Podcast appearances and mentions of Helen Phillips

Ray Powell is the Founder and Director of SeaLight, a maritime transparency project of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University. He is also the co-host of the “Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific?” podcast. Ray served 35 years in the U.S. Air Force, including posts in the Philippines, Japan, Germany and Qatar, as well as combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. On this episode of the Defense Tech Underground, Ray describes his 35 year career in the United States Air Force, his path to Stanford, and his journey to founding SeaLight. He explains China's gray zone tactics in the South China Sea and SeaLight's efforts to shed light on those activities. Ray offers insight into needed countermeasures to build up readiness and deterrence as well as the broader geopolitical landscape in the Indo-Pacific.  This episode is hosted by Helen Phillips and Bryan Harvey.    Full Bio: Ray Powell is the Founder and Director of SeaLight, a maritime transparency project of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University, California. He is also the co-host of the “Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific?” podcast. Ray served 35 years in the U.S. Air Force, including posts in the Philippines, Japan, Germany and Qatar, as well as combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He served as the U.S. Defense Attaché to Australia and the U.S. Air Attaché to Vietnam. 

Welcome to The Reading Lounge! This month Cynthia and Sarah discuss Hum by Helen Phillips. A work of speculative fiction that leaves a long-lasting impact. In the novel, we follow one woman as she makes a variety of choices tobring her family closer together while living in a not-to-distant future world of AI. We had much to say about this novel and we think you will, too. Here are the others books mentioned : Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn IveyThe Lost Bookshop by Evie WoodsThe Story Collector by Evie WoodsThe Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan KamaliThe Covenant of Water by Abraham VergheseDon't Forget to Write by Sara Goodman ConfinoThis month's cocktail and mocktail is called BotanicalGarden. Read the book and it will all make sense!Botanic Garden – original recipe50 ml Pineapple Tequila20 ml Lime juice20 ml Basil syrup25 ml Pineapple juiceBasil leavesTop with proseccoMix first five ingredients in a shaker with ice. Strain intoa cocktail glass. Top with prosecco and gently stir. Garnish with a basil leaf.Our Mocktail Botanic GardenSame ingredients minus the tequila and adding club soda.Mix lime juice, pineapple juice and basic syrup in shakerwith ice. Pour into glass and top with club soda and mix. Garnish with basil.Enjoy!

Dan Berkenstock is an entrepreneur, aerospace engineer, and Stanford PhD who co-founded Skybox Imaging, a satellite imaging company acquired by Google in 2014. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, focusing on space and defense policy research and recommendations. Dan sits on several boards of venture-backed aerospace start-ups and teaches aerospace entrepreneurship in the Stanford School of Engineering. On this episode of the Defense Tech Underground, Dan describes the journey of building Skybox Imaging, launching SkySat-1, and joining Google post-acquisition. He discusses his recent Hoover publication, the Defense Tech Playbook, designed to help new founders in defense build a strategic, financial path to quickly transition capabilities to the warfighter. Dan shares detailed recommendations for expanding the impact of the STRATFI program and how the DoD can better articulate demand signals to the startup ecosystem.  This episode is hosted by Helen Phillips and Jon Hoey.    Full Bio: Dan Berkenstock is a distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His work aims to ensure sustained American aerospace leadership well into the twenty-first century and provides space-related scholarship and policy recommendations through Hoover's Technology Policy Accelerator. From 2008 to 2017, Berkenstock was the founding chief executive officer, later chief product officer, of Skybox Imaging. In his policy research, Dan focuses on the critical advancements needed to reduce the risk of conflict in space during a forthcoming period of rapid expansion. His technical research focuses on expanding convex and polynomial optimization techniques to identify globally optimal vehicle designs in aerodynamic shape optimization problems, with a focus on low-observability hypersonic vehicles. At Skybox, he oversaw the fundraising of more than $100 million in venture capital, helped reset the benchmark for performance in the optical, small satellite arena, and led the company through a $500 million acquisition by Google. The twenty-one Skybox satellites continue to operate as the world's largest high-resolution commercial imaging constellation, providing timely imagery of major conflicts that is often featured in major media outlets and imagery used daily by defense and intelligence customers. For his work at Skybox, Dan was recognized as Via Satellite magazine's Satellite Executive of the Year in 2014 and was named to MIT Technology Review's “Innovators under 35” in 2011. He continues to engage with the space start-up community by serving as an independent director on several boards of venture-backed aerospace start-ups and teaching aerospace entrepreneurship in the Stanford School of Engineering. Dan completed his PhD in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, where he also received a master of science. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor of science in aerospace engineering. During this time, he completed four tours as a cooperative education student at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

This week on "BETA," Simon Rich joins us to talk about his short story collection, "Glory Days." Helen Phillips explores Artificial Intelligence in her suspenseful novel, "Hum." And author Chris Nashawaty revisits the epic summer of 1982 - when Star Wars and Sci-Fi Fever hit it's peak.

If you feel like your phone is tracking your every move, or that AI is getting a little too advanced for comfort… You're not the only one. Helen Phillips' latest dystopian thriller, Hum, is set in a near future where climate change has devastated life as we know it — and superintelligent robots have become an irreplaceable part of society. Helen talks to Mattea Roach about her complicated relationship with technology, parenting in the digital age and reclaiming our humanity through the little joys. If you enjoyed this conversation, check out these episodes:Jeff VanderMeer: How his blockbuster Southern Reach series reflects our own fight against climate changeNalo Hopkinson: How Caribbean folktales inspired her fantastical novel, Blackheart Man

Representative Rob Wittman is a Republican representing Virginia's 1st Congressional district in the US House of Representatives. Representative Pat Ryan is a Democrat representing New York's 18th Congressional district, and is a former Army intelligence officer who deployed to Iraq.  Together, they formed the House Modernization Caucus, driving key policies in national security innovation. On this episode of the Defense Tech Underground, Representative Wittman and Representative Ryan discuss the launch of the bipartisan Defense Modernization Caucus and early wins from the caucus in the 2025 NDAA. They explain the challenges for the Pentagon to move from a hardware centric organization to a software centric one, and discuss opportunities for the caucus to drive impact in defense innovation.  This episode is hosted by Jeff Phaneuf and Helen Phillips.    Congressman Wittman:  Congressman Rob Wittman was first elected to the United States Congress to serve Virginia's First Congressional District in 2007. While in office, he has focused on strengthening our military and supporting our nation's veterans, promoting a flourishing economy through fiscal responsibility and pro-growth policies, fixing our crumbling infrastructure, increasing access to high-speed internet, and promoting workforce development through Career and Technical Education (CTE) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programs. In the U.S. Congress, Congressman Wittman serves as vice chairman of both the House Armed Services Committee and the House Natural Resources Committee, where he is well-positioned to represent the needs of Virginia's First District. He has earned a strong reputation for being an advocate for our men and women in uniform and for being a champion of the Chesapeake Bay. Congressman Wittman was re-elected for his ninth full term in the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2024 and prior to that, he served in several levels of government. Congressman Wittman won his first campaign for public office in 1986 when he was elected to the Montross Town Council, where he served for 10 years, four of them as mayor. In 1995, he was elected to the Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors and was elected its chairman in 2003. In 2005, voters in the 99th Legislative District elected Rob to the Virginia House of Delegates, where he served until his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2007. Prior to his election to Congress, Rob spent 26 years working in state government, most recently as field director for the Virginia Health Department's Division of Shellfish Sanitation. Earlier in his career, he worked as an environmental health specialist for local health departments in Virginia's Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula regions. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University, a Master of Public Health degree in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Virginia Tech.   Congressman Ryan:  Congressman Pat Ryan is a fifth-generation Hudson Valley native, proud Kingston High School alum, and the first West Point graduate to represent the Academy in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ryan served two combat tours in Iraq, earning two Bronze Stars. Prior to his 2022 election to Congress, Ryan served the community that raised him as Ulster County Executive. There, Ryan led the County through the COVID-19 pandemic and spearheaded policies that delivered relief to working families while never raising taxes. He led the charge to revitalize the former IBM site, now known as iPark 87, helped put money back in small business owners and residents' pockets, took on corporate special interests, and delivered new investments in mental health services. In Congress, Ryan is focused on defending fundamental freedoms and delivering relief for Hudson Valley families. Serving on the House Armed Services Committee, Ryan is working on issues of military preparedness, countering the threat of a rising China, and investing in the United States Military Academy and the next generation of military leaders. As a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Ryan is committed to improving the daily lives of all residents in NY-18. Whether you commute to work on Metro North, travel Route 17 through Orange County, or need broadband access in Dutchess County, he will fight every day to improve our region's infrastructure. Ryan has also championed efforts to expand access to affordable health care, support local law enforcement, preserve Social Security and Medicare, prevent gun violence, and protect a woman's right to choose. Ryan lives in Gardiner, NY with his wife, Rebecca, and their two young sons, Theo and Cameron.

The Vancouver author and radio host's memoir May It Have a Happy Ending discusses her journey of love, grief and radio; the CBC Books senior producer recommends hopeful books to inspire us in the New Year; musician Julian Taylor talks about his favourite parenting book; a sneak peek at what authors are coming to Bookends with Mattea Roach this winter; and why patience was key for Amanda Peters in writing her first novel on this episode of The Next Chapter.Books discussed in this episode include:Great Expectations by Vinson CunninghamThe Capital of Dreams by Heather O'NeillUnearthing by Kyo MaclearAcme Novelty Datebook Volume Three by Chris WareI Might Be in Trouble by Daniel AlemanHum by Helen Phillips

On part 2 of this week's episode, we talk with New Yorker cartoonist, Adam Douglas Thompson. We talk with Adam about his background in the arts, painting and how he became a New Yorker cartoonist. We also talk about his cartoons, a bit about teaching art at Brooklyn College and the use of AI in creativity. You can find Adam's cartoonsand paintings at his webpage:http://www.adamdouglasthompson.comAdam also mentions that his wife , Helen Phillips, has written several books. You can order her books from Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/stores/Helen-Phillips/author/B004LV1ZXA?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1733334765On Part 1 of the episode, we discuss the current contests:Winning captions for New Yorker contest #921 (Depart! The end is near!)Finalists for contest #923 (My inner child disagrees with me, but it'll pass). Current New Yorker contest #925 (Art working on a work of art). You can buy original New Yorker cartoon art at Curated Cartoons:https://www.curatedcartoons.comSend us questions or comments to:  Cartooncaptioncontestpodcast@gmail.com

We're off to the sad botanical garden for our ONE HUNDREDTH (!) Bookpisode about Hum by Helen Phillips. We talk about climate change, artificial intelligence, human connection (or lack thereof) and, of course, the ultimate villain: capitalism! Then we get into some special 100th episode feedback and give a quick blog update. Our next Othersode will be about Music & Lyrics, and we'll be joined by special guest Samantha Allen, author of Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet. That's on 12/10! And then, our holiday gift to you is our next Bookpisode on Model Home by Rivers Solomon dropping on 12/24! Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe, Goalies!TOC:30 – Icebreaker and happy 100th bookpisode13:00 – Book intro14:58 – Climate change23:50 – Late stage capitalism and ads40:58 – What happened at the botanical gardens56:35 – Human connection and cosmetic procedures1:11:15 – Epilogue1:18:15 – Ratings1:23:50 – Listener feedback! 1:31:50 – What's on the pod? What's up next?

Book Squad meets Bollywood as we discuss Bride & Prejudice (2004) with special guest Tirzah Price! We talk about how this Austen adaptation works in a Bollywood setting, racism and xenophobia, surprise appearances from western actors, and (obviously) the musical numbers. Then we chat with Tirzah about her new novel (out now!), In Want of a Suspect. Don't worry – no spoilers here! Read along for our next Bookpisode about Hum by Helen Phillips on 11/26. Then join us and special guest Samantha Allen (author of Roland Rogers Isn't Dead Yet) to talk about Music & Lyrics on 12/10! Consider becoming a patron for just $3 a month, and don't forget to subscribe so you never miss a new episode!TOC:30–Welcome, Tirzah! 10:57–Movie Intro11:50– Adaptations and interpreting characters15:38– Do any parts of the story not work?28:29– Surprise celebrity sightings33:14–How does the movie tackle big topics like racism and xenophobia?54:13– Interview with Tirzah!1:28:30– What's on the blog? What's up next?

Helen Phillips a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her novel about a near-future techno-dystopia, where escaping to nature is the only way to heal – and how her characters make difficult decisions to find solace away from looming technology. The novel is called “Hum.”

