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The Bulletin welcomes Lydia Dugdale for a conversation about measles, public health, and the creative work of God. Find us on YouTube. In this episode of The Bulletin, Clarissa Moll speaks with Lydia Dugdale, professor of medicine at Columbia University's medical center and director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. They discuss a recent measles outbreak in Texas, vaccinations, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s statements on the disease. GO DEEPER WITH THE BULLETIN: Join the conversation at our Substack. Find us on YouTube. Rate and review the show in your podcast app of choice. ABOUT THE GUEST: Lydia Dugdale is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center and director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She also serves as codirector of clinical ethics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Irving Medical Center. A practicing internist, Dugdale moved to Columbia in 2019 from Yale University, where she previously served as associate director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics. Her scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, the role of aesthetics in teaching ethics, moral injury, and the doctor-patient relationship. ABOUT THE BULLETIN: The Bulletin is a weekly (and sometimes more!) current events show from Christianity Today hosted and moderated by Clarissa Moll, with senior commentary from Russell Moore (Christianity Today's editor in chief) and Mike Cosper (director, CT Media). Each week, the show explores current events and breaking news and shares a Christian perspective on issues that are shaping our world. We also offer special one-on-one conversations with writers, artists, and thought leaders whose impact on the world brings important significance to a Christian worldview, like Bono, Sharon McMahon, Harrison Scott Key, Frank Bruni, and more. The Bulletin listeners get 25% off CT. Go to https://orderct.com/THEBULLETIN to learn more. “The Bulletin” is a production of Christianity Today Producer: Clarissa Moll Associate Producer: Alexa Burke Editing and Mix: Kevin Morris Music: Dan Phelps Executive Producers: Erik Petrik and Mike Cosper Senior Producer: Matt Stevens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lord Peter Wimsey spends his days tracking down rare books, and his nights hunting killers. Though the Great War has left his nerves frayed with shellshock, Wimsey continues to be London's greatest sleuth—and he's about to encounter his oddest case yet. Whose Body? is the 1st book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ang189/support
How do we prepare now to die well? Can we reimagine care of the dying in all of its messiness as a gift? Dr. Lydia Dugdale, a medical ethicist, internal medicine doctor, professor, and author of The Lost Art of Dying, talks with Amy Julia Becker about:DisabilityDeathMedical assistance in dyingHonoring all human life as the gift it is without idolizing life__Guest Bio:“Lydia Dugdale MD, MAR, is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. She is an internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist. Her first book, Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015), provides the theoretical grounding for this current book. She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.”__Connect Online:Website: lydiadugdale.com__On the Podcast:Book: The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom__Interview transcript and more: amyjuliabecker.com/lydia-dugdale__Season 6 of the Love Is Stronger Than Fear podcast connects to themes in my latest book, To Be Made Well, which you can order here! Learn more about my writing and speaking at amyjuliabecker.com.__*A transcript of this episode will be available within one business day on my website, and a video with closed captions will be available on my YouTube Channel.Connect with me: Instagram Facebook Twitter Website Thanks for listening!
In this episode, Joseph Clair talks with Dr. Lydia Dugdale about shifts in cultural perception of the end of life. They discuss the immense medical advances and major historical events of the last century that have profoundly affected people's attitude toward death. Does Christian belief in life after death alleviate the fear of it? In a culture that keeps death at a distance, what practices can help us to number our days?Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She also serves as Associate Director of Clinical Ethics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. A practicing internist, Dugdale moved to Columbia in 2019 from Yale University, where she previously served as Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics. Her scholarship focuses on end-of-life issues, medical ethics, and the doctor-patient relationship. She edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), a popular press book on the preparation for death.Our host, Joseph Clair, serves as the executive dean of the Cultural Enterprise at George Fox University, which encompasses the humanities, theology, education, and professional studies. He is also an associate professor of theology and culture. Before joining the George Fox faculty in 2013, he earned his PhD in the religion, ethics and politics program at Princeton University while also working as an assistant in instruction. Prior to Princeton, Clair earned an MPhil at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. He also holds master's degrees from Fordham and Duke University, as well as a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College.These podcasts are also all video recorded and on our YouTube channel! You can also visit our website at https://georgefox.edu/talks for more content like this.
Assine o Guia, ganhe tempo e atualize-se sem esforço. www.tadeclinicagem.com.br/guia Joanne e João convidam Caio Portela para falar sobre especificidades de saúde da população LGBTQIA+, explicando as definições mais importantes (sexo biológico, gênero, identidade de gênero e mais) e abordando agravos específicos de cada subgrupo dessa população. Referências: 1. Brasil. Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Gestão Estratégica e Participativa. Departamento de Apoio à Gestão Participativa. Política Nacional de Saúde Integral de Lésbicas, Gays, Bissexuais, Travestis e Transexuais / Ministério da Saúde, Secretaria de Gestão Estratégica e Participativa, Departamento de Apoio à Gestão Participativa. Brasília : 1. ed., 1. reimp. Ministério da Saúde, 2013. 2. NG, HENRY. Best practices in LGBT care: a guide for primary care physicians. Cleve Clin J Med, v. 83, n. 7, p. 531, 2016. 3. SARTOR, N. C. Velcro Seguro: o guia de saúde sexual para mulheres lésbicas e bissexuais com vulva. 2019. 78 p. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Comunicação Social - Publicidade e Propaganda) - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, 2019. 4. "Saúde para elas": Cartilha Educativa sobre Saúde da Mulher Lésbica e Bissexual. 5. RUSSELL, Stephen T. et al. Chosen name use is linked to reduced depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and suicidal behavior among transgender youth. Journal of adolescent Health, v. 63, n. 4, p. 503-505, 2018. 6. HATZENBUEHLER, Mark L. How does sexual minority stigma “get under the skin”? A psychological mediation framework. Psychological bulletin, v. 135, n. 5, p. 707, 2009. 7. FLENTJE, Annesa et al. The relationship between minority stress and biological outcomes: A systematic review. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, v. 43, n. 5, p. 673-694, 2020. 8. FORCIER, Michelle; OLSON-KENNEDY, Johanna. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other sexual minoritized youth: Primary care. 2019. 9. BIRKETT, Michelle; ESPELAGE, Dorothy L.; KOENIG, Brian. LGB and questioning students in schools: The moderating effects of homophobic bullying and school climate on negative outcomes. Journal of youth and adolescence, v. 38, n. 7, p. 989-1000, 2009.
"It is worse than useless for Christians to talk about the importance of Christian morality, unless they are prepared to take their stand on the fundamentals of Christian theology." Few Christian authors can cut straight to the heart of our problems like Sayers. In this week's episode, Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing continue to discuss a series of incredibly relevant essays written by Sayers on "The Over Six Deadly Sins," "Strong Meat," and the eponymous "Creed or Chaos."
