Podcast appearances and mentions of David Bezmozgis

David Bezmozgis reads his story “From, To,” from the April 14, 2025, issue of the magazine. Bezmozgis is the author of two novels and two story collections, “Natasha and Other Stories,” which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, and “Immigrant City,” which was a finalist for the Giller Prize in 2019. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

David Bezmozgis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Likes,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Bezmozgis is a filmmaker and writer. He has published two story collections and two novels, “The Free World,” which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize, and “The Betrayers,” which won the National Jewish Book Award. He was also chosen as one of The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 in 2010.

David Bezmozgis joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Likes,” by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, which was published in The New Yorker in 2017. Bezmozgis is a filmmaker and writer. He has published two story collections and two novels, “The Free World,” which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize, and “The Betrayers,” which won the National Jewish Book Award. He was also chosen as one of The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 in 2010.

As Israel's military offensive in Gaza drags into another week, many Jewish Canadians say they feel afraid — at the synagogue, at school and on the street. Matt Galloway talks to Rabbi Louis Sachs, human rights consultant Karen Mock, and writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis about the anxiety of the moment, unsettling echoes of the past and divisions within the community itself.

Voiced by actress, Keira Knightly, Charlotte, the movie is an animated drama that tells the true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative and deeply gifted, she dreams of becoming an artist. Her first love applauds her talent, which emboldens her resolve. But the world around her is changing quickly and dangerously, limiting her options, and derailing her dream. When anti-Semitic policies inspire violent mobs, she leaves Berlin for the safety of the South of France. There she begins to paint again and finds new love. But her work is interrupted, this time by a family tragedy that reveals an even darker secret. Believing that only the extraordinary will save her, she embarks on the monumental adventure of painting her life story, Life? or Theatre?At The Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, where the film was featured with Q &A on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day and National Film Day Canada, I sat down with Screenwriter, David Bezmozgis, to talk about how the film came to light and its relevance amidst the rise of antisemitism today. Discover this compelling film and 3 things you likely never knew about the Holocaust. Sign up to become a member of Janette's TV Youtube Channel!https://www.youtube.com/@JanettesTV/videos Support the show

We are joined by David Bezmozgis on the podcast this week. David is an award winning author, the host of the writing podcast Love and Defiance, and the creative director of the Humber School for Writers, and he speaks to us about all avenues of his career. He tells us about the different writing opportunities he's had, how he got involved in the Humber School for Writers and what the mentor-based program involves, and he tells us about his podcast and how he hopes it can inspire aspiring writers. Learn more about this episode!

