Podcast appearances and mentions of ivan denisovich

On this episode, Chelsey Stone, a freelance writer and book tour leader, describes herself as someone who reads to learn. She brings a lot of really great non-fiction books to the show, and while some of them can be a bit of a bummer, these books help Chelsey learn more about herself and the world while facing reality through reading.    NatGeo article about the Chicago River Read and Run on the Road in DC  Guided Tour of Lemont's Waterways    Book Talk and Signing for The Kat Bunglar with Tanima Kazi    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy's reading:  The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich  West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge    Books Highlighted by: Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe  Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barabara Demick The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII by Iris Chang Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson  Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb  Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos  All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque  How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer J. Adler    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Instagram for Dummies by Corey Walker, et al  Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe  Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck  Cannery Row by John Steinbeck  To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck  Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck  The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo  The Address Book by Deirdre Mask  Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders  A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse by Tara Nurin & Teri Fahrendorf  Life of Pi by Yann Martel  Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard  Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe  The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler  The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 

If you are a Christian and do not know the name Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, it is high time you change that. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian Christian, author and survivor of the Soviet Union's labor camps. He shocked the world through his writings, which exposed the horrors of the Communist camps. His works eviscerated lies and encouraged people to confront evil themselves. Solzhenitsyn's voice remains relevant for Christians today, as believers take stock of their cultural surroundings. Many of the societal ills called out by Solzhenitsyn have resurfaced in recent years around the world. An authoritarian impulse charges the air. Restrictions are ratcheting up on civil and religious liberties. How should Christians respond? It is precisely these types of questions that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's writings can help answer. To help introduce all of this to a new generation of Christians, Ignat Solzhenitsyn – Aleksandr's son – joins the Christian Emergency Podcast. Ignat unpacks his father's story and reveals why his great works – like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago – are worth reading even today. These insights have broad application for Christians preparing today for pressures tomorrow.  If this conversation was helpful for you, please share it with your friends. Also give us a positive review wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. To learn more about resources mentioned in this episode, see the following. The Gulag Archipelago (Book), by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://www.amazon.com/Archipelago-Peterson-introduction-Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn/dp/1784871516 The Gulag Archipelago (Audible Version, narrated by Ignat Solzhenitsyn): https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Gulag-Archipelago-Audiobook/1473570344 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Book), by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://www.amazon.com/One-Day-Life-Ivan-Denisovich/dp/0451531043 Christian Emergency Alliance: https://www.christianemergency.com/ Follow the Christian Emergency Alliance on Twitter: @ChristianEmerg1 Follow the Christian Emergency Alliance on Facebook: @ChristianEmergency The Christian Emergency Podcast is a production of the Christian Emergency Alliance. Soli Deo Gloria

On this episode, Annette LaPlaca, a self-proclaimed church lady who loves mysteries and thrillers, discusses her career in editing, how she developed a love of reading in her children, and why it's ok to have a lot of books. We also discuss the moral and empathetic benefits of a murder book and why people shouldn't shy away from them.    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy's reading:  Dearest by Jacqui Walters  Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro  How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix    Books Highlighted by Annette: Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith  Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers  Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt  The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman  The Storied Life A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro   All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis  Matilda by Roald Dahl 1984 by George Orwell  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  Leap Over a Wall by Eugene H. Peterson  The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta  Puritan Pleasures of the Detective Story by Erik Routley Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott  Peace Like a River by Leif Enger  I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger  Case Histories by Kate Atkinson  The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton  Little Women by Louisa May Alcott  The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle  Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle  Freaky Deaky by Elmore Leonard  The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt  Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne  The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun  Moby-Dick by Herman Mellville  Trust by Hernan Diaz  The Chosen by Chaim Potok  Life After Life by Kate Atkinson  The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt  Life of Pi by Yann Martel  Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey  Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey  The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shusterman  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin  Silas Marner by George Eliot  Middlemarch by George Eliot  Emma by Jane Austen  The Keeper of Lost Causes: The First Department Q Novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen  The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell  Father Brown: The Essential Tales by G.K. Chesterton  Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker  The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro  An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

Host Richard Delevan interviews author Peter Schwartzstein, whose experiences give him a unique authority to explore how difficult it is to cover “climate security” from the front lines. Climate and ViolenceMany associate climate-related violence with regions like Syria. Schwartzstein explains that while climate change didn't directly cause the Syrian civil war, it played a critical role in weakening the societal fabric. Severe droughts exacerbated poverty and rural migration, fostering instability and making communities more susceptible to revolutionary movements.The West and Climate-Related ViolenceThe developed world won't remain untouched by climate-induced violence for long. The infrastructure, even in advanced economies, is struggling under the strain of extreme weather events.Catalysts:The Heat and the Fury: Reporting from the Front Lines of Climate Violence by Peter Schwartzstein.The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander SolzhenitsynA Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara TuchmanThe Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. George Grant joins me this week to talk about a Christian's relationship to books and literature. Why is reading important? How do you discern what books are worth reading? How do you get started as a reader? Dr. Grant has been a major influence in my thought life, and many of my favorite authors today, I have discovered through his book recommendations. So, with his permission, I'm including a few of my favorite selections below from some reading lists of his that I got my hands on about 20 years ago. I hope you find on this list an author or book you've never read which will be the first step on a new path of literary discoveries! Non-Fiction Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton Knowing God by J. I Packer 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff Lectures on Calvinism by Abraham Kuyper City of God and Confessions by St. Augustine Bondage of the Will by Martin LUther On the Incarnation by Athanasius All of Grace by Charles Spurgeon From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe The Golden Booklet of the Christian Life by John Calvin Plutarch's Lives Fiction The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien The Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot The Ransom Trilogy by C. S. Lewis A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The Four Men by Hilaire Belloc Scaramouche by Raphael Sabatini The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor The Richard Hannay series by John Buchan Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

OK Annabel is still OOO, so Emilie has roped in a friend of the pod, the marvellous Esther Coren to help. Esther has her own podcast, Giles Coren Has No Idea and a Substack called The Spike and she also gives excellent book recommendations. Given we're all feeling mad, bad and dangerous to know (not in a swashbuckling-Byronic-way but in a teetering on The-Brink-kind-of-way) perhaps books can soothe us tiny bit: little umbrellas for the mind. We talk about The Paleo Life by Clare Foges (out June 6), Quint by Robert Lautner, The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (May 14), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Egg & I by Betty MacDonald (out of print, but will be on World of Books, which, incidentally, is the preloved Amazon), Hugo Rifkind's Rabbits (also June 6), and In Memoriam by Alice Winn. Plus there's a cameo from Esther's cat Iris.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An American poet once wrote about reaching a fork in the road and he considered which path to take.    When one attempts to consider branching logic and automation in complex technical systems, there is a lot of consideration given to which path to take. There may be lessons to be learned from Robert Frost's 25-line masterpiece.     Today's discussion is with Thomas Kinsella, Chief Customer Officer and Co-founder of a company that focuses on improving automation.  It is appropriately called Tines.  Thomas Kinsella was asked to discuss a typical day in the life of a person working in a Security Operations Center, or SOC.  He describes it as a plethora of alerts, new data, and disjointed tools.  His description of the SOC was kind of like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The story is almost as monotonous as a Soviet era gulag, although the remuneration may be slightly higher. Thomas Kinsella describes issues with alert fatigue, difficulty of finding good staff, and incompatible systems that make duplicative works. He and his co-founder decided to come up with a better solution, they founded Tines. During the interview Thomas Kinsella describes how they have been able to use technology to assemble data from a variety of sources. This was to address the idea of alert fatigue, if an incident was possibly confirmed, then it should be pursued. Secondly, the way to address staff shortage was to design a visually based system so that an untrained individual could drag and drop actions into a sequence.  In fact, Tines provides playbooks for many scenarios in a secure environment, he calls them playbooks.  The result is a system that can produce a Secure Orchestration Automation and Response system that is easy to use, scalable, and doesn't need the expertise of a PhD. in computer science. For more on Tines, please read the blog “Cybersecurity in 2024: Five Predictions from our co-founders”  = = = What's your score? Take the Podcast Appearance Scorecard www.podscorecard.com Connect to John Gilroy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gilroy/ Got goin' to Mars on your bucket list? Listen to Constellations Podcast https://www.kratosdefense.com/constellations/podcasts Want to listen to other technology podcasts? www.Federaltechpodcast.com              

He was the Russian dissident who dared to call Vladimir Putin a criminal. We step inside Alexei Navalny's last days in an Arctic prison camp. Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian's app. This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Kristen Amiet, and edited by Lia Tsamoglou. Original music is composed by Jasper Leak.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason. Unless D-503 can find a space within himself - that disease the ancients called a soul.Join the Hugonauts book club on discord!Or you can watch the episode on YouTube if you prefer videoSimilar books we recommend: 1984 by George Orwell (https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/1984)Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/brave-new-world)One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

As is our custom here at Close Reads, we're here to answer your questions. So in this episode, David, Heidi, and Tim discuss questions about hope in Ivan Denisovich; the value of work in the story; the book's structure; and much, much more. Happy listening! This episode is brought to you by our friends at Ekstasis magazine which helps a generation of Christians admire beauty and tune their spiritual and aesthetic affections. Check them out at ekstasismagazine.com! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

What is the purpose of Alyosha? Is Shukov a hero? Is there a specific moral vision at the core of this story? What is the nature of symbolism in the narrative? Join David, Heidi, and Tim as they dig into these (and other) questions about Alexksandr Solzhenitsyn's important novel. Happy listening! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Join David, Heidi, and Tim as they dig into Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic prison novel—one of the most influential books of the last century. This week we chat about the context of the book, the way Solzhenitsyn manages to create stakes even though the reader knows the ending, the way everyday things become beautiful, and much more. Happy reading! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit closereads.substack.com/subscribe

Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl w/ Richard Messing--- Richard S. Messing LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardmessing/ World Ethics Organization - https://worldethicsorganization.org/ Kotel Group - https://kotelgroup.com/ Episode #63 - The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus w/Claire Chandler Episode #6 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera w/David Baumrucker Episode #16 - The Gulag Archipelago/One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the 2022 Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list! --- Check out HSCT Publishing at: https://www.hsctpublishing.com/. Check out LeadingKeys at: https://www.leadingkeys.com/ Check out Leadership ToolBox at: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/ Contact HSCT for more information at 1-833-216-8296 to schedule a full DEMO of LeadingKeys with one of our team members. --- Leadership ToolBox website: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/. Leadership ToolBox LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ldrshptlbx/. Leadership ToolBox YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJvVbIU_bSEflwYpd9lWXuA/. Leadership ToolBox Twitter: https://twitter.com/ldrshptlbx. Leadership ToolBox IG: https://www.instagram.com/leadershiptoolboxus/. Leadership ToolBox FB: https://www.facebook.com/LdrshpTlb

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1962) VS Conversations With Myself by Nelson Mandela (2010)

The war in Ukraine may seem distant -- but it affects us all in a million unseen ways. Ajay Shah joins Amit Varma in episode 335 of The Seen and the Unseen to deliver an in-depth masterclass on exactly what is going on. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Ajay Shah on Twitter and Substack. 2. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 3. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah. 4. Rising to the China Challenge -- Gautam Bambawale, Vijay Kelkar, Raghunath Mashelkar, Ganesh Natarajan, Ajit Ranade and Ajay Shah. 5. Russia, Ukraine, Foreign Policy — Episode 268 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane and Nitin Pai). 6. Conflict in Ukraine: A timeline (2014 - present) -- Nigel Walker for House of Commons Library. 7. RUSI's commentary on Ukraine. 8. Rand Corporation's archive on the war. 9. Understanding the Russo-Ukranian War: A Guide From War on the Rocks. 10. Foreign Affairs articles on Ukraine, Russia and China. 11. Maps that update every day from Deep State and War Mapper. 12. YouTubers to follow on this subject: Perun, Timothy Snyder, Anders Puck Nielsen, The Telegraph, Silicon Curtain and William Spaniel. 13. Wind and solar power generated more electricity in the EU last year than gas did. Here's how -- Stefan Ellerbeck. 14. Economic stress in Russia -- Ajay Shah. 15. More ammo: Improving resilience against extreme surges in demand -- Ajay Shah. 16. Downstream from the Ukraine war -- Gautam Bambawale and Ajay Shah. 17. Bloodlands -- Timothy Snyder. 18. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine -- Anne Applebaum. 19. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 -- Anne Applebaum. 20. On Tyranny -- Timothy Snyder. 21. What is Populism? -- Jan-Werner Müller. 22. Tyranny in the Post-Truth Universe (2017) -- Amit Varma. 23. Why Both Modi and Trump are Textbook Populists (2017) -- Amit Varma. 24. The End of History? — Francis Fukuyama's essay. 25. The End of History and the Last Man — Francis Fukuyama's book. 26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 27. Arthur Koestler and Boris Pasternak on Amazon. 28. Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2005) -- Vladimir Putin. 29. Requiem -- Anna Akhmatova. 30. Russian court orders closure of country's oldest human rights group -- Andrew Roth on the ban of Memorial. 31. The Resource Curse. 32. Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Vasily Grossman. 33. Dersu Uzala -- Akira Kurosawa. 34. Servant of the People -- The show in which Volodymyr Zelenskyy starts as the president of Ukraine. 35. Volodymyr Zelenskyy plays the piano with his penis. 36. How Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine -- Perun. 37. An excerpt from Wittgenstein's diary -- Parul Sehgal on Twitter. 38. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- Ludwig Wittgenstein. 39. The Innovator's Dilemma -- Clayton M Christensen. 40. National Security Strategy of Japan. 41. Suspicious deaths of Russian businesspeople (2022–2023). 42. ‘Stop the war.' 44 Top Russian Players Publish Open Letter To Putin — Sam Copeland. 43. Alexander Grischuk's emotional press conference after Russia invaded Ukraine. (Watch from 4:20.) 44. India must detach from Russia -- Renuka Sane. 45. Helping India Replace Russia in the Value Arms Market -- Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach. 46. After Ukraine, Where Will India Buy its Weapons? --  Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach. 47. For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Ernest Hemingway. 48. For Whom the Bell Tolls -- John Donne. 49. Night of the Long Knives. 50. Anton Geraschenko's tweet after the Wagner backdown. 51. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller. 52. Max Seddon's tweet about Yevgeny Prigozhin. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘War' by Simahina.

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus with Claire Chandler--- Welcome and Introduction On the Logic of Suicide The Greek Myth of Sisyphus Defining Absurdity Upward The Absurdity of Don Juan The Literary Life of Albert Camus Self-Leadership, Alignment, and Orientation for Leaders Atheistic Morality and Its Discontents Fatalism and The Struggle for Hope in a Post-Modern World Cult of Personality and Leadership Impacts Thinking Ourselves Out of Existence Creates Vaccums We Fill With Monsters Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven "My First Thought Was, He Lied in Every Word." The Meaning Crisis in Leadership, In The West, and In The United States The Power of Lucid Indifference Meaning and Evil in the West Poorly Defended by a Small Philosophy Artificial Intelligence to LSD: A Continuum Robert Hartmann and the Nazi Machine The Absurd Man and The Clearing At the End of the Path of Absurdity Trolls, The Dark Triad, and Battling Malignant Narcissists Staying on the Path Close --- The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven The Raven - Tiny Toon Adventures - https://vimeo.com/389628985 Albert Camus Biography – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus Sisyphus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus Episode #61 – The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis – https://share.transistor.fm/s/3f464273 Episode # 31 – Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche - https://share.transistor.fm/s/087311b8 Episode #16 – The Gulag Archipelago/One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn - https://share.transistor.fm/s/f25b509f ---Connect with Claire Chandler at the links below: Claire Chandler Website: https://www.clairechandler.net/ Claire Chandler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairechandlersphr/ --- Pick up your copy of 12 Rules for Leaders: The Foundation of Intentional Leadership NOW on AMAZON! Check out the 2022 Leadership Lessons From the Great Books podcast reading list! --- Check out HSCT Publishing at: https://www.hsctpublishing.com/. Check out LeadingKeys at: https://www.leadingkeys.com/ Check out Leadership ToolBox at: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/ Contact HSCT for more information at 1-833-216-8296 to schedule a full DEMO of LeadingKeys with one of our team members. --- Leadership ToolBox website: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/. Leadership ToolBox LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ldrshptlbx/. Leadership ToolBox YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJvVbIU_bSEflwYpd9lWXuA/. Leadership ToolBox Twitter: https://twitter.com/ldrshptlbx. Leadership ToolBox IG: https://www.instagram.com/leadershiptoolboxus/. Leadership ToolBox FB: https://www.facebook.com/LdrshpTlbx.

To follow and support us, click here: https://onthesamepagepage.wordpress.com “A Study in Scarlet” by Arthur Conan Doyle is the world's first introduction literature's most famous consulting detective. We meet Sherlock Holmes, and the elemental but essential Dr. Watson, on the hunt for a killer whose scarlet trail crosses two continents and makes no shortage of twists and turns. Indicative of the long case history the world has come to know and love, “A Study in Scarlet” is one of only four full-length novels in the canon and carries all the hallmarks of a Sherlockian classic - death, mystery, exoticism, and deduction. Some of the books and authors discussed in this episode include: “Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Alexander Solzhenitzen “Brideshead Revisited” Evelyn Waugh Additional segments throughout the podcast include: Inner Shelf Fact or fiction What are you reading? On that Quote Apple Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gF2zVhQT Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gTHtxVh5 Podbean: https://onthesamepagepodcast.podbean.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thesamepagepod_ Email: seamusandblake@gmail.com  IG: https://www.instagram.com/on.the.same.page.podcast/  -------- #bookpodcast #podcast #book #novel #stories #shortstories #apassagenorth #anukaradpragasm #tolstoy #poetry #shortstoryskirmish #litfacts #paris #literature #books #novels #salmonrushdie #spotifypodcasts #applepodcasts #audible #samsungpodcasts #books #novels #audibleau #lit #onthesamepage #whatareyoureading #literaryfacts #podbean #whatareyoureading

Welcome to BookShook! This episode is all about the second half of February's book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn trans. Ralph Parker published in 1953 (from page 72 "The shop was quiet" if you're reading alongside). The idea of the episode is that I take a book I've never read, split it in two and discuss each half on the second and last Fridays of the month. I'll do a first impressions summary alongside my thoughts and reactions and then raise any interesting ideas so far in the novel (be aware - there may be spoilers.) And then on the last Friday of the month, I'll discuss the second half of the book. We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at youtube.com/@BookShook or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for March is The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende trans. by Magda Bogin — we'll be reading up to Chapter 7 The Brothers (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside me). The first episode will be on 10th March. Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: There are scenes of severe hunger, cold, and harsh prison life in sub zero degree temperatures. I have removed any swear words. Future Reads:March: The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende trans. by Magda Bogin April: Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (152 pages)May: Light by M.John Harrison (320 pages)I'm delighted that this podcast has been voted in the Top 30 UK Books Podcasts at https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_book_podcasts/The idea about 'augit' was mentioned in the following article:https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/10/lessons-from-my-dying-therapist-care-less-have-fun-accept-the-inevitableLessons from my dying therapist: care less, have fun – and accept the inevitableIn watching my beloved counsellor die, I finally learned how to livePhoebe Greenwood Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to BookShook! This episode is all about the first half of February's book, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn trans. Ralph Parker published in 1953 (up to page 72 "The shop was quiet" if you're reading alongside). The idea of the episode is that we'll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first episode, published on the second Friday of the month, we'll discuss the first half. And then in the second episode (published on the last Friday of the month - 24th February), we'll look at the second half of the book (in this case from page 72 "The shop was quiet"). We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at youtube.com/@BookShook or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for March is The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende trans. by Magda Bogin (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: There are scenes of severe hunger, cold, and harsh prison life in sub zero degree temperatures. I have removed any swear words. Future Reads:March: The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende trans. by Magda Bogin April: Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (152 pages)May: Light by M.John Harrison (320 pages)I'm delighted that this podcast has been voted in the Top 30 UK Books Podcasts at https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_book_podcasts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to BookShook! This episode is all about the second half of January's book, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden) published in 1955 (from page 71 "The weather must be changing up there." if you're reading alongside). The idea of the episode is that I take a book I've never read, split it in two and discuss each half on the second and last Fridays of the month. I'll do a first impressions summary alongside my thoughts and reactions and then raise any interesting ideas so far in the novel (be aware - there may be spoilers.) And then on the last Friday of the month, I'll discuss the second half of the book. We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at youtube.com/@BookShook or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for February is Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life fo Ivan Denisovich (143 pages) — we'll be reading up to Page 72 "The shop was quiet." (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside me). The first episode will be on 10th February. Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: I have removed any swear words. Their are adult themes of sexuality, abuse of power and death/dying throughout the novel.Future Reads:February: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life fo Ivan Denisovich (143 pages) March: The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende trans. Magda Bogin (491 pages)April: Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (152 pages)I'm delighted that this podcast has been voted in the Top 30 UK Books Podcasts at https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_book_podcasts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Along with special guest Longinus, the boys drink and review Beam Me up, Stouty (a coconut stout) from Saugatuck Brewing, then discuss "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." The story is not about an escape, or an unusual day, or how something dramatic happened on this day. It's just a typical day in a Soviet labor camp. Solzhenitsyn's account of this one day so captured the experience of the Soviet prisoner camps that he received letters from former prisoners expressing how perfectly he had captured the experience. The characters themselves are not particularly wicked. You don't come away hating the characters in the story, but the system. It's all about ordinary, decent people caught up in a wicked system. It's a cold story. You might want to bundle up as you read it.