Gaudy Night - Dorothy L Sayers Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back . . . When she attends her Oxford reunion, known as the 'Gaudy,' at sedate Shrewsbury College, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obsentities, burnt effigies and poison-pen letters—including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes threaten murder; all are perfectly ghastly; yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. Harriet realises that she is not the only target of this murderous malice as she finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection—and those of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey. 5 episodes adapted by Michael Bakewell, directed by Enyd Williams. CAST: Lord Peter Wimsey: Ian Carmichael Harriet Vane: Joanna David Other Cast Members: (Will post when I find the information) First Broadcast: BBC Radio 7 on 18 June 2010 Episode 1 Posh sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey probes a poison-pen campaign at Oxford University. Episode 2 After being victimised, Harriet Vane returns to her old college to find out who's behind the hate campaign. Episode 3 Upper-crust sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey joins Harriet to help unravel the Oxford mystery. Episode 4 Love, jealousy and revenge complicate matters as Harriet and Lord Peter Wimsey close in. Episode 5 Questions galore for Lord Peter Wimsey - most about the case, but one very personal --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ang189/support
Murder Must Advertise - A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery After the unexplained death of a junior copywriter at a top advertising agency, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover. Ian Carmichael stars as Lord Peter Wimsey – the British gentleman detective created by Dorothy L Sayers. First published in published in 1933 and adapted in six episodes by Alistair Beaton. Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War. Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. CAST Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael Chief Inspector Parker …. Allan Cuthbertson Mr Ingleby …. John Quentin Mr Willis …. Richard O'Callaghan Miss Meteyard …. Frances Jeater Mr Hankin …. Frank Williams Miss Rossiter …. Joanna Wake Pamela Dean …. Amanda Murray Ginger Joe …. Greg Mandell Dian de Momerie ...... Beth Morris Mr Tallboy ...... Edward de Souza Mr Garrett ...... Brian Wilde PC Moffat ...... Gordon Clyde Major Milligan ...... Lyndon Brook Mr Willis ...... Richard O'Callaghan Serg. Lumley ...... Danny Schiller Mr Garfield ...... Philip Voss Mr Brotherhood ...... Norman Shelley Producer: Martin Fisher First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1979. Episodes: 1. Death Comes to Pym's Publicity Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover to probe an advertising copywriter's murder. 2. Singular Spotlessness of a Lethal Weapon As his undercover murder probe at an advertising agency continues, Lord Peter Wimsey witnesses someone get a pasting that was meant for him... 3. Unsentimental Masquerade of a Harlequin Suspects abound as Lord Peter Wimsey dons fancy dress to probe the murder of an advertising copywriter. 4. Inexcusable Invasion of a Ducal Entertainment Still investigating the killing of a copywriter at an advertising agency, Lord Peter Wimsey needs a new disguise. 5. Sudden Decease of a Man in Dress Clothes With Lord Peter Wimsey working undercover to probe a death at an ad agency, there's news of a fresh killing. 6. Appropriate Exit of an Unskilled Murderer Lord Peter Wimsey is determined to finally crack the mysterious murder of a copywriter at an advertising agency. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ang189/support
Words like dogma and theology have for a long time been viewed as "dull" and irrelevant, but in a series of essays written in the late 1930s Dorothy L. Sayers argues quite the opposite: "The Christian faith is the most exciting drama ... and the dogma is the drama." In this week's episode Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing discuss three of Sayers's famous essays—"The Greatest Drama Ever Staged," "The Triumph of Easter," and "The Dogma is the Drama"—compiled in a book titled Creed or Chaos, with an eye toward how they apply to the Church and Christian faith today.
Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the puzzling death of rich, retired General Fentiman who's found dead in an armchair at his gentleman's club. Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth. British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club was first published in 1928. Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War. Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. Adapted in six episodes by Chris Miller. CAST Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael Bunter …. Peter Jones George Fentiman …. Martin Jarvis Mr Murbles …. John Gabriel Dr Penberthy …. Christopher Emmett Culyer …. Blain Fairman Challoner …. John Dunbar Colonel Marchbanks …. Wilfrid Carter Robert Fentiman ...... Allan Cuthbertson George Fentiman ...... Martin Jarvis Sheila Fentiman ...... Frances Jeater Inspector Parker ...... Gabriel Woolf Woodward/Collins ...... James Thomason Pritchard/Hinkins ...... Antony Higginson Culyer ...... Blain Fairman Ann Dorland ...... Amanda Reiss Mrs Munns ...... Ysanne Churchman Mr Munns ...... Clifford Norgate. Nellie ...... Judy Bridgland Producer: Simon Brett. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. Episodes 1. Armistice Night Posh sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey probes the death of a rich retired general. 2. The General's Last Evening Lord Peter Wimsey probes the mysterious Mr Oliver - and a pair of tricky wills. 3. Mr Oliver Probing the last hours of the life of General Fentiman, Lord Peter Wimsey seeks out his grandson. 4. Exhumation Lord Peter awaits the medical verdict and discovers more at a party. 5. At Lady Dormer's Knowing the General was poisoned, Lord Peter Wimsey probes Miss Dorland's hobby. 6. Ann Dorland With two suspects missing, Lord Peter Wimsey battles to pinpoint the poisoner. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ang189/support
No one wants to talk about death. Hell, most physicians don't want to cover the topic.No one wants to talk about death. Hell, most physicians don't want to cover the topic. But today's episode is all about just that, the art of dying.But don't think of this as a complete downer episode. It's all part of our life journey.Today's guest is an expert in the art of human death. Lydia Dugdale MD, MAR, is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. She is an internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist. Her first book, Dying in the Twenty-First Century, provides the theoretical grounding for this current book, The Lost Art Of Dying. In it, Dr. Dugdale offers a hopeful perspective on death and dying as she shows us how to adapt the wisdom from the past to our lives today. The Lost Art of Dying is a vital, affecting book that reconsiders death, death culture, and how we can transform how we live each day, including our last.
No one wants to talk about death. Hell, most physicians don't want to cover the topic. But today's episode is all about just that, the art of dying.But don't think of this as a complete downer episode. It's all part of our life journey.Today's guest is an expert in the art of human death. Lydia Dugdale MD, MAR, is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. She is an internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist. Her first book, Dying in the Twenty-First Century, provides the theoretical grounding for this current book, The Lost Art Of Dying. In it, Dr. Dugdale offers a hopeful perspective on death and dying as she shows us how to adapt the wisdom from the past to our lives today. The Lost Art of Dying is a vital, affecting book that reconsiders death, death culture, and how we can transform how we live each day, including our last.
Brook and Sarah discuss Dorothy L. Sayers, her life, her writing, and her advocacy for the mystery genre as a member of the Detection Club. Resources DuBose, Martha Hailey (2000). Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists St. Martins Press Sayers, Dorothy L. (1923) Whose Body. T. Fisher Unwin. Sayers, Dorothy L. (1927) Unnatural Death The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (BBC Radio drama from 1975) Five Red Herrings: The Geography of Literature Podcast by Sarah Drew Listener Recommendation Aldridge, Mark (2020). Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World. Harper Collins. Podcast Recommendation Mysteryratsmaze.podbean.com Other Resources https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/03/10/cooking-with-dorothy-sayers/ https://www.sayers.org.uk/ Cover art image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International For more information: cluedinmystery.com Instagram: @cluedinmystery Contact us: hello@cluedinmystery.com Music: Signs To Nowhere by Shane Ivers - //www.silvermansound.com
Lydia Dugdale, Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University, discusses the forgotten wisdom of the Art of Dying, and why that wisdom is desperately needed today.
Is the Incarnation, like other miracles, a suspension or a reversal of the natural universe? Or, as Lewis writes in "The Grand Miracle," is it "the central chapter" of history such that "every miracle exhibits the character of the Incarnation"? Join Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing as they sit down with Producer Aaron Hill on this special Christmas Day episode to discuss the Incarnation of Jesus Christ; specifically, how it impacted C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, George MacDonald, and the other Wade authors, and how each of them celebrated the Grand Miracle in their writings.
Today we have with us Monika B. Hilder who teaches in the English Department at Trinity Western University. Monika is an author, teacher, and speaker who specializes in Fantasy and Children's Literature with a particular focus on the writings of C.S. Lewis and other Inklings-related writers. She edited The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada (Co-edited with Sara Pearson and Laura Van Dyke).How did five twentieth-century British authors, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and Dorothy L. Sayers, along with their mentors George MacDonald and G. K. Chesterton, come to contribute more to the intellect and imagination of millions than many of their literary contemporaries put together? How do their achievements continue to inform and potentially transform us in the twenty-first century? Monika serves as the Co-Director of the Inklings Institute of Canada (IIC). IIC encourages the advancement of Inklings scholarship through literary criticism and related collaborative research across the disciplines; investigates how these authors critiqued their own cultures and therefore help us to respond to our own historical/cultural context; promotes the publication of research and scholarship in peer-reviewed journals, books, and other suitable venues appropriate to the various disciplines; fosters undergraduate and graduate student involvement in such research and scholarship; seeks funding for Inklings research; contributes to the current return of religious language to public discourse—and does so within the campus, with associated members nationally and internationally, and with the general public.https://www.twu.ca/research/institutes-and-centres/university-institutes/inklings-institute-canadahttps://monikahilder.com/Support the show (https://www.twu.ca/donate-now)
On this week's episode, we're celebrating the release of Freya's debut book by talking about detectives in love! The tentpoles are Of Dragons, Feasts, and Murders by Aliette de Bodard, A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske, and the fanfic If Life Was A Movie We'd Have A Better Soundtrack Than This by galaxysoup. What We're Into Lately Dark Rise by C. S. Pacat The Saint of Steel series by T. Kingfisher that ruthless love by alherath The Warrior of the Third Veil by Victoria Goddard The Sisters Avramapul series by Victoria Goddard Other Stuff We Mentioned Captive Prince by C. S. Pacat Chant Universe by Alexandra Rowland "You Should Really Be Reading Victoria Goddard's Nine Worlds Series" by Alexandra Rowland Guardian Bones Castle Lord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland House The Angel of Crows by Katherine Addison Doctor Who The Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons Captive Prince series by C. S. Pacat Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold Leverage The X-Files Hannibal Rosemary & Thyme Poirot Hinterland Hot Fuzz Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas Twilight by Stephenie Meyer The Will Darling Adventures by K.J. Charles John le Carré James Bond novels by Ian Fleming Think of England by K.J. Charles An iconic Doctor & Donna scene from Doctor Who Greenwing & Dart series by Victoria Goddard Be the Serpent Episode 33: Turn In Your Badge and Gun! A Private Reason for This by femmequixotic (aka mentioned Harry/Draco case fic) A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P. Djèlí Clark Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman For Next Time None, it's the Extravaganza! Content Warnings Minor fantasy violence in Of Dragons, Feasts, and Murders and A Marvellous Light. Transcription The transcript of this episode is available here. Thank you so much to our wonderful team of scribes for their hard work!
