Podcast appearances and mentions of harold brodkey

„Es gibt zwei Arten von Städten: alle anderen und Venedig“, meinte der Schriftsteller Henry James. Und vielleicht hat kein anderer Ort mehr Liebeserklärungen erhalten als diese zauberhafte Stadt auf dem Wasser. Mit Texten von George Sand, Henry James, Lord Byron, Harold Brodkey, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Franz Freiherr von Gaudy und Rose Ausländer und Musik von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy und Gustav Mahler. Sprecher: Antje Rennicke und Stefan Evertz.

Imagine the sepia-tinted streets of mid-20th century St. Louis, where the veneer of suburban respectability masks a landscape of hidden disappointments and unspoken regrets. In Harold Brodkey's "First Love and Other Sorrows," we are invited into the life of a young boy on the brink of adulthood, grappling with the unsettling realisations about his family's fragile facade. As he navigates the complexities of his sister's romances and the weight of his mother's expectations, he uncovers a profound and painful truth: the dreams of a perfect, happy family are often just that—dreams. Join us in this evocative journey, where every word breathes life into a nostalgic era, revealing the poignant and often heartbreaking moments that define our passage to maturity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the Western Thought archive a conversation about an author who hasn't been in style for decades - but is arguably one of the most interesting prose stylists to have ever lived. Jonah had a love affair with Brodkey and as such, during this conversation, is probably a bit overly denigrating due to the feelings once held so convincingly. This conversation is from the early second year of the podcast where Jonah could still talk Will into closing the store and sitting in the back where there's less traffic noise. Initially never released because Jonah didn't think the content was good enough - but we've put out plenty of worse shows since. Give Brodkey a google and come to sit in the bookstore for a while.

Last week, I released the first half and this week's release is the second part of the wonderful interview with DT Max, who wrote an excellent biography of David Foster Wallace in 2012 called “Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”. If you haven't listened to the first part, I suggest you start with that to make sure you understand the context.  List of books mentioned: Favourite book that I'd never heard of: Harold Brodkey's: “First Love and Other Sorrows”. Favourite book of last 12 months: “The Netanyahus”, by Joshua Cohen Disappointing book of the last 12 months: Janet Malcolm “Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory” A book that he would take to a desert island: “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace, and “Sentimental Education” by Gustave Flaubert A book that changed his mind: “The First World War” by John Keegan Find DT Max: Book: ⁠https://amzn.eu/d/d3RQP5t⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/dtmax?lang=en⁠ Website: ⁠https://dtmaxdotcom.wordpress.com/⁠ Follow me ⁠⁠@litwithcharles⁠⁠ for more book reviews and recommendations!

„Es gibt zwei Arten von Städten: alle anderen und Venedig“, meinte der Schriftsteller Henry James. Und vielleicht hat kein anderer Ort mehr Liebeserklärungen erhalten als diese zauberhafte Stadt auf dem Wasser. Mit Texten von George Sand, Henry James, Lord Byron, Harold Brodkey, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Franz Freiherr von Gaudy und Rose Ausländer und Musik von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy und Gustav Mahler. Sprecher: Antje Rennicke und Stefan Evertz.

di Matteo B. Bianchi | Ricchi premi e cotillon in questa nuova puntata di Copertina dove andiamo a conoscere Raoul di Gioacchino, libraio della storica Libreria dei ragazzi di Pisa, ci facciamo raccontare i segreti del suo successo dalla book influencer Petunia Ollister e ospitiamo il consiglio di lettura di Jacopo De Michelis, editor per Marsilio, e ora anche scrittore del romanzo giallo “La Stazione” (Giunti).Libri consigliati in questo episodio:CASALINGHE AMERICANE di Helen Ellis, La TartarugaDOMANI È UN POSTO ENORME di Nicola Manuppelli, JimenezPRIMO AMORE E ALTRI AFFANNI di Harold Brodkey. FandangoIl libraio Raul di Gioacchino della Libreria dei ragazzi di Pisa ci ha suggerito di leggere:L'UOMO DEL TRENO di Fabrizio Altieri, PiemmeALZATI, MARTIN di Roberto Piumini, SolferinoLa fotografa e book influencer Petunia Ollister ci ha invitato a leggere:LO STADIO DI WIMBLEDON di Daniele Del Giudice, Einaudi Jacopo De Michelis, autore del giallo “La stazione”, e editror di Marsilio ci ha raccomandato la lettura di:SECONDO LE REGOLE di Edoardo Maspero, Marsilio

