Podcast appearances and mentions of David Vann

A sengem neie Roman “La Contrée obscure” (Ed. Gallmeister) erzielt den Amerikaner David Vann déi bluddeg Eruewerung vu Florida am 16. Joerhonnert duerch d'Spuenier. Zwee Personnagë sti sech géigeniwwer: de Conquistador Hernando De Soto, dee fir seng illusoresch Sich no Gold iwwer Läiche geet; an dann de Juan Ortiz, e Spuenier, deen eng Sympathie fir déi indigen Populatiounen entwéckelt huet, obwuel hie jorelaang vun Indianer gefaange gehale gouf. Fir den David Vann war dee Roman d'Geleeënheet, sengen eegene Cherokee-Originnen op de Fong ze goen. De Michel Delage huet um Festival "Etonnants voyageurs" zu Saint-Malo mam David Vann geschwat.

We made it to 100 episodes! In this celebration of books, reading and creative community, James and Ashley reflect on how the podcast came about, their favourite books and moments from the podcast, and how their lives, health and writing have changed over the four years since episode 1.  You'll also hear from a variety of past guests and listeners, and get an update on the newest books from all our incredible range of previous guests. Plus, we announce the winner of our book pack giveaway.  Authors and books discussed in this episode: Red River Road by Anna Downes (from ep 5) The Shadow House by Anna Downes The Safe Place by Anna Downes Meshi: A Personal History of Japanese Food by Katherine Tamiko Arguile (from ep 7) The Last Trace by Petronella McGovern (from ep 12)  The Good Teacher by Petronella McGovern  The Liars by Petronella McGovern  The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall (from ep 13)  The Silent Listener by Lyn Yeowart (from ep 39)  Dirt by David Vann (from ep 23)  Bianca Millroy, upcoming curator of Science Write Now  Josephine Taylor (from ep 20)  Adele Dumont (from ep 93) Little Bit by Heather Taylor Johnson (forthcoming) (from ep 41)  Ten Thousand Aftershocks by Michelle Tom (from ep 38)  The Vitals by Tracy Sorensen (from ep 96) Fragile Creatures by Khin Myint  Madrid: A New Biography by Luke Stegemann (from ep 26)  Happy Millionth Birthday by RWR McDonald (from ep 32)  Ghost Cities by Siang Liu (from ep 99)  The Keepers by Al Campbell (from ep 65)  Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year by Joanna Nell (from ep 33)  Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan (from ep 14)  Love & Autism by Kay Kerr (from ep 37)  Australiana by Yumna Kassab (from ep 57)  The Lovers by Yumna Kassab  Politico by Yumna Kassab  Good Dog by Kate Leaver (from ep 8)  Safe Haven by Shankari Chandran (from ep 48)  Unfinished Business by Shankari Chandran Tipping Point by Dinuka McKenzie (from ep 51)  Taken by Dinuka McKenzie The Torrent by Dinuka McKenzie Australian Gospel by Lech Blaine (from ep 52)  Dying to Know by Rae Cairns (from ep 58)  The Good Mother by Rae Cairns  Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood by Darryl Jones (from ep 67)  Never Ever Forever by Karina May (from ep 78) Compassion by Julie Janson (from ep 80)  Benevolence by Julie Janson  Madukka the River Serpent by Julie Janson  Love, Dad by Laurie Steed (from ep 87) Greater City Shadows by Laurie Steed Girl Falling by Hayley Scrivenor (from ep 68)  Imbi Neeme (from ep 98)  A Real Piece of Work by Erin Riley  Sarah Sentilles (from ep 50)  Rattled by Ellis Gunn (from ep 56)  Jacinta Dietrich, favourite friend of the podcast and co-host of Differently Brained (from ep 45) Ada Palmer (from ep 16) The Writer Laid Bare by Lee Kofman (from ep 76)  Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver  David Copperfield by Charles Dickens  Scary Monsters by Michelle de Krester  Upcoming events  James is teaching an online creative writing workshop for Laneway Learning on Tuesday 23 July, 6.15pm Ashley is in conversation with Lisa Kenway to launch her debut thriller on Thursday 1 August, 6.30pm Ashley is part of the Northern Beaches Readers Festival, 27-28 September Ashley is teaching Online: Creative Nonfiction for Writing NSW, a six-week online course starting 30 September Ashley is in conversation with Heather Taylor Johnson in celebration of her latest novel, Little Bit, on Thursday 3 October, 6.30pm  Ashley is teaching Crafting Memoir for the New England Writers Centre online, Saturday 12 October, 2-3.30pm  James is teaching Writing Setting and Landscape for Writing NSW, Saturday 26 October, 10am-4pm Learn more about Ashley's bestselling psychological thriller Dark Mode and get your copy from your local bookshop or library.  Learn more about James' award-winning novel Denizen and get your copy from your local bookshop or library. Get in touch! ashleykalagianblunt.com jamesmckenziewatson.com Instagram: @akalagianblunt + @jamesmcwatson

Our most popular episode of the year is back! James has gathered the best 'What Are You Reading?' segments from 2023 into a comprehensive summary of book recommendations from our guests.   We discuss a huge variety of books, including thriller, mystery, memoir, rom com, literature, essays, poetry, nonfiction, plays and audiobooks. We also delve into reading habits. Do you read several books at a time, or restrict yourself to one? Do you finish most books you pick up, or allow yourself to quit? And so much more.  This episode features Hilton Koppe, Sanchana Venkatesh, Lee Kofman, Anna Spargo-Ryan, Karina May, Hannah Bent, Holden Sheppard, Hayley Scrivenor, Danielle Binks, Julie Janson, Mark Brandi, Indira Naidoo, Amy Lovat, Jonathon Shannon, Ali Thomas, Jacinta Dietrich, and Annette Higgs.  Books and authors discussed in this episode: Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang; The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill;  Lost Connections by Johann Hari; Homesickness by Janine Mikosza; The Fire and the Rose by Robyn Cadwallader; Turning Points in Medieval History by Dorsey Armstrong; Crying in H Mary by Michelle Zauner; Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason; Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner; Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom; The Wych Elm by Tana French; In the Woods by Tana French; The Others by Mark Brandi; Stolen Focus by Johann Hari; Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka; Crushing by Genevieve Novak; No Hard Feelings by Genevieve Novak; The Shot by Naima Brown; The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy; Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy; The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho; Ghost Music by An Yu; Eta Draconis by Brendan Ritchie; We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson; The Long Knives by Irvine Welsh; We Could Be Something by Will Kostakis; Windhall by Ava Barry; The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane; Limberlost by Robbie Arnott; Benevolence by Julie Janson; Compassion by Julie Janson; Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami; The People of the River by Grace Karskens; Nardi Simpson (from ep 18); Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright; The Trial by Franz Kafka; Mistakes and Other Lovers by Amy Lovat; Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier; Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier; A Country of Eternal Light by Paul Dalgarno; Brilliant Lies by David Williamson; Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler; A Swim in the Pond in the Road by George Saunders; Lee Kofman (from ep 76); Kate Mildenhall (from ep 13); Sarah Sentilles (from ep 50); From Bhutan to Blacktown by Om Dhungel; Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver; Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe Stolen Focus by Johann Hari; Yellowface by Rebecca Kuang;      Dress Rehearsals by Madison Godfrey; Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey; Lucy Clarke; Echolalia by Briohny Doyle; Bunny by SE Tolsen; On a Bright Hillside in Paradise by Annette Higgs; When One of Us Hurts by Monica Vuu; Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld; A Mile Down by David Vann; A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh; The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger; The Reader by Bernard Schlink; The Tilt by Chris Hammer; The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes; The Joy Thief by Penny Moodie; We Didn't Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough; Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo; Obsession by Nicole Madigan  Learn more about Ashley's psychological thriller Dark Mode and get your copy here or from your local bookshop.  Learn more about James' award-winning novel Denizen and get your copy here or from your local bookshop. Upcoming events  Ashley is teaching Online Feedback: Manuscript Development for Writing NSW starting 4 March 2024 Ashley is teaching Writing Crime Fiction, a six-week online course with Faber starting 15 May 2024  Get in touch! ashleykalagianblunt.com jamesmckenziewatson.com Instagram: @akalagianblunt + @jamesmcwatson

E a recomendação desta semana é a obra avassaladora de David Vann "A Ilha de Caribou." Graças à icónica livraria Flâneur, os ouvintes deste podcast poderão beneficiar de uma oferta exclusiva e, sejamos honestos, espectacular. Ouçam o episódio para saber o quê e como e corram ao site da Flâneur: https://flaneur.pt/ Sigam-nos e comentem este episódio em: instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livrosdapica/ twitter: https://twitter.com/livrosdapica

From 2010- David Vann, author of "Legend of a Suicide"