John Goodson is the co-founder and CEO of Darkhive, an early stage drone startup based in San Antonio, TX. John served from 2007-2016 in the United States Navy, primarily as a combat technician supporting the West coast SEAL Teams. John completed 4 tours of duty in Afghanistan and received multiple awards, including the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat "V" Valor designator. After separating from active duty, John joined CTI and served in a variety of roles across the business. In 2021, he founded Darkhive with Steve Turner, to address the deficiencies in military tactical drones that he experienced first-hand during combat operations.  On this episode of the Defense Tech Underground, John shares about his role as a combat technician in the U.S. Navy, operating military drones during combat, which led him to found Darkhive. John discusses the specific products that Darkhive is developing, and the underpinning Red Queen software that enables actionable information for operators. He shares his concern about China's entrenchment in the drone market through DJI, as well as a call to action for more entrepreneurship within defense. This episode is hosted by Jeff Phaneuf and Helen Phillips.   Full Bio: John is a US Special Operations veteran and experienced defense industry executive.  He served from 2007-2016 in the United States Navy, primarily as a combat technician supporting the West coast SEAL Teams where he completed 4 tours of duty in Afghanistan receiving multiple awards including the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat "V" Valor designator.  After separating from active duty in 2016, he went on to join CTI, a US-based small defense technology company, where he served in a variety of roles including product management, contract strategy, and business development.  In the Fall of 2021, he founded Darkhive with Steve Turner to address the deficiencies in military tactical drones that he experienced first-hand during combat operations.

If you start with the basic knowledge that Spanish Inquisition = Bad, you'll be just fine. This week the Book Squad discusses Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar. We talk about the historical piece of this historical fantasy, question where the vampires are, play “hot or not,” and dig into the romance. Then we read some great listener feedback (Alex's Version) and catch up with what's on the blog. Tune in for our next Othersode about Bride and Prejudice with special guest Tirzah Price (author of In Want of a Suspect) on 11/12. Then read along for our next Bookpisode on Hum by Helen Phillips on 11/26.TOC :30 – Welcome! 7:25 – Book intro10:00 – Disclaimers, the historical fantasy of it all18:53 – Where are the vampires?34:16 – Did anything surprise you?49:00 – How was the romance? The ending?52:05 – Ratings54:50 – Listener feedback: Alex edition!1:09:53 – What's on the blog? What's up next?

This week, Scott was joined by Natalie Orpett, Anna Bower, and Matt Gluck to talk over some of the week's big national security news, including:“Some Assembly Required.” On Tuesday, President Biden gave his fourth and final speech as president to the U.N. General Assembly. He used the occasion to reflect on the many foreign policy decisions of his presidency, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the (thus far unsuccessful) pursuit of a ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza. What does this speech—and the year's U.N. General Assembly more broadly—tell us about the state of his foreign policy legacy?“Keeping it Peachy.” Georgia's state election board is in the news for rules changes that some allege could delay finalization of the 2024 election results, opening a possible door for Congress to manipulate the results. But what will these rules changes really mean? And what does it tell us about the potential for (and limits on) efforts to manipulate the outcome of the 2024 presidential election?“Memo-ries of the Way We Were.” Last week, the New York Times published excerpts from several memoranda prepared by then-President Trump's White House Counsel addressing questions he appears to have posed regarding his ability to direct the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute individuals. Given Trump's repeated pledges of vengeance if he were to return to the White House, what do these memoranda tell us about what he might be able to accomplish? And what obstacles may lie in his way, particularly in light of the Supreme Court's intervening decision on presidential immunity?For object lessons, Natalie recommended Helen Phillips' new novel “Hum.” Anna stole Scott's object lesson and recommended season two of Rings of Power along with season three of Industry. Scott sang the praises of the best tiny speaker he ever did see (er, hear). And Matt Gluck dug into the sportsball file to urge listeners to begin following the Detroit Tigers' historic playoffs run.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Scott was joined by Natalie Orpett, Anna Bower, and Matt Gluck to talk over some of the week's big national security news, including:“Some Assembly Required.” On Tuesday, President Biden gave his fourth and final speech as president to the U.N. General Assembly. He used the occasion to reflect on the many foreign policy decisions of his presidency, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the (thus far unsuccessful) pursuit of a ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza. What does this speech—and the year's U.N. General Assembly more broadly—tell us about the state of his foreign policy legacy?“Keeping it Peachy.” Georgia's state election board is in the news for rules changes that some allege could delay finalization of the 2024 election results, opening a possible door for Congress to manipulate the results. But what will these rules changes really mean? And what does it tell us about the potential for (and limits on) efforts to manipulate the outcome of the 2024 presidential election?“Memo-ries of the Way We Were.” Last week, the New York Times published excerpts from several memoranda prepared by then-President Trump's White House Counsel addressing questions he appears to have posed regarding his ability to direct the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute individuals. Given Trump's repeated pledges of vengeance if he were to return to the White House, what do these memoranda tell us about what he might be able to accomplish? And what obstacles may lie in his way, particularly in light of the Supreme Court's intervening decision on presidential immunity?For object lessons, Natalie recommended Helen Phillips' new novel “Hum.” Anna stole Scott's object lesson and recommended season two of Rings of Power along with season three of Industry. Scott sang the praises of the best tiny speaker he ever did see (er, hear). And Matt Gluck dug into the sportsball file to urge listeners to begin following the Detroit Tigers' historic playoffs run. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on "BETA," Simon Rich joins us to talk about his short story collection, "Glory Days." Helen Phillips explores Artificial Intelligence in her suspenseful novel, "Hum." And author Chris Nashawaty revisits the epic summer of 1982 - when Star Wars and Sci-Fi Fever hit it's peak.

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Recap action is back and we have sports, music and TV favorites for you! Beave recommends "Dark Winds", available on Netflix. Len recommends "Hum", the new novle by Helen Phillips. Guardians continue to get pushed to the brink, then fight back. Cubs make a bid for the postseason. Sox make a bid for the wrong kind of baseball immortality. The Chicago Sky endure a losing streak at the worst possible time. Beave reviews the new Pearl Jam LP. And Len's Favorite 500 continues the countdown! JAGBAGS!

On this episode of The Daily with Syl Stein, I go into more than several book recommendations.The books I recommend are from best selling author Liane Moriarity and her book big little lies. liane Moriarity.comAlso, the book by best selling author Ron Rash and his book , one foot in Eden. Also the book by Helen Phillips, who was the recipient of the Rona Jaffe foundation writers award, the beautiful bureaucrat. Also the book by independent poet and writer, Jessica B. Niziolek and her poetry series. Chasing clarity my book I discussed how it started and my connection to Glee and I do share about loss and grief and creating this story. The book by author Amy peters the writers devotional. I hope you will check out the podcast. I hope you will subscribe enjoy your Labor Day and a big shout out to my PAs. Thank you all and again don't forget the coffee Chronicles because it all begins with coffee. Have a great day.

Episode 129 of Books Are My People is sponsored by Let Gravity Seize the Dead  by Darrin Doyle. This week, I speak with Catherine Chidgey, the award-winning author of The Axeman's Carnival and Pet. We talk about magpies and finding the perfect point of view for your novel. Books Recommended: The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine ChidgeyJackie by Dawn TrippHORSE by Geraldine BrooksThe Grimalings by Rachel KingHUM by Helen PhillipsThe Natural Way of Things By Charlotte WoodGuest Author, Ellen Hopkins (Synch) recommends The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy NelsonFind Catherine on:Facebook and Twitter @cathchidgeyInstagram @CatherinechidgeyFind Tama the magpie on Twitter @tamamagpieGiveaway: I am giving away one copy of Xochitl Gonzalez's Anita de Monte Laughs Last. To Enter: Simply leave a comment on my Giveaway Instagram Post and subscribe to my Books Are My People newsletter on Substack.  This giveaway will close on Thursday, September 5th and I will contact the winner on September 6th. Open to U.S. mailing addresses only.Molly The Magpie LinkNeil Gaiman Accusers Speak UpWatch Carly's Library Story in Idaho in TikTok @carlyjdotThe Booker Prize 2024 Longlist Support the Show.I hope you all have a wonderfully bookish week!

This week on From the Front Porch, it's another New Release Rundown! Annie, Erin, and Olivia are sharing the August releases they're excited about to help you build your TBR. When you purchase or preorder any of the books they talk about, enter the code NEWRELEASEPLEASE at checkout for 10% off your order! To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (type “Episode 488” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode), or shop on The Bookshelf's official app: Annie's books: Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang (8/6) Heavy Hitter by Katie Cotungo (8/20) That Librarian by Amanda Jones (8/27) Olivia's books: I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell (8/13) Not Nothing by Gayle Forman (8/27) The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry by Ransom Riggs (8/27) Erin's books: Hum by Helen Phillips (8/6) Highway Thirteen: Stories by Fiona McFarlane (8/13) What's Next? by Melissa Fitzgerald and Mary McCormack (8/13) From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf's daily happenings on Instagram, Tiktok, and Facebook, and all the books from today's episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  This week, Annie is reading Playworld by Adam Ross.  Olivia is reading Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman.  Erin is listening to The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella. If you liked what you heard in today's episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are...Jennifer Bannerton, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Susan Hulings, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, and Amanda Whigham.

So much has been written about the imminent transformation that Artificial Intelligence will bring to our world. But it is often hard to get much of a sense of what that will mean on a personal level—for our work, for our leisure and, perhaps most importantly of all, for our families. What improvements will result? What new tensions will arise? What devastation will be wrought? In HUM, Helen Phillips takes these questions and masterfully dramatises them in the lives of a financially struggling family of four. As we spend time with mother May, father Jem, and kids Lu and Cy, we not only experience the very real, very claustrophobic presence of this invasive, dehumanising technology, but are also forced to reckon with the truly thorny question of whether some of the gifts it offers—foremost among them reassurance concerning the wellbeing of those we love—are a worthy altar upon which to sacrifice…well, pretty everything else. Just as with her much celebrated 2019 novel THE NEED, in HUM Helen Phillips has once again used the lens of deeply compelling speculative fiction to help us better understand the world as it changes around us. *Helen Phillips is the author of six books, including the novel The Need (Simon & Schuster, 2019; Chatto & Windus, 2019), which was long-listed for the National Book Award and named a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Her novel HUM is forthcoming in August 2024 (Simon & Schuster/Marysue Rucci Books). Helen's short story collection Some Possible Solutions (Henry Holt, 2016) received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat (Henry Holt, 2015), a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her collection And Yet They Were Happy (Leapfrog Press, 2011) was named a notable collection by The Story Prize and was re-released in 2023. She is also the author of the children's eco-adventure book Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green (Delacorte Press, 2012).Helen has received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, the Iowa Review Nonfiction Award, and the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Award.Her work has been featured on Selected Shorts, at the Brooklyn Museum, and in the Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times, among others. Her books have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, and Spanish.A graduate of Yale and the Brooklyn College MFA program, she is an associate professor at Brooklyn College. Born and raised in Colorado, she lives in Brooklyn with artist/cartoonist Adam Douglas Thompson, their children, and their dog.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a sequel of sorts to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-englandListen to Alex Freiman's latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We may not be winning the SEO battle, but we're reading some cool books this summer, including the latest from Laura Dave, who has a standard cover treatment for a reason. People are looking for the next one!  Then it's on to ultra-feminist badass Kathleen Hanna (Carrie Brownstein was in Sleater-Kinney, sorry Sam couldn't remember), whose "Riot Girl" is a must read for music fans and feminists alike. Kurt Cobain stories! Next up is a "speculative" novel "Hum," by Helen Phillips, which pulls a switcheroo on you, opening with some future tech, but finishing with a story that's just an exploration of the family unit, aka a "mom novel." It'll make you rush back to the first page when you hit the end.  You know exactly what happens at the end of "Big Time," by Ben Winters, which might not be as good as "Golden State," but is still a tidy little piece of near-future science fiction (what we now apparently call "speculative fiction"). And then we finish up with "The Wedding People," which would never happen in real life, but that's why we read fiction, right?

Michèle Flournoy served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012 where she was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations. With decades in defense policy, Michèle has led and advised many critical national security innovation entities, including the Center for a New American Security, the Atlantic Council Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption, and the Defense Innovation Unit.  On this episode of the Defense Tech Underground, Michèle discusses her tenure in the Department of Defense, and the evolution of the United States' relationship with President Xi's China. She details the decision making behind the Bin Laden raid and the leadership style of President Obama, Secretary Gates, and Secretary Panetta.  Michèle also talks about the need for the right incentives in the DoD's acquisitions systems to ensure that acquisitions professionals are rewarded for adopting innovative technology. Michèle closes by telling our audience: “Your country needs you.”  There has never been a more critical time to build things that protect our nation and our way of life. This episode is hosted by Jeff Phaneuf and Helen Phillips.    Full Bio: Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors, and a Co- Founder, former Chief Executive Officer, and now Chair of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Michèle served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012.  She was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations. She led the development of the Department of Defense's 2012 Strategic Guidance and represented the Department in dozens of foreign engagements, in the media and before Congress.  Prior to confirmation, Michèle co-led President Obama's transition team at the Defense Department. In January 2007, Michèle co-founded CNAS, a bipartisan think tank dedicated to developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security policies. She served as CNAS' President until 2009, and returned as CEO in 2014. In 2017, she co-founded WestExec Advisors, a strategic advisory firm.  Michèle serves on the boards of CNAS, Booz Allen Hamilton, Amida Technology Solutions, The Mission Continues, and CARE. She is a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affair, a current member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group, and a former member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the CIA Director's External Advisory Board, and the Defense Policy Board. Michèle earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a master's degree from Balliol College, Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum scholar.

