* The Moon and the Bonfire, by Cesare Pavese, translated by R.W. Flint* Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole* The Shining, by Stephen King* Carrie, by Stephen King* ‘Salem's Lot, by Stephen King* Centennial, by James Michener* Augustus, by John WilliamsOther* PEG the Book Prize Addict's YoutubeAbout the PodcastThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another.Please join us! You can subscribe at Apple podcasts or go to the feed to import to your favorite podcatcher.Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. Patreon subscribers get regular bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

Do you read in the morning or at night? Do you read while walking? With music? Do you read more than one book at a time?In this episode Trevor and Paul look at their reading habits to see what things they've come up with to feed the reading hound.We would love to know your reading habits as well! Please share with us!ShownotesBooks* Lojman, by Ebru Ojen, translated by Aron Aji and Selin Gökçesu* Roman Stories, by Jhumpa Lahiri, translated by the author and Todd Portnowitz* The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride* The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride* Deacon King Kong, by James McBride* The Story of a Life, by Konstantin Paustovsky, translated by Doug Smith* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs* The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz* The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life, by Andy Miller* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* Stay True, by Hua Hsu* Joseph and His Brothers, by Thomas Mann, translated by John E. Woods* The Sunlit Man, by Brandon SandersonAbout the PodcastThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another.Please join us! You can subscribe at Apple podcasts or go to the feed to import to your favorite podcatcher.Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. Patreon subscribers get regular bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

In this week's episode, Kayla and Taylor discuss Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel The Bell Jar. Topics include Sylvia/Esther's thoughts on sex and marriage, the humor (?) in trying to kill yourself, and the makings of a great sandwich. This week's drink: The Pink Lady via liquor.comINGREDIENTS:1 ½ oz London dry gin½ oz applejack (apple brandy)¾ oz lemon juice, freshly squeezed¼ oz grenadine1 egg whiteGarnish: brandied cherryINSTRUCTIONS:Add all ingredients to a shaker and vigorously dry-shake (without ice)Add ice and shake again until well-chilledStrain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a brandied cherryCurrent Reads and Recommendations: Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton by Gail CrowtherThe Collected Poems of Sylvia PlathRed Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather ClarkThe Golden Spoon by Jessa MaxwellFollow us on Instagram @literatureandlibationspod.Visit our website: literatureandlibationspod.com to submit feedback, questions, or your own takes on what we are reading. You can also see what we are reading for future episodes! You can email us at literatureandlibationspod@gmail.com.Please leave us a review and/or rating! It really helps others find our podcast…and it makes us happy!Purchase books via bookshop.org or check them out from your local public library. Join us next time as we discuss two Montana-set novellas: A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean and Legends of the Fall by Jim Harrison.For this episode, pour a glass of your favorite whiskey or bourbon, on the rocks. Kayla will be drinking Blackfoot River Bourbon from Montana Whiskey Co.

Just the tip-off! You'll laugh, you'll gasp, you'll win $50 in breakcoin (more crypto than currency). Polish up your high-heel cleats and get out your pompoms! Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a DC-area Black-owned bookshop.Writing for the Ploughshares blog, Robert Anthony Siegel calls Sei Shōnagon's The Pillow Book “a progenitor of the fragmentary, nonlinear, hybrid-genre work....” Read the whole, short essay here.You can watch Elaine Equi read four poems from Big Other here (~4.5 mins). And read more about this fabulous poet's bio here. Hear Plath read “November Graveyard” here (~1 min)Hear Plath read “Poppies in October” here (~1 min)Plath reads the Rabbit Catcher here (~1.5 min)Plath reads “The Applicant” here (~2 min)Watch a beautifully-read, dramatic rendering of “Crossing the Water” here (~1 min)Audio of Plath reading Lady Lazarus can be heard here (~3 min)Watch Clara Sismondo perform “Blackberrying” (National Poetry in Voice) here (~3 min)Hear “Tulips” in Plath's voice here (~4.5 min)Watch this arresting short film of “Death & Co” produced by Troublemakers TV here (~1.5 min)You can read “The Couriers” here.Read “The Colossus” here.Hear Plath read “Daddy” here (~4 min)Read “Electra on Azalea Path” hereRead “The Babysitters” hereRead “The Beekeeper's Daughter” hereRead “Winter Trees” hereYou can read this fascinating essay about acquiring Plath's table by David Trinidad here.Listen to David talk with scholar Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, about the light and dark sequences in Plath's life.Watch Dorianne Laux read a very recent poem “What's Broken” here (~2 min)You can attend virtually this fabulous Terrance Hayes reading at the University of Chicago (~1 hour)

