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گردآوری و روایت: ارشیا عطاری تدوین: طنین خاکسا  موسیقی تیترا‌ژ: مودی موسوی (اینستاگرام | توییتر) طراح گرافیک: تارا نباتیان اسپانسر: خانه مدیا   اینستاگرام چیزکست | توییتر چیزکست | تلگرام چیزکست  وبسایت چیزکست حمایت مالی از چیزکست ارتباط مستقیم: chizcast@outlook.com منابع این قسمت   Hopkins, K. (2012). Sweet tooth: The bittersweet history of candy. St. Martin's Press. Richardson, T. (2002). Sweets: A history of candy. Bloomsbury USA. Kimmerle, B. (2003). Candy: The sweet history. Collectors Press. Kawash, S. (2013). Candy: A century of panic and pleasure. Faber & Faber. Wybrow, R. (2015). Candy: The history of confectionery. The History Press.

Today I talked to Stephen Schottenfeld about his new novel This Room Is Made of Noise (U Wisconsin Press, 2023). Don Lank is a newly divorced handyman who spots an imitation Tiffany lamp in the front window of a house and offers the elderly owner $800 for it. He's shocked by the price he gets and returns to give 95-year-old Millie most of the money. While he's there, he offers to do a couple of repairs in her deteriorating house, and over the course of the next few weeks and months, spends more and more time with her fixing her house, taking her to doctors' appointments, buying her grocers, and slowly beginning to oversee her care. He's also trying to repair his relationships with his father, his ex-wife, and his stepchildren. He's not sure why he's helping Millie, but struggles to focus on being altruistic and not merely greedy. Stephen Schottenfeld is the author of two Bluff City Pawn (Bloomsbury USA, 2014). His short stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, StoryQuarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, The Iowa Review, and other journals, and have received special mention in both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories anthologies. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and was awarded a Michener/Copernicus Society of America grant, a Halls Fiction Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. His narratives often trace the work lives of his characters—pawnbrokers, postal carriers, telephone repair people, home inspectors, police detectives, clothing manufacturers, trailer-park owners, to name a few—and explore how these professions bring an individual into a unique set of experiences and conflicts and expressions. He is a professor of English at the University of Rochester, where he teaches courses in fiction writing, screenwriting, and literature. When he is not writing or reading or teaching, he likes to walk the parks of Rochester, NY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Halloween is the time of year of ghouls, goblins and moral panic about candy. Could some neighbor be handing out candy full of pins? Or even worse, plain boxes of raisins? Where did this all come from? Strange Country cohosts Beth and Kelly talk about the origin of poisoned candy, stemming from one father who poisoned his own kid to collect insurance money. Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands Cite your sources: “DEA Warns of Brightly-Colored Fentanyl Used to Target Young Americans.” DEA.gov, 30 August 2022, https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2022/08/30/dea-warns-brightly-colored-fentanyl-used-target-young-americans. Accessed 1 October 2023. "Halloween execution date sought for man who killed son." UPI (USA), sec. News, 2 Sept. 1983. NewsBank: Access World News, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWNB&req_dat=0FA0729FAB9D3500&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/1567BF11158C5F68. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023. "Joe Rogan and Dr Phil push Halloween candy fentanyl story before producer says it could be fake; 'That was always the fear right, when we were kids, is that someone's gonna sneak in a razor blade into an apple,' Rogan says." Independent [Online], 31 Oct. 2022, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A724680900/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=4905dace. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023 "RHODE ISLAND MAN SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR ROLE IN NATIONWIDE CONSPIRACY THAT TRAFFICKED DRUGS HIDDEN IN TOY TRUCKS, DISNEY ITEMS AND HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS." States News Service, 20 Sept. 2023, p. NA. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A766621939/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=1a1aa97e. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.. "Should reports of candy-colored fentanyl spook you?" Daily Herald [Arlington Heights, IL], 28 Oct. 2022, p. 1. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A724348841/STND?u=nysl_sc_flls&sid=bookmark-STND&xid=8b7c1e70. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023. Ortega, Nicolás. “Wife Takes Stand At Husband's Trial In Son's Poisoning (Published 1975).” The New York Times, 29 May 1975, https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/29/archives/wife-a-takes-stand-at-husbands-trial-in-sons-poisoning.html?searchResultPosition=5. Accessed 1 October 2023. Ponti, Crystal. “The Haunting Legacy of Ronald Clark O'Bryan, the Man Who Killed Halloween.” A&E, 22 October 2020, https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/the-man-who-killed-halloween. Accessed 1 October 2023. Skal, David J. Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween. Bloomsbury USA, 2002. TALLEY, OLIVE. "Ronald Clark O'Bryan, who killed his 8-year-old son with...." UPI (USA), sec. News, 30 Mar. 1984. NewsBank: Access World News, https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=AWNB&req_dat=0FA0729FAB9D3500&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews/1568797363D91408. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.  