This special episode gathers the best 'What Are You Reading?' segments from 2022 into a comprehensive summary of book recommendations from Australian and international authors. These well-informed highlights will give you plenty of last-minute gift solutions and ideas for how to spend your Christmas gift cards! Plus, James and Ashley each declare their book of the year for 2022.  Books discussed in this episode: From episode 48, with Shankari Chandran: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell; Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson (from ep 18); Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie; They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall; Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian translated by Mabel Lee From episode 49, with Jacinta Dietrich: Certain Prey by John Sandford; Mortal Prey by John Sandford From episode 50, with Sarah Sentilles: Bewilderment by Richard Powers; A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet The Rabbits by Sophie Overett; This Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson From episode 51, with Dinuka McKenzie: Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding; How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner; Theft by Finding by David Sedaris; A Carnival of Snackery by David Sedaris From episode 55, with Katherine Collette: Found, Wanting by Natasha Sholl; Love Stories by Trent Dalton; After Story by Larissa Behrendt From episode 56, with Ellis Gunn: The Writing Life by Annie Dillard; The Luminous Solution by Charlotte Wood; How to Be Australian by Ashley Kalagian Blunt; Outline by Rachel Cusk; The Break by Katherena Vermette From episode 57, with Yumna Kassab: Blindness by Jose Saramago; The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann; The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez Divorce Is in the Air by Gonzalo Torne; Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au From episode 56, with Rae Cairns: Autumn by Ali Smith; The Children's Bible by Lydia Millet; Negative Space by BR Yeager; Goat Mountain by David Vann; Black and Blue by Veronica Gorrie From episode 63, with Bronwyn Birdsall Indelible City by Louisa Lim; The Writer Laid Bare by Lee Kofman; A Kind of Magic by Anna Spargo-Ryan From episode 65, with Al Campbell The Signal Line by Brendan Colley; Denizen by James McKenzie Watson; The Writer Laid Bare by Lee Kofman (who we spoke to back in ep 4); Curlews on Vulture Street by Darryl Jones From episode 67, with Darryl Jones: The Writer Laid Bare by Lee Kofman (featured in ep 3); One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez; Auē by Becky Manawatu James' novel 'Denizen' is out now! Learn more about it and buy your copy here.  Make 2023 the Year You Write Your Book! Monday 30 January 2023, 7:45-9pm AEDT. Online via Zoom. Tix $9-14. Launch of Taken with Dinuka McKenzie in conversation with Ashley Sunday 5 February, 4pm. Better Read Than Dead, Newtown (in person). Free, RSVP required. Get in touch! Ashley's website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

Author Al Campbell joins us to discuss her debut book 'The Keepers,' a fictionalised account of her own life both as the mother of two autistic boys and the survivor of an abusive parent.  Al shares the reasons behind her choice to write fiction instead of memoir, what people don't realise about the life of a full-time carer, and the struggle for disability advocacy.  'The Keepers' is a contemporary Australian novel infused with deep love and wild torment, 'about the damage done by parents who can't love, the failures of a community that only claims to care, and the resilience of those whose stories mostly go untold'. Born in Brisbane, Al Campbell is a mother and full-time carer. Long ago she studied a bit, acted a bit, and pulled a lot of beers. Her first publication was in 'Overland' in 2020, followed by a story in 'Signs of Life.' 'The Keepers' is about issues – and people – that matter to her more than anything. Get your copy of 'The Keepers' from your local bookshop, Booktopia or wherever good books are sold. Plus, check out the online courses from Writing NSW, including the six-week Online: Creative Non-fiction with Ashley, starting 31 October.  Books and authors discussed in this episode: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; David Vann; Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon; We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver; The Signal Line by Brendan Colley; Denizen by James McKenzie Watson; The Writer Laid Bare by Lee Kofman (who we spoke to back in ep 4); The Suspect by Michael Robotham; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy; Curlews on Vulture Street by Darryl Jones; The Whispering by Veronica Lando; Vikki Petraitis James' novel 'Denizen' is out now! Learn more about it and buy your copy here.  Get in touch! Ashley's website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

***Warning! Spoilers for Denizen by James McKenzie Watson in this episode*** Heads up, this episode of James and Ashley Stay at Their Respective Homes in Separate Cities is full of spoilers for Denizen. If you haven't read Denizen yet, you can still enjoy reading about our special double-guest episode, and then get even more excited to go and read Denizen so you can listen without spoiler concerns. Double guests? That's right, we finally get to speak with debut novelist Hayley Scrivenor, plus we welcome back our one and only repeat guest, author Jacinta Dietrich. We jump in immediately by talking about *that ending* and then discuss the ethics of writing violence, one-star reviews, and, of course, the great lasagna-with-a-side-of-peas debate.  Hayley Scrivenor is the author of the number one Australian bestseller Dirt Town, also out now in the US and UK. She is a former Director of Wollongong Writers Festival. An earlier version of Dirt Town was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize and won the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award. Hayley lives on Dharawal country, on the east coast of Australia, and has a PhD in Creative Writing. Jacinta Dietrich is a writer and editor who holds a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. Her first book, This Is Us Now, was published in 2021 by Grattan Street Press. We first spoke to Jacinta back in episode 45. Get your copy of Denizen from your local bookshop, Booktopia or wherever else good books are sold. Plus, check out the online courses from Writing NSW, including the six-week Online: Creative Non-fiction with Ashley, starting 31 October.  Books and authors (and one doco) discussed in this episode:  Robert Gott;  This Is Us Now by Jacinta Dietrich (from ep 45);  Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor;  Petronella McGovern (from ep 12);  Abducted in Plain Sight (Netflix), directed by Skye Borgman;  Halibut on the Moon by David Vann (from ep 23);  There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura;  Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov;  Karl Ove Knausgård (of course);  My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach;  The Keepers by Al Campbell;  Dark Deeds Down Under, edited by Craig Sisterson;  Reacher Said Nothing: The Making of Make Me by Andy Martin;  Dancing Barefoot by Alice Boyle;  Earthlings by Sayaka Murata;  The Whispering by Veronica Lando  Get in touch! Ashley's website: ashleykalagianblunt.com  Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt  Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt  James' website: jamesmckenziewatson.com  James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson  James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

'Denizen,' the Penguin Literary Prize winning novel from James McKenzie Watson is finally out in the world! In this episode, Ashley asks James about the experience of taking 'Denizen' from idea to published novel. He shares insights into how to seriously improve your writing craft and how to understand your work as a reflection of your life. James also answers the big question – what does his mum think of 'Denizen?' James McKenzie Watson writes fiction with a focus on health and rural Australia. His novel 'Denizen' won the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize. 'Denizen' also received a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship and a 2021 KSP Residential Fellowship. His writing has appeared in Meanjin and the Newtown Review of Books. He works as a nurse in regional New South Wales. Get your copy of 'Denizen' from your local bookshop, Booktopia or wherever else good books are sold. Shout out to Australia's hardworking independent booksellers! Books and authors discussed in this episode: David Vann (of course); Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor; The Liars by Petronella McGovern (from ep 12), out in September 2022; The Writer Laid Bare by Lee Kofman (from ep 4); RWR McDonald (from ep 32);   Lyn Yeowart (from ep 39)  Denizen launch events: Dubbo Launch – Macquarie Regional Library, 19 July at 6:30pm (hosted by Book Connection, with special guest Nic Healey). Free, book here! Online Launch – hosted by @daniveebooks_wordsandnerds, 21 July at 8pm (with special guests Petronella McGovern and Lyn Yeowart). Follow Dani Vee Books – Words and Nerds Podcast on Facebook to join on the night! Sydney Launch – Gleebooks, Glebe, 28 July at 6:30pm, with special guest Ashley Kalagian Blunt, $12/$9/free, book here! Melbourne Launch – Readings Emporium, Melbourne, 3 August at 6pm, with special guest Lee Kofman. Free, book here! Ashley's next online writing workshop, The Joy of Creative Writing, is on Monday 25 July, 7:45-9 pm AEST online via Zoom. Book in here! Get in touch! Ashley's website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

Les sorties BD de Xavier Vanbuggenhout : - « Goat Mountain », d'après le roman de David Vann de O. Carol et Georges Van Linthout (Philéas) - « Adieu Triste Amour » de Mirion Malle (La Ville Brûle) - « Chloé Densité » (Intégrale) de Lewis Trondheim, Stan et Vince au dessin et Walter et Julia Leonidovna Pinchuk aux couleurs (Delcourt / Collection Shampooing) Roméo Elvis pour la sortie de son nouvel album "Tout peut arriver". Il sera en concert le 7 juin au Botanique à Bruxelles et le 17 juillet au Dour Festival. Le coup de coeur de Gorian Delpâture : "Lord Cochrane et le Trésor de Selkirk" de Gilberto Villarroel (Aux Forges de Vulcain). Le marin le plus audacieux de tous les temps revient pour une nouvelle aventure.Chili, 1822. Tremblement de terre et raz-de-marée à Valparaíso. Lord Cochrane, amiral de la flotte chilienne, sauve la vie du général Bernardo O'Higgins. En guise de remerciement, le général lui révèle que sur l'île principale de l'archipel de Juan Fernández, le corsaire Alexander Selkirk a caché en 1704 un trésor que personne n'a pu retrouver. Tout indique que le trésor est une relique que Selkirk a apportée avec lui d'une région du détroit de Magellan que les aborigènes appellent les Montagnes Hallucinées. Cet endroit aurait été la première demeure sur Terre d'un dieu venu des étoiles, l'immortel Cthulhu. Intrigué, Lord Cochrane part pour Juan Fernández avec son amie Maria Graham et le capitaine Eonet. Il est aussi poursuivi par un de ses vieux ennemis, le capitaine Gervasio Corrochano, un ancien officier de la marine espagnole qui commande désormais un bateau pirate, l'Águila. Cochrane est de retour pour élucider un ancien mystère et affronter de nouveaux dangers, cette fois dans les eaux dangereuses du Pacifique !