In this episode, we explore the haunting, rich, complex poetry of Sylvia Plath. Katie shares some of her personal history with Plath and why she continues to be a source of inspiration and fascination. Also discussions of memento mori, shared mortality, and how to remember and pray for the Dead during the month of October.    *originally aired October 2021* www.bornofwonder.com Instagram: @born.of.wonder   "Of Life After Death:" At Last, a Plath Biography Worthy of its Subject https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/of-life-after-death-sylvia-plath-biography    Offering Mass for Sylvia Plath and The Beauty of Allhallowtide https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/mass-for-sylvia-plath-and-allhallowtide    Plath Reading Lady Lazarus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq2LOhaf97o&t=3s    Plath Reading Daddy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM&t=85s    Plath Reading Tulips  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNXOA9CzAQ    Plath Reading Nick and the Candlestick  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJsJBm413U    Also referenced -    "Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath" by Heather Clark   "Birthday Letters" by Ted Hughes   Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM       

On this episode, we're joined by Terri LeBlanc, co-owner and operations manager at Swamp Fox Bookstore in Marion, Iowa, a shop that's small on square footage but big on personality.Books We Talk About:- Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman- The Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens- The Embroidered Book by Kate Heartfield - Middlemarch by George Eliot- Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark- The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo- A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith- The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb- Horse by Geraldine BrooksMortgage Connects, an MGIC PodcastInsights and tips from top mortgage industry pros!Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

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Ultimately, the marital relationship of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was filled with pain and ended in tragedy. At the outset, however, things were very different. Within months of their first meeting at Cambridge, they had fallen in love, gotten married, and started having children - all while writing poetry and supporting one another's art. What did they see in each other as people and as poets? How did they inspire and encourage one another? In this episode, Jacke talks to Plath's biographer Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, about the creative partnership of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Additional listening: Episode 198 - Sylvia Plath Episode 130 - The Poet and the Painter - The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani Episode 95 - The Runaway Poets - The Triumphant Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the February installment of our "Full Bio" series, we take a look at the life and career of the poet Sylvia Plath with Heather Clark, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. Today, we speak about her early death, and the legacy Sylvia Plath left behind.

For the February installment of our "Full Bio" series, we take a look at the life and career of the poet Sylvia Plath with Heather Clark, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. Today, we speak about her career as a poet and writer, as well as her marriage and family.

For the February installment of our "Full Bio" series, we take a look at the life and career of the poet Sylvia Plath with Heather Clark, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. Today, we talk about the time she visited New York City in the summer of 1953 as a guest editor of Mademoiselle, as well as her struggles with her own mental health which ultimately led to her being admitted to a hospital.

For the February installment of our "Full Bio" series, we take a look at the life and career of the poet Sylvia Plath with Heather Clark, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. Today, we talk about Heather's research process for the book and the early life of Sylvia Plath.

Holly Walker reviews three of her favourite reads from 2021: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark published by Jonathan Cape; See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control, and Domestic Abuse by Jess Hill published by Black Inc and Skinny Dip: Poetry edited by Susan Paris and Kate De Goldi published by MUP.