Welcome to BookShook! This episode is all about the first half of January's book, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden) published in 1955 (up to page 71 "The weather must be changing up there." if you're reading alongside). The idea of the episode is that we'll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first episode, published on the second Friday of the month, we'll discuss the first half. And then in the second episode (published on the last Friday of the month - 27th January), we'll look at the second half of the book (in this case from page 71 "The weather must be changing up there."). We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at youtube.com/@BookShook or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for February is Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life fo Ivan Denisovich (143 pages) (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerContent Warning: There will be spoilers up to 50%. It is quite spooky and there are adult themes throughout the novel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to BookShook! This episode is all about the second half of December's book, Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang trans. Ken Liu published in 2020 (from 'Medal' on page 332 if you're reading alongside). The idea of the episode is that I take a book I've never read, split it in two and discuss each half on the second and last Fridays of the month. I'll do a first impressions summary alongside my thoughts and reactions and then raise any interesting ideas so far in the novel (be aware - there may be spoilers.) And then on the last Friday of the month, I'll discuss the second half of the book. We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at the youtube.com/@BookShook (link below) or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for January is Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden) (139 pages) — we'll be reading up to page 72 (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside me). The first episode will be on 13th January. Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerAll episodes can be listened and discussed at youtube.com/@BookShookFuture Reads:January: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden) (139 pages) February:One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn trans. Ralph Parker(143 pages)I'm delighted that this podcast has been voted in the Top 30 UK Books Podcasts at https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_book_podcasts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to BookShook! This episode is all about the first half of December's book, Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang trans. Ken Liu published in 2020 (up to page 332 'MEDAL' if you're reading alongside). The idea of the episode is that we'll split a book into two equal halves — a book that I and perhaps you have never read. In the first episode, published on the second Friday of the month, we'll discuss the first half. And then in the second episode (published on the last Friday of the month - 30th December), we'll look at the second half of the book (in this case from 'Medal' on page 332). We'll see together how the novel concludes and decide whether it's a book we'd recommend to a friend - or not. Of course, you don't have to read the book, you can listen to it, or just follow along without doing either since I'll be summarising what happens (but be aware! - there will be spoilers). You can leave a comment or start a conversation at youtube.com/@BookShook or send an email to bookshook@yahoo.com. The book we'll be reading for January is Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden) (139 pages) (so get that ready if you're going to read alongside). Thanks for listening to BookShook! RogerFuture Reads:January: Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (trans. Margaret Sayers Peden) (139 pages) February: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn trans. Ralph Parker(143 pages)I'm delighted that this podcast has been voted in the Top 30 UK Books Podcasts at https://blog.feedspot.com/uk_book_podcasts/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get bonus episodes by subscribing to the SLEERICKETS Secret Show!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– Sarah Silverman on Martin Luther King– Berlin Diary by William Shirer– In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson– Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer– Night by Elie Wiesel– Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi– Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl– A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn– How to Tell a True War Story by Tim O'Brien– More Light! More Light! by Anthony HechtEmail: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comTwitter: @BPlatzerSister Podcast (Alice): Poetry SaysEratosphere (Cameron): W T ClarkMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

If you are a Christian and do not know the name Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, it is high time you change that. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian Christian, author and survivor of the Soviet Union's labor camps. He shocked the world through his writings, which exposed the horrors of the Communist camps. His works eviscerated lies and encouraged people to confront evil themselves. Solzhenitsyn's voice remains relevant for Christians today, as believers take stock of their cultural surroundings. Many of the societal ills called out by Solzhenitsyn have resurfaced in recent years around the world. An authoritarian impulse charges the air. Restrictions are ratcheting up on civil and religious liberties. How should Christians respond? It is precisely these types of questions that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's writings can help answer. To help introduce all of this to a new generation of Christians, Ignat Solzhenitsyn – Aleksandr's son – joins the Christian Emergency Podcast. Ignat unpacks his father's story and reveals why his great works – like One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago – are worth reading even today. These insights have broad application for Christians preparing today for pressures tomorrow. If this conversation was helpful for you, please share it with your friends. Also give us a positive review wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. To learn more about resources mentioned in this episode, see the following. The Gulag Archipelago (Book), by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://www.amazon.com/Archipelago-Peterson-introduction-Aleksandr-Solzhenitsyn/dp/1784871516 The Gulag Archipelago (Audible Version, narrated by Ignat Solzhenitsyn): https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Gulag-Archipelago-Audiobook/1473570344 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Book), by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://www.amazon.com/One-Day-Life-Ivan-Denisovich/dp/0451531043 Christian Emergency Alliance: https://www.christianemergency.com/ Follow the Christian Emergency Alliance on Twitter: @ChristianEmerg1 Follow the Christian Emergency Alliance on Facebook: @ChristianEmergency The Christian Emergency Podcast is a production of the Christian Emergency Alliance. Soli Deo Gloria

Alexander Solzhenitsyn foi um escritor russo que denunciou as atrocidades nos campos de concentração russos. Em Um Dia na Vida de Ivan Denisovich, transcende essa posição política, ao demonstrar o sentido que um prisioneiro imprime a sua existência.

In this episode we review A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novella by Nobel laureate Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Set in a soviet labor camp in the 1950s, the visceral one-day account of that life was one of the first widely available portraits of life in the Gulag. As such, we review it for what we can learn about our great power competitor Russia by examining this part of that nation's history and culture.

The Gulag Archipelago/One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Welcome and Introduction - 1:00 The Gulag Archipelago - 2:00 A Dialectical Reading of Free Speech for Leaders - 6:00 The History of Our Sewage Disposal System - 15:00 The Gulag Archipelago: Multiple Versions - 22:00 Dr. Jordan B. Peterson: Introduction to the Vintage Classics Edition of The Gulag Archipelago - 26:00 Leaders Protect the Primacy of the Individual - 32:00 A History of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - 42:00 Leaders Who Oppose Free Speech - 51:00 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - 1:07:00 Staying on the Path - 1:13:00 ---Check out HSCT Publishing at: https://www.hsctpublishing.com/.Check out LeadingKeys at: https://www.leadingkeys.com/Check out Leadership ToolBox at: https://leadershiptoolbox.us/Contact HSCT for more information at 1-833-216-8296 to schedule a full DEMO of LeadingKeys with one of our team members.---Jesan Sorrells Presents - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/JesanSorrells/featuredJesan Sorrells - IG  - https://www.instagram.com/therealjesanmsorrells/Jesan Sorrells - FB - https://www.facebook.com/JesanMSorrells/Jesan Sorrells - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesansorrellsJesan Sorrells - Twitter - https://www. twitter.com/jesanmsorrellsJesan Sorrells - https://www.jesansorrells.com/

Returning guest David Agranoff joins me for an extended non-spoiler discussion of The Dispossessed, and it really never gets that spoilery at all. Lots of background on Le Guin and the philosophy/politics of the book. Start - 7:30Intro through "Why this book?"7:31 - 44:02Non-Spoiler discussion44:03 - endSpoiler discussion Notes & Mentions: David's article from Tor.com: https://www.tor.com/2021/12/08/beyond-dune-and-foundation-golden-age-and-new-wave-sf-classics-that-should-be-adapted-right-now/Le Guin speech from Auscon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Deuas-AuzbUGeek's Guide Episode about The Dispossessed: https://geeksguideshow.com/2021/03/26/ggg460-the-dispossessed-review/Always Coming Home, by Le GuinBannerless, by Carrie VaughnNo Gods, No Monsters, by Cadwell TurnbullUna McCormack's DS9 novelsPeter Kropotkin, Murray Bookchin, and Paul GoodmanOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn David's Links: Dickheads Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/dickheadspodcast Dickheads Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/dickheadspod David's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor Postcards From a Dying World: http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– Poetry Says by Alice Allan– The Ghost in the Martini by Anthony Hecht– White Noise by Emma Cline– The Assistant by Kitty Green– Rhyme's Reason by John Hollander– The double dactyl (actually co-invented by Paul Pascal, not John Hollander!)– One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzenitsyn– Jeff Goldblum's one line in Annie Hall– Curb Your Enthusiasm's mantra kerfuffle– The Inferno– Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe– The Watts family murders– Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction by Zadie Smith– Us by Jordan PeeleMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

