Podcasts about Guernica

“I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

Daughter of printmakers and painters – an English Romany father and Scottish-English-Irish mother – Lynn Hutchinson Lee is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Lynn spent her childhood summers in a forest surrounded by marshes and bogs, and their lush beauty and magic haunt her writing. She was first place winner of the 2022 Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction. Her writing is published in Room; Weird Horror; Northern Nights; KIN: An Anthology of Poetry, Story and Art by Women from Romani, Traveller and Nomadic Communities; Prairie Fire's 50 Over 50; Wagtail: The Romani Women's Poetry Anthology; Guernica's This Will Only Take a Minute (winning the Editor's Choice Award); and elsewhere. She is co-editor of Through the Portal: Tales from a Hopeful Dystopia (Exile Editions). Following her novella Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens, her novel Nightshade, shortlisted for the Guernica Prize, will be released by Assembly Press in 2026.No major spoilers about Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens, but we do discuss the plot at length from 26 mins-45 mins. Romani crushes for this episode are Mihaela Drăgan of Giuvlipen and the late and great Ronald Lee. Thank you for listening to Romanistan podcast.You can find us on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook @romanistanpodcast, and on Twitter @romanistanpod. To support us, Join our Patreon for extra content or donate to Ko-fi.com/romanistan, and please rate, review, and subscribe. It helps us so much. Follow Jez on Instagram @jezmina.vonthiele & Paulina @romaniholistic. You can get our book Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling, online or wherever books are sold. Visit romanistanpodcast.com for events, educational resources, merch, and more. Please support our book tour fundraiser if you can. Email us at romanistanpodcast@gmail.com for inquiries. Romanistan is hosted by Jezmina Von Thiele and Paulina StevensConceived of by Paulina StevensEdited by Viktor PachasWith Music by Viktor PachasAnd Artwork by Elijah Vardo

The Arab Spring is when Egyptian Youssef Rakha first starts writing novels. Moroccan Soukaina Habiballah publishes her first poetry collection shortly after, while French Moroccan Leïla Slimani works as a journalist at the time, reporting on the protests unfolding throughout Northern Africa and the Maghreb, before turning to fiction.How have these experiences shaped their writing? All three writers explore the quest for freedom, whether on a personal or a collective level. Can we talk about a post-Arab Spring literature, or is that merely a handy label for the West?«Just like Arab Muslim lives, Arab Muslim writing is not worth the civilized world's attention,» Rakha wrote in an essay in Guernica last year.Soukaina Habiballah is the award-winning author of four poetry collections, a short story collection, a novel and a play, Nini Ya Momo.Youssef Rakha was selected among the Hay Festival's best Arabic writers under 40 in 2009. He is the author of a number of critically acclaimed novels and poetry, most recently the novel The Dissenters.Leïla Slimani is one of the most prominent literary voices in Frankophone literature today. She won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2016 for her novel Lullaby, and has excited critics with her trilogy of a French-Moroccan family saga.Habiballah, Rakha and Slimani was joined by journalist and critic Helene Hovden Hareide for a conversation about freedom and revolutions, about the power of literature for readers, authors and for moving the world forward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jaume Segalés y su equipo habla de La Noche de las Telecomunicaciones en Madrid, el Circo Raluy Legacy y Dora Maar. Fotografía y dibujos. Hoy en Km0, tras repasar la actualidad informativa y deportiva, profundizamos en los siguientes asuntos:Noche de las Telecomunicaciones de Madrid La Asociación Española de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación de Madrid organiza la novena edición de este evento dirigido a visibilizar el importante papel del ingeniero de telecomunicación en el mundo digital y su aplicación en cualquier ámbito de la sociedad. Se trata de un punto de encuentro clave del ecosistema digital de la región madrileña que tendrá lugar mañana martes 17 de junio en el Real Casino (c/ Alcalá, 15). Esta cita anual busca fomentar la colaboración entre profesionales, empresas e instituciones, y reconocer la labor de quienes impulsan el avance tecnológico y la transformación digital. Se entregarán los Premios en los siguientes campos relacionados con las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación: Ciberseguridad, Conectividad e Internet de las Cosas, Supercomputación y Tecnologías Cuánticas, Inteligencia Artificial, Tecnologías del Espacio y Tecnologías de Defensa. Entrevistamos a la presidenta de la Asociación de Ingenieros de Telecomunicaciones de Madrid, Inmaculada Sánchez Ramos.Circo Raluy Legacy El Circo Raluy Legacy presenta su espectáculo 'Ciborg'. Una propuesta que bebe de una herencia de seis generaciones enroladas en un arte, el del circo, que nació el siglo pasado, allá, por los años veinte como un arte equiparable a la ópera por lo espectacular y singular, y al teatro por la puesta en escena. Hablar del Circo Raluy Legacy es hablar de la historia de este arte, paseado por medio mundo y disfrutado por millones de personas. Pero hablar de Crico Raluy es también hablar de un presente brillante. En España obtuvo el premio de excelencia BIG TOP LEVEL. El único dirigido por mujeres y que ahora, en su caminar, ha hecho parada en Madrid el Circo Price. Un circo único que nos hará viajar en el tiempo y vivir como vivían los artistas de circo a principios del siglo pasado. Entrevistamos a una de las artistas de esta familia circense, Niedziela Raluy.Dora Maar. Fotografía y dibujos (Museo Lázaro Galdiano) En el Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid vibra al ritmo de PHotoESPAÑA 2025 con una exposición fascinante en donde LOEWE y su fundación recuperan la obra de Dora Maar, la fotógrafa y artista surrealista que rompió moldes en el siglo XX. Desde sus imágenes sociales de la Barcelona de los años treinta hasta un sorprendente archivo inédito de dibujos, la muestra traza un recorrido íntimo y técnico por su mirada única. Retratos históricos, escenas cotidianas y el testimonio visual del proceso del ‘Guernica' conforman una experiencia que reivindica a Maar más allá del mito. Una cita imprescindible que permanece abierta hasta el 14 de septiembre. Entrevistamos a la comisaria de la exposición, María Millán.

Esta noche de jueves a viernes entrevistamos a Alicia García Holgado, profesora en Ingeniería Informática y TIC en educación de la Universidad de Salamanca y miembro del Grupo de Investigación GRIAL colaborando en el desarrollo de CINAIC desde hace varias ediciones, con la que vamos a hablas de aprendizaje, innovación, y cooperación. Los papeles de Feliciano presentan a Picasso, Dora Maar y el Guernica. Leonardo Daimiel Pérez de Madrid presenta un breve texto de Joe Wright, que es la oración que pronunció en la sesión de apertura del senado de Kansas, la cual resulta muy apropiada también para nuestro actual entorno cercano la sección pensar y sentir. Luis Antequera presenta la sección de historia de Diálogos con la ciencia porque hoy 13 de junio no es un día cualquiera. El profesor José Manuel Amaya presenta la sección de curiosidades científicas.