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works in which characters have unusual friends who change their lives—whether they like it nor not.  In “Unicorn Me,” by Elizabeth Crane, a magical box delivers a unicorn who offers ambiguous advice. Miriam Shor performs.A sentient cockroach intrigues and alarms a woman in “The Double Life of the Cockroach's Wife,” by Helen Phillips.It's performed by Sarah Steele. And the latest iPhone knows everything about you in Weike Wang's “iPhoneSE,” performed by Dawn Akemi Saito. All three stories were commissions for SELECTED SHORTS' anthology Small Odysseys.

This week, we ask voracious reader Liberty Hardy to rave about the best books coming out this summer. Liberty is the host of the Book Riot podcast ‘All the Books!' She and Greta trade their top picks. Here are the titles in the order that they're mentioned in the episode: ‘Fire Exit' by Morgan Talty (6/3)‘The Ministry of Time' by Kaliane Bradley (5/7)‘The Stardust Grail' by Yume Kitasei (6/1)‘Oye' by Melissa Mogollon (5/14)‘Margo's Got Money Troubles' by Rufi Thorpe (6/11)‘The God of the Woods' by Liz Moore (7/2) ‘Bear' by Julia Phillips (6/25)‘Hum' by Helen Phillips (8/6)‘The Most' by Jessica Anthony (7/30)]]>

Is it true that if an earthworm gets cut in half, you get two earthworms? Why do we see so many earthworms when it rains? How big is the biggest earthworm in the world? Anika and Esther find out all the wriggly facts with Dr Helen Phillips from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology. Enjoy a new episode every fortnight, and if YOU have a big Fact Detective question, send it to factdetectives@kinderling.com.au    Guests: Dr Helen Phillips who researches soil biodiversity and earthworms at the Netherlands Institute of EcologyHosts: Anika and Esther   Production: Cinnamon Nippard   Sound design: Josh Newth   Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson    Hear it first on LiSTNR.   Listen ad-free on Kinderling. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter is a raw and visceral novel that explores primal desires, shocking secrets and the effects they have on those that uncover them. Hunter is joined by her publisher, Roxane Gay, a prolific author in her own right including her new collection, Opinions. The two join us to discuss collaboration and revision, writing the gritty details of life, advice for writers and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over. We end this episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Jamie.     This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.              New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.         Featured Books (Episode):   Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter  Opinions by Roxane Gay  O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker  Empty Theatre by Jac Jemc  The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure   Featured Books (TBR Topoff):  Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh  The Need by Helen Phillips 

Host Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about the nature of time and how it shapes our lives. In Helen Phillips' “The Knowers,” a woman chooses to learn a vital fact about her future, while her husband does not. Stockard Channing reads this thought-provoking fantasy. In Anita Felicelli's “Time Invents Us” a chance encounter turns the clock back for an aging artist. It's read by Kirsten Vangsness.

For a vast number of book writers, artificial intelligence is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer, urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation. At the same time, AI is a story to tell, and no longer just in science fiction. As present in the imagination as politics, the pandemic, or climate change, AI has become part of the narrative for a growing number of novelists and short story writers who only need to follow the news to imagine a world upended. “I'm frightened by artificial intelligence, but also fascinated by it. There's a hope for divine understanding, for the accumulation of all knowledge, but at the same time there's an inherent terror in being replaced by non-human intelligence,” said Helen Phillips, whose upcoming novel “Hum” tells of a wife and mother who loses her job to AI. “We've been seeing more and more about AI in book proposals,” said Ryan Doherty, vice president, and editorial director at Celadon Books. “It's the zeitgeist right now. And whatever is in the cultural zeitgeist seeps into fiction.” Other AI-themed novels expected in the next two years include Bryan Van Dyke's “In Our Likeness,” about a bureaucrat and a fact-checking program with the power to change facts; and  Sean Michaels' “Do You Remember Being Born?", in which a poet agrees to collaborate with an AI poetry company. Some authors aren't just writing about AI, but openly working with it. Sean Michaels centers his new novel “Do You Remember Being Born?” on a poet named Marian, in homage to poet Marianne Moore, and an AI program called Charlotte. He said the novel is about parenthood, labor, community, and also “this technology's implications for art, language, and our sense of identity.” Believing the spirit of the novel called for the presence of actual AI text, he devised a program that would generate prose and poetry and used an alternate format in the novel so readers know when he was using AI. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

On this week's episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: comfort social accounts and mother daughter bonding Current Reads: four regular reads and our two bossy presses Deep Dive: how we felt about pressing books to each other and our experiences reading them The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you'd like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don't scroll down!  We are now including transcripts of the episode (this link only works on the main site). The goal here is to increase accessibility for our fans! *Please note that all book titles linked below are Bookshop affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. If you'd prefer to shop on Amazon, you can still do so here through our main storefront. Anything you buy there (even your laundry detergent, if you recently got obsessed with switching up your laundry game) kicks a small amount back to us. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . 1:20 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 1:40 - @megs.tea.room on Instagram 1:40 - @megstearoom on Tiktok 2:01 - Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree 3:56 - Book of the Month 6:21 - Current Reads 6:28 - Clean Air by Sarah Blake (Meredith) 8:40 - @fictionmatters on Instagram 10:30 - The Need by Helen Phillips 10:33 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam  10:56 - The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger 10:57 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 10:58 - Curfew by Jayne Cowie 11:22 - Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler (Kaytee) 13:35 - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 13:39 - Everything Happens podcast 15:36 - Dark August by Katie Tallo (Meredith) 17:55 - The Book Drop Subscription 19:49 - We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker 20:29 - Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa (Kaytee) 20:37 - CR Season 5: Episode 45 25:07 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Meredith) 29:55 - Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 34:22 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (Kaytee) 42:38 - Deep Dive: Being The Presser and the Pressee 44:33 - BookRiot 45:45 - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 47:19 - Matrix by Lauren Groff  51:32 - Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff 52:20 - Meet Us At The Fountain 53:58 - I wish those of us with littles would let them choose our reads sometimes. (Meredith) 54:07 - I wish we would practice letting go of the reins. (Kaytee) Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredithmondayschwartz on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram Roxanna is @roxannatheplanner on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com Support us at patreon.com/currentlyreadingpodcastand www.zazzle.com/store/currentlyreading

In this episode of the podcast, we are discussing theme 3 of the CII's new 5-year Strategic plan, Sector Thought Leadership. We are joined by Helen Phillips, Independent Chair of the CII Board, and Matt Connell, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the CII.

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works in which characters have unusual friends who change their lives—whether they like it or not. In “Unicorn Me” by Elizabeth Crane, a magical box delivers a unicorn who offers ambiguous advice. Miriam Shor performs the story followed by a musical piece "Breathe," inspired by the story which was composed by Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler.  Singer Maddie Corman, bassist Matt Scharfglass, and Zina Goldrich perform. A sentient cockroach intrigues and alarms a woman in “The Double Life of the Cockroach's Wife” by Helen Phillips. It's performed by Sarah Steele. And the latest iPhone knows everything about you in Weike Wang's “iPhoneSE,” performed by Dawn Akemi Saito. All three stories were commissions for Selected Shorts' anthology Small Odysseys.

In Episode 115, Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry, discusses the inspiration behind her best-selling debut novel, sexism in the workplace, and the story behind Six-Thirty the dog. Plus, Bonnie's book recommendations!  This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Introducing Summer Shelves (a companion to my Summer Reading Guide)… In addition to my annual 2022 Summer Reading Guide, I introduced Summer Shelves, a companion exclusively for Superstars Patrons ($7/mo). Summer Shelves features BACKLIST summer reading recommendations from over 25 former podcast guests and our team members. The Summer Shelves design is clean, crisp, and unique and is available in a PDF file format via Patreon. If you'd like to get the Summer Shelves companion guide, you can sign up to be a Superstars patron here. You'll also get access to a monthly bonus podcast series called Double Booked (where Catherine or Susie and I share our own book recommendations in the same format as the big show) and my Rock Your Reading Tracker. Plus, as a patron you can listen to the monthly Superlatives bonus podcast episodes where I continue the discussion with every guest from the full-length episodes, as they answer 5 bookish “superlative” questions. Get Summer Shelves! Highlights Bonnie talks about her inspiration for Lessons in Chemistry and the main character, Elizabeth Zott, who began her book life in a previously unpublished book. Why Bonnie chose the professions featured in the book: scientist and television host on a cooking show. How Elizabeth's rowing brings balance to the story. How her copywriting career played a role in the novel. The significance of the numerical names for the two dogs' in Bonnie's life: 99 (in her real life) and Six-Thirty (in the book). The real-life dog who inspired the fictional dog, Six-Thirty. The big message Bonnie would like both men and women to take away from the book. How Sarah and Bonnie feel about posthumously published work. Bonnie shares a little bit about her next book and how it compares to Lessons in Chemistry. Bonnie's Book Recommendations [25:20] Two OLD Books She Loves The Secret History by Donna Tartt | Amazon | Bookshop.org [25:31] The Cider House Rules by John Irving | Amazon | Bookshop.org [27:35] Two NEW Books She Loves Free Love by Tessa Hadley | Amazon | Bookshop.org [28:56] Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel | Amazon | Bookshop.org [30:48] One Book She DIDN'T LOVE Billy Budd by Herman Melville | Amazon | Bookshop.org [33:15] One NEW RELEASE She's Excited About The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley by Sean Lusk (June 9) | Book Depository [36:37] Last 5-Star Book Bonnie Read Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder | Amazon | Bookshop.org [38:25] Other Books Mentioned The Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne [3:20] The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt [26:24] A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving [28:43] The World According to Garp by John Irving [28:47] Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel [31:02] The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel [31:46] Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee [35:11] The Need by Helen Phillips [40:29] Other Links Six-Thirty the dog on Instagram About Bonnie Garmus Website | Twitter | Instagram Bonnie Garmus is a copywriter and creative director who has worked widely in the fields of technology, medicine, and education. She's an open-water swimmer, a rower, and mother to two pretty amazing daughters. Born in California and most recently from Seattle, she currently lives in London with her husband and her dog, 99. Lessons in Chemistry is her first novel.

Jungian analyst Helen Phillips presents us with an understanding of envy from a powerful perspective, diving deep into the creative as well as destructive possibilities of envy. Drawing on a Jungian conceptualisation of the development of consciousness toward individuation, we encounter the constellation of a new archetype, coined by Brazilian psychoanalyst Carlos Byington. This Alterity Archetype seeks to open a dialogue between consciousness and the Shadow, both our own Shadow and the Shadow as experienced in others. Helen asks us to consider the ways in which envy, once relegated to the Shadow, can inform what lies at the heart of our unlived Self. 

