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Ahead of her new book What's So Great About the Great Books? coming out in April, Naomi Kanakia and I talked about literature from Herodotus to Tony Tulathimutte. We touched on Chaucer, Anglo-Saxon poetry, Scott Alexander, Shakespeare, William James, Helen deWitt, Marx and Engels, Walter Scott, Les Miserables, Jhootha Sach, the Mahabharata, and more. Naomi also talked about some of her working habits and the history and future of the Great Books movement. Naomi, of course, writes Woman of Letters here on Substack.TranscriptHenry Oliver: Today, I am talking with Naomi Kanakia. Naomi is a novelist, a literary critic, and most importantly she writes a Substack called Woman of Letters, and she has a new book coming out, What's So Great About the Great Books? Naomi, welcome.Naomi Kanakia: Thanks for having me on.Oliver: How is the internet changing the way that literature gets discussed and criticized, and what is that going to mean for the future of the Great Books?Kanakia: How is the internet changing it? I can really speak to only how it has changed it for me. I started off as a writer of young adult novels and science fiction, and there's these very active online fan cultures for those two things.I was reading the Great Books all through that time. I started in 2010 through today. In the 2010s, it really felt like there was not a lot of online discussion of classic literature. Maybe that was just me and I wasn't finding it, but it didn't necessarily feel like there was that community.I think because there are so many strong, public-facing institutions that discuss classic literature, like the NYRB, London Review of Books, a lot of journals, and universities, too. But now on Substack, there are a number of blogs—yours, mine, a number of other ones—that are devoted to classic literature. All of those have these commenters, a community of commenters. I also follow bloggers who have relatively small followings who are reading Tolstoy, reading Middlemarch, reading even much more esoteric things.I know that for me, becoming involved in this online culture has given me much more of an awareness that there are many people who are reading the classics on their own. I think that was always true, but now it does feel like it's more of a community.Oliver: We are recording this the day after the Washington Post book section has been removed. You don't see some sort of relationship between the way these literary institutions are changing online and the way the Great Books are going to be conceived of in the future? Because the Great Books came out of a an old-fashioned, saving-the-institutions kind of radical approach to university education. We're now moving into a world where all those old things seem to be going.Kanakia: Yes. I agree. The Great Books began in the University of Chicago and Columbia University. If you look into the history of the movement, it really was about university education and the idea that you would have a common core and all undergraduates would read these books. The idea that the Great Books were for the ordinary person was really an afterthought, at least for Mortimer Adler and those original Great Books guys. Now, the Great Books in the university have had a resurgence that we can discuss, but I do think there's a lot more life and vitality in the kind of public-facing humanities than there has been.I talked to Irina Dumitrescu, who writes for TLS (The Times Literary Supplement), LRB (The London Review of Books), a lot of these places, and she also said the same thing—that a lot of these journals are going into podcasts, and they're noticing a huge interest in the humanities and in the classics even at the same time as big institutions are really scaling back on those things. Humanities majors are dropping, classics majors are getting cut, book coverage at major periodicals is going down. It does seem like there are signals that are conflicting. I don't really know totally what to make of it. I do think there is some relation between those two things.Ted Gioia on Substack is always talking about how culture is stagnant, basically, and one of the symptoms of that is that “back list” really outsells “front list” for books. Even in 2010, 50 percent of the books that were sold were front-list titles, books that had been released in the last 18 months. Now it's something like only 35 percent of books or something like that are front-list titles. These could be completely wrong, but there's been a trend.I think the decrease in interest in front-list books is really what drives the loss of these book-review pages because they mostly review front-list books. So, I think that does imply that there's a lot of interest in old books. That's what our stagnant culture means.Oliver: Why do you think your own blog is popular with the rationalists?Kanakia: I don't know for certain. There was a story I wrote that was a joke. There are all these pop nonfiction books that aim to prove something that seems counterintuitive, so I wrote a parody of one of those where I aim to prove that reading is bad for you. This book has many scientific studies that show the more you read, the worse it is because it makes you very rigid.Scott Alexander, who is the archrationalist, really liked that, and he added me to his blog roll. Because of that, I got a thousand rationalist subscribers. I have found that rationalists at least somewhat interested in the classics. I think they are definitely interested in enduring sources of value. I've observed a fair amount of interest.Oliver: How much of a lay reader are you really? Because you read scholarship and critics and you can just quote John Gilroy in the middle of a piece or something.Kanakia: Yeah. That is a good question. I have definitely gotten more interested in secondary literature. In my book, I really talk about being a lay reader and personally having a nonacademic approach to literature. I do think that, over 15 years of being a lay reader, I have developed a lot of knowledge.I've also learned the kind of secondary literature that is really important. I think having historical context adds a lot and is invaluable. Right now I'm rereading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. When I first read it in 2010, I hardly knew anything about French history. I was even talking online with someone about how most people who read Les Miserables think it's set in the French Revolution. That's basically because Americans don't really know anything about French history.Everything makes just a lot more sense the more you know about the time because it was written for people in it. For people in 1860s France, who knew everything about their own recent history, that really adds a lot to it. I still don't tend to go that much into interpretive literature, literature that tries to do readings of the stories or tell me the meaning of the stories. I feel like I haven't really gotten that much out of that.Oliver: How long have you been learning Anglo-Saxon?Kanakia: I went through a big Anglo-Saxon phase. That was in 2010. It started because I started reading The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. There is a great app online called General Prologue created by one of your countrymen, Terry Richardson [NB it is Terry Jones], who loved Middle English. In this app, he recites the Middle English of the General Prologue. I started listening to this app, and I thought, I just really love the rhythms and the sounds of Middle English. And it's quite easy to learn. So then, I got really into that.And then I thought, but what about Anglo-Saxon? I'm very bad at languages. I studied Latin for seven years in middle school and high school. I never really got very far, but I thought, Anglo-Saxon has to be the easiest foreign language you can learn, right? So, I got into it.I cannot sight read Anglo-Saxon, but I really got into Anglo-Saxon poetry. I really liked the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Most people probably would not like the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle because it's very repetitive, but that makes it great if you're a language learner because every entry is in this very repetitive structure. I just felt such a connection. I get in trouble when I say this kind of stuff, because I'm never quiet sure if it's 100 percent true. But it's certainly one of the oldest vernacular literatures in Europe. It's just so much older than most of the other medieval literature I've read. And it just was such a window into a different part of history I never knew about.Oliver: And you particularly like “The Dream of the Rood”?Kanakia: Yeah, “The Dream of the Rood” is my favorite Anglo-Saxon poem. “The Dream of the Rood” is a poem that is told from the point of view of Christ's cross. A man is having a dream. In this dream he encounters Christ's cross, and Christ's cross starts reciting to him basically the story of the crucifixion. At the end, the cross is buried. I don't know, it was just so haunting and powerful. Yeah, it was one of my favorites.Oliver: Why do you think Byron is a better poet than Alexander Pope?Kanakia: This is an argument I cannot get into. I think this is coming up because T. S. Eliot felt that Alexander Pope was a great poet because he really exemplified the spirit of the age. I don't know. I've tried to read Pope. It just doesn't do it for me. Whereas with Byron, I read Don Juan and found it entertaining. I enjoyed it. Then, his lyric poetry is just more entertaining to read. With Alexander Pope, I'm learning a lot about what kind of poetry people wrote in the 18th century, but the joy is not there.Oliver: Okay. Can we do a quick fire round where I say the name of a book and you just say what you think of it, whatever you think of it?Kanakia: Sure.Oliver: Okay. The Odyssey.Kanakia: The Odyssey. Oh, I love The Odyssey. It has a very strange structure, where it starts with Telemachus and then there's this flashback in the middle of it. It is much more readable than The Iliad; I'll say that.Oliver: Herodotus.Kanakia: Herodotus is wild. Going into Herodotus, I really thought it was about the Persian war, which it is, but it's mostly a general overview of everything that Herodotus knew, about anything. It's been a long time since I read it. I really appreciate the voice of Herodotus, how human it is, and the accumulation of facts. It was great.Oliver: I love the first half actually. The bit about the Persian war I'm less interested in, but the first half I think is fantastic. I particularly love the Egypt book.Kanakia: Oh yeah, the Egypt book is really good.Oliver: All those like giant beetles that are made of fire or whatever; I can't remember the details, but it's completely…Kanakia: The Greeks are also so fascinated by Egypt. They go down there like what is going on out there? Then, most of what we know about Egypt comes from this Hellenistic period, when the Greeks went to Egypt. Our Egyptian kings list comes from the Hellenistic period where some scholar decided to sort out what everybody was up to and put it all into order. That's why we have such an orderly story about Egypt. That's the story that the Greeks tried to tell themselves.Oliver: Marcus Aurelius.Kanakia: Marcus Aurelius. When I first read The Meditations, which I loved, obviously, I thought, “being the Roman emperor cannot be this hard.” It really was a black pill moment because I thought, “if the emperor of Rome is so unhappy, maybe human power really doesn't do it.”Knowing more about Marcus Aurelius, he did have quite a difficult life. He was at war for most of his—just stuck in the region in Germany for ages. He had various troubles, but yeah, it really was very stoic. It was, oh, I just have to do my duty. Very “heavy is the head that wears the crown” kind of stuff. I thought, “okay, I guess being Roman emperor is not so great.”Oliver: Omar Khayyam.Kanakia: Omar Khayyam. Okay, I've only read The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald, which I loved, but I cannot formulate a strong opinion right now.Oliver: As You Like It.Kanakia: No opinions.Oliver: Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.Kanakia: Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. I do have an opinion about this, which is that they should make a redacted version of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. I normally am not a big believer in abridgements because I feel like whatever is there is there. But, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, first of all, has a long portion before Boswell even meets Johnson. That portion drags; it's not that great. Then it has all these like letters that Johnson wrote, which also are not that great. What's really good is when Boswell just reports everything Johnson ever said, which is about half the book. You get a sense of Johnson's conversation and his personality, and that is very gripping. I've definitely thought that with a different presentation, this could still be popular. People would still read this.Oliver: The Communist Manifesto.Kanakia: The Communist Manifesto. It's very stirring. I love The Communist Manifesto. It has very haunting, powerful lines. I won't try to quote from it because I'll misquote them.Oliver: But it is remarkably well written.Kanakia: Oh yeah, it is a great work of literature.Oliver: Yeah.Kanakia: I read Capital [Das Kapital], which is not a great work of literature, and I would venture to say that it is not necessarily worth reading. It really feels like Marx's reputation is built on other political writings like The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and works like that, which really seem to have a lot more meat on the bone than Capital.Oliver: Pragmatism by William James.Kanakia: Pragmatism. I mean, I've mentioned that in my book. I love William James in general. I think William James was writing in this 19th-century environment where it seemed like some form of skepticism was the only rational solution. You couldn't have any source of value, and he really tried to cut through that with Pragmatism and was like, let's just believe the things that are good to believe. It is definitely at least useful to think, although someone else can always argue with you about what is useful to believe. But, as a personal guide for belief, I think it is still useful.Oliver: Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw.Kanakia: No strong opinions. It was a long time ago that I read Major Barbara.Oliver: Tell me what you like about James Fenimore Cooper.Kanakia: James Fenimore Cooper. Oh, this is great. I have basically a list of Great Books that I want to read, but four or five years ago, I thought, “what's in all the other books that I know the names of but that are not reputed, are not the kind of books you still read?”That was when I read Walter Scott, who I really love. And I just started reading all kinds of books that were kind of well known but have kind of fallen into literary disfavor. In almost every case, I felt like I got a lot out of these books. So, nowadays when I approach any realm of literature, I always look for those books.In 19th-century American literature, the biggest no-longer-read book is The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, which was America's first bestseller. He was the first American novelist that had a high reputation in Europe. The Last of the Mohicans is kind of a historical romance, à la Walter Scott, but much more tightly written and much more tightly plotted.Cooper has written five novels, the Leatherstocking Tales, that are all centered around this very virtuous, rough-hewn frontiersman, Natty Bumppo. He has his best friend, Chingachgook, who is the last of the Mohicans. He's the last of his tribe. And the two of these guys are basically very sad and stoic. Chingachgook is distanced from his tribe. Chingachgook has a tribe of Native Americans that he hates—I want to say it's the Huron. He's always like, “they're the bad ones,” and he's always fighting them. Then, Natty Bumppo doesn't really love settled civilization. He's not precisely at war with it, but he does not like the settlers. They're kind of stuck in the middle. They have various adventures, and I just thought it was so haunting and powerful.I've been reading a lot of other 19th-century American literature, and virtually none of it treats Native Americans with this kind of respect. There's a lot of diversity in the Native American characters; there's really an attempt to show how their society works and the various ways that leadership and chiefship works among them. There's this very haunting moment in The Last of the Mohicans, where this aged chief, Tamenund, comes out and starts speaking. This is a chief who, in American mythology, was famous for being a friend to the white people. But, James Fenimore Cooper writing in the 1820s has Tamenund come out at 80 years old and say, “we have to fight; we have to fight the white people. That's our only option.” It was just such a powerful moment and such a powerful book.I was really, really enthused. I read all of these Leatherstocking Tales. It was also a very strange experience to read these books that are generally supposed to be very turgid and boring, and then I read them and was like, “I understand. I'm so transported.” I understand exactly why readers in the 1820s loved this.Oliver: Which Walter Scott books do you like?Kanakia: I love all the Walter Scott books I've read, but the one I liked best was Kenilworth. Have you ever read Kenilworth?Oliver: I don't know that one.Kanakia: Yeah, it's about Elizabeth I, who had a romantic relationship with one of her courtiers.Oliver: The Earl of Essex?Kanakia: Yeah. She really thought they were going to get married, but then it turned out he was secretly married. Basically, I guess the implication is that he killed his wife in order to marry Queen Elizabeth I. It's a novel all about him and that situation, and it just felt very tightly plotted. I really enjoyed it.Oliver: What did you think of Rejection?Kanakia: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte? Initially when I read this book, I enjoyed it, but I was like, “life cannot possibly be this sad.” It's five or six stories about these people who just have nothing going on. Their lives are so miserable, they can't find anyone to sleep with, and they're just doomed to be alone forever. I was like, “life can't be this bad.” But now thinking back over it, it is one of the most memorable books I've read in the last year. It really sticks with you. I feel like my opinion of this book has gone up a lot in retrospect.Oliver: How antisemitic is the House of Mirth?Kanakia: That is a hotly debated question, which I mentioned in my book. I think there has been a good case made that Edith Wharton, the author of House of Mirth, who was from an old New York family, was herself fairly antisemitic and did not personally like Jewish people. What she portrays in this book is that this old New York society also was highly suspicious of Jewish people and was organized to keep Jewish people out.In this book there is a rich Jewish man, Simon Rosedale, and there's a poor woman, Lily Bart. Lily Bart's main thing is whether she's going to marry the poor guy, Lawrence