After a broken finger brought on a debilitating illness, author Rae Cairns lost two years as her doctors searched for the right treatment. A bad reaction to drugs caused her hair to fall out. When her health had stabilised enough for her to return to writing, she lost her literary agent. Undeterred, Rae self-published her novel. After being shortlisted for a major award, she had a new agent and a two-book publishing deal with HarperCollins within a few weeks. Rae talks to James and Ashley about living with chronic invisible illness, coping with brain fog, and cultivating the resilience to share a story that, in her words, she just had to tell.    Rae Cairns's debut novel, 'The Good Mother,' was shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards for Best Debut Crime Fiction, and was published by HarperCollins in 2022. Her second novel will be out in 2023. Rae lives in Sydney. You can buy a copy of 'The Good Mother' from your local bookshop, Booktopia or wherever else good books are sold. Shout out to Australia's hardworking independent booksellers! Books and authors discussed in this episode: The Missing Among Us by Erin Stewart (ep 54); Daughters of Eve by Nina D Campbell; Black and Blue by Veronica Gorrie; Autumn by Ali Smith; The Children's Bible by Lydia Millet; Negative Space by BR Yeager; My Name Is Revenge by Ashley Kalagian Blunt; Goat Mountain by David Vann; It by Stephen King Denizen is coming out July 19! Find out more and pre-order here. Details about launch events in Sydney, Melbourne, Dubbo and online now available.  Ashley is performing live and in-person at Generation Women, a storytelling night in Sydney. Wednesday 29 June, 6:30-8:30pm, The Beresford 354 Bourke St, Surry Hills. Get tickets here! Ashley's next online writing workshop, The Joy of Creative Writing, is on Monday 25 July, 7:45-9 pm AEST online via Zoom. Book in here! Get in touch! Ashley's website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

Dans le 126e épisode du podcast Le bulleur, on vous présente Pigalle, 1950, album que l'on doit au scénario de Pierre Christin et au dessin de Jean-Michel Arroyo, édité chez Dupuis dans la collection Aire libre. Cette semaine aussi, on revient sur l'actualité de la bande dessinée et des sorties avec : – La sortie de l'album La saison des pluies que l'on doit à Keum Suk Gendry-Kim et aux éditions Futuropolis – La sortie de l'album Goat mountain adapté d'un roman de David Vann avec un scénario d'O. Carol, un dessin de Georges Van Linthout et c'est édité chez Philéas – La sortie de l'album Waco horror : Elizabeth Freeman, l'infiltrée que l'on doit au scénario de Lisa Lugrin et Clément Xavier, au dessin de Stéphane Soularue et c'est édité chez Glénat – La sortie de l'album Une vie en parallèle que l'on doit à Mathias Lehmann et aux éditions Steinkis – La sortie de l'album Les frères Michelin, une aventure industrielle que l'on doit au scénario de Cédric Mayen, au dessin de Fabien Nappey et aux éditions le Lombard – La sortie en intégrale de la série Miss octobre que l'on doit au scénario de Stephen Desberg, au dessin d'Alain Queireix et c'est édité chez Le Lombard

Fiona Robertson lived with migraines for years, writing short stories as a creative pursuit. Now she's free from migraines and the award-winning author of the debut short story collection, If You're Happy. Her work explores the lives of lonely people seeking happiness in a turbulent world.  She tells us about the common threads that bind her stories, why they're her chosen form, and how living with unpredictable chronic illness impacted her life and creative work.  Fiona is a writer and doctor. Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies in Australia and the UK, and has been shortlisted for international competitions. Her collection of stories, If You're Happy, won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer at the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards. Fiona lives in Brisbane with her husband and children. Learn more about Fiona on her website, and buy a copy of 'If You're Happy' from your local bookshop, Booktopia or wherever else books are sold.  Books and authors discussed in this episode: Louise Allan; The Keepers by Al Campbell, plus her Sydney Morning Herald article, 'The disappointing question I most often got after writing a book';  Long Road to Dry River by Jen Severn; All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy; Child of God by Cormac McCarthy; Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy; David Vann; Denizen by James McKenzie Watson, out 19 July 2022!  Get in touch! Ashley's website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

***Warning! Spoilers for Earthlings by Sayaka Murata in this episode*** After arguing about the intense and disturbing ending to Earthlings by Sayaka Murata in episode 45, James and Ashley rope past guest Jacinta Dietrich into returning to the podcast to try and figure out what might happened in the novel's closing pages. If you've read Earthlings, you know what we mean! If you haven't – well, Ashley says you can listen to this ep anyway, since this book doesn't hinge on a twist. James disagrees.  Our guest is author Jacinta Dietrich, a writer and editor who holds a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. Her first book, This Is Us Now, was published in 2021 by Grattan Street Press. Books, articles and authors discussed in this episode: This Is Us Now by Jacinta Dietrich (from ep 45);  Earthlings by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori; Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata;  How to Be Australian by Ashley Kalagian Blunt;  Certain Prey by John Sandford;  Mortal Prey by John Sandford;  David Vann (from ep 23);  ‘The Future of Sex Lives in All of Us' by Sayaka Murata for the NY Times;  'I acted how I thought a cute woman should act' by David McNeill for the Guardian;  'Of Darkness and Stars' by Sally Breen for Sydney Review of Books 'Earthlings' Summary and Study Guide from Bookrags Burgers, Beers and Books interview with Ashley Get in touch! Ashley's Website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' Website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

The best (and most!) book recommendations of the year! We share the 'What Are You Reading?' highlights from a wide range of our 2021 guests, including Nardi Simpson, David Vann, Kavita Bedford, Luke Stegemann, Ruhi Lee, Joanna Nell, Fiona Murphy, Heather Taylor Johnson, Jacinta Dietrich and – of course – James and Ashley.  Books discussed in this episode (all 44 of them): Bindi by Kirli Saunders The Road to Woop Woop by Eugen Bacon The End: My Struggle Book 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Shadow Child by PF Thomése Eight Lives by Susan Hurley The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright Disoriental by Négar Djavadi The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon Deepfakes by Nina Schick The Possessed by Dostoevsky Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marias A Heart So White by Javier Marias The Stranger and short stories by Albert Camus When We Dead Awaken by James Robins The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby The Ripping Tree by Nikki Gemmell On Quiet by Nikki Gemmell Beautiful Kate by Newton Thornburg The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien The Neverending Story by Michael Ende Fun Home by Alison Bechdel Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Betty by Tiffany McDaniel The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet Ghost Species by James Bradley The Past by Tessa Hadley The Iceman by John Sandford Storm Prey by John Sandford Love, Clancy by Richard Glover Flesh Wounds by Richard Glover Prosopagnosia by Sonia Hernandez No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer Late Bloomer by Clem Bastow The Rúin by Dervla McTiernan Earthlings by Sayaka Murata Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata What about you – what are you reading? Get in touch and let us know! Ashley's website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

