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The Common Reader
Frances Wilson: T.S. Eliot is stealing my baked beans.

The Common Reader

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 65:41


Frances Wilson has written biographies of Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, D.H. Lawrence, and, most recently, Muriel Spark. I thought Electric Spark was excellent. In my review, I wrote: “Wilson has done far more than string the facts together. She has created a strange and vivid portrait of one of the most curious of twentieth century novelists.” In this interview, we covered questions like why Thomas De Quincey is more widely read, why D.H. Lawrence's best books aren't his novels, Frances's conversion to spookiness, what she thinks about a whole range of modern biographers, literature and parasocial relationships, Elizabeth Bowen, George Meredith, and plenty about Muriel Spark.Here are two brief extracts. There is a full transcript below.Henry: De Quincey and Lawrence were the people you wrote about before Muriel Spark, and even though they seem like three very different people, but in their own way, they're all a little bit mad, aren't they?Frances: Yes, that is, I think, something that they have in common. It's something that I'm drawn to. I like writing about difficult people. I don't think I could write about anyone who wasn't difficult. I like difficult people in general. I like the fact that they pose a puzzle and they're hard to crack, and that their difficulty is laid out in their work and as a code. I like tackling really, really stubborn personalities as well. Yes, they were all a bit mad. The madness was what fuelled their journeys without doubt.Henry: This must make it very hard as a biographer. Is there always a code to be cracked, or are you sometimes dealing with someone who is slippery and protean and uncrackable?And.Henry: People listening will be able to tell that Spark is a very spooky person in several different ways. She had what I suppose we would call spiritual beliefs to do with ghosts and other sorts of things. You had a sort of conversion of your own while writing this book, didn't you?Frances: Yes, I did. [laughs] Every time I write a biography, I become very, very, very immersed in who I'm writing about. I learned this from Richard Holmes, who I see as a method biographer. He Footsteps his subjects. He becomes his subjects. I think I recognized when I first read Holmes's Coleridge, when I was a student, that this was how I also wanted to live. I wanted to live inside the minds of the people that I wrote about, because it was very preferable to live inside my own mind. Why not live inside the mind of someone really, really exciting, one with genius?What I felt with Spark wasn't so much that I was immersed by-- I wasn't immersed by her. I felt actually possessed by her. I think this is the Spark effect. I think a lot of her friends felt like this. I think that her lovers possibly felt like this. There is an extraordinary force to her character, which absolutely lives on, even though she's dead, but only recently dead. The conversion I felt, I think, was that I have always been a very enlightenment thinker, very rational, very scientific, very Freudian in my approach to-- I will acknowledge the unconscious but no more.By the time I finished with Spark, I'm pure woo-woo now.TranscriptHenry: Today, I am talking to Frances Wilson. Frances is a biographer. Her latest book, Electric Spark, is a biography of the novelist Muriel Spark, but she has also written about Dorothy Wordsworth, Thomas De Quincey, DH Lawrence and others. Frances, welcome.Frances Wilson: Thank you so much for having me on.Henry: Why don't more people read Thomas De Quincey's work?Frances: [laughs] Oh, God. We're going right into the deep end.[laughter]Frances: I think because there's too much of it. When I chose to write about Thomas De Quincey, I just followed one thread in his writing because Thomas De Quincey was an addict. One of the things he was addicted to was writing. He wrote far, far, far too much. He was a professional hack. He was a transcendental hack, if you like, because all of his writing he did while on opium, which made the sentences too long and too high and very, very hard to read.When I wrote about him, I just followed his interest in murder. He was fascinated by murder as a fine art. The title of one of his best essays is On Murder as One of the Fine Arts. I was also interested in his relationship with Wordsworth. I twinned those together, which meant cutting out about 97% of the rest of his work. I think people do read his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. I think that's a cult text. It was the memoir, if you want to call it a memoir, that kick-started the whole pharmaceutical memoir business on drugs.It was also the first addict's memoir and the first recovery memoir, and I'd say also the first misery memoir. He's very much at the root of English literary culture. We're all De Quincey-an without knowing it, is my argument.Henry: Oh, no, I fully agree. That's what surprises me, that they don't read him more often.Frances: I know it's a shame, isn't it? Of all the Romantic Circle, he's the one who's the most exciting to read. Also, Lamb is wonderfully exciting to read as well, but Lamb's a tiny little bit more grounded than De Quincey, who was literally not grounded. He's floating in an opium haze above you.[laughter]Henry: What I liked about your book was the way you emphasized the book addiction, not just the opium addiction. It is shocking the way he piled up chests full of books and notebooks, and couldn't get into the room because there were too many books in there. He was [crosstalk].Frances: Yes. He had this in common with Muriel Spark. He was a hoarder, but in a much more chaotic way than Spark, because, as you say, he piled up rooms with papers and books until he couldn't get into the room, and so just rented another room. He was someone who had no money at all. The no money he had went on paying rent for rooms, storing what we would be giving to Oxfam, or putting in the recycling bin. Then he'd forget that he was paying rent on all these rooms filled with his mountains of paper. The man was chaos.Henry: What is D.H. Lawrence's best book?Frances: Oh, my argument about Lawrence is that we've gone very badly wrong in our reading of him, in seeing him primarily as a novelist and only secondarily as an essayist and critic and short story writer, and poet. This is because of F.R. Leavis writing that celebration of him called D.H. Lawrence: Novelist, because novels are not the best of Lawrence. I think the best of his novels is absolutely, without doubt, Sons and Lovers. I think we should put the novels in the margins and put in the centre, the poems, travel writing.Absolutely at the centre of the centre should be his studies in classic American literature. His criticism was- We still haven't come to terms with it. It was so good. We haven't heard all of Lawrence's various voices yet. When Lawrence was writing, contemporaries didn't think of Lawrence as a novelist at all. It was anyone's guess what he was going to come out with next. Sometimes it was a novel [laughs] and it was usually a rant about-- sometimes it was a prophecy. Posterity has not treated Lawrence well in any way, but I think where we've been most savage to him is in marginalizing his best writing.Henry: The short fiction is truly extraordinary.Frances: Isn't it?Henry: I always thought Lawrence was someone I didn't want to read, and then I read the short fiction, and I was just obsessed.Frances: It's because in the short fiction, he doesn't have time to go wrong. I think brevity was his perfect length. Give him too much space, and you know he's going to get on his soapbox and start ranting, start mansplaining. He was a terrible mansplainer. Mansplaining his versions of what had gone wrong in the world. It is like a drunk at the end of a too-long dinner party, and you really want to just bundle him out. Give him only a tiny bit of space, and he comes out with the perfection that is his writing.Henry: De Quincey and Lawrence were the people you wrote about before Muriel Spark, and even though they seem like three very different people, but in their own way, they're all a little bit mad, aren't they?Frances: Yes, that is, I think, something that they have in common. It's something that I'm drawn to. I like writing about difficult people. I don't think I could write about anyone who wasn't difficult. I like difficult people in general. I like the fact that they pose a puzzle and they're hard to crack, and that their difficulty is laid out in their work and as a code. I like tackling really, really stubborn personalities as well. Yes, they were all a bit mad. The madness was what fuelled their journeys without doubt.Henry: This must make it very hard as a biographer. Is there always a code to be cracked, or are you sometimes dealing with someone who is slippery and protean and uncrackable?Frances: I think that the way I approach biography is that there is a code to crack, but I'm not necessarily concerned with whether I crack it or not. I think it's just recognizing that there's a hell of a lot going on in the writing and that, in certain cases and not in every case at all, the best way of exploring the psyche of the writer and the complexity of the life is through the writing, which is a argument for psycho biography, which isn't something I necessarily would argue for, because it can be very, very crude.I think with the writers I choose, there is no option. Muriel Spark argued for this as well. She said in her own work as a biographer, which was really very, very strong. She was a biographer before she became a novelist. She thought hard about biography and absolutely in advance of anyone else who thought about biography, she said, "Of course, the only way we can approach the minds of writers is through their work, and the writer's life is encoded in the concerns of their work."When I was writing about Muriel Spark, I followed, as much as I could, to the letter, her own theories of biography, believing that that was part of the code that she left. She said very, very strong and very definitive things about what biography was about and how to write a biography. I tried to follow those rules.Henry: Can we play a little game where I say the names of some biographers and you tell me what you think of them?Frances: Oh my goodness. Okay.Henry: We're not trying to get you into trouble. We just want some quick opinions. A.N. Wilson.Frances: I think he's wonderful as a biographer. I think he's unzipped and he's enthusiastic and he's unpredictable and he's often off the rails. I think his Goethe biography-- Have you read the Goethe biography?Henry: Yes, I thought that was great.Frances: It's just great, isn't it? It's so exciting. I like the way that when he writes about someone, it's almost as if he's memorized the whole of their work.Henry: Yes.Frances: You don't imagine him sitting at a desk piled with books and having to score through his marginalia. It sits in his head, and he just pours it down on a page. I'm always excited by an A.N. Wilson biography. He is one of the few biographers who I would read regardless of who the subject was.Henry: Yes.Frances: I just want to read him.Henry: He does have good range.Frances: He absolutely does have good range.Henry: Selina Hastings.Frances: I was thinking about Selina Hastings this morning, funnily enough, because I had been talking to people over the weekend about her Sybil Bedford biography and why that hadn't lifted. She wrote a very excitingly good life of Nancy Mitford and then a very unexcitingly not good life of Sybil Bedford. I was interested in why the Sybil Bedford simply hadn't worked. I met people this weekend who were saying the same thing, that she was a very good biographer who had just failed [laughs] to give us anything about Sybil Bedford.I think what went wrong in that biography was that she just could not give us her opinions. It's as if she just withdrew from her subject as if she was writing a Wikipedia entry. There were no opinions at all. What the friends I was talking to said was that she just fell out with her subject during the book. That's what happened. She stopped being interested in her. She fell out with her and therefore couldn't be bothered. That's what went wrong.Henry: Interesting. I think her Evelyn Waugh biography is superb.Frances: Yes, I absolutely agree. She was on fire until this last one.Henry: That's one of the best books on Waugh, I think.Frances: Yes.Henry: Absolutely magical.Frances: I also remember, it's a very rare thing, of reading a review of it by Hilary Mantel saying that she had not read a biography that had been as good, ever, as Selina Hastings' on Evelyn Waugh. My goodness, that's high praise, isn't it?Henry: Yes, it is. It is. I'm always trying to push that book on people. Richard Holmes.Frances: He's my favourite. He's the reason that I'm a biographer at all. I think his Coleridge, especially the first volume of the two-volume Coleridge, is one of the great books. It left me breathless when I read it. It was devastating. I also think that his Johnson and Savage book is one of the great books. I love Footsteps as well, his account of the books he didn't write in Footsteps. I think he has a strange magic. When Muriel Spark talked about certain writers and critics having a sixth literary sense, which meant that they tuned into language and thought in a way that the rest of us don't, I think that Richard Holmes does have that. I think he absolutely has it in relation to Coleridge. I'm longing for his Tennyson to come out.Henry: Oh, I know. I know.Frances: Oh, I just can't wait. I'm holding off on reading Tennyson until I've got Holmes to help me read him. Yes, he is quite extraordinary.Henry: I would have given my finger to write the Johnson and Savage book.Frances: Yes, I know. I agree. How often do you return to it?Henry: Oh, all the time. All the time.Frances: Me too.Henry: Michael Holroyd.Frances: Oh, that's interesting, Michael Holroyd, because I think he's one of the great unreads. I think he's in this strange position of being known as a greatest living biographer, but nobody's read him on Augustus John. [laughs] I haven't read his biographies cover to cover because they're too long and it's not in my subject area, but I do look in them, and they're novelistic in their wit and complexity. His sentences are very, very, very entertaining, and there's a lot of freight in each paragraph. I hope that he keeps selling.I love his essays as well, and also, I think that he has been a wonderful ambassador for biography. He's very, very supportive of younger biographers, which not every biographer is, but I know he's been very supportive of younger biographers and is incredibly approachable.Henry: Let's do a few Muriel Spark questions. Why was the Book of Job so important to Muriel Spark?Frances: I think she liked it because it was rogue, because it was the only book of the Bible that wasn't based on any evidence, it wasn't based on any truth. It was a fictional book, and she liked fiction sitting in the middle of fact. That was one of her main things, as all Spark lovers know. She liked the fact that there was this work of pure imagination and extraordinarily powerful imagination sitting in the middle of the Old Testament, and also, she thought it was an absolutely magnificent poem.She saw herself primarily as a poet, and she responded to it as a poem, which, of course, it is. Also, she liked God in it. She described Him as the Incredible Hulk [laughs] and she liked His boastfulness. She enjoyed, as I do, difficult personalities, and she liked the fact that God had such an incredibly difficult personality. She liked the fact that God boasted and boasted and boasted, "I made this and I made that," to Job, but also I think she liked the fact that you hear God's voice.She was much more interested in voices than she was in faces. The fact that God's voice comes out of the burning bush, I think it was an image for her of early radio, this voice speaking, and she liked the fact that what the voice said was tricksy and touchy and impossibly arrogant. He gives Moses all these instructions to lead the Israelites, and Moses says, "But who shall I say sent me? Who are you?" He says, "I am who I am." [laughs] She thought that was completely wonderful. She quotes that all the time about herself. She says, "I know it's a bit large quoting God, but I am who I am." [laughs]Henry: That disembodied voice is very important to her fiction.Frances: Yes.Henry: It's the telephone in Memento Mori.Frances: Yes.Henry: Also, to some extent, tell me what you think of this, the narrator often acts like that.Frances: Like this disembodied voice?Henry: Yes, like you're supposed to feel like