History is often told in such a boring way that it might as well not have happened. And then, there are those who bring it so alive that the present seems so much clearer. Amit Schandillia joins Amit Varma in episode 250 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about how his historical storytelling made him a Twitter sensation -- and why both history and storytelling matter in these times. Also check out: 1. Select Twitter threads by Amit Schandillia: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 2. Amit Schandillia on Storytel. 3. Nina's Journey -- Nina Markovna. 4. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Manu Pillai: 1, 2, 3, 4. 5. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Srinath Raghavan: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6. Early Indians — Episode 112 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tony Joseph). 7. Early Indians — Tony Joseph. 8. Who We Are and How We Got Here -- David Reich. 9. Understanding India Through Its Languages -- Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 10. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan. 11. The BJP Before Modi -- Episode 202 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati). 12. Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi — Vinay Sitapati. 13. Who Broke Our Republic? -- Episode 163 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Kapil Komireddi) 14. Churchill's Secret War -- Madhusree Mukerjee. 15. Churchill and the genocide myth -- Zareer Masani. 16. Churchill: Walking with Destiny -- Andrew Roberts. 17. The Expanding Circle -- Amit Varma. 18. A History of European Morals -- WEH Lecky. 19. The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress -- Peter Singer. 20. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America -- John McWhorter. 21. John McWhorter interviewed by Bill Maher and Vasant Dhar. 22. PN Oak on Wikipedia. 23. Tawaif -- Episode 174 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Saba Dewan). 24. The Seen and the Unseen episodes with Ira Mukhoty, Parvati Sharma and Rana Safvi. 25. Kavitha Rao and Our Lady Doctors -- Episode 235 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Kavitha Rao). 26. Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine — Kavitha Rao. 27. The Memoirs of Dr Haimabati Sen — Haimabati Sen (translated by Tapan Raychoudhuri). 28. The Intellectual Foundations of Hindutva -- Episode 115 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Aakar Patel). 29. Archive.org, Google Books, Jstor and ResearchGate. 30. The Big Deal About Blogging -- Amit Varma. 31. The Book Club -- Amit Varma's old show on Storytel. 32. Two Girls Hanging From a Tree -- Episode 209 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sonia Faleiro). 33. Typefully. 34. Sake Dean Mohamed at Internet Archive and Wikipedia. 35. The Indianness of Indian Food -- Episode 95 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Doctor). 36. Public Opinion -- Walter Lippmann. 37. The World Outside and the Pictures in our Heads -- Walter Lippmann. 39. Irfan Habib on Amazon. 40. Pilgrim Nation: The Making of Bharatvarsh -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 41. History of Western Philosophy -- Bertrand Russell. 42. The Gulag Archipelago -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 43. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 44. Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire -- Alex von Tunzelmann. 45. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich -- William L Shirer. 46. Hardcore History by Dan Carlin. This episode is sponsored by Intel. This episode is co-sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader, FutureStack and The Social Capital Compound. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Please subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! And check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing.

The premiere of Gleb Panfilov's film "One Hundred Minutes of the Life of Ivan Denisovich" based on the story of Alexander Solzhenitsyn was screened at The Locarno Film Festival. We spoke to a former BBC journalist Yuri Goligorsky who worked at the Festival. - Только что закончился престижный кинофестиваль в Локарно, где состоялась премьера фильма Глеба Панфилова "Сто минут из жизни Ивана Денисовича" по мотивам рассказа нобелевского лауреата Александра Солженицына. Подробности нам рассказал журналист Юрий Голигорский, который работал на фестивале.

In this episode, Emily grapples with the frustrating reality that people are praising Stalin for his successes. Emily outlines some of the arguments made on behalf of Stalin and offers counterarguments to them. This topic is growing more and more prevalent as more communists are pushing their propaganda. We hope you learn something from this perspective and share this episode with your friends!RECOMMENDED READINGThe Devil and Karl Marx, Paul KengorRussia: A Concise History, Ronald HingleyOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr SolzhenitsynGulag Archipelago, Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMEDIA LINKSFollow us on social media:Instagram: @payattentiontothispodcastTwitter: @PayAttentionTTEmail us with any questions: payattentiontothis@protonmail.com

Or, The Worst Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The post WH40k Book Club Episode #54 – Red Tithe by Robbie MacNiven appeared first on WH40K Book Club.

Or, The Worst Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The post WH40k Book Club Episode #54 – Red Tithe by Robbie MacNiven appeared first on WH40K Book Club.

Regardless of colour or creed, slavery has been a curse on humanity for millennia. Often, it is African slavery that has dominated the debate.  Yet in this episode, Bloody Violent History seeks to cast the net wider and demonstrate how every corner of the globe has been affected.  From ancient Rome to the Soviet gulag, from the Viking save markets of Dublin to the victims of Corsair piracy sold into bondage in Morocco, slavery has tormented millions throughout history. So it GoesTom Assheton & James Jackson Ref.White Gold by Milton GilesThe Barbary Slaves by Stephen Clissold  See also:https://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the word See https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

Gue membacakan salah satu conversation favorit gue yang pernah gue baca. Ivan dengan Alyosha di akhir buku ' One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich '. ig: @brykurnia twitter : @brykurnia youtube : @brykurnia --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bryant-kurniasurja/message

Podcast kali ini tentang buku " A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ", karya Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. Gue rangkum dikit buku ini, what its about dan kenapa gue suka buku ini. Gue lagi coba format baru. Short-form podcasts terinspirasi dari Naval. Ini juga karena gue lagi sibuk sekolah and menghabiskan banyak free-time video editing buat channel Youtube gue. Instagram: @brykurnia Youtube : brykurnia Twitter : @brykurnia --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bryant-kurniasurja/message

Republicans want to fight about Dr. Seuss, while Democrats fight (among themselves? really?) about a $15 minimum wage. Never Trumpers, meanwhile, are obsessed with their ancestors and forget once again all about the Obama Administration. Blue Gal shares a book she's reading, and Driftglass wonders about writing one. (It's kind of like Gulag Archipelago, but instead of being condemned to a Russian prison camp, he's just off Twitter. One Tweet in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?) More at http://ProLeftPod.com!Write us at proleftpodcast@gmail.com.Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)REVIEW US ON APPLE PODCASTS - http://review.proleftpod.comSUPPORT OUR SHOW - http://support.proleftpod.comBUY PROLEFTPOD MERCH - http://merch.proleftpod.comCONTACT US:MAILING ADDRESS - Make checks payable to:The Professional Left PodcastPO Box 9133Springfield IL 62791-9133EMAIL ADDRESSESPodcast Email: proleftpodcast@gmail.comEmail for Sci-Fi Trivia Questions: mrs.driftglass@gmail.comSUPPORT OUR WORK:PayPal: http://paypal.proleftpod.comGoFundMe: http://gofundme.proleftpod.comPatreon: http://patreon.proleftpod.comBuy Us A Coffee: http://coffee.proleftpod.comShop Our Merch Store: http://merch.proleftpod.comLink To All the Ways You Can Support Us: http://support.proleftpod.comSOCIAL & MEDIA:YouTube: http://youtube.proleftpod.comTwitter:@ProLeftPodcast - https://twitter.com/proleftpodcastDriftglass (@Mr_Electrico) - https://twitter.com/mr_electrico@BlueGal - https://twitter.com/bluegalFacebook:ProLeftPodcast - http://facebook.proleftpod.comBlueGal.Fran - http://facebookfran.proleftpod.comInternet Kitty of The Week - http://ikotw.proleftpod.comOriginal Flickr IKOTW Gallery - http://flickr.proleftpod.comBlogs:Driftglass' - http://driftglass.proleftpod.comBlue Gal's - http://bluegal.proleftpod.comFran's - http://fran.proleftpod.comPodcast Archive: http://archive.proleftpod.comPodcast RSS Feed: http://rss.proleftpod.compolitics, progressive, #GOP, media, Joe Biden, COVID relief bill, #FightFor15, Democratic Congress, Black LivesSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/proleftpodcast)

C.S. Lewis called literature the salve that heals the wound of individuality. In this episode, the CenterForLit crew discusses what that wound might be, and how it is that literature goes about healing it.Shop BiblioFiles: www.centerforlit.com/the-bibliofiles-shopReferenced Works:– An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis– The Tempest and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare– Faust by Goethe– Frankenstein by Mary Shelley– David Copperfield and Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens– The Plague by Albert Camus– 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell– One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn– Brave New World by Aldous Huxley– The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne– Beowulf– Watership Down by Richard Adams– The Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomWe love hearing your questions and comments! You can contact us by emailing i.andrews@centerforlit.com, or you can visit our website www.centerforlit.com to find even more ways to participate in the conversation.