This episode we’re talking about the Best Books We Read in 2020! (Not necessarily things that came out in 2020, but there are some of those too!) We discuss reading in the pandemic era, “good enough” reads, academic publishing, and more! Plus: Are noodles media? You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Favourite Fiction For the podcast Matthew The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark  (From Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History) Serre Watch Matthew and Meghan play this visual novel! (From Episode 108 - Visual Novels) Anna Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer (From Episode 115 - New Weird) Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville (From Episode 106 - Alternative/Alternate History) Meghan The Etched City by KJ Bishop (From Episode 115 - New Weird) RJ Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (From Episode 107 - Pet by Akwaeke Emezi) Not for the podcast Anna Binding Shadows by Jasmine Silvera Meghan The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley RJ Saturday by Oge Mora Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira Read online for free Delicious In Dungeon, vol. 1 by Ryoko Kui Matthew A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark Read online for free The Space Traders by Derrick Bell (Wikipedia) Collected in Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora edited by Sheree Thomas  68:Hazard:Cold by Janelle C. Shane Read online for free Listen to the podcast version Houses by Mark Pantoja Read online for free The Murderbot Diaries Series by Martha Wells Favourite Non-Fiction For the podcast Meghan Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery (From Episode 092 - Arts (Non-Fiction)) RJ The Debunking Handbook by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky (From Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies) Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman (From Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction) Matthew Comics and Critical Librarianship: Reframing the Narrative in Academic Libraries edited by Olivia Piepmeier and Stephanie Grimm (From Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies)     A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer (From Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction) Anna Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction by Maria T. Accardi (From Episode 100 - Library and Information Studies) Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama (From Episode 104 - Entertainment Non-Fiction) Not for the podcast RJ Dinosaur Feathers by Dennis Nolan Matthew Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots by Kate Devlin Anna On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss Meghan The Undying by Anne Boyer  Other Favourites Things of 2020 Anna The Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (trailer on YouTube) RJ Dan-Dan Noodles?? Noodles are media, right??? Dandan noodles (Wikipedia) RJ’s recipe  Leather Archives & Museum Instagram account Game Changer episode 1 - The Game Show Where Nobody Knows the Rules (YouTube) Matthew Reply All, episode 158, The Case of the Missing Hit Anarchism & Police Abolition｜Feat. Domri Rade Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata Meghan Nature (no hyperlink, see: outside) (No, there’s a hyperlink - Matthew) Runner-Ups RJ  Fiction Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong RJ  Other Steven Universe Future (Wikipedia) Sohla El-Waylly / Stump Sohla Meghan  Fiction Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya Self Care by Leigh Stein Dread Nation by Justina Ireland After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones  The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis  Meghan Non-fiction Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Turning by Jessica J. Lee Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language by Katherine Russell Rich  Meghan  French Language Tom Thomson, esquisses du printemps by Sandrine Revel Les petites victoires by Yvon Roy Waves by Ingrid Chabbert Un soleil entre des planètes mortes by Anneli Furmak  Matthew Comics Emanon, vol. 1 by Shinji Kajio and Kenji Tsuruta  On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden Read online Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll Monstress, vol. 3: Haven by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda (yes, I’m two volumes behind, the next volume is literally sitting on my shelf waiting to be read) Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, vol. 1 by Kagiji Kumanomata Steeple by John Allison (webcomic) Blade Runner 2019, vol. 1 by Michael Green, Mike Johnson, Andres Guinaldo (Illustrator) Le facteur de l'espace by Guillaume Perreault (in French! It’s not just Meghan who reads French language things now) Available in English as The Postman from Space Rock Mary Rock, vol. 1 by Nicky Soh Webcomic version Gardens of Glass by Lando Other Media We Mentioned You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane Robots: The Recent A.I. edited by Rich Horton and Sean Wallace Pulgasari (Wikipedia) - North Korean giant monster movie I Blame the Patriarchy by Twisty Faster Links, Articles, and Things #LibFaves20 (library worker’s favourite books published in 2020) National Magazine Awards Winners 2020 AI Weirdness Overlay journal Our Twitch channel! 21 Books in Translation by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi, translated by Sawad Hussain (Arabic) Mirror of the Darkest Night by Mahasweta Devi, translated by Shamya Dasgupta (Bengali) Invisible Planets: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese SF in Translation, edited and translated by Ken Liu (Chinese) Beijing Comrades by Bei Tong, translated by Scott E. Myers (Chinese) The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, translated by Anonymous (Farsi) Ru by Kim Thúy, translated by Sheila Fischman (French) Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated by Roland Glasser (French) Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye, translated by John Fletcher (French) Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen, translated by Anna Halager (Greenlandic/Danish) Beauty Is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker (Indonesian) Beyond Babylon by Igiaba Scego, translated by Aaron Robertson (Italian) Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo, translated by Jamie Chang (Korean) Your Republic is Calling You by Young-Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim (Korean) The Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda (Japanese) Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur (Kannada) The Sun on My Head by Geovani Martins, translated by Julia Sanches (Portugese) Good Morning Comrades by Ondjaki, translated by Stephen Henighan (Portugese) Time Commences in Xibalbá by Luis de Lión, translated by Nathan C. Henne (Spanish) La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono, translated by Lawrence Schimel (Spanish) Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan, translated by N. Kalyan Raman (Tamil) Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks by Boubacar Boris Diop, translated by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop (Wolof/French) Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 5th we’ll be discussing the genre of Sociology! Then on Tuesday, January 19th we’ll be talking about our Reading Resolutions for 2021!