you're not quite sure who's telling you this or where you're being told it from. That's why it gets, like in The Ballad of Peckham Rye or something, very weird.Frances: Yes. I'm waiting for the PhD on Muriel Sparks' narrators. Maybe it's being done as we speak, but she's very, very interested in narrators and the difference between first-person and third-person. She was very keen on not having warm narrators, to put it mildly. She makes a strong argument throughout her work for the absence of the seductive narrative. Her narratives are, as we know, unbelievably seductive, but not because we are being flattered as readers and not because the narrator makes herself or himself pretty. The narrator says what they feel like saying, withholds most of what you would like them to say, plays with us, like in a Spark expression, describing her ideal narrator like a cat with a bird [laughs].Henry: I like that. Could she have been a novelist if she had not become a Catholic?Frances: No, she couldn't. The two things happened at the same time. I wonder, actually, whether she became a Catholic in order to become a novelist. It wasn't that becoming a novelist was an accidental effect of being a Catholic. The conversion was, I think, from being a biographer to a novelist rather than from being an Anglican to a Catholic. What happened is a tremendous interest. I think it's the most interesting moment in any life that I've ever written about is the moment of Sparks' conversion because it did break her life in two.She converted when she was in her mid-30s, and several things happened at once. She converted to Catholicism, she became a Catholic, she became a novelist, but she also had this breakdown. The breakdown was very much part of that conversion package. The breakdown was brought on, she says, by taking Dexys. There was slimming pills, amphetamines. She wanted to lose weight. She put on weight very easily, and her weight went up and down throughout her life.She wanted to take these diet pills, but I think she was also taking the pills because she needed to do all-nighters, because she never, ever, ever stopped working. She was addicted to writing, but also she was impoverished and she had to sell her work, and she worked all night. She was in a rush to get her writing done because she'd wasted so much of her life in her early 20s, in a bad marriage trapped in Africa. She needed to buy herself time. She was on these pills, which have terrible side effects, one of which is hallucinations.I think there were other reasons for her breakdown as well. She was very, very sensitive and I think psychologically fragile. Her mother lived in a state of mental fragility, too. She had a crash when she finished her book. She became depressed. Of course, a breakdown isn't the same as depression, but what happened to her in her breakdown was a paranoid attack rather than a breakdown. She didn't crack into nothing and then have to rebuild herself. She just became very paranoid. That paranoia was always there.Again, it's what's exciting about her writing. She was drawn to paranoia in other writers. She liked Cardinal Newman's paranoia. She liked Charlotte Brontë's paranoia, and she had paranoia. During her paranoid attack, she felt very, very interestingly, because nothing that happened in her life was not interesting, that T.S. Eliot was sending her coded messages. He was encoding these messages in his play, The Confidential Clerk, in the program notes to the play, but also in the blurbs he wrote for Faber and Faber, where he was an editor. These messages were very malign and they were encoded in anagrams.The word lived, for example, became devil. I wonder whether one of the things that happened during her breakdown wasn't that she discovered God, but that she met the devil. I don't think that that's unusual as a conversion experience. In fact, the only conversion experience she ever describes, you'll remember, is in The Girls of Slender Means, when she's describing Nicholas Farrington's conversion. That's the only conversion experience she ever describes. She says that his conversion is when he sees one of the girls leaving the burning building, holding a Schiaparelli dress. Suddenly, he's converted because he's seen a vision of evil.She says, "Conversion can be as a result of a recognition of evil, rather than a recognition of good." I think that what might have happened in this big cocktail of things that happened to her during her breakdown/conversion, is that a writer whom she had idolized, T.S. Eliot, who taught her everything that she needed to know about the impersonality of art. Her narrative coldness comes from Eliot, who thought that emotions had no place in art because they were messy, and art should be clean.I think a writer whom she had idolized, she suddenly felt was her enemy because she was converting from his church, because he was an Anglo-Catholic. He was a high Anglican, and she was leaving Anglo-Catholicism to go through the Rubicon, to cross the Rubicon into Catholicism. She felt very strongly that that is something he would not have approved of.Henry: She's also leaving poetry to become a prose writer.Frances: She was leaving his world of poetry. That's absolutely right.Henry: This is a very curious parallel because the same thing exactly happens to De Quincey with his worship of Wordsworth.Frances: You're right.Henry: They have the same obsessive mania. Then this, as you say, not quite a breakdown, but a kind of explosive mania in the break. De Quincey goes out and destroys that mossy hut or whatever it is in the orchard, doesn't he?Frances: Yes, that disgusting hut in the orchard. Yes, you're completely right. What fascinated me about De Quincey, and this was at the heart of the De Quincey book, was how he had been guided his whole life by Wordsworth. He discovered Wordsworth as a boy when he read We Are Seven, that very creepy poem about a little girl sitting on her sibling's grave, describing the sibling as still alive. For De Quincey, who had lost his very adored sister, he felt that Wordsworth had seen into his soul and that Wordsworth was his mentor and his lodestar.He worshipped Wordsworth as someone who understood him and stalked Wordsworth, pursued and stalked him. When he met him, what he discovered was a man without any redeeming qualities at all. He thought he was a dry monster, but it didn't stop him loving the work. In fact, he loved the work more and more. What threw De Quincey completely was that there was such a difference between Wordsworth, the man who had no genius, and Wordsworth, the poet who had nothing but.Eliot described it, the difference between the man who suffers and the mind which creates. What De Quincey was trying to deal with was the fact that he adulated the work, but was absolutely appalled by the man. Yes, you're right, this same experience happened to spark when she began to feel that T.S. Eliot, whom she had never met, was a malign person, but the work was still not only of immense importance to her, but the work had formed her.Henry: You see the Wasteland all over her own work and the shared Dante obsession.Frances: Yes.Henry: It's remarkably strong. She got to the point of thinking that T.S. Eliot was breaking into her house.Frances: Yes. As I said, she had this paranoid imagination, but also what fired her imagination and what repeated itself again and again in the imaginative scenarios that recur in her fiction and nonfiction is the idea of the intruder. It was the image of someone rifling around in cupboards, drawers, looking at manuscripts. This image, you first find it in a piece she wrote about finding herself completely coincidentally, staying the night during the war in the poet Louis MacNeice's house. She didn't know it was Louis MacNeice's house, but he was a poet who was very, very important to her.Spark's coming back from visiting her parents in Edinburgh in 1944. She gets talking to an au pair on the train. By the time they pull into Houston, there's an air raid, and the au pair says, "Come and spend the night at mine. My employers are away and they live nearby in St. John's Wood." Spark goes to this house and sees it's packed with books and papers, and she's fascinated by the quality of the material she finds there.She looks in all the books. She goes into the attic, and she looks at all the papers, and she asks the au pair whose house it is, and the au pair said, "Oh, he's a professor called Professor Louis MacNeice." Spark had just been reading Whitney. He's one of her favourite poets. She retells this story four times in four different forms, as non-fiction, as fiction, as a broadcast, as reflections, but the image that keeps coming back, what she can't get rid of, is the idea of herself as snooping around in this poet's study.She describes herself, in one of the versions, as trying to draw from his papers his power as a writer. She says she sniffs his pens, she puts her hands over his papers, telling herself, "I must become a writer. I must become a writer." Then she makes this weird anonymous phone call. She loved the phone because it was the most strange form of electrical device. She makes a weird anonymous phone call to an agent, saying, "I'm ringing from Louis MacNeice's house, would you like to see my manuscript?" She doesn't give her name, and the agent says yes.Now I don't believe this phone call took place. I think it's part of Sparks' imagination. This idea of someone snooping around in someone else's room was very, very powerful to her. Then she transposed it in her paranoid attack about T.S. Eliot. She transposed the image that Eliot was now in her house, but not going through her papers, but going through her food cupboards. [laughs] In her food cupboards, all she actually had was baked beans because she was a terrible cook. Part of her unwellness at that point was malnutrition. No, she thought that T.S. Eliot was spying on her. She was obsessed with spies. Spies, snoopers, blackmailers.Henry: T.S. Eliot is Stealing My Baked Beans would have been a very good title for a memoir.Frances: It actually would, wouldn't it?Henry: Yes, it'd be great.[laughter]Henry: People listening will be able to tell that Spark is a very spooky person in several different ways. She had what I suppose we would call spiritual beliefs to do with ghosts and other sorts of things. You had a sort of conversion of your own while writing this book, didn't you?Frances: Yes, I did. [laughs] Every time I write a biography, I become very, very, very immersed in who I'm writing about. I learned this from Richard Holmes, who I see as a method biographer. He Footsteps his subjects. He becomes his subjects. I think I recognized when I first read Holmes's Coleridge, when I was a student, that this was how I also wanted to live. I wanted to live inside the minds of the people that I wrote about, because it was very preferable to live inside my own mind. Why not live inside the mind of someone really, really exciting, one with genius?What I felt with Spark wasn't so much that I was immersed by-- I wasn't immersed by her. I felt actually possessed by her. I think this is the Spark effect. I think a lot of her friends felt like this. I think that her lovers possibly felt like this. There is an extraordinary force to her character, which absolutely lives on, even though she's dead, but only recently dead. The conversion I felt, I think, was that I have always been a very enlightenment thinker, very rational, very scientific, very Freudian in my approach to-- I will acknowledge the unconscious but no more.By the time I finished with Spark, I'm pure woo-woo now. Anything can happen. This is one of the reasons Spark was attracted to Catholicism because anything can happen, because it legitimizes the supernatural. I felt so strongly that the supernatural experiences that Spark had were real, that what Spark was describing as the spookiness of our own life were things that actually happened.One of the things I found very, very unsettling about her was that everything that happened to her, she had written about first. She didn't describe her experiences in retrospect. She described them as in foresight. For example, her first single authored published book, because she wrote for a while in collaboration with her lover, Derek Stanford, but her first single authored book was a biography of Mary Shelley.Henry: Great book.Frances: An absolutely wonderful book, which really should be better than any of the other Mary Shelley biographies. She completely got to Mary Shelley. Everything she described in Mary Shelley's life would then happen to Spark. For example, she described Mary Shelley as having her love letters sold. Her lover sold Mary Shelley's love letters, and Mary Shelley was then blackmailed by the person who bought them. This happened to Spark. She described Mary Shelley's closest friends all becoming incredibly jealous of her literary talent. This happened to Spark. She described trusting people who betrayed her. This happened to Spark.Spark was the first person to write about Frankenstein seriously, to treat Frankenstein as a masterpiece rather than as a one-off weird novel that is actually just the screenplay for a Hammer Horror film. This was 1951, remember. Everything she described in Frankenstein as its power is a hybrid text, described the powerful hybrid text that she would later write about. What fascinated her in Frankenstein was the relationship between the creator and the monster, and which one was the monster. This is exactly the story of her own life. I think where she is. She was really interested in art monsters and in the fact that the only powerful writers out there, the only writers who make a dent, are monsters.If you're not a monster, you're just not competing. I think Spark has always spoken about as having a monster-like quality. She says at the end of one of her short stories, Bang-bang You're Dead, "Am I an intellectual woman, or am I a monster?" It's the question that is frequently asked of Spark. I think she worked so hard to monsterize herself. Again, she learnt this from Elliot. She learnt her coldness from Elliot. She learnt indifference from Elliot. There's a very good letter where she's writing to a friend, Shirley Hazzard, in New York.It's after she discovers that her lover, Derek Stanford, has sold her love letters, 70 love letters, which describe two very, very painfully raw, very tender love letters. She describes to Shirley Hazzard this terrible betrayal. She says, "But, I'm over it. I'm over it now. Now I'm just going to be indifferent." She's telling herself to just be indifferent about this. You watch her tutoring herself into the indifference that she needed in order to become the artist that she knew she was.Henry: Is this why she's attracted to mediocrities, because she can possess them and monsterize them, and they're good feeding for her artistic programme?Frances: Her attraction to mediocrities is completely baffling, and it makes writing her biography, a comedy, because the men she was surrounded by were so speck-like. Saw themselves as so important, but were, in fact, so speck-like that you have to laugh, and it was one after another after another. I'd never come across, in my life, so many men I'd never heard of. This was the literary world that she was surrounded by. It's odd, I don't know whether, at the time, she knew how mediocre these mediocrities were.She certainly recognised it in her novels where they're all put together into one corporate personality called the pisseur de copie in A Far Cry from Kensington, where every single literary mediocrity is in that critic who she describes as pissing and vomiting out copy. With Derek Stanford, who was obviously no one's ever heard of now, because he wrote nothing that was memorable, he was her partner from the end of the 40s until-- They ceased their sexual relationship when she started to be interested in becoming a Catholic in 1953, but she was devoted to him up until 1958. She seemed to be completely incapable of recognising that she had the genius and he had none.Her letters to him deferred to him, all the time, as having literary powers that she hadn't got, as having insights that she hadn't got, he's better read than she was. She was such an amazingly good critic. Why could she not see when she looked at his baggy, bad prose that it wasn't good enough? She rated him so highly. When she was co-authoring books with him, which was how she started her literary career, they would occasionally write alternative sentences. Some of her sentences are always absolutely-- they're sharp, lean, sparkling, and witty, and his are way too long and really baggy and they don't say anything. Obviously, you can see that she's irritated by it.She still doesn't say, "Look, I'm going now." It was only when she became a novelist that she said, "I want my mind to myself." She puts, "I want my mind to myself." She didn't want to be in a double act with him. Doubles were important to her. She didn't want to be in a double act with him anymore. He obviously had bought into her adulation of him and hadn't recognised that she had this terrifying power as a writer. It was now his turn to have the breakdown. Spark had the mental breakdown in 1950, '45. When her first novel came out in 1957, it was Stanford who had the breakdown because he couldn't take on board who she was as a novelist.What he didn't know about her as a novelist was her comic sense, how that would fuel the fiction, but also, he didn't recognize because he reviewed her books badly. He didn't recognise that the woman who had been so tender, vulnerable, and loving with him could be this novelist who had nothing to say about tenderness or love. In his reviews, he says, "Why are her characters so cold?" because he thought that she should be writing from the core of her as a human being rather than the core of her as an intellect.Henry: What are her best novels?Frances: Every one I read, I think this has to be the best.