Cùng với chiếc máy ảnh Leica M3, Marc Riboud, nhiếp ảnh gia người Pháp qua đời năm 2016, trong vòng mười năm 1966 – 1976, lang thang từ Nam ra Bắc ở Việt Nam. Những bài phóng sự và những bức ảnh ông thực hiện, được đăng trên những trang báo quốc tế có uy tín (Le Monde, Paris Match hay Life), cho đến giờ vẫn được xem như là những bằng chứng độc đáo, sâu sắc về một trong những cuộc chiến tàn khốc nhất của thế kỷ XX. Ngày 12/05/2025 đã chính thức khép lại hơn hai tháng triển lãm tập ảnh phóng sự « Marc Riboud, Việt Nam 1966-1976 » do bảo tàng Guimet, Paris và Hội Những Người Bạn Của Marc Riboud đồng tổ chức. Cuộc triển lãm này diễn ra vào lúc 2025 đánh dấu đúng 50 năm kết thúc chiến tranh Việt Nam. Bộ tập ảnh chiến tranh Việt Nam là một phần trong toàn bộ di sản ảnh ông để lại cho viện bảo tàng Guimet sau khi mất. Những câu chuyện kể qua ảnh Đối với nhiều người đến thưởng thức ảnh, đó còn là câu chuyện đau thương về một cuộc xung đột được Marc Riboud kể lại theo một cách độc đáo. Những bức ảnh trắng đen của ông đưa người xem đi từ Mỹ đến Việt Nam ở cả hai phía vĩ tuyến 17. Khác nhiều đồng nghiệp cùng thời, câu chuyện chiến tranh Việt Nam của ông xa nơi chiến tuyến, không cảnh chết chóc, không màn giao tranh. Marc Riboud, trong nhiều chuyến vào Nam ra Bắc, đã chọn tập trung ống kính vào một dân tộc Việt Nam, bằng một « tinh thần không gì lay chuyển với những phương tiện yếu kém đối mặt với một siêu cường hùng mạnh nhất thời đại ». Trên trang mạng tạp chí Fisheye, Lorène Durret, đồng phụ trách triển lãm « Marc Riboud, Việt Nam 1966 – 1976 » cho rằng « ông đã tiết lộ với thế giới bộ mặt con người kẻ thù lớn nhất của nước Mỹ ». Ông phơi bày gương mặt của kẻ vô danh : Những thiếu nữ trong độ tuổi thanh xuân hăng say lao động sản xuất, người vợ góa một sĩ quan miền Nam khóc thương mất chồng, những đứa trẻ chơi đùa giữa đống đổ nát, hay những nam công nhân đang chế tạo vũ khí phục vụ chiến tranh. Nhưng đôi khi đó cũng là một khoảnh khắc rất bình yên : Người phụ nữ và hai con nghỉ ngơi tại một trại sơ tán ở Huế, hay cặp tình nhân ngắm cảnh bên bờ hồ Hoàn Kiếm, phía sau là hầm tránh bom ... Như một kẻ bên lề, ông lặng lẽ quan sát, ghi lại những khoảnh khắc. Sự khiêm tốn trong cách chụp cùng với tài năng bố cục hình ảnh đã mang đến cho những bức ảnh của ông một vẻ đẹp nghiêm trang, một hương vị cảm xúc sâu sắc, theo như đánh giá từ trang Les Inrockuptibles. Trả lời RFI Tiếng Việt, Lorène Durret, phụ trách triển lãm, nhắc lại : « Chính ông đã viết "Tôi luôn nhạy cảm với cái đẹp của thế giới hơn là bạo lực và quái vật" Vì vậy, chính vẻ đẹp này mà ông tìm kiếm trong cuộc sống thường ngày và trong các cử chỉ, thái độ của mọi người, dù là phụ nữ hay trẻ em. Đây luôn là những bức ảnh rất nhân văn. Ông không hẳn thích được gọi là nhiếp ảnh gia theo chủ nghĩa nhân văn,vì ông không thích những nhãn mác đó, nhưng đúng là quý vị luôn tìm thấy ai đó trong những bức ảnh này và quý vị có cảm giác về một sự hiện diện rất mạnh mẽ ». Năm 1968 : « Huế, Guernica của Việt Nam » Marc Riboud có cái nhìn bình yên và rất dịu dàng về Việt Nam trong bối cảnh xung đột. Đối với Yannick Lintz, chủ tịch bảo tàng Guimet, « góc nhìn của ông mang lại một minh chứng tuyệt đẹp cho sức mạnh của nghệ thuật vượt lên trên tất cả, bao gồm cả bạo lực của cuộc chiến và những gì tạo nên cuộc chiến đó. » Thế nên, trong bức ảnh « Đổ nát tại trục đường chính của Hoàng Thành Huế » dưới ánh sáng bàng bạc, bên cạnh những ngôi nhà, con lộ tan hoang vì đạn pháo sau các trận đánh Mậu Thân 1968, là hình ảnh một người phụ nữ trong chiếc áo dài trắng thong dong quẩy gánh đi giữa những người phụ nữ bán hàng rong ngồi bên vệ đường. Cứ như thể chẳng có chuyện gì xảy ra ! Trên báo Le Monde ngày 13/04/1968, trong bài viết « Thư từ Huế » ông tố cáo « Một thành phố bị sát hại ». Thư gởi cho người vợ đầu của mình, Marc Riboud không ngần ngại ví Huế như « Guernica của Việt Nam ». Tại Guernica, một xã ở miền bắc Tây Ban Nha, chỉ trong vòng 3 giờ, 44 chiến đấu cơ của phát xít Đức và 14 máy bay quân đội Ý đã đổ xuống gần 40 tấn bom, cày nát 85% diện tích thành phố, giết chết khoảng 2.000 người ngay trong ngày có chợ phiên. Một khung cảnh ác mộng. Một tội ác chiến tranh tày đình. Lorène Durret : « Marc Riboud đến Huế ngay sau hai đợt phá hủy liên tiếp, Hoàng Thành bị chiếm đóng một lúc trong cuộc Tổng tiến công Tết Mậu Thân, rồi sau đó quân đội Mỹ chiếm lại. Khi đến Huế, ông vô cùng bị sốc trước những gì ông chứng kiến. Hoàng Thành đã bị phá hủy nghiêm trọng, như có thể thấy trong những bức ảnh của ông. Có những ngôi mộ với đủ mọi kích cỡ trên phố, vì có người phải được chôn cất gấp. Còn người dân phải tị nạn trong những điều kiện khủng khiếp. Ông ở đấy và những hình ảnh này đã in đậm trong tâm trí ông sâu đậm đến mức, trong một lá thư gửi cho vợ mình là Barbara, ông đã thốt lên rằng "Huế là Guernica của Việt Nam." Ông nói về Huế như một thành phố bị giết hại và giải thích trong bài báo rằng bản thân thành phố đã bị phá hủy, nhưng cả linh hồn của nó và linh hồn của người dân cũng bị phá hủy