Nach dem Roman von David Vann. Jim ist Ende dreißig und am Ende. Er hat sein Leben an die Wand gefahren und lebt wie ein Eremit  in der klirrenden Kälte Alaskas.  Aus Sorge, er könnte sich was antun, bittet ihn der Bruder, nach Kalifornien zu fliegen, zurück zu seiner Familie. Dort lebt seine Herkunftsfamilie, die dem Erloschenen vor sich selbst bewahren und ihm die verloren gegangene Lebensfreude wieder einhauchen will. Doch Jim wandelt nur wie ein Geist durch die Hinterlassenschaften seines alten Lebens, im Sog düsterster Gedanken treibt es ihn immer mehr auf das Ende zu. David Vann verarbeitet in Momentun, wie auch in seinen anderen Texten, das eigene Trauma vom Suizid seines Vaters. Diesmal lässt er den Depressiven selbst zu Wort kommen, indem er seinen inneren Monolog in den letzten Tagen vor dem Selbstmord imaginiert. „Momentum“ ist eine eindrückliche Charakter- und Familienstudie. Ein Zeugnis von der Suche nach Sinn und Erlösung in der Natur. Darüberhinaus ergründet der Autor die tieferen gesellschaftlichen Strukturen Amerikas, die wirtschaftlichen Verhältnisse, die den Selbstmord des Vaters mitbegründet haben und die Illusion von einem freien und sinnorientierten Leben nachhaltig zerstörten. Mit: Florian Lukas (Autor/Erzähler), Jörg Hartmann (Jim), Julian Greis (Gary), Wolfgang Pregler (Brown), Felix Lengenfelder (David (Kind)), Lientje Fischhold (Tracy (Kind)), Anne Weber (Elizabeth), Maria Magdalena Wardzinska (Mary), Hedi Kriegeskotte (Mutter), Anne Müller (Sandra), Jenny König (Rhoda), Hans Löw (John), Toini Ruhnke (Junge Frau, Kellnerin), Markus Boysen (Vater) und Peter Weis (Mann). Bearbeitung: Irene Schuck. Übersetzung aus dem Amerikanischen: Cornelius Reiber. Regie: Irene Schuck. Regieassistenz: Kerstin Düring. Dramaturgie: Susanne Hoffmann. Produktion: NDR 2021. Verfügbar bis 11.11.2022. ndr.de/radiokunst

In dieser Folge freut sich Dirk ganz besonders auf Waltraut und Christian Brückner. Die beiden gründeten im Jahr 2000 den inzwischen mehrfach ausgezeichneten Hörbuchverlag parlando. Dort erscheinen vor allem Hörbücher, die von Christian Brückner eingelesen werden. Christian ist ein feinsinniger Sprecher und u.a. die deutsche Synchronstimme von Filmgrößen wie Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel oder Warren Beatty. Waltraut ist mit ihrer großen Herzlichkeit der Wind unter den Flügeln des parlando Verlags, führt Regie und ist federführend für die Programmgestaltung verantwortlich. Wie ist es, zusammen zu leben und zu arbeiten? Wie wählen die beiden Texte aus? Warum ist ihnen gerade die amerikanische Literatur so wichtig? Davon erzählen Waltraut und Christian Brückner im Gespräch mit Dirk Kauffels. Und ganz am Ende hat Christian auch noch ein paar Tipps für angehende Sprecher:innen.

James and Ashley are interviewed by Amy Lovat of Secret Book Stuff (who they interviewed in episode 34), for Amy & Laura's radio show 'Reading Makes You Better in Bed.' In it, they discuss reading habits, the history of James and Ashley's podcast, and whether or not reading really does make you better in bed. This interview originally aired on Newcastle Live Radio on June 25 2021.  You can learn more about Secret Book Stuff on their website, follow them on Instagram and Facebook, or explore their various radio shows/podcast appearances. Books and authors discussed in this episode: Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson (interviewed in ep 18);  Emotional Female by Yumiko Kadota (interviewed in ep 28);  Of Gold and Dust by Samantha Wills;  Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon;  The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy;    Hitch by Kathryn Hind; The Spill by Imbi Neeme; The Rabbits by Sophie Overett;  The End, My Struggle Book 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard;  David Vann (interviewed in ep 23) Get in touch! Ashley's Website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' Website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

durée : 00:42:31 - La Grande Table culture - par : Sébastien Thème, Valérie Costantino - Dans ses livres, il s'attache à explorer les paysages de l'Amérique et les relations familiales défaillantes qui empoisonnent les existences. Pour son nouveau livre, l'écrivain David Vann choisit l'île paradisiaque de Komodo, sur laquelle s'exprime la rancoeur d'une soeur à l'égard de son frère. - réalisation : Thomas Beau, Somaya Dabbech - invités : David Vann Romancier

durée : 00:42:31 - La Grande Table culture - par : Sébastien Thème, Valérie Costantino - Dans ses livres, il s'attache à explorer les paysages de l'Amérique et les relations familiales défaillantes qui empoisonnent les existences. Pour son nouveau livre, l'écrivain David Vann choisit l'île paradisiaque de Komodo, sur laquelle s'exprime la rancoeur d'une soeur à l'égard de son frère. - réalisation : Thomas Beau, Somaya Dabbech - invités : David Vann Romancier

durée : 00:42:31 - La Grande Table culture - par : Sébastien Thème, Valérie Costantino - Dans ses livres, il s'attache à explorer les paysages de l'Amérique et les relations familiales défaillantes qui empoisonnent les existences. Pour son nouveau livre, l'écrivain David Vann choisit l'île paradisiaque de Komodo, sur laquelle s'exprime la rancoeur d'une soeur à l'égard de son frère. - réalisation : Thomas Beau, Somaya Dabbech - invités : David Vann Romancier

James and Ashley interview RWR McDonald about his new novel 'Nancy Business,' follow-up to the bestselling 'The Nancys.' In it, they discuss the parallels between the original girl detective Nancy Drew and The Nancys' Tippy Chan, the art of balancing the humorous and heavy in fiction writing, and the physical toll of a creative life.  Learn more about Rob on his website, and buy a copy of 'Nancy Business' from your local bookshop, Booktopia or wherever else books are sold.  Books and authors discussed in this episode: Harold Robbins (contact Rob for title recommendations); The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene; Girl, 11 by Amy Suiter Clarke; The Silent Listener by Lyn Yeowart; Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake; Goat Mountain by David Vann (who we interviewed in episode 23) Get in touch! Ashley's Website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt Ashley's Instagram: @akalagianblunt James' Website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson James' Instagram: @jamesmcwatson

durée : 00:53:23 - Le Masque et la Plume - par : Jérôme Garcin - Que pensent vos critiques de "Le Silence" de Don DeLillo, "La Beauté dure toujours" d'Alexis Jenni, "James et Nora" d'Edna O’Brien, "Journal amoureux" de Benoîte Groult et de Paul Guimard et de "Komodo" de David Vann ?

James and Ashley interview David Vann, author of seven internationally bestselling novels including 2019's 'Halibut on the Moon.' In it, they discuss the trauma that inspired and haunts much of his work, the creative process that fosters his raw and visceral writing style, and the difficulties even an author of his status and calibre faces in the modern publishing landscape. Just a warning: this episode contains an explicit conversation about suicide and mental illness.  Learn more about David on his website, and buy a copy of 'Halibut on the Moon' from your local bookshop, Booktopia, or wherever else books are sold. David's back catalogue is also available to purchase on Booktopia and Amazon.  Books discussed in this episode: Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace The World According to Garp by John Irving Goat Mountain; Aquarium; Legend of a Suicide; Bright Air Black; Dirt; Last Day on Earth by David Vann Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Shadow Child by PF Thomése Eight Lives by Susan Hurley The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright Get in touch! Ashley's Website: ashleykalagianblunt.com Ashley's Twitter: @AKalagianBlunt James' Website: jamesmckenziewatson.com James' Twitter: @JamesMcWatson

Show Notes for Podcast 1And Now For Something Completely Machinima  is a monthly, hour-long podcast devoted to machinima (movies made in game engines), real-time technologies and virtual reality. Podcast HostsThis podcast was produced by Ricky Grove. He is joined by hosts Phil Rice, Tracy Harwood and Damien Valentine.  More detailed bios are available at our podcast website www.completelymachinima.comPodcast 1 SummaryOur first podcast features four main sections along with a short satirical skit. We've created time-stamps for each section  and links for topics discussed are in the description.Machinima News Ricky shares his discovery of a new Epic/Unreal Engine course for machinima filmmakers: Independent Filmmaking in the Unreal Engine. Phil updates us on the NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima feature which was announced in October 2020, but has yet to appear. Tracy tells us about the sale of Second Life and Disney's incredible virtual production Tomorrowland: Around the World and the supporting After Movie machinima. And finally, Damien shares his research into film festivals around the world that accept machinima films like FantaSci Short Film Festival and the New Media Film FestivalMachinima Films of the MonthDamien tells us about the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer remade in World of Warcraft called "World of Cyberpunk Trailer"Tracy goes retro with her choice of an amazing machinima film "Beast" by Leo Lucien-Bey. Phil chooses a very contemporary film, "Sugar" by Evan Ryan shot in the brand-new machinima/animation tool "Nightmare Puppeteer" created by M dot Strange.Ricky shares his love of "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" trailer by David Vann which was shot in Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2. Machinima Filmmaker Interview - David VannRicky contacted the director of the "Town That Dreaded Sundown" trailer (David Vann) by phone and spoke with him about his background as a filmmaker and how he created his film in RDR2. David also spoke about his stop-motion Lego films which are hilarious and satirical. Machinima Group DiscussionRicky posed two questions to his other three hosts 1, What is the difference between the terms "machinima", "real-time animation" and "virtual cinema?" and 2, What is the status of machinima in 2021? Is machinima in decline or are we advancing?  The answers ranged through machinima films/filmmakers past and present.Uncut version of our Machinima News is available here