[laughter]This is particularly the case in the early novels, where I'm dazzled by The Comforters and think there cannot have been a better first novel of the 20th century or even the 21st century so far. The Comforters. Then read Robinson, her second novel, and think, "Oh God, no, that is her best novel. Then Memento Mori, I think, "Actually, that must be the best novel of the 20th century." [laughs] Then you move on to The Ballad of Peckham Rye, I think, "No, that's even better."The novels landed. It's one of the strange things about her; it took her so long to become a novelist. When she had become one, the novels just landed. Once in one year, two novels landed. In 1959, she had, it was The Bachelors and The Ballad of Peckham Rye, both just completely extraordinary. The novels had been the storing up, and then they just fell on the page. They're different, but samey. They're samey in as much as they're very, very, very clever. They're clever about Catholicism, and they have the same narrative wit. My God, do the plots work in different ways. She was wonderful at plots. She was a great plotter. She liked plots in both senses of the world.She liked the idea of plotting against someone, also laying a plot. She was, at the same time, absolutely horrified by being caught inside someone's plot. That's what The Comforters is about, a young writer called Caroline Rose, who has a breakdown, it's a dramatisation of Sparks' own breakdown, who has a breakdown, and believes that she is caught inside someone else's story. She is a typewriter repeating all of her thoughts. Typewriter and a chorus repeating all of her thoughts.What people say about The Comforters is that Caroline Rose thought she is a heroine of a novel who finds herself trapped in a novel. Actually, if you read what Caroline Rose says in the novel, she doesn't think she's trapped in a novel; she thinks she's trapped in a biography. "There is a typewriter typing the story of our lives," she says to her boyfriend. "Of our lives." Muriel Sparks' first book was about being trapped in a biography, which is, of course, what she brought on herself when she decided to trap herself in a biography. [laughs]Henry: I think I would vote for Loitering with Intent, The Girls of Slender Means as my favourites. I can see that Memento Mori is a good book, but I don't love it, actually.Frances: Really? Interesting. Okay. I completely agree with you about-- I think Loitering with Intent is my overall favourite. Don't you find every time you read it, it's a different book? There are about 12 books I've discovered so far in that book. She loved books inside books, but every time I read it, I think, "Oh my God, it's changed shape again. It's a shape-shifting novel."Henry: We all now need the Frances Wilson essay about the 12 books inside Loitering with Intent.Frances: I know.[laughter]Henry: A few more general questions to close. Did Thomas De Quincey waste his talents?Frances: I wouldn't have said so. I think that's because every single day of his life, he was on opium.Henry: I think the argument is a combination of too much opium and also too much magazine work and not enough "real serious" philosophy, big poems, whatever.Frances: I think the best of his work went into Blackwood's, so the magazine work. When he was taken on by Blackwood's, the razor-sharp Edinburgh magazine, then the best of his work took place. I think that had he only written the murder essays, that would have been enough for me, On Murder as a Fine Art.That was enough. I don't need any more of De Quincey. I think Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is also enough in as much as it's the great memoir of addiction. We don't need any more memoirs of addiction, just read that. It's not just a memoir of being addicted to opium. It's about being addicted to what's what. It's about being a super fan and addicted to writing. He was addicted to everything. If he was in AA now, they'd say, apparently, there are 12 addictions, he had all of them. [laughs]Henry: Yes. People talk a lot about parasocial relationships online, where you read someone online or you follow them, and you have this strange idea in your head that you know them in some way, even though they're just this disembodied online person. You sometimes see people say, "Oh, we should understand this more." I think, "Well, read the history of literature, parasocial relationships everywhere."Frances: That's completely true. I hadn't heard that term before. The history of literature, a parasocial relationship. That's your next book.Henry: There we go. I think what I want from De Quincey is more about Shakespeare, because I think the Macbeth essay is superb.Frances: Absolutely brilliant. On Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.Henry: Yes, and then you think, "Wait, where's the rest of this book? There should be an essay about every play."Frances: That's an absolutely brilliant example of microhistory, isn't it? Just taking a moment in a play, just the knocking at the gate, the morning after the murders, and blowing that moment up, so it becomes the whole play. Oh, my God, it's good. You're right.Henry: It's so good. What is, I think, "important about it", is that in the 20th century, critics started saying or scholars started saying a lot, "We can't just look at the words on the page. We've got to think about the dramaturgy. We've got to really, really think about how it plays out." De Quincey was an absolute master of that. It's really brilliant.Frances: Yes.Henry: What's your favourite modern novel or novelist?Frances: Oh, Hilary Mantel, without doubt, I think. I think we were lucky enough to live alongside a great, great, great novelist. I think the Wolf Hall trilogy is absolutely the greatest piece of narrative fiction that's come out of the 21st century. I also love her. I love her work as an essayist. I love her. She's spooky like Spark. She was inspired.Henry: Yes, she is. Yes.Frances: She learnt a lot of her cunning from Spark, I think. She's written a very spooky memoir. In fact, the only women novelists who acknowledge Spark as their influencer are Ali Smith and Hilary Mantel, although you can see Spark in William Boyd all the time. I think we're pretty lucky to live alongside William Boyd as well. Looking for real, real greatness, I think there's no one to compare with Mantel. Do you agree?Henry: I don't like the third volume of the trilogy.Frances: Okay. Right.Henry: Yes, in general, I do agree. Yes. I think some people don't like historical fiction for a variety of reasons. It may take some time for her to get it. I think she's acknowledged as being really good. I don't know that she's yet acknowledged at the level that you're saying.Frances: Yes.Henry: I think that will take a little bit longer. Maybe as and when there's a biography that will help with that, which I'm sure there will be a biography.Frances: I think they need to wait. I do think it's important to wait for a reputation to settle before starting the biography. Her biography will be very interesting because she married the same man twice. Her growth as a novelist was so extraordinary. Spark, she spent time in Africa. She had this terrible, terrible illness. She knew something. I think what I love about Mantel is, as with Spark, she knew something. She knew something, and she didn't quite know what it was that she knew. She had to write because of this knowledge. When you read her, you know that she's on a different level of understanding.Henry: You specialise in slightly neglected figures of English literature. Who else among the canonical writers deserves a bit more attention?Frances: Oh, that's interesting. I love minor characters. I think Spark was very witty about describing herself as a minor novelist or a writer of minor novels when she was evidently major. She always saw the comedy in being a minor. All the minor writers interest me. Elizabeth Bowen, Henry Green. No, they have heard Elizabeth Bowen has been treated well by Hermione Lee and Henry Green has been treated well by Jeremy Treglown.Why are they not up there yet? They're so much better than most of their contemporaries. I am mystified and fascinated by why it is that the most powerful writers tend to be kicked into the long grass. It's dazzling. When you read a Henry Green novel, you think, "But this is what it's all about. He's understood everything about what the novel can do. Why has no one heard of him?"Henry: I think Elizabeth Bowen's problem is that she's so concise, dense, and well-structured, and everything really plays its part in the pattern of the whole that it's not breezy reading.Frances: No, it's absolutely not.Henry: I think that probably holds her back in some way, even though when I have pushed it on people, most of the time they've said, "Gosh, she's a genius."Frances: Yes.Henry: It's not an easy genius. Whereas Dickens, the pages sort of fly along, something like that.Frances: Yes. One of the really interesting things about Spark is that she really, really is easy reading. At the same time, there's so much freight in those books. There's so much intellectual weight and so many games being played. There's so many books inside the books. Yet you can just read them for the pleasure. You can just read them for the plot. You can read one in an afternoon and think that you've been lost inside a book for 10 years. You don't get that from Elizabeth Bowen. That's true. The novels, you feel the weight, don't you?Henry: Yes.Frances: She's Jamesian. She's more Jamesian, I think, than Spark is.Henry: Something like A World of Love, it requires quite a lot of you.Frances: Yes, it does. Yes, it's not bedtime reading.Henry: No, exactly.Frances: Sitting up in a library.Henry: Yes. Now, you mentioned James. You're a Henry James expert.Frances: I did my PhD on Henry James.Henry: Yes. Will you ever write about him?Frances: I have, actually. Just a little plug. I've just done a selection of James's short stories, three volumes, which are coming out, I think, later this year for Riverrun with a separate introduction for each volume. I think that's all the writing I'm going to do on James. When I was an academic, I did some academic essays on him for collections and things. No, I've never felt, ever, ready to write on James because he's too complicated. I can only take tiny, tiny bits of James and home in on them.Henry: He's a great one for trying to crack the code.Frances: He really is. In fact, I was struck all the way through writing Electric Spark by James's understanding of the comedy of biography, which is described in the figure in the carpet. Remember that wonderful story where there's a writer called Verica who explains to a young critic that none of the critics have understood what his work's about. Everything that's written about him, it's fine, but it's absolutely missed his main point, his beautiful point. He said that in order to understand what the work's about, you have to look for The Figure in the Carpet. It's The Figure in the CarpetIt's the string on which my pearls are strung. A couple of critics become completely obsessed with looking for this Figure in the Carpet. Of course, Spark loved James's short stories. You feel James's short stories playing inside her own short stories. I think that one of the games she left for her biographers was the idea of The Figure in the Carpet. Go on, find it then. Find it. [laughs] The string on which my pearls are strung.Henry: Why did you leave academia? We should say that you did this before it became the thing that everyone's doing.Frances: Is everyone leaving now?Henry: A lot of people are leaving now.Frances: Oh, I didn't know. I was ahead of the curve. I left 20 years ago because I wasn't able to write the books I wanted to write. I left when I'd written two books as an academic. My first was Literary Seductions, and my second was a biography of a blackmailing courtesan called Harriet Wilson, and the book was called The Courtesan's Revenge. My department was sniffy about the books because they were published by Faber and not by OUP, and suggested that somehow I was lowering the tone of the department.This is what things were like 20 years ago. Then I got a contract to write The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, my third book, again with Faber. I didn't want to write the book with my head of department in the back of my mind saying, "Make this into an academic tome and put footnotes in." I decided then that I would leave, and I left very suddenly. Now, I said I'm leaving sort of now, and I've got books to write, and felt completely liberated. Then for The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, I decided not to have footnotes. It's the only book I've ever written without footnotes, simply as a celebration of no longer being in academia.Then the things I loved about being in academia, I loved teaching, and I loved being immersed in literature, but I really couldn't be around colleagues and couldn't be around the ridiculous rules of what was seen as okay. In fact, the university I left, then asked me to come back on a 0.5 basis when they realised that it was now fashionable to have someone who was a trade author. They asked me to come back, which I did not want to do. I wanted to spend days where I didn't see people rather than days where I had to talk to colleagues all the time. I think that academia is very unhappy. The department I was in was incredibly unhappy.Since then, I took up a job very briefly in another English department where I taught creative writing part-time. That was also incredibly unhappy. I don't know whether other French departments or engineering departments are happier places than English departments, but English departments are the most unhappy places I think I've ever seen.[laughter]Henry: What do you admire about the work of George Meredith?Frances: Oh, I love George Meredith. [laughs] Yes. I think Modern Love, his first novel, Modern Love, in a strange sonnet form, where it's not 14 lines, but 16 lines. By the time you get to the bottom two lines, the novel, the sonnet has become hysterical. Modern Love hasn't been properly recognised. It's an account of the breakdown of his marriage. His wife, who was the daughter of the romantic, minor novelist, Thomas Love Peacock. His wife had an affair with the artist who painted the famous Death of Chatterton. Meredith was the model for Chatterton, the dead poet in his purple silks, with his hand falling on the ground. There's a lot of mythology around Meredith.I think, as with Elizabeth Bowen and Henry Green, he's difficult. He's difficult. The other week, I tried to reread Diana of the Crossways, which was a really important novel, and I still love it. I really recognise that it's not an easy read. He doesn't try, in any way, to seduce his readers. They absolutely have to crawl inside each book to sit inside his mind and see the world as he's seeing it.Henry: Can you tell us what you will do next?Frances: At the moment, I'm testing some ideas out. I feel, at the end of every biography, you need a writer. You need to cleanse your palate. Otherwise, there's a danger of writing the same book again. I need this time, I think, to write about, to move century and move genders. I want to go back, I think, to the 19th century. I want to write about a male writer for a moment, and possibly not a novelist as well, because after being immersed in Muriel Sparks' novels, no other novel is going to seem good enough. I'm testing 19th-century men who didn't write novels, and it will probably be a minor character.Henry: Whatever it is, I look forward to reading it. Frances Wilson, thank you very much.Frances: Thank you so much, Henry. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.commonreader.co.uk/subscribe