bởi cuộc chiến. » Marc Riboud : Một nhãn quan tự do Marc Riboud luôn tin tưởng vào những quan sát của mình do lẽ ông không bao giờ là một nhà đấu tranh và có một ý thức chính trị sáng suốt. Catherine Riboud-Chaine, vợ góa của nhiếp ảnh gia, đã kể rằng « Marc luôn đứng về phía những người khốn khổ và chống lại sự áp bức. Ông có cái nhìn cực kỳ tự do ». Nhãn quan tự do đó đã đưa người xem đi từ chiếc hàng không mẫu hạm USS Enterprise ông đến tham quan cuối năm 1966, để rồi cũng trên báo Pháp Le Monde, ông kể lại làm thế nào những phi công trẻ tuổi đó « bị tuyên truyền » đến mức họ tin rằng họ chỉ đánh vào những mục tiêu quân sự. Rồi đến nước Mỹ với những cuộc biểu tình chống chiến tranh. Bức ảnh « Cô gái và Cành hoa » ông chụp tại Washington ngày 21/10/1967 trong một cuộc biểu tình đã lan truyền rộng rãi, đưa tên tuổi của ông ra toàn cầu. Lorène Durret : « Ông đã chụp ảnh tất cả những thanh niên Mỹ đang biểu tình phản đối chiến tranh ở Việt Nam. Ông đã theo dõi các hoạt động trong suốt cả ngày và đến cuối ngày, như ông tự mô tả, khi ánh sáng bắt đầu tắt, những người biểu tình bắt đầu giải tán thì ông nhìn thấy cô gái trẻ này xuất hiện trong ống kính của mình. Và ông tiến lại gần và cô làm cử chỉ giơ một bông hoa cúc về phía những người lính đang đối mặt với cô, về phía những người lính được trang bị lưỡi lê. Rõ ràng là cảnh tượng đó rất mạnh mẽ về mặt hình ảnh và có thể xem ở nhiều góc độ. » Ấn tượng nhưng cũng rất giản dị, bức ảnh đã thể hiện rõ nét đối lập ở một bên là cô gái rất rất trẻ, và bên kia là những người lính, cũng còn trẻ tuổi. Theo giải thích của Lorène Durret với RFI Tiếng Việt, sau này thế giới biết được cô gái trẻ đó là Jane Rose Kasmir, khi ấy 17 tuổi. Lorène Durret : « Vì vậy, theo tôi, cô ấy trở thành một biểu tượng và cô ấy có cử chỉ cầu nguyện với đôi bàn tay rất xinh đẹp cầm bông hoa này và đối mặt với cô là những người lính cũng có vẻ rất trẻ. Quả thực, chúng ta có cuộc đối đầu giữa hai giới trẻ. Bản thân ông cũng vui mừng khi bức ảnh này được dùng lại rộng rãi, đôi khi được dựng lại trong các cuộc biểu tình. Ngay cả ngày nay, khi có các cuộc tập hợp, nhiều người biểu tình thường diễn lại cảnh này và cuối cùng điều đó đã đi vào ký ức tập thể. » Cũng theo Lorène Durret, ít ai biết đến là nhờ bức ảnh này mà Marc Riboud có thể xin được thị thực đến Bắc Việt mùa thu năm 1968. Ông đã có được cuộc phỏng vấn khá hiếm vào thời điểm đó với Hồ Chí Minh và Phạm Văn Đồng, chụp một số bức ảnh, sau này đã được đăng lại rộng rãi trên nhiều tờ báo quốc tế. Nhiếp ảnh là để mô tả thế giới Phải chăng những bức ảnh huyền thoại này của Marc Riboud phần nào góp sức làm thay đổi dòng chảy cuộc chiến ? Ông từng nói : « Nhiếp ảnh không thể thay đổi thế giới, nhưng nó có thể mô tả thế giới, đặc biệt là khi thế giới đang thay đổi ». Ảnh tư liệu của ông đã gây rúng động thế giới về mức độ tàn khốc của cuộc chiến tranh Việt Nam dù không có một cảnh chết chóc nào. Ông tâm niệm rằng chúng sẽ là một bằng chứng lịch sử quan trọng cho hậu thế. Lorène Durret : « Ông tin rằng việc làm chứng là cần thiết, là vai trò của ông với tư cách  một nhiếp ảnh gia, rằng cần phải thể hiện và ghi lại cho tương lai. Nhưng tôi nghĩ rằng ông cũng không ảo tưởng về khả năng gây ảnh hưởng của một tấm ảnh đối với dòng chảy lịch sử, cũng như các quyết định chính trị. Nhưng trong mọi trường hợp, ông nhận thức được rằng những bằng chứng này rất quan trọng và ngày nay chúng ta thấy được điều đó trong việc phục nguyên mà chúng ta có thể thực hiện nhờ công trình của ông về một số sự kiện nhất định và những dấu vết trực quan của những sự kiến đó có một tầm quan trọng ». Tự do, phản chiến và phi chính trị, 10 năm rong ruổi, Marc Riboud đã mô tả cho thế giới thấy sức chịu đựng bền bỉ của cả một dân tộc dù ở phía bên nào trong một cuộc chiến phi lý, kéo dài và khốc liệt. Ông bày tỏ cảm thông, nhưng luôn trung thành với nguyên tắc độc lập. Năm 1976, một năm sau khi chiến tranh kết thúc, trước khi đất nước thống nhất, Marc Riboud không ngần ngại phơi bày một khía cạnh tiêu cực đau đớn khác, lên án chế độ chuyên chế thời hậu chiến. Lorène Durret : « Chúng tôi trưng bày trong cuộc triển lãm, những sự kiện diễn ra trong hơn 10 năm từ 1966 đến 1976, năm sau khi chiến tranh kết thúc, ngay trước khi thống nhất đất nước. Triển lãm cho thấy cả những khía cạnh tích cực, đó là cuộc sống được tiếp tục, những người lính trở về nhà, đoàn tụ với gia đình, công cuộc tái thiết và năng lượng tái thiết đó. Nhưng ảnh của ông cũng ghi lại những khía cạnh đau đớn khác và đặc biệt là các trại cải tạo dành cho cựu giới chức, sĩ quan miền Nam, việc thành lập các vùng kinh tế mới với những đợt cưỡng bức di dời dân . Chính việc giữ khoảng cách này đã cho phép ông làm chứng và kể một câu chuyện đang diễn ra và đang được thực hiện mà không thiên vị, không chỉ tập trung vào những điều mà ông muốn thấy hoặc những điều mà giới quan sát bên ngoài muốn thấy. » RFI Tiếng Việt xin cảm ơn Lorène Durret, đồng phụ trách triển lãm « Marc Riboud, Việt Nam 1966 – 1976 », bảo tàng Guimet, Paris.