Our guest this week is Alexandra Lange, famed architecture and design critic, and author of the brand new best-seller Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. In a wide-ranging interview we get Alexandra's perspectives on the history and cultural significant of shopping malls. We dig into the fascinating story of Victor Gruen and how his design ideas shaped the evolution of regional malls for decades. Then we explore how malls began to lose their relevance, particularly as department stores increasingly found themselves stuck in the boring middle. Lastly wonder what's next for malls and what it might take for them to have a remarkable future.But first we give our hot-takes on the latest retail news, including shaky earnings reports from several wobbly unicorns: Warby Parker, Allbirds and The Real Real, contrasting their performance with Yeti's wholesale first growth strategy. We also discuss Signet's fire sale priced acquisition of one of the OG's of DTC, Blue Nile, before wrapping up with Bed, Bath & Beyond's decision to bail on one of its new private brands ("Wild Sage") after its rookie season.GroceryShop discount offer:Valid for Retailers and Brands only, use code RBR1950  to access our special rate / ticket price is $US1950.  Offer code  expires 9/22/22.Past podcast episodes of note:Understanding Warby Parker and Customer-Based Valuation with Dan McCarthyThe Great Wholesale v. DTC Debate with Simeon Siegel About AlexandraAlexandra Lange is a design critic. Her essays, reviews and profiles have appeared in numerous design publications including Architect, Harvard Design Magazine, and Metropolis, as well as in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and the New York Times. She is a columnist for Bloomberg CityLab, and has been a featured writer at Design Observer, an opinion columnist at Dezeen, and the architecture critic for Curbed.Her latest book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, was published by Bloomsbury USA in June 2022.Her previous book, The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids was published by Bloomsbury USA in 2018. Research for the book was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Design of Childhood was named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Urban Planning Books of 2018 and has been an assigned text in art and architecture studios at ASU, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, UPenn, VCU and Yale.Alexandra is also the author of Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), a primer on how to read and write architecture criticism, as well as the e-book The Dot-Com City: Silicon Valley Urbanism (Strelka, 2012), which considers the message of the physical spaces of Facebook, Google, and Apple.In 2021, Alexandra became editorial advisor to the podcast New Angle: Voice, produced by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. The podcast showcases the work of pioneering women of American architecture, and the first five-episode season featured Julia Morgan, Natalie de Blois, Helen Fong, Norma Sklarek and Florence Knoll. Several episodes were broadcast on 99 Percent Invisible.Alexandra co-wrote and co-produced “Masters of Modern Design: The Art of the Japanese American Experience,” a 2019 KCET Artbound documentary on Japanese American designers in the postwar era, which was based on one of her Curbed columns. “Masters of Modern Design” won a 2020 LA Area Emmy Award.Radio and podcast appearances include NPR Weekend Edition and Marketplace, as well as Studio 360, 99 Percent Invisible, Decoder Ring, The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC and Think on KERA. Alexandra has lectured widely at universities, museums and design conferences on topics ranging from the history of women architecture critics to the opulent modernism of Alexander Girard to the best use of social media by architects. She has also taught design criticism at New York University and the School of Visual Arts.Alexandra was a 2014 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She won a 2018 New York Press Club Award for Feature Reporting – Internet for her Curbed story, “No Loitering, No Skateboarding, No Baggy Pants,” on teens and public space. In 2019, she was awarded a Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary by AIGA. In 2020, Alexandra was the recipient of the Stephen A. Kliment Oculus Award from AIA New York, given to architectural journalists. She was also awarded the 2020 BRIO Prize by the eponymous Swedish toy company, which honors researchers and non-profits focused on creating a better world through play.Alexandra has long been interested in the creation of modern domestic life, a theme running through Design Research: The Store that Brought Modern Living to American Homes (Chronicle, 2010), which she co-authored with Jane Thompson, as well as her contributions to Serious Play: Design in Midcentury America (Yale, 2018), Alexander Girard: A Designer's Universe (Vitra, 2016), Formica Forever (Metropolis, 2013), and Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Yale, 2006). Her latest contributions on the topic include a chapter on design for children in Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890 – 1980 (Prestel, 2020) and the foreword to Designing Motherhood (MIT Press, 2021). Her 2005 dissertation, “Tower Typewriter and Trademark: Architects, Designers and the Corporate Utopia, 1956-1964,” discussed the design programs and design networks at postwar American corporations. About UsSteve Dennis is an advisor, keynote speaker and author on strategic growth and business innovation. You can learn more about Steve on his       website.    The expanded and revised edition of his bestselling book  Remarkable Retail: How To Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption is now available at  Amazon or just about anywhere else books are sold. Steve regularly shares his insights in his role as a      Forbes senior contributor and on       Twitter and       LinkedIn. You can also check out his speaker "sizzle" reel      here.Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice.   He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience, and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.  Michael is the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts including Canada's top retail industry podcast,       The Voice of Retail, plus  Global E-Commerce Tech Talks  ,      The Food Professor  with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois and now in its second season, Conversations with CommerceNext!  You can learn more about Michael   here  or on     LinkedIn. Be sure and check out Michael's latest venture for fun and influencer riches - Last Request Barbecue,  his YouTube BBQ cooking channel!

