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The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
Joshua Ferris Reads “The Boy Upstairs”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022 32:28 Very Popular


Joshua Ferris reads his story “The Boy Upstairs,” from the June 6, 2022, issue of the magazine. Ferris is the author of one story collection and four novels, including “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” which won the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2014, and “A Calling for Charlie Barnes,” which was published last year.

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The Reference Desk
Anna Delvey (Anna Sorokin)

The Reference Desk

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2021 72:18


In this episode of The Reference Desk, Katie is bewitched with the story of Manhattan grifter-extraordinaire Anna Delvey (Anna Sorokin)For several years, the New York City upper crust embraced a charming young German heiress named Anna Delvey. Delvey was a chic, bold entrepreneur who was pursuing funding for her brainchild the Anna Delvey Foundation when Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel DeLoache Williams met her. The pair formed an unlikely friendship involving celebrity trainers, infrared sauna treatments, and expensive meals in SoHo's hottest restaurants. But the pair's friendship turned sour when a so-called "dream vacation" to Morocco left Rachel with more than $60,000 in credit card debt, which Delvey refused to reimburse as promised. Rachel would soon discover that she was only one in a long line of victims Delvey defrauded.Recommended titles (available in our bookshop) All These Bodies by Kendare BlakeMy Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache WilliamsHow to Lead a Life of Crime by Kirsten MillerThe Curse Workers trilogy by Holly BlackThe Widow of Wall Street by Randy Susan MeyersTo Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua FerrisConman: A Master Swindler's Own Story by J.R. 'Yellow Kid' Weil and W.T. BransonCan You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee IsraelEmpire of Deception by Dean JobbLinks: New York Magazine piece by Jessica PresslerVanity Fair piece by Rachel DeLoache WilliamsTrailer for Netflix's "Inventing Anna" Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thereferencedesk)

The Reference Desk
Anna Delvey (Anna Sorokin)

The Reference Desk

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2021 72:18


In this episode of The Reference Desk, Katie is bewitched with the story of Manhattan grifter-extraordinaire Anna Delvey (Anna Sorokin)For several years, the New York City upper crust embraced a charming young German heiress named Anna Delvey. Delvey was a chic, bold entrepreneur who was pursuing funding for her brainchild the Anna Delvey Foundation when Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel DeLoache Williams met her. The pair formed an unlikely friendship involving celebrity trainers, infrared sauna treatments, and expensive meals in SoHo's hottest restaurants. But the pair's friendship turned sour when a so-called "dream vacation" to Morocco left Rachel with more than $60,000 in credit card debt, which Delvey refused to reimburse as promised. Rachel would soon discover that she was only one in a long line of victims Delvey defrauded.Recommended titles (available in our bookshop) All These Bodies by Kendare BlakeMy Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache WilliamsHow to Lead a Life of Crime by Kirsten MillerThe Curse Workers trilogy by Holly BlackThe Widow of Wall Street by Randy Susan MeyersTo Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua FerrisConman: A Master Swindler's Own Story by J.R. 'Yellow Kid' Weil and W.T. BransonCan You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee IsraelEmpire of Deception by Dean JobbLinks: New York Magazine piece by Jessica PresslerVanity Fair piece by Rachel DeLoache WilliamsTrailer for Netflix's "Inventing Anna" Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thereferencedesk)

Free Library Podcast
Joshua Ferris | A Calling for Charlie Barnes with Dana Spiotta | Wayward

Free Library Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 62:16


Joshua Ferris's ''brash, extravagant, and chillingly beautiful'' (The New Yorker) novels include Then We Came to the End, winner of the 2008 PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel and a finalist for the National Book Award; To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize; and The Unnamed, the story of a lawyer who has the uncontrollable urge to walk and keep walking. One of The New Yorker's ''20 Under 40'' writers and winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize, Ferris is also the author of the short story collection The Dinner Party and has published fiction in Granta, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Voices, among other places. In A Calling for Charlie Barnes, a scheming malcontent finds redemption on an unlikely path.    Dana Spiotta is the author of five novels, including Wayward, which the New York Times called a "virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad." Spiotta has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.  She was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, the St. Francis College Literary Prize, and the John Updike Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (recorded 10/26/2021)

Frank, Starlene & Hudson in the Morning
MOM SQUAD- Getting the kids to bed at a decent hour

Frank, Starlene & Hudson in the Morning

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2018 2:37


School is Starting and we need to get those kiddos in a nightly routine!