Cùng với chiếc máy ảnh Leica M3, Marc Riboud, nhiếp ảnh gia người Pháp qua đời năm 2016, trong vòng mười năm 1966 – 1976, lang thang từ Nam ra Bắc ở Việt Nam. Những bài phóng sự và những bức ảnh ông thực hiện, được đăng trên những trang báo quốc tế có uy tín (Le Monde, Paris Match hay Life), cho đến giờ vẫn được xem như là những bằng chứng độc đáo, sâu sắc về một trong những cuộc chiến tàn khốc nhất của thế kỷ XX. Ngày 12/05/2025 đã chính thức khép lại hơn hai tháng triển lãm tập ảnh phóng sự « Marc Riboud, Việt Nam 1966-1976 » do bảo tàng Guimet, Paris và Hội Những Người Bạn Của Marc Riboud đồng tổ chức. Cuộc triển lãm này diễn ra vào lúc 2025 đánh dấu đúng 50 năm kết thúc chiến tranh Việt Nam. Bộ tập ảnh chiến tranh Việt Nam là một phần trong toàn bộ di sản ảnh ông để lại cho viện bảo tàng Guimet sau khi mất. Những câu chuyện kể qua ảnh Đối với nhiều người đến thưởng thức ảnh, đó còn là câu chuyện đau thương về một cuộc xung đột được Marc Riboud kể lại theo một cách độc đáo. Những bức ảnh trắng đen của ông đưa người xem đi từ Mỹ đến Việt Nam ở cả hai phía vĩ tuyến 17. Khác nhiều đồng nghiệp cùng thời, câu chuyện chiến tranh Việt Nam của ông xa nơi chiến tuyến, không cảnh chết chóc, không màn giao tranh. Marc Riboud, trong nhiều chuyến vào Nam ra Bắc, đã chọn tập trung ống kính vào một dân tộc Việt Nam, bằng một « tinh thần không gì lay chuyển với những phương tiện yếu kém đối mặt với một siêu cường hùng mạnh nhất thời đại ». Trên trang mạng tạp chí Fisheye, Lorène Durret, đồng phụ trách triển lãm « Marc Riboud, Việt Nam 1966 – 1976 » cho rằng « ông đã tiết lộ với thế giới bộ mặt con người kẻ thù lớn nhất của nước Mỹ ». Ông phơi bày gương mặt của kẻ vô danh : Những thiếu nữ trong độ tuổi thanh xuân hăng say lao động sản xuất, người vợ góa một sĩ quan miền Nam khóc thương mất chồng, những đứa trẻ chơi đùa giữa đống đổ nát, hay những nam công nhân đang chế tạo vũ khí phục vụ chiến tranh. Nhưng đôi khi đó cũng là một khoảnh khắc rất bình yên : Người phụ nữ và hai con nghỉ ngơi tại một trại sơ tán ở Huế, hay cặp tình nhân ngắm cảnh bên bờ hồ Hoàn Kiếm, phía sau là hầm tránh bom ... Như một kẻ bên lề, ông lặng lẽ quan sát, ghi lại những khoảnh khắc. Sự khiêm tốn trong cách chụp cùng với tài năng bố cục hình ảnh đã mang đến cho những bức ảnh của ông một vẻ đẹp nghiêm trang, một hương vị cảm xúc sâu sắc, theo như đánh giá từ trang Les Inrockuptibles. Trả lời RFI Tiếng Việt, Lorène Durret, phụ trách triển lãm, nhắc lại : « Chính ông đã viết "Tôi luôn nhạy cảm với cái đẹp của thế giới hơn là bạo lực và quái vật" Vì vậy, chính vẻ đẹp này mà ông tìm kiếm trong cuộc sống thường ngày và trong các cử chỉ, thái độ của mọi người, dù là phụ nữ hay trẻ em. Đây luôn là những bức ảnh rất nhân văn. Ông không hẳn thích được gọi là nhiếp ảnh gia theo chủ nghĩa nhân văn,vì ông không thích những nhãn mác đó, nhưng đúng là quý vị luôn tìm thấy ai đó trong những bức ảnh này và quý vị có cảm giác về một sự hiện diện rất mạnh mẽ ». Năm 1968 : « Huế, Guernica của Việt Nam » Marc Riboud có cái nhìn bình yên và rất dịu dàng về Việt Nam trong bối cảnh xung đột. Đối với Yannick Lintz, chủ tịch bảo tàng Guimet, « góc nhìn của ông mang lại một minh chứng tuyệt đẹp cho sức mạnh của nghệ thuật vượt lên trên tất cả, bao gồm cả bạo lực của cuộc chiến và những gì tạo nên cuộc chiến đó. » Thế nên, trong bức ảnh « Đổ nát tại trục đường chính của Hoàng Thành Huế » dưới ánh sáng bàng bạc, bên cạnh những ngôi nhà, con lộ tan hoang vì đạn pháo sau các trận đánh Mậu Thân 1968, là hình ảnh một người phụ nữ trong chiếc áo dài trắng thong dong quẩy gánh đi giữa những người phụ nữ bán hàng rong ngồi bên vệ đường. Cứ như thể chẳng có chuyện gì xảy ra ! Trên báo Le Monde ngày 13/04/1968, trong bài viết « Thư từ Huế » ông tố cáo « Một thành phố bị sát hại ». Thư gởi cho người vợ đầu của mình, Marc Riboud không ngần ngại ví Huế như « Guernica của Việt Nam ». Tại Guernica, một xã ở miền bắc Tây Ban Nha, chỉ trong vòng 3 giờ, 44 chiến đấu cơ của phát xít Đức và 14 máy bay quân đội Ý đã đổ xuống gần 40 tấn bom, cày nát 85% diện tích thành phố, giết chết khoảng 2.000 người ngay trong ngày có chợ phiên. Một khung cảnh ác mộng. Một tội ác chiến tranh tày đình. Lorène Durret : « Marc Riboud đến Huế ngay sau hai đợt phá hủy liên tiếp, Hoàng Thành bị chiếm đóng một lúc trong cuộc Tổng tiến công Tết Mậu Thân, rồi sau đó quân đội Mỹ chiếm lại. Khi đến Huế, ông vô cùng bị sốc trước những gì ông chứng kiến. Hoàng Thành đã bị phá hủy nghiêm trọng, như có thể thấy trong những bức ảnh của ông. Có những ngôi mộ với đủ mọi kích cỡ trên phố, vì có người phải được chôn cất gấp. Còn người dân phải tị nạn trong những điều kiện khủng khiếp. Ông ở đấy và những hình ảnh này đã in đậm trong tâm trí ông sâu đậm đến mức, trong một lá thư gửi cho vợ mình là Barbara, ông đã thốt lên rằng "Huế là Guernica của Việt Nam." Ông nói về Huế như một thành phố bị giết hại và giải thích trong bài báo rằng bản thân thành phố đã bị phá hủy, nhưng cả linh hồn của nó và linh hồn của người dân cũng bị phá hủy