Book 101 Review
Book 101 Review in its Fifth season, featuring Caroline Rose as my guest.

Book 101 Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 15:27


Dear Riley Rose,: The story of a woman and her dog...and how they saved each otherI'd like to tell you a story. It's a fairy tale of sorts...At the age of twenty-seven, Caroline Rose was finishing her first year of medical school and in the best shape of her life when she was shockingly diagnosed with a highly aggressive, incurable, stage IV cancer. At the age of one, Riley, a Great Dane/Labrador mix, was rescued from inhumane abuse. An Internet search of rescue dogs during Caroline's first remission led her to a picture a large broken dog with empty eyes that resembled her own. One impulsive decision later, Riley became a Rose. This is the story of two lost souls coming together as one and their journey together through family, love, loss, pain, and hope.Want to be a guest on Book 101 Review? Send Daniel Lucas a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/17372807971394464fea5bae3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Center for Global Policy Podcasts
Israel and Iran at War: The Risk of Escalation and Regional Implications

Center for Global Policy Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2025 44:02


In this episode of the Bridging the Gap, New Lines Middle East Analyst Rachel Nelson sits down with New Lines Senior Director Dr. Kamran Bokhari and New Lines Director of the Crime-Conflict Nexus and Military Withdrawals portfolios Caroline Rose to discuss the breakout of war between Israel and Iran and its regional implications.