Selden, or the rich guy, Percy Gryce. She can't choose. She doesn't want to be poor, but she also is always bored by the rich guys. Meanwhile, through the whole book, there's Simon Rosedale, who's always like, “you should marry me.” He's the rich Jewish guy. He's like, “you should marry me. I will give you lots of money. You can do whatever you want.”Everybody else kind of just sees her as a woman and as a wife; he really sees her as an ally in his social climbing. That's his main motivation. The book is relatively clear that he has a kind of respect for her that nobody else does. Then, over the course of the book, she also gains a lot more respect for him. Basically, late in the book, she decides to marry him, but she has fallen a lot in the world. He's like, “that particular deal is not available anymore,” but he does offer her another deal that—although she finds it not to her taste—is still pretty good.He basically is like, “I'll give you some money, you'll figure out how to rehabilitate your reputation, and later down the line, we can figure something out.” So, I think with a great author like Edith Wharton, there's power in these portrayals. I felt it hard to come away from it feeling like the book is like a really antisemitic book.Oliver: Now, you note that the Great Books movement started out as something quite socially aspirational. Do you think it's still like that?Kanakia: I do think so. Yeah. For me, that's 100 percent what it was because I majored in econ. I always felt kind of inadequate as a writer against people who had majored in English. Then I started off as a science fiction writer, young adult writer, and I was like, “I'm going to read all these Great Books and then I'll have read the books that everybody else has read.” In my mind, that's also what it was—that there was some upper crust or literary society that was reading all these Great Books.That's really what did it. I do think there's still an element of aspiration to it because it's a club that you can join, that anyone can join. It's very straightforward to be a Great Books reader, and so I think there's still something there. I think because the Great Books movement has such a democratic quality to it, it actually doesn't get you to the top socially, which has always been the true, always been the case. But, that's okay. As long as you end up higher than where you started, that's fine.Oliver: What makes a book great?Kanakia: I talk about it this in the book, and I go through many different authors' conceptions of what makes a book great or what constitutes a classic. I don't know that anyone has come up with a really satisfying answer. The Horatian formulation from Horace—that a book is great or an author is great if it has lasted for a hundred years—is the one that seems to be the most accurate. Like, any book that's still being read a hundred years after it was written has a greatness.I do think that T. S. Eliott's formulation—that a civilization at its height produces certain literature and that literature partakes of the greatness of the civilization and summarizes the greatness of the civilization—does seem to have some kind of truth to it.But it's hard, right? Because the greatest French novel is In Search of Lost Time, but I don't know that anyone would say that the France in the 1920s was at its height. It's not a prescriptive thing, but it does seem like the way we read many of these Great Books, like Moby Dick, it feels like you're like communing with the entire society that produced it. So, maybe there's something there.Oliver: Now, you've used a list from Clifton Fadiman.Kanakia: Yes.Oliver: Rather than from Mortimer Adler or Harold Bloom or several others. Why this list?Kanakia: Well, the best reason is that it's actually the list I've just been using for the last 15 years. I went to a science fiction convention in 2009, Readercon, and at this science fiction convention was Michael Dirda, who was a Washington Post book critic. He had recently come out with his book, Classics for Pleasure, which I also bought and liked. But he said that the list he had always used was this Clifton Fadiman book. And so when I decided to start reading the Great Books, I went and got that book. I have perused many other lists over time, but that was always the list that seemed best to me.It seemed to have like the best mix. There's considerable variation amongst these lists, but there's also a lot of overlap. So any of these lists is going to have Dickens on it, and Tolstoy, and stuff like that. So really, you're just thinking about, “aside from Dickens and Tolstoy and George Eliot and Walt Whitman and all these people, who are the other 50 authors that you're going be reading?”The Mortimer Adler list is very heavy on philosophy. It has Plotinus on it. It has all these scientific works. I don't know, it didn't speak to me as much. Whereas, this Clifton Fadiman and John Major list has all these Eastern works on it. It has The Tale of Genji, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Story of the Stone, and that just spoke to me a little bit more.Oliver: What modern books will be on a future Great Books list, whether it's from someone alive or someone since the war.Kanakia: Have you ever heard of Robert Caro?Oliver: Sure.Kanakia: Yeah. I think his Lyndon Johnson books are great books. They have changed the field of biography. They're so complete, they seem to summarize an entire era, epoch. They're highly rated, but I feel like they're underrated as literature.What else? I was actually a little bit surprised in this Clifton Fadiman-John Major book, which came out in 1999, that there are not more African Americans in their list. Like, Invisible Man definitely seemed like a huge missed work. You know, it's hard. You would definitely want a book that has undergone enough critical evaluation that people are pretty certain that it is great. A lot of things that are more recent have not undergone that evaluation yet, but Invisible Man has, as have some works by Martin Luther King.Oliver: What about The Autobiography of Malcolm X?Kanakia: I would have to reread. I feel like it hasn't been evaluated much as a literary document.Oliver: Helen DeWitt?Kanakia: It's hard to say. It's so idiosyncratic, The Last Samurai, but it is certainly one of the best novels of the last 25 years.Oliver: Yeah.Kanakia: It is hard to say, because there's nothing else quite like it. But I would love if The Last Samurai was on a list like this; that would be amazing.Oliver: If someone wants to try the Great Books, but they think that those sort of classic 19th-century novels are too difficult—because they're long and the sentences are weird or whatever—what else should they do? Where else should they start?Kanakia: Well, it depends on what they're into, or it depends on their personality type. I think like there are people who like very, very difficult literature. There are people who are very into James Joyce and Proust. I think for some people the cost-benefit is better. If they're going to be pouring over some book for a long time, they would prefer if it was overtly difficult.If they're not like that, then I would say, there are many Great Books that are more accessible. Hemingway is a good one and Grapes of Wrath is wonderful. The 19th-century American books tend to be written in a very different register than the English books. If you read Moby Dick, it feels like it's written in a completely different language than Charles Dickens, even though they're writing essentially at the same time.Oliver: Is there too much Freud on the list that you've used?Kanakia: Maybe. I know that Interpretation of Dreams is on that list, which I've tried to read and have decided life is too short. I didn't really buy it, but I have read a fair amount of Freud. My impression of Freud was always that I would read Freud and somehow it would just seem completely fanciful or far out, like wouldn't ring true. But then when I started reading Freud, it was more the opposite. I was like, oh yeah, this seems very, very true.Like this battle between like the id and the ego and the super ego, and this feeling that like the psyche is at war with itself. Human beings really desire to be singular and exceptional, but then you're constantly under assault by the reality principle, which is that you're insignificant. That all seemed completely true. But then he tries to cure this somehow, which does not seem a curable problem. And he also situates the problem in some early sexual development, which also did not necessarily ring true. But no, I wouldn't say there's too much. Freud is a lot of fun. People should read Freud.Oliver: Which of the Great Books have you really not liked?Kanakia: I do get asked this quite a bit. I would say the Great Book that I really felt like—at least in translation—was not that rewarding in an unabridged version was Don Quixote. Because at least half the length of Don Quixote is these like interpolated novellas that are really long and tedious. I felt Don Quixote was a big slog. But maybe someday I'll go back and reread it and love it. Who knows?Oliver: Now you wrote that the question of biography is totally divorced from the question of what art is and how it operates. What do you think of George Orwell's supposition that if Shakespeare came back tomorrow, and we found out he used to rape children that we should—we would not say, you know, it's fine to carry on to doing that because he might write another King Lear.Kanakia: Well, if we discovered that Shakespeare was raping children, he should go to prison for that. No. It's totally divorced in both senses. You don't get any credit in the court of law because you are the writer of King Lear. If I murdered someone and then I was hauled in front of a judge and they were like, oh, Naomi's a genius, I wouldn't get off for murder. Nor should I get off for murder.So in terms of like whether we would punish Shakespeare for his crime of raping children, I don't think King Lear should count at all, but it's never used that way. It's never should someone go to prison or not for their crimes, because they're a genius. It's always used the other way, which is should we read King Lear knowing that the author raped children, but I also feel like that is immaterial. If you read King Lear, you're not enabling someone to rape children.Oliver: There's an almost endless amount of discussion these days about the Great Books and education and the value of the humanities, and what's the future of it all. What is your short opinion on that?Kanakia: My short opinion is that the Great Books at least are going to be fine. The Great Books will continue to be read, and they would even survive the university. All these books predate the university and they will survive the university. I feel like the university has stewarded literature in its own way for a while now and has made certain choices in that stewardship. I think if that stewardship was given up to more voluntary associations that had less financial support, then I think the choices would probably be very different. But I still think the greatest works would survive.Oliver: Now this is a quote from the book: “I am glad that reactionaries love the Great Books. They've invited a Trojan horse into their own camp.” Tell us what you mean by that.Kanakia: Let's say you believed in Christian theocracy, that you thought America should be organized on explicitly Christian principles. And because you believe in Christian theocracy, you organize a school that teaches the Great Books. Many of these schools that are Christian schools that have Great Books programs will also teach Nietzsche. They definitely put some kind of spin on Nietzsche. But they will teach anti-Christ, and that is a counterpoint to Christian morality and Christian theology. There are many things that you'll read in the Great Books that are corrosive to various kinds of certainties.If someone who I think is bad starts educating themselves in the Great Books, I don't think that the Great Books are going to make them worse from my perspective. So it's good.Oliver: How did reading the Mahabharata change you?Kanakia: Oh yeah, so the Mahabharata is a Hindu epic from, let's say, the first century AD. I'm Indian and most Indians are familiar with the basic outline of the Mahabharata story because it's told in various retellings, and there's a TV serial that my parents would rent from the Indian store growing up and we would watch it tape by tape. So I'm very familiar with it. Like there's never been a time I have not known this story.But I was also familiar with the idea that there is a written version in Sanskrit that's extremely long. It is 10 times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined. This Mahabharata story is not that long. I've read a version of it that's about 800 pages long. So how could something that's 10 times this long be the same? A new unabridged translation came out 10 years ago. So I started reading it, and it basically contains the entire Sanskrit Vedic worldview in it.I had never been exposed to this very coherently laid-out version of what I would call Hindu cosmology and ethics. Hindus don't really get taught those things in a very organized way. The book is basically about dharma, the principle of rightness and how this principle of rightness orders the universe and how it basically results in everybody getting their just deserts in various ways. As I was reading the book, I was like, this seems very true that there is some cosmic rebalancing here, and that everything does turn out more or less the way it should, which is not something that I can defend on a rational level.But just reading the book, it just made me feel like, yes, that is true. There is justice, the universe is organized by justice. It took me about a year to read the whole thing. I started waking up at 5:00 a.m. and reading for an hour each morning, and it just was a really magical, profound experience that brought me a lot closer to my grandmother's religious beliefs.Oliver: Is it ever possible to persuade someone with arguments that they should read literature, or is it just something that they have to have an inclination toward and then follow someone's example? Because I feel like we have so many columns and op-eds and “books are good because of X reason, and it's very important because of Y reason.” And like, who cares? No one cares. If you are persuaded, you take all that very seriously and you argue about what exactly are the precise reasons we should say. And if you're not persuaded, you don't even know this is happening.And what really persuades you is like, oh, Naomi sounds pretty compelling about the Mahabharata. That sounds cool. I'll try that. It's much more of a temperamental, feelingsy kind of thing. Is it possible to argue people into thinking about this differently? Or should we just be doing what we do and setting an example and hoping that people will follow.Kanakia: As to whether it's possible or not, I do not know. But I do think these columns are too ambitious. A thousand-word column and the imagined audience for this column is somebody who doesn't read books at all, who doesn't care about literature at all. And then in a thousand-word column, you're going to persuade them to care about literature. This is no good. It's so unnecessary.Whereas there's a much broader range of people who love to read books, but have never picked up Moby Dick or have never picked up Middlemarch, or who like maybe loved Middlemarch, but never thought maybe I should then go on and read Jane Austen and George Eliot.I think trying to shift people from “I don't read books at all; reading books is not something I do,” to being a Great Books card-carrying lover of literature is a lot. I really aim for a much lower result than that, which is to whatever extent people are interested in literature, they should pursue that interest. And as the rationalists would say, there's a lot of alpha in that; there's a lot to be gained from converting people who are somewhat interested into people who are very interested.Oliver: If there was a more widespread practice of humanism in education and the general culture, would that make America into a more liberal country in any way?Kanakia: What do you mean by humanism?Oliver: You know, the old-fashioned liberal arts approach, the revival of the literary journal culture, the sort of depolitical approach to literature, the way things used to be, as it were.Kanakia: It couldn't hurt. It couldn't hurt is my answer to that question.Oliver: Okay.Kanakia: What you're describing is basically the way I was educated. I went to Catholic school in DC at St. Anselm's Abbey School, in Northeast, DC, grade school. Highly recommend sending your little boys there. No complaints about the school. They talked about humanism all the time and all these civic virtues. I thought it was great. I don't know what people in other schools learn, but I really feel like it was a superior way of teaching.Now, you know, it was Catholic school, so a lot of people who graduated from my school are conservatives and don't really have the beliefs that I have, but that's okay.Oliver: Tell us about your reading habits.Kanakia: I read mostly ebooks. I really love ebooks because you can make the type bigger. I just read all the time. They vary. I don't wake up at 5:00 a.m. to read anymore. Sometimes if I feel like I'm not reading enough—because I write this blog, and the blog doesn't get written unless I'm reading. That's the engine, and so sometimes I set aside a day each week to read. But generally, the reading mostly takes care of itself.What I tend to get is very into a particular thing, and then I'll start reading more and more in that area. Recently, I was reading a lot of New Yorker stories. So I started reading more and more of these storywriters that have been published in the New Yorker and old anthologies of New Yorker stories. And then eventually I am done. I'm tired. It's time to move on.Oliver: But do you read several books at once? Do you make notes? Do you abandon books? How many hours a day do you read?Kanakia: Hours a day: Because my e-reader keeps these stats, I'd say 15 or 20 hours a week of reading. Nowadays because I write for the blog, I often think as I'm reading how I would frame a post about this. So I look for quotes, like what quote I would look at. I take different kinds of notes. I'll make more notes if I'm more confused by what is going on. Especially with nonfiction books, I'll try sometimes to make notes just to iron out what exactly I think is happening or what I think the argument is. But no, not much of a note taker.Oliver: What will you read next?Kanakia: What will I read next? Well, I've been thinking about getting back into Indian literature. Right now I'm reading Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. But there's an Indian novel called Jhootha Sach, which is a partition novel that is originally in Hindi. And it's also a thousand pages long, and is frequently compared to Les Miserables and War and Peace. So I'm thinking about tackling that finally.Oliver: Naomi Kanakia, thank you very much.Kanakia: Thanks for having me. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.commonreader.co.uk