Every baker aspires to receive a handshake from Paul Hollywood. "The Great British Baking Show" judge rarely dishes out a handshake to contestants, and only if whatever was baked was up to his standards. Hollywood's new cookbook, BAKE: My Best Ever Recipes for the Classics, includes both sweet and savory recipes, and he joins us to discuss the basics of baking, how to take your home baking to the next level, and his experience working on the popular television show.   Victoria Sandwich If you're new to baking, this should be your very first cake. If you get it right, everything else will be easy. You can make a Victoria sandwich using the all-in-one method, where you mix everything together in a bowl at the same time, but I encourage you to cream the fats and sugar together before adding the eggs, flour and raising agent, as you'll learn a lot about baking this way. Baking is a science. That's why, if possible, I prefer to weigh the eggs first and then adjust the quantities of the other ingredients to get the perfect balance. I like to use half margarine for a lighter texture and half butter for a rich flavor. Traditionally, it's filled with just preserves, but if you're feeling indulgent, feel free to add whipped cream or buttercream.8–10 slices4 large eggs (in their shells)1 ¼ cups (about 240g) superfine sugar1 ¾ cups plus 3 tbsp (about 240g) all-purpose flour3 tsp baking powder1 stick (about 120g) unsalted butter, softened, plus extra to grease the pans1 stick (about 120g) margarine, softenedTo finish½ cup (125g) raspberry preserves (good-quality)A little superfine sugar, to sprinkle Heat your oven to 350°F. Grease two 8-inch (20cm) cake pans and line the bases with parchment paper. Weigh the eggs first (in their shells), then weigh the same quantity of sugar and flour. For the butter and the margarine, you need half the weight of the eggs.In a large bowl, cream the butter, margarine and sugar together using an electric whisk until pale in color and light and fluffy (1). Scrape down the sides of the bowl and beat again.Beat the eggs together in a pitcher, then gradually add to the mixture, beating well after each addition (2). Scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix again. Sift the flour and baking powder over the surface of the mixture and gently fold in, using a large metal spoon (3).Divide the mixture between the prepared cake pans. To ensure the cakes are exactly the same size you can weigh the cake mixture into each pan. Gently smooth the surface with the back of the spoon to level it (4).Bake in the center of the oven for 25 minutes until risen, golden brown and the cakes spring back in the center when lightly touched with a fingertip. They should be slightly shrunken away from the edges of the pan. Leave the cakes in the pans for 5 minutes, then remove to a wire rack. Leave to cool completely. When cold, sandwich the cakes together with the raspberry preserves and sprinkle the top with a little superfine sugar. Excerpted from BAKE by Paul Hollywood. Text © Paul Hollywood. Photos © Haarala Hamilton. Reprinted by permission of Bloomsbury USA.   This episode is guest-hosted by Kerry Nolan.