IN THIS REPEAT: An interview about an issue of Christian History (magazine) about Lewis and those who influenced him and/or were his contemporaries. C.S. Lewis is among a group of six other authors honored at the Marion E. Wade Center ("The Wade") at Wheaton College in Illinois. George MacDonald, G. K. Chesterton, J. R. R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield are the other individuals you can do in-depth research on in one location. But what if you wanted to learn about one key idea that each of these authors were known for? That's where the latest issue of Christian History comes in. They've just released an issue entitled "Seven Literary Sages" that accomplishes that and much more. William O'Flaherty spoke with Dr. Jennifer Woodruff Tait, the managing editor of the magazine to learn about an issue that features content by Dr. Michael Ward, Dr. David Downing and Colin Duriez. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Download FREE PDF of "Seven Literary Sages" Issue Purchase Physical Copy of SAGES Issue Browse Back Issues of Christian History Knowing and Understanding C.S. Lewis YouTube CHANNEL Listen to All About Jack on iTunes Purchase C.S. Lewis Goes to Hell Visit ScrewtapeCompanion.com Visit EssentialCSLewis.com Purchase The Misquotable C.S. Lewis Visit EssentialCSLewis.com
Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist and president of the Detection Club Martin Edwards and Richard Reynolds, crime buyer for Heffers Bookshop and member of the Crime Writers' Association, lead our investigation in this month's literary podcast. Together with the Slightly Foxed team, they take a magnifying glass to the Golden Age of crime fiction, tracing its origins to the interwar years when the Detection Club was founded and discussing why the genre continues to thrill. From relishing The Poisoned Chocolates Case and resurrecting Death of a Bookseller to the mystery of E. C. R. Lorac's missing manuscript and meeting Baroness Orczy's Teahouse Detective, the plot twists and turns as we collect British Library Crime Classics and celebrate Crime Queens Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, Josephine Tey and others along the way. Whether enjoyed as well-crafted puzzles, social documents or guilty pleasures, detective fiction is laced with nostalgia as well as cyanide. To tie up loose ends, we finish with a visit to Agatha Christie's holiday home, Greenway, a house fit for Hercule Poirot, and the setting of a Devonshire murder hunt in Dead Man's Folly. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 44 minutes; 56 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Mortmain Hall and The Crooked Shore, Martin Edwards The Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie (3.57) The Nine Tailors, Dorothy L. Sayers. (4.29) The Red House Mystery, A. A. Milne (9.31) The Old Man in the Corner, Baroness Orczy (10.34) A Question of Proof, Nicholas Blake (12:09) The Cask, Freeman Wills Crofts (14.02) Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L. Sayers (15:00) Cards on the Table, Agatha Christie (15.39) Francis Vivian's Inspector Knollis Mysteries, published by Dean Street Press (15:58) Tragedy at Law, Cyril Hare (16:53) Thrones, Dominations, Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh (18.03) Anthony Gilbert's Arthur Crook novels (19.09) Portrait of a Murderer, Anne Meredith (19.38) Bloodshed in Bayswater, John Rowland is out of print (21.38) Death of a Bookseller, Bernard J. Farmer is due to be published in a British Library Crime Classics edition in 2022 (21:41) A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries and Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries, Ed. Martin Edwards (22:35) Two-Way Murder, E. C. L. Lorac (33.40) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie (35.15) Verdict of Twelve, Raymond Postgate (35.25) And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (35.57) Arrest the Bishop, Winifred Peck, published by Dean Street Press (37.56) The Poisoned Chocolates Case, Anthony Berkeley (38.42) The Dry, Jane Harper (40.05) Agatha Christie: A Biography, Janet Morgan (41.03) Related Slightly Foxed Articles Murder Most Civilized, Emma Hogan on Agatha Christie, the Miss Marple books, Issue 17 Vane Hopes, Victoria Neumark on the novels of Dorothy L. Sayers, Issue 32 Hauntings, Michèle Roberts on Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Issue 63 A Gentleman on the Case, Brandon Robshaw on Margery Allingham, the Albert Campion novels, Issue 52 The Judge's Progress, P. D. James on Cyril Hare, Tragedy at Law, Issue 12 Lost in the Fens, Julie Welch on the detective stories of Edmund Crispin, Issue 63 Other Links British Library Crime Classics (22:36) Dean Street Press (30:40) Download Heffers Crime Fiction Top 100, selected by Richard Reynolds. NB The file will download automatically on click. Please check your downloads folder (35:12) Agatha Christie's holiday home, Greenway, in Devon (42:37) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable
In this episode, Linda Hengerer is talking with Connie Berry. Connie Berry is the author of the Kate Hamilton Mysteries, set in the UK and featuring an American antiques dealer with a gift for solving crimes. Like her protagonist, Connie was raised by antiques dealers who instilled in her a passion for history, fine art, and travel. During college she studied at the University of Freiburg in Germany and St. Clare's College, Oxford, where she fell under the spell of the British Isles. Besides reading and writing mysteries, Connie loves history, foreign travel, cute animals, and all things British. She lives in Ohio with her husband and adorable Shih Tzu, Emmie. Visit Connie's website for information about her books: connieberry.comBuy her new book, The Art of Betrayal, and sign up for her newsletter.Get to know Connie - The Tart Words Baker's Dozen:1. Plotter or Pantser? Combo?I'm a Plotser. I know where I'm going but not always how I'll get there.2. Tea or Coffee?COFFEE FIRST! (Sorry--I was shouting). Then a nice cup of tea.3. Beer, Wine, or Cocktails?Wine--cabernet or pinot noir. Sometimes a pretty cocktail, although they're full of calories. I'm trying to shed the COVID Ten.4. Snacks: Sweet or Savory?Savory. Salty.5. Indie Published, Traditionally Published, or Hybrid?Traditionally published.6. Strict Writing Schedule: Yes or NoI wish! That's something I'd like to develop one day when I have time to think about it.7. Strictly Computer or Mix It Up?Mostly computer, although I write scene ideas in pencil first.8. Daily Goal: Yes or NoNot really. I write in scenes and try to stop for the day at the end of a scene. Doesn't always work out.9. Formal Track Progress: Yes or noYes! I've developed a complicated chart with columns for chapter, scene, date, location, characters involved, a brief synopsis, pages in scene, and pages in the whole chapter. I'm not sure I could keep track of my plot without it.10. Special Writing Spot?I love to write while looking out over water, which usually means our cottage in northern Wisconsin. At home I write looking at a wall. I should hang one of those photo displayers on the water with photographs of water.11. Writer's Block?No, but I often have Writer's Procrastination. Writer's Block goes away when you start writing.12. File of Ideas: Yes or NoNot really, although when I begin a new book, I jot down all my ideas and then look for connections between them.13. Favorite Author(s)?I'll name the ones that come to mind: Elly Griffiths, Tana French, Charles Todd, Laurie R. King, Anthony Horowitz, Jodi Taylor, Christopher Fowler, Susan Hill, all the Golden Agers--especially Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Cyril Hare. As you can see, I read mostly mysteries set in the UK, which is also what I write. As Agatha said, “There's something about an English village.”