Join me as we look at Ernest Hemingway's novella "The Old Man and The Sea" and read it through the lens of martial arts training. There are several directly practical lessons we can get from this classic work of literature.Take the training offline with a small book I put together pairing basic physical exercises with short quotes and meditations. You can find the book here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.lulu.com/shop/matthew-krueger/pocket-training-volume-1/paperback/product-e7pqmyv.html

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was one of the most famous American writers of the twentieth century. His plain, economical prose style--inspired by journalism and the King James Bible, with an assist from the Cezannes he viewed in Gertrude Stein's apartment--became a hallmark of modernism and changed the course of American literature. In this episode, Jacke and Mike take a look at an author and novel, The Sun Also Rises (1927), they've been reading and discussing for decades. Want more Hemingway? We took a new look at an old argument in Episode 47 Hemingway vs Fitzgerald. Love everything about the Lost Generation? Spend some time with the coiner of the phrase in Episode 127 Gertrude Stein. Rather be tramping through Europe? Try Episode 157 Travel Books (with Mike Palindrome). [The bulk of this episode was originally released on October 3, 2018. It has been unavailable for several years.] Join Jacke on a trip through literary England! Join Jacke and fellow literature fans on an eight-day journey through literary England in partnership with ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠John Shors Travel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ in May 2026! Scheduled stops include The Charles Dickens Museum, Dr. Johnson's house, Jane Austen's Bath, Tolkien's Oxford, Shakespeare's Globe Theater, and more. Learn more by emailing ⁠⁠jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠masahiko@johnshorstravel.com⁠⁠, or by contacting us through our website ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠historyofliterature.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Act now - sign-up closes March 1! The music in this episode is by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gabrielruizbernal.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Help support the show at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/literature⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠historyofliterature.com/donate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our second episode devoted to the centenary of The Sun Also Rises, we turn our focus to the beloved Count Mippipopolous. He's an epicurean and an entrepreneur; he's battle-tested, arrow-wounded, champagne-enjoying, no-dancing, business-tripping, generous-tipping... and he's always in love. We discuss his role in the novel, his relationship with Brett and Jake, Hemingway's original plan for him in the manuscript, and how he emerges as such a resonant figure.Make sure to listen for a snippet of Leonard Nimoy as the Count in the polarizing 1984 mini-series, where he says things that he doesn't say in the novel. As always, we enjoy the legendary actor William Hurt reading a pivotal scene involving the Count, courtesy of our friends at Simon & Schuster Audio.If you're quite one of us, you will love this exploration of Hemingway's great novel and this indelible, magnificently alive secondary character.Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, read by William Hurt. Copyright © 1926 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 

Send a textPart 2 is here! with Jim Hemmingway, Head of Rentals at NZG Ski — and if you caught Part 1, you'll know Jim brings a huge amount of knowledge and experience from the snow sports industry. ❄️In this episode, we dive straight into why understanding equipment is so important. The right gear plays a massive role in how people learn, progress, and ultimately enjoy their time on the mountain. Jim breaks down what equipment works best for beginners, how ski systems have evolved over the years, and what really makes a difference when fitting out guests for success.We also go behind the scenes of rental operations, what it actually takes to service thousands of skis and snowboards in a short window of time, and how that impacts the overall guest experience.Thanks for your patience while we've been busy. We're excited to be back recording and bringing you more episodes like this. Enjoy!This episode is sponsored by snowboardteacher.com. Use the link below for 15% off the self study program.https://www.snowboardteacher.com/?affcode=374473_ar81c2syWe had also partnered up with BASI. The British Association of Snowsport Instructors (BASI) is a UK based membership association responsible for the training and licensing of snowsport instructors and coaches. If you have had a Ski/ Snowboard lesson in the UK, chances are you were taught by a BASI qualified instructor. If you teach snowsports or are interested in teaching then visit the BASI website for courses at https://www.basi.org.uk/ .Enjoy the episode, leave some feedback and contact us at snowboardinstructorpodcast@gmail.com or pop us a message on Facebook or Instagram.If you like what we do Support us @ https://buymeacoffee.com/snowboardinstructorpodWatch and RideWatch and ride is a online snowboard school that allows you to take you snowboarding to new heights.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the showSupport the show