Whether you have worked in a cubicle or not, we think you'll enjoy these books set in an office (or sometimes, a nightmare office). Books mentioned on this episode: The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger, Attachments by Rainbow Rowell, The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips, Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix, and There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura, translated by Polly Barton. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/keepitfictional/message

They were among the last people I recorded with before lockdown, and now translators Tess Lewis and Alta L. Price are back to talk about co-curating the Festival Neue Literatur 2021 (which runs from November 11 to 14, 2021), and how the theme they developed for the postponed 2020 edition, TURN AND FACE THE STRANGE, became even more appropriate for the pandemic era. We get into the cliffhanger of rescheduling FNL and the offsetting challenges of virtual vs. in-person author attendance, the rise of nationalism and closed borders, how literature from other languages can become the fallback to let us understand the world from another person's perspective, and the act of translating when people refer to the pandemic in the past tense. We get into the German-language authors (and two American ones) who are participating in this year's FNL — Anna Baar, Joshua Cohen, Isabel Fargo Cole, Judith Keller, Helen Phillips, Benjamin Quaderer, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, and Ivna Žic — and how their works approach questions of identity and belonging through strange means. We also get into what Tess and Alta have learned about the world and themselves over the past 20 months in Pandemia, why the seclusion of a translator's life prepped them for some of the worst of it, what themes they'd love to curate for future FNLs, and whether Hölderlin would have used DoorDash. (Listen to my 2020 episodes with Tess and Alta) • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

1:27 Bookish Moment of the Week 1:46 - Unraveling Oliver by Liz Nugent  1:52 - Bookends bookshop in Pagosa Springs Colorado 2:46 - All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle 4:05 - The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand 4:42 - My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows and Brodi Ashton 4:43 - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows and Brodi Ashton 4:57 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 5:19 - Marley by Jon Clinch 6:06 Current Reads: 6:12 - God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney (Kaytee) 6:32 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live 9:43 - A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley (Meredith) 9:52 - Book Drop subscription 13:32 - Let's Tell This Story Properly by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Kaytee) Note: In the UK, this collection is published as Manchester Happened 14:23 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 16:10 - Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson (Meredith) 16:23 - White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson 16:36 - Novel Neighbor bookshop 22:03 - Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Kaytee) 23:23 - Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse 24:22 - Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake (Meredith) 25:55 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 25:56 - The Selection by Kiera Cass 25:58 - Furyborn by Claire Legrand 28:24 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas  30:32 Deep Dive - What Makes a Good Book Club Book? 33:58 - Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam 34:42 - Bookend Homeschoolers Season 2: Episode 13 36:20 - A Good Neighborhood by Therese Ann Fowler 36:50 - Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan 38:12 - How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith 39:02 - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 40:49 - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel 41:45 - The Push by Ashley Audrain 41:48 - The Need by Helen Phillips 42:53 - Roar by Ceclia Ahern 43:15 - The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor 43:45 - You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld 44:43 - Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands: 45:05 - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Kaytee) 47:26 - The Power by Naomi Alderman (Meredith) 49:20 - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Konkurrencerådets offentliggjorde i 2021 en analyse af konkurrencen i advokatbranchen. Den peger på, at konkurrencen i branchen kan styrkes til gavn for virksomheder, borgere og samfundet som helhed.  Konkurrencerådet kommer også med en række anbefalinger til, hvordan reguleringen af branchen kan gøres mere konkurrencevenlig. I denne session talte også Chair of the Legal Services Board dr. Helen Phillips.

Engelske erfaringer med at liberalisere sektoren med fokus på konkurrence og forbrugervelfærd (Konkurrencen i advokatbranchen)

All's Well: By Mona Awad | Book Review Podcast Website: https://gobookmart.com/ Buy Now: https://amzn.to/3nO9FMO “Mona Awad proves in her dazzling, hilarious, wildly terrifying, virtuoso new novel, All's Well, the paradoxes and incongruities of Shakespeare's lesser-loved play makes an ideal springboard for contemporary fiction.”—CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN “As in Awad's last novel Bunny, things start off weird and institutional and then spiral into madness, and as in Bunny, the experience is a fiendish delight: funny, thrilling, and creepily recognizable.”—LITHUB “A brilliant noir comedy about art and illness…. Awad's characters are deliciously over the top and impossible to forget, as is the author's gift for morbid humor….Endlessly thought-provoking and not to be missed.”—BOOKLIST (starred review) “Awad artfully and acutely explores suffering, artistry, and the limitations of empathy.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS “There's both pathos and humor in this story of how we suffer and the ways in which we're healed.”—BOOKPAGE “A dazzling wild ride of a novel – daring, fresh, entertaining, and magical. Mona Awad is a powerful and poetic storyteller, telling us something new and profound here about the connection between suffering and elation. When I was away from this book, I longed to get back to it."—GEORGE SAUNDERS, New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo "Wild and exhilarating and so fresh it takes your breath away, All's Well is an utterly delicious novel of pain and vitality, Shakespeare and the uncanny, and our own subtle moral failures when we brush up against the pain of others. Mona Awad's talent is so vital that it absolutely roars out of her. "—LAUREN GROFF, New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies "Oh my lord what a fabulous novel--knocked me out!"—MARY KARR, New York Times bestselling author of The Liars' Club, Cherry, and Lit “In this eerie and engrossing novel, Mona Awad deftly delivers a narrator as mesmerizing as she is unreliable. Miranda's quest for her heart's desires illuminates the complex bargains one woman dares to make in her most desperate moments. With its mordant humor and potent surreality, All's Well is a gripping read, and Awad is a writer of great intensity and insight."—HELEN PHILLIPS, author of The Need "For all my fellow right-thinking adoring readers of Bunny, another dark and insane gem from Mona Awad, full of scintillating insights on Shakespeare, pain, and the human condition.”—ELIF BATUMAN, author of The Idiot, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction "Tragic, macabre, and wicked. I laughed out loud the whole way through. One of the funniest books I've read in years."—HEATHER O'NEILL, author of The Lonely Hearts Hotel --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gobookmart-review/support

Join the PPG Advocacy Panel for a discussion on 'How to Best Advocate for Positive Reinforcement Training.' Pet guardians and pet professionals, listen as panel members share their expertise in a fun, free-flowing format. Your Moderators: Don Hanson & Niki Tudge Your Advocacy Panel for this discussion: Dr. Kristina Spaulding, Dr. Zazie Todd, Pat Miller, Kristi Benson, Helen Phillips, Holden Svirsky, Sam Wike, Claire Staines, Dr. Robert Hewings, Dr. Eduardo Fernandez, Kim Silver, Judy Luther, Dr. Laura Donaldson, Dr. Karolina Westlund Find out more about the Advocacy Panel, including future topics and dates.

Runners to the starting line...Mike Simpson, legendary multi-sport athlete at Port Neches-Groves High School, breaks the tape as he talks about his career, including: his early years at Groves Junior High;playing football at PN-G under legendary coach Bum Phillips;running on PN-G's 440-yard Relay team that set a National Record at the State Track Meet in 1965;winning the 220-yard Dash at that same State Track Meet;playing football at the University of Houston;his four seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, including three playoff appearances vs. the Dallas Cowboys;his lifelong passion with the guitar;his life after football;his family;and other topics!The podcast brings up a wide range of names from Southeast Texas, including Bum Phillips, Randy Byrd, Kenneth Bernard, Lyman Landry, Leo Simpson (Mike's brother), Gordon LeBoeuf, John Wayne Goodwin, Coach Lewis Ford, Ken Watson, Moe O'Brien, Joyce O'Brien, Kennth Almond, Wade Phillips, Helen Phillips, Dale Bernauer, Dr. Houston Byrd, Cliff Larson, and more! Other well-known names included in the podcast are Bill Yeoman, Larry Gatlin, Paul Gipson, Elmo Wright, Dickie Post, Dr. Phil, Sid Gillman, Dick Nolan, Lance Alworth, Gary Garrison, Roger Staubach, Bob Hayes, Calvin Hill, Walt Garrison, Tom Landry, Steve Spurrier...and more!!All quiet in the stands...Mr. Starter we are ready...the gun is up!!!Right here on Down Trails of Victory podcast!

In this podcast Niki Tudge chats with Jules Morgan and Helen Phillips from The Gundog Trainers Academy Their mission is to support, nurture and encourage high standards of ethical, science-backed, non-coercive, and effective methods of training for gundogs in the UK. They aim to build an extensive network of like-minded, qualified Gundog Trainers to fulfill the demand for ethical gundog training for shooting, for competition, and for pleasure. GTA offers educational courses in practical and theoretical formats with a final assessment process that accredits teachers to become GTA Instructors. Handler-only courses are devised to improve and extend upon gundog handling skills to owners and trainers by delving deeper into the learning process and applying it to fieldwork. The GTA is a member of ABTC & PPG. The Gundog Trainers Academy: https://www.gundogtrainersacademy.co.uk/

When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself it's the sleep deprivation. She's been hearing things these days. Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worst-case scenario. It's what mothers do, she knows. But then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement. Suddenly Molly finds herself face-to-face with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family. As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty. Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread; the languor and the ferocity; the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mind-bending conclusion. In The Need, Helen Phillips has created a subversive, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery. Anointed as one of the most exciting fiction writers working today, The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support

Helen Phillips is a 2020 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. She is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel The Need, which was long-listed for the National Book Award.

In this episode, Tony talks to business adviser, Helen Phillips, a specialist in helping businesses to achieve sustainable growth, about the ways in which her engineering background has enabled her to super-charge her financial career, why the role of business adviser carries with a huge responsibility, and the steps needed in order to re-evaluate the business world in the new working landscape. KEY TAKEAWAYS Coming from an engineering background has meant that Helen’s ability to compartmentalise issues and processes, working on each in turn. This has been of huge benefit to Helen’s clients, whose businesses may have multiple challenges at once. Information about most subjects is abundant and freely available. The skill comes in translating this information and applying it correctly. The first step to aiding a business owner is to re-examine the reasons for the founding of the business in the first place. Creating a vision and culture comes next, as well as learning how to delegate effectively. The lockdown has seen many downsides, but it has also allowed many to step back and reconsider their business journey, altering in some cases, the path along which they are travelling. BEST MOMENTS ‘It applies just as well to a rolling mill as it does to a business’ ‘You have to have a burning desire to help’ ’The things that make your business more valuable are also the things that give you more time’ ‘It’s an opportunity to create that new path that you want to travel' VALUABLE RESOURCES Mustard Advisers - https://mustardadvisers.com/team_members/helen-phillips/ Helen Phillips LInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/helen-phillips-a7999a8/?originalSubdomain=uk ABOUT THE HOST Tony Thomas is a published author, one of the top financial advisers in the UK voted for by his clients, the first Chartered Financial Planner in the UK, Independent Financial Adviser, Mentor, Trainer. Life Planner and Money Coach. He is also a pension and investment specialist as well as the regional Chartered Champion for South Wales. “Live For Today, Invest For Tomorrow” CONTACT Tony’s official website: https://ttwealth.co.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TonyThomas.IFA/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonythomas2/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Helen Phillips the Director of The Contract Doctor, provides affordable legal and compliance services to start ups and SMEs. The business also offers fully outsourced solutions for companies who are not yet at the stage where they require an in-house team. In the following interview Helen discusses: Should recruitment business owners be letting their staff in the office if you can work from home? How do you run a business with a life-threatening medical condition Further links to Helen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drcontract/

Today, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: a new Patreon segment and a childhood favorite Current Reads: Six left turns. It’s a broad swath of books today! Deep Dive: are you “allowed” to change your opinion on a book after you’ve read it? Book Presses: THE BOOK we’ve all been waiting for and sci-fi trilogy that’s just fun As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  *Please note that all book titles linked below are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . . 0:59 - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi 1:08 - New York by Edward Rutherford 1:28 - London by Edward Rutherford 1:52 - Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Patreon - We Sponsor Ourselves: 2:09 - Currently Reading on Patreon Bookish Moments: 3:30 - All Things Murderful with Meredith on Patreon 6:11 - A Likely Story in Colorado Springs, CO 6:41 - The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg Current Reads: 8:54 - A Quiet Life in the Country by T.E. Kinsey (Meredith) 12:08 - Conjure Women by Afia Atakora (Kaytee) 14:47 - The Troop by Nick Cutter (Meredith) 14:52 - @booknernative on Instagram 16:06 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding 16:07 - Twenty Eight Days Later by Michael Nelson 16:57 - FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven 20:06 - The Switch by Beth O’Leary (Kaytee) 20:14 - The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary 25:14 - The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street by Lauren Oliver (Meredith) 26:54 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend 26:55 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson 27:56 - After the End by Clare Mackintosh (Kaytee) 28:02 - I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh 31:12 - Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid Deep Dive - Changing Your Mind About a Book: 32:56 - Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (Racism in Eleanor and Park) 33:57 - The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 35:49 - Articles about JK Rowling’s Twitter Rants 36:44 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling Hi, this is like a retraction in the newspaper. I, Kaytee, realize that the comments I made about JK Rowling were very personal. I would probably phrase them differently now, having seen how they were received. I still feel very strongly about her stance and her very public opinions, but I would like to say that her opinions are garbage, not she as a person. I humbly accept this correction from our many listeners who have pointed it out as going too far. The audio is what it is, but please consider this my public statement regarding this matter. 39:33 - Greenglass House by Kate Midford 40:23 - The Need by Helen Phillips 41:03 - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 42:03 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands: 43:12 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (Meredith) 46:11 - Serial Reader App 47:33 - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Nuevel (Kaytee) 49:16 - Waking Gods #2 and Only Human #3 by Sylvain Nuevel Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram Mary is @maryreadsandsips on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

TLS wishes themselves a happy death day while reviewing this solid slice of a short story.[Aggregate score: 7] The post Literature: The Knowers by Helen Phillips appeared first on The Lost Signals.