Frank, Starlene & Hudson in the Morning
MOM SQUAD- Getting the kids to bed at a decent hour

Frank, Starlene & Hudson in the Morning

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2018 2:37


School is Starting and we need to get those kiddos in a nightly routine! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Free Library Podcast
Joshua Ferris | The Dinner Party with Jim Shepard | The World to Come

Free Library Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2018 61:20


Watch the video here. Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris's ''truly affecting novel about work, trust, love, and loneliness'' (Seattle Times), won the 2008 PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His other works include The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. One of The New Yorker's ''20 Under 40'' writers and winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize, Ferris has published fiction in Granta, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Voices, among other places. The Dinner Party, his first story collection, is rife with characters searching for answers in the aftermath of life's pitfalls. ''Nailing entire worlds together with teeming, precise detail'' (The New York Times), Jim Shepard is the author of seven novels, including The Book of Aron and Project X. A writer's writer, he is perhaps more celebrated for his short fiction, which has appeared in publications ranging from The Paris Review to Playboy. His story collections include You Think That's Bad and Like You'd Understand, Anyway, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of The Story Prize. His new collection explores the emotional hazards of everyday life writ large on the canvases of historic tragedy and triumph. (recorded 5/24/2017)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
First Draft - Joshua Ferris

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2016 30:03


Joshua Ferris is the bestselling author of three novels, Then We Came to the End,  The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. He was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was named one of The New Yorker's “20 Under 40”writers in 2010. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, and Best American Short Stories. He lives in New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Salon@615
Joshua Ferris – To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

Salon@615

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2015


Joshua Ferris discusses To Rise Again at a Decent Hour.

Man Booker Prize
To Rise Again At A Decent Hour - Joshua Ferris - Extract

Man Booker Prize

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2014 3:13


An audio recording of the Man Booker Prize 2014 shortlisted To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

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Arts & Ideas
Free Thinking - London's Skyline & Joshua Ferris

Arts & Ideas

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2014 45:04


Matthew Sweet discusses online identity theft and religious belief with American novelist Joshua Ferris, as he publishes his new novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. As the London Festival of Architecture opens with a debate on whether London needs more tall towers, Matthew talks to Sir Terry Farrell, Owen Hatherley, Nicholas Boys Smith, Angela Brady, about how London should look in the future. And we head to the Foundling Museum, whose latest exhibition marks the 250th anniversary of the death of William Hogarth to find out how artist Jessie Brennan has re-imagined ‘A Rake's Progress' without people, just a famous London tower block.

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Front Row: Archive 2014
Terry Gilliam and Edward Gardner, Joshua Ferris, Clean Bandit

Front Row: Archive 2014

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2014 28:32


Fruitvale Station is the debut film from director Ryan Coogler and it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance in 2013. It narrates the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, a young African American man who was shot by transport police in California on New Year's Day in 2009. Gaylene Gould reviews the film. Clean Bandit scored a number one with their single Rather Be which fused classical music with electronic dance rhythms. As they release their debut album, they discuss how they found their musical style and the reaction from the classical world. Terry Gilliam is returning to the English National Opera to direct Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, teaming up again with music director Edward Gardner. Terry and Edward discuss the director/conductor relationship and the appeal of Berlioz's seldom performed work. Author Joshua Ferris, best known for his debut novel Then We Came to the End, discusses his latest book, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. Set in a Manhattan dental practice, it explores faith, belonging and the power of the internet.

Vox Tablet
Joshua Ferris Takes on All Kinds of Decay in His Ambitious New Novel

Vox Tablet

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2014 18:07


The novelist Joshua Ferris made a splash in 2007 with his debut Then We Came to the End. The critically acclaimed book was a hilarious, biting satire about employees in a collapsing ad agency in Chicago at the end of the dot-com era. Ferris followed it up in 2010 with The Unnamed, a somewhat darker novel about a Manhattan lawyer who just wants to be walking; it’s an urge he cannot resist, and it undoes his life. Now Ferris is out with a new novel, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. With the help of a somewhat petulant, loner dentist the book takes on existential dread, what it means to be a Jew, and Red Sox fandom in a mix of the absurd, the droll, and the profound. Ferris joins... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.