On The Literary Life podcast today, our hosts wrap up their series on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Angelina, Cindy and Thomas open the discussion with some commentary on the wickedness in the heart of every human and the cost of courage to stand against the crowd. They examine Beatty’s character and why he might have wanted to die. Angelina brings up the way in which Montag’s courage convicts Faber of his own cowardice. They also talk about the detrimental effects of pleasure-seeking being the driving goal of people’s existence. Other topics of discussion include the images of death and rebirth, the importance of remembrance, and having humility instead of hubris. Cindy is hosting a new summer discipleship course for moms this year, so head over to morningtimeformoms.com for more info and to sign up! Thomas and Angelina also have some great summer classes coming up, and you can check those out at houseofhumaneletters.com. Previous episodes you may want to check out if you are new The Literary Life: An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis (Episodes 20-23) and “Are Women Human” by Dorothy L. Sayers (Episode 9). Commonplace Quotes: There is no such thing as low brows, only low hearts. C. S. Lewis More unsolicited advice: if you really want a well-read, well-educated child, you will stop dropping books or subjects just because he doesn’t think he likes them. Education is the development of taste, not the reinforcement of a child’s lack of it. Brandy Vencel People ask me to predict the future when all I want to do is prevent it. Ray Bradbury from “Four Quartets” by T. S. Elliot The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire. Book List: Selected Literary Essays by C. S. Lewis An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis 1984 by George Orwell Animal Farm by George Orwell A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Lord of the Flies by William Golding Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Find Cindy at morningtimeformoms.com, on Instagram @cindyordoamoris and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/. Check out Cindy’s own Patreon page also! Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let’s get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB
On Lonely Deaths: COVID, Community, & the Lost Art of Dying Well with Dr. Lydia Dugdale was recorded live on Thursday, April 29. The event's co-sponsors were the Center for Catholic Studies, the IHS Library, with IHS Bioethics. The event was moderated by Dr. Bryan Pilkington.Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), is the Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She also serves as Associate Director of Clinical Ethics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is author of The Lost Art of Dying (HarperOne, 2020), on the preparation for death.
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On this episode, author Many Mejia, author of Strike Me Down, comes to visit and we talk about The Echo Wife, You Will Know Me and other great books! Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS, iTunes, or SpotifyFind me on instagram at @jennifercaloyerasemail me at booksaremypeople at gmail dot comBooks Discussed:Land of Shadows – Rachel HowzellEvery Last Fear Alex FinlayBad Habits by Amy GentryThe Echo Wife by Sarah GaileyYou Will Know Me by Megan AbbotOther books mentioned:Strike Me Down by Mindy MejiaThe Charmed Wife- Olga GrushinThe Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. SayersFind Mindy Mejia here:Facebook: Mejiawrites Twitter: MejiawritesInsta: Mindy MejiaMindymejia.comSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22705533)
Today on The Literary Life Podcast, Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks discuss the importance of reading old books. They begin the conversation by addressing head on the idea that old books are irrelevant. They touch on the fact that when we use the phrase “old books” we mean not just any piece of literature from the past, but those which have stood the test of time. Don’t forget to check out our brand new podcast, which has its very own feed, The Well Read Poem. The House of Humane Letters spring classes are opening for registration, so head over there to check out what is coming up! Commonplace Quotes: So, when his Folly opens The unnecessary hells, A Servant when He Reigneth Throws the blame on some one else. Rudyard Kipling I am informed by philologists that the “rise to power” of these two words, “problem” and “solution” as the dominating terms of public debate, is an affair of the last two centuries, and especially of the nineteenth, having synchronised, so they say, with a parallel “rise to power” of the word “happiness”—for reasons which doubtless exist and would be interesting to discover. Like “happiness”, our two terms “problem” and “solution” are not to be found in the Bible—a point which gives to that wonderful literature a singular charm and cogency. . . . On the whole, the influence of these words is malign, and becomes increasingly so. They have deluded poor men with Messianic expectations . . . which are fatal to steadfast persistence in good workmanship and to well-doing in general. . . . Let the valiant citizen never be ashamed to confess that he has no “solution of the social problem” to offer to his fellow-men. Let him offer them rather the service of his skill, his vigilance, his fortitude and his probity. For the matter in question is not, primarily, a “problem”, nor the answer to it a “solution”. L. P. Jacks, Stevenson Lectures Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely temporary fashion. A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age. C. S. Lewis To Walter de la Mare by T. S. Elliot The children who explored the brook and found A desert island with a sandy cove (A hiding place, but very dangerous ground, For here the water buffalo may rove, The kinkajou, the mungabey, abound In the dark jungle of a mango grove, And shadowy lemurs glide from tree to tree – The guardians of some long-lost treasure-trove) Recount their exploits at the nursery tea And when the lamps are lit and curtains drawn Demand some poetry, please. Whose shall it be, At not quite time for bed?… Or when the lawn Is pressed by unseen feet, and ghosts return Gently at twilight, gently go at dawn, The sad intangible who grieve and yearn; When the familiar is suddenly strange Or the well known is what we yet have to learn, And two worlds meet, and intersect, and change; When cats are maddened in the moonlight dance, Dogs cower, flitter bats, and owls range At witches’ sabbath of the maiden aunts; When the nocturnal traveller can arouse No sleeper by his call; or when by chance An empty face peers from an empty house; By whom, and by what means, was this designed? The whispered incantation which allows Free passage to the phantoms of the mind? By you; by those deceptive cadences Wherewith the common measure is refined; By conscious art practised with natural ease; By the delicate, invisible web you wove – The inexplicable mystery of sound. Book List: The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers The Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis The Giver by Lois Lowry The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Find Cindy at https://cindyrollins.net, on Instagram @cindyordoamoris and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/. Check out Cindy’s own Patreon page also! Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let’s get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB
Is the Incarnation, like other miracles, a suspension or a reversal of the natural universe? Or, as Lewis writes in "The Grand Miracle," is it "the central chapter" of history such that "every miracle exhibits the character of the Incarnation"? Join Drs. Crystal and David C. Downing as they sit down with Producer Aaron Hill on this special Christmas Day episode to discuss the Incarnation of Jesus Christ; specifically, how it impacted C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, George MacDonald, and the other Wade authors, and how each of them celebrated the Grand Miracle in their writings.
Předposlední díl našeho podcastu v roce 2020 je stále narvaný audioknižními novinkami. I když už jsou Vánoce přímo za rohem (bez Petry byste to určitě netušili!), ještě se rojí úžasné audioknihy - ale aspoň budete mít s čím si zpříjemnit konec roku. Vydáme se společně chytit mladíka, který vybudoval drogové impérium ze své ložnice. Projdeme si řecké mýty, jak jste je ještě neslyšeli. A zabráníme vám, abyste neudělali nějakou strašnou chybu! Protože nás už znáte, tušíte, že přihodíme i pár osobních příběhů a tipů. Takže se usaďte a přejeme příjemné poslouchání. Jaké novinky vám zpříjemní konec roku? Překupník na darknetu - Nick Bilton Nikdy se nepřestala usmívat - Martin Štefko Mýty - Stephen Fry Chystáte se udělat strašnou chybu - Olivier Sibony Astrofyzika pre zandeprázdnených - Neil deGrasse Tyson Cesta domov - Sebastian Fitzek Běžkyně - Peter May Stephen Hawking: jeho život a dílo - Kitty Fergusonová Sophiina volba - William Styron Vražda potřebuje reklamu - Dorothy L. Sayersová Po dobrém, nebo po zlém - Zdeněk Matějíček Luisa a Lotka - Erich Kästner Meta - Pavel Bareš Podpis čtyř - Arthur Conan Doyle Jak přežít svého muže - Jana Bernášková Holub Kolumb - Emma Pecháčková Pilot Pírko - Emma Pecháčková A na co byste ještě neměli zapomenout? vyplnit Velký audioknižní průzkum 2020
这期我们和方曌、Gigi 一起讨论柏林剧团（Berliner Ensemble）演出的「高加索灰阑记」Der kaukasische Kreidekreis，这是一个我们第一次聊德国剧作家 Bertolt Brecht (贝托尔特·布莱希特) 的作品和他为戏剧舞台带来的疏离效果、史诗剧场等理论和风格。节目中提到的作品信息：话剧视频高加索灰阑记，柏林剧团https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12f4y127d1剧本高加索灰阑记，上海译文版本https://book.douban.com/subject/6784967/剧本The Caucasian Chalk Circle，James & Tania Stern with W. H. Audenhttps://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/4627961/mod_resource/content/1/BRECHT%20COLLECTED%20PLAYS.pdf元杂剧包待制智勘灰阑记，李潜夫https://www.douban.com/location/drama/11620570/电影Borat / 波拉特2，Sacha Baron Cohenhttps://movie.douban.com/subject/4135439/话剧椅子，Eugène Ionescohttps://book.douban.com/subject/10598740/话剧犀牛，Eugène Ionescohttps://book.douban.com/subject/1372741/话剧等待戈多，贝克特https://book.douban.com/subject/1051714/目的地布莱希特故居 Brecht-Weigel Museum，Chausseestrasse 125https://www.museumsportal-berlin.de/en/museums/brecht-weigel-museum/小说布登勃洛克一家，托马斯·曼https://book.douban.com/subject/21267640/川剧列宁在十月，双流县川剧团https://youtu.be/SNbcezwLLUY英剧Belgravia 贝尔格维亚，Julian Felloweshttps://movie.douban.com/subject/26701184/真人秀Judge Judy，CBShttps://movie.douban.com/subject/3112224/话剧四川好人，布莱希特https://book.douban.com/subject/6784956/元杂剧赵氏孤儿，纪君祥https://book.douban.com/subject/2320760/电影刘三姐，乔羽https://movie.douban.com/subject/1298755/游戏刺客信条：英灵殿，Ubisofthttps://www.douban.com/game/35051450/话剧高加索灰阑记，中澳合作版http://dwz.date/dvWb话剧魔方，王晓鹰导演https://www.bilibili.com/video/av50157566/小说巴士司机的蜜月，Dorothy L. Sayershttps://book.douban.com/subject/24721222/话剧三分钱歌剧，布莱希特https://www.douban.com/location/drama/19956482/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
I'm talking about Dorothy L. Sayer's detective Lord Peter Wimsey. Interesting guy I must say. I can't wait to read some of his stories and find out the stuff I tell you about in this episode!