Amanda and Jenn discuss series to get excited about, 8th grade read-alouds, Star Wars read-alikes, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Care/of, and The Patient by Jasper DeWitt. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Feedback Anna K by Jenny Lee  (TW: underage substance abuse & alcohol) (rec’d by Nicole) The Need by Helen Phillips (rec’d by Courtney) Questions 1. Everything I was excited about doing this summer has been canceled, and I’m now suffering from a lack of things to look forward to. I was wondering if you could recommend a great series that has another book coming out a few/several months from now so I can read the book(s) that already exist and then eagerly anticipate the next installment! Some things I like include high fantasy, woman (or nonbinary) authors and characters, LGBTQness, and audiobooks. Thanks! –Emma 2. Hello!  My mom is an avid reader, definitely gravitating toward mystery/thrillers, historical fiction and most specifically anything by Eric Larson.  She has already devoured his newest book, The Splendid and the Vile, and has read nearly all of his backlist.  Do you have any author comps for Larson that I could pass on to her?   Thanks!! –Rachael 3. I’m looking for books that would make great read-alouds for my 8th grade English/Language Arts class.  I’ve been teaching for five years, and I’ve always done the same read-alouds each year: Love that Dog by Sharon Creech, Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, and Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth.  I’d like to change it up with some newer books as the ones I mentioned above are aging out; as my students have pointed out: “None of these characters even have a cellphone!”  Some preferences I have for our read-alouds:   interesting characters that help my students experience lives that are different from their own (I teach in a small town in Minnesota) minimum cursing (see above about teaching in a small town in Minnesota) engaging storylines that get students excited to hear what happens next bonus points if the chapters are shorter so I have natural stopping points each day Thanks for your help! Love the show! –Grace 4. Hello! I love the podcast and I have gotten soooo many good recommendations (both from a couple of asks that I have made previously and just from listening every week). I recently lured my wife into being a bookworm (I even got her on Libby, the proudest moment of my life!). She has gone from maybe reading 1 book in a year to tearing through about 30 books and graphic novels (the gateway drug!) in about 3 months time. The problem: she’s starting to run out of material! She’s pretty set for the next few months, but might run out of books to read over the summer. Her birthday is August 2nd and so I’m hoping to pick up some new books for her by then. She LOVES Star Wars and that is what the vast majority of her reading so far has been. She is looking for ideas for books, especially if they are series, outside of Star Wars, but that give her some of the same things that she loves about Star Wars. Things she likes about Star Wars: all of the aliens and creatures, good vs. evil, and the world-building. Things that she didn’t specifically identify when I asked her what she liked, but are definitely elements that I know she likes: strong female leads and found family (but who doesn’t love those things?!). Bonus for good queer representation, which is very obviously lacking in Star Wars. She is a bit of a weeny and doesn’t like things that are scary (sometimes Doctor Who episodes scare her, so you be the judge…) or have a lot of gore. Some things that I have thought to recommend to her were the Becky Chambers books and Saga (if she ever thought that she could get past the violence and gore).  Thank you!!!!!!!! –Heidi 5. Hi! I am a new listener and am thoroughly enjoying listening to the show! I just got married in November and my husband and I will be honeymooning to Austria at the end of June. I LOVE travel books in general, but would really like to read some fiction/historical fiction about  Vienna and Salzburg. We are also going to try to do a day trip to Bratislava as well, so I would happily welcome a book set in Slovakia. Thank you! –Kira 6. I’m doing the 2020 Read Harder Challenge and I’m looking for a book for the disabled protagonist task, specifically a Native American protagonist. I’m Native and one of my New Year’s reading resolutions is to read more books by Native Americans, so I’m trying to choose books by/about Native Americans for as many of the challenge tasks as possible. I’ve read Absolute True Story of a Part-Time Indian, but I’m trying to avoid reading any more Sherman Alexie since the MeToo stories about him. Thanks in advance. –Cheryl 7. Hello! I was wondering if you have any recommendations for books where adoption is a main theme. Many of the books I’ve found are a bit outdated or cheesy and instructional. I recently pickup up Nichole Chung’s “All You Can Ever Know”. I also found “Motherhood So White” on book riot’s website. My husband and I are starting to look into adoption as a way to be parents and I’d love to find some insightful stories or memoirs (or even fiction), preferably that feature diversity of story, race, and background. Thanks in advance for the help!  –Lauren Books Discussed The Khorasan Archives by Ausma Zehanat Khan (tw slavery) The Poppy War series by RF Kuang (tw: war crimes incl. rape and genocide) SFF Yeah: Most Anticipated Series episode The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Marie Eatwell TheRiver of Doubt by Candice Millard Escape from Aleppo by NH Senzai (tw war) Clean Getaway by Nic Stone Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie Murderbot by Martha Wells The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler, trans Charlotte Collins (tw Nazis) A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré Fool’s Crow by James Welch (rec’d by Jeff) (tw war crimes) There There by Tommy Orange (TW: gun violence and rape) Welcome Home, edited by Eric Smith Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson

Luis Souto Soubrier casi no necesita presentación, pero Luis es licenciado en Psicología con Master en Neuropsicología Pediátrica y tiene años de experiencia de educación canina. Luis ha recibido formación de personas tan conocidas mundialmente como Turid Rugaas, James O'Heare o Helen Phillips. Luis imparte cursos y seminarios dirigidas especialmente a educadores profesionales a través de Talkan. Además figura como asesor científico y traductor en la editorial Dogalia. En éste episodio de Pongamos que Hablo de Perros, Jonás Thulin habla con Luis sobre el estrés y el vínculo de nuestros perros...

Today, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: a giant buddy read discussion and an author chiming into the chat about his book Current Reads: wheelhouse books and being surprised by some titles Deep Dive: “murderful” - books that aren’t for the faint of heart Book Presses: some of our favorite murderful titles As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . . Book of the Month Ad: (These are Goodreads links, since we hope you’ll use our Book Of The Month link to sign up if you’re interested!) 2:22 - A Burning by Megha Mjumdar 2:59 - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 3:14 - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager 3:45 - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet 3:54 - One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London 4:35 - Use our Link and the code CURRENTLYREADING to get your first book for just $9.99! Bookish Moments: 5:40 - Episode 41 of Season 2 - discussion of FantasticLand starts at 29:40 5:44 - FantasticLand by Mike Backoven 6:02 - Patreon Bookish Friends 6:04 - Scribd - free 60 day trial! Current Reads: 9:50 - Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano (Kaytee) 12:36 - The Tenant by Katrine Ingburgh (Meredith) 14:30 - The Big Finish by Brooke Fossey (Kaytee) 15:19 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman 15:20 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 17:38 - The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty (Meredith) 23:08 - Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo- Anstine (Kaytee) 26:12 - Hunted by Meagan Spooner (Meredith) 27:09 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer 27:20 - Beauty by Robin McKinley Deep Dive - Murderful - Books that Aren’t for the Faint of Heart: 29:32 - Nancy Drew books by 30:42 - RL Stine Goosebumps Books 31:00 - Intensity by Dean Koontz 31:26 - The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson 35:05 - FantasticLand by Mike Backoven 35:08 - Fierce Kingdom by Gin Phillips 34:40 - Pines by Blake Crouch 35:00 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman 35:19 - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay 35:39 - The Hunger by Alma Katsu 36:10 - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins 36:40 - The Need by Helen Phillips 37:17 - The Snowman by Jo Nesbo 37:20 - The Whisper Man by Alex North 37:21 - The Chestnut Man by Soren Sviestrup 38:09 - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (not Phillips, doh) 38:12 - Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter 38:18 - All the Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison 39:04 - Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough 40:00 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara 40:01 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule 40:03 - The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich 40:52 - Lock Every Door by Riley Sager 41:03 - The Chain by Adrian McKinty 41:13 - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware 41:42 - In A Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands: 42:28 - I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh 44:00 - Post Mortem (Kay Scarpetta #1) by Patricia Cornwell Connect With Us: Meredith is @meredith.reads on Instagram Kaytee is @notesonbookmarks on Instagram Mindy is @gratefulforgrace on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast.com @currentlyreadingpodcast on Instagram currentlyreadingpodcast@gmail.com

Oceanographer Dr. Helen Phillips of Tasmania is a drifter at sea studying the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. This current flows all of the way around Antarctica and separates the warm waters of the subtropics from the cold Antarctic. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is like a big wall in the path of this movement of heat. Helen Phillips is studying those processes that allow the heat to move across the current. Eddies and the meandering of the current are a key part of her studies that help her to understand this process and climate change. She says the world our children will live in is vastly different from the one that she has enjoyed because of climate change unless we say right now, this is not good enough. We need to demand that action be taken to improve our future. June is Ocean Awareness month. Helen explains her research and the instruments she uses. 

Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota. This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on December 10, 2019, celebrating Writers of Queens, with Siri Hustvedt, Helen Phillips, and Jason Tougaw. About the Readers: Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; seven novels, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men, The Blazing World, and Memories of the Future, as well as four essay collections, A Plea for Eros; Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting; Living, Thinking, Looking; A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women and a work of nonfiction: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. Hustvedt has a PhD from Columbia University in English Literature and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Her scholarly interests are interdisciplinary. She has given numerous lectures at scientific and academic conferences on philosophy, neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and literature, and published papers in scientific and scholarly journals. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities (2012). The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won The Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction 2014). In 2019, she was awarded the European Essay Prize from the Charles Veillon Foundation for The Delusions of Certainty, an essay on the mind/body problem, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the Princess of Asturias Award in Spain for the body of her work. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages. Hustvedt lives in Brooklyn, New York. Helen Phillips is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel The Need, a 2019 National Book Award nominee. Her collection Some Possible Solutions received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the Italo Calvino Prize. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic and the New York Times, and on Selected Shorts. She is an associate professor at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, artist Adam Douglas Thompson, and their children. Jason Tougaw is the author of The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. He is currently completing a novel, Summer Isn’t, as part of his mission to write about the brain and identity in every genre he can. He is also the author of The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience, and Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel. His work as appeared in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, OUT magazine, and Largehearted Boy. He blogs about art and science at www.californica.net. * This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series. Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota. This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on December 10, 2019, celebrating Writers of Queens, with Siri Hustvedt, Helen Phillips, and Jason Tougaw. About the Readers: Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; seven novels, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men, The Blazing World, and Memories of the Future, as well as four essay collections, A Plea for Eros; Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting; Living, Thinking, Looking; A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women and a work of nonfiction: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. Hustvedt has a PhD from Columbia University in English Literature and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Her scholarly interests are interdisciplinary. She has given numerous lectures at scientific and academic conferences on philosophy, neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and literature, and published papers in scientific and scholarly journals. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities (2012). The Blazing World was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won The Los Angeles Book Prize for Fiction 2014). In 2019, she was awarded the European Essay Prize from the Charles Veillon Foundation for The Delusions of Certainty, an essay on the mind/body problem, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, and the Princess of Asturias Award in Spain for the body of her work. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages. Hustvedt lives in Brooklyn, New York. Helen Phillips is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel The Need, a 2019 National Book Award nominee. Her collection Some Possible Solutions received the 2017 John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat, a New York Times Notable Book of 2015, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and the Italo Calvino Prize. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic and the New York Times, and on Selected Shorts. She is an associate professor at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, artist Adam Douglas Thompson, and their children. Jason Tougaw is the author of The One You Get: Portrait of a Family Organism, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize. He is currently completing a novel, Summer Isn’t, as part of his mission to write about the brain and identity in every genre he can. He is also the author of The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience, and Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel. His work as appeared in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, OUT magazine, and Largehearted Boy. He blogs about art and science at www.californica.net. * This event was made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you recall the fossil prints of you childhood?Matthew 18:3-5 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.Evelyn Minton and her daughter, Dr. Billie J. Minton are the authors of the Blue Ridge Tenderpup children's series. These books may be found at the author's website BlueRidgeMoments.com and Amazon.com/Author/drbillieminton

Dive into the pit with the Squad as we discuss The Need, a novel by Helen Phillips. We talk about genre fusion, motherhood, and what exactly “the need” is. After we dig into The Need, Emily interviews author Julie Marie Wade about her book, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing. Then we read some listener feedback about Elevation and tell you about the newest stuff on the #BookSquadBlog. Read along with us for our next #Bookpisode on 3/23, where we’ll cover Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.Head to our Instagram to enter our giveaway with Monthly Mane – winner will be announced 2/27! Song in our Monthly Mane ad is Acid Trumpet by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3340-acid-trumpetLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/1:00–intro question—spoilers ahead!12:00–Book Intro and Summary13:40–combining genres: does it work?24:59—motherhood 37:34–what IS the need?45:56–relationships with yourself 51:26–the ending 56:47–last thoughts and ratings1:04:10–interview with Julie Marie Wade!1:46:29–Elevation feedback1:49:29–giveaway! What’s on the blog? What’s up next?