Rett nok heter pod-en Det store i det små, men vi syntes smakebitene fra denne enorme delen av verden ble for mikroskopiske, og tok med en bunke bøker til. Pablo Neruda hadde fortjent en podkastserie i seg selv, men vi fant også plass til flere spanskspråklige poeter og den mørke David Vann. Fra nå av kommer vi aldri lenger til å tenke at Amerika = USA! Om serien: Vekkelsespodkast? Hva er nå det? Det store i det små er en litterær podkastserie. Hver episode har ett tema, der forfatterne og litteraturentusiastene Kjersti Sandvik og Grethe Fatima Syéd blander alle sjangre, nytt og gammelt, kjent og ukjent, kun ut fra det kriteriet at det er litteratur som engasjerer dem. I løpet av 24 episoder i adventstiden, men uten et veldig høyt julenivå, kommer svært ulike tema til å bli tatt opp: mat, farger, kroppen, årstidene, transportmidler, institusjoner, dyr, planter, havet m.m. Det blir også intervjuer med kjente forfattere. Sandvik og Syéd, som har bakgrunn fra hhv. journalistikk og akademia, omtaler seg selv som haren og skilpadden, etter Æsops fabel om de to dyrenes ulike gemytt og tilnærming til et prosjekt. De er ofte uenige, men oppnår gjennom samtalene å overraske både seg selv og hverandre. Og noe er de enige om: Litteratur er viktig, og gode bøker bør ikke glemmes etter at de har lagt fremme på bokhandlernes julebord i noen korte høstmåneder. I «Det store i det små» blir det mulig å hente tips til egen lesing både i romjulen og langt ut på nyåret. Her har alle litteraturinteresserte noe å hente!

David Vann discusses his novel Legend of a Suicide with James Naughtie and this month's group of readers. Legend of a Suicide is an intimate and profound account of a family tragedy, told in six linked stories that deal with the complicated misunderstandings between a son and his father, and describes the love, guilt and the painful understanding that begins to come with adolescence. When it was published twelve years ago this autobiographical work of fiction was lauded as a groundbreaker; based on the events in David’s own life, and the death of his father when he was just 13, Legend of a Suicide is a tough but beautiful read. And in the novella at the heart of the book - the longest of the six sections – the reader is unlikely to forget what it's like to spend time in the loneliness of Sukkwan Island in Alaska. To take part in future Bookclubs, email bookclub@bbc.co.uk January 2021's Bookclub Choice : Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) Presenter : James Naughtie Interviewed Guest : David Vann Producer : Dymphna Flynn Studio Manager : Donald MacDonald

The status quo was broken in Birmingham, Alabama, in the weeks after the Bonita Carter killing. The city once known as Bombingham, as the Johannesburg of the South, reeled from protests, and counter-protests from the Ku Klux Klan. A scientist, a former college dean named Richard Arrington who had long been aligned with that white progressive mayor, David Vann, broke away from the mayor to launch his own campaign. A committee formed by Vann to take testimony from witnesses to the shooting – one of the main reasons we can reconstruct the events of the crime – found Officer George Sands had no cause to shoot Carter. Yet Sands remained on the force.Just sixteen years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched through the city, the election of 1979 would prove pivotal for Black residents exercising their voting power. How would voters decide?Show Notes:Guests: Richard Arrington Jr., Richard Mauk, Scott Douglas, Solomon CrenshawCreator: John ArchibaldHosts: John Archibald & Roy S. JohnsonExecutive Producer: John HammontreeProducer & Audio Engineer: Alexander RicheyProducers: Amy Yurkanin and Marsha OglesbyScore: Thad Saajid, Austin Motlow, David Marsh, and Danny Ray Wilkerson, Jr. Additional music contributed by Jeremy Smith.Music: “Haverford Impromptu #2” by Sun-Ra; and “Lay it Down” by Donnie Fritts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Protest began to swell in Birmingham began to swell the night Bonita Carter was killed, and it grew larger and larger in the days that followed. Black people, who had marched for voting power and integrated water fountains and lunch counters a decade and a half before, took to the streets to condemn police violence from a department built by Bull Connor. The killing of Bonita Carter seemed to be the last straw, especially when the mayor, a progressive named David Vann who had helped push Connor out in the ’60s, hesitated to discipline the police officer who shot her. The killing demanded change. What was it about her that seemed to mobilize a city?Show Notes:Guests: Solomon Crenshaw, Nathaniel Bagley, TK Thorne, Richard Mauk, Richard Arrington, Jr.Creator: John ArchibaldHosts: John Archibald & Roy S. JohnsonExecutive Producer: John HammontreeProducer & Audio Engineer: Alexander RicheyProducers: Amy Yurkanin and Marsha OglesbyScore: Thad Saajid, Austin Motlow, David Marsh, and Danny Ray Wilkerson, Jr. Additional music contributed by Jeremy Smith.Music: "Hard to Stay Cool," by Cedric Burnside; Single Lock RecordsVoice Acting: Nigel Thomas, Sheikilya Thomas, Alexander Richey, Barnett Wright and John Hammontree See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tayari Jones discusses An American Marriage, which won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019. The novel tells the story of Roy and Celestial, a newly wed and successful African-American couple in Atlanta whose marriage is tested when the husband is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. The book tackles the shadow cast by the judicial system over many African-American lives. Tayari tells Bookclub how the novel was inspired by an exchange she overheard between a man and a woman at a shopping mall. "The woman said - Roy, you wouldn't have waited on me for seven years. And he said, This wouldn't have happened to you in the first place." Presented by James Naughtie and including questions from this month's group of readers. To take part in future Bookclubs, email bookclub@bbc.co.uk December's Bookclub Choice : Legend of a Suicide by David Vann (2009) Presenter : James Naughtie Interviewed Guest : Tayari Jones Producer : Dymphna Flynn Studio Manager : Emma Harth

Cette semaine, l’équipe de Puzzle a décidé de prendre du recul et… de s’isoler ! A cette occasion, nos chroniqueurs vous proposent de vous ressourcer, de vous retrouver, en cette période d’été, propice aux vacances et à l’éloignement. Et nous allons voir à travers le théâtre, les livres, les podcasts, la musique et le cinéma en quoi l’isolement, le vide, la solitude, c’est en fait aussi quelque part une forme d’évasion, une évasion de l’esprit. Dans cet épisode, Karen Etourneau vous guide sur le chemin de la quête de soi, à travers des lectures. La recette parfaite d’une bonne quête spirituelleTout d’abord, quel que soit l’endroit où vous prévoyez de partir, il semble très recommandé de se préparer au mieux. Selon le climat, le degré d’isolement ou le mode de vie choisi, apprendre à faire un feu, à reconnaître les plantes ou s’équiper correctement sont des conseils à ne pas prendre à la légère. Et pour se préparer, rien de mieux que la lecture !Des lectures pour s'inspirer De "Into the wild", écrit par Jon Krakauer à l'excellent "Sukkwan Island" qui raconte la mésaventure de David Vann, en passant par "Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Tail" qui raconte l'aventure incroyable de Cheryl Strayed... Les livres qui relatent les aventures sont nombreux. Karen Etourneau vous livre sa sélection. Les derniers épisodes sur le thème de cette semaine sont à retrouver ici :La solitude des artistes est-elle nécessaire pour créer ?Retrouvez Puzzle sur Twitter : https://twitter.com/puzzle_podcastToutes les références de ce podcast :Into the wild, Jon KrakauerL’Appel de la Forêt, de Jack LondonTragédie à l’Everest, Jon KrakauerSukkwan Island, David VannWild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Tail, Cheryl StrayedWalden ou la vie dans les bois, Henry David ThoreauDans les forêts de Sibérie, Sylvain TessonMange, Prie, Aime, Elizabeth GilbertRosa... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Diskutiert werden Bücher von Susanne Kerckhoff, Iris Hanika, Graham Swift und David Vann.

David Vanns gesamtes Werk kreist um den Suizid seines Vaters. In seinem neuen Roman dreht er die Perspektive und imaginiert die letzten Tage Jim Vanns, die zu einem trostlosen Stationendrama durch Kalifornien geraten.

Den Grundstoff für die Romane des us-amerikanischen Erzählers liefert seit jeher seine eigene katastrophale Familie. David Vann imaginiert die letzten Tage vor dem Selbstmord des Vaters Jim aus dessen eigener Sicht. Es geht dem Autor aber nicht nur um die Innenperspektive auf einen Untergeher, der sich in einer unaufhaltsamen Abwärtsspirale auf die Selbstzerstörung zubewegt, sondern auch um die Erkundung eines bestimmten Milieus in der us-amerikanischen Provinz. Der Roman bietet eine Mentalitätsstudie des wohlhabenden, nicht-urbanen, weißen Mittelstands-Amerika im Hinterland der großen Städte. (Hanser Berlin Verlag, 24 Euro)

Beinhart und ohne Rücksicht auf den Leser: David Vann bleibt seiner traumatischen Familiengeschichte auf der Spur und verwandelt sie in großartige Literatur. Eine Rezension von Peter Henning.