Critic Leo Robson is our erudite and eloquent guide as we lose ourselves in the estuaries and marshes of Henry James’s sinuous “blue river of truth.” We begin in the archives of Leo’s G-chat and Whatsapp messages, where he first heard--and ignored--whispers of KOK’s boundless literary project. His indifference breaks down, however, after he and friend of the pod Christian Lorentzen take a desultory post-stag-party walk through Barcelona. A lugubrious Leo, sick of John Berger’s Marxist reading of Picasso, opens his Blackberry to find that James Wood has written an essay on Perr Petersen, which makes him think of that other Norwegian, the one with the endless maybe-novel underway, which leads him back to Lauren and Drew, who discover their friendship is coterminous with My Struggle’s publication history: they met, devoted listeners will know, over a drunken discussion about The Queen is Dead in summer 2010, just after Volume 1 had appeared on American Shores. Where are they now,  in their actual reading of My Struggle itself? Leo asks. “I don’t fucking know,” says Lauren.  Leo’s self-described “big data” survey of Knausgaardiana elicits comparisons between chronological expansions and contractions in My Struggle and Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood”--are these examples of “big data” narratives? Richard Brody will soon be coming on the pod soon to anatomize Linklater’s use of time.   Leo suggests that Harold Brodkey and Adam Mars-Jones might be seen as Knausgaard’s precursors in the aesthetic tradition of what Wood lyrically deemed “autopsied minutiae” and “psycho-pointillism” (Lauren jeers at the latter term).  Drew takes this opportunity to proclaim Brodkey his “hero.” Drew and Leo discuss a near-mythical public conversation between James Wood and Brodkey, held in London in 1991. Link: https://sounds.bl.uk/Arts-literature-and-performance/ICA-talks/024M-C0095X0801XX-0100V0 We then embark on a disorderly Odyssey into Knausgaard’s reception in the anglosphere--and, somehow, into the history of realism and its discontents. For Schylla and Charybdis, we have David Shields and V.S. Pritchett (or something like that). Along the way, Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner and Frederick Jameson help us pick apart the itemized thinginess ("choisisme") of Knausgaard’s project: are things differentiated? Are things merely commodified, or, in their very banality, redeemed? Robbe-Grillet and his New Novelists provide an obsessively textural counterpoint to Knausgaard’s seemingly blank litanies of objects and products.  Geoff Dyer takes a break from writing a blurb for Lauren’s eponymous Easter roast chicken to serve as another formal model for My Struggle and its reverberations. Like Brodkey and Mars-Jones, in his work, “nothing happens in a really a big way.” Here Drew invokes sensuous sun worshipper John Updike who, via a review of The Adventures of a Photographer in Los Platas by Adolfo Bioy Cesares, provides us with these weirdly apt sentences: “The novel arrests our attention and wins our respect by the things it disdains to do: it does not overdramatize or moralize, it denies events a deeper meaning. A clean if desolate flatness results” Does KoK fit into David Shields’ anti-novelistic canon of Reality Hunger? Lauren and Leo get into some narratological weeds: is Karl Ove an ironized character, or a source of Shields-approved wisdom writing?  Things are rambling along nicely until Drew “artlessly opens a can of worms.” Defending the so-called novelistic tradition against Shields’ claims of lifeless conventionality and formal tidiness, he brandishes a long quotation from V.S. Pritchett’s essay on Dead Souls (first collected in In My Good Books, 1942) :  “The modern novel has reached such a pitch of competence and shapeliness that we are shocked at the disorderliness of the masterpieces. In the modern novel we are looking at a neatly barbered suburban garden; in the standard works how often do we have the impression of bowling through the magnificent gateway of a demesne only to find the house and gardens are unfinished or patched up anyhow, as if the owner had tired of his money in the first few weeks and after that had passed his life in a daydream of projects for ever put off. We feel the force of a great power which is never entirely spent, but which cannot be bothered to fulfill itself. In short, we are up against the carelessness, the lethargy, the enormous bad taste of genius, its slovenly and majestic conceit that anything will do”  Pritchett inspires Leo  to give us an intricate tour of the history of tensions between form and chaos in the novel: the wet and the dry, the tidy and baggy. “We’ve conspired to mention every writer in the Western canon,” Leo says. “There’s the mess and the chaos--but there’s also the art.”     

Jonah and Will discuss the writer Harold Brodkey's collection of non-fiction: SEA BATTLES ON DRY LAND. The title of this one says it all. The answer? Yeah, we probably are. Brodkey has a very slash and burn (solipsistic might be another word for it) writing style that very much attracted Jonah when he was younger. The idea of being absolutely free when creating your art. Perhaps Jonah has grown up a little since then. Don't start with Brodkey's non-fiction. His short stories are where all the magic is. I'd promise that one day I'll get the audio consistent, but I'd be lying.

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly, Asleep on the black trunk, Blowing like a leaf in green shadow. Down the ravine behind the empty house, The cowbells follow one another Into the distances of the afternoon. To my right, In a field of sunlight between two pines, The droppings of last year’s horses Blaze up into golden stones. I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on. A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home. I have wasted my life. -James Wright Shook as we all are at the moment by global pandemics, and social protest, perhaps this is a good time to think about what wasting our lives and those of others might look like. And what about not-wasting? How to define as well as apply that to our lives? I reflect on this koan via Mike Leigh's 1993 film Naked, Jean Renoir's 1932 film Boudu Saved from Drowning, Harold Brodkey's short story "Dumbness is Everything", and the philosopher Robert Kane's ideas about three dimensions of value that stack up or make up the landscape and inscape of our lives. Transcript and shownotes (including links to films discussed which you can watch for free online): http://stevewasserman.co.uk/am-i-wasting-my-life-are-you-wasting-your-life-james-wrights-lying-in-a-hammock-at-william-duffys-farm-in-pine-island-minnesota/

This is the book everyone is talking about. It's a 50-year-old book, just republished by the New York Review of Books Classics. We disagree sharply on the book's merit, while finding time to discuss the challenge of reading big books, why Thelonious Monk loved the Hudson River, what happened to Harold Brodkey and a new biography of the Chinese master Li Bai.

Michael Cunningham joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Harold Brodkey’s “Dumbness Is Everything,” from a 1996 issue of the magazine.

A mash up of various things. Some movie clips, my favorite short story by Harold Brodkey read by Richard Ford, and some crazy music by the Hobo. Take note that no more podcasts will be created until i get home in may. Enjoy! Download

Richard Ford reads "The State of Grace," by Harold Brodkey.

Jeffrey Eugenides reads Harold Brodkey's short story "Spring Fugue," and discusses it with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.

The Runaway SoulTwo interviews: Brodkey discuses life, literature and his new novel.

Ellen Brodkey This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey (Metropolitan Books) Ellen Brodkey, widow and editor, joins Bookworm in a memorial to the life and death of American writer Harold Brodkey on the occasion of the publication of his AIDS journal.

The Runaway SoulTwo interviews: Brodkey discuses life, literature and his new novel.