Dive into the pit with the Squad as we discuss The Need, a novel by Helen Phillips. We talk about genre fusion, motherhood, and what exactly “the need” is. After we dig into The Need, Emily interviews author Julie Marie Wade about her book, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing. Then we read some listener feedback about Elevation and tell you about the newest stuff on the #BookSquadBlog. Read along with us for our next #Bookpisode on 3/23, where we’ll cover Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.Head to our Instagram to enter our giveaway with Monthly Mane – winner will be announced 2/27! Song in our Monthly Mane ad is Acid Trumpet by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3340-acid-trumpetLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/1:00–intro question—spoilers ahead!12:00–Book Intro and Summary13:40–combining genres: does it work?24:59—motherhood 37:34–what IS the need?45:56–relationships with yourself 51:26–the ending 56:47–last thoughts and ratings1:04:10–interview with Julie Marie Wade!1:46:29–Elevation feedback1:49:29–giveaway! What’s on the blog? What’s up next?

We're excited about our guest today because she's sharing exactly how she's growing her coaching business. We love doing case studies on the podcast from time to time because it shows what's possible when you have a good plan in place, and you work the plan consistently without getting hung up on perfection (or paralyzed by fear). Helen Phillips is one of our Wellness Business Insider's Club members, and in this episode she's giving us an inside look at what she's been doing in her business over the past few months to not only see massive growth, but also how she's made some mindset shifts that have boosted her confidence and skyrocketed her visibility.   In this episode, Helen reveals how she: Nailed down her niche, and has become known as a leader in her community in a short period of time Has grown her Facebook group by over 1000 members Has built her email list to over 600 people in 5 months Uses free challenges to grow her email list, build her Facebook group and fill her programs Went from feeling like an imposter to owning her niche and feeling confident and unstoppable   Helen is a blast to interview, and you'll see why when you listen. Her energy and positive attitude is contagious, and we know you're going to love what she shares during the interview.   There's still time to join our free live training series called: The Secrets to Turn Your Health Coaching Hobby Into A Profitable Business. Even though we started on the 25th, you can watch the replays and join the fun in our pop-up Facebook group. In this 4-part training series, we're covering… The behind-the-scenes secrets of the most successful coaches we know and how they turned their businesses from a hobby to highly profitable The most up-to-date information on what it takes to actually attract your ideal client and enroll them into your programs, (there has been big changes in this area of marketing and you must get up to speed on those changes to be successful) The intricate details to building out a customer success path with you that not only warms up your followers but gets them excited to enroll in your programs Last, and certainly not least, we'll share what red-hot areas will require a lot of your attention each month and also which tasks can either be outsourced, streamlined, or removed from your business altogether as a way of creating the business of your dreams   If you're ready for a crazy successful 2020, be sure to register for our free LIVE training series, "The Secrets To Turn Your Health Coaching Hobby Into A Profitable Business!"   Links/Resources mentioned on the show: Helen's website Helen's Facebook page Free training series: “The Secrets to Turn Your Health Coaching Hobby Into a Profitable Business”   Links to Resources: Wellness Business Insider's Club Karen's Facebook Group Karen's Instagram Kathleen's Facebook Group Kathleen's Instagram The Wellness Business Podcast Facebook Page The Wellness Business Podcast Instagram

Daniela Myr e Anita Pulvirenti ci raccontano, per Austen, un nuovo romanzo molto particolare:di Helen Phillips, La bella Burocrate - Safarà Editore.Buon ascolto e... buona lettura!

Meredith and Kaytee are back, chatting books and strong opinions with you! You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: leaning into the DNF (did not finish), and a recovery book as reading “Advil.” Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We’ve got three books each to discuss, including some revisits of titles that have already been discussed. Our Slow But Steady check in is short and sweet, just like you like it! For our deep dive this week, we are talking True Crime. This is an unknown world for Kaytee so we’re hearing from Meredith about what she loves about True Crime and her favorites in the genre. Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books into Your Hands: a cry-fest book that not everyone will love, and a book for middle graders that one of us still needs to pick up! As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . . 5:20 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Alcohol & Advil pairings! 6:42 - The Garden of Small Beginnings by Abbi Waxman 6:49 - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman 9:41 - Be Fearless by Jean Case 12:53 - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon 16:00 - The Need by Helen Phillips 16:05 - She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey 16:11 - Episode 11 of Season 2 with Sara Hildreth 20:00 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow 24:26 - The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman 24:39 - Book of the Month Subscription 24:56 - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman 29:10 - The Road Back to You by Suzanne Stabile and Ian Morgan Cron 29:38 - The Water Dancer by Ta-Nahesi Coates 29:53 - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 30:38 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 33:28 - The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson 35:46 - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule 37:38 - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 38:56 - The Yoga Store Murder by Dan Morse 39:27 - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 39:52 - Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi 40:04 - Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder by Vincent Bugliosi 40:24 - Mindhunter by John Douglas 41:24 - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara 43:02 - Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 43:12 - Columbine by Dave Cullen 44:03 - Sadie by Courtney Summers 44:11 - Six Stories by Matt Weselowski 45:31 - The Light Between Oceans by ML Steadman 47:52 - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood 49:09 - The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Helen Phillips jumps right into the surreal and strange place that is the Damn Library. She's well used to it, since she's the person who wrote The Need, which we all talk about, and its depiction of motherhood, and the weird, and many other vague details that we dance around since we really don't want to spoil anything. We also talk about Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream, which has no baseline of normalcy, and maybe the original title in Spanish makes more sense for it. Get into it. contribute! https://patreon.com/smdb for drink recipes, book lists, and more, visit: somanydamnbooks.com music: Disaster Magic (https://soundcloud.com/disaster-magic)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kaytee and Meredith are sharing a special guest with you this week, our dear friend and podcast pal, Sarah Dickinson of Sarah’s Bookshelves and Sarah’s Bookshelves Live. You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each of us: a sanity saver behind the scenes, meeting a (kid’s) favorite author, and new reading acronyms. Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. We’re each sharing two reads this week and we’re all over the place with sequels and weird books, and amazing books, and STRONG opinions! We’re skipping slow but steady so we have more time to chat with Sarah. Stay tuned for an update on that next week. For our deep dive this week, we are picking Sarah’s brain about what it’s like to almost always be reading ahead of the charts. How she tracks her reading and whether she has goals for her yearly reading. It’s a great conversation with lots of food for thought. Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books into Your Hands. We’ve got a non-fiction pick that will tear your heart out, an oldie but a goodie, and a WWII fiction book one of us believes is “best in class.” As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . . 4:06 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney 4:15 - Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney 8:03 - Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey 8:27 - Big Nate by Lincoln Pearce 8:29 - Dog Man by Dav Pilkey 11:30 - After the Flood by Kassandra Montag 13:40 - The Innocents by Michael Crummy 15:25 - Wanderers by Chuck Wendig 15:50 - The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker 16:18 - The Book of M by Peng Shepherd 16:37 - Bird Box by Josh Malerman 16:50 - Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton 17:41 - A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer 18:13 - A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer 19:36 - Minisode with Brigid Kemmerer 25:36 - Book Scavenger by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman I managed to talk about this entire book without mentioning the title? How?? The Unbreakable Code by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman 26:50 - Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend 26:51 - Winterhouse by Ben Guterson 26:59 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas 27:01 - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas 27:30 - Our companion episode with Sara Hildreth 27:32 - Sarah’s Bookshelves Live episode with Sara Hildreth 27:45 - The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore 33:20 - The Need by Helen Phillips 33:45 - Ten Things To Tell You episode about books 38:39 - The Grace Year by Kim Liggett 38:50 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 39:00 - The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 40:18 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding 55:14 - The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne 55:29 - The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M Graff 55:50 - Sarah’s interview with Garrett M. Graff 1:00:09 - Episode 9 with Meg Tietz 1:00:22 - The Home Maker by Dorothy Canfield 1:02:54 - Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave 1:03:11 - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 1:03:13 - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 1:04:32 - Kaytee’s old (written) interview with Chris Cleave 1:05:20 - Connect with Sarah: @sarahsbookshelves on Instagram or her website sarahsbookshelves.com

You would think that your city’s wealthiest suburb would always have enough money to keep the streetlights on and the roads paved. You’d probably also think that the suburb that the two wealthiest people on Earth call home would be able to pave its roads in gold and light its streets with Hollywood-style glamor lighting that makes everyone it shines on look ten pounds thinner. On both counts, you’d be wrong. Earlier this week, CNBC offered an update to the story of Medina, Washington, a wealthy enclave outside of Seattle that billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates both call home. Medina has been making headlines for a surprising reason: they’re struggling to find the money to deliver the services that residents need, even though some of those resident’s homes (CoughGatesCough) have 24 bathrooms, something called a “trampoline room,” valuations of over $131 million, and owners who can comfortably pay over $1 million a year in property taxes. The reason why, CNBC suggests, has to do with a state cap on property taxes that distorts how much money actually goes to local needs and keeps the Bezoses of the world from paying what it actually costs to maintain the infrastructure that surrounds their mega-mansions—and if Washington just let the Medinas of the world have a little more local control, they’d finally be able to make the math work. The Strong Towns staff wondered, though, whether making Medina strong was really just a matter of twiddling a few taxation knobs on the governance control panel. So host Kea Wilson, and guest host + reluctant Seattleite, John Reuter, decided to dive in and talk it out. Would raising local and state tax rates really give wealthy communities like Medina the cash they need to pay for the suburban way of life—or is their development pattern simply so insolvent that even their high-earning residents would balk at that price tag? If Bezos and Gates decided to pay their city’s tax bill themselves, should Medina throw a party, or start worrying about what happens when the billionaires (or their heirs, or even the mere millionaires) pack up someday and leave, as has happened in so many American suburbs already? Do luxury homes and overbuilt road networks even make us happy in the long run, even if we can figure out how to afford it all? And most importantly: is one of Bill Gates’ 24 bathrooms also a trampoline room?! The comedic possibilities are endless!Then in the DownZone, John and Kea talk the very different ways they’re celebrating Halloween: John, by dressing his dog up as Chewbacca and reflecting on the role of heroism in the Star Wars franchise, and Kea, by reading a spooky-good new novel by Helen Phillips (and, okay, dressing her dog up as Superman, but that’s just a gimme.)

Kate and Cassie with guests Meredith Lake (Soul Search), Karen Viggers (The Orchardist's Daughter) and Chris Hammer (Scrubland, Silver) as they discuss new fiction by Christos Tsiolkas, Helen Phillips and Jacqueline Woodson - and many more besides

The WiSP Sports Desk is hosted by Nancy Gillen and Chris Stafford with a roundup of the latest news in women's sport. This week's stories: Iran officially suspended by International Judo Federation and could miss Tokyo 2020 Russian doping scandal: 'Russia must expect 2020 Olympics ban’. Helen Phillips has become the first female President of British Gymnastics. Rugby league World Cup to offer equal participation fees for men, women’s and wheelchair tournaments World Rugby backs radical plans for indoor five-a-side 'RugbyX' to be launched in London this month Kikkan Randall completes New York marathon after successfully recovering from cancer Alex Morgan pregnant (will she miss Olympics) and Olympic luge champion Natalie Geisenberger also pregnant (means there will be a new women’s luge World Cup winner for first time in 8 years). For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE. For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is The Only Global Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1200 episodes across 46 shows and over 5 million downloads. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at info@wispsports.com.