Ash Davida Jane from Unity Books Wellington reviews Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris, published by Bloomsbury USA.

Ash Davida Jane from Unity Books Wellington reviews Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris, published by Bloomsbury USA.

TW: Am Anfang wird über sexuelle Belästigung gesprochen. Wer sich das nicht anhören will schaltet einfach ab Minute 00:03:58 ein. Und noch ein Servicehinweis: Wenn wir von „Frauen*“ sprechen, meinen wir alle Personen, die sich dieser Beschreibung zuordnen. Gib mir ein „L“ — L! — Gib mir ein „C“ — C! — Gib mir ein „P“ — P! Und was heißt das?? Die neue Folge London Calling der Podcast ist draußen whoop whoop *Beine werden hochgerissen* *Saltos geschlagen* *Die Menge tobt* Naaaa, erratet ihr, um welches Thema es diese Folge geht?— Riiichtig, um Cheerleading! Kat ist im Word Cup Fieber und schaut sich nachts die 2021 Weltmeisterschaft an (die dieses Jahr nur mit Gruppen aus den USA stattfindet - aus bekannten Gründen). Es gibt viele Anglizismen, weil der Sport halt auf englisch stattfindet, get over it. ERWÄHNUNGEN Hilfetelefon sexueller Missbrauch - https://beauftragter-missbrauch.de/hilfe/hilfetelefon Nomadland - https://www.disneyplus.com/de-de/movies/nomadland/g3pbMDmPZp9L ICU World Cheerleading Championship - https://cheerunion.org/championships/cheerleading/ Cheer Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/title/81039393 Top Gun All Stars-Miami- DOUBLE O WORLDS DAY 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONJvwQGwoj8&t=8s Top Gun All Stars 2021 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0rC_3XfZJc Cheer extreme Senior Elite Worlds 2021 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TpKyHZO5Y8 USASF rules - https://www.usasf.net/rules Gabi Fuller - https://www.instagram.com/gabifuller/ Gabi Butler - https://www.instagram.com/gabibutler1617/ Dillon Brandt - https://www.instagram.com/dillonbrandt/ Ryan (?) - https://www.instagram.com/ryancea/ TT Barker - https://www.instagram.com/ttnav/ BUCHEMPFEHLUNGEN: Svenja Gräfen - Radikale Selbstfürsorge. Jetzt! Eine feministische Perspektive (2021, Eden Books) https://tidd.ly/3eGtWik * Daniel Handler - Bottle Grove: A Novel (2019, Bloomsbury USA) https://tidd.ly/2RT4mxp * *Affiliate Link (Thalia) HIER FINDET IHR UNS: Kat - https://www.instagram.com/katcomatose/ Zora - https://www.instagram.com/ichbinszora/ Eure Buchempfehlungen gerne in die Kommentare - https://apple.co/2NX1rBW Email-Kontakt: londoncallingpodcast (at) googlemail (dot) com

Y'a de quoi être frues… et pas pour la raison que vous croyez. Cette semaine, on vous parle d'une expérience vécue par environ la moitié de la population (et la majorité de notre auditoire). Dans cet épisode, on décrit le fonctionnement hormonal et psychologique du cycle menstruel, on déconstruit quelques mythes, on aborde les attitudes de dégoût, de gêne et de honte envers les menstruations puis on échange sur l'accès aux produits menstruels ici et ailleurs. Bonne écoute!*Comme nous ne sommes pas des professionnelles de la santé, nous vous rappelons qu'il est important de consulter le/la vôtre pour toutes questions ou inquiétudes concernant votre santé sexuelle et reproductive (notamment pour vos règles ou votre contraception).Références discutées dans cet épisode :Campagne Rouge #LaVieEnRouge ; Une campagne de sensibilisation du RQASFHill, Maisie (2019). Period Power: Harness Your Hormones And Get Your Cycle Working For You. Bloomsbury USA, 352 p.La culotte menstruelle qui donne hâte à ses règles, par Mme L'ovaryLa symbolique des règles dans l'histoire féministe, par Cyclique MagazineMardon, A. (2011). Honte et dégoût dans la fabrication du féminin: L'apparition des menstrues. Ethnologie française, 1(1), 33-40.Menstruation around the world, par La Société des Obstétriciens et Gynécologues du Canada Mythes et réalités sur les menstruations, par Jean-CoutuNotions de base du cycle menstruel, par La Société des Obstétriciens et Gynécologues du Canada ‘'Period. End of sentence''. (2018), Film réalisé en Inde, Netflix. Prison Labor : Last Week Tonight - John Oliver