Novelist and filmmaker David Bezmozgis speaks about his 2014 novel The Betrayers, an intense look at morality and the human conscience, that won the National Jewish Book Award. The book is about a famous Russian Jewish dissident who, after the fall of the Soviet Union, meets the man who denounced him. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 33367]

Novelist and filmmaker David Bezmozgis speaks about his 2014 novel The Betrayers, an intense look at morality and the human conscience, that won the National Jewish Book Award. The book is about a famous Russian Jewish dissident who, after the fall of the Soviet Union, meets the man who denounced him. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 33367]

Novelist and filmmaker David Bezmozgis speaks about his 2014 novel The Betrayers, an intense look at morality and the human conscience, that won the National Jewish Book Award. The book is about a famous Russian Jewish dissident who, after the fall of the Soviet Union, meets the man who denounced him. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 33367]

Novelist and filmmaker David Bezmozgis speaks about his 2014 novel The Betrayers, an intense look at morality and the human conscience, that won the National Jewish Book Award. The book is about a famous Russian Jewish dissident who, after the fall of the Soviet Union, meets the man who denounced him. Series: "Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Humanities] [Show ID: 33367]

Excited and grateful to be showcasing Dr. Marissa Slaven on Living Fearlessly with Lisa McDonald this Friday at 8am Pacific/11am Eastern on The Contact Talk Radio Network! Thank you for being one of 400K Living Fearlessly with Lisa McDonald Podcast Subscribers! Thank you to #HaltonHonda for their endorsement and corporate sponsorship of Living Fearlessly with Lisa McDonald! #Grateful #Radio #Podcasts #CSuiteRadio #CTRN #HaltonHonda #Sponsorship #LivingFearlessly Marissa Slaven is an emerging author, practicing palliative care physician, and life-long reader of literature. Inspired by Austen, Dickens as well as Asimov and Bradbury, she honed her writing skills at the Humber School of Writers where she was mentored by authors David Bezmozgis and Tim Wynne-Jones. Her resulting debut YA novel, Code Blue, balances the haunting impact of climate change with a compelling coming-of-age story, mixed with elements of mystery and intrigue. With a strong female protagonist, her environmental dystopian YA adventure combines impressive scientific knowledge, a well-crafted plot and fully developed characters. This book will be published on Earth Day April 22nd 2018 by Moon Willow Press. A frequent speaker in medical circles, Marissa’s career as a physician and science background fueled her research into climate change; a topic she has become extremely knowledgeable and passionate about. Born in Montreal and a graduate of McGill’s prestigious medical school, Marissa completed her medical training in Boston Massachusetts. She continues to work as a palliative care physician, and has also dedicated herself to the craft of writing, sharpening her writing skills through her connection with Humber and the SCWBI. In her free time, she shares her love of reading with her husband and children and enjoys yoga, movies and football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 60 of One Week Only! This week, we are joined by special guest Charlie Nash, freelance film journalist and member of the Boston Online Film Critics Association! Our key film this week is the absurdist French farce "Slack Bay" about a ridiculously weird wealthy family in 1910's France on holiday at their seaside estate, and the mysterious "disappearances" going on in the neighborhood. Featuring a wonderful cast (including Juliette Binoche) playing a variety of strange characters, it's an absurd comedy about class and society told with expertly dark humor and visual splendor by director Bruno Dumont. It opened last week in New York, opened the COLCOA French Film Festival this week, and is now playing in Los Angeles.(44:00) We also review the horror film "A Dark Song" about an occult ceremony, directed by Liam Gavin (4:00); the period biopic "Nise: The Heart of Madness" about a courageous Brazilian doctor, directed by Roberto Berliner (10:35); the journalism documentary "Obit" about The New York Times obituary department, directed by Vanessa Gould (17:05); the Israeli dramedy "One Week and a Day" about a couple dealing with grief, directed by Asaph Polonsky (29:50); and the Canadian Jewish drama "Natasha" about Russian immigrants, directed by David Bezmozgis (36:50). Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

This week’s episode was recorded live at Beth Tzedec Congregation in Drake's hometown of Toronto. Our Jewish guest is writer and filmmaker David Bezmozgis, who moved with his family from Latvia to Toronto when he was six years old. He tells us just how dangerous he thinks a Trump presidency will be, and why Americans shouldn’t flee to Canada but instead stay and fight. Our Gentile of the week is Julie Nesrallah, mezzo-soprano and host of Tempo, CBC Radio 2’s classical music program. She tells us about founding Carmen on Tap, a company that performs Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen as dinner theatre, and treats us to a song from the 1875 opera.Like listening to Unorthodox? Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get new episodes and more. Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com with comments, questions, and kvetches. We may share your letter on air. Today’s episode is brought to you by Harry’s. For a great shave at an affordable price, go to Harrys.com and use promo code UNORTHODOX at checkout to get their free trial set and post-shave balm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