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay
Taco Tuesday at the No Kings Lounge

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 146:57


On this week's show, we spend quality time time with new records from Julien Baker & TORRES, Tune-Yards & Esther Rose, spin fresh tracks from Superchunk, Ethel Cain & Low Cut Connie, and listen to some choice words for the current administration from Bruce Springsteen. all this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is a podcast that thinks it's a radio show...because it used to be one. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004. It phoenixed into a podcast in 2020, thanks to the fine and fabulously furious folks at NRM Streamcast. 

Athens 441
#157: Caroline Rose In Session

Athens 441

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2025 59:28


Caroline Rose drops by the studios of WUGA to play a few tracks from her new "year of the slug" album. Plus we spin new music from TV Sundaze, Eggy, and Ty Segall

SHEROES
A SHERO'S Journey: Caroline Rose

SHEROES

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 49:13


In this not to miss episode, singer, songwriter, producer Caroline Rose returns to SHEROES to join Carmel Holt in conversation about their sixth album, Year of the Slug, which sees Caroline taking a "experimental year" to do things in a much simpler, more grassroots way. No fancy gear, no label, no streaming platforms, no big productions on tour. Just Caroline, a microphone, a guitar, and a desire to find a way to be a modern day musician that makes sense.

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay
Beware the Ides of March

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2025 108:00


On this week's show, we spend quality time with superlative new records from Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, Horsegirl, Patterson Hood & Caroline Rose, and pour one out for the late, great David Johansen. All this and much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.

Center for Global Policy Podcasts
French Withdrawal and the Security Landscape of the Sahel

Center for Global Policy Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2025 27:56


In this episode of the Contours podcast, host Caroline Rose and Tammy Palacios, senior analyst of New Lines' Priority Sustainable Counterterrorism portfolio, to discuss the history of the French involvement in the Sahel, the security implications of the French departure from the region, and how it affects U.S. security.

Arab Digest podcasts
Assad is gone, Captagon hangs on

Arab Digest podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 29:03


Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the New Lines Institute's Caroline Rose an expert on the illicit drug Captagon. With the fall of Bashar al-Assad his family's hold on the lucrative trade has suddenly evaporated but the drug hasn't disappeared from Syria and other actors and other countries are eying up opportunities as the Trump administration freezes US engagements in the global fight against illicit drugs. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.

Athens 441
#154: Brenna MacMillan

Athens 441

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 59:28


Brenna MacMillan does a live session from the stage of Eddie's Attic. Plus new music from British Birds, The Rishis, and Caroline Rose.

Out On That Line
Track 170: Caroline Rose - "year of the slug"

Out On That Line

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 33:40


A review of Uncle Carol's self-leaked latest lo-fi masterpiece, featuring Tanner.

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay
Greetings From Port Chester, NY

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2025 107:51


On this week's show,  we cellebrate the therapeutic nature of out-of-town rock shows with old friends, let there be rock with Drive-By Truckers, wake up to albums we slept on by Tuxedo and Chuck Prophet, and and spin fresh tracks from Parlor Greens, Waxahatchee & The Waterboys. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.

Center for Global Policy Podcasts
The Captagon Trade After Assad

Center for Global Policy Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 24:22


In this episode of the Contours Podcast, New Lines Director of the Strategic Blindspots portfolio Caroline Rose sits down with Non-Resident Senior Fellow Dr. Karam Shaar and U.S. Department of State counter-narcotics expert Jonathan Earles. Together, they discuss how the fall of Assad's Syria may affect the captagon trade, including its production and state-sponsored distribution, and the demand for the drug in the region.

The Lawfare Podcast
Lawfare Archive: Caroline Rose on Syria's Role in the Captagon Trade

The Lawfare Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2024 47:37


From December 14, 2021: Syria's decade-long civil war has left the state and economy shells of their former selves. But a new industry is stepping in to fill the void: the manufacture and export of illicit drugs, specifically Captagon, a type of amphetamine that has a growing global market. To better understand Syria's emerging role in the global Captagon trade, Scott R. Anderson sat down with Caroline Rose of the New Lines Institute, who has been tracking this industry's development for several years and is preparing to release a major report on the topic. They discussed the origins of Captagon, how it came to Syria, and how it is being used by the Assad regime, its allies and their proxies across the region.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

E.W. Conundrum's Troubadours and Raconteurs Podcast
Episode 603 Featuring Kitty Belle Burbank - Writer, Professor, Baker and Candlestickmaker

E.W. Conundrum's Troubadours and Raconteurs Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024 59:00


Episode 603 also includes an E.W. Poetic Piece titled "Graph This." Our music this go round is provided by these wonderful artists: Thelonious Monk, Girl Scout, Caroline Rose, The Bird & The Bee, Branford Marsalis & Terence Blanchard.  Commercial Free, Small Batch Radio Crafted in the West Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania... Heard All Over The World. Tell Your Friends and Neighbors.

Ableton Live Music Producers
#176 - Ableton Event Recap with Alberto Chapa

Ableton Live Music Producers

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2024 61:42


In this episode, Alberto and Dan chat about the 2024 Ableton event at Ableton's U.S. headquarters, and many of the fun stories and learning experiences from it. Alberto Chapa is a producer, Ableton Certified Trainer, and educator that has helped hundreds of artists turn their ideas into reality. Through his role working at Ableton, Inc, Alberto supports a diverse community of artists, educators, and students using technology to create amazing things.   His company, Musical Guest provides artist development and live performance solutions for artists like Imagine Dragons, LP Giobbi, Caroline Rose, Surfaces, Brockhampton, Mama Duke, DIIV, and many others. Follow Alberto Below: ⁠www.musicalguest.net⁠  ⁠www.instagram.com/musicalguest Replay Workshops From the Ableton 2024 Retreat on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt4efrJ3Na3FjQBTl4DUmIe80Ot9GduyM&si=_SHS8i932mUJyog1 Download Racks, Templates, and more from the event: https://bit.ly/abletonretreat2024 Book a Time at Ableton's U.S. Headquarters Showroom in Los Angeles: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=32757002 Quickly grow your skills and learn with the Ableton AI Chatbot (Abe) ⁠https://www.liveproducersonline.com/membership-plans⁠ Join the newsletter to get free Ableton content + early episode access: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.liveproducersonline.com/newsletter⁠

Konflikt
HTS - islamisterna som tar över Syrien

Konflikt

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 58:43


Mohammed al-Jolani är ansiktet utåt för Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Vilka är männen som störtat Assads regim och vad vill dom nu? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. På kort tid har hela maktspelet i Syrien förändrats. Nu sitter nya ledare i Damaskus för att forma vägen framåt. Konflikts Rowa Akhatib lyckas få tag i en av nyckelspelarna, Obaida el Arnaou, talesperson för departementet för politiska frågor i Damaskus.Glädjen är stor efter diktatorns fall. Efter 13 år av krig hoppas många på fred. Men efter år av utdraget inbördeskrig är vapnen - och de väpnade parterna många. Vilken chans har en islamistisk grupp som fötts ur jihad, att ena ett land med stora minoriteter som kristna, alawiter och kurder?Medverkande: Solaf Rahwanji, regissör i Damaskus, Obaida el Arnaou, talesperson för det nya politiska ledarskapet i Syrien, Orwa Ajjoub, doktorand på Malmö universitet, Amany el Ali, konstnär i Idlib, Ilham Ahmed, utrikesminister för det kurdledda självstyret i Syrien, Shiyar Ali, den nordiska representanten för det kurdledda självstyret i nordöstra Syrien, Caroline Rose, analytiker på den amerikanska tankesmedjan New Lines Institute, May Alekhtyar, ingenjör, Stockholm.Reportrar: Esfar Ahmad, Rowa Akhatib, Fernando Arias, Anja SahlbergTekniker: Fabian BegnertProgramledare: Kajsa Boglindkajsa.boglind@sr.seProducent: Ulrika Bergqvistulrika.bergqvist@sr.se

10% Happier with Dan Harris
How To Talk To Yourself When Things Suck | Sam Sanders

10% Happier with Dan Harris

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2024 65:58


Smart strategies that emerged from a brutal year. Sam Sanders is an award-winning reporter, radio host and podcaster. He co-hosts the podcast Vibe Check with Zach Stafford and Saeed Jones. He also currently hosts The Sam Sanders Show from KCRW. Check out the album he mentioned in the episode, Caroline Rose's The Art of Forgetting. This is part 2 in a 3-part series we're running on grief.In this episode we talk about:The fact that there is no right way to deal with grief The value of feeling your feelings — even though it sucks Why it can be helpful to take breaks from your grief without guiltThe importance of joy and play The changing nature of griefWhat it means to be “anointed” by griefAnd what it looks like to maintain a relationship with someone even after they've diedRelated Episodes:How (and Why) to Hug Your Inner Dragons | Richard SchwartzKryptonite for the Inner Critic | Kristin NeffThe Voice in Your Head | Ethan Kross Jonathan Van Ness on Shame, Shopping, Bodies, and HopeSign up for Dan's weekly newsletter hereFollow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTokTen Percent Happier online bookstoreSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelOur favorite playlists on: Anxiety, Sleep, Relationships, Most Popular EpisodesFull Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/sam-sanders-873See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Midlife with Courage
Finding Hope and Courage in Life's Unexpected Journeys with Caroline Rose

Midlife with Courage

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 35:28


Send us a textThis week, Kim talks with Caroline Rose, an author, speaker, and motivational storyteller. Caroline shares her incredible journey of battling stage four non-Hodgkin's lymphoma through three diagnoses and treatments, including a bone marrow transplant. She talks about the importance of hope, the challenge of managing anxiety related to her health, and finding grace in life's unpredictable twists. Caroline also introduces her book, 'Dear Riley Rose,' which is a heartfelt letter to her late rescue dog, Riley, who played a pivotal role in her recovery. Caroline encourages listeners to be compassionate to themselves and others, embrace different forms of hope, and live courageously.00:00 Introduction to Midlife with Courage Podcast00:43 Meet Caroline Rose: Author, Speaker, and Motivational Storyteller01:07 Caroline's Journey: From San Antonio to Battling Cancer02:44 The Battle Begins: Caroline's First Diagnosis08:15 Support System and Family Bonds09:40 Miraculous Pregnancies and Family Life12:44 Reflections on Hope and Overcoming Adversity18:12 Supporting Loved Ones in Difficult Times20:02 Introducing the Book: Dear Riley Rose20:24 The Story of Riley: A Life-Changing Rescue23:36 The Healing Power of Animals30:23 Future Plans and Reflections33:19 Final Thoughts and FarewellYou can get your copy of Dear Riley Rose and learn more about Caroline on her WEBSITE.Support the showKim Benoy is a retired RN, Certified Aromatherapist, wife and mom who is passionate about inspiring and encouraging women over 40. She wants you to see your own beauty, value and worth through sharing stories of other women just like you. WEBSITEFACEBOOK