Links1. Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer, Scribner, 2021.2. One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps by Andrea Pitzer, Little, Brown and Company, 2017.3. Longitude by Dava Sobel, Bloomsbury USA, 2010.4. “Polar bears and Arctic isolation: A Russian opposition activist describes military service as ‘political exile,’” by Robyn Dixon, The Washington Post, January 2, 2021.5. “Sailors found alive at sea after 13ft wave smashes into boat in -30C weather,” by Will Stuart and Milo Boyd, The Mirror, December 28, 2020.6. Barents expedition art by Sergey Nekrasov at the Rijksmuseum.7. Arctic Strategic Outlook, United States Coast Guard, 2019.8. “In the Arctic, Look to the Coast Guard,” by Walker Mills, USNI Proceedings, August 2020.

Sharifah and Jenn discuss an Octavia Butler adaptation, Letter To The King, a goth in need, urban fantasy and science fiction, and more. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Bloomsbury USA, and Tor Books. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! News Amazon picks up Adaptation of Dawn by Octavia Butler Help This Goth Become A Hot Topic Ambassador Diverse! Magical! Medieval! Teen! Squad! Has Adventures!!!! in Letter To The King New Practical Magic prequel coming Stress science and hopepunk Books Discussed Famous Men Who Never Lived by K Chess (tw: assault, bigotry, separation from a child, elder harm) Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel José Older Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (all the trigger warnings) The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

Matt Young, author of Eat the Apple (out Feb. 27 from Bloomsbury USA), talks to Daniel Ford about his decision to write a memoir about his service with the Marines, his path to publication, and why aspiring writers need to read outside their preferred genres. To learn more about Matt Young, visit his official website, like his Facebook page, or follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Also read Daniel’s review of Eat the Apple in February’s “Books That Should Be On Your Radar.”  Today's episode is sponsored by OneRoom, NovelClass, and Sid Sanford Lives! 

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Ian Robertson, author of The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper. Published in January by Bloomsbury USA. Ian is the Professor of Psychology at Trinity College, Dublin and the Founding Director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He has published in Nature, Brain, Journal of Neuroscience the Times and many others. He’s published over 250 articles. His popular mind science books include The Winner Effect: How Power Affects Your Brain, Mind Sculpture: Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential, The Mind’s Eye: The Essential Guide to Boosting your Mental, Emotional and Physical Powers. The Stress Test confronts one of our biggest stressors, stress itself and gives us, those who fret and worry, confidence that what is bothering us, making us nervous, panicky, scared, is really just our brain telling us that something exciting is going on. No need to fear or fret. We can turn that fear into excitement. Harness the stress for peaceful purposes and to help enhance our performance. A classic example that Dr. Robertson uses: You’re set to give an important presentation before a sophisticated group of peers and superiors. You’re biting your nails, you’re sweating, you’re pacing back and forth you wonder whether this is it, your job your career. But you know your topic; you’re good at this. Turn that overwhelming sense of dread into a feeling of excitement. “Here is my chance, my opportunity. This adrenaline rush, this “fight or flight” feeling can be used as energy, as fuel, to present myself as best I can.” Sounds like a difficult and daunting task. But when the whole system is deconstructed as Ian does in this great book, it gives us the ability to understand the processes that are going on and what the brain and what our mind are accomplishing and what they can accomplish together.