bởi cuộc chiến. » Marc Riboud : Một nhãn quan tự do Marc Riboud luôn tin tưởng vào những quan sát của mình do lẽ ông không bao giờ là một nhà đấu tranh và có một ý thức chính trị sáng suốt. Catherine Riboud-Chaine, vợ góa của nhiếp ảnh gia, đã kể rằng « Marc luôn đứng về phía những người khốn khổ và chống lại sự áp bức. Ông có cái nhìn cực kỳ tự do ». Nhãn quan tự do đó đã đưa người xem đi từ chiếc hàng không mẫu hạm USS Enterprise ông đến tham quan cuối năm 1966, để rồi cũng trên báo Pháp Le Monde, ông kể lại làm thế nào những phi công trẻ tuổi đó « bị tuyên truyền » đến mức họ tin rằng họ chỉ đánh vào những mục tiêu quân sự. Rồi đến nước Mỹ với những cuộc biểu tình chống chiến tranh. Bức ảnh « Cô gái và Cành hoa » ông chụp tại Washington ngày 21/10/1967 trong một cuộc biểu tình đã lan truyền rộng rãi, đưa tên tuổi của ông ra toàn cầu. Lorène Durret : « Ông đã chụp ảnh tất cả những thanh niên Mỹ đang biểu tình phản đối chiến tranh ở Việt Nam. Ông đã theo dõi các hoạt động trong suốt cả ngày và đến cuối ngày, như ông tự mô tả, khi ánh sáng bắt đầu tắt, những người biểu tình bắt đầu giải tán thì ông nhìn thấy cô gái trẻ này xuất hiện trong ống kính của mình. Và ông tiến lại gần và cô làm cử chỉ giơ một bông hoa cúc về phía những người lính đang đối mặt với cô, về phía những người lính được trang bị lưỡi lê. Rõ ràng là cảnh tượng đó rất mạnh mẽ về mặt hình ảnh và có thể xem ở nhiều góc độ. » Ấn tượng nhưng cũng rất giản dị, bức ảnh đã thể hiện rõ nét đối lập ở một bên là cô gái rất rất trẻ, và bên kia là những người lính, cũng còn trẻ tuổi. Theo giải thích của Lorène Durret với RFI Tiếng Việt, sau này thế giới biết được cô gái trẻ đó là Jane Rose Kasmir, khi ấy 17 tuổi. Lorène Durret : « Vì vậy, theo tôi, cô ấy trở thành một biểu tượng và cô ấy có cử chỉ cầu nguyện với đôi bàn tay rất xinh đẹp cầm bông hoa này và đối mặt với cô là những người lính cũng có vẻ rất trẻ. Quả thực, chúng ta có cuộc đối đầu giữa hai giới trẻ. Bản thân ông cũng vui mừng khi bức ảnh này được dùng lại rộng rãi, đôi khi được dựng lại trong các cuộc biểu tình. Ngay cả ngày nay, khi có các cuộc tập hợp, nhiều người biểu tình thường diễn lại cảnh này và cuối cùng điều đó đã đi vào ký ức tập thể. » Cũng theo Lorène Durret, ít ai biết đến là nhờ bức ảnh này mà Marc Riboud có thể xin được thị thực đến Bắc Việt mùa thu năm 1968. Ông đã có được cuộc phỏng vấn khá hiếm vào thời điểm đó với Hồ Chí Minh và Phạm Văn Đồng, chụp một số bức ảnh, sau này đã được đăng lại rộng rãi trên nhiều tờ báo quốc tế. Nhiếp ảnh là để mô tả thế giới Phải chăng những bức ảnh huyền thoại này của Marc Riboud phần nào góp sức làm thay đổi dòng chảy cuộc chiến ? Ông từng nói : « Nhiếp ảnh không thể thay đổi thế giới, nhưng nó có thể mô tả thế giới, đặc biệt là khi thế giới đang thay đổi ». Ảnh tư liệu của ông đã gây rúng động thế giới về mức độ tàn khốc của cuộc chiến tranh Việt Nam dù không có một cảnh chết chóc nào. Ông tâm niệm rằng chúng sẽ là một bằng chứng lịch sử quan trọng cho hậu thế. Lorène Durret : « Ông tin rằng việc làm chứng là cần thiết, là vai trò của ông với tư cách  một nhiếp ảnh gia, rằng cần phải thể hiện và ghi lại cho tương lai. Nhưng tôi nghĩ rằng ông cũng không ảo tưởng về khả năng gây ảnh hưởng của một tấm ảnh đối với dòng chảy lịch sử, cũng như các quyết định chính trị. Nhưng trong mọi trường hợp, ông nhận thức được rằng những bằng chứng này rất quan trọng và ngày nay chúng ta thấy được điều đó trong việc phục nguyên mà chúng ta có thể thực hiện nhờ công trình của ông về một số sự kiện nhất định và những dấu vết trực quan của những sự kiến đó có một tầm quan trọng ». Tự do, phản chiến và phi chính trị, 10 năm rong ruổi, Marc Riboud đã mô tả cho thế giới thấy sức chịu đựng bền bỉ của cả một dân tộc dù ở phía bên nào trong một cuộc chiến phi lý, kéo dài và khốc liệt. Ông bày tỏ cảm thông, nhưng luôn trung thành với nguyên tắc độc lập. Năm 1976, một năm sau khi chiến tranh kết thúc, trước khi đất nước thống nhất, Marc Riboud không ngần ngại phơi bày một khía cạnh tiêu cực đau đớn khác, lên án chế độ chuyên chế thời hậu chiến. Lorène Durret : « Chúng tôi trưng bày trong cuộc triển lãm, những sự kiện diễn ra trong hơn 10 năm từ 1966 đến 1976, năm sau khi chiến tranh kết thúc, ngay trước khi thống nhất đất nước. Triển lãm cho thấy cả những khía cạnh tích cực, đó là cuộc sống được tiếp tục, những người lính trở về nhà, đoàn tụ với gia đình, công cuộc tái thiết và năng lượng tái thiết đó. Nhưng ảnh của ông cũng ghi lại những khía cạnh đau đớn khác và đặc biệt là các trại cải tạo dành cho cựu giới chức, sĩ quan miền Nam, việc thành lập các vùng kinh tế mới với những đợt cưỡng bức di dời dân . Chính việc giữ khoảng cách này đã cho phép ông làm chứng và kể một câu chuyện đang diễn ra và đang được thực hiện mà không thiên vị, không chỉ tập trung vào những điều mà ông muốn thấy hoặc những điều mà giới quan sát bên ngoài muốn thấy. » RFI Tiếng Việt xin cảm ơn Lorène Durret, đồng phụ trách triển lãm « Marc Riboud, Việt Nam 1966 – 1976 », bảo tàng Guimet, Paris.