Navigating Cancer TOGETHER
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Hope, and Healing: Caroline Rose's Path Forward

Navigating Cancer TOGETHER

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 48:25


Welcome to another episode of Navigating Cancer TOGETHER hosted by Talaya Dendy. Today, we're honored to have Caroline Rose, a wife, mom, dog lover, TEDx speaker, and a three-time stage 4 cancer survivor as our special guest. Diagnosed with an aggressive lymphoma at just 27, Caroline's inspiring journey of beating cancer multiple times serves as a testament to the power of resilience and healing. Caroline shares her incredible story of love, loss, and discovering true joy amidst struggles. She talks about the importance of hope, the transformative power of her fur babies, and the life-altering impact of participating in a groundbreaking clinical trial. Dive into this heartfelt conversation to understand how Caroline replenished her hope and the role her loyal dog, Riley, played in her healing. Join us for an episode filled with inspiration, wisdom, and practical insights for anyone navigating cancer.✨Highlights from the show:02:26 Caroline's Cancer Journey: Diagnosis and Treatment05:56 The Emotional Impact: Family and Relationships15:55 Clinical Trials and Medical Insights25:25 The Healing Power of Dog36:49 Caroline's Memoir and ReflectionsTranscript: https://bit.ly/podscript153Blog: https://bit.ly/nctblog-carolineshope

Center for Global Policy Podcasts
Shedding Light on Drug Use Patterns in Syria

Center for Global Policy Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 43:43


Much attention has been paid to the supply of illicit drugs in the Middle East and war-torn Syria, but little has been focused on the patterns and implications of drug consumption in the region. However, a recent MedGlobal report reveals insightful data about Syria's emerging addiction crisis. The report notes that drug consumption has increased 300% since the outbreak of Syria's civil war, with high addiction rates associated with illicit substances, including captagon, crystal meth, heroin, cannabis, and other volatile substances. In this episode of the Contours podcast, the New Lines Institute's Caroline Rose and Senior Non-Resident Fellow Dr. Karam Shaar discuss the report's findings with MedGlobal President Dr. Zaher Sahloul and talk about the future of drug demand in Syria and beyond.

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay
Do You Remember the 21st Night of September?

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2024 133:22


On this week's show, we wish a very happy birthday to Ray Charles, John Coltrane & Bruce Springsteen, spend quality time with superlative new records from The The and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and spin fresh tracks from Margo Price, Japandroids & Bryan Ferry. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.

Phantom Electric Ghost
PEG Podcast With Caroline Rose: A Nationally Recognized Author, TEDx Speaker

Phantom Electric Ghost

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2024 60:26


PEG Podcast With Caroline Rose: A Nationally Recognized Author, TEDx Speaker A difficult conversation- recommendations of things to say/do and what not to say/do when a love one is in need of support Caroline Rose is a forty-three-year-old mom, wife, dog-lover, wine-loving, hope holding, three-time stage 4 cancer thriver and recent TEDx speaker. After being told there was no hope and that her cancer would eventually come back to take her life, Caroline did the only thing she knew to do; she took each day as it came and endured the brutal cancer treatments one by one. And then, one day, in the most unexpected of ways, hope came back to Caroline in the form of a young rescue dog named Riley Rose. And once she found her rediscovered hope in life, Caroline knew she was ready to grab on and never, ever let go.   Today, Caroline is enjoying her tenth year of living cancer-free. She travels the country speaking to approximately ten to fifteen thousand people each year. Her message of hope resonates universally, especially today. Since July of 2020, Caroline's website traffic has increased by 884%. She is a highly requested podcast guest, and her blogs have gained up to 102,000 monthly viewers on Pinterest alone. The world is craving hope, and Caroline is happy to be the one to provide it.   Today, Caroline is married lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her two human children and her two four-legged fur babies. She spends her non-mom time on various cancer boards and volunteering with the local dog rescue. Caroline remains passionate about spreading hope and giving back to those who are still searching for their hopeful ever after. Link: http://www.dearrileyrose.com/ Donate to support PEG free artist interviews: PayPalMe link Any contribution is appreciated: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/PhantomElectric?locale.x=en_US Support PEG by checking out our Sponsors: Download and use Newsly for free now from www.newsly.me or from the link in the description, and use promo code “GHOST” and receive a 1-month free premium subscription. The best tool for getting podcast guests:  Podmatch.com https://podmatch.com/signup/phantomelectricghost Subscribe to our Instagram for exclusive content: https://www.instagram.com/expansive_sound_experiments/ Donate to support PEG free artist interviews: Subscribe to our YouTube  https://youtube.com/@phantomelectricghost?si=rEyT56WQvDsAoRpr PEG uses StreamYard.com for our live podcasts https://streamyard.com/pal/c/6290085463457792 Get $10.00 Credit for using StreamYard.com when you sign up with our link RSS https://anchor.fm/s/3b31908/podcast/rss

Ear Buds Podcast
"Loner" by Caroline Rose | REVIEW!

Ear Buds Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 45:08


Ash is a loner on this episode cause Lucas.... wasn't into it. Check it out!

KEXP Live Performances Podcast
Kairos Creature Club

KEXP Live Performances Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 22:11


On the show this time, it's the genre-free Portland or Brooklyn or Jacksonville supergroup - Kairos Creature Club. Kairos Creature Club is a project created by Lena Simon (who previously played bass in La Luz) and Glenn Van Dyke (who co-founded the surfy pop-punk band BOYTOY). They invite collaborators to join in the fun - folks like drummer Kevin Jackson, Matt Shaw from Mother Gooses, Caroline Rose from … Caroline Rose, and Lucas Harwood from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Their latest album is 'Kairos Creature Club' available on Greenway Records. Recorded 05/20/2024. Exile Strangers Deleuzean Good Company Watch the full Live on KEXP session on YouTube.Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

KEXP Live Performances Podcast
Kairos Creature Club [Performance & Interview Only]

KEXP Live Performances Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 23:30


On the show this time, it's the genre-free Portland or Brooklyn or Jacksonville supergroup - Kairos Creature Club. Kairos Creature Club is a project created by Lena Simon (who previously played bass in La Luz) and Glenn Van Dyke (who co-founded the surfy pop-punk band BOYTOY). They invite collaborators to join in the fun - folks like drummer Kevin Jackson, Matt Shaw from Mother Gooses, Caroline Rose from … Caroline Rose, and Lucas Harwood from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Their latest album is 'Kairos Creature Club' available on Greenway Records. Recorded 05/20/2024. Exile Strangers Deleuzean Good Company Watch the full Live on KEXP session on YouTube.Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arab Digest podcasts
King Captagon

Arab Digest podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2024 29:52


Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is the New Lines Institute's Caroline Rose. The trade in the illicit synthetic drug Captagon continues to boom and much of it is run by Syria's Assad family. The Assads have built up a manufacturing and distribution network that brings them more than $2 billion a year. Despite Bashar al-Assad's promise to curtail the trade in return for being allowed back into the fold of the Arab states, captagon remains king as the Middle East's drug of choice. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.

KEXP Live Performances Podcast

On the show this time, it's the cinematic indie-pop of songwriter Caroline Rose. Caroline Rose is an uncompromising, ever morphing, creative force. They've been putting out music since 2012. Originally it was a folky Americana sound, with acoustic guitar, pedal steel and mandolins - though Caroline's lyrics were already potent with insight, entanglements, despair or dgaf ennui. Artistic evolution has been de rigeur since, and their latest is polished pop-music, as likely to feature the jitter of electronica as it is to sweep in with Hollywood strings. Consistently though, the album covers have been…Rose colored. The blood-red kind of roses. The new album cover features a rose-red blindfold. It's called 'The Art of Forgetting' and is available on New West Records. Recorded 04/28/2023. Tell Me What You Want Love Song For Myself Everywhere I Go I Bring the Rain Miami Watch the full Live on KEXP session on YouTubeSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

KEXP Live Performances Podcast
Caroline Rose [Performance & Interview Only]

KEXP Live Performances Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2024 27:57


On the show this time, it's the cinematic indie-pop of songwriter Caroline Rose. Caroline Rose is an uncompromising, ever morphing, creative force. They've been putting out music since 2012. Originally it was a folky Americana sound, with acoustic guitar, pedal steel and mandolins - though Caroline's lyrics were already potent with insight, entanglements, despair or dgaf ennui. Artistic evolution has been de rigeur since, and their latest is polished pop-music, as likely to feature the jitter of electronica as it is to sweep in with Hollywood strings. Consistently though, the album covers have been…Rose colored. The blood-red kind of roses. The new album cover features a rose-red blindfold. It's called 'The Art of Forgetting' and is available on New West Records. Recorded 04/28/2023. Tell Me What You Want Love Song For Myself Everywhere I Go I Bring the Rain Miami Watch the full Live on KEXP session on YouTubeSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arab Digest podcasts
The US and a pullout from Iraq and Syria

Arab Digest podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 30:34


Arab Digest editor William Law's guest this week is Caroline Rose, the Director of the Strategic Blind Spots Portfolio at Washington's New Lines Institute. In the midst of the Gaza war America continues to weigh up whether to remove its remaining troops on the ground from Syria and Iraq. A difficult call at any time but with growing uncertainty about the direction the Middle East is headed towards and in an election year that could return Donald Trump to the White House whatever the US decides will have profound implications for the region and beyond. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.

q: The Podcast from CBC Radio
James Ehnes on the reality of being a child prodigy + How Caroline Rose found healing through their most vulnerable music to date

q: The Podcast from CBC Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2024 49:51


Grammy-winning violinist James Ehnes is one of the most sought-after musicians in the world. The Order of Canada member violinist drops by the studio to tell Tom about his life in music and what it was like growing up as a child prodigy in Brandon, Manitoba. The musician Caroline Rose had an incredible 2023 - they released their album “The Art of Forgetting,” picked up a Grammy nomination and went on an international tour. But that tour wasn't an easy one. It was often sad, emotionally exhausting, and Caroline didn't think they'd want to get out on the road again for a long time. They tell Tom about why they've decided to get back on the bus and create a new tour that brings joy to their audience — and to them.