His new movie Natasha opens the Toronto JewishFilm Festival on Thursday and goes into theatrical release inToronto and Vancouver on Friday, so this seemed like the perfecttime to get author and filmmaker DavidBezmozgis into the basement to talk about the cinematicjoyride that is Leos Carax’ Holy Motors. Fun fact:Your genial host Norm Wilner did this entire episode ina leotard covered … Continue reading David Bezmozgis on Holy Motors →

The Betrayers (Little Brown and Company) Please welcome back to Skylight Books David Bezmozgis, the award-winning author of Free World and Natasha and Other Stories. His latest, The Betrayers is a compact saga of love, duty, family, and sacrifice from a rising star whose fiction is "self-assured, elegant, perceptive . . . and unflinchingly honest" (New York Times) These incandescent pages give us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident who now finds himself a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the settlements in the West Bank, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior, and the besieged couple escapes to Yalta, the faded Crimean resort of Kotler's youth. There, shockingly, Kotler comes face-to-face with the former friend whose denunciation sent him to the Gulag almost forty years earlier. In a whirling twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed, including a teenage daughter, a son facing his own moral dilemma in the Israeli army, and the wife who once campaigned to secure his freedom and stood by him through so much. Stubborn, wry, and self-knowing, Baruch Kotler is one of the great creations of contemporary fiction. An aging man grasping for a final passion, he is drawn inexorably into a crucible that is both personal and biblical in scope. In prose that is elegant, sly, precise, and devastating in its awareness of the human heart, David Bezmozgis has rendered a story for the ages, an inquest into the nature of fate and consequence, love and forgiveness. The Betrayers" is a high-wire act, a powerful tale of morality and sacrifice that will haunt readers long after they turn the final page.  Praise for The Betrayers“The Betrayers is a moral thriller in the tradition of Bernard Malamud, but the generosity, grace, and wisdom of the writing belong entirely to David Bezmozgis. The magic of fiction is that it makes the reader care deeply about imaginary strangers, and Bezmozgis is a magician.”—Aleksandar Hemon, National Book Award finalist for The Lazarus Project “This outstanding novel definitively establishes David Bezmozgis as one of the foremost writers of his generation.”—Ben Fountain, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk “This unforgettable novel squanders no words in its brilliant, deft depictions of love, of memory, of compassion—and, ultimately, despite its title, of loyalty.”—Edith Pearlman, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award forBinocular Vision  David Bezmozgis moved from Latvia to Canada at the age of six. After studying English literature at McGill University and fine arts at the Southern California School of Cinema-Television, he created his first documentary in 1999, entitled L.A. Mohel, capturing the busy lives of three mohels (Jewish ritual circumcisers) in Los Angeles. His debut short story collection, Natasha and Other Stories, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and was nominated for a Governor General's Award. Bezmozgis is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

At first glance, the appeal of an essay collection titled Jewish Jocks might seem limited to a small, if fervent, readership. In fact, the anthology, edited by former Tablet writer Marc Tracy and New Republic editor Franklin Foer, is lively and full of surprises, even for readers with no horse in this race. In essays by writers as varied as Simon Schama, David Bezmozgis, Emily Bazelon, and David Brooks, there are entries on the usual suspects, such as Barney Ross and Sandy Koufax. But the collection also includes profiles of lesser-known talents like Soviet weightlifter Grigory Novak, Brooklyn-born matador Sidney Frumpkin, as well as downright mediocre (but beloved to some) players like Mets right-fielder Art Shamsky. Finally, there are those included in the collection for the ways they elevated sport... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Book of Life's Canadian Correspondent Anne Dublin interviews author and filmmaker David Bezmozgis about his development as a writer and his new novel The Free World. After this December 2011 episode, The Book of Life moves from a monthly schedule to an occasional schedule. bookoflifepodcast.com

David Bezmozgis reads Sergei Dovlatov's "The Colonel Says I Love You" and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

Natasha and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) David Bezmozgis captures the lives of Jewish immigrants in Canada. The difficulty of starting a new life in a new place is reflected by the prose style, which is tough, spiky and even belligerent...