Today on the podcast, your hosts Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks take a deep dive into the Literary Life 19 Books for 2021 challenge! This episode is full of ideas and book suggestions to help inspire your #LitLife192021 reading, so be sure to scroll down in your podcast app to view the comprehensive book link list! They not only give reasons behind each category and suggests for the adult reading challenge, but many titles for the kids’ version of the challenge, as well! Also, don’t forget that our Literary Life Commonplace Books are now available to order via Amazon! These high quality journals are perfect for recording what you are reading, as well as all your favorite quotes, and we have both adult and children’s versions. Our publisher, Blue Sky Daisies, is providing us with a fun giveaway, so head over to their Facebook page, our Facebook group, or our Instagram to find the social media image to share and find all the details! Cindy’s List of Literature of Honor for Boys Cindy’s List of Books for Fortitude linked at The Redeemed Reader Commonplace Quotes: In anything that can be called art, there is a quality of redemption. Raymond Chandler The right teacher would have his pupil easy to please, but ill to satisfy; ready to enjoy, unready to embrace; keen to discover beauty, slow to say, “Here I will dwell.” George MacDonald It is difficult for a moneylender to grow old gracefully David Mathew Christ’s Nativity by Henry Vaughan Awake, glad heart! get up and sing! It is the birth-day of thy King. Awake! awake! The Sun doth shake Light from his locks, and all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. Awake, awake! hark how th’ wood rings; Winds whisper, and the busy springs A concert make; Awake! awake! Man is their high-priest, and should rise To offer up the sacrifice. I would I were some bird, or star, Flutt’ring in woods, or lifted far Above this inn And road of sin! Then either star or bird should be Shining or singing still to thee. I would I had in my best part Fit rooms for thee! or that my heart Were so clean as Thy manger was! But I am all filth, and obscene; Yet, if thou wilt, thou canst make clean. Sweet Jesu! will then. Let no more This leper haunt and soil thy door! Cure him, ease him, O release him! And let once more, by mystic birth, The Lord of life be born in earth. Book List: The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler A Dish of Orts by George MacDonald The Great Tudors ed. by Katharine Garvin The Oxford Book of English Verse ed. by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch The Classic Hundred Poems ed. by William Harmon The Top 500 Poems ed. by William Harmon Letters to An American Lady by C. S. Lewis Selected Letters of Jane Austen ed. by Vivien Jones Lord Chesterfield’s Letters ed. by David Roberts The Habit of Being by Flannery O’Connor The Iliad by Homer The Odyssey by Homer D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire Mythology by Edith Hamilton Metamorphoses by Ovid Heroes by Stephen Fry Mythos by Stephen Fry From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun The Educated Imagination by Northrup Frye Silas Marner by George Eliot The Warden by Anthony Trollope Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Hard Times by Charles Dickens Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Leaf by Niggle by J. R. R. Tolkien The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad The Shooting Party by Anton Chekov Kristen Lavrensdatter Trilogy by Sigrid Undset The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell Milton by Rose Macaulay Chaucer by G. K. Chesterton Churchill by Paul Johnson Napoleon by Paul Johnson The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne Joseph Pearce The Narnian by Alan Jacobs Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Awakening by Kate Chopin My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok The Chosen by Chaim Potok The Natural by Bernard Malamud The Brothers K by David James Duncan Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Á Kempis Edmund Burke Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler Doomsday Book by Connie Willis Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays by William Hazlitt The Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Macaulay Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg P. G. Wodehouse Gerald Durrell A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz Paul Thoreau Travels with a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell What I Saw in America by G. K. Chesterton The History of the Second Boer War by Winston Churchill The Heroes by Charles Kingsley A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Children of Odin Padraic Colum Diane Stanley Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling Men of Iron by Howard Pyle The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson Kate Douglas Wiggin E. B. White Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Opal Wheeler American Tall Tales by Adrian Stoutenberg Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum The Golden Fleece by Padraic Colum The Tale of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green Tales from the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield The Adventures of Tin-tin by Hergé The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green King Arthur Trilogy by Rosemary Sutcliff Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Find Cindy at https://cindyrollins.net, on Instagram @cindyordoamoris and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/. Check out Cindy’s own Patreon page also! Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let’s get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB

Macbeth, Kurtz, Particle Physics, Ivan Denisovich and Wolfgang Pauli. This weeks ponderings.

Macbeth, Kurtz, Particle Physics, Ivan Denisovich and Wolfgang Pauli. This weeks ponderings. 

Audiobook- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich This audiobook excerpt serves to introduce the listener to this fine book. Purchase the book from Amazon or Audible. Highly recommended by ACU.  In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength. First published in 1962, it is considered one of the most significant works ever to emerge from Soviet Russia. Illuminating a dark chapter in Russian history, Ivan Denisovich is at once a graphic picture of work camp life and a moving tribute to man’s will to prevail over relentless dehumanization.

As cultural expectations evolve, how do we handle socially objectionable content in the world of literature? How do we approach the artwork if we find the author offensive? How do we elevate what is good and true without tearing down the tradition? In this episode of BiblioFiles, the team talks through Cancel Culture’s effects, origins, and antidotes.Referenced Works:– “American Dirt: 'Cancel culture' embraces book burning in the digital age” by Christian Toto– Hamilton, composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda– Areopagitica by John Milton– One Day of the Life in Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn– Go Set a Watchman and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeWe love hearing your questions and comments! You can contact us by emailing adam@centerforlit.com, or you can visit our website www.centerforlit.com to find even more ways to participate in the conversation.

In this episode, the first page of three books of fiction will be read:House Made of Dawn by N. Scott MomadayThe Castle Cross the Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron, andOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Twitter : @JohnBrouder Snow White Peaks Report: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/edc7-0514.pdf Book Recommendations: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- https://www.waterstones.com/book/one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich/alexander-solzhenitsyn/ralph-parker/9780141184746 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge https://www.waterstones.com/book/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/reni-eddo-lodge/9781408870587 Follow us: Website: https://www.coproducecare.com Twitter: @CoProCare Facebook: CoProduceCare Instagram: CoProCare Podcast: https://anchor.fm/coproducecare E: Hi@coproducecare.com Edited by Kerisha Stephenson --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coproducecare/message