Taking a few minutes away from recording Page One In Review episodes, Charles Adrian talks about a particular kind of convalescent literature. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/. “Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don’t go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It’s up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don’t have leaders./Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn’t have.” from Weird Sisters by Terry Pratchett. You can read about Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld The first Page One In Review episode, which is Page One 157, was recorded on the 18th of March, 2020. Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith is discussed in Page One 76 and Page One 175, Germany by Neil MacGregor is discussed in Page One 177, The Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney is discussed in Page One 27 and Page One 163, and Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary by M. R. James is discussed in Page One 36 and Page One 165. Also mentioned in this episode is London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd. Another book by Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor, is discussed in Page One 121. And there are mentions of books by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and P. D. James, The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks and the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler (of which Imago is the third book). Other books by Terry Pratchett mentioned in this episode are The Colour Of Magic, Equal Rites, Mort, Reaper Man and Weird Sisters. Episode image is a detail from the cover of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, published in 1993 by Corgi Books; cover illustration by Josh Kirby. Episode recorded: 9th September, 2020. Book listing: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. Madeleine E. Robins, author of the Sarah Tolerance historical mysteries, SF and fantasy, and historical novels, talks about starting her career with Regency novels influenced by Georgette Heyer, how "fluffy bunny" reading doesn't necessarily mean fluffy, making masks and researching mask laws from a century ago (and the “mask riots” in San Francisco then), and her own recent work and work-in-progress. Books mentioned include: Sold for Endless Rue by Madeleine E. Robins "Omunculus" by Madeleine E. Robins Whitehall by Liz Duffy Adams, Mary Robinette Kowal, Madeleine E. Robins, Barbara Samuel & Delia Sherman Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Lord Peter Wimsey Series by Dorothy L. Sayers The Complete Novels by Jane Austen R.U.R. by Karel Čapek Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Our current moment of political, social, and even religious upheaval has been isolating in many inexplicable ways. COVID-19 restrictions have eliminate many of our opportunities to build friendships and network with colleagues. Many of us are now working, schooling, and worshiping from home, severing limiting our social circles. As a result, psychologists are reporting higher rates of depression. More than ever, we can see the crucial role community and connectedness contribute to our well being. We need friends. In this episode of Persuasion, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson continue their Getting By summer miniseries. Each episode of the series will include a special guest who has something specific to share about how we can get by in life considering the world as it is today. Gina Dalfonzo joins this conversation to help us see the value of nurturing friendships even in the most dire of circumstances. Her latest release form Baker Publishing, The Remarkable Friendship Between C. S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers, provides a template for us. While Lewis is well known due to his Chronicles of Narnia series, Sayers may be relatively unknown. She was a wildly successful mystery novelist, best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey Series. This friendship is set against the backdrop of World War II; the unrest and uncertainty of their time parallels that of ours. By looking at their friendship—developed primarily via letters over a 15 year stretch—provides a picture of how we too could develop or maintain deep friendships even during difficult times. Conversation touches on the powerful way friendships can feed and shape our souls—as well as the trajectory of our very lives. Listen in for dialogue on questions like these as we learn how to get by together. Then continue the conversation on Twitter @PersuasionCAPC or in the CAPC members-only community on Facebook.
Our current moment of political, social, and even religious upheaval has been isolating in many inexplicable ways. COVID-19 restrictions have eliminate many of our opportunities to build friendships and network with colleagues. Many of us are now working, schooling, and worshiping from home, severing limiting our social circles. As a result, psychologists are reporting higher rates of depression. More than ever, we can see the crucial role community and connectedness contribute to our well being. We need friends. In this episode of Persuasion, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson continue their Getting By summer miniseries. Each episode of the series will include a special guest who has something specific to share about how we can get by in life considering the world as it is today. Gina Dalfonzo joins this conversation to help us see the value of nurturing friendships even in the most dire of circumstances. Her latest release form Baker Publishing, The Remarkable Friendship Between C. S. Lewis and Dorothy L. Sayers, provides a template for us. While Lewis is well known due to his Chronicles of Narnia series, Sayers may be relatively unknown. She was a wildly successful mystery novelist, best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey Series. This friendship is set against the backdrop of World War II; the unrest and uncertainty of their time parallels that of ours. By looking at their friendship—developed primarily via letters over a 15 year stretch—provides a picture of how we too could develop or maintain deep friendships even during difficult times. Conversation touches on the powerful way friendships can feed and shape our souls—as well as the trajectory of our very lives. Listen in for dialogue on questions like these as we learn how to get by together. Then continue the conversation on Twitter @PersuasionCAPC or in the CAPC members-only community on Facebook.