La forma passiva è uno degli argomenti più insidiosi della grammatica italiana, e quasi tutti gli studenti commettono gli stessi errori. In questo articolo scoprirai i 5 errori più comuni con la forma passiva e imparerai come evitarli una volta per tutte. 5 Errori con il Passivo in Italiano Errore N°1: Usare l'Ausiliare AVERE Partiamo dalle basi. Questo è l'errore più grave e, purtroppo, anche molto frequente tra gli studenti di italiano. Alcuni studenti costruiscono frasi come: "La pizza ha mangiata da Marco." Questo è completamente sbagliato. In italiano, l'unico ausiliare per formare il passivo è ESSERE. Sempre. Senza eccezioni. "La pizza è mangiata da Marco." Come Trasformare una Frase Attiva in Passiva Per comprendere meglio il meccanismo della trasformazione, analizziamo un esempio chiaro e dettagliato. Frase Attiva Marco mangia la pizza. Marco = soggetto (chi compie l'azione) mangia = verbo la pizza = complemento oggetto (chi riceve l'azione) Frase Passiva La pizza è mangiata da Marco. La pizza = nuovo soggetto è mangiata = verbo al passivo (essere + participio passato) da Marco = agente (chi compie l'azione) Come vedi, nella trasformazione avvengono tre cambiamenti fondamentali: Il complemento oggetto diventa soggetto Il verbo diventa essere + participio passato Il soggetto originale diventa "agente" e si introduce con la preposizione DA Verbi Transitivi e Intransitivi: Una Distinzione Fondamentale Non tutti i verbi possono avere una forma passiva. Solo i verbi transitivi (cioè quelli che possono avere un complemento oggetto) possono essere trasformati al passivo. "Il libro è letto da Maria." (leggere = transitivo, posso leggere qualcosa) "Il parco è andato da Maria." (andare = intransitivo, non posso "andare qualcosa") Un trucco semplice per riconoscere i verbi transitivi: se nella frase attiva puoi rispondere alla domanda "Che cosa?" dopo il verbo, allora il verbo è transitivo e puoi fare il passivo. Marco mangia... che cosa? → La pizza. Transitivo! Maria va... che cosa? → ??? Intransitivo! Errore N°2: Usare la Preposizione Sbagliata per l'Agente Questo errore è strettamente collegato al primo e riguarda proprio quella parolina che introduce l'agente nella frase passiva. Molti studenti commettono errori come: "La pizza è mangiata per Marco." "La pizza è mangiata di Marco." Ma la preposizione corretta è una sola: DA! "La pizza è mangiata da Marco." Perché Questo Errore È Così Comune? L'origine di questo errore spesso dipende dalla lingua madre dello studente: Chi parla spagnolo spesso usa "per" perché in spagnolo si dice "por" (La pizza es comida por Marco). Chi parla inglese a volte usa "di" perché in inglese si dice "by", che in altri contesti si traduce con "di" (a book by Hemingway = un libro di Hemingway). Ma ricorda: in italiano, per l'agente del passivo, si usa sempre DA. Esempi Corretti con la Preposizione DA Questo quadro è stato dipinto da Caravaggio. La lettera sarà scritta da me. I biscotti sono stati preparati da mia nonna. L'America fu scoperta da Cristoforo Colombo. La Divina Commedia è stata scritta da Dante Alighieri. Errore N°3: Confondere il Passivo Presente con il Passato Questo errore è molto subdolo e dipende da come funziona il passato prossimo in italiano. Guarda questa frase: "La pizza è mangiata." Molti studenti pensano: "Vedo due parole: 'è' + 'mangiata'. Due parole = passato prossimo!" SBAGLIATO! Questa frase è al presente passivo, non al passato! Il segreto è questo: nel passivo, il tempo è determinato SOLO dall'ausiliare ESSERE. Tabella dei Tempi Verbali al Passivo Tempo VerbaleForma PassivaNumero di ParolePresenteLa pizza è mangiata2 parolePassato prossimoLa pizza è stata mangiata3 paroleImperfettoLa pizza era mangiata2 paroleTrapassato prossimoLa pizza era stata mangiata3 parolePassato remotoLa pizza fu mangiata2 paroleTrapassato remotoLa pizza fu stata mangiata3 paroleFuturo sempliceLa pizza sarà mangiata2 paroleFuturo anterioreLa pizza sarà stata mangiata3 parole Come vedi, per il passato prossimo passivo servono tre parole: essere (al presente) + stato/a/i/e + participio passato. La Differenza È Fondamentale La pizza è mangiata = Presente (qualcuno la sta mangiando ora, in generale) La pizza è stata mangiata = Passato prossimo (qualcuno l'ha già mangiata) È una differenza enorme! Confonderle può creare grandi malintesi nella comunicazione. Immagina di essere in un ristorante e dire "La pizza è mangiata" (presente) invece di "La pizza è stata mangiata" (passato): il cameriere potrebbe pensare che qualcuno stia ancora mangiando la pizza, invece di capire che è già finita. Errore N°4: Sostituire Sempre ESSERE con VENIRE Forse hai sentito dire che in italiano si può usare anche il verbo VENIRE per formare il passivo. Ed è vero! La pizza viene mangiata da Marco. Questa frase è perfettamente corretta e significa la stessa cosa di "La pizza è mangiata da Marco." Ma attenzione: c'è una regola importante! La Regola Fondamentale di VENIRE VENIRE si può usare SOLO con i tempi semplici. I tempi semplici sono: presente, imperfetto, passato remoto, futuro semplice, congiuntivo presente, congiuntivo imperfetto, condizionale presente. La pizza viene mangiata. (presente) La pizza veniva mangiata. (imperfetto) La pizza verrà mangiata. (futuro) Ma con i tempi composti? No, non si può! La pizza è venuta mangiata. → SBAGLIATO! La pizza è stata mangiata. → CORRETTO! Tabella Comparativa: ESSERE vs VENIRE TempoCon ESSERECon VENIREPresenteè mangiataviene mangiataImperfettoera mangiataveniva mangiataPassato remotofu mangiatavenne mangiataFuturo semplicesarà mangiataverrà mangiataPassato prossimoè stata mangiataè venuta mangiataTrapassato prossimoera stata mangiataera venuta mangiataFuturo anterioresarà stata mangiatasarà venuta mangiata Perché Esiste l'Alternativa con VENIRE? Spesso si usa "venire" per dare un senso più dinamico all'azione, per sottolineare che qualcosa sta accadendo in quel momento. Inoltre, "venire" può aiutare a evitare ambiguità: la frase "La porta è chiusa" potrebbe significare sia "La porta viene chiusa (da qualcuno)" sia "La porta è in stato di chiusura". Usando "La porta viene chiusa" si elimina l'ambiguità e si indica chiaramente un'azione in corso. Errore N°5: Non Riconoscere le Strutture Passive "Nascoste" Ed eccoci all'ultimo errore, forse il più insidioso di tutti. Esistono alcune strutture che sono passive... ma non sembrano passive! Molti studenti non le riconoscono e quindi non le capiscono. Vediamone tre molto comuni. 1) ANDARE + Participio Passato "Questo lavoro va fatto entro domani." Che cosa significa? Significa che questo lavoro deve essere fatto entro domani. È un obbligo, una necessità. La struttura andare + participio passato ha un significato passivo con valore di dovere/necessità. Altri Esempi con ANDARE + Participio Le regole vanno rispettate. = Le regole devono essere rispettate. Questo documento va firmato. = Questo documento deve essere firmato. I compiti vanno consegnati venerdì. = I compiti devono essere consegnati venerdì. La carne va cotta bene. = La carne deve essere cotta bene. Questi medicinali vanno presi a stomaco pieno. = Questi medicinali devono essere presi a stomaco pieno. Attenzione: anche "andare" segue la regola del punto 4! Si usa solo nei tempi semplici. Il lavoro va fatto. (presente) Il lavoro andava fatto. (imperfetto) Il lavoro è andato fatto. → Sbagliato! 2) Participio Passato da Solo (Participio Assoluto) "Fatte queste premesse, possiamo continuare." Questa struttura si chiama participio assoluto e ha valore passivo. Significa: "Dopo che queste premesse sono state fatte..." Il participio, posto all'inizio della frase, indica un'azione già compiuta che precede l'azione principale. Altri Esempi di Participio Assoluto Letto il libro, ho capito tutto. = Dopo che il libro è stato letto (da me)... Finiti i compiti, sono uscito. = Dopo che i compiti sono stati finiti... Considerati tutti i fattori, la decisione è stata difficile. = Dopo che tutti i fattori sono stati considerati... Superato l'esame, ho festeggiato. = Dopo che l'esame è stato superato... Aperta la porta, entrò nella stanza. = Dopo che la porta fu aperta... Questa struttura è molto usata nella lingua scritta e formale, ma si sente anche nel parlato. Se non la riconosci, rischi di non capire il significato della frase. 3) Il "SI" Passivante "In Italia si mangia molta pasta." Questa frase non significa che qualcuno mangia se stesso (quello sarebbe riflessivo!). Significa: "In Italia molta pasta è mangiata" / "In Italia la gente mangia molta pasta." È il famoso SI passivante: si usa quando non vogliamo o non possiamo specificare chi compie l'azione. Come Riconoscere il SI Passivante Il verbo concorda con il sostantivo che segue: Si mangia molta pasta (pasta = singolare → verbo singolare) Si mangiano molti spaghetti (spaghetti = plurale → verbo plurale) Si legge un libro / Si leggono molti libri Si parla l'italiano / Si parlano molte lingue Esempi Comuni del SI Passivante Il si passivante è estremamente comune in italiano. Lo sentirai e leggerai ovunque: Qui si parla italiano. (= L'italiano è parlato qui) Non si accettano carte di credito. (= Le carte di credito non sono accettate) Come si dice "hello" in italiano? (= Come è detto "hello" in italiano?) In questo negozio si vendono prodotti biologici. (= Prodotti biologici sono venduti) Affittasi appartamento. (= Un appartamento viene affittato - forma molto comune negli annunci) Se non riconosci questa struttura,

Guendalina Middei@professor X"Non rinnegare il cuore"Storie di scrittori senza tempo e di sogni che non si spengonoFeltrinelli Editorewww.feltrinellieditore.itGuendalina Middei torna a farci innamorare della letteratura, stavolta accompagnandoci nei segreti degli autori più amati di sempre. Dickinson, Hemingway, Calvino,ma anche Van Gogh, Bulgakov, Darwish e Deledda, sono i protagonisti di sette originalissimi racconti con cui Middei ci accompagna alla scoperta delle loro vite. Non semplici biografie, ma viaggi alla ricerca dell'anima di donne e uomini che con le loro esistenze, alle volte sofferte, gioiose, tristi, avventurose, ma sempre profondamente appassionate, hanno sfidato la società e cambiato la storia. E continuano a cambiarla tuttora.Chi meglio di Grazia Deledda, nata in un'epoca in cui nascere femmina era una disgrazia, può parlarci del coraggio e della tenacia dell'essere donna? Qual era il segreto di Emily Dickinson? Come fece Bulgakov a resistere alla censura spietata e al controllo oppressivo dal regime sovietico? Quante volte, poi, come Van Gogh, ci siamo sentiti schiacciati dalla timidezza, e vorremmo trovare come fece lui la forza per dire ciò che agita il nostro cuore?«Non rinnegare il cuore» non è soltanto un libro sui classici e i loro autori, ma è un invito a ritrovare la carica attraverso le storie di coloro che scelsero di non omologarsi e di sovvertire le regole. E riuscirono a trasformare il fallimento in coraggio, la sconfitta in forza, e il disprezzo del mondo in bellezza. Perché non per subire, ma per brillare, siamo nati. E per fare rumore.Possiamo ritrovare la voglia di rincorrere i nostri sogni seguendo le orme di Hemingway? Imparare ad andare contro corrente grazie a Emily Dickinson? E riscoprire il desiderio di volare liberi in un mondo di uomini-macchina?Guendalina Middei, alias Professor X, è nata a Roma nel 1992. Fin da adolescente coltiva la sua grande passione per la letteratura e la cultura classica. Dopo aver conseguito la laurea in Lettere e un master in Giornalismo culturale, si è dedicata all'insegnamento nei licei e alla scrittura. Ha collaborato con diverse riviste letterarie e oggi firma una rubrica per l'“Indipendente”. Nel 2021 ha esordito nella narrativa con il romanzo storico Clodio, seguito nel 2023 da Intervista con un matto, editi da Navarra Editore.Con Feltrinelli ha pubblicato i saggi divulgativi Innamorarsi di Anna Karenina il sabato sera (2024), Sopravvivere al lunedì mattina con Lolita (2025) e Non rinnegare il cuore. Storie di scrittori senza tempo e di sogni che non si spengono (2026).Nei suoi incontri a teatro avvicina giovani e adulti al mondo meraviglioso e inesauribile dei classici. Nel 2019 ha aperto la pagina Facebook Professor X e nel 2022 il profilo Instagram, divenuti punti di riferimento per oltre mezzo milione di lettori appassionati o incuriositi dalla letteratura.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

INTERVIEW: Hemi Hemingway on new album 'Wings of Desire' by Zac Hoffman on Radio One 91FM Dunedin

realconversations #singer #songwriter #Nashville #novelist#detective #Missouri #paramedic #chiropractor CONVERSATIONS WITH CALVIN — WE THE SPECIESHosted by Calvin SchwartzMeet HOWARD LEVINSON; “I'm a novelist, journalist, whichmeans I write. And I'm familiar with imagination and fuel. And occasionally, Ithink about making things up. Which brings me to my guest today. HowardLevinson. I could drift on my pet cumulus cloud, and I'd be hard-pressed toconjure up Howard's journey. He lives on a farm in central Missouri. Drivesthree miles on a gravel road from the main road to get to his farmhouse. I toldhim that I look out my back window and see most of my eight million Jerseyneighbors. Howard and I are relative contemporaries. Great bonding. Now hearthis. He's been a paramedic and in law enforcement for 22 years (a cop, withroles in organized crime and terrorism), disaster response (been to Puerto Ricoafter Maria, and New Orleans after Katrina), a chiropractic physician, novelist(3 uniquely different genres), and an accomplished singer-songwriter who toldme Nashville is magical. Howard Levinson is a gift. Eloquent. Passionate.Spiritual. Introspective. A family man. Grandfather. Filled with endless energyto tell stories, whether as a novelist or songwriter. And in the middle of theinterview, he said that he'd like to spend a day with Hemingway. In my writer'sgroup, we talked about Hemingway yesterday. Synchronicity abounds. Howardabounds.” Calvin