This week on “All About Books” a monumental biography of the writer Sylvia Plath that focuses on her literary and intellectual achievements. “Red Comet: the Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath” by Heather Clark

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Heather Clark, Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield and author of the award-winning biography Red Comet, joins the Slightly Foxed team from New York to dispel the myths that have come to surround Sylvia Plath's life and art. Tired of the cliché of the hysterical female writer, and of the enduring focus on Plath's death rather than her trailblazing poetry and fiction, Clark used a wealth of new material – including juvenilia, unpublished letters and manuscripts, and psychiatric records – to explore Plath's literary landscape. She conjures the spirit of the star English student at Smith College who won a Fulbright scholarship to Cambridge University and who brought her enormous appetite for life to her writing and relationships. We follow her life from the ‘mad passionate abandon' of her thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, rebellion against genteel verse and her creation of a dark ‘potboiler' in The Bell Jar to her belief that a full literary life and a family unit can coexist and the outpouring of first-rate poems fuelled by rage in her final days. She introduced female anger and energy into the poetic lexicon with ‘Lady Lazarus', ‘Daddy', ‘Ariel' and more; poems that were considered shocking at the time, but which are now regarded as masterpieces. And there are more biographies to be found in our round-up of reading recommendations – of renegade anthropologists and female abstract expressionists – as well as a relationship between a father and his young son told through illustrated letters that leap off the page in Letters to Michael, with wonderful readings by the actor Nigel Anthony. (Episode duration: 48 minutes; 48 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. I: 1940-1956 The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. II: 1956-1963 Sylvia Plath, Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices, a radio play (23:28) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (30:16) Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition (39:23) Sylvia Plath, The Colossus Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes Lucie Elven, The Weak Spot (41:55) Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air is not currently available in the UK (43:44) Lily King, Euphoria (44:06) Mary Gabriel, Ninth Street Women (44:15) Charles Phillipson, Letters to Michael: a father writes to his son 1945–1947. With thanks to the actor Nigel Anthony for the readings. (45:19) Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Podcasts Slightly Foxed Podcast Episode 29: A Poet's Haven. Dr Mark Wormald, a scholar on the life and writings of Ted Hughes, on the Barrie Cooke archive  Other Links Heather Clark's website Heather Clark wins The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2020 for Red Comet Listen to the 1961 BBC Interview with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (17:07) Listen to the BBC Radio 3 Arts & Ideas podcast on Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Seamus Heaney (44:45) The artist Heather Phillipson's Sketches from Space Instagram account, where she first shared Charles Phillipson's letters to Michael (45:38) The National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London (47:31) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories even before she became a star English student at Smith College in the early 1950s. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark evokes a culture in transition, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Plath's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English; and much more. Clark's clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.

Heather Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, a 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist now out in paperback from Knopf. She and Courtney discuss how biography is like archeology, the "hysterical woman writer" stereotype, and the "profound and bottomless optimism" needed to undertake a large writing project. In the bonus segment, Heather talks about finding joy in the writing process and how the joy she found writing Red Comet influenced the book's structure. Bonus segments are available to Patreon subscribers at patreon.com/wmfapodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we explore the haunting, rich, complex poetry of Sylvia Plath. Katie shares some of her personal history with Plath and why she continues to be a source of inspiration and fascination. Also discussions of memento mori, shared mortality, and how to remember and pray for the Dead during the month of October.  www.bornofwonder.com Instagram: @born.of.wonder   "Of Life After Death:" At Last, a Plath Biography Worthy of its Subject https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/of-life-after-death-sylvia-plath-biography    Offering Mass for Sylvia Plath and The Beauty of Allhallowtide https://www.bornofwonder.com/home/mass-for-sylvia-plath-and-allhallowtide    Plath Reading Lady Lazarus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq2LOhaf97o&t=3s    Plath Reading Daddy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM&t=85s    Plath Reading Tulips  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNXOA9CzAQ    Plath Reading Nick and the Candlestick  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJsJBm413U    Also referenced -    "Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath" by Heather Clark   "Birthday Letters" by Ted Hughes   Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM 

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography • “One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed The highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art. With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories even before she became a star English student at Smith College in the early 1950s. Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark evokes a culture in transition, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Plath's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English; and much more. Clark's clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over