From the archives comes this 2009 interview with David Vann, author of "Legend of a Suicide," which is comprised of five stories set in the beautiful but forbidding vistas of Alaska.

Introduce yourself to Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018) with a book-club discussion of its first line. Texts/authors mentioned in passing: Miller’s Song of Achilles, Illiad, Odyssey, Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad, Rick Riordan, David Vann’s Bright Air Black, James Joyce’s Ulysses, Margaret Atwood’s “Circe/Mud Poems” in You Are Happy (poetry), Margaret Atwood’s poem “Spelling” (poetry), Anne Carson, “Autobiography of Red” (poetry), Gregory Maguire's Wicked, Charles Dicken’s David Copperfield, James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (literary history), Nicholas Paige’s Before Fiction (literary history) You can also watch this episode on  https://youtu.be/KXBe_313aTk Get in touch @profomalley

David Vann’s riveting novel Halibut on the Moon reimagines his father’s final days, spent captive in the warped logic of depression. An aching portrait of a mind in peril, it confirms David’s status as one of the darkest and most talented fiction writers of our time, who counts Colm Tóibín and Lorrie Moore among his many admirers. David expounds his moving portrait of a family processing a loss that hasn’t yet occurred with The Age and Sydney Morning Herald’s Literary Editor Jason Steger.

David Vann, author of “ Legend of a Suicide.” Although a work of fiction, the novel draws heavily upon Vann’s real-life experience of losing his own father to suicide.

Join acclaimed authors John Birmingham and David Vann as they reflect on how they have grappled with their fathers’ deaths, and how they subsequently brought their memories to bear on the page. John is the author of On Father, a beautifully written homage and unflinching account of surviving profound grief. In Halibut on the Moon, David draws on his father’s suicide to deliver a darkly intimate portrait of a man teetering between life and death. They appear in conversation with ABC Radio Sydney’s Richard Glover.

Cette semaine à l'émission: L'actualité culturelle avec Samuel Archibald et Catherine Genest ; Le Néron dans Britannicus: Entrevue avec le comédien Francis Ducharme ; Critique de livre: Un poisson sur la lune, de David Vann ; Sur tous les écrans: Entrevue avec la comédienne Émilie Bierre ; 35 ans de carrière et un dernier spectacle: Entrevue avec l'illusionniste Alain Choquette ; La vie culturelle à Londres avec Gaëlle Legroux: Les fées de Cottingley ; Critique de film: Un amour impossible, de Catherine Corsini ; La vie culturelle à New York avec Marie Bourreau: Jean-Michel Basquiat et Xerox ; Suggestions musicales de Marie-Christine Blais et de Nabi Chartier

[...] consterné par la piétonisation irresponsable des voies sur berges parisiennes, la Salle 101 roule en diesel et t’emmerde, notamment en chroniquant différentes choses notables : The business, de Iain Banks. L’été de Katya, de Trevanian. Désolation, de David Vann. Hop ? Allez, hop. « Quand tu vois Dieu, tu vois la France et la SF », nous [...]

[…] consterné par la piétonisation irresponsable des voies sur berges parisiennes, la Salle 101 roule en diesel et t'emmerde, notamment en chroniquant différentes choses notables : The business, de Iain Banks. L'été de Katya, de Trevanian. Désolation, de David Vann. Hop ? Allez, hop. « Quand tu vois Dieu, tu vois la France et la SF », […]

Claire Fuller started writing to compete in a local short story slam. Then she started to win. Soon after, she earned an MA and has since written two novels, OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS and SWIMMING LESSONS. She and James talk about the torture of writing new material, the joy of editing, the reader response theory, and the practice of listening to music while writing. Plus, year-end reading recommendations from some of 2017's guests!    Claire Fuller: https://clairefuller.co.uk/ Claire and James discuss: Penguin Books  Tin House Books  Masie Cochran  Fuzzy Felt Green  WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by Shirley Jackson  THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O'Brien  THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers  HOUSEKEEPING by Marilynne Robinson  LEGEND OF A SUICIDE by David Vann  Iron & Wine  Sam Beam  Townes van Zandt  TURN OUT THE LIGHTS (album) by Julien Baker  Margot Livesey  SOY SAUCE FOR BEGINNERS by Kirstin Chen NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (dir by Coens) THERE WILL BE BLOOD (dir by PT Anderson)  MICHAEL CLAYTON (dir by Tony Gilroy)  ZODIAC (dir by David Fincher)  IDAHO by Emily Ruskovich   A SEPARATION by Katie Kitamura  - Year-End Recommendations from: Annie Hartnett, author of RABBIT CAKE:  THE HISTORY OF WOLVES by Emily Fridlund THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY by Hannah Tinti  BORNE by Jeff VanderMeer  MOTHERIST by Kristen Iskandrian  THE MOTHERS by Brit Bennett  PERFECT LITTLE WORLD by Kevin Wilson  GOD, THE MOON, AND OTHER MEGAFAUNA by Kellie Wells  ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy    Anne Valente, author of OUR HEARTS WILL BURN US DOWN: THE ANIMATORS by Kayla Rae Whitaker SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward  THE HOUR OF LAND by Terry Tempest Williams    Tim Weed, author of A FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER AND FLY FISHING: ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy  HAVANA GOLD by Leonardo Pedura    Robert Repino, author of D'ARC: THE ART OF COMIC BOOK WRITING by Mark Kneece  THE NEST by Kenneth Oppel    Amy P. Knight, author of LOST, ALMOST:  STEPHEN, FLORIDA by Gabe Habash THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt  OUTLINE by Rachel Kusk    Rachel Cantor, author of GOOD ON PAPER: WE THE DROWNED by Carsten Jensen  THE LONG DRY by Cynan Jones  HOMESICK FOR ANOTHER WORLD by Ottessa Moshfegh  THE OLD FILTH TRILOGY by Jane Gardham TUESDAY NIGHTS IN 1980 by Molly Prentiss  STORIES OF YOUR LIFE by Ted Chiang  THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY by Hannah Tinti  MEMOIR OF A POLAR BEAR by Yoko Tawada    Michael Farris Smith, author of DESPERATION ROAD:  STONER by John Williams  THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD dir by Andrew Dominik   Kelly J. Ford, author of COTTONMOUTHS:  THE FACT OF A BODY by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich  HERE COMES THE SUN by Nicole Dennis-Benn  A SEAT AT THE TABLE (album) by Solange    Daniel Wallace, author of EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES: HEATING & COOLING: 52 MICRO-MEMOIRS by Beth Ann Fennelly THE BOOK OF RESTING PLACES: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF WHERE WE LAY THE DEAD by Thomas Mira y Lopez  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES, the dazzling debut by Carmen Maria Machado has garnered tremendous acclaim, including being named a finalist for the National Book Award. Carmen and James discuss never being done editing, her enviable file of images, and being thrown out of a plane. Plus, Editorial Director at Graywolf Press, Ethan Nosowsky.  - Carmen Maria Machado: https://carmenmariamachado.com/ Carmen and James discuss:  Ethan Nosowsky  FIVE CHAPTERS  GRAYWOLF PRESS  THE NEW YORKER  I WANT TO SHOW YOU MORE by Jamie Quatro  Kelly Link  Kevin Brockmeier  Shuchi Saraswat  Kimberly Glyder Aimee Bender Karen Russell  Laura van den Berg  Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop ANNIHILATION by Jeff Vander Meer  SMALL BEER PRESS A STRANGER IN OLONDRIA Sofia Samatar  THE WINGED HISTORIES by Sofia Samatar TENDER by Sofia Samatar Sam J. Miller  Alyssa Wong  Alice Kim  TIN HOUSE  McSWEENEY'S Yaddo   WOODCUTTERS by Thomas Bernhard NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro Ted Chiang  STRANGE HORIZONS  THE AMERICAN READER  - Graywolf Press: https://www.graywolfpress.org/ Ethan and James Discuss: National Book Award IndieNext Pick  Page-Turner Blog Kent Wolf  Graywolf Press  McSweeney's  FSG  Oxford University Press  Fiona McCrae (Graywolf) CLMP  Jeff Seroy (FSG) Josh Glusman (Norton)  Robert Giroux  Alan Williams  Stephen King  Nadine Gordimer  John Steinbeck  MacMillan Publishing  Bruce Machart  Houghton-Mifflin  David Vann  TOMB SONG by Julian Herbert   Christina MacSweeney  Tracy K. Smith  A LUCKY MAN by Jamel Brinkley  THE CONVERT by Deborah Baker  THE LAST ENGLISHMAN by Deborah Baker  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

Kamila Shamsie and David Vann discuss their own interpretations of classic Greek myths.