Free Pizza
206: Caroline Rose

Free Pizza

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2024 64:42


Caroline Rose is a multifaceted artist currently living in Savannah, Georgia. She talks about how her dad influenced her at a young age, dabbling with drawing throughout high school, her time at SCAD, working a variety of creative jobs over the years, non-profit work, teaching, and her life now working in different mediums. https://www.instagram.com/care.rose

Center for Global Policy Podcasts
What's Next for Iran and the U.S. in the Middle East?

Center for Global Policy Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2024 34:33


In today's episode of Eurasian Connectivity, host Kamran Bokhari sits down with New Lines' own Caroline Rose and non-resident fellow Col. Myles Caggins to discuss the recent escalation of events in the Middle East. In addition to recent U.S. strikes on Iranian proxies in Iraq, the trio talks about Iran's regional goals, Iraqi attitudes toward the Inherent Resolve coalition, and how the U.S. can deal with an increasingly complex future in the region.

SHEROES
A SHERO's Journey (revisited): Caroline Rose

SHEROES

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2024 45:56


A lot has happened since March of 2023 when the singer, songwriter, producer, and musician Caroline Rose released their brilliant third studio album, The Art of Forgetting. In addition to critical praise from NPR, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and Under the Radar, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Recording Package category - a big deal for Caroline Rose, who was the visionary and creative director behind the cover. They also announced their biggest tour yet, which kicks off in March of this year. We celebrate by revisiting our interview, and giving away a 10 pairs of tickets to her nationwide tour. (details at sheroesradio.com)

Better Place Project with Steve Norris
Favorite Holiday Traditions from BBP Guests: Encore Presentation from 2021

Better Place Project with Steve Norris

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2023 43:33


In this Encore Presentation of a Special Edition Holiday Episode from 2021, we compiled responses from 18 different guests of the podcast this year who answered the question "What is your favorite holiday tradition?"We received so many wonderful answers from all across the board, and even a few holidays and traditions that we've never heard of, from different cultures around the world.You'll here answers from Anaise and Carine Kanimba (Daughters of Paul Rusesabagina, real life hero of the movie Hotel Rwanda), Bailey Richardson (One of the first employees at @instagram), Caroline Rose (3 Time Stage 4 Cancer Survivor), Christy Harrison (Best Selling Anti-Diet Author), Dr. Chloe Carmichael (Psychiatrist and Author), Dr. Christian Heim (Psychiatrist/Preventative Mental Health Expert), Eric Winters (Author /Wellness Coach), Freddie Fuller (The Singing Cowboy), Hema Vyas (Psychologist and "Heart Whisperer"), Linda Bjork (Founder of Hope for Healing), Missy Bellinger (Co-Founder of A Shelter for Cancer Families), Paul House and Angie Gade (HouseInTheWoods.org), Robin Parrish (Co-Founder of Ecstatic Dance LA), Dr. Shad Helmstetter (Best Selling Author), Stephen Sayer and Chandrae Roettig Gomez (Professional Swing Dancers), Terence Lester (Activist, Author, Founder of Love Beyond Walls), Woody Fairthcloth (Founder of Emergency RV), and Zach Correa (Founder and CEO of LemonGRAFT).To stay connected with Better Place Project and for updates and behind the scenes info, please follow us on social media:Website:https://www.betterplaceproject.org/ Instagram: @BetterPlaceProj To follow Steve on Instagram@SteveNorrisOfficialFacebook: Facebook.com/BetterPlaceProjectPodcastTwitter: @BetterPlaceProjEmail: BetterPlaceProjectPodcast@gmail.com

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay
Debts-cember 2023 Part 2 - 8 Lazy Nights IV

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 41:40


Welcome to the Merry Month of Debts-cember!Part 2 - 8 Lazy Nights IV - On this week's show, because I just didn't have it in me to pull off another extended show, we're dialing it back with one of our shortest episodes of the year! 8 songs (one for each night of Chanukah) plus a bonus track to represent the starter candle.  All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay
Debts-cember 2023 Part 1 - Top 10 Albums of the Year

Debts No Honest Man Can Pay

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 170:49


Welcome to the Merry Month of Debts-cember!Part 1 - Top 10 Albums of 2023 - On this week's show, we spend quality time with the records that sparked joy, inspired us to get out of bed, face the day & conquer the world while the world continued to rage on like an unholy dumpster fire. All this & much, much less! Debts No Honest Man Can Pay is over 2 rock-solid hours of musical eclectica & other noodle stories. The show started in 2003 at WHFR-FM (Dearborn, MI), moved to WGWG-FM (Boiling Springs, NC) in 2006 & Plaza Midwood Community Radio (Charlotte, NC) in 2012, with a brief pit-stop at WLFM-FM (Appleton, WI) in 2004.

Creator to Creator's
Creator to Creators S5 Ep 29 Hannah Telle

Creator to Creator's

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2023 33:26


Hannah Telle on all platforms for new music, videos, and social posts. Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B01M0SNWKX/hannah-telle Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/hannah-telle/1154145704 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/hannah-telleSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6pXKQVhbDJnq2JknjjrAjr?si=ZTvM8kY9T5iaFNnuphsuFQYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/HannahTelleBioWaking Up To Tomorrow, the 3rd LP from Hannah Telle, finds her embracing a spiritualfolk expression as she delivers her songs with an unprecedented dose of mysticism andintrospection. She sings of her catharsis and the pain she encountered along the way. She takes time to admire the beauty of her surroundings. ”The new album is the counterpoint to her previous project, Walking Away From The Dream. Both were produced by Riley Geare, a drummer known for his contributions to the music of Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Caroline Rose.While she contemplated letting go on Walking Away From The Dream, the new albumbrings forth a bright return, acknowledging the power and weight of music in her life.The writing and development of Waking Up To Tomorrow, along with her recent return toLos Angeles, has manifested a creative reawakening for Hannah whose expression fillsthis album.The album is about hope, she said, about “realizing that old dreams that you thoughtwere dead and gone actually have a chance to be revived.

The John Batchelor Show
#Syria: Fragmented and violent as ever. Caroline Rose, New Lines Institute. @GPFutures

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2023 8:50


#Syria: Fragmented and violent as ever. Caroline Rose, New Lines Institute. @GPFutures https://geopoliticalfutures.com/in-syria-battle-lines-are-blurring/ 1910 DAMASCUS

Ableton Live Music Producers
#147 - Alberto Chapa

Ableton Live Music Producers

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2023 115:25


Alberto Chapa is a producer, Ableton Certified Trainer, and educator that has helped hundreds of artists turn their ideas into reality. Through his role as Brand Manager for Ableton, Inc, Alberto supports a diverse community of artists, educators, and students using technology to create amazing things.   His company, Musical Guest provides artist development and live performance solutions for artists like Imagine Dragons, LP Giobbi, Caroline Rose, Surfaces, Brockhampton, Mama Duke, and DIIV.  Follow Alberto Below: www.musicalguest.net  www.instagram.com/musicalguest Sponsored By:  Magic Mind is the world's #1 productivity drink. Drink it when you need mental clarity, focus, and energy throughout the day, without getting that "caffeine" anxiety. It contains 130x the antioxidants of regular green tea, including nootropics, adaptogens, and functional mushrooms with ceremonial grade matcha.  **Learn more at: ⁠⁠www.magicmind.com/ableton⁠⁠ 20% off code: ABLETON20 Join the newsletter to get free Ableton content + early episode access: https://www.liveproducersonline.com/newsletter

The John Batchelor Show
#MrMarket: What is the Indian-MiddleEast-Europe Economic Corridor? Caroline Rose, Geopolitical Futures @GPFutures. Assistant Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University.

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2023 9:00


#MrMarket: What is the Indian-MiddleEast-Europe Economic Corridor? Caroline Rose, Geopolitical Futures @GPFutures. Assistant Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University. https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-turkish-israeli-gas-pipeline-is-dead-in-the-water/ 1912 Jerusalem

Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast
Gwinnett schools increasing police presence at South Gwinnett, three other local schools after threats

Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 14:01


GDP Script/ Top Stories for friday Aug. 25 Publish Date: thur Aug. 24 From the Henssler Financial Studio Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast Today is Friday August 25th, and happy 74th birthday to rock legend Gene Simmons ****Simmons**** I'm Bruce Jenkins and here are your top stories presented by Peggy Slappey Properties Gwinnett schools increasing police presence at South Gwinnett, three other local schools after threats Lawrenceville man dies after drowning in Lake Lanier And New traffic cameras to be installed in Gwinnett's Gateway85 area   All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast, and if you are looking for community news, we encourage you to listen daily and subscribe!    Break 1 :  Slappey          Story 1. schools Several Gwinnett County schools, including South Gwinnett, Discovery, and Central Gwinnett High Schools, as well as Richards Middle School, have received threats, leading to increased police presence. A threat of a shooting at South Gwinnett High School was posted on social media, but it has been deemed not credible. Authorities are investigating, and additional School Resource Officers (SROs) have been deployed. Similar threats were made against the other schools, but investigations suggest they are copycats of the original threat. The incidents follow a recent panic at a football game between Central Gwinnett and Discovery High Schools after rumors of gunshots. Officials emphasize their commitment to student safety and the ongoing investigations...………….. read more at gwinnettdailypost.com   STORY 2: drowns Brayan Tarasona, a 22-year-old Lawrenceville man, tragically drowned in Lake Lanier. He was swimming with others near Van Pugh Park around 6:30 p.m. The Hall County Sheriff's Office reported that Tarasona encountered difficulties while returning to shore after venturing into deep water. Despite rescue efforts by Hall County Fire rescue marine teams, he was found and pronounced dead at a hospital. An autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause of his drowning. Story 3: cameras The Gateway85 Community Improvement District will provide the Gwinnett Police Department with 30 Axis security cameras, each valued at $2,550. These cameras will be installed at traffic signals throughout the 14-square mile district, which includes the I-85 and a part of I-285 corridor. The cameras will enhance traffic video coverage and add a security layer for parking lots and business fronts within the district. They will aid in identifying and locating offenders involved in various crimes, benefiting both public safety and traffic management. Notably, these Axis cameras are distinct from license plate readers known as flock cameras. We have opportunities for sponsors to get great engagement on these shows. Call 770.874.3200 for more info. We'll be right back   Break 2:   M.O.G.- Tom Wages -  Obits   Story 4: ballot Qualifying in Lawrenceville concluded with Mayor David Still and City Councilwoman Victoria Jones securing new terms unopposed. Bruce Johnson also qualified as the sole candidate for the Post 1 City Council seat, set to replace Councilman Glenn Martin, who decided not to seek re-election. Assuming no unforeseen issues arise, these officials are expected to start their terms in January. Read more about other upcoming races in the county at gwinnwettdailypost.com   Story 5: bid   Gwinnett County Sheriff Keybo Taylor has officially launched his re-election campaign, aiming to secure voter "reaffirmation" in 2024. Taylor, a Democrat and the first African-American sheriff in Gwinnett County's history, is highlighting his achievements since taking office in 2021, including ending the controversial federal immigration hold program and establishing new units focused on behavioral health, anti-gang efforts, and combating child exploitation. Despite his accomplishments, Taylor faces opposition within his own party and from across the political spectrum. Multiple Democrats and a Republican have announced plans to challenge him, citing concerns about morale and jail management.   Story 6: dixon   Georgia State Senator Clint Dixon, a Republican from Buford, suggests that supporters who want to challenge Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over the indictment of former President Donald Trump and others should file complaints with Georgia's new Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission. Dixon, frustrated with the indictment and accusing Willis of seeking attention, sees the commission as the appropriate way to address the issue. The commission was established this year but has sparked controversy, with some fearing it could be used for political purposes. Dixon dismisses calls for a special legislative session, suggesting that submitting complaints to the commission is a more feasible approach.   We'll be back in a moment   Break 3:  ESOG – Ingles 3 - Lawrenceville   Story 7: espn2   The anticipated Buford vs. Mill Creek high school football game on October 13 will be part of the nine-game GEICO ESPN High School Football Showcase. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN2 and is set to kick off at 7 p.m., 30 minutes earlier than usual. Buford, ranked in the top 10 nationally, will face Mill Creek, the reigning Class 7A state champions, in a matchup that has generated significant interest. Last year, Buford defeated Mill Creek, and this broadcasted game promises an exciting showdown between the two teams.   Story 8: Houston   Buford High School's star football recruit, Eddrick Houston, a five-star defensive lineman, has committed to Ohio State University. Houston, standing at 6 feet 4 inches and weighing 275 pounds, chose Ohio State over other top programs like Alabama, USC, Clemson, and Georgia. He ranks as the No. 23 player nationally in the 247Sports composite rankings, being ranked as the fourth-best defensive lineman and the sixth-best prospect in Georgia. Houston's commitment adds to Ohio State's success in recruiting highly touted Gwinnett County defensive linemen, following the signing of another standout in the previous cycle. In addition to football, Houston has excelled in wrestling and track and field at Buford High School.   Story 9:  bailey   Providence Christian's head volleyball coach, Katie Bailey, achieved her 200th career victory as her team secured a win with a 25-19, 25-19 score against Discovery. The victory marked a significant milestone in Bailey's coaching career. The team's strong performance was led by standout players including Maddie Smith with seven aces, Ella Styles with 10 kills, Caroline Rose with nine kills, and Emmy Moody with 15 digs. Bailey, who is also the assistant athletic director at Providence, has been coaching at the school since 2016, and she previously worked at Dominion Christian. She played college soccer at Cedarville University in Ohio.   We'll have final thoughts after this And now, Leah McGrath, corporate dietician at Ingles markets talks with us about foods that help with swollen feet ***LEAH***   Break 4:  Henssler 60 Thanks again for hanging out with us on today's Gwinnett Daily Post podcast. If you enjoy these shows, we encourage you to check out our other offerings, like the Cherokee Tribune Ledger Podcast, the Marietta Daily Journal, the Community Podcast for Rockdale Newton and Morgan Counties, or the Paulding County News Podcast. Read more about all our stories, and get other great content at Gwinnettdailypost.com. Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? Giving you important news about our community and telling great stories are what we do. Make sure you join us for our next episode and be sure to share this podcast on social media with your friends and family. Add us to your Alexa Flash Briefing or your Google Home Briefing and be sure to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.   www.wagesfuneralhome.com  www.psponline.com  www.mallofgeorgiachryslerdodgejeep.com  www.esogrepair.com  www.henssler.com  www.ingles-markets.com  www.downtownlawrencevillega.com  www.gcpsk12.orgSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ableton Live Music Producers
#141 - Nick Sanborn (Sylvan Esso)

Ableton Live Music Producers

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2023 62:00


Nick Sanborn is a Grammy-nominated artist, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and producer based in Durham, NC. He's best known for his work as half of the electronic duo Sylvan Esso, and for his solo work under the moniker Made of Oak. As a solo artist, he recently released a collaborative EP 'Inertia' with the NC-based producer GRRL, as GRRL x Made of Oak. Sanborn's producing credits include acclaimed releases from Mountain Man, Flock of Dimes, Caroline Rose, Daughter of Swords, The Tallest Man on Earth, and more. He is a co-founder of both the Psychic Hotline record label as well as Betty's, a recording studio based in Chapel Hill, NC. Follow Nick Below: www.madeofoak.comsylvanesso.com psychic-hotline.net Loopy Pro is a new live-performance DAW and looper which lets you easily build ANY kind of setup. You get unlimited loops and one-shot clips, a fully capable mixer, support for multi-channel USB soundcards, and deep plugin support with inserts, sends and instruments. Join many other professional artists and download the free trial! FREE TRIAL HERE: ⁠www.loopypro.com⁠ Join the newsletter to get early episode access + free Ableton Live downloads: www.liveproducersonline.com/newsletter

The Jordan Harbinger Show
864: Caroline Rose | Captagon and the New Age of Narco-Diplomacy

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2023 67:34 Transcription Available


New Lines Institute's Caroline Rose explains how captagon, a drug you may have never heard of, is propping up genocidal regimes in the Middle East. What We Discuss with Caroline Rose: What is captagon? Where did it originate, what are its effects, and why don't we hear about it in the United States? How captagon — with a potential trade value of over $5.7 billion annually — has transformed Assad's Syria into a Mediterranean narco-state. Who uses captagon on such a massive scale, and how is it manufactured and smuggled across borders? Why is Syria allowed a seat at INTERPOL, the organization established to reign in international crime — like the captagon trade? What can be done to stem the tide of captagon and prevent it from expanding its range and influence even further? And much more... Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/864 This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors: jordanharbinger.com/deals Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course! Like this show? Please leave us a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally!

The John Batchelor Show
#Russia:What is the future of the Wagner Group's money-laundering, diamond miness, gold mining, dictators and gunplay? Caroline Rose, New Lines Institute, GeopoliticalFutures.com @GPFutures. @CarolineRose8.

The John Batchelor Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2023 10:40


Photo: No known restrictions on publication. @Batchelorshow 1940 NWT #Russia:What is the future of the Wagner Group's money-laundering, diamond miness, gold mining, dictators and gunplay? Caroline Rose, New Lines Institute, GeopoliticalFutures.com @GPFutures. @CarolineRose8.  https://geopoliticalfutures.com/how-wagners-mutiny-affects-russias-global-footprint/

q: The Podcast from CBC Radio
How “Bones of Crows” helped Grace Dove find healing + Caroline Rose's new song

q: The Podcast from CBC Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2023 26:18


You might've first seen Grace Dove in the 2015 film “The Revenant” alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Now, she stars in the film “Bones of Crows,” which follows a Cree code talker who's dealing with the effects of intergenerational trauma. Grace tells guest host Vivek Shraya about the importance of this project being Indigenous-led, how the film helped her to heal from her own trauma, and what she hopes audiences take away from the story. Plus, Caroline Rose tells Tom the story behind their new song, “The Doldrums.”

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Singer/songwriter Caroline Rose has always been a character. Her music videos often feature Caroline as the screwball lead, navigating ambition, desire and super stardom. Now, on her latest album, The Art of Forgetting, Caroline is shedding all of the past pretense and offering up an unflinching look into her inner life in the midst of personal turmoil. The result is an album packed with clever lyricism and soaring arrangements produced by Caroline with help from Nick Sanborn of Sylvan Esso. On today's episode, Broken Record producer Leah Rose talks to Caroline Rose about why she wanted to set her living room on fire for the sake of her album art. Caroline also shares an early demo of a song she wrote under a starry desert sky, and she explains how aside from herself, Caroline's parents are her harshest critics. You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite Caroline Rose songs HERE.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast
EP 211: Caroline Rose & Nick MacDaniels (Big Something)

Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2023 75:48


Call/text us and leave a message: (720) 996-2403 No topic is out of bounds Nick MacDaniels and Damn Skippy join the fray as Frasco regales us with tales of near beat-downs in the streets of Seattle. Word to the wise: don't do meth! (But do shake our hands with love) And on the Interview Hour we got singer/songwriter/producer Caroline Rose! Her music is rad as heck and you should really get to know her. So listen to some Caroline Rose and see her on tour why don't ya?! Plus, passive aggressive emails from venue bookers. What, you don't like our reckless abandon and stage antics?   And don't forget to catch the band in a town near you andyfrasco.com/tour Follow us on Instagram @worldsavingpodcast For more information on Andy Frasco, the band and/or the blog, go to: AndyFrasco.com Check out Andy Frasco & The U.N. (Feat Little Stranger)'s new song, "Oh, What A Life" on iTunes, Spotify  Produced by Andy Frasco, Joe Angelhow, & Chris Lorentz Audio mix by Chris Lorentz Featuring: Thicc-Nick MacDaniels OG-Nick Gerlach Arno Bakker

All Songs Considered
New Mix: Lana Del Rey, Sidney Gish, beabadoobee, more

All Songs Considered

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2023 43:31


NPR Music's Marissa Lorusso and Hazel Cills join Bob Boilen to share their favorite new tracks, including an epic new song from Lana Del Rey and a love song from beabadoobee.Featured Songs And Artists:1. Lana Del Rey: "A&W," from Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd2. Sidney Gish: "Filming School" (Single)3. Seán Barna, "Benjamin Whishaw Smiled," from An Evening at Macri Park4. Caroline Rose, "The Doldrums," from The Art of Forgetting5. Avalon Emerson, "Sandrail Silhouette" (Single)6. beabadoobee, "Glue Song" (Single)

Song of the Day
Caroline Rose - Miami

Song of the Day

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2023 4:44


Today's Song of the Day is "Miami" from Caroline Rose's album, The Art of Forgetting, out March 24th.Caroline Rose will be performing at First Avenue on Sunday, April 23rd.