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In this episode, Dr. Thomas Hemingway goes deep on the Biology of Love and Connection and how you can Renew that Spark in your relationship and also Deepen the connection through Science!He will take you on a fascinating journey from the desire and chemistry of attraction to the deep connection of an enduring committed relationship and the science behind it and how you can augment and deepen your relationship in simple actionable steps.He will also share of an amazing opportunity to go deeper in this area with the Relationship Upgrade program which is a 3-part series available here FREE:Enjoy this powerful podcast and Share with a friend or partner:)Join my Free Masterclass on Midlife Hormones, "Why You Don't Feel like Yourself anymore and What to Do about it!"*ACCESS my FREE workshop, "GET 10 Years Younger, Stronger, and Sharper"  How to turn back your biological age 10-20 years so you can do the things you want to do that you no longer thought possible due to your age.  Perform at your best and live your best life!*And, in my new Performance, and Longevity medical practice we specialize in turning back your biological age and OPTIMIZING HORMONES so you can feel a decade or more younger so you can do the things you want to do that you thought were no longer possible due to your age.  Join the waitlist here!*SHARE with a Friend and please drop a Review:)*Don't wait to Prioritize your health, Start Today with the Simple and Powerful Steps detailed in my Best-selling book.*GET DIRECT ACCESS to DR. HEMINGWAY in these AMAZING COURSES!**Free resource: 'The truth about GLP-1s and their alternatives' - https://drthomashemingway.myflodesk.com/n1yyjkcb68Mahalo and Aloha andTo your health,

We are thrilled to welcome Susan Shillinglaw, the preeminent John Steinbeck scholar, to discuss one of Hemingway's contemporaries and fellow Nobel laureates. Although Hemingway and Steinbeck are not discussed comparatively as frequently as some of his other fellow literary titans, Prof. Shillinglaw talks about Steinbeck's life, career, and temperament in ways that will inspire us to remap the overlaps between these two men. We explore Steinbeck's fondness for “The Butterfly and the Tank,” Hemingway and Steinbeck's different paths during the 1930s, the way The Red Pony's Jody Tiflin functions as a Nick Adams-like character, and much more. Make sure to tune in to the very end of the episode! In honor of Steinbeck, our friend Michael Kim Roos treats us to a version of Woody Guthrie's “Tom Joad.” For more information about Mike's music, see: https://mikeroos.com. 

** VIDEO EN NUESTRO CANAL DE YOUTUBE **** https://youtube.com/live/K4YCqlpsLbE +++++ Hazte con nuestras camisetas en https://www.bhmshop.app +++++ #historia #HistoriaEspaña ¿Cómo se amaba, se deseaba y se sobrevivía al miedo durante la Guerra Civil Española? En este programa exploramos el otro frente de batalla: el del cuerpo, la intimidad, el deseo y la necesidad humana de afecto en medio del horror. Con un enfoque riguroso y a la vez cercano, Fernando Ballano, autor del libro "Amor y Sexo en la Guerra Civil " https://amzn.to/46G3Zeh nos guía por un terreno poco explorado de nuestra historia: - Relaciones sentimentales entre combatientes y civiles - Infidelidades, chantajes sexuales y el fenómeno de las "madrinas de guerra" - La prostitución como escape y negocio durante el conflicto - La moral sexual en ambos bandos: represión, libertad y dobles raseros - La figura de la mujer como objeto de deseo, símbolo político y sujeto activo - La homosexualidad en tiempos de fusiles y purgas - Y las pasiones privadas de personajes como La Pasionaria, Hemingway, Alberti, Negrín, Millán Astray o Queipo de Llano Como escribió Arturo Barea: «Cuando se espera la muerte, la vida se convierte en simple y clara. Se revisan los valores tradicionales y se desechan…» Un programa diferente, sorprendente, íntimo y revelador sobre el alma humana en guerra. #GuerraCivilEspañola #FernandoBallano #HistoriaÍntima #SexoEnLaGuerra #AmorEnTiemposDeGuerra #Prostitución #MadrinasDeGuerra #HistoriaDeEspaña #HistoriaSocial #Bellumartis #PasionesEnLaGuerra #LiteraturaDeGuerra #HistoriaContemporánea #VidaEnLaRetaguardia**

In this episode of Your Career GPS, host Brad Minton speaks with career coach Nicolette Hemingway about the importance of building confidence in young professionals. They discuss strategies for understanding personal skills, overcoming perfectionism, and navigating the comparison game. Nicolette emphasizes the significance of networking, mentorship, and maintaining a positive mindset to achieve career growth. The conversation also highlights the value of seeking feedback and the necessity of patience in career development.Guest Info: Nicholette Hemingway is a native of Myrtle Beach, SC and resides in the Metro Area of Warner Robins, GA. She is the Owner and Operator of Nike H Speaks LLC, which provides career coaching services, interview preparation training, résumé writing training, document, and letter writing, along with reviewing and writing résumés. Nicholette has spoken on several in-person and virtual stages, talking about interviewing with Confidence; The ABCs of Interviewing; Celebrate the Small Wins; and Depression and Women of Faith. Nicholette connects with her audiences by being relatable and transparent, because she's been in their places. Nicholette believes that everyone has a story that only they can tell, so that is why it is important to let your voice be heard. Nicholette is an Amazon #1 Best Seller and has self-published 3 books, and they can all be found on Amazon. Nicholette has a passion for putting pen to paper, and God has graced her with the ability to write books that are captivating, inspiring, and informative to readers. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Biology and a Master's Degree in Public Health Administration from the University of South Carolina. Nicholette has 1 beautiful daughter and 1 adorable grandson.Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/nhemingway Website: http://www.nikehspeaks.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholetteh/ 

En nuestro episodio octogésimo sexto, el de los pescadores con gripe en Amalfi, Fernando nos cuenta no una ni dos, sino cuatro desnoticias, entre ellas una sobre Dragones y Mazmorras en que los libros salvan al juego y otra sobre un barquito que se creyó la Atlántida de Hemingway.Nos contamos Una noche en Amalfi, de Begoña Huertas, una novela corta y trepidante en un entorno de ensueño en la que todo sale regulinchi y que no nos ha terminado de convencer.Comentamos el cuento de Shirley Jackson "La noche en que todos tuvimos gripe", muy divertido e intrigante, pero no conseguimos encontrar la manta azul. Alfredo tampoco.Y tenemos nueva sección, Pescado en la red, que abrimos con Fernando del Soto y que si quieres saber en qué consiste tendrás que escucharnos o puede que un día te pesquemos a ti.Nuestra próxima lectura será "No hemos venido a divertirnos" de Nina Lykke y, como nos gusta mentirnos y desmentirnos, el cuento a leer este mes no será el que decimos en el episodio, sino Fruto de la inercia, de Andrés Ortiz Tafur.Recuerda comprar libros en librerías de barrio o de tu pueblo. Escúchanos, compártenos y ¡Cierra el libro al salir!

In this episode, Dr. Thomas Hemingway explains the new U.S. Dietary Guidelines that were just released in January 2026 and what they mean to you.He will simplify the guidelines and explain the Protein-Forward approach and also dispel the common Protein Myths that have been out there for decades and share what the lates data shows and how you can Optimize your Nutrition and your Life so you can not only add Years to your life but Life to your Years.  Aloha and please share with a friend!Join my Free Masterclass on Midlife Hormones, "Why You Don't Feel like Yourself anymore and What to Do about it!"*ACCESS my FREE workshop, "GET 10 Years Younger, Stronger, and Sharper"  How to turn back your biological age 10-20 years so you can do the things you want to do that you no longer thought possible due to your age.  Perform at your best and live your best life!*And, in my new Performance, and Longevity medical practice we specialize in turning back your biological age and OPTIMIZING HORMONES so you can feel a decade or more younger so you can do the things you want to do that you thought were no longer possible due to your age.  Join the waitlist here!*SHARE with a Friend and please drop a Review:)*Don't wait to Prioritize your health, Start Today with the Simple and Powerful Steps detailed in my Best-selling book.*GET DIRECT ACCESS to DR. HEMINGWAY in these AMAZING COURSES!**Free resource: 'The truth about GLP-1s and their alternatives' - https://drthomashemingway.myflodesk.com/n1yyjkcb68Mahalo and Aloha andTo your health,

Throughout the course of this year, we will celebrate the centenary of The Sun Also Rises by inviting guests on the show to talk about fascinating aspects of the book and its rich history. In this episode, we explore how the book was actually written—from a sloppy first draft to a modernist masterpiece. What will tracing this composition history tells us about the evolution of The Sun Also Rises and Hemingway's own development as a writer?To help us explore this topic, Carl Eby joins us once again! Eby is the former President of the Hemingway Society and has focused much of his research on Hemingway's posthumous work. He has joined us previously for episodes on Islands in the Stream and The Garden of Eden, and he also inaugurated our One True Sentence series with One True Sentence #1, a discussion of Hemingway's "Paris 1922" sketches.Thanks to the support of Simon & Schuster, this episode also includes an audio portion from William Hurt's narration of The Sun Also Rises. Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, read by William Hurt. Copyright © 1926 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Today on the radio show. 1 - Smoko. Tyson Fury is back. 5 - Coin of Destiny update. 8 - Great advice for terrible people. 11 - Hemingway is a boss. 14 - Must listen. Tony Robbins. https://shorturl.at/1mc3W 19 - This might be a dumb question, but… 23 - More vitamin chat. 26 - Conspiracy theory. 30 - What body parts have you kept? 34 - Detached body parts you’ve kept. 38 - Dunc got Jay a housewarming gift. 42 - Late mail. 46 - Last drinks. https://shorturl.at/sRNd6

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comIt's been a rough few weeks, especially in the city of Minneapolis, which saw two citizens engaged in protest gunned down in the streets. Nancy and Sarah talk about how much has gone wrong, including statements from federal officials that directly contradict video evidence, a hiring spree at ICE that seems to have left many without training, and creeping paranoia in Minnesota and beyond. As Trump begins to course-correct, following pushback from his own side, we wonder if Minneapolis could be a turning point for an administration that has gone too far.Also discussed:* How's the snow?* 2020 protests versus 2026 protests* Nancy's daughter forbids her from going to Minneapolis * “The city is a giant eyeball”* Bye-bye, Greg Bovino* Is Kristi Noem on her way out?* Sarah tells Nancy about watching Alex Honnold climb Taipei 101; Nancy spazzes out* Layoffs coming to WaPo, which, frankly, Nancy could be a little nicer about* Nancy and Sarah's favorite Instagram-er reacts to Alex Honnold* Amanda Seyfried and her “moon-maiden eyes”* Holland, England, whatever* Lewis Pullman, flirty birdiePlus, the time Nancy shimmied up an elevator shaft, the time Sarah thought she might fall into an abyss while rock climbing, Nancy mixes up Hemingway titles, and much more!REMINDER: Monthly Zoom hang is this Sunday! 8pm ET/5pm PT. Link sent day-of.Nothing scary about becoming a paid subscriber.