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Heather's latest fave USCF Grand Round (some very hopeful info on testing--but ONLY if we begin to understand that Public Health is the most important thing--as opposed to individual health. B/c if the Public is healthy, we have a greater likelihood of being kept healthy ourselves). And my new fave TWIV (This Week in Virology) with a fascinating chat with a UK Epidemiologist.And the YouTuber I mentioned this week: And And did YOU know about this??? (I didn't) And this was fascinating (and I thought very nicely done) Useful CDC Emergency Comms slides (if you're interested): https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/training/webinar_20200406.asp Phrase of the Day—brought to you by Kelly: “Crash blossom” = confusing newspaper headline (e.g., "A Doctor Delivered a Baby 25 Years after Delivering His Mom in the Same Hospital” *Tuesday book chat recs (most of them--coffee wiped out my handwritten notes)* Linda: knitting Love note sweater — using Malabrigo silk blendMaia - Knitting on modified Sari cardiganAndrew Caldecott Rotherweird series Brenda Dayne : Wainwright/dp/0241349648Maia: The Repair Shop (show to binge)https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08l581p Robert Twigger books Maia Daguerre : How the Scots Invented the Modern WorldAmy: 2040 by Damon Gameau *Thursday book chat recs (in order of appearance)* Mary - Container Gardening - Anthony AtheaSusan’s Fiber Shop - "Onesie Wednesdays" etc., live videos on Facebook (so after missing MDSW, at least you can see Susan and buy some nifty stuff). Brenda Dayne rec: The Salt PathDianne - Zapoté by Carol Feller in her Short Row Knits bookKatrinkles little doohickies (faux suede) - The Binding by Bridget Collins (fantasy book - first for adults - she usually writes YA) https://amzn.to/3gV41lv sounds like FUN! Kelly - What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories Paperback – April 3, 2018 by Lesley Nneka Arimah (Author) (LeVar Burton’s podcast Dianne: This tender Land (audible) This Tender Land: A Novel Hardcover – September 3, 2019 by William Kent Krueger Susan Branch - Heart of the Home books - Falling in Love with the English Countryside (She also has a new Xmas book coming)Martha's Vineyard - Isle of Dreams Hardcover – April 8, 2016 by Susan Branch (Author, Illustrator) The Fairy Tale Girl Hardcover – September 18, 2015 by Susan Branch (Author, Illustrator) Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger https://amzn.to/3iHjeaeTracee finished Sucker Punch by Laurell K. Hamilton (Author) + Mitch Albom Time Keeper Lost stories of Louisa May Alcott (her sexy sexy stuff!!!! Whoo whooo!) Regina: A Century of Women Cartoonists -https://amzn.to/2Y0nwSq Heather - Banana Yoshimoto - an old book but an interesting and fun one. "Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming. ... [It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesWith the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Kitchen is an enchantingly original book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, love, tragedy, and the power of the kitchen and home in the lives of a pair of free-spirited young women in contemporary Japan. Mikage, the heroine, is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend Yoichi and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father) Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at i.... Jennifer: The Wimsey Papers—The Wartime Letters and Documents of the Wimsey Family Kindle Edition by Dorothy L. Sayers (Author) Traitor's Tears, A (Ursula Blanchard Book 12) Kindle Edition by Fiona Buckley The Listening Eye (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 28) Kindle Edition by Patricia Wentworth (Author) Discworld—what to read map: Highly recommended starting point for Discworld books--VERY funny and SUPERBly read (Audible, etc.) The Wee Free Men Heather - The Alienist Joyce: Less - (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer (Author) Aimee - Rivers of London - recurring character Leslie in first two books and Lesley in the third book. THE NERVELove on the Spectrum - Netflix, Aussie showIndian Matchmaker on Netflix (connected thematically) Heather - Autism Tropes - Jessica Kellgren-Fozard and Whats wrong with me? // My Disabilities (Updated) Candy: Book talk with Horrorstor author Grady Hendrix (Jenny Lawsen) (That's Jenny Lawsen, the Bloggess, in her Nowhere Book Store) Aimee: The Succuluent woman Watch Youtube to learn plant care!: These Succulent Buddies + Miss Orchid GirlAimee & Heather: Disney+ World According to Jeff Goldblum
In this episode, Lisa and Julianne continue the series, Conversations with the EQUUS Herd. After a chat to catch up on the current social situation, the episode features interviews with Candace Carrabus, Linda Sheehan and Janet Winters from the EQUUS Film and Arts Fest at the Kentucky Horse Park. Candace Carrabus writes from the Lincoln County, Missouri farm she shares with her husband and daughter. A scoliosis diagnosis at age 11 changed her life. A horse lover from a young age, she signed up for riding lessons and learned much more than posting trot. With quiet power, horses provided comfort and a sympathetic ear, never judging or poking fun at her cumbersome back brace. Those years, though often difficult, taught Candace the value of persistence, the healing power of believing in oneself, and how strength can be gained through kindness. Her stories are imbued with the irresistible wonder, mystery, and solace her equine friends have provided.https://candacecarrabus.comLinda Brown Sheehan is a lifelong animal enthusiast, and supporter of charitable organizations specializing in the prevention of cruelty to animals. The experiences and observations she has volunteering in animal rescue provide ample material for her artwork. Linda and her husband Eric, both from Iowa, have two sons and two dogs. The family currently lives in Plano, Texas. Linda's book, The Story of Bubbles, was written to benefit Becky's Hope Horse Rescue in Frisco, Texas. https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/linda-sheehanhttps://www.amazon.com/Story-Bubbles-Linda-Brown-Sheehan/dp/1542812887Janet Winters fell in love with mysteries and horses thanks to Trixie Belden. After reading Trixie's first adventure, in which she and Honey cantered down the bridle path to solve a mystery, Janet was hooked. Then came Agatha, Sir Author, Rex, Daphne, and of course Dorothy L., who inspired her to name her horses after characters in the Lord Peter Wimsey series. Janet was encouraged to write after winning a fifth grade essay contest which was actually published in the local newspaper. After that, her writing took a deviant turn to ad copy, press releases, and commercials, for which she snagged a Matrix Award.After thirty years of convincing people to buy things they didn't need, she turned to her real love...mysteries. She penned her first novel "Murder at Morgan House", introducing amateur sleuth Ivy Snow, her psychic teenage daughter Jaycee, and potential paramour Detective John Garrett. Together they expose deadly secrets that lie beneath the veneer of quintessential American small town life.https://thebarngoddesschronicles.comTo learn more about podcast host Julianne and her partner Bruce Anderson, tune in to "Whinny Tales: Horse Stories, Pony Legends and Unicorn Yarns," the official podcast of Nature's View and The Marley Project, their equine and arts-based 501 (c)(3). You can also visit www.naturesview.us to schedule an appointment. A documentary about their work and films in the Natural Humanship Training Series, are available on The EQUUS Channel at https://filmfestivalflix.com/festival/equus/film/the-edge/. Julianne is the organizer of the Camden Tour Stop for the fest, so visit www.equusfilmfestivalcamden.com for a complete listing of activities and updates on a possible rescheduling of the spring event for the fall of 2020.For more information about the festival or for links to the films and literature mentioned in the podcast, visit equusfilmfestival.net. To see the EQUUS films, visit https://horsenetwork.com/equus/.
If today's episode gives you flashbacks to your college Psych 1010 class... well, that's a good thing, according to our guest Dorothy L. Andrews, Principal & Chief Behavioral Data Scientist at Actuarial and Analytics Consortium. You may never have thought much about it, but behavior and psychology play a significant role in our industry - from a customer's sense of risk awareness to an underwriter's algorithms - the human mind is at work everywhere. In this episode, Dorothy sheds some light on:How insurance products impact real people, including through their biases (12:56)The three most basic psychological needs of our audience that we can work to fulfill (18:18)When insurance companies should be building bonds with their (future) consumers (19:30)The most important skill that actuaries are going to have to have for the future (25:20)How you can connect in a physical way through technology (30:50).