In the final episode of this year's Stories To You series, we have collaborated with Caroline Baum, host of the Life Sentences podcast, to bring you a conversation with American biographer Professor Heather Clark about her acclaimed biography of poet Sylvia Plath.  Caroline describes Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, which has been nominated for a 2021 Pulitzer Prize,as a "fastidious, forensic and granular account" of the artist's early life and brilliant college days in the US before her explosive encounter with British poet Ted Hughes. With unprecedented access to archives of Plath papers and other previously unavailable material, Clark provides the most comprehensive and psychologically complex portrait to date of a much misunderstood and mythologised artist. Red Comet is published in Australia by Penguin Random House. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Heather Clark discusses her new and highly praised biography of Sylvia Plath with celebrated biographer Hermione Lee, as well as Oxford University student, Lucy Cobold. They talk about the challenges of writing “big” biography (Clark's biography of Plath is over 900 pages); the importance of treating women like Plath and Virginia Woolf first and foremost as professional writers rather than patients; and the conscious decision to avoid certain loaded words (like ‘doomed' or ‘neurotic') when approaching a writer like Plath. Find out more about The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing: www.oclw.ox.ac.uk @OxLifeWriting. Heather Clark: https://heatherclarkauthor.com/ @Plathbiography Hermione Lee: http://www.hermionelee.com/ Works mentioned - Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (Knopf, 2020) - Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (Chatto & Windus, 1996). Artwork by Una. Edited by Charles Pidgeon. If you'd like to be more involved, access exclusive events and attend our virtual book club, then join our Friends Scheme. We also offer writing groups and mentoring to those working on their own life writing projects.

Heather Clark is a professor at University of Huddersfield, and the author of "Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath."

It isn't unusual for shops to begin playing Jingle Bell Rock or Baby, It's Cold Outside about a minute after summer ends, which shoppers either love or abhor. 2020 has been weird in numerous ways, and shopping for the winter holidays, whether it is Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Christmas, is going to prove to be unusual. Our little goblins and ghouls may still be counting their candy from Halloween and Thanksgiving is still several weeks away but small businesses including bookstores are encouraging shoppers to start grabbing those gifts early this year for multiple reasons. So today we talk to our favorite bookseller, Sam Miller of Carmichael Books in Louisville, about what books and gifts readers may want to check out this holiday season. Sam tells us why independent bookstores across the country called October the new December, which new books will be hot this holiday season and what books that came out earlier in 2020 have had staying power. Finally Sam gives some suggestions to shoppers about what they can do, in addition to buying their gifts from local businesses, to help stores financially through this weird weird year to still keep their doors open in 2021. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- A Promised Land by Barack Obama 2- The Lost Words by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris 3- The Lost Spells by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris 4- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 5- Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West 6- Shrill by Lindy West 7- Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage 8- Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten 9- This Will Make It Taste Good: A New Path to Simple Cooking by Vivian Howard 10- Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky) by Rebecca Roanhorse 11- Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse 12- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 13- To Hold Up The Sky by Cixin Liu 14- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson 15- Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow 16- Pirenesi by Susanna Clarke 17- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke 18- Secret Santa by Andrew Shaffer 19- We Are Santa by Ron Cooper 20- A Literary Holiday Cookbook by Alison Walsh 21- The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook by Annie Gray 22- A Cloud a Day by Gavin Pretor-Pinney 23- Men to Avoid in Art and Life by Nicole Tersigni 24- Stranger Planet by Nathan Pyle 25- The Louisville Anthology edited by Erin Keane 26- A Charity Anthology for COVID -19 by Neil Gaiman 27- The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book: An Interactive Guide to Life- 28- Changing Books by Logan Smalley and Stephanie Kent 29- Estranged by Ethan Aldridge 30- The Changeling King by Ethan Aldridge 31- Olive, Mabel & Me by Andrew Cotter 32- The Searcher by Tana French 33- Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson 34- The One & Only Bob by Katherine Applegate 35- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 36 - Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer 37- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 38- Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark 39- All Adults Here by Emma Straub 40- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 41- Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther 42- Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors by Andrew Shaffer 43- This House is Haunted by John Boyne 44- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 45- The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne 46- Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan 47- The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton 48- The Milk Lady of Bangalore by Shoba Narayan 49- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey 50- Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire 51- Last Christmas in Paris by Hazel Gaynor 52- The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley 53- The Guest List by Lucy Foley 54- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher 55- Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Games Mentioned: 1- Dreyer's Board Game 2- Bowie Bingo 3- Bless Your Heart   Movies Mentioned: 1- The Lemon Drop Kid 2- It Happened on Fifth Avenue 3- A Christmas Story 4- Love Actually