Cette semaine dans le podcast de Retour vers le Turfu, nous fêtons l'été et la musique en discutant tranquillement du groupe majeur de la musique moderne : Pink Floyd. En invité pour parler de ce groupe chelou barbu et chevelu, Tuan et Alix de Van's Recordings.Sujet : Pink Floyd (03:45)Recommandation Jacqueline...Reviens, pièce de théâtre à la Comédie Saint Michel, Paris V par Christelle (01:36:30)Le duo electro Pano & Pan par Pezzo (01:42:30)L'artiste Monomotion par Tuan (01:44:10)Le livre "Derniers Jours sur Terre" de David Vann par Alix (01:45:10)La Série American Gods par Luc (01:47:55) Informations Retrouvez les compos de Van's Recordings : https://soundcloud.com/vansrecordingshttps://www.vansrecordings.com/Tuan https://www.facebook.com/TuaNNMusic/Credits MusiquePink Floyd – Another Brick on the wall Pt.2Pink Floyd – DogsPink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother Pink Floyd – Hey YouPink Floyd – Interstellar OverdrivePink Floyd – Wish you were herePink Floyd – The great gig in the skyPink Floyd – TimePink Floyd – What do you want from mePink Floyd - EchoesMonomotion – NevermorePolo & Pan – Coeur croisé Retrouvez l'émission Page Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/rvturfu/Page Twitter : https://twitter.com/RetourTurfuMail : rvturfu@gmail.comEcoutez-nous sur Soundcloud, Youtube & Itunes, abonnez-vous et n'hésitez pas à en parler autour de vous, une écoute = un chaton de sauvé. Retrouvez l'équipe de Retour vers le Turfu sur le site Wild Talents, la plate-forme qui cartonne pour tous ceux qui souhaitent promouvoir leurs talents créatifs.Vous avez un projet lié à la popculture ? Vous êtes acteur, compositeur, réalisateur ou même développeur ? (Start-up, podcast, court-métrage, film, livre) N'hésitez pas à envoyer un mail à rvturfu@gmail.com si ça nous intéresse, nous en parlerons dans l'émission. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

David Vann is an Alaskan novelist with a love of the sea and boats. He talks about his latest novel Bright Air Black, which is a visceral retelling of the Medea Myth, imagining her journey across the Black Sea with Jason as they flee with the stolen Golden Fleece.Film director Terence Davies discusses him latest film, A Quiet Passion, about the American poet Emily Dickinson. He reveals how a passion for her poetry became a fascination with her life, and how the more he discovered about her - her withdrawal from life and her spiritual quest to make sense of religion - the more he empathised with her.A 19th century son of York - the artist Albert Moore - is the subject of a new exhibition at York Art Gallery which makes the argument that Moore is a forefather of British abstract art. Moore, known for his detailed paintings of women draped in classical robes, never achieved the kind of fame and prosperity enjoyed by his friends such as Whistler who described him as "the greatest artist that, in the century, England might have cared for and called her own". Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn explains why Moore matters.Presenter: Kirsty Lang Producer: Jack Soper.

The RSC is staging Shakepeare's Roman plays, beginning with Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra - how have they made them chime for today's audiences? The debut film from American director Nicolas Pesce The Eyes of my Mother is a black and white gothic tale of murder, home-invasion incest, necrophilia, abduction, imprisonment, involuntary surgery..I could go on, but I think you've probably got the idea by now. Is it any good? David Vann's new novel is Bright Air Black, a poetic prose retelling of the Medea story. BBC TV had adapted Evelyn Waugh's Decline & Fall as a 3 part series starring Jack Whitehall - do our reviewers think a good job has been done with a classic novel? Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Christopher Frayling, Kathryn Hughes and Alice Jones. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Krissy Kneen, David Vann and Joshua Yeldham discussed the themes 'Grief and Creativity' in a conversation chaired by Jane Caro at the 2015 Byron Bay Writers Festival.

International bestselling author David Vann discusses the hardback release of his newest novel “Aquarium,” with acclaimed writer Tom Barbash (“Stay Up with Me”). Recorded live at Litquake’s Epicenter in San Francisco, in March 2015, and co-presented by Green Apple Books.

In talking about his new novel, David Vann tells us how the characters were born of staring for hours at different delicate fish until they revealed who he was supposed to write about. 

Aquarium (Grove Press)  Please welcome back to Skylight Books one of our favorite authors, David Vann!  Twelve-year-old Caitlin lives alone with her mother—a docker at the local container port—in subsidized housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be picked up after school, Caitlin visits the local aquarium to study the fish. Gazing at the creatures within the watery depths, Caitlin accesses a shimmering universe beyond her own. When she befriends an old man at the tanks one day, who seems as enamored of the fish as she, Caitlin cracks open a dark family secret and propels her once-blissful relationship with her mother toward a precipice of terrifying consequence. In crystalline, chiseled, yet graceful prose, Aquarium takes us into the heart of a brave young girl whose longing for love and capacity for forgiveness transforms the damaged people around her. Relentless and heartbreaking, primal and redemptive,Aquarium is a transporting story from one of the best American writers of our time. Published in twenty languages, David Vann's previous books—A Mile Down; Legend of a Suicide; Caribou Island; Last Day On Earth; Dirt; and Goat Mountain—have won enormous critical acclaim. A former Guggenheim fellow, Wallace Stegner fellow, John L'Heureux fellow, and NEA fellow, he has taught at Stanford, Cornell, FSU, USF, holds degrees from Stanford and Cornell, and is currently a Professor at the University of Warwick in England and Honorary Professor at the University of Franche-Comté in France.

Julianne Moore won an Oscar for her performance as Alice, who has Early Onset Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice. Does a great performance make a great movie? Mike Bartlett's new play Game at London's Almeida theatre raises questions about how desperate people become when they're looking for somewhere to live. Paul Whitehouse plays multiple characters in his TV series Nurse which is transferring from Radio 4 to BBC2. It deal with the travails of a Community Psychiatric Nurse and her patients. David Vann's novel Aquarium is told from the point of view of a 12 year old girl whose happy life with her single mother is thrown into disarray by a chance encounter Forensics - The Anatomy of Crime, has opened at The Wellcome Collection in London, and it looks at crime from being committed to criminal conviction. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Tracy Chevalier, Catherine O'Flynn and Craig Raine. The producer is Oliver Jones.

James Ellroy’s hardboiled, idiosyncratic explorations of Los Angeles police corruption and midcentury Washington power politics have earned him a worldwide following; his new novel, Perfidia (Cornerstone), is the first in a new trilogy featuring some familiar characters, including the gleefully amoral Dudley Smith. Ellroy joined us at the Bookshop in conversation with the American novelist David Vann, whose most recent book is Goat Mountain (Windmill). Warning: contains strong language. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Legend of a Suicide by David Vann is the topic of today's discussion about reading and writing with Pip Adam.

Septembre, c'est le mois de la rentrée : rentrée scolaire mais aussi rentrée littéraire, avec 607 livres publiés! C'est également le mois du Festival America, consacré à la littérature nord-américaine, qui se tiendra du 11 au 14 Septembre à Vincennes. Les Bibliomaniacs y seront et ont donc décidé de vous parler de romans dont les auteurs seront présents à ce festival. Nous vous parlerons de: -"Le Diable, tout le temps" de Donald Ray Pollock, traduit par Christophe Mercier, chez Albin Michel et au Livre de Poche -"Captive" de Margaret Atwood, traduit par Michèle Albaret-Maatsch, aux éditions 10/18 -"Désolations" de David Vann, traduit par Laura Derajinski, chez Gallmeister et comme toujours les référdences de nos coups de cœur sur le site www.bibliomaniacs.fr !

David Vann: "Goat Mountain" Suhrkamp Verlag 2014, Übers.: Miriam Mandelkow, Preis: 22,95 Euro