Instead of reading novels, more and more people are watching movies and epic TV shows. With Oscar season upon us, we are focusing on movies this January with two special episodes. This week Dr. David C. Downing and Producer Aaron Hill sit down with our very own Co-director, Dr. Crystal Downing to discuss her recent inaugural lecture on Dorothy L. Sayers and cinema as well as her work on how Christians can communicate unchanging truths through ever-changing mediums like movies. Join us on January 23rd for a special episode about the movie adaptations of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Nobody ever remembers women writers - but playwright Jo Kadlecek wants to change that. --- “In Parker’s case, I think creativity was a burden. I genuinely think she didn’t know what to do with it. She had these great outlets - helping start The New Yorker magazine, writing for Vanity Fair and for Vogue, writing poetry, being a theatre critic - but nothing fed her soul. It was a sad existence. She attempted suicide three or four times, and wrote a poem on suicide, and said it at a party with F. Scott Fitzgerald! What a conversation killer - no pun intended.” A play that debuted at the 2019 Sydney Fringe Festival brought together three women who led strangely parallel lives, but (probably) never met: Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Parker, and Dorothy Day. These remarkable women all wrote and worked from the 1920s on - but are largely and unjustly forgotten, says Jo Kadlecek, the woman behind the play Speak … Easy. “That’s a line from the play: nobody ever remembers women writers." Jo has been a novelist, journalist, and teacher (among other things!) and she’s been trying to get the Dorothys in the same room for the last fifteen years. One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, the first woman to write for the New Yorker, and a firebrand socialist who’s now up for sainthood in the Catholic Church … there is nothing about these women that’s not fascinating. In this episode of Life & Faith, Jo talks writing, motherhood, whiskey, falling in love, and being a woman of your time (or not), through the lens of the three Dorothys. --- To find out more about Joining the Dots Theatre - which aims to combine the wit of Dorothy Parker, the theological depth of Dorothy L. Sayers, and Dorothy Day’s passionate compassion for those in need - visit www.joiningthedotstheatre.com.au Find out more about Dorothy L. Sayers from this past Life & Faith Episode: www.publicchristianity.org/how-grand-to-be-a-toucan/
"The romance of the police force is thus the whole romance of man. It is based on the fact that morality is the most dark and daring of conspiracies." - G.K. Chesterton In this episode we discuss Detective Fiction and the Detection Club, and whether or not this genre has a uniquely Catholic lens. Music: Ashton Manor by Kevin MacLeod Hosts: Rachel Sherlock and Chloe Chloe Follow us on social media: @seekingwatson and @ChloeAMDG Follow the podcast on Instagram: @riskingenchantmentpodcast Find out more at www.rachelsherlock.com Works and Authors mentioned: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle “The Blue Cross,” The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton Chesterton.org "The Great Detectives: G.K. Chesterton – Father Brown" by John Peterson The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton "Detective Fiction Reinvention and Didacticism in G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown" by Clifford James Stumme "Detective fiction and the religious imagination" by David A. King "A Defence of Detective Stories" by G.K. Chesterton Taken by the Flood by Agatha Christie (Poirot) Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie (Poirot) Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie (Poirot) The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple) Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis "The Christian World of Agatha Christie" by Nick Baldock Creed or Chaos?: Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster (Or, Why It Really Does Matter What You Believe) by Dorothy L. Sayers Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers The Belief of Catholics by Ronald Knox The Viaduct Murder by Ronald Knox "Studies in Sherlock Holmes" Essays in Satire by Ronald Knox Brighton Rock by Graham Greene "The Catholic Novels of Graham Greene" by Edward Short "What Makes Great Detective Fiction, According to T. S. Eliot" by Paul Grimstad East Coker by T.S. Eliot What We're Enjoying at the Moment Chloe: Downton Abbey Rachel: The Bookcase, Carlisle, G.K's Weekly: A Sampler
On this episode, I Zoom in Sonya Harris and we chat about how to start a school garden. Born and raised in Paulsboro, New Jersey, Sonya Harris is a Teacher of Special Education at the Dorothy L. Bullock Elementary School, in Glassboro, NJ. She received her BSEd in Special Education at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and is a 20+ year teaching veteran, with residence at Bullock for over 12 years, where she is now known as the “Garden Teacher” for her role in bringing an organic edible garden to the school. In the fall of 2013, Sonya gathered a group of teachers together to plan a garden at the Bullock School, which could be used as a space to teach students across the curriculum through gardening. She contacted celebrity landscaper Ahmed Hassan via social media for advice. Not only did he respond to her message a few hours later, he advised her and her Bullock Garden Team on what was needed to establish a sustainable school garden. Ahmed connected Sonya with local South Jersey landscape designer, Mike Pasquarello of Elite Landscaping in Berlin, NJ. Together, after almost a year of planning, partnerships with landscape and horticultural experts from across the country, sponsored donations and fundraising efforts, the Bullock Elementary Children's Garden became a reality the weekend of May 2-3, 2015. In October 2016, Sonya was awarded the very first “Best in New Jersey” Jersey Fresh Farm-to-School Award by the New Jersey Department of Agriculture for her drive in ensuring that the Bullock Children's Garden serves as a tool for assisting teachers in teaching children across the curriculum through garden education, provides free, fresh, organic produce to the local low-income community, where the school is located (helping to eliminate a food desert) and for partnering with several organizations and green industry leaders to ensure successful learning opportunities for the Bullock Elementary students. She also runs an after-school club for at-risk children, teaching them the value of gardening, growing your own food, caring for the earth, and using interaction with nature to reduce feelings of frustration, anger, and depression. She loves spending time gardening at home and with the children at the school garden. Sonya is also currently leading the expansion of the garden education initiative throughout the Glassboro School District and with the Borough of Glassboro to increase sustainability awareness and Green initiatives. She is currently mentoring several schools across the United States assisting them in creating school gardens, and partners with members and organizations in the Green Industry across the United States, Australia, UK, and South Africa. In 2017 Sonya established the nonprofit The Bullock Garden Project, Inc. The role of this nonprofit is to assist schools serving large populations of students who are at-risk, receiving special education services, and/or low-income and food insecurity with establishing and implementing school gardens. She has won several awards, including the most recent awards: New Jersey Agricultural Society's Learning Through Gardening 2018 Teacher of the Year, and Project Green Schools 2018 Outstanding Green Education Program Director. Please connect with Sonya on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NJGardenTeacher
Honoria took the cloche off and shrugged off the coat with the white fox collar, laying them on one of the small tables flanking the door. She sniffed. Thanks to the croup, her sense of smell was still off. Yet something did not smell right. She turned toward her bedroom. The young woman lay sprawled at the entrance to the back hall, her eyes open and staring. -- Anne Louise Bannon, The Last Witnesses If you haven't yet read Anne Louise Bannon's Freddie and Kathy Mysteries, what a treat you have in store for you! Set in the Roaring Twenties, filled with bootleg hooch and murders aplenty. Here are the books in order: 1 - Fascinating Rhythm 2 - Bring Into Bondage 3 - The Last Witnesses In addition, Anne has written a very useful book for writers -- Howdunnit: Book of Poisons -- and has a blogged novel, White House Rhapsody, which she continues to update. You really must go check out Anne's website -- she has so many projects going on and so many interesting publications to her name, it's best I send you to the source. Do not forget her wine blog! She also gave a shout out to several authors, including Avery Ames, Mary Higgins Clark, Phyllis A. Whitney and the incomparable Dorothy L. Sayers. Enjoy! -- Laura Transcript of Interview with Anne Louise Bannon Laura Brennan: Anne Louise Bannon has made not one, but two careers out of her passion for storytelling. Both a novelist and a journalist, she has an insatiable curiosity. In addition to her mystery novels, she has written a nonfiction book about poisons, freelanced for such diverse publications as the Los Angeles Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Backstage West, and edits a wine blog. On the fiction side, she writes a romantic serial, a spy series, and her wonderful Kathy and Freddie historical mystery series, set in the 1920s. Anne, thank you for joining me. Anne Louise Bannon: thank you for having me. LB: On your website, I noticed that you introduce yourself through an avatar: Robin Goodfellow, who is better known as the impish Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream. ALB: Yes,that is only my favorite character from my favorite play in the whole wide world. I love A Midsummer Night's Dream. LB: How do you see yourself as Puck? ALB: It's not so much physically, I'm not the fastest moving human being on the planet. It's mostly mentally. My brain is constantly going and there's throwaway line from the end of Act II: "I'll put a girdle around the earth in 40 minutes." Maybe my body doesn't move that fast, but my brain certainly does. It was something about Puck that I really loved. I also love the fact that he's a bit of a stinker. A pre-Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny, if you will. LB: You are in every medium I can think of. So, let's actually start though: how did you get started writing? What came first? ALB: Oh, being a day-dreamy, moody teenager at age 15. I mean, I was spending an awful lot of time daydreaming. I finally figured out if I was going to spend all this time daydreaming, I should find a way to justify it. So I started writing. And that summer I turned 15, I cranked out my first novel. LB: Why mysteries? ALB: I've always liked mystery, as a genre. As I got older, I just started reading more and more mysteries. I stumbled onto Dorothy Sayers, and Nero Wolfe was popular on TV with, I think, William Cannon at the time. One of my favorite books as a kid was called The Mystery of the Green Cat by Phyllis Whitney and I really enjoyed Nancy Drew, and fell away from it for a while as a teenager but got back into it as a young adult, even before I finished college. I would pick up mysteries as my relaxation from grad school work and stuff like that. LB: How do you think your training as a journalist impacted your fiction? ALB: Well, given that my journalism happened way later, as an adult... Here's the story: I had a really bad first marriage. As part of that, I ended up writing a lot of stuff,