I’m reading from chapter 4 of my book, Earning Freedom: Conquering a 45-Year Prison Term. For more information, please visit PrisonProfessors.com EF 4.3 / Chapter Four: 1990-1992 Months 37-57 ******* I’m excited to see Bruce, my mentor. He’s a bear of a man, big in every way, and through our correspondence we’ve built a friendship that has deepened. I look forward to our weekly exchange of mail and quarterly visits. He now lives in Chicago, having recently retired as a professor. He continues to use his immense talents, and he gives of his wisdom generously with hopes of making societal contributions through his teachings. Bruce introduced me to his wife, Carolyn, who sometimes accompanies him on visits, and through correspondence I’ve met his daughter and sons. The bad decisions of my past don’t matter to him. My efforts to become a good citizen define me in his eyes. He strives to round out my cultural education by exposing me to art, opera, and theater, and he often stresses the importance of fully investing oneself in the community. Although Windward and other prisoners here don’t understand the motivations of a man like Bruce, I see joy in his expressions as he describes the experience of helping others reach their potential. After the guards at the desk clear me, I walk down the stairs and through the aisles toward where Bruce sits. An aging athlete, he stands to embrace me and I notice his white hair is a little thinner than the last time we met, though his eyes still shine a brilliant blue. He played as an offensive lineman in college football and it’s easy to see how his size and strength would’ve powered open huge holes for his running backs. “How’ve you been?” I ask. “I’m well,” he tells me, then says that he heard from Mark. “He told me to send you his regards,” Bruce says, embracing me. “What’s he doing?” Mark was released from prison through parole. With the restrictions that prohibit felons from communicating with each other, I’m losing touch with him except for periodic updates from Bruce. “He’s working for a friend who owns retail clothing stores, doing well. A guy with his moxie always has a place in sales.” “No more school for him then? He’s not going to finish his degree?” “I don’t think so. He’s putting his life back together and his plans probably don’t include much more classroom time.” “That’s all I’m doing, putting in classroom time, and I’m grateful for every minute of it.” Bruce reaches over the table to tap my arms. “You’re steady at the gym I see. How much are you benching now?” I beam with pride. “I’m hitting 315 for triple reps, feeling stronger.” I tell Bruce about my schedule, how I’m now working out twice a day, once before breakfast and a second time during the lunch hour. “When are you eating?” “I eat at work,” I explain. “Avoiding the chow hall is still a priority for me. That’s where the chaos in here begins, with the racial segregation and the politics, meaning which power group sits in which section. My parents and sisters send me money for commissary, so I buy packs of tuna, soups, other foods that I eat at work.  Besides that, I can barter my writing or typing skills for sandwiches from guys who work in the kitchen. Great culinary experiences aren’t my priority now.” Bruce nods his head and smiles. “What did you think of the Monet prints?” To teach me about art Bruce sends postcards and magazine articles. He describes the great museums of the world and writes that he looks forward to walking through the Prado with me in Madrid, the Louvre in Paris, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He buys me subscriptions to The New Yorker and Smithsonian. “When you get out I’ve got a whole world to show you. You can visit the Stratford Festival with Carolyn and me in Canada. We’re there twice a year to celebrate the performances of Shakespeare plays.” “That’s what I need to talk with you about. Getting out.” My time in the visiting room is limited so I feel compelled to turn our conversation to something of more immediate importance. “I’ve got to be thinking about what I’m going to do after I graduate next year.” “How can I help?” “Well, a lot’s been on my mind, but I need other people to make things work. I can’t succeed without your help.” “What’s on your mind?” I explain to Bruce why and how I need to build a coalition of support. “Do you want help raising money to hire a lawyer?” Bruce misses my point so I try to elaborate. “The people who become a part of my network must join me because they believe in me, like you. I’m not interested in buying support by hiring lawyers. What I need to think about is earning support, building new friendships and relationships with people who will support my efforts to earn freedom. I’m not trying to get out now, but I’m trying to position myself for 1997, when I’ll have 10 years in.” “How should we start?” “Well, one thing I need is support from someone inside the Bureau of Prisons.” I explain my relationship with Ms. Stephens and the ways that she has intervened for me on a local level to smooth out complications with her colleagues who block me from receiving library books and other resources I need for my education. “What I need is the same kind of help from people who have national influence in the system. The obstacle is that I don’t have any direct contact with them. The leaders of the BOP are all in Washington and to them I’m just another prisoner, a number. Ms. Stephens cares because she sees how hard I work, and she goes the extra mile to help me succeed. She believes in me, just as you do.” “How can someone in the BOP help you?” “I’m not going to be able to make the progress I need from this prison. There’s way too much violence here and it’s getting worse.  We’re on lockdown at least once each week. I want to stay here until I earn my degree, but at some point after graduation I need to transfer, and I need to transfer to the best spot in the BOP for continuing my education. I’ll need help to identify where that place is and then I’ll need help getting transferred there when the time is right.” “So what’re you thinking?” “I read an article in an academic journal by Sylvia McCollum,” I explain to Bruce. “She’s the Director of Education for the entire Bureau of Prisons. Her article describes how she created a new policy that makes it mandatory for all federal prisoners who don’t have a high school equivalency to participate in GED classes. I want to build a relationship with her, to get her support. But I can’t just write her a letter because to her I’m simply another drug dealer in prison.” “That’s not true,” Bruce counters. He always sees the good in everyone and dislikes my cynicism. “She’s going to see the record you’ve been building, your progress in college.” I shake my head, disagreeing. “It’s not enough. The culture in this organization is one that trains staff members to consider prisoners as something less than human beings. She’ll only see me as a prisoner, a drug dealer, scum. I need to do something more, something to distinguish myself. I was thinking that we could write an article, a response to her article from the perspective of a prisoner and his mentor. It should describe how the GED is one step toward preparing for release, but it’s hardly sufficient.  Men who leave prison should emerge with values, skills, and resources that will truly translate into success, and a GED isn’t enough.  The Bureau of Prisons should use incentives that will encourage more prisoners to continue their education with college or vocational training.” “And what’re we going to do with the article? Send it to her?” “That’s how I need your help. Not only will we have to write the article, I need you to arrange publication. It would be one thing for me as a prisoner to write an article and send it to her. Big deal. On the other hand, if I were to write an article together with you and send it to her, that would carry more weight, more influence because not many prisoners cultivate mentorships with distinguished professors. But the best approach, I think, would be to write an article that we publish together, as the professor and the prisoner. That’s one way I would stand out, one way that she would remember my name, see that I’m different.” Bruce nods his head and agrees to help. When he returns to Chicago, he promises to make inquiries at the various peer-reviewed academic journals to see what steps we must take to submit an article for publishing consideration. It’s a process that will take several months, which suits my schedule well, as I need that time to finish my undergraduate work. “What I also need,” I tell Bruce before he leaves, “is a list of all the law schools in the United States. I need to start writing letters to see if any of the schools will allow me to earn a law degree through correspondence.” “So you’re still set on law school?” “I’m set on earning an advanced degree, something, anything more than a bachelor’s. I’m going to need unimpeachable credentials that people respect, like yours.” Bruce is a role model and I’m eager to follow his leadership, to emulate his commitment to society. He told me how he and Carolyn were volunteering their time on weekends to help homeless people in a Chicago shelter write résumés that would facilitate their prospects for employment. Bruce and Carolyn give of themselves, without expectation for return or desire for recognition. Success for Bruce comes when his efforts lead to another person’s independence or happiness. I’m determined to prove myself worthy of his generosity, of the trust and the investment he’s making in me. ******* This hard plank of steel I’m lying on influences my thought process. I’m locked in this small room with another man who uses the toilet and flushes a few feet to the right of my head. What Bruce and Carolyn do to make life better for so many people gives me a different perspective on humanity.  I know that my motivations lack the purity of Bruce’s, as I’m so much more pragmatic. I want out, so there’s always a selfish component to my actions, and that somehow cheapens them in my mind. I contemplate Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, a concept I learned about in sociology. Until a man satisfies his most basic needs he can’t evolve. My primary need is liberty, and decades may pass before I leave these walls. Everything I do up until then must prepare me for freedom. Perhaps when I’m free from concrete and steel I’ll be able to emulate Bruce more completely. I want to live as that type of a good, kind man. But I don’t know how to reconcile this desire to live with the kindness and generosity of spirit that Bruce exemplifies with the need for survival in a predatory environment. My philosophy courses have broadened my perceptions, explaining man’s purpose, his relationship to society, his quest for personal fulfillment and enlightenment. I’ve embraced lessons from Aristotle and Sun Tzu among others. Aristotle advises those who follow him “to know thyself,” while Sun Tzu emphasizes that it is equally important “to know thy enemy.” Know thyself and know thy enemy. I wrestle with these thoughts. I know I must thoroughly understand my strengths and weaknesses. I must use every resource God has given me to become stronger and to grow. Likewise, I must understand my enemies. In my case, the enemies are a corrupting environment, demeaning perceptions, and ugly prejudices I will encounter in the decades ahead, perhaps for the rest of my life. Responsibility to triumph over a system that is designed to extinguish hope and to perpetuate cycles of failure rests with me. Solely. ******* I’m grateful that Bruce takes the time to visit the American Bar Association in Chicago. He sends me a package of information that includes addresses to every ABA accredited law school in the nation. All of the schools I’ve written to have responded with disappointing news that the ABA prohibits law schools from allowing students to earn law degrees through correspondence. But there’s a sliver of hope that comes in a letter from Dr. Al Cohn, a professor at Hofstra University’s graduate school. Dr. Cohn wrote that my letter impressed the Dean of Hofstra’s law school, and the dean forwarded the letter to him. Although Hofstra can’t allow me to earn a law degree without attending school there, Dr. Cohn’s letter indicates that he might consider waiving the residency requirement if I pursue a graduate degree. Hofstra has never admitted a prisoner before, he admits, but he admires my determination to educate myself. If I earn my undergraduate degree with an acceptable grade point average, propose an acceptable area of study in which I can specialize, and complete a probationary period of conditional admittance, he will waive the requirements of taking the Graduate Records Examination and on-campus residency. Wow! Dr. Cohn tells me that Hofstra will allow me to earn a master’s degree if I meet those requirements. I’ve read that roughly 30 percent of American adults have earned university degrees, but fewer than 15 percent have graduate or professional degrees. My aspirations are not to become a lawyer, necessarily, but to earn credentials that others respect. I’m certain that the higher my level of achievement, the more I’ll be able to build a support network, one that will help me transition from prisoner to citizen. As I contemplate Dr. Cohn’s letter I can’t help but think of Mick Jagger, the rock-and-roll legend. He sings that you can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. I may not earn a law degree, but with the opportunity extended by Hofstra University I know that nothing is going to stop me from earning a master’s degree. ******* I pass my fifth Christmas in prison. It’s now 1992, I’m 28, and in only a few months Mercer University will award my undergraduate degree. This is a big deal for me. Out of more than 2,500 men locked inside USP Atlanta’s walls, I’m the only one to receive a degree. In fact, Mercer hasn’t awarded a degree to any prisoner since I’ve been in Atlanta. I’m inspired by other men who used their knowledge and prison experience to make significant contributions, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn whose eight years in a Russian prison was followed by three years in exile. His hardship awoke his muse, resulting in such classics as A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and his opus, The Gulag Archipelago, exposing readers from around the world to Russia’s oppressive prison life. Eight years, whether in Russian prison camps or the United States penitentiaries, is a long time. Through his literature Solzhenitsyn made monumental contributions to society and earned a Nobel Prize, and he inspires me. As crazy as it sounds, a seed is taking root, and I feel the bud of this thought that maybe, through hard work, I can transform the decades I’ll serve in here into something positive.  I’ve begun to accept that I may serve my entire sentence, and I need more examples like Solzhenitsyn’s. Not knowing what I can do for 21 more years, I continue reading about other men who served long sentences. One such prisoner was Nelson Mandela, the black South African activist locked in prison for 27 years by white authorities between 1962 and 1990. That length of time is comparable to what I may serve, and I take heart that multiple decades did not destroy Mandela. On the contrary, it strengthened his resolve, evidenced by his influence in ending the oppressive policies of Apartheid, and by the position he now holds as a world leader, revered throughout the international community. ******* I don’t know what it means to be an intellectual like Solzhenitsyn or a leader like Mandela, but I know what it means to face decades in prison. I also know what it means to be a man, and recently I’ve met a woman who’s reminded me of all I’ve been living without. Her name is Sarah, and she’s a lawyer. We met by chance two months ago when we were in the visiting room at the same time. My father had flown in just before Christmas to spend a weekend with me. Sarah was visiting another prisoner I knew. Under the pretense that I might need some legal advice I asked Sarah for her business card. Yet having lived for so long in an abnormal community of only men, I wanted a woman in my life more than I wanted to know anything about the law. The dance of seduction begins when I write to her, initiating an exchange of letters. She writes back. At first the correspondence is bland, tame, harmless. Soon the letters between us grow in frequency and in complexity. They’re handwritten now, not typed. I learn that she earned her degrees from NYU, that she contemplates starting her own law firm, and that she’s 30. I also know that she named her cat Snuggles, that she rollerblades, loves aerobics, and is recovering from a broken heart. She’s vulnerable. Through our exchange of letters, I’m coming to know Sarah the woman, and in my world, any connection with a woman is a gift. Desire creeps into me, threatens me. I’ve been successful in repressing or ignoring these urges that have been dormant for so long, but now they keep me awake. I remind myself where I am, what I went through with Lisa, and the goals I’m working so feverishly to complete. But another fever takes hold. Every day I ache for a letter from her, for something, any kind of sign that lets me know where this is going, how much I can escalate the heat. I don’t remember what I wrote in the letter she should’ve received today, and like a teenager, I wonder whether I went too far, revealed too much. She must know what’s going on with this exchange of letters, that I want her. It’s mail call and the guard just flicked her letter beneath my door. I see her stationary, her handwriting, and I pick up the envelope. She wrote her words yesterday, making it an exchange of three letters this week. I’m on her mind.  In the words she chooses I catch some suggestive double meanings. My confidence grows. We’re flirting and we both know it, and I want to see her again. I’m a man in the desert and she’s my oasis. I graduate next month. Mercer University is honoring me with a ceremony. I can’t travel to the campus, so my commencement will take place inside USP Atlanta, in the chapel. A hundred other prisoners will participate, receiving GED certificates or certificates for completion of basic education classes. Even though I’m a class of one, I’m invited to speak as valedictorian. Mr. Chandler authorized me to invite two visitors, and I’m choosing my sister Julie and Sarah. If Sarah accepts it may be the sign I’m looking for, confirmation that the desire I’m feeling is mutual.  

This month join the gang, along with some fresh faces in Anthony and Vic, as the club discusses different works of literature from Russia, a region with some of the greatest pieces of literature of all time! - Follow us on Twitter - Tune in on the last Saturday of each month to hear us talk live on Twitch! - Check out our Goodreads page to see what we're reading! The books: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Gavin's book) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Justin's book) The Foundation Pit by Andrei Platonov (Anthony's book) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pierce and Vic's book) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Bella's book) The Shot by Alexander Pushkin (Luke's book) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Visit the BiblioFIles Shop!In this special quarantine edition of BiblioFiles, Adam suggests that we talk about…post-apocalyptic fiction. Too soon? We discuss the difference between apocalypic and post-apocalypic fiction, the origins of the genre, our favorite titles in it, and the themes particular to this kind of setting. Referenced Works:– The Epic of Gilgamesh– The Book of Revelation – The Stand, “The Mist,” and The Shining by Stephen King – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel – The Road by Cormac McCarthy – “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley – A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra – Lord of the Flies by William Golding – Watership Down by Richard Adams – Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe – One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandyr Solzehnitsyn– Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, series directed by Douglas Mackinnon – The Good Place, directed by Michael Schur – King Lear by William Shakespeare – The Children’s Hospital by Chris AdrianWe love hearing your questions and comments! You can contact us by emailing adam@centerforlit.com, or you can visit our website www.centerforlit.com to find even more ways to participate in the conversation.