“One of the biggest symbols of America is Mount Rushmore. This monument, right? But I think most people fail to realize where it's located and why it's located there. Even more importantly, who did it? It's on a sacred Native American mountain, a place that was central to their creation stories. But then you think about who did it, and it was a Klansman. The guy who sculpted Mount Rushmore was a Klansman. People were like, "Wait, really?" Like, how is that a thing? But it seeps into our understanding and our embrace of white supremacy. This whole notion of us using Mount Rushmore as a metric of excellence is really sad. We are honoring slave owners and people who viciously killed natives, and those who pillage other lands in the name of capitalism. That's what America is, I guess.I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. We can't even agree on facts. It's up to states' rights to decide. Really? States can say that this is true in one state, but it's not true in another? Although these states are united, it's very bizarre. I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“One of the biggest symbols of America is Mount Rushmore. This monument, right? But I think most people fail to realize where it's located and why it's located there. Even more importantly, who did it? It's on a sacred Native American mountain, a place that was central to their creation stories. But then you think about who did it, and it was a Klansman. The guy who sculpted Mount Rushmore was a Klansman. People were like, "Wait, really?" Like, how is that a thing? But it seeps into our understanding and our embrace of white supremacy. This whole notion of us using Mount Rushmore as a metric of excellence is really sad. We are honoring slave owners and people who viciously killed natives, and those who pillage other lands in the name of capitalism. That's what America is, I guess.I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. We can't even agree on facts. It's up to states' rights to decide. Really? States can say that this is true in one state, but it's not true in another? Although these states are united, it's very bizarre. I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“One of the biggest symbols of America is Mount Rushmore. This monument, right? But I think most people fail to realize where it's located and why it's located there. Even more importantly, who did it? It's on a sacred Native American mountain, a place that was central to their creation stories. But then you think about who did it, and it was a Klansman. The guy who sculpted Mount Rushmore was a Klansman. People were like, "Wait, really?" Like, how is that a thing? But it seeps into our understanding and our embrace of white supremacy. This whole notion of us using Mount Rushmore as a metric of excellence is really sad. We are honoring slave owners and people who viciously killed natives, and those who pillage other lands in the name of capitalism. That's what America is, I guess.I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. We can't even agree on facts. It's up to states' rights to decide. Really? States can say that this is true in one state, but it's not true in another? Although these states are united, it's very bizarre. I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“One of the biggest symbols of America is Mount Rushmore. This monument, right? But I think most people fail to realize where it's located and why it's located there. Even more importantly, who did it? It's on a sacred Native American mountain, a place that was central to their creation stories. But then you think about who did it, and it was a Klansman. The guy who sculpted Mount Rushmore was a Klansman. People were like, "Wait, really?" Like, how is that a thing? But it seeps into our understanding and our embrace of white supremacy. This whole notion of us using Mount Rushmore as a metric of excellence is really sad. We are honoring slave owners and people who viciously killed natives, and those who pillage other lands in the name of capitalism. That's what America is, I guess.I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. We can't even agree on facts. It's up to states' rights to decide. Really? States can say that this is true in one state, but it's not true in another? Although these states are united, it's very bizarre. I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“One of the biggest symbols of America is Mount Rushmore. This monument, right? But I think most people fail to realize where it's located and why it's located there. Even more importantly, who did it? It's on a sacred Native American mountain, a place that was central to their creation stories. But then you think about who did it, and it was a Klansman. The guy who sculpted Mount Rushmore was a Klansman. People were like, "Wait, really?" Like, how is that a thing? But it seeps into our understanding and our embrace of white supremacy. This whole notion of us using Mount Rushmore as a metric of excellence is really sad. We are honoring slave owners and people who viciously killed natives, and those who pillage other lands in the name of capitalism. That's what America is, I guess.I think there's such a disinterest in education in America that it is sickening. We can't even agree on facts. It's up to states' rights to decide. Really? States can say that this is true in one state, but it's not true in another? Although these states are united, it's very bizarre. I'm hopeful for revolution. I'm optimistic. I want radical change. I think we are repeating history. We are going through a cycle of fascism and greed, and I think we're going to see a lot of states collapse. As a result of that, I think people are going to be forced back to their primal needs and concerns, but I think they're going to be forced to think about what makes us human. How do we become more human? Because we've lost that. We've given it up to technology. How can we figure out what makes us a really powerful species again?”Irvin Weathersby Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. He is the author of In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space. His writing has been featured in LitHub, Guernica, Esquire, The Atlantic, EBONY, and elsewhere. He has earned an MFA from The New School, an MA from Morgan State University, and a BA from Morehouse College. He has received fellowships and awards from the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, the Research Foundation of CUNY, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Mellon Foundation.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

Kurt Baumeister - Twighlight of the Gods: A Novel. This is episode 763 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.  Kurt Baumeister's writing has appeared in Salon, Guernica, Electric Literature, Rain Taxi, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Nervous Breakdown, The Weeklings, and other outlets. An acquisitions editor with 7.13 Books, Baumeister holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, and is a member of The National Book Critics Circle and The Authors Guild. Twilight of the Gods is his second novel. Our focus today is Kurt's new novel - Twilight of the Gods. Great conversation! Thanks for listening! Thanks for sharing! Before you go... You could help support this podcast by Buying Me A Coffee. Not really buying me something to drink but clicking on the link on my home page at https://stevenmiletto.com for Buy Me a Coffee or by going to this link Buy Me a Coffee. This would allow you to donate to help the show address the costs associated with producing the podcast from upgrading gear to the fees associated with producing the show. That would be cool. Thanks for thinking about it.  Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you! You are AWESOME! Connect & Learn More: kurtbaumeister@gmail.com https://kurtbaumeister.com https://www.instagram.com/kurt.baumeister/ https://www.facebook.com/kurt.baumeister https://bsky.app/profile/kurtbaumeister.bsky.social https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kurt-Baumeister/author/B01MR6A1JP?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1739384666&sr=8-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Baumeister Length - 50:42

L'arte può essere denuncia, memoria, atto di resistenza. Da Picasso a Wilfred Owen, da Guernica alle trincee della Prima guerra mondiale, la storia ci mostra come la creatività sappia trasformarsi in gesto di solidarietà umana, soprattutto nei momenti più oscuri. Anche oggi, in un mondo attraversato da decine di conflitti, c'è chi sceglie di non restare in silenzio.Tra le montagne del Grigioni italiano è nato un progetto che parla al cuore dell'umanità. Si chiama Your hands are their hands – le vostre mani sono le loro mani – ed è stato ideato dall'artista Clyo Lurati a partire da un sogno vivido e toccante. L'obiettivo? Raccogliere 30.000 impronte di mani rosse su fogli banchi, per rappresentare simbolicamente i 30.000 bambini morti nei conflitti armati del mondo. Un gesto collettivo, simbolico e profondamente umano.L'installazione, che idealmente si snoderà lungo la pista ciclabile della Mesolcina, vuole parlare di pace, confini, solidarietà. Coinvolge scuole, artisti, cittadini da più continenti, uniti da un filo rosso – reale e simbolico – lungo chilometri. Un progetto che nasce da qui ma guarda lontano.Ne parliamo in questa edizione delle Voci del Grigioni Italiano, insieme a Clyo Lurati.Per chi volesse aderire, l'indirizzo mail dove inviare l'impronta rossa della propria mano è:Yourhandsaretheirhandsproject@gmail.com

Morir en Madrid reúne varios documentos sobre la guerra civil española y los integra capturando diferentes puntos de vista, destinados a representar la continuidad del sufrimiento de los españoles durante el régimen de Franco. La muerte de Federico García Lorca, Guernica, la defensa de Madrid, las brigadas internacionales, son algunas de las referencias que componen este documento.