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to another edition of the Avid Reader. Today our guest is Ian Robertson, author of The Stress Test: How Pressure Can Make You Stronger and Sharper. Published in January by Bloomsbury USA. Ian is the Professor of Psychology at Trinity College, Dublin and the Founding Director of Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He has published in Nature, Brain, Journal of Neuroscience the Times and many others. He’s published over 250 articles. His popular mind science books include The Winner Effect: How Power Affects Your Brain, Mind Sculpture: Unleashing Your Brain’s Potential, The Mind’s Eye: The Essential Guide to Boosting your Mental, Emotional and Physical Powers. The Stress Test confronts one of our biggest stressors, stress itself and gives us, those who fret and worry, confidence that what is bothering us, making us nervous, panicky, scared, is really just our brain telling us that something exciting is going on. No need to fear or fret. We can turn that fear into excitement. Harness the stress for peaceful purposes and to help enhance our performance. A classic example that Dr. Robertson uses: You’re set to give an important presentation before a sophisticated group of peers and superiors. You’re biting your nails, you’re sweating, you’re pacing back and forth you wonder whether this is it, your job your career. But you know your topic; you’re good at this. Turn that overwhelming sense of dread into a feeling of excitement. “Here is my chance, my opportunity. This adrenaline rush, this “fight or flight” feeling can be used as energy, as fuel, to present myself as best I can.” Sounds like a difficult and daunting task. But when the whole system is deconstructed as Ian does in this great book, it gives us the ability to understand the processes that are going on and what the brain and what our mind are accomplishing and what they can accomplish together.

42 Minutes 251: Gretchen Bakke - The Grid - 11.30.2016 The program takes a hard look at the largest machine in the world for 42 minutes with cultural anthropologist Gretchen Bakke, author of The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future, published by Bloomsbury USA last July. Topics Include: Electricity, Flow, Oregon Coast, Katrina, Public Consciousness, Blackout, Renewable Energy, Wind, Solar, Fossil Fuels, Command & Control, Rail, Pipelines, Squirrels, Make America Great Again, Light, Corner Office, Edison, Tesla, Insul, ACDC, Microgrids, Money, Monopolies. http://amzn.to/2h9EqWU

Christine Sneed was named a finalist for the 2010 Los Angeles Times book prize in the first-fiction category. Her first book, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry, won AWP’s 2009 Grace Paley Prize, was awarded Ploughshares’  John C. Zacharis prize, and was chosen as Book of the Year by the Chicago Writers Association in the traditionally published fiction category. Her second book, the novel Little Known Facts, won the Society of Midland Authors Award for the best adult fiction 2013, was named one o the Booklists's top ten debut novels of 2013, and best new book by a local author by Chicago Magazine. She has published stories in Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, New England Review, Ploughshares, Pleiades, Glimmer Train, Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review and a number of other journals. Paris, He Said, (Bloomsbury USA, May 2015 & Bloomsbury UK, Oct. 2015) is a novel set mostly in contemporary Paris, and focuses on a woman in her early 30s who accepts the invitation of an older man who offers her time and financial support to live with him in Paris and work as an artist. Her fourth book, the story collection, The Virginity of Famous Men, will be out in September 2016 from Bloomsbury. I interviewed Christine Sneed for my first podcast, which was exciting for both of us. Andy Stitt, of Deliberate Media Solutions, was the podcast editor.  

On today’s episode of Modern Notion Daily, our guest is Siobhan Roberts, author of Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway (Bloomsbury USA, July 2015). Roberts spent seven years writing this biography of one of the most famous contemporary mathematicians and creator of the Game of Life. The magnitude of Conway’s genius is matched…