On today’s episode of The Literary Life, Angelina and Cindy interview James Banks. James is a civil servant, veteran, teacher, former academic and writer living in Austin, Texas. Prior to moving to the Lone Star State, he studied Renaissance Literature and taught at the University of Rochester. But it was only after leaving the academy that he rediscovered his passion for Shakespeare, Spenser, Chaucer and all things literary. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Weekly Standard, the Literati Quarterly, the Intercollegiate Review and elsewhere, but he is best known for being the brother of Thomas Banks and brother-in-law of Angelina Stanford. James talks about his childhood relationships with books and stories, and the massive leap he took from not being able to read to being a reader. He tells about his desire to be a teacher and his undergraduate experience. He also elaborates on how he came to his love of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. James tells why he ended up leaving academia and how he rediscovered his love of literature. He also gives some examples of how he reads so much and makes the most of his time. The Cross of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In the long, sleepless watches of the night,    A gentle face — the face of one long dead —    Looks at me from the wall, where round its head    The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. Here in this room she died; and soul more white    Never through martyrdom of fire was led    To its repose; nor can in books be read    The legend of a life more benedight. There is a mountain in the distant West    That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines    Displays a cross of snow upon its side. Such is the cross I wear upon my breast    These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes    And seasons, changeless since the day she died. Book List: (Amazon Affiliate Links) Big Wonderful Thing by Stephen Harrigan John Buchan by His Wife and Friends by Susan Tweedsmuir The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Good Things Out of Nazareth: Uncollected Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Friends The Shooting Party by Anton Chekhov The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh Cultural Amnesia by Clive James Pat Conroy The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare The Meaning of Shakespeare, Vol. 2 by Harold Goddard Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Silas Marner by George Eliot The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper Anne Bradstreet Eudora Welty The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare P. G. Wodehouse The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll On the Edge by Edward St. Aubyn War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles The Adventures of Ibn Battuta by Ibn Battuta The Aeneid by Virgil Selected Non-fictions by Jorge Luis Borges The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Upcoming Book Discussions: Check the “Upcoming Book Discussions” tab to see what is coming your way on the podcast in 2020! Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: Find Angelina at  https://angelinastanford.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Find Cindy at https://cindyrollins.net, on Instagram @cindyordoamoris and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/ Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let’s get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn What can we learn from the Gulag? About the military, about the body and soul?

Many kids have to read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in high school, and Adam did but Lisa did not.  So together we talk about this classic novel and the main reason why it's significant—for showing the true side of socialism during a time when the world didn't know gulags existed, much less what they were like.

Putting in the fence in Utopia continues with the Zen of repetition explained using Sisyphus in the underworld and his rock up the mountain, and Ivan Denisovich and his wall to nowhere in a Gulag in 1951. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/peter-smith05/message

Virginia and Louise journey to Russia minus the vodka and discuss a new best-seller set in the Cold War and a stolen manuscript, some Russian novels and the fate of dissidents who speak out against Mother Russia.The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott, 2019Dr Zhivago by Boris PasternakOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynPodcast:Putin, Prisoner of Power, Mischa Glenny, 2019, AudibleDisgraceland, Jake Brennan, true crime and musiciansNewspapers:New York Times, ‘Oleg Sentsov: Russian by Blood and Language, Ukrainian in Spirit’ by Andrew Higgins, Saturday Profile, 27 September 2019.Gulag Tourism, https://theculturetrip.com/europe/russia/articles/the-surprising-rise-of-gulag-holidays

Welcome to the Books That Made Me Podcast! In the inaugural episode, we chat to Lisa Coen & Sarah Davis Goff from Tramp Press about the most important and loved books in their lives. Highlights include a shared love of Nigel Slater, Anne Enright, the importance of horror in adolescence and the brilliance of Irish theatre. Books mentioned in this episode are:Spot/Bran books - Eric HillStone soup - folklore, unknown Peter Rabbit series - Beatrix PotterMalory Towers - Enid BlytonThe Secret Seven - Enid Blyton Assorted works - Edgar Allen Poe It - Stephen King Sula - Toni Morrison Persuasion - Jane Austen Pet Sematary - Stephen KingMaking Babies - Anne Enright The Green Road - Anne EnrightThe Lives of Eliza Lynch - Anne Enright Firestarter - Stephen King War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Outsider - Stephen King Philadelphia, Here I Come - Brian Friel A Whistle In The Dark - Tom MurphyThe Gigli Concert - Tom Murphy The Ancillary Trilogy - Ann LeckieSolar Bones - Mike McCormack Minor Monuments - Ian MaleneyThe Stand - Stephen King Running Like A Girl - Alexandra HeminsleyIn White Ink - Elskie RahillAn Unravelling - Elskie Rahill The Firestarters - Jan CarsonShow Them A Good Time - Nicole Flattery

I review the book "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. The book follows the protagonist Ivan Denosovich Shukov through a typical day in the Soviet Gulag camp. Survival is what drives the prisoners as they work in -35 degree temperatures. I highly recommend this book.

Always winter. Never Christmas. That’s January for you. We need the perfect winter reads to get us through these dreary days. The CenterForLit crew shares their personal winter predilections and suggestions about what to read (and what not to read!) in order to survive until spring. Referenced Works:– Sponsor: The Bookening Podcast– Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky– War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy– “For The Time Being” by W.H. Auden– The Cuckoo’s Calling, Lethal White by Robert Galbraith– The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling– Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse– One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn– The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom (with Elizabeth and John Sherrill)– Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier– The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis – The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens– Dickensian by BBC, available on Amazon Prime– Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson– The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé– The Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesteron– Owl Moon by Jane Yolen– Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs– Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman– The Mitten by Jan Brett – Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton– The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, Smiley’s People, A Perfect Spy by John le Carré– The Night Manager by BBC, available on Amazon Prime– Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie– The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinWe love hearing your questions and comments! You can contact us by emailing adam@centerforlit.com, or you can visit our website www.centerforlit.com to find even more ways to participate in the conversation.

The Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a towering literary figure whose novels, chronicles and essays have lifted the lid on the horrors of the Soviet gulag network, which over several decades incarcerated millions of often innocent prisoners. Born a hundred years ago, Solzhenitsyn survived the brutal conditions of a gulag in Kazakhstan and it was this harrowing experience that provided the impetus for his best-known works, starting with his novella, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and culminating in The Gulag Archipelago, a multi-volume history of the Soviet forced labour camps from 1918 to 1956. Bridget Kendall is joined by two Solzhenitsyn scholars: Professor Daniel Mahoney from Assumption College in the United States and Dr. Elisa Kriza from Bamberg University; and by Professor Leona Toker of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an expert on labour camp literature. Photo: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in Gulag clothing. (Apic/Getty Images)

It is a popular literary style today to trace through the events of one day in the life of a person. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has given us a remarkable book in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Perhaps you have read some of Jim Bishop's books, like The Day Kennedy Died or The Day Lincoln Died.There is something similar in the gospel of Mark, as Mark traces for us A Day in the Life of Jesus.

In this episode of Russian Roulette, Olya and Jeff answer the mail! (yes, it has been too long without a mailbag). Then, Olya sits down with Michael Kimmage, a professor of history at Catholic University who from 2014-2016 held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. They discuss Russian literature: the essential works (including those less known in the West); how literature expands and complicates America’s understanding of Russia (and vice versa); film, animation, and Russian normalcy; the role of books and prose in Russian politics and society; and why policymakers in Washington should read Russian literature now more than ever. For more information on Michael and for a list of his publications, click here: https://history.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/kimmage-michael/index.html For your reference and reading enjoyment, here are some of the books, poets, films, and animations discussed in the episode: Books and Poets One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich/pics/ The “Silver Age” of Russian poetry, including early works by Anna Akhmatova, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova, and Boris Pasternak, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/boris-pasternak The Brothers Karamazov, https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/0374528373 , and Crime and Punishment, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2554/2554-h/2554-h.htm, by Fyodor Dostoevsky Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fate-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590172019 The early works of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310394/there-once-lived-a-girl-who-seduced-her-sisters-husband-and-he-hanged-himself-by-ludmilla-petrushevskaya/9780143121527/ ; https://granta.com/our-circle/ A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, by Aleksander Radishchev: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Saint-Petersburg-Moscow/dp/0674485505 War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy: https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Translated-Volokhonsky-Classics-ebook/dp/B005JSZJVS Film The Irony of Fate: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073179/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl Animation Nu, Pogodi! (Just You Wait!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K1j8CoOoks As always, keep sending us mailbag questions! If you would like to have your question answered on the podcast, send it to us! Email rep@csis.org and put “Russian Roulette” in the subject line. And, if you have one, include your Twitter handle, so we can notify you publicly when we answer your question (or, if you don’t want us to, tell us that...

In this episode of Russian Roulette, Olya and Jeff answer the mail! (yes, it has been too long without a mailbag). Then, Olya sits down with Michael Kimmage, a professor of history at Catholic University who from 2014-2016 held the Russia/Ukraine portfolio on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. They discuss Russian literature: the essential works (including those less known in the West); how literature expands and complicates America’s understanding of Russia (and vice versa); film, animation, and Russian normalcy; the role of books and prose in Russian politics and society; and why policymakers in Washington should read Russian literature now more than ever. For more information on Michael and for a list of his publications, click here: https://history.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/kimmage-michael/index.html For your reference and reading enjoyment, here are some of the books, poets, films, and animations discussed in the episode: Books and Poets One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich/pics/ The “Silver Age” of Russian poetry, including early works by Anna Akhmatova, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova, and Boris Pasternak, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/boris-pasternak The Brothers Karamazov, https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/dp/0374528373 , and Crime and Punishment, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2554/2554-h/2554-h.htm, by Fyodor Dostoevsky Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fate-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590172019 The early works of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/310394/there-once-lived-a-girl-who-seduced-her-sisters-husband-and-he-hanged-himself-by-ludmilla-petrushevskaya/9780143121527/ ; https://granta.com/our-circle/ A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, by Aleksander Radishchev: https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Saint-Petersburg-Moscow/dp/0674485505 War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy: https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Translated-Volokhonsky-Classics-ebook/dp/B005JSZJVS Film The Irony of Fate: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073179/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl Animation Nu, Pogodi! (Just You Wait!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K1j8CoOoks As always, keep sending us mailbag questions! If you would like to have your question answered on the podcast, send it to us! Email rep@csis.org and put “Russian Roulette” in the subject line. And, if you have one, include your Twitter handle, so we can notify you publicly when we answer your question (or, if you don’t want us to, tell us that...

Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, Russia on December 11, 1918. There, he pursued a university education in physics and mathematics, even though his real passion was writing. When Soviet authorities discovered his writing criticizing Joseph Stalin, he was imprisoned, first for eight years, then for another two. He used his prison time to write, and much to the dismay of the Soviet leadership, managed to publish his works – sometimes within the USSR, but mostly in the West. His writing included The First Circle, The Cancer Ward and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In 1970, when he won the Nobel prize in literature, he was widely condemned by his country’s leadership. On February 13, 1975, Soviet authorities expelled him from Russia, sent him to West Germany and stripped him of his Russian citizenship. A day later, he was charged with treason. He quickly moved to Norway, then Switzerland until 1976, after which he moved to Vermont in the United States. Solzhenitsyn was just as critical of the West’s capitalist system as he was of the Soviet state. When the USSR fell, Russia dropped its treason charges against Solzhenitsyn in 1991. He returned to his homeland and was eventually honoured. In 1997, Russia recognized his work by establishing the Solzhenitsyn prize for literature. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Things get spicy as the CenterForLit crew takes on a sensitive subject: the role of politics in literature. Politics is an important part of the human experience, and so it is no surprise that it often raises its head in our best literature. But what does that mean for the way we teach political themes in literature to our students - even if we agree with the author? Why is some written political literature more artful that others? Fasten your seatbelts, because we're taking these issues to the BiblioFiles table! Referenced Works:– To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee– Plato's Republic– A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift– Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain– North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell– War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy–Great Books of the Western World by Encyclopedia Britannica, edited by Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler– A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn– The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne–The Awakening by Kate Chopin– Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe We love hearing your questions and comments! You can contact us by emailing adam@centerforlit.com, or you can visit our website www.centerforlit.com to find even more ways to participate in the conversation.  

Smuggled stories from North Korea - On this episode, recorded when the panel was giddy over the French election results, Pat and Sam delve into the recently published short stories of Bandi. The pseudonym of an unknown North Korean author (which means firefly), Bandi wrote the stories at great personal risk. They were smuggled out of the country by others and have now been published in English as "The Accusation". The panel discusses their favorites of the stories, the work's damning portrayal of the North Korean government, and the steps taken to protect the identity of this dissident writer, offering us the first fiction from someone still living in the country. Follow @Infin8Gestation on Twitter • Visit InfiniteGestation.com Show Notes & Links Bandi The Accusation One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Patty Hearst Arduous March (North Korean famine) North Korea at Night Third Reich Trilogy by Richard J. Evans The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a Nation, 1933-39 by Charlotte Beradt The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Böll Love/Hate H.P. Lovecraft – Halloween Special | Episode 016 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

There are some thinkers who see the history of humanity as one great progression toward true freedom. But is mankind meant for liberty? What role does bondage or restraint play in shaping the human experience? In today's episode we turn to the great authors to see what they had to say about this issue. Yes, yes Dostoevsky comes up again. How could he not when we're talking about bondage? But we tried really, really hard to expand our authorial reach this week...Referenced Works:–Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson–The Wall by Peter Sis–One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn–The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky–I am David/ North to Freedom by Anne Holm–Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie–The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain–The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne–Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare–Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh–Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens We love hearing your questions and comments! You can contact us by emailing adam@centerforlit.com, or you can visit our website www.centerforlit.com to find even more ways to participate in the conversation.

TFSP Book Report: One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Tales from The Silent Planet

In our ongoing quest to become better librarians by reading every genre (regardless of our actual interest) we tackle Books in Translation.   Listen to your hosts Anna Ferri, Meghan Whyte, Matthew Murray, and Jorge Cardenas discuss the reasons for reading books in translation, publishing barriers to international works, the importance/effect of a translator, which language should you read a book in, the Canadian context, grants to read War and Peace, and what makes a great book. Your Hosts This Episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Jorge Cardenas | Matthew Murray Recommended One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; translated by H.T. Willetts (Russian) If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino; translated by William Weaver (Italian) Bitter Rose by Martine Delvaux; translated by David Homel (Quebec) Closely Watched Trains by by Bohumil Hrabal; translated by Edith Pargeter (Czech) Silk by Alessandro Baricco; translated by Guido Waldman (Italian) Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa; translated by Gregory Rabassa (Peru) The Rights of the Reader by Daniel Pennac; illustrations by Quentin Blake; translated by Sarah Adams (French) HHhH by Laurent Binet; translated by Sam Taylor (French) Arvida by Samuel Archibald; translated by Donald Winkler (Quebec) Other Books Read/Listened 70% Acrylic 30% Wool by Viola Di Grado; translated by Michael Reynolds (Italian) The Cyclist Conspiracy by Svetislav Basara; translated by Randall A. Major (Serbian) The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery; translated by Alison Anderson (French) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian) The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin; translated by Ken Liu (Chinese) Life-Changing Magic of Tidying up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondō; translated by Cathy Hirano (Japanese) (audiobook) DNF The Alphabet House by Jussi Adler-Olse; translated by Steve Schein (Danish) The Dinner by Herman Koch; translated by Sam Garrett (Dutch) Questions: Do you seek out or avoid works in translation? Do you ever feel like you are missing context/need more footnotes? Have you read a book than was significantly better or worse in one language than another? Are there genres that exist only (or predominantly) in non-English languages? Links/Other Good-Bye and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi - “a book translated from Japanese to Spanish to English and purportedly released without Tatsumi’s knowledge” 15 books with more characters than you can keep track of - Infographic Valeria Luiselli Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire Translation Wars - New Yorker article about translations of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky Marathon reading of War and Peace - BBC 2016 BBC adaptation of War and Peace - Wikipedia Why Americans don’t read foreign fiction - The Daily Beast Why do you read translations? - Goodreads Icelandic christmas book spree - NPR article “Do MPs ever abuse Hansard?” - “the late Philippe Gigantes, during a filibuster in the Senate, read one of his books into the record, which contributed not only to the filibuster but also provided a comp[l]ete French translation he later had published.” Japanese Golf Comics Books translated into Klingon - “Four Klingon translations of works of world literature have been published: ghIlghameS (the Epic of Gilgamesh), Hamlet (Hamlet), paghmo’ tIn mIS (Much Ado About Nothing) and pIn’a’ qan paQDI’norgh (Tao Te Ching).” Meanwhile in Canada: Literary Translation in Canada - l'Association des traducteurs et traductrices littéraires du Canada/Literary Translators' Association of Canada Why aren’t there more translations in Canada publishing? - The National Post (includes numbers on English/French translation grants) The forgotten mimics - The National Post (includes the House of Anansi controversy) Canada Council Translation grants: National International Quebec SODEC grants - (In French only) Ambos - magazine of Quebec translated literature aimed at English audiences Places to find reading suggestions: Reading the world - review Funny/uplifting Arabic novels - list 2015 Nobel prize in literature - The Guardian article on Svetlana Alexievich Translation awards - Wikipedia Three Percent - a resource for international literature Asymptote Journal - World lit   Canadian books in translation fall 2015 - 49th parallel A book that was originally published in another language - Book Riot Read harder challenge Other podcasts Three Percent Podcast - A whole ongoing podcast on the topic of translated and international literature connected with the Three Percent blog mentioned above Fiction in translation - The Guardian podcast Bestsellers around the world - Books on the Nightstand podcast Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the Books in Translation people in our club read (or tried to read), and follow us on Twitter!

In GBA 218 we get better acquainted with Shaun Atwood. He talks about being "the Walter White of the Ecstasy market in Arizona", struggling to survive in maximum and medium security prisons, starting a blog from the inside jail, playing chess with the Mafia, racism within criminal justice systems, teaching creative writing to prisoners, the Prison Industrial Complex, prohibition, the War on Drugs and more. Shaun plugs: Trilogy of memoir books: Hard Time, Party Time, Prison Time Website: http://www.shaunattwood.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shaunattwood Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shaun-Attwood/228166633865948 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/derickatt/featured Blog: Jon's Jail Journal: http://jonsjailjournal.blogspot.co.uk/ I plug: My preview on 23rd July: http://www.facebook.com/events/1598769017027875/ GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/ http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/ http://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/ We mention: Spark London: http://sparklondon.com HMP Thameside: http://www.hmpthameside.org/ To Kill A Mockingbird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird Hard Time: Wolf of Wall Street: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film) Scarface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_(1983_film) Pulp Fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction Rambo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo_(film_series) Breaking Bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad OJ Simpson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: http://www.leap.cc/ Schopenhauer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn Shawshank Redemption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_Scream Johann Hari on Little Atoms: http://www.littleatoms.com/podcast/johann-hari-chasing-scream Orange is the New Black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Is_the_New_Black Queen Victoria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria Freud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud Fred West: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West David Nutt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt The Bush Family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family Corrections Corporation of America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America Three Strikes Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law California Prison Guards Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_Officers_Association Broadcom: https://www.broadcom.com/ Chris Grayling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Grayling Kill the Messenger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film) Gary Webb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb Nancy Reagan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reagan Just Say No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No Ronald Reagan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan George Bush Sr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush Bill Clinton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton Contras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: April 30th, 1986 --- MacGyver learns the hard way that, in Soviet Russia, Cuckoo's Nest flies over you MISSION: Pete flies off to Russia to evacuate the daughter of a recently assassinated anti-government activist, only to learn her father is alive and captive in an asylum for political prisoners. Pete and Mac pose as doctor and patient to infiltrate the asylum and break the activist out. This week's highlights include: Here's a link to the Mythbusters filament lockpicking test. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (History) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and critic of Soviet totalitarianism. He helped to raise global awareness of the gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system. While his writings were long suppressed in the USSR, he wrote many books, most notably The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, August 1914 and Cancer Ward. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Check out the article on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn Watch S1E21: "A Prisoner of Conscience" on CBS's website or check the alternative streamability of this episode here.