“The more that you have that evolving relationship with the natural world, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have. The more we rely on that black-and-white thinking of either being in grief or being out of it, where we have a loss and we have to move on, or we don't and we're fine. The more that happens, the more difficult it is to flow into what we really need in terms of emotional flexibility to get through the staggering changes that are starting to happen regarding climate issues.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion,Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Oceanthatshe made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“The more that you have that evolving relationship with the natural world, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have. The more we rely on that black-and-white thinking of either being in grief or being out of it, where we have a loss and we have to move on, or we don't and we're fine. The more that happens, the more difficult it is to flow into what we really need in terms of emotional flexibility to get through the staggering changes that are starting to happen regarding climate issues.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion,Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Oceanthatshe made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“The more that you have that evolving relationship with the natural world, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have. The more we rely on that black-and-white thinking of either being in grief or being out of it, where we have a loss and we have to move on, or we don't and we're fine. The more that happens, the more difficult it is to flow into what we really need in terms of emotional flexibility to get through the staggering changes that are starting to happen regarding climate issues.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion,Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Oceanthatshe made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“The more that you have that evolving relationship with the natural world, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have. The more we rely on that black-and-white thinking of either being in grief or being out of it, where we have a loss and we have to move on, or we don't and we're fine. The more that happens, the more difficult it is to flow into what we really need in terms of emotional flexibility to get through the staggering changes that are starting to happen regarding climate issues.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion,Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Oceanthatshe made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“The more that you have that evolving relationship with the natural world, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have. The more we rely on that black-and-white thinking of either being in grief or being out of it, where we have a loss and we have to move on, or we don't and we're fine. The more that happens, the more difficult it is to flow into what we really need in terms of emotional flexibility to get through the staggering changes that are starting to happen regarding climate issues.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion,Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Oceanthatshe made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“The more that you have that evolving relationship with the natural world, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have. The more we rely on that black-and-white thinking of either being in grief or being out of it, where we have a loss and we have to move on, or we don't and we're fine. The more that happens, the more difficult it is to flow into what we really need in terms of emotional flexibility to get through the staggering changes that are starting to happen regarding climate issues.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion,Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Oceanthatshe made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“The more that you have that evolving relationship with the natural world, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have. The more we rely on that black-and-white thinking of either being in grief or being out of it, where we have a loss and we have to move on, or we don't and we're fine. The more that happens, the more difficult it is to flow into what we really need in terms of emotional flexibility to get through the staggering changes that are starting to happen regarding climate issues.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion,Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Oceanthatshe made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“The more that you have that evolving relationship with the natural world, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have. The more we rely on that black-and-white thinking of either being in grief or being out of it, where we have a loss and we have to move on, or we don't and we're fine. The more that happens, the more difficult it is to flow into what we really need in terms of emotional flexibility to get through the staggering changes that are starting to happen regarding climate issues.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion,Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Oceanthatshe made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“The more that you have that evolving relationship with the natural world, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have. The more we rely on that black-and-white thinking of either being in grief or being out of it, where we have a loss and we have to move on, or we don't and we're fine. The more that happens, the more difficult it is to flow into what we really need in terms of emotional flexibility to get through the staggering changes that are starting to happen regarding climate issues.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion,Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Oceanthatshe made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“The more that you have that evolving relationship with the natural world, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have. The more we rely on that black-and-white thinking of either being in grief or being out of it, where we have a loss and we have to move on, or we don't and we're fine. The more that happens, the more difficult it is to flow into what we really need in terms of emotional flexibility to get through the staggering changes that are starting to happen regarding climate issues.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion,Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Oceanthatshe made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnection of every gesture that we make on the planet. Most storytelling that I really respond to, whether it's from my own culture or from previous civilizations, acknowledges that we are in this complex relationship where every gesture we make is connected to the lives of every other creature on the planet. The more narratives we allow to be complex in that way and interconnected, the more we begin to change our brain chemistry around how we protect ourselves and everything that is in relation to us. The more that you have that evolving relationship with it, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Ocean that she made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnection of every gesture that we make on the planet. Most storytelling that I really respond to, whether it's from my own culture or from previous civilizations, acknowledges that we are in this complex relationship where every gesture we make is connected to the lives of every other creature on the planet. The more narratives we allow to be complex in that way and interconnected, the more we begin to change our brain chemistry around how we protect ourselves and everything that is in relation to us. The more that you have that evolving relationship with it, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Ocean that she made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnection of every gesture that we make on the planet. Most storytelling that I really respond to, whether it's from my own culture or from previous civilizations, acknowledges that we are in this complex relationship where every gesture we make is connected to the lives of every other creature on the planet. The more narratives we allow to be complex in that way and interconnected, the more we begin to change our brain chemistry around how we protect ourselves and everything that is in relation to us. The more that you have that evolving relationship with it, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Ocean that she made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnection of every gesture that we make on the planet. Most storytelling that I really respond to, whether it's from my own culture or from previous civilizations, acknowledges that we are in this complex relationship where every gesture we make is connected to the lives of every other creature on the planet. The more narratives we allow to be complex in that way and interconnected, the more we begin to change our brain chemistry around how we protect ourselves and everything that is in relation to us. The more that you have that evolving relationship with it, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Ocean that she made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnection of every gesture that we make on the planet. Most storytelling that I really respond to, whether it's from my own culture or from previous civilizations, acknowledges that we are in this complex relationship where every gesture we make is connected to the lives of every other creature on the planet. The more narratives we allow to be complex in that way and interconnected, the more we begin to change our brain chemistry around how we protect ourselves and everything that is in relation to us. The more that you have that evolving relationship with it, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Ocean that she made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnection of every gesture that we make on the planet. Most storytelling that I really respond to, whether it's from my own culture or from previous civilizations, acknowledges that we are in this complex relationship where every gesture we make is connected to the lives of every other creature on the planet. The more narratives we allow to be complex in that way and interconnected, the more we begin to change our brain chemistry around how we protect ourselves and everything that is in relation to us. The more that you have that evolving relationship with it, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Ocean that she made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnection of every gesture that we make on the planet. Most storytelling that I really respond to, whether it's from my own culture or from previous civilizations, acknowledges that we are in this complex relationship where every gesture we make is connected to the lives of every other creature on the planet. The more narratives we allow to be complex in that way and interconnected, the more we begin to change our brain chemistry around how we protect ourselves and everything that is in relation to us. The more that you have that evolving relationship with it, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Ocean that she made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“We are in a complex and delicately balanced relationship of connection to everything else on the planet. We begin to recognize, write into, and speak into the complex interdependence and interconnection of every gesture that we make on the planet. Most storytelling that I really respond to, whether it's from my own culture or from previous civilizations, acknowledges that we are in this complex relationship where every gesture we make is connected to the lives of every other creature on the planet. The more narratives we allow to be complex in that way and interconnected, the more we begin to change our brain chemistry around how we protect ourselves and everything that is in relation to us. The more that you have that evolving relationship with it, that's dynamic and alive to the moment you're in, and that's not afraid of the feelings of fear, hopelessness, grief, or pain that attend paying close attention to the world as it is evolving around you, the better we are able to be flexible in the relationship we need to form with fixing what we can and holding onto what we have.”Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Guernica, The LA Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals. She has received a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and a 3Arts Make a Wave grant. Her work includes her memoir The Mourner's Bestiary, the short film Becoming Ocean that she made with Scott Foley, and her novel All the Water in the World.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I think that it's almost like in some ways the specificity of Palestine also becomes kind of a universality, where you can stay in this specific example because there is something about this experience that makes it specific, right? It's happening because it's been sanctioned to happen in this way. Right? Because you can't slaughter tens of thousands of people without consequence unless you have made those people less than people. Unless there has been a very effective project of dehumanization that's been carried out against the people that are being killed.I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I think that it's almost like in some ways the specificity of Palestine also becomes kind of a universality, where you can stay in this specific example because there is something about this experience that makes it specific, right? It's happening because it's been sanctioned to happen in this way. Right? Because you can't slaughter tens of thousands of people without consequence unless you have made those people less than people. Unless there has been a very effective project of dehumanization that's been carried out against the people that are being killed.I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I think that it's almost like in some ways the specificity of Palestine also becomes kind of a universality, where you can stay in this specific example because there is something about this experience that makes it specific, right? It's happening because it's been sanctioned to happen in this way. Right? Because you can't slaughter tens of thousands of people without consequence unless you have made those people less than people. Unless there has been a very effective project of dehumanization that's been carried out against the people that are being killed.I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I think that it's almost like in some ways the specificity of Palestine also becomes kind of a universality, where you can stay in this specific example because there is something about this experience that makes it specific, right? It's happening because it's been sanctioned to happen in this way. Right? Because you can't slaughter tens of thousands of people without consequence unless you have made those people less than people. Unless there has been a very effective project of dehumanization that's been carried out against the people that are being killed.I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I think that it's almost like in some ways the specificity of Palestine also becomes kind of a universality, where you can stay in this specific example because there is something about this experience that makes it specific, right? It's happening because it's been sanctioned to happen in this way. Right? Because you can't slaughter tens of thousands of people without consequence unless you have made those people less than people. Unless there has been a very effective project of dehumanization that's been carried out against the people that are being killed.I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I think that it's almost like in some ways the specificity of Palestine also becomes kind of a universality, where you can stay in this specific example because there is something about this experience that makes it specific, right? It's happening because it's been sanctioned to happen in this way. Right? Because you can't slaughter tens of thousands of people without consequence unless you have made those people less than people. Unless there has been a very effective project of dehumanization that's been carried out against the people that are being killed.I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I want to live a life of consequence, and I want to live a life that has stakes in it because that means that things matter to you. I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.I think it's a time of fear. I don't think I'm alone in that. I am scared for people that I love. I am scared for people who are quite vulnerable. I worry for my students. I am concerned for the places that I feel are engaging in complicity because that will be such a heavy legacy to endure later on, how people, places, and entities comport themselves in moments like this. They will be remembered. There will always be people who remember it.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I want to live a life of consequence, and I want to live a life that has stakes in it because that means that things matter to you. I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.I think it's a time of fear. I don't think I'm alone in that. I am scared for people that I love. I am scared for people who are quite vulnerable. I worry for my students. I am concerned for the places that I feel are engaging in complicity because that will be such a heavy legacy to endure later on, how people, places, and entities comport themselves in moments like this. They will be remembered. There will always be people who remember it.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I want to live a life of consequence, and I want to live a life that has stakes in it because that means that things matter to you. I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.I think it's a time of fear. I don't think I'm alone in that. I am scared for people that I love. I am scared for people who are quite vulnerable. I worry for my students. I am concerned for the places that I feel are engaging in complicity because that will be such a heavy legacy to endure later on, how people, places, and entities comport themselves in moments like this. They will be remembered. There will always be people who remember it.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I want to live a life of consequence, and I want to live a life that has stakes in it because that means that things matter to you. I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.I think it's a time of fear. I don't think I'm alone in that. I am scared for people that I love. I am scared for people who are quite vulnerable. I worry for my students. I am concerned for the places that I feel are engaging in complicity because that will be such a heavy legacy to endure later on, how people, places, and entities comport themselves in moments like this. They will be remembered. There will always be people who remember it.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“I want to live a life of consequence, and I want to live a life that has stakes in it because that means that things matter to you. I think, in some ways, this memoir was a project of sifting through and excavating the darkest hours, both for me and for the lineage and ancestry that I came from. I think the darkest hours were experienced by so many people I come from who have had to leave places they didn't want to leave. I live in exile and have been forced to leave behind houses, land, cities, and people. Oftentimes, this has happened more than once in a lifetime, so they have carried that trauma. Of course, it plays out intergenerationally in many different ways.I think it's a time of fear. I don't think I'm alone in that. I am scared for people that I love. I am scared for people who are quite vulnerable. I worry for my students. I am concerned for the places that I feel are engaging in complicity because that will be such a heavy legacy to endure later on, how people, places, and entities comport themselves in moments like this. They will be remembered. There will always be people who remember it.”Hala Alyan is the author of the memoir I'll Tell You When I'm Home, the novels Salt Houses—winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award, and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize—and The Arsonists' City, a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including The Twenty-Ninth Year and The Moon That Turns You Back. Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Guernica. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, where she works as a clinical psychologist and professor at New York University.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

In this episode Lissa talks with author Rickey Fayne about deep philosophical questions inspired by his latest novel The Devil Three Times (Hachette Book Group, May 2025). Rickey Fayne is a fiction writer from rural West Tennessee whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Guernica, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review, among other magazines. He holds an MA in English from Northwestern University and an MFA in Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His writing embodies his Black, Southern upbringing in order to reimagine and honor his ancestors' experiences. This episode was recorded at Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis, MN. Visit www.BlackMarketReads.com   Our production team for this episode includes co-producers Lissa Jones and Edie French, technical director Paul Auguston, the voice Yo Derek, and our artist of inspiration Ta-coumba T. Aiken. We thank Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota for supporting this series focusing on the intersection of health, race, and culture.