Hello and welcome to this edition of "In the Spotlight", a show featuring arts, culture and showbiz from right here in China. I'm your host, Li Ningjing. First up on today's program, we take you to the Bookworm Literary Festival where writers and thinkers are sharing their insights with the public. Next, we'll take a glimpse into the Russia-China co-production of Eugene Onegin which opened this year's opera festival at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing. Following that, we'll introduce you to elephant foot drum, a musical instrument unique to the Dai ethnic minority group in southwestern China's Yunnan province. Afterwards, we visit an independent modern dance company to see how an the contemporary art form is being embraced in innovative ways in China. Last but not least, we introduce you to the book series "Hundreds of Taboos in Life" by Taiwan-born writer Liu Yong. So, lots of entertaining and informative stories up ahead on In the Spotlight. Stay tuned. Love books but dissatisfied with the simple act of flipping through the pages? If that is the case for you, then the Bookworm Literary Festival might just offer the perfect opportunity to explore literature more deeply. During this two-week cultural event, more than a hundred writers and thinkers are gathering together in China to share their insights. For bibliophiles in China, the Bookworm Literary Festival is a must-see. Each year, it provides a first-hand experience for readers to communicate face-to-face with their literary heroes. Launched by the namesake bookshop, the festival covers many literary activities, such as book talks, panel discussions, readings, and writing workshops. But according to Peter Goff, the managing director and the founder of Bookworm, this cultural event is more than that. "Obviously the core is literature, but then on top of that we do a lot of film festival events, we do comedy, we do music, and magic, and dance, and screenings, and different things as well, which complements the literary festival." Though started modestly, the festival is poised to make its own name on the global stage. Now in its 8th year, the festival has been programming more than 300 events in eight major cities around China, inviting more than 110 guests from over 25 countries. Many names stand out in the roster, such as the Man Booker Prize short-listed Chinese writer, Yan Lianke; Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Ian Johnson; and Tim Clissold, whose book "Mr. China" won the Economist Book of the Year; as well as the comedian Mark Roswell, who is best-known in China by his stage name, Dashan. Fans are earger to meet these celebrities. A Germany doctor comes to Beijing for business. Despite tight schedule, she has managed to buy several tickets. "I brought this and on Monday, I have this one: Ways of Telling the Past. Tuesday, I am at home. Wednesday, I have this one." According to the staff, many entry tickets have been sold out days ahead of the events. For voracious literature consumers, the festival seems to be a grand banquet to satisfy the appetite. Director of the event Peter Goff elucidates why the festival beguiles many audiences. "People like to read books, but they also like to actually meet the authors, they want to engage directly with the writers. And I think it adds another dimension to just reading the books. Particularly festival wise, you are not just talking about only meeting one author; you are putting several different writers and thinkers together on one platform and then discussing different topics. Then it becomes what it meant to become: it becomes more like a festival; it becomes a celebration of literature, and a celebration of ideas. And that's stimulating and audiences are attracted to that. " Beijing has been the home court of the festival. Sitting inside a chamber surround by bookshelves, leading novelists have disclosed the reasons and meanings behind their writing careers, while sharing their experiences with audiences.�� Diversity could be found for sure, but the discussions on China take up a large portion of talk-time: from frequently debated topics on economy and history to more contemporary social nuances, like China's "leftover" women. For Yu Lian, a PhD student interested in Chinese feminism, the festival acts as a forum to deepen understanding to her research. "I just want to hear different opinions and try to understand the thoughts of those who share the same interest with me. I don't ask that all the participants here be sophisticated or mature. I just came here to listen to their ideas, as it may help me to solve my own problems. " The conversational atmosphere not only excites listeners, but also thrills the writers. Here is Chinese author Ren Xiaowen whose most famous book is Them. "I think it is a way to communicate. You need to know the concerns of your foreign counterparts. Even though many participants of this event come from foreign countries, they live or work in China; they are interested in what is happening in this society." American author David Vann is visiting China for the first time. As he said, connecting people during the festival will help him know the country better and inspire his own writing. "It actually emphasizes on Chinese writers. So I am hoping to meet more of them in the next few days. And I am hoping to reach them, read translations, and that might affect my writing in some ways. So it's all like education for me essentially: seeing new place, meeting the people, and being introduced to different literature." From March 7 till March 21, these literary celebrities will bring rich and diverse international voices to book shops, universities and libraries across China. Their destinations are not limited to coastal cities, but also expanded to inland Chongqing, Chengdu and Kunming. The scale of the festival and the number.

Leif Ekle tar for seg David Vann`s forfatterskap med vekt på den nyeste romanen "Goat Mountain". Vi tar også et sveip rundt på pultene til våre andre anmeldere og sjekker hvilke bøker som de leser akkurat nå.

David Vann and Stuart Kelly on Norse myths, Penelope Lively on where she writes and Suzanne Berne talks about her latest novel The Dogs of Littlefield.

David Vann leest voor uit Bright Air Black by Hard//hoofd

David Vann leest voor uit Goat Mountain by Hard//hoofd

David Vann in restaurant Kantjil & de Tijger by Hard//hoofd

David Vann’s books are daring, emotionally fraught narratives that have struck a chord with readers the world over. His books have been internationally best-selling, multi-award winning and translated in 18 languages. His fiction books include Legend of a Suicide, Caribou Island and his new release Dirt. He has also written two non-fiction books, and written for a host of publications including the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, McSweeney’s and The Guardian. Australian Writers' Centre www.WritersCentre.com.au

David Vann har nå to bøker ute på norsk; Legender om et selvmord og Caribou Island. På engelsk finnes også en tredje; Dirt, som kommer på norsk om et års tid. Dette programmet er et møte med David Vann. Han snakker mest om Caribou Island, men også om skriving, landskapet i teksten og selvmordet som overgrep mot dem som blir igjen.

David Vann er i Norge i forbindelse med Litteraturfestivalen på Lillehammer og lanseringen av hans andre bok på norsk. Vi møtte ham for å snakke om de to bøkene på norsk, Legender om et selvmord og Caribou Island, men også den nyutgitte på engelsk; Dirt. Dette er en ikke-bearbeidet versjon på engelsk.

'Firt'

"I don't view any of my characters as being crazy..."

Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter

David Vann's writing has been described in National Geographic Adventure as "dark, stormy, and beautiful as the ragged Aleutian coast". At this event, David shares his views about life, relationships, writing, Alaska and death. One can clearly see that the only thing more captivating than David Vann's books is David Vann himself. (Note, his book Legend of a Suicide is about the character, Roy Fenn--from his birth on an island in the Bering Sea to his return as an adult when he confronts the suicide of his father.)

David Vann reading Bain de Soleil. Part of an engaging and varied series of podcasts of leading authors reading their remarkable new stories, poems or essays on the theme of ‘Elsewhere’. Commissioned by Edinburgh International Book Festival and supported by the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund. You can read or download the Elsewhere stories, listen to more Elsewhere podcasts or watch the videos of events filmed live at the Book Festival on www.edbookfest.co.uk.

"I read for a couple of years and this family came into my mind..."

Caribou Island (Harper) David Vann, whose short story collection Legend of a Suicide is a staff favorite, returns to Skylight to read from and sign his debut novel, Caribou Island. "Vann . . .  renders luminous prose in this haunting tale of hardened hearts and broken dreams." --Booklist "Vann delivers an authentic story, even lyrical at times. He is a writer headed for notable accomplishments. Enthusiastically recommended." --Library Journal David Vann, 43, is a professor at the University of San Francisco. He is a contributor to Esquire, The Atlantic, Men's Journal, National Geographic Adventure, The Sunday Times (London), and Outside, and the author of the bestselling memoir A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea and Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter, Steve Kazmierczak, winner of the AWP Nonfiction Prize. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Wallace Stegner Fellowship. His website is www.davidvann.com. Photo of the author by Diana Matar. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 11, 2011.

"There can be this awful sense of momentum."

"There can be this awful sense of momentum."

Caribu Island (Harper Collins) David Vann builds his first novel out of dire materials: his father took his own life, and his stepmother's parents died in a murder/suicide...

David Vann was born in Roanoke, the largest town in Randolph County, Alabama. He served in World War II, received a law degree, and, later, clerked for Alabama native and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Hugo Black. Vann served as Justice Black's clerk when the court handed down its landmark 1954 decision in the case of Brown v Board of Education. Shortly after that decision, Vann arrived in Birmingham to practice law with a downtown firm known for its relatively progressive views and representation of labor. One of Vann's chief accomplishments was successfully campaigning for a public referendum in 1962 that changed Birmingham's form of municipal government from the city commission system to a mayoral/council system. Later, from 1975 to 1979, Vann himself served as Mayor of the City of Birmingham. Vann passed away in 1999. Listen to former Mayor Vann discuss critical events that he believed led to the gradual willingness of Birmingham's White leadership to negotiate with local Black leaders and bring about an end to segregation in Birmingham.

Een krantenbericht over een bizarre en gruwelijke moordzaak inspireerde Yves Petry tot het schrijven van de roman De maagd Marino. De zaak van een Duitse kannibaal die in 2001 de penis van zijn minnaar afsneed en ‘m vervolgens opat. Daarna werd het slachtoffer, zoals te voren tussen beiden was afgesproken, vermoord. Het was een dood [...]

Another chance to listen to two writers who have produced riveting, heartbreaking and sometimes shocking accounts of father-son relationships.

Another chance to listen to two writers who have produced riveting, heartbreaking and sometimes shocking accounts of father-son relationships. An interesting, intelligent and compelling event, chaired by Hannah McGill, well worth revisiting.

We revisit Sam's hair and the bad dye job in the search of a new look. Kara is happy to be able to eat again and talks about her new singing gig. We talk to author David Vann about his book "Legend of A Suicide." A listener calls in to complain the topic brings him down. Duh! We talk about BBQ with host Greg Rempe begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting and get real hungry.

We revisit Sam's hair and the bad dye job in the search of a new look. Kara is happy to be able to eat again and talks about her new singing gig. We talk to author David Vann about his book "Legend of A Suicide." A listener calls in to complain the topic brings him down. Duh! We talk about BBQ with host Greg Rempe begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting and get real hungry.