This week, we'll tell you everything you need to know about the vast and wonderful mystery genre! As always, we'll close with what we're reading. Books and other media mentioned in this episode: History of the genre:"The Murders at the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan PoeThe Woman in White by Wilkie CollinsThe Moonstone by Wilkie CollinsA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleAgatha Christie booksDorothy L. Sayers booksDashiell Hammett booksRaymond Chandler booksNancy Drew series by Carolyn KeeneHardy Boys series by Franklin W. DixonJames Patterson books Cozies:Masterpiece Mystery! (TV)Hercule Poirot series by Agatha ChristieMiss Marple series by Agatha ChristieLord Peter Wimsey series by Dorothy L. SayersNgaio Marsh booksJosephine Tey booksFlavia de Luce series by Alan BradleyMaisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline WinspearChief Inspector Armand Gamache series by Louise PennyA Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery series by Diane Mott DavidsonLaura Childs booksA Tea Shop Mystery series by Laura ChildsMrs. Murphy series by Rita Mae BrownThe Cat Who... series by Lillian Jackson BraunGoodreads Police Procedurals:Kurt Wallander series by Henning MankellLeaphorn & Chee series by Tony HillermanDublin Murder Squad series by Tana FrenchRachel Getty & Esa Khattak series by Ausma Zehanat KhanAmong the Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan Hardboiled:The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettPhilip Marlowe series by Raymond ChandlerEasy Rawlins series by Walter MosleyDave Robicheaux series by James Lee BurkeHarry Bosch series by Michael ConnellyV.I. Warsawski series by Sara ParetskyThe Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Softboiled:Stephanie Plum series by Janet EvanovichKinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton Literary:Tana French booksThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Luminaries by Eleanor CattonEpisode 16 - Favorite Reads of 2015My Name is Red by Orhan PamukOrhan Pamuk booksRipper by Isabel Allende Suspense and Thriller:Clive Cussler booksAlex Cross series by James PattersonMichael Connelly booksHarlan Coben booksMyron Bolitar series by Harlan CobenMary Higgins Clark booksGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Girl on the Train by Paula HawkinsThe Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia HighsmithBig Little Lies by Liane MoriartyBig Little Lies (TV) Crossover Genres:Shutter Island by Dennis LehaneHer Royal Spyness series by Rhys BowenThe Agency series by Y.S. LeeGaslight Mystery series by Victoria ThompsonAnne Perry booksAn Aunt Dimity Mystery series by Nancy AthertonSookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine HarrisThe Dresden Files series by Jim ButcherFever series by Karen Marie MoningThe Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra ClareTo Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie WillisDirk Gently series by Douglas AdamsPeter Grant/Rivers of London series by Ben AaronovitchRivers of London by Ben AaronovitchNora Roberts booksJ.D. Robb booksJulie Garwood booksLinda Howard books Resources:Stop, You're Killing Me!Cozy Mystery List What We're Reading This Week: Ann: Dorie's Cookies by Dorie Greenspan- Rachael Ray books- America's Test Kitchen books- America's Test Kitchen (TV)- Alton Brown books- Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi- Nigella Lawson books- Dorie Greenspan books- Dorie Greenspan on NPR- Dorie Greenspan in the Washington Post- Ina Garten books Halle: The Book of Unknown Americans by Christina Henríquez- Episode 44 - Spring 2017 Book Preview
Not every city has a river running through it. And not many women plan a rendezvous at a San Antonio River Walk hotel during Fiesta Week after years of self-imposed celibacy. I was about to make history. -- Nancy G. West, River City Dead Nancy G. West's heroine, Aggie Mundeen, burst onto the scene as a secondary character in Nancy's first novel, Nine Days to Evil, and demanded that Nancy write Aggie her own story. Lucky for us, Nancy obliged with not one, but four Aggie Mundeen mysteries, and counting. Check out her website, NancyGWest.com. Her latest mystery, River City Dead, takes place during Fiesta Week in San Antonio, which Nancy calls a "fabulous, distinctive place and time." What more could one ask for? Well, perhaps a dead body in the penthouse suite... We also talked about Dorothy Sayers (I gave a shout-out to her translation of Dante's Inferno, which is a personal favorite) and Nancy's essay, which taught me things I never even suspected about the wonderful Ms. Sayers -- including the inspiration for Strong Poison. I would be remiss not to link to the Dorothy L. Sayers Facebook Page, and you can read Nancy's essay here. Here are the Aggie Mundeen books in order: Fit to be Dead Dang Near Dead Smart, But Dead River City Dead And Nancy's first novel, Nine Days to Evil. Below is the transcript, if you'd rather read than listen. Enjoy! -- Laura Transcript of Interview with Nancy G. West Laura Brennan: My guest today is Nancy G. West, author of Nine Days To Evil and the Aggie Mundeen mystery series. Her first Aggie Mundeen mystery received a Lefty Award nomination for best humorous mystery, and she has won numerous awards, including the Chanticleer competition in the Mystery and Mayhem category -- an appropriate win for her heroine, Aggie, whose itchy feet presage dead bodies and danger. Nancy, thank you for joining me. Nancy G. West: Oh, I'm delighted to be here, Laura. Thank you. LB: Now, before you started writing professionally, you had a career in business. NGW: I did. Well, I majored in general business administration, and I took a lot of marketing courses and management and accounting courses. And I found out that that wasn’t really to my liking. So, after we married and I had two daughters, I decided that what I really wanted to do was write fiction. So I went back to school, to graduate school, to study English Lit. And I loved it, but they didn’t teach me how to write fiction either. So I read a bazillion books on the craft of writing fiction. And that’s really what got me started. LB: Did you look at your life and go, there’s got to be a mystery in here somewhere? NGW: Not so much a mystery in there somewhere but that writing was my passion and I really wanted to write fiction. I had written nonfiction articles, it was fun and satisfying; I’d even written a biography of a Texas artist who is actually a Spaniard who had immigrated here through Venezuela, up to Texas. But I really wanted to tell stories. And so I knew that, as a business major, I hadn’t had the opportunity to take very many courses in writing or creative writing or literature, so I thought it was time for me to learn something about it. LB: So, why mysteries then? Why did you gravitate towards mysteries? NGW: Well, I knew the hardest thing I thought, for me, would be to plot. And when you write mysteries, you have to have a good plot. I loved writing characters, I loved writing scenes, I love writing the dialogue where Aggie and Sam or the other characters talk to one another. So I didn’t think that would be a problem. But the plotting, I thought would be the most difficult – and it is. And so I thought, okay, if you’re going to write mysteries, you must learn how to plot. So that was where I did a lot of studying. LB: So you really just threw yourself into the hardest thing you could think of. NGW: Basically! I have a tendency to do that.
This week we’re doing you a solid with pop culture gift recommendations for everybody on your list. We’ve got kids’ books from toddlers to teens, and film, TV and movie picks for adults of every personality and type of gift obligation. Whoever you’ve got to buy for, we’re here to point you in the right direction. Pull up a chair and pop open your Christmas gift spreadsheet—it’s time for Après Culture. Important Note: We don’t want to risk spoiling anything for our listeners, so outlined below are the time-stamps of when we talk about each book or movie/show - listen at your risk or feel free to skip around! BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Pre-School (Picture Books) 11:15-15:52 -Waiting by Kevin Henkes 11:15-12:55 -The Day The Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt 12:56-14:29 -Mr. Wuffles by David Wiesner 14:35-15:52 Early Grade-School (ages 5-7) 16:45-24:24 -Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems 16:45-18:50 -Story of Diva and Flea by Mo Willems 18:56-20:36 Upper Grade-School (ages 8-12) 24:45-34:18 -National Geographic: Weird But True series 25:24-26:40 -Who Was? series 26:42-29:15 -From The Mixed Up Files of Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L Konigsburg 29:57-30:55 -Are you There God, It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume 30:57-32:24 -Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene 32:26-34:18 Middle School 34:32-48:20 -Nimona by Noelle Stevenson 36:19-39:41 -Lumberjanes series by Noelle Stevenson 39:43-42:53 -Drama by Raina Telgemeier 43:00-46:10 -Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 46:19-47:24 -The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien 47:27-48:20 Teens 48:30-1:09:32 -My Friend Dahmer by Derg Backderf 49:15-53:50 -The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison 53:57-58:25 -Eleanor and Park / Attachments by Rainbow Rowell 58:30-1:02:46 -Dune by Frank Herbert 1:02:49-1:03:19 -The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson 1:03:21-1:05:42 -Agatha Christie books 1:05:47-1:07:25 -Dorothy L. Sayers books 1:07:29-1:09:32 TV/MOVIE/BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Adults 1:09:40- -Please Like Me (PIVOT series) 1:09:32-1:13:09 -Silicon Valley (HBO series) 1:13:14-1:14:28 -Nova (PBS series) 1:14:35-1:16:25 -A Room With A View (movie) 1:16:39-1:18:00 -Trainwreck (movie) 1:18:28-1:19:26 -Between The World and Me (book) by Ta-Nehisi Coates 1:19:35-1:21:01 -Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN series)1:21:10-1:24:45 -Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It (book) by Mark Goodman 1:25:00-1:26:42 -Spotlight / Brooklyn (movies) 1:26:58-1:29:21 -Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 1:31:40-1:36:07 NEXT WEEK: Pop Culture Swap!: Christmas Edition Sara Ann’s Pick: Die Hard (1988) Kasey’s Pick: A Princess for Christmas (2011) TIPPLE OF THE WEEK: Sara Ann’s Homemade Eggnog
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