Podcast appearances and mentions of Joan Didion

Fan favorite Sarah Hepola is back! Sarah has visited The Unspeakable to talk about everything from alcoholism to #MeToo to the changes in the media landscape and literary world. Today she returns to discuss a recent solo episode she recorded for Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em, the podcast she co-hosts with journalist Nancy Rommelmann. In that episode, Sarah reflected on a semester spent teaching literature and writing to college undergraduates in Dallas, Texas, where she lives. Contrary to public assumptions, the students turned out to be relatively open to new ideas and not hell-bent on canceling their teacher. In this conversation, Sarah talks about what literature the students responded most positively to, what assignments they didn't like (spoiler: Joan Didion) and what they taught her about the ever-changing English language. Sarah and Meghan also talk about writing memoir, the contradictory social codes of dating, and why little girls touch each other's hair so much—and why Meghan hated it!   Sarah stayed overtime for bonus content that was so good that Meghan decided to release it along with the main episode. In that portion, they talk about motherhood, non-motherhood, aging, dating, sex and pornography and why older women are so popular with young men on dating apps.    Guest Bio:   Sarah Hepola is the co-host, with Nancy Rommelmann, of the podcast Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em. She is the author of the bestselling memoir Blackout and her essays have appeared in the New York Times magazine, the Atlantic, Elle, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Guardian,  Salon, and Texas Monthly. Find her at https://sarahhepola.com.   Relevant links: https://smokeempodcast.substack.com/p/smoking-diary-16-college-kids-today#details   https://smokeempodcast.substack.com/p/on-not-being-a-mother  

Chelsea and Paul Scheer (How Did This Get Made, Unspooled) get prolific for this wide-ranging episode that covers SIX MENSmoirs - Quentin Tarantino, Don Simpson, Matthew Perry, Kevin Pollak, Paul Newman, and Joan Didion's husband John Gregory Dunne!  From penile implants, to the Heidi Fleiss connection, to Quentin Tarantino's problematic impressions, it's a festival of fuckery. Plus, some last looks at Paris, Pam, and Minka, and discussions about how much therapy should be in your memoir.   For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez Become a member of the Celebrity Book Club Patreon! Thank you to our sponsors!  Tanteo Tequila -- @tanteotequila Natalie's Juice Company -- @nataliesoj Pattern Brands - @patternbrands Poketo -- @poketo YIELD -- @yielddesignco GIR -- @gir

This week Josh and Dru discuss 2019's Saint Maud. From Wiki: "Saint Maud is a 2019 British psychological horror film written and directed by Rose Glass in her feature directorial debut. The story follows hospice nurse Maud (portrayed by Morfydd Clark), a recent convert to Roman Catholicism, who becomes obsessed with a former dancer in her care (Jennifer Ehle), believing she must save her soul by any means necessary."Also! Josh watched two films of 1981's Dragonslayer starring Peter MacNicol and 1981's Inseminoid, an Alien rape. Drusilla watched Singapore Sling aka The Man Who Loved a Corpse by director Nikos Nikolaidis. They also discuss A24, Ghostbusters 2, Veep, Sophie's Choice, Spider Baby, Nekromantik, House of Psychotic Women, Pink Flamingos, The Wild Boys, After Blue, Evil Dead Rise, Barbarian, Jeanne Dielman, Enys Men, Take Shelter, A Dark Song, Benedetta, Joan Didion, Mamie Gummer, NEXT WEEK: Mother's Day episode! BEAU IS AFRAIDWebsite: http://www.bloodhauspod.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/BloodhausPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/Email: bloodhauspod@gmail.com         Drusilla's art: https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/Drusilla's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hydesister/Drusilla's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/drew_phillips/       Joshua's website: https://www.joshuaconkel.com/Joshua's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshuaConkelJoshua's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/Joshua's Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshuaconkel

Joan Didion was bored. She was four or five. She was bothering her mother. She was asking for something to do.Her mother could have sent her away. Told her to stop. Told her to figure it out for herself. Instead, she went over to a drawer and pulled out a notebook. Here, she said, if you're bored “then write something. Then you can read it.” The little girl was taken aback. “I had just learned to read,” she later explained, “so this was a thrilling kind of moment. The idea that I could write something–and then read it!”✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com

David Grann is one of the top narrative nonfiction writers at work today; a staff writer at The New Yorker, he has previously combined a flair for adventure writing with deep historical research in acclaimed books including “The Lost City of Z” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.” His latest, “The Wager,” applies those talents to a seafaring tale of mutiny and murder, reconstructing the fate of a lost British man-of-war that foundered on an island off the coast of Patagonia in the 18th century. On this week's podcast, Grann tells the host Gilbert Cruz that one of the things that most drew him to the subject was the role that storytelling itself played in the tragedy's aftermath.“The thing that really fascinated me, that really caused me to do the book,” Grann says, “was not only what happened on the island, but what happened after several of these survivors make it back to England. They have just waged a war against virtually every element, from scurvy to typhoons, to tidal waves, to shipwreck, to starvation, to the violence of their own shipmates. Now they get back to England after everything they've been through, and they are summoned to face a court marshal for their alleged crimes on the island. And if they don't tell a convincing tale, they're going to get hanged. I always think of that lovely line from Joan Didion, where she said we all tell ourselves stories in order to live — but in their case, it was quite literally true.”We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.

Brea and Mallory discuss giving a book a second chance, review a very fancy bookmark, and answer a very controversial question about letting other people read your books. Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!Reading Glasses MerchRecommendations StoreSponsors -GreenChefwww.greenchef.com/GLASSES60CODE: GLASSES60Ever tried Microdosing?Visit Microdose.com and use GLASSES for 30% off + Free Shipping Links -Reading Glasses Facebook GroupReading Glasses Goodreads GroupAmazon Wish ListNewsletterLibro.fmBLBMH Fancy BookmarkTo join our Slack channel, email us proof of your Reading-Glasses-supporting Maximum Fun membership!Books Mentioned - Stone Blind by Natalie HaynesThe Crane Husband by Kelly BarnhillGirls Make Movies by Mallory O'Meara!The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

While now a prominent and controversial surf journalist, Chas Smith started his career as a