On this episode I discuss The Need by Helen Phillips, I Like to Watch by Emily Naussbaum and other great books!Subscribe to Books are my People using RSS, iTunes, or SpotifyBooks Discussed:The Arrangement by Robyn HardingRabbits for Food by Binnie KirshenbaumI Like to Watch by Emily NaussbaumThe Need by Helen PhillipsGuts by Reina TelgemeierOther books mentioned:The Arrangement by Sarah DunnBunny by Mona AwadWatership Down by Richard AdamsSmile by Reina TelgemeierSisters by Reina TelgemeierDrama by Reina TelgemeierGhosts by Reina TelgemeierOther things mentioned:The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize shortlistRead an interview with Waffle House's first poet LaureateRea

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we feature two new novels that explore the often complicated terrain of motherhood. Our book critic Marion Winik on The Need by Helen Phillips and Strike the Heart by Amelie Nothomb. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Helen Phillips, author of The Need, has written five books, including the short story collections Some Possible Solutions and And Yet They Were Happy and the novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat. Her work has been featured on Selected Shorts, at the Brooklyn Museum, and in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and Tin House, among others. She is an associate professor at Brooklyn College.   Subscribe to First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Helen Phillips author of The Need published in July by Simon and Schuster. The Need is Helen’s fifth book, preceded by her children’s book Here Where The Sunbeams are Green, And Yet They Were Happy, The Beautiful Bureaucrat and Some Possible Solutions Each of which have received various awards. She has also received and it is my favorite award ever—-The Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction. On my fabulist bucket list. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, NYT, Tin House and many other publications. The Need is a scary book. It is a funny book, it is a sad book, a tragic book, an heroic book and a book that is really hard to put down. Do we have an unreliable narrator? I don’t know. Do we have a parallel universe? Beats me. Do we have two matching pennies? I can’t say. Do we like someone or another? But when a book asks you these questions and you can’t answer them, you know someone is on to something. The Need starts out being something then morphs into something else. funnels, tunnels and as it does our questions begin to rise as do the protagonists. And our protagonists are two sides of the same coin. It is a book I will not soon forget maybe with a beatific dream every once in a while with the odd, and I mean odd, nightmare thrown in for good measure. With that welcome Helen and thanks so much for joining us today.

Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Helen Phillips author of The Need published in July by Simon and Schuster. The Need is Helen’s fifth book, preceded by her children’s book Here Where The Sunbeams are Green, And Yet They Were Happy, The Beautiful Bureaucrat and Some Possible Solutions Each of which have received various awards. She has also received and it is my favorite award ever—-The Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction. On my fabulist bucket list. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, NYT, Tin House and many other publications. The Need is a scary book. It is a funny book, it is a sad book, a tragic book, an heroic book and a book that is really hard to put down. Do we have an unreliable narrator? I don’t know. Do we have a parallel universe? Beats me. Do we have two matching pennies? I can’t say. Do we like someone or another? But when a book asks you these questions and you can’t answer them, you know someone is on to something. The Need starts out being something then morphs into something else. funnels, tunnels and as it does our questions begin to rise as do the protagonists. And our protagonists are two sides of the same coin. It is a book I will not soon forget maybe with a beatific dream every once in a while with the odd, and I mean odd, nightmare thrown in for good measure. With that welcome Helen and thanks so much for joining us today.

Today’s bookish guest is Deedi Brown from Deedireads on Instagram. In this episode, we chat about: What her Favorite genres  Her tips about attending BookCon We chat about our experiences about BookCon She talked about attending the BookCon’s writing workshops Round of book recommendations  BOOKS MENTIONED: The Need by Helen Phillips  Naamah by Sarah Blake Real Queer America: Real LGBT Stories in Red State by Samantha Allen  The Prenup by Lauren Layne  Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters  Flashed by Zoey Castille  Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James The Water Dancer  Ta-Nehisi Coates Daisy Jones &  The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid  The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater  Kingsbane by Claire Legrand  Three Women by Lisa Taddeo How Could She by Lauren Mechling  Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes    CONNECT WITH DEEDI  Instagram Book Blog

On this week’s episode of Nina’s Got Good News, host Nina B. Clarke is joined by her Good News VIP Guests of the Week, Helen Phillips and Zac Mathias! Helen and Zac are both lifestyle and fashion bloggers, as well as Instagram influencers. Nina talks with Helen and Zac about how each of them got their start in the blogosphere, and why each of them chose to join Instagram to promote their brand. They talk about the importance of building an online identity, what causes them to align with a certain brand, how you can get involved in blogging and influencing and so much more! ——————— Follow Nina on Instagram: www.instagram.com/ninabclarke/ Follow Nina on Twitter: twitter.com/ninabclarke Visit Nina’s blog: www.ninabradleyclarke.com Visit Style Inherited: http://styleinherited.com Follow Helen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/styleinherited/ Visit The Classic Chic Confidential: https://www.theclassicchicconfidential.com Follow Zac on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zac.mathias/?hl=en

This episode is for you if you like HOURS of book talk.  We're talking the best books we read over the summer and our lists are LONG. My guest Alyssa Hertzig is chatting with me about the best novels, memoirs, and nonfiction books we've read in the last few months. Find Alyssa on her blog The Sparkly Life, and on Instagram. She also has a new bookstagram account @alyssaisbooked. Find all the books we mention in my new amazon store! Sign up for the SECRET POST emails. **SPOILER ALERT** While almost all of this episode is spoiler free, I did include a spoiler-full analysis of the novel The Need by Helen Phillips at the end of the show after the closing music.  Full show notes for this episode here.   @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram   @10ThingsToTellYou on facebook  

This week on The Easy Chair, I read to you the short story “The Knowers” by Helen Phillips. Imagine a world in which every person can decide to find out the date of their death- but they can't know the circumstance surrounding it. Would you even want this knowledge? What if you were lovingly, decades-long married to someone who emphatically didn't want to know to date of your demise? How would you live your life…and face the date of your death when it rolled around? This is a fascinating, beautifully told story about the nature of mortality and marital love. It really got me thinking, and I know it'll get you thinking, too. This week's podcast is brought to you by Rothy's shoes. Rothy's makes flats for women and girls that are comfortable, stylish, and sustainable- made for life on the go. I just ordered my third pair (indigo gingham- so cool!) Go to www.Rothys.com/chair and order your new favorite flats today! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On the July 30, 2019 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they've been up to at the Water Cooler.   Opening Banter: The whole team is back together again!   At The Water Cooler: What we've been Doing:Hoai-Tran is back from Comic-Con and a Bui Beach vacation. She also spoke on a panel of AAPI Culture Writers at the Asian American International Film Festival. Peter went to Knotts Berry Farm to experience Ghost Town Alive on National Cowboy Day, and rode the renovated Calico River Rapids ride. He also got that new backpack that Jacob recommended, and it is awesome. Brad helped his girlfriend (partially) move into his house, and it was quite the whirlwind. Went to the Shedd Aquarium. Escaped a makeshift Nicolas Cage-themed Escape Room for his friend's birthday. What we've been Reading:Jacob started reading Midnight in Chernobyl. Chris read The Need by Helen Phillips and listened to The RFK Tapes podcast. Hoai-Tran read Ursula K. LeGuin: The Last Interview, the first issue of Buffy The Vampire Slayer modern-day reboot. What we've been Watching:Jacob, HT, and Chris watched The Boys. Ben and HT watched Veronica Mars Peter rewatched Jackie Brown for the first time in years. Jacob watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and 1st Summoning. Brad watched new episodes of Queer Eye Ben watched Apollo 11, Serenity, and The Hidden Fortress  Hoai-Tran watched The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance pilot. What we've been Eating:Peter ate at the new Craftsman Bar and Grill at Disneyland's Grand Californian Hotel. Brad tried Mint Chocolate Chip Oreos. What we've been Playing:Jacob started playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses. All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today's show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.  You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air.  Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo.

Ted Chiang talks about “Exhalation,” and Helen Phillips discusses “The Need.”

It’s summer here in Brooklyn, and you know what that means: time to put your phone down, your beach umbrella up and get your read on. Today on the show we are talking to author Helen Phillips about her new book The Need, breastfeeding, existential doubt, viscera, and howling elk. Then, Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, co-owner of Greenlight Books stops by to give us very specific summer reads recommendations.

In this episode, I chat with force-free gundog trainer, Jules Morgan. Jules is a full APDT (UK) member and an accredited trainer and assessor for the Gundog Club. Jules' training organisation is called Dog Training Naturally and she's been a professional dog trainer for about 25 years. She is entirely force-free and she is also a crossover trainer, so she really understands the journey that is made when people move from using aversives to being force-free. Along with Helen Phillips, Jules has set up the Gundog Trainers' Academy - to train trainers(!) how to work with gundogs in a force-free way. Jules herself owns and works both cockers and labradors and has experience working on many different types of shoots. She has judged gundog working tests and organised KC Working Gundog Certificate days and she is a co-founder of the Leconfield Working Spaniel Club.

It's almost July, which means it's time for Jill and Adam to discuss the books coming out next month they can't wait to read! Books mentioned in today's episode: Reading Behind Bars by Jill Grunenwald Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro Three Women by Lisa Taddeo The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Dark Age by Pierce Brown Lock Every Door by Riley Sager Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen The Paper Wasp by Lauren Acampora Wanderers by Chuck Wendig Beneath the Tamarind Tree by Isha Sesay Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber A Prayer for Travelers by Ruchika Tomar Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim Semicolon by Cecaelia Watson The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisle   Other books coming out in July Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Need by Helen Phillips

Born Loving the SeaClimate Change – It’s not okay anymore. Dr. Helen Phillips is a senior researcher in the area of physical oceanography. Her research is through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania. “There’s no biology in my area of oceanography. It is all physical science based on math and physics. I was a bit of a drifter as a young person and I think a bit of an introvert as well. Socializing didn’t come easily for me. But I enjoyed studying and I felt it a very rewarding thing. Math and physics were well-defined so when I answered a question correctly it was really obvious that it was correct. If you write an essay in English or history it’s a less exact science and maybe open to more interpretation of what is good and what is bad. So I liked the exactness of science. When I left school I did not really have a clear idea of what I wanted to be but I knew that science was part of my life.  I had a boyfriend in my final year of high school and he was a bit distracting. I did not do as well as I perhaps should have given my comfort with studying. My parents were both doctors and I’m sure they had aspirations for me to become a doctor. My uncle was a sailor and when I would visit with him he would take me sailing. Definitely oceanography I thought. Yes. I entered the Flinders University in South Australia and there they had a department of Earth Sciences. So I studied oceanography and meteorology as I have always loved the sea.” Oceanography Research ‘Down Under’ University of Tasmania Link to Helen’s profile (https://www.utas.edu.au/profiles/staff/imas/helen-phillips) My interest and research is in studying the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. It flows all of the way around Antarctica and separates the warm waters of the subtropics from the cold Antarctic. We know that heat must cross this current because that’s how the Earth maintains a stable climate. It receives more sun around the equator and it loses a lot of heat around Antarctica and somehow there has to be a pathway from the incoming heat at the equator to the outgoing heat at the pole. Both the atmosphere and the ocean contribute to that cycle. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is like a big wall in the path of this movement of heat and so we need to understand the processes that allow the heat to move across the current. Eddies and the meandering of the current are a very key part of that story. So what we’ve learned in the Gulf Stream we are now applying to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and finding that it is very similar. We are seeing strengthening winds across the Southern Ocean which are causing the currents to generate more Eddies so then it’s becoming more unstable.  Those Eddies are contributing to more rapid movement of heat. Everything is connected so the ocean temperatures are felt by the atmosphere and the ocean experiences change due to global warming. The amount of heat stored in the ocean increases and it has been increasing and it will continue to increase through global warming.” Partial Transcript (#) Information on some of the instruments, acronyms, etc.: (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an independent Australian federal government agency responsible for scientific research. Its chief role is to improve the economic and social performance of industry for the benefit of the community. CSIRO works with leading organisations around the world. From its headquarters in Canberra, CSIRO maintains more than 50 sites across Australia and in France, Chile and the United States, employing about 5500 people. Federally funded scientific research began in Australia 103 years ago. The Advisory Council of Science and Industry was established in 1916 but was hampered by insufficient available finance. In 1926 the research...

Gibson's Bookstore Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Libro.fm (Our Audiobook Platform) Email us at gibsonsemployees(at)gmail(dot)com  Click the link in order to purchase the book from our store. Thanks for shopping local! Current Reads, Future Reads, and Other Books Mentioned in the Episode: Michael - Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan  Another Life by Michael Korda  Elisabeth -  Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson (Out 6/4/2019)  Kelso -  Bunny by Mona Awad (Out 6/11/2019) Five Midnights by Ann Davila Cardinal (Out 6/4/2019) Ryan -  The Need by Helen Phillips (out 7/9/2019) The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch Taken Series by Erin Bowman Bull by David Elliott HIllary - Kushner, Inc. by Vicky Ward Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Cruising New Hampshire History by Michael Bruno Melting Ice, Shifting Sand by Marjorie Burke Pilgrimage of Ice and Sand by Marjorie Burke Where You'll Find Me - Ty Gagne Jim - Shout by Laurie Halse Anderson American Dialogue by Joseph Ellis Laura - Kendrick Kandlestar and the Box of Whispers by Lee Edward Fodi Jeanine -  Craig and Fred by Craig Grossi (Young Reader's Version) Dani -  I Love You So Mochi by Sarah Kuhn (Out 5/28/2019) Extra Links: Independent Bookstore Day - April 27, 2019

Our monsters, ourselves: Why creatures repel us, yet attract us. Our latest American Icons segment is about “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and producer June Thomas reports on how the movie became an audience-participation phenomenon — and gave a sense of belonging to some of those moviegoers who were made to feel like outcasts elsewhere. Kurt Andersen talks with author and filmmaker Mallory O’Meara about her new book “The Lady From the Black Lagoon,” the story of Milicent Patrick, who designed one of Hollywood’s most famous monsters but didn’t get credit for it. And how author Helen Phillips’ life was changed when she read Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our monsters, ourselves: Why creatures repel us, yet attract us. Our latest American Icons segment is about “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” and producer June Thomas reports on how the movie became an audience-participation phenomenon — and gave a sense of belonging to some of those moviegoers who were made to feel like outcasts elsewhere. Kurt Andersen talks with author and filmmaker Mallory O’Meara about her new book “The Lady From the Black Lagoon,” the story of Milicent Patrick, who designed one of Hollywood’s most famous monsters but didn’t get credit for it. And how author Helen Phillips’ life was changed when she read Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1. This morning we speak to organizers of the Global Simultaneous Libation for the Ancestors Saturday, June 14, 2014, 9 AM Pacific Time, 12 noon Eastern Time. Osei Terry R. Chandler, co-founder of the Charleston, SC, Remembrance with Deborah Wright, Helen Phillips or “Salako”, libation pourer. Chadra Pittman Walke, Hampton, Virginia; Jerrie Spruce, Hampton, Virginia; Brother Osakumi Jackson, Georgetown, South Carolina. 2. Michael Gene Sullivan, playwright, actor, director, joins us to talk about his new work, based on another 9/11 story: fugitive/slave/act 3. Tangela Large (Ruby) and Tyee Tilghman (Cecil), cast from pen/man/ship, Christina Anderson’s World Premiere at The Magic Theatre. 4. Regina E. Mason, Oakland native, is the great-great-great granddaughter of pioneering autobiographer William Grimes who wrote the first fugitive slave narrative in America, Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave. She is joined by Oakland veteran actor, director, playwright, Michael Lange.  

What is the REAL definition of the blessed life? Join us for a Soulful Conversation with Helen Phillips as she shares her journey from rejection to redemption and from brokenness to being called His Beloved. We’ll cover church hurt, abandonment and how sanity can be restored in the silence. You will want to listen to this one more than once to capture all of the treasures she reveals. Prepare yourself for an Ah-ha moment of your own.

The Venerable Helen Phillips, Archdeacon of Frankston and Parish Vicar in the Anglican Church, from Victoria, Australia joins us for a lively and interesting conversation about small church ministry! You will love it!

Authors Jonathan Lethem, Helen Phillips and Dana Spiotta discuss their work as writers who “fudge the line between the imaginary and the real world” at 2016's Wordstock: Portland's Book Festival.

This week on #CFofficehours we recorded our FIRST EVER live episode in The CF Clubhouse in NYC with Sephora Collection's National Makeup Artist, Helen Phillips, on how she came into a career in beauty and found other passions along the way. Our audience of Style Gurus were able to ask real-time questions and Helen had so much to share about her best makeup tips and how to make the most of your beauty routine, especially as a college student. Listen up and enjoy!

Helen Phillips (Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Brooklyn College, "The Beautiful Bureaucrat") joins the show. We discuss her novel that is an honest look at the disappointing but ultimate pleasure that can be felt when dealing with monotonous forces.

Each day during February, we posted a “Classical Music Moment in Black History” on our Facebook page to show the contributions of black artists to classical music throughout history. We’ve collected our twenty-eight February entries in this article. By the way, these entries were originally part of an episode of the Classical Classroom podcast (audio included below).  Composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges.  In the mid-to-late 1700’s, Chevalier de Saint-Georgeswas an Afro-French composer who was also France’s best fencer. After Napoleon re-instituted slavery in France, de Saint-Georges’ works were rarely played, though lots of his work has been recorded since the 1970’s. In 1803, virtuoso violinist George Bridgetower, who had studied under the leader of the Royal Opera, played with Beethoven. Beethoven then dedicated his Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major to Bridgetower, and they premiered the piece together. Later, the two had a falling out – something to do with a lady – and Beethoven changed the piece’s name. It’s now called the Kreutzer Sonata. Poet Rita Dove wrote a book about Bridgetower and Beethoven’s relationship. Soprano Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, “The Black Swan”.  In 1853, soprano Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield – people knew her as the “Black Swan” – made her New York debut at the Metropolitan Hall. While she could sing, her skin color would have denied her entrance to the concert. But that didn’t slow Greenfield down: In 1854, this classy lady sang a command performance before Queen Victoria. Composer Scott Joplin.  In 1868, innovative composer and pianist Scott Joplin was born in Texas. Joplin wrote 2 operas, one ragtime ballet, and 44 original ragtime pieces before he died. Composer Harry Thacker Burleigh.  From 1892-95, Antonin Dvorak – not black as you might know, but stick with me – was director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City. The woman who founded the school, Jeanette Thurber, opened the school to men, women, blacks, and whites – pretty unusual for that time. Dvorak felt that a true American style of music should grow out of African- and Native-American music. Harry Burleigh, one of the earliest African-American composers and one of Dvorak’s pupils, introduced Dvorak to American spirituals. In 1898, Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor wrote the musical Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast. It was wildly successful during his lifetime. Coleridge-Taylor also visited the States and inspired American blacks to become composers. Tenor Roland Hayes.  In 1921 tenor Roland Hayes gave a performance before King George V of England. In 1923, Hayes debuted at Carnegie Hall. He was the first African American man to become famous worldwide as a concert performer, and he became one of the world’s greatest Lieder interpreters. In 1926, Undine Smith Moore graduated cum laude from the Juilliard School. She was the first graduate of Fisk University, a historically black school, to receive a scholarship to Juilliard. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Moore became “…one of this country’s most prominent composers and arrangers of choral works, many based on or inspired by Negro spirituals and folk songs.” Composer William Grant Still.  1931 was the year William Grant Stillbecame the first Black American composer to have a symphonic work performed by a major American orchestra. The Rochester Philharmonic performed his Afro-American Symphony. Stills had another big “first” in 1949 when his opera Troubled Island – based on a libretto by Langston Hughes – was performed by the New York City Opera, becoming the first opera by a black person to be performed by a major company. William Grant Still was also the first black man to conduct a major orchestra (LA Phil) and he won 2 Guggenheim fellowships. In 1933, Caterina Jarboro became the first black woman to appear in a leading role with a major American opera when she again played the title role in Aida with the Chicago Opera.  Composer Florence Price. Also in 1933, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed Florence Price’s Symphony in E Minor. She was the first female African-American composer to have a symphonic composition performed by a major American symphony orchestra. Baritone Todd Duncan and Anne Brown. Culver Pictures/file 1935. In 1935, George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway, with baritone Todd Duncan as Porgy, and sopranos Anne Brown as Bess and Ruby Elzy as Serena. In 1945, Todd Duncan became the first African American to sing with a major American opera company, when he played the role of Tonio Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci with the New York City Opera. Contralto Marian Anderson In 1939, both the Daughters of the American Revolution and the District of Columbia’s Board of Education refused to allow contralto Marian Anderson to use Constitution Hall and Central High School auditorium for a recital respectively. So, she gave her concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial instead, drawing a crowd of 75,000 – not to mention the millions who listened on the radio. (To read more about the performance, go here.) Lyric Soprano Camilla Williams (l) with Margery Mayer. Courtesy of Fred Fehl/New York City Opera. Also in 1945, lyric soprano Camilla Williams signed a contract with the New York City Opera in 1946, becoming the first African American to do so with a major American opera company. She debuted with the role of the heroine in Madama Butterfly. And in 1947, soprano Helen Phillips was the first African American to sing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. In 1951 William Warfield and Muriel Rahn were the first black concert artists on TV – they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. Soprano and educator Dorothy Maynor. In 1953, soprano and educator Dorothy Maynor was the first black person to sing at a US presidential inauguration when she performed the national anthem for Dwight Eisenhower. Composer Margaret Bonds. Wikimedia Commons. Margaret Bonds, who frequently collaborated with Langston Hughes, was one of the first black composers and performers in the US to gain recognition. In 1965, when the Freedom March on Montgomery, Alabama took place, she wrote Montgomery Variations for orchestra, dedicating it to Martin Luther King, Jr.. For more information about Ms. Bonds, check out this piece from WBUR 90.9 FM. Conductor Henry Lewis. In 1968 Henry Lewis became the first black conductor and music director of a major American orchestra when he was appointed to the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. He was also the first African-American to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera. 1972 saw Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha finally premiere – 55 years after his death – at the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center. In 1976, Joplin posthumously received a special Pulitzer Prize for his contributions to American music. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Photo by Luigi Beverelli. Courtesy Mr. Marsalis’ website. In 1983 and 1984, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis became the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for both jazz and classical records. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1997 for Blood on the Fields, a three-hour oratorio for 3 singers and a 14-member ensemble. The oratorio follows the story of an African couple sold into slavery in the US. In 1987, conductor Paul Freeman became Founding Musical Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta. This orchestra’s mission is “Musical Excellence Through Diversity”. Dr. Freeman served for 24 years. Violinist Aaron Dworkin. Courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation website. Violinist Aaron Dworkin founded the non-profit Sphinx Organization in 1996 to cultivate the development of young black and Latino musicians in the classical music profession. The Sphinx Competition, spotlights young black and Latino string players on a national platform. Composer George Walker received the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for Lilacs for Voice and Orchestra, a work commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra as part of its tribute to tenor Roland Hayes. This was the first time a living African American won the prize for music. Mezzo-Soprano Denyce Graves. Courtesy of the artist’s website. In 2001 mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves sang “America the Beautiful” and “The Lord’s Prayer” at the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance Service at the Washington National Cathedral following the September 11 attacks. James DePriest conducting the Oregon Sympony. Courtesy of the Sympony’s website. In 2005, James DePriest, one of classical music’s most accomplished conductors who at the time of his death in 2013 was Laureate Music Director of the Oregon Symphony and Director Emeritus of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at the Juilliard School, received the National Medal of Arts. Tim Brooks won a 2007 Grammy award for Best Historical Release with his Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, which includes performances by Harry Burleigh, Roland Hayes, and Edward Boatner. Tenor Noah Stewart. Photograph: Mitch Jenkins Mitch Jenkins/PR. In 2012, tenor Noah Stewart became the first black musician to top the UK Classical Album Chart. Of course, we had to leave a GAGILLION people out of our daily Black History Month Facebook posts because (duh) there are just not enough days in the month. Like Jeffrey Mumford, Awadagin Pratt, David Baker, Imani Winds, André Watts, Chelsea Tipton, Thomas Wilkins, Morris Robinson, Lawrence Brownlee, Valerie Coleman, Rachel Jordan, and Tona Brown. And Daniel Bernard Roumain. And Black Violin. And… you get the idea!  But, blacks are still one of classical music’s most under-served communities. As of 2011, according to the League of American Orchestras, only 1.83% of our nation’s orchestras’ makeup was black. Aaron Dworkin has pointed out that African-American composers are often missing in traditional classical music station programming. But people like Dworkin and many others are working to change that!  We hope you’ve enjoyed learning about all of these awesome artists.

This morning we speak to organizers of the Global Simultaneous Libation for the Ancestors Saturday, June 14, 2014, 9 AM Pacific Time, 12 noon Eastern Time. Osei Terry R. Chandler, native NYer, arts activist, former radio host, father, and social worker, with Deborah Wright, founded the Charleston Remembrance Committee in 1998 for the purpose of honoring our ancestors who perished DURING the Middle Passage; Helen Phillips or “Salako” is the libation pourer at the Charleston Ritual. Chadra Pittman Walke, Hampton, Virginia, Mother, Anthropologist, Writer, Advocate is the Founder & Director of 4 E.V.E.R and The Sankofa Projects. Jerrie Spruce, Hampton, Virginia is also Kemetic Priestess Auset AkuRa; this is Brother Osakumi Jackson, Ayida Wedo Drummers Society, Inc., in Georgetown, South Carolina. For a listing of the 2014 ceremonies: http://maafasfbayarea.com Michael Gene Sullivan, playwright, actor, director, joins us to talk about his new work, fugitive/slave/act, a historical drama based on a true story from the turbulent days before the Civil War staged 6/7 at LHT collaboration: Tangela Large (Ruby) and Tyee Tilghman (Cecil), cast from pen/man/ship, Christina Anderson's World Premiere at The Magic Theatre in San Francisco through June 15, are next. Regina E. Mason, Oakland native, great-great-great granddaughter of pioneering autobiographer William Grimes who wrote the first fugitive slave narrative in America, Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, joins Michael Lange who portrays Mr. Grimes in The Raw Truth this Sunday, June 8.