How do you write a future that feels real? We sit down with environmental scientist and war correspondent Paul E Hardisty to discuss the conclusion of his “The Forcing” trilogy and why literacy is our last defense against a new feudalism.The Road to Writing: From 5-Year-Old Typist to Front-Line Witness.Paul E Hardisty didn't take the traditional path to becoming a critically acclaimed novelist. Though he began typing stories at age five, he hit a wall at eighteen. Inspired by Hemingway's advice to “Write what you know,” Paul realized he didn't know anything yet.He spent the next 30 years gaining that knowledge as an environmental scientist and journalist, reporting from dangerous regions like Yemen, Ethiopia, and most recently, the battlefields of Ukraine.“I want to write fiction that comes as close to truth—conveying essential truth—as possible. I think that is the purpose of literature.” — Paul E Hardisty.Confronting “The Hope”: A Vision of 2082.The interview centers on the release of The Hope, the explosive conclusion to a trilogy that started with The Forcing and The Descent.Set in a windswept, contracted world where the global population has plummeted below a billion, The Hope introduces us to Boo, a 16-year-old with a photographic memory living in a society where books are illegal and literacy has vanished.BUY IT HERE.Writing Advice: The Iceberg Principle.For the writers in our community, Paul shares his “anti-course” philosophy. Having never taken a creative writing class, he advocates for:* Finding your own path: “Be yourself, because everyone else is already taken.”* The Iceberg Principle: Focus on immediacy—sights, smells, and tactile feelings—rather than being didactic.* Biting on the Nail: Inspired by Hemingway, Paul's Substack name refers to the discipline of getting up and doing the hard work of writing, no matter what happened the night before.Key Themes from the Episode:* The Science of Fiction: Paul explains how he used robust IPCC climate projections to build a plausible 2082, focusing on “refugia”—pockets of the planet that remain habitable.* The New Feudalism: A chilling warning about how plummeting literacy rates and the rise of the smartphone era could mirror the dark ages, making society easier to dominate.* Authenticity in Action: Paul discusses his three trips to Ukraine (with a fourth planned) and how bearing witness to trauma and stoicism informs the emotional core of his work.

Warum war Ernest Hemingway, der Inbegriff männlicher Härte und Abenteuerlust, innerlich so zerrissen? Was trieb ihn an? Was versuchte er zeitlebens zu vermeiden? Und warum erinnert sein Leben so sehr an das vieler Männer, die stark wirken – und doch ständig auf der Flucht sind? Sie erfahren etwas über: • die psychologischen Wurzeln von Hemingways Selbstinszenierung • seine Kindheit als „Ernestine“ – und die Urwunde, die blieb • Männlichkeit als Überlebensstrategie • Frauen, Krieg, Schreiben – alles als Fluchtversuche • neun psychische Abwehrmechanismen, die sein Leben bestimmten • und was Sie selbst daraus mitnehmen können, wenn Sie sich manchmal ähnlich fühlen

Nearing the end of January, I'm only beginning to feel the sinew of this new year. Here in the United States, we're reckoning with what seems like a sudden surge of authoritarianism—though, as Hemingway reminds us in The Sun Also Rises, collapse happens “two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” The hubris we've unleashed from within now sends shockwaves through the world, unmooring the institutions we've depended on and unsettling the nervous system of our species.Staying human amidst the swirl has become a practice unto itself. We must maintain the pleasantries of our daily lives, yoke ourselves to the people and practices that organize and buoy the mind, and make actionable the indignance of our deeper values—all while sifting through the muck and shimmer of the collective unconscious.Of those in privileged circumstances, many are divesting themselves of accountability or arming up for an uncertain future. Even a question like “How's it going?” can land strangely if it feels insulated from the existential tremors of the moment.Winter, of course, is the barest season. It's a time when thin, long-shadowed light clarifies sight and stillness disciplines attention, when branches shiver as the wind exposes the decorative notions of warmer seasons.A few weeks ago, I sat down with two friends, David Keplinger and Lindsay Whalen, whose companionship is like wool wrapped around the cold turnings of life. Our purpose was to interview Lindsay about the poet Mary Oliver—the subject of her forthcoming biography from Penguin Press—and to trace the threads of synchronicity and coherence among us.I imagine that rendering anyone's soul requires discipline and sustained concentration. But Mary's life, as her poetry reflects, was singular, cloistered, and prolific, demanding of her biographer an uncommon devotion. In our conversation, Lindsay explained that she misses Mary less than she might another deceased friend, given that she remains in constant contact with her. Yet there's one quality of Mary's presence she said she misses: “When she looked at you, she really looked at you. It was a sustained gaze.” David, whose friendship with Mary spanned decades, smiled in agreement: “In her life, as in her work, she looked longer instead of looking away.”The word concentration derives from the Latin concentrātiō, meaning “the action or act of coming together at a single place.” It breaks down to con- (“together, with”) + centrum (“center”)—literally “bringing to a common center.” Originally, it described physical gathering, such as converging on a single point, and later evolved to refer to mental focus.In the prose collection Winter Hours, Mary distinguishes faith—“tensile, and cool, and [having] no need of words”—from hope, which she portrays more vigorously as “a fighter and a screamer.” And in her poem “The Clam,” we see how even a lowly, languageless creature is granted “a muscle that loves being alive.”Winter, too, does this work, sucking vital force inward to the quick. Every living thing must concentrate to survive. Trees shunt sap to heartwood and root; slow-breathing bears dream of thaw; squirrels make their caloric calculations. Even seeds, dark-bound beneath frozen ground, aspire toward germination.Hope, in this sense, is muscular. It is the fight to make the world a place we can live in. Not mere optimism, but the tender refusal to shut down in the face of suffering. It is the muscle that strengthens our will, linking imagination to endurance and promise to conviction.I have attempted several commentaries on this deranged geopolitical moment, wishing to say to friends around the world that we have a long history of abusive power dynamics to reckon with in the U.S.—which is no excuse. But we also have citizens like Renée Good, whose last words were “I'm not mad at you.”So, don't give up on us.Even winter seems uncertain now, bringing tepid temperatures and pallid light where once it cut clean. So we train our gaze on what's alive and here. We look closer, we grope for strength, for the sinews of our common sense—those cords that connect fibrous muscle to bare bone. A blackbird's caw splits a sodden field. Hope does not flinch; it fastens.Together, we are making sense of being human in an era of radical change. Your presence here matters. Thank you for reading, sharing, ‘heart'ing, commenting, and subscribing to The Guest House. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shawnparell.substack.com/subscribe

Few speakers at DLD this year were more sombre than The Economist's deputy executive editor Kenneth Cukier. “Civilizations aren't killed,” Cukier says, “they commit suicide.” It's now "three minutes to midnight" in Europe, he warns, and what he called the priceless "vase" of the liberal order is about to shatter. Borrowing from Hemingway's description of personal bankruptcy, Cukier argues that civilizational suicide comes "slowly, then suddenly". So can anything avert this collapse? Cukier isn't particularly optimistic, but nor is he hopeless. The vase hasn't shattered yet. The hope, he suggests, is with new peaceful technologies that can help reinvent democracy. But if the European clock really is teetering at three minutes to midnight, it's hard to be persuaded by Kenneth Cukier's abstract promises of ethical technology.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, Dr. Thomas Hemingway shares how to optimize your metabolism to Increase your Energy and Thrive and not just simply survive.  He will share 5 powerful steps to get your metabolism on fire with the energy you desire.Have a Listen and Share with a Friend and Bonus points if you Drop a Review.  I'll read it and share it.  Aloha!**JOIN DR. HEMINGWAY LIVE in-person at ALIGN AWAKEN!  Event in  Sunny San Diego, Jan 22-25, 2026!Join my Free Masterclass on Midlife Hormones, "Why You Don't Feel like Yourself anymore and What to Do about it!"*ACCESS my FREE workshop, "GET 10 Years Younger, Stronger, and Sharper"  How to turn back your biological age 10-20 years so you can do the things you want to do that you no longer thought possible due to your age.  Perform at your best and live your best life!*And, in my new Performance, and Longevity medical practice we specialize in turning back your biological age and OPTIMIZING HORMONES so you can feel a decade or more younger so you can do the things you want to do that you thought were no longer possible due to your age.  Join the waitlist here!*SHARE with a Friend and please drop a Review:)*Don't wait to Prioritize your health, Start Today with the Simple and Powerful Steps detailed in my Best-selling book.*GET DIRECT ACCESS to DR. HEMINGWAY in these AMAZING COURSES!**Free resource: 'The truth about GLP-1s and their alternatives' - https://drthomashemingway.myflodesk.com/n1yyjkcb68Mahalo and Aloha andTo your health,

Unione europea e Mercosur, sempre più vicini  Meloni non ama le conferenze stampa La Befana usata come insulto: una storia di sessismo e cattiva politica  La Cortina di Hemingway

Host Evie Stokes talks to KEXP Music Director Chris Sanley about Hemi Hemingway’s new song "Oh, My Albertine" from the upcoming album Wings of Desire, out on Feb. 20 via PNKSLM Recordings. Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler Mastered by: William Myers Production support: Serafima Healy Associate Director of Editorial: Dusty Henry Listen to the full songs on KEXP's "In Our Headphones" playlist on Spotify or the “What's In Our Headphones” playlist on YouTube. Support the podcast: kexp.org/headphones Contact us at headphones@kexp.org.Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adam Morgan discusses his new biography, A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2025).  Morgan's book is the first biography solely devoted to Margaret C. Anderson, the founder of the avant-garde literary and arts magazine The Little Review, which she began publishing in Chicago in 1914. The influential Little Review showcased many famous writers of its time, including T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Hart Crane, Sherwood Anderson and Hemingway. But it would become most celebrated—and notorious—for being the first publisher of James Joyce's towering modernist novel Ulysses. After putting out nearly two thirds of the novel in serial installments from 1918 through 1920, Margaret Anderson and her romantic partner and co-editor Jane Heap were charged and found guilty of obscenity under the Comstock Act for distributing Joyce's sexually frank passages through the mail. They were deemed "a danger to the minds of young girls."   A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls tells a very compelling story of an iconoclastic woman who was determined to make a space for difficult and challenging art and whose efforts changed forever what could be addressed in literature and what could be considered beautiful.  Adam Morgan is himself the founder of the indispensable Chicago Review of Books, and a great promoter of the literature of our city. We are especially thrilled to be having this conversation now, as we just began a six-month discussion group on Ulysses at our library. Listen to hear why Ulysses wouldn't exist without Chicago and how understanding Anderson's life helps reveal the true stakes, triumphs, and world-changing "dangers" of James Joyce's masterpiece.  Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic who lives near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His writing has appeared in Esquire, WIRED, Scientific American, Inverse, The Paris Review, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He writes a newsletter about forthcoming books called The Frontlist. He is the founding editor of the Chicago Review of Books, the Southern Review of Books, and the Chicago Literary Archive.  You can check out A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls in our Podcast Collection, featuring books and other materials by past guests of the show. Find out more about Adam Morgan at his website.  We hope you enjoy our 70th interview episode! ​​Each month (or so), we release an episode featuring a conversation with an author, artist, or other notable guests from Chicagoland or around the world. Learn more about the podcast on our podcast page. You can listen to all of our episodes in the player below or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you listen to podcasts. We welcome your comments and feedback—please send to podcast@deerfieldlibrary.org.  

In this episode of Coffee With Cole, Cole breaks down one of the biggest myths in writing: that great writers are “born” instead of built. After publishing fiction, non-fiction, and thousands of thought-leadership pieces, he explains why strong writing comes from simple, repeatable techniques—not talent.Cole walks through a set of small, practical sentence-level habits that dramatically improve clarity, persuasion, and impact. From choosing stronger last words to defining terms before using contractions, this episode is a tactical deep dive into how tiny edits can change how your writing feels, flows, and converts.If you've ever felt like your ideas are good but your sentences fall flat, this one gives you tools you can apply immediately.(00:00) Intro & My Writing Credentials(00:26) Tip 1: Strong Sentence Endings(01:11) Tip 2: Using Contractions Wisely(02:23) Tip 3: Write Economically(03:30) Free Masterclass Plug(04:08) Tip 4 & 5: Avoid & Vary Repetition(05:16) Tip 6 & 7: Word Choice & Comma Rule(06:43) Tip 8: Hemingway's Adverb Rule & Wrap Up~✍️ Want to start writing online? Download this free Ultimate Guide to get started: [https://yt.startwritingonline.com](https://yt.startwritingonline.com/)

Mike Tomlin resigned this week after nearly 20 years with the Steelers. We're talking about his coaching legacy, what went wrong, and what's next for his career and the franchise. Plus, host Megan Harris and producer Sophia Lo are chatting about the PA Farm Show's butter sculpture, super flu, "The Pitt" at the Golden Globes, a new weekend newspaper, space news, and a very strange case of stolen human remains. Know what happened with the James Street remodel? Call us on our JAMES STREET HOTLINE at 412-212-8893. Notes and references from today's show: PHOTOS: 35th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture [WPXI] Who will be the Steelers' next head coach? Possible candidates to replace Mike Tomlin [The Athletic] What to know about the "super flu" in Western Pa. [Axios Pittsburgh] Kindergarten vaccination rates at many Pittsburgh-area schools are below herd immunity [WESA] Park House Is Once Again Packing ‘Em in on the North Side [Pittsburgh Magazine] A Farewell to Hem's: Hemingway's Cafe in Oakland is Closing After 43 Years [Pittsburgh Magazine] ‘The Pitt' Wins Two Golden Globes [Pittsburgh Magazine] Trib expands to fill Pittsburgh's newspaper void [TribLive] More than 40 news sources remain in Pittsburgh's fragmented media landscape [Public Source] ‘Which bone goes with which person?': Costly investigation follows Pa. cemetery thefts [PennLive] Astrobotic secures $17.5M from NASA to test and expand reusable rockets [Technical.ly] PODCAST: Meteor Showers, Moon Launches & Pgh Among the Stars [City Cast Pittsburgh] Learn more about the sponsors of this January 16th episode: AIDS Free Pittsburgh PA Preferred P3R Special Olympics Become a member of City Cast Pittsburgh at membership.citycast.fm. Want more Pittsburgh news? Sign up for our daily morning newsletter. We're also on Instagram @CityCastPgh! Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here. 