Porochista Khakpour moved to an apartment with large picture windows in downtown Manhattan shortly before September 11, 2001, giving her a painfully perfect view of the terrorist attacks. “The big event of my life was of course 9/11,” Khakpour says. “I experienced a lot of post traumatic stress from it and think about it constantly.” It’s no surprise that the assault on the Twin Towers features prominently in her writing. Through non-fiction essays and two novels, the Iranian-born writer has tried to understand the tragedy’s impact on her, the nation, and the world. But while her essays are rooted in facts, her fiction takes flight. In The Last Illusion (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) there are, in fact, multiple references to flight. The main character, an albino man named Zal, is raised by his abusive mother in a cage among a balcony full of birds. Although he cannot fly, he yearns to. Rescued by an American and brought to New York in the years before 9/11, he tries to unlearn his feral ways and finds himself drawn to visionaries–an artist who claims to see the future and a famous magician who aspires, in a feat of illusionist virtuosity, to make the then still-standing World Trade Center disappear. The character of Zal is based on a Persian myth and Khakpour infuses the story with fabulous twists and turns. “My biggest challenge was doing a mythic retelling of a summer before 9/11 and not just any summer but Y2K to the summer before 9/11… Luckily, what was great about the realism was that the realism was quite surreal. If you look at the Y2K narrative, not to mention the 9/11 narrative, it’s full of the magical, full of the fabulist, full of the kind of impossible.” In her New Books interview, Khakpour discusses the impact of 9/11 on “everyone”: “I’m kind of amazed when I meet people who think it didn’t really affect them or the event wasn’t that big a deal in their life. Maybe the actual day wasn’t but their lives have completely been altered, even just economically. Anyone who has a job today has been affected by it.” She speculates about the trepidation publishers might have had about a book that uses myth and fantasy modes to tell a story about 9/11: “It took over two and half years to sell this book whereas my first book only took a few months…. If I’d done a purely realistic take from say a Middle Eastern woman’s perspective, my guess is it would have sold faster but this idea that I was using a fabulous mode, a sort of speculative mode, and addressing this sensitive world event and then add to the fact that here I am, you know, a brown person addressing this–that caused I think some complications. About her connection to her protagonist Zal, who, like her is an Iranian-born immigrant: “I don’t think I’ve ever written a character that I’ve identified with more.” Related links: * Khakpour’s magician in The Last Illusion was inspired by the real life example of David Copperfield, who made the Statue of Liberty “disappear” in a television special in the 1970s. Here’s a clip on YouTube. * Follow Porochista Khakpour on Twitter. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Porochista Khakpour moved to an apartment with large picture windows in downtown Manhattan shortly before September 11, 2001, giving her a painfully perfect view of the terrorist attacks. “The big event of my life was of course 9/11,” Khakpour says. “I experienced a lot of post traumatic stress from it and think about it constantly.” It’s no surprise that the assault on the Twin Towers features prominently in her writing. Through non-fiction essays and two novels, the Iranian-born writer has tried to understand the tragedy’s impact on her, the nation, and the world. But while her essays are rooted in facts, her fiction takes flight. In The Last Illusion (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) there are, in fact, multiple references to flight. The main character, an albino man named Zal, is raised by his abusive mother in a cage among a balcony full of birds. Although he cannot fly, he yearns to. Rescued by an American and brought to New York in the years before 9/11, he tries to unlearn his feral ways and finds himself drawn to visionaries–an artist who claims to see the future and a famous magician who aspires, in a feat of illusionist virtuosity, to make the then still-standing World Trade Center disappear. The character of Zal is based on a Persian myth and Khakpour infuses the story with fabulous twists and turns. “My biggest challenge was doing a mythic retelling of a summer before 9/11 and not just any summer but Y2K to the summer before 9/11… Luckily, what was great about the realism was that the realism was quite surreal. If you look at the Y2K narrative, not to mention the 9/11 narrative, it’s full of the magical, full of the fabulist, full of the kind of impossible.” In her New Books interview, Khakpour discusses the impact of 9/11 on “everyone”: “I’m kind of amazed when I meet people who think it didn’t really affect them or the event wasn’t that big a deal in their life. Maybe the actual day wasn’t but their lives have completely been altered, even just economically. Anyone who has a job today has been affected by it.” She speculates about the trepidation publishers might have had about a book that uses myth and fantasy modes to tell a story about 9/11: “It took over two and half years to sell this book whereas my first book only took a few months…. If I’d done a purely realistic take from say a Middle Eastern woman’s perspective, my guess is it would have sold faster but this idea that I was using a fabulous mode, a sort of speculative mode, and addressing this sensitive world event and then add to the fact that here I am, you know, a brown person addressing this–that caused I think some complications. About her connection to her protagonist Zal, who, like her is an Iranian-born immigrant: “I don’t think I’ve ever written a character that I’ve identified with more.” Related links: * Khakpour’s magician in The Last Illusion was inspired by the real life example of David Copperfield, who made the Statue of Liberty “disappear” in a television special in the 1970s. Here’s a clip on YouTube. * Follow Porochista Khakpour on Twitter. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Porochista Khakpour moved to an apartment with large picture windows in downtown Manhattan shortly before September 11, 2001, giving her a painfully perfect view of the terrorist attacks. “The big event of my life was of course 9/11,” Khakpour says. “I experienced a lot of post traumatic stress from it and think about it constantly.” It’s no surprise that the assault on the Twin Towers features prominently in her writing. Through non-fiction essays and two novels, the Iranian-born writer has tried to understand the tragedy’s impact on her, the nation, and the world. But while her essays are rooted in facts, her fiction takes flight. In The Last Illusion (Bloomsbury USA, 2014) there are, in fact, multiple references to flight. The main character, an albino man named Zal, is raised by his abusive mother in a cage among a balcony full of birds. Although he cannot fly, he yearns to. Rescued by an American and brought to New York in the years before 9/11, he tries to unlearn his feral ways and finds himself drawn to visionaries–an artist who claims to see the future and a famous magician who aspires, in a feat of illusionist virtuosity, to make the then still-standing World Trade Center disappear. The character of Zal is based on a Persian myth and Khakpour infuses the story with fabulous twists and turns. “My biggest challenge was doing a mythic retelling of a summer before 9/11 and not just any summer but Y2K to the summer before 9/11… Luckily, what was great about the realism was that the realism was quite surreal. If you look at the Y2K narrative, not to mention the 9/11 narrative, it’s full of the magical, full of the fabulist, full of the kind of impossible.” In her New Books interview, Khakpour discusses the impact of 9/11 on “everyone”: “I’m kind of amazed when I meet people who think it didn’t really affect them or the event wasn’t that big a deal in their life. Maybe the actual day wasn’t but their lives have completely been altered, even just economically. Anyone who has a job today has been affected by it.” She speculates about the trepidation publishers might have had about a book that uses myth and fantasy modes to tell a story about 9/11: “It took over two and half years to sell this book whereas my first book only took a few months…. If I’d done a purely realistic take from say a Middle Eastern woman’s perspective, my guess is it would have sold faster but this idea that I was using a fabulous mode, a sort of speculative mode, and addressing this sensitive world event and then add to the fact that here I am, you know, a brown person addressing this–that caused I think some complications. About her connection to her protagonist Zal, who, like her is an Iranian-born immigrant: “I don’t think I’ve ever written a character that I’ve identified with more.” Related links: * Khakpour’s magician in The Last Illusion was inspired by the real life example of David Copperfield, who made the Statue of Liberty “disappear” in a television special in the 1970s. Here’s a clip on YouTube. * Follow Porochista Khakpour on Twitter. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mitchell S. Jackson is a Portland, Oregon native who lives in Brooklyn, New York.  He received an M.A. in writing from Portland State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University.  He has been the recipient of fellowships from Urban Artist Initiative and The Center For Fiction. A former winner of the Hurston Wright Foundation’s award for college writers, he teaches writing at New York University and is the literary editor of Dossier Journal. Jackson published the eBook collection Oversoul Stories and Essays in the summer of 2012. Bloomsbury USA will publish his novel The Residue Years in August of 2013. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. Grace is just out of a drug treatment program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. Champ is trying to do right by his mom and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared. But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream. In this world of few options and little opportunity, where love is your strength and your weakness, this family fights for family and against what tears one apart.

We talk to Bloomsbury USA Publishing Director, George Gibson about what he does as Publishing Director, taking the reins at Bloomsbury USA, the type of books he is looking for, running publishing houses large and small, and some of Bloomsbury's newest books. Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing you'd like answered? […]

We talk to Bloomsbury USA Publishing Director, George Gibson about what he does as Publishing Director, taking the reins at Bloomsbury USA, the type of books he is looking for, running publishing houses large and small, and some of Bloomsbury’s newest books. Listen to the entire interview below. Have a question about writing you’d like answered? […]