One True Podcast is back with a look at another Hemingway short story, an under-discussed gem from Winner Take Nothing. One of the weirdest works in his career, “Homage to Switzerland” is a Modernist experiment that tells a similar story three times, each one set in a different Swiss train station. To walk us through this bizarre tale, we call on excellent Hemingway scholar and actual citizen of Switzerland, Boris Vejdovksy, professor at the University of Lausanne. Vejdovksy explains the story's structure, its setting, its Modernist qualities, the way the iceberg principle functions in the story, and even its “Swiss-ness.”Join us as we explore this fascinating triptych!

Today we are rehashing Younger Season 4, Episode 1: "Post Truth." Join us as we discuss Kelsey's response to hearing Liza's truth, and romantic night at a Hemingway archival event, the resurgence of the Labradoodle book drama with Emily, and so much more!

Milly catches up with Hemi Hemingway to chat about his latest single This City's Tryna Break My Heart, forthcoming album Wings Of Desire, and the latest exciting announcement: an album release party at Neck of The Woods on February 27!

The new year doesn't require urgency: it requires alignment.In today's episode, I'm joined by Brooke Hemingway, founder of ALIGN Events and mother of six, for a deeply grounding conversation about starting the year with intention instead of pressure. She is one of the most inspirational mamas I know!We explore how giving yourself space in January, slowing down, and choosing the right environments can completely change the trajectory of your year... personally, spiritually, and professionally.This conversation is especially meaningful to me because ALIGN was one of the first rooms that helped shape my own journey. Attending this event years ago planted seeds that eventually transformed my confidence, my career, and my calling.Now, I'm incredibly honored to return to ALIGN as a teacher, leading two fitness experiences at this year's event.In this episode, we talk about:• Why rushing January can disconnect us from what really matters • How to build strong foundations for the year ahead • The power of community and intentional environments • Faith, motherhood, leadership, and alignment • Why ALIGN is more than an event — it's a catalyst✨ ALIGN Event | January 22–25

Andy and Diane catch up on the LA takeover of HudCon as HEATED RIVALRY fever continues, we discuss THE PITT season 2 opener, and the MAGA lunacy that is MEMBERS ONLY: PALM BEACH. Then, Diane chats with ANTHONY HEMINGWAY, most recently EP/Director on ALL'S FAIR and he talks about how he cultivated his incredible career & who helped him along the way.

Dr. Thomas Hemingway reviews the latest research on Creatine and Summarizes it so You can make the best informed decision on this well-studied supplement.  Can it improve your Muscular Strength, Fitness and lean muscle mass and even improve your Brain Health?  Have a Listen and Find out!This is All you Need to Know about Creatine.Have a Listen and SHARE with a friend!**JOIN DR. HEMINGWAY LIVE in-person at ALIGN AWAKEN!  Event in  Sunny San Diego, Jan 22-25, 2026!Join my Free Masterclass on Midlife Hormones, "Why You Don't Feel like Yourself anymore and What to Do about it!"*ACCESS my FREE workshop, "GET 10 Years Younger, Stronger, and Sharper"  How to turn back your biological age 10-20 years so you can do the things you want to do that you no longer thought possible due to your age.  Perform at your best and live your best life!*And, in my new Performance, and Longevity medical practice we specialize in turning back your biological age and OPTIMIZING HORMONES so you can feel a decade or more younger so you can do the things you want to do that you thought were no longer possible due to your age.  Join the waitlist here!*SHARE with a Friend and please drop a Review:)*Don't wait to Prioritize your health, Start Today with the Simple and Powerful Steps detailed in my Best-selling book.*GET DIRECT ACCESS to DR. HEMINGWAY in these AMAZING COURSES!**Free resource: 'The truth about GLP-1s and their alternatives' - https://drthomashemingway.myflodesk.com/n1yyjkcb68Mahalo and Aloha andTo your health,

On this episode of the Two Dolts Podcast, we dive into the wild world of Casey Kasem's infamous outtakes and Bill O'Reilly's legendary meltdowns. We also explore Hemingway's tragic end and the complex, sometimes romanticized idea of choosing to go out on your own terms. Raw, real, and unfiltered—just how you like it.#TwoDoltsPodcast #CaseyKasem #BillOReilly #Hemingway #MentalHealth #PodcastLife #UnfilteredTalk #RealConversations #DarkHumor #Storytelling #PodcastCommunity

Dr. Thomas Hemingway reviews the 10 most Powerful Health Tips of 2025 so you can Immediately incorporate them into your life and make 2026 your Best Year Ever!Have a Listen and SHARE with a friend!**JOIN DR. HEMINGWAY LIVE in-person at ALIGN AWAKEN!  Event in  Sunny San Diego, Jan 22-25, 2026!Join my Free Masterclass on Midlife Hormones, "Why You Don't Feel like Yourself anymore and What to Do about it!"*ACCESS my FREE workshop, "GET 10 Years Younger, Stronger, and Sharper"  How to turn back your biological age 10-20 years so you can do the things you want to do that you no longer thought possible due to your age.  Perform at your best and live your best life!*And, in my new Performance, and Longevity medical practice we specialize in turning back your biological age and OPTIMIZING HORMONES so you can feel a decade or more younger so you can do the things you want to do that you thought were no longer possible due to your age.  Join the waitlist here!*SHARE with a Friend and please drop a Review:)*Don't wait to Prioritize your health, Start Today with the Simple and Powerful Steps detailed in my Best-selling book.*GET DIRECT ACCESS to DR. HEMINGWAY in these AMAZING COURSES!**Free resource: 'The truth about GLP-1s and their alternatives' - https://drthomashemingway.myflodesk.com/n1yyjkcb68Mahalo and Aloha andTo your health,

Happy New Year from One True Podcast! We look forward to a rich, exciting 2026 by looking back to 1926.In our first show of the year, we ask an esteemed guest to take us back exactly one hundred years to see what was happening in Hemingway's life, work, and world. So, to guide us through Hemingway's 1926 -- his travels, his relationships, his publishing, and his writing – we welcome the great Hemingway scholar Ross K. Tangedal. For Hemingway, 1926 was a colossally important year that saw his transition from Hadley to his second wife, Pauline; the transition from Boni & Liveright to Scribner's; and the publication of The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises, both crucially important for different reasons. Tangedal guides us through this remarkable year in Hemingway's life and his writing. We have previously begun calendar years with flashback episodes featuring: Mary Dearborn on 1922; James M. Hutchisson on 1923; Verna Kale on 1924; and J. Gerald Kennedy on 1925. We encourage you to check out those past shows to get up to date!

Han levde som han skrev: hårt och ständigt graviterande mot spänning och fara. Men ur hans penna föddes också ett odödligt författarskap. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Redaktionen för det här avsnittet är:Elina Perdahl – programledare, manus och producentEmilia Mellberg – producent Zardasht Rad – scenuppläsareViktor Bergdahl – ljuddesign och slutmixMedverkar gör också Nils Erik Forsgård idéhistoriker och författare till boken Hemingway – en betraktelse.Vill du veta mer om Ernest Hemingway? Här är några av böckerna som ligger till grund för avsnittet:Ernest Hemingway av Mary V. DearbornErnest Hemingway: A Life Story av Carlos BakerHemingway – ett författarliv av Kenneth LynnHemingway, en Betraktelse av Nils Erik Forsgård

In this episode of the Agents of Innovation podcast, Francisco Gonzalez joins Ryan Doyle aboard Amigo, a 1937 classic wooden Wheeler and sister ship to Ernest Hemingway's famed Pilar, at the Riviera Beach Marina near West Palm Beach. Ryan shares his journey from a horse farm in Connecticut to the U.S. Coast Guard, maritime academy, and eventually a career in yachting that led him to founding Doyle Marine Management, the Vintage Boat Club, and the new Admiralty Marine Center. He explains what makes classic wooden boats so special, why he sees himself as a steward of maritime history, and how yacht management quietly turns owners' dreams into reality. Ryan also lays out his vision for a marine trade school to train the next generation of shipwrights and wooden boat carpenters, an in-demand trade that AI won't replace anytime soon. Throughout the conversation, themes of integrity, persistence, and the American Dream run strong, as Ryan and Francisco talk about finding a niche where passion meets market need and encourage listeners to “keep moving forward” in their own journeys. Learn more about him at: https://www.doylemm.com Find him on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/doylemarinem/ You can also watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/B1mepirP0tE Follow the Agents of Innovation podcast on: Instagram: / https://www.instagram.com/innovationradio X: / https://x.com/agentinnovation Facebook: / https://www.facebook.com/AgentsOfInnovationPodcast You can support this podcast and our Fearless Journeys community on our Patreon account: www.patreon.com/fearlessjourneys You can also join our network -- and our group trips -- through the Fearless Journeys community at: https://www.fearlessjourneys.org and subscribe to our free newsletter at: https://fearlessjourneys.substack.com 00:00 – Intro and Riviera Beach marina setting 01:52 – Fearless Journeys community and DR cigar trip 02:55 – Don Doroteo connection and discovering Amigo 03:25 – Amigo as sister ship to Hemingway's Pilar 04:29 – History of Amigo and Wheeler Shipyard 06:09 – Classic wooden boats vs modern “plastic” boats 08:23 – If Amigo could talk: an 88-year-old boat's story 09:19 – Ryan's upbringing, Coast Guard, and maritime academy 12:06 – Mystic wooden boat show and early inspirations 13:10 – Mentor's lesson that “the dream is attainable” 15:07 – First classic yacht job in the Hamptons 16:31 – Why preserving maritime craftsmanship matters 17:31 – Finding Amigo in St. Thomas and earning owners' trust 19:04 – Vintage Boat Club mission and experiences on the water 21:42 – Inside Doyle Marine Management and choosing the right clients 22:48 – What yacht management really involves behind the scenes 27:52 – Launching Admiralty Marine Center in Riviera Beach 29:21 – Lease-to-own vision and what the yard represents 31:29 – South Florida boating culture and business opportunities 32:38 – Labor shortage and dream of a marine trade school 37:02 – How a marine trade school could change young lives 38:02 – Juggling multiple marine businesses that complement each other 39:32 – Lessons for entrepreneurs: integrity and persistence 41:01 – Balancing obsession, family, and legacy 41:58 – Why “Admiralty Marine” and aiming for top-tier service 43:55 – Future of classic boating and a shrinking niche 47:47 – Boat boom in Florida and storage challenges 49:20 – Future plans for Vintage Boat Club and Doyle Marine 50:38 – What the American Dream means to Ryan 52:55 – Advice to young people: play to your strengths 54:47 – How to connect with Ryan on Instagram 55:31 – Final takeaway: keep moving forward 58:44 – Immigrant billionaire client and the percolator story 59:18 – Closing thanks and wrap-up

Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.The Naked and the Dead was acclaimed not so much for its intrinsic qualities but rather because it launched a brutally realistic sub-genre of military fiction - Catch 22 and MASH would not exist without it.  In Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer (Bloomsbury, 2023), Richard Bradford combs through Mailer's personal letters - to lovers and editors - which appear to be a rehearsal for his career as a shifty literary narcissist, and which shape the characters of one of the most widely celebrated World War II novels. Bradford strikes again with a merciless biography in which diary entries, journal extracts and newspaper columns set the tone of this study of a controversial figure. From friendships with contemporaries such as James Baldwin, failed correspondences with Hemingway and the Kennedys, to terrible - but justified - criticism of his work by William Faulkner and Eleanor Roosevelt, this book gives a unique, snappy and convincing perspective of Mailer's ferocious personality and writings. Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics (Twitter @15MinFilm). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.The Naked and the Dead was acclaimed not so much for its intrinsic qualities but rather because it launched a brutally realistic sub-genre of military fiction - Catch 22 and MASH would not exist without it.  In Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer (Bloomsbury, 2023), Richard Bradford combs through Mailer's personal letters - to lovers and editors - which appear to be a rehearsal for his career as a shifty literary narcissist, and which shape the characters of one of the most widely celebrated World War II novels. Bradford strikes again with a merciless biography in which diary entries, journal extracts and newspaper columns set the tone of this study of a controversial figure. From friendships with contemporaries such as James Baldwin, failed correspondences with Hemingway and the Kennedys, to terrible - but justified - criticism of his work by William Faulkner and Eleanor Roosevelt, this book gives a unique, snappy and convincing perspective of Mailer's ferocious personality and writings. Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics (Twitter @15MinFilm). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, firstly in 1969 for The Armies of the Night and again in 1980 for The Executioner's Song, Norman Mailer's life comes as close as is possible to being the Great American Novel: beyond reason, inexplicable, wonderfully grotesque and addictive.The Naked and the Dead was acclaimed not so much for its intrinsic qualities but rather because it launched a brutally realistic sub-genre of military fiction - Catch 22 and MASH would not exist without it.  In Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer (Bloomsbury, 2023), Richard Bradford combs through Mailer's personal letters - to lovers and editors - which appear to be a rehearsal for his career as a shifty literary narcissist, and which shape the characters of one of the most widely celebrated World War II novels. Bradford strikes again with a merciless biography in which diary entries, journal extracts and newspaper columns set the tone of this study of a controversial figure. From friendships with contemporaries such as James Baldwin, failed correspondences with Hemingway and the Kennedys, to terrible - but justified - criticism of his work by William Faulkner and Eleanor Roosevelt, this book gives a unique, snappy and convincing perspective of Mailer's ferocious personality and writings. Daniel Moran earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in History from Drew University. The author of Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers, he teaches research and writing at Rutgers and co-hosts the podcast Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics (Twitter @15MinFilm). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

The NFL Playoff Picture is coming into full view but teams really muddy-ed the waters with the results of week 16 across the NFL. The Jacksonville Jaguars dropped their statement win of the season on the Denver Broncos and now about 5 different teams can win the AFC's #1 seed. Trevor Lawrence and Co showed they are a legit Super Bowl contending team. The New England Patriots rallied behind Drake Maye and knocked off the Baltimore Ravens to stay a game ahead of the Bills in the AFC East. The Pittsburgh Steelers held on to win a whacky game in Detroit, earning our Hemingway moniker but today DK Metcalf found out that he will be suspended for the final two games of the 2025 NFL season. The Chargers, Texans and Bills all won over teams already eliminated so they could keep pace in the playoff race. And in the NFC, the Eagles took care of the Commanders on Saturday afternoon to feel better about their chances in the playoffs. The Bears had a miraculous comeback against the Packers to further solidify their claim to the NFC North throne. And the fellas breakdown the wild NFC South, a division that both teams, the Panthers and Buccaneers, both seemingly don't want to win. (00:00:00) - NFL Week 16 Reactions: Dawg of the Day (00:07:50) - Best Flight (00:14:30) - Jacksonville Jaguars at Denver Broncos (00:38:30) - Worst Flight (00:43:00) - Chicago Bears vs Green Bay Packers (00:57:45) - Philadelphia Eagles vs Washington Commanders (01:08:45) - Carolina Panthers vs Tampa Bay Buccaneers (01:26:35) - New England Patriots vs Baltimore Ravens (01:36:00) - Pittsburgh Steelers vs Detroit Lions (02:04:00) - LA Chargers vs Dallas Cowboys (02:11:30) - Buffalo Bills vs Cleveland Browns (02:19:55) - Houston Texans vs Las Vegas Raiders (02:24:00) - Bermuda Triangle Games: New York Jets at New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons at Arizona Cardinals, Kansas City Chiefs at Tennessee Titans, Minnesota Vikings at New York Giants and Cincinnati Bengals at Miami Dolphins (02:45:30) - Locals Landline Presented By Zone (02:50:40) - BetMGM Moments (03:29:45) - MNF Preview: San Francisco 49ers at Indianapolis Colts Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open. Green Light Hotline: ‪(202) 991-0723‬ Also, check out our paddling partners at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Appomattox River Company ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠to get your canoes, kayaks and paddleboards so you're set to hit the river this summer. Green Light's ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, where you can catch all the latest GL action: If you want some Black Friday merch, check out our sale:https://greenlightpodcast.shop/?fbclid=PAZnRzaAOR1RFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAad3Jup6i1N2qH77pK8eUeSbKt2Y0OXMldIw1dRTq_xDRuY3Ctp99Qj4pfyGAw_aem_w9tp_XwGL-ZptFIHvlrM1g Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you.

To celebrate the old bird/broad role models who've appeared on The Shift with Sam Baker I'll be rerunning some of these conversations throughout December and into January. Next up is Australian literary legend Helen Garner who, in her 83rd year has finally broken out in the UK and US and won the Baillie Gifford Prize for her collected diaries, How To End A Story... --- My guest today is the writer Helen Garner. I'm pretty sure that right now you are either going, wow I LOVE her, or looking a bit vague. Because despite being one of Australia's greatest living writers she is surprisingly little known here. But not for much longer because, at the age of 81, she is finally about to see almost all her books in print in the UK and US for the first time. Born in 1941 in Geelong, Victoria, the eldest of six, Helen has lived a fascinating life and one that has found its way into her 13 books. Her debut Monkey Grip, published in 1977 when she was a single mother, is still in print today; her second novel, The Children's Bach (which is where I recommend you start if you've never read her), has been compared with Hemingway and Fitzgerald; and, her true crime classic, This House of Grief, has been declared one of the best books of the 21st century. Not bad for a regular kid from, as she puts it, “an ordinary Australian home - not many books and not much talk.” I was lucky enough to get to chat to Helen (and her chooks) from her home near Melbourne. In fact she kept me up long past my bedtime (!) as we discussed the difficult father-daughter relationship, making peace with the older generations and the emotional impact of being a war baby. She also told me why getting married a fourth time would have been the definition of madness, how she couldn't give a monkeys about the withdrawal of the erotic gaze and why grandmothering has been the greatest pleasure of her life.  * You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Shift bookshop on Bookshop.org⁠. * If you enjoyed this episode and you fancy buying me a coffee, pop over to my page on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠buymeacoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. • And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including exclusive transcripts of the podcast, why not join The Shift community, come and have a look around at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Dr. Thomas Hemingway shares the Truth about GLP-1, what this peptide really is, how your body makes it and how you can get more of it and enjoy all the benefits WITHOUT the needle or the synthetic medication.  Your body can actually make its own GLP-1 and he explains how you can Optimize it, simply and for free!   Have a Listen and SHARE with a friend!**JOIN DR. HEMINGWAY LIVE in-person at ALIGN AWAKEN! Event in San Diego Jan 22-25, 2026!*ACCESS my FREE workshop, "Younger, Stronger, for Longer!"  How to turn back your biological age 10-20 years so you can do the things you want to do that you no longer thought possible due to your age.  Perform at your best and live your best life!*And, in my new Performance, and Longevity medical practice we specialize in turning back your biological age and OPTIMIZING HORMONES so you can feel a decade or more younger so you can do the things you want to do that you thought were no longer possible due to your age.  Join the waitlist here!*SHARE with a Friend and please drop a Review:)*Don't wait to Prioritize your health, Start Today with the Simple and Powerful Steps detailed in my Best-selling book.*GET DIRECT ACCESS to DR. HEMINGWAY in these AMAZING COURSES!**Free resource: 'The truth about GLP-1s and their alternatives' - https://drthomashemingway.myflodesk.com/n1yyjkcb68Mahalo and Aloha andTo your health,

Free Video Tutorial for ScreenwritingWriters are constantly told there's a right way to structure chapters, paragraphs, and point of view—but is that actually true? In this episode, Zena Dell Lowe explores why great storytelling isn't about following formulas and why clarity always matters more than cleverness. This episode is for writers who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure whether their stylistic choices are working, and want permission to trust the story they're telling.Watch this episode on YouTube Sign up for The Storyteller's Digest, my exclusive bi-monthly newsletter for writers and storytellers. Each edition delivers an insightful article or practical writing tip straight from me, designed to help you master your craft and tell compelling stories.The Storyteller's Mission Podcast is now on YouTube.  Subscribe to our channel and never miss a new episode or announcement.Support the Show!Contact us for anything else!Send us a textSupport the show

In this episode, Dr. Thomas Hemingway will share the Secret to Not Gaining Weight over the Holidays, yet still Enjoy them to the Fullest!Have a Listen and SHARE with a friend!**JOIN DR. HEMINGWAY LIVE in-person at ALIGN AWAKEN! Event in San Diego Jan 22-25, 2026!*ACCESS my FREE workshop, "Younger, Stronger, for Longer!"  How to turn back your biological age 10-20 years so you can do the things you want to do that you no longer thought possible due to your age.  Perform at your best and live your best life!*And, in my new Performance, and Longevity medical practice we specialize in turning back your biological age and OPTIMIZING HORMONES so you can feel a decade or more younger so you can do the things you want to do that you thought were no longer possible due to your age.  Join the waitlist here!*SHARE with a Friend and please drop a Review:)*Don't wait to Prioritize your health, Start Today with the Simple and Powerful Steps detailed in my Best-selling book.*GET DIRECT ACCESS to DR. HEMINGWAY in these AMAZING COURSES!**Free resource: 'The truth about GLP-1s and their alternatives' - https://drthomashemingway.myflodesk.com/n1yyjkcb68Mahalo and Aloha andTo your health,

In this episode, Dr. Thomas Hemingway shares how Gut Health is one of the Most Powerful Tools we can Access to Increase our Energy, Fitness and Overall Well-being and Health; Hippocrates said, "All Disease Begins in the Gut," and Dr. Thomas shares, "All Health and Healing Begins in the Gut."Have a Listen and SHARE with a friend!**JOIN DR. HEMINGWAY LIVE in-person at ALIGN AWAKEN!  Event in San Diego Jan 22-25, 2026!*ACCESS my FREE workshop, "Younger, Stronger, for Longer!"  How to turn back your biological age 10-20 years so you can do the things you want to do that you no longer thought possible due to your age.  Perform at your best and live your best life!*And, in my new Performance, and Longevity medical practice we specialize in turning back your biological age and OPTIMIZING HORMONES so you can feel a decade or more younger so you can do the things you want to do that you thought were no longer possible due to your age.  Join the waitlist here!*SHARE with a Friend and please drop a Review:)*Don't wait to Prioritize your health, Start Today with the Simple and Powerful Steps detailed in my Best-selling book.*GET DIRECT ACCESS to DR. HEMINGWAY in these AMAZING COURSES!**Free resource: 'The truth about GLP-1s and their alternatives' - https://drthomashemingway.myflodesk.com/n1yyjkcb68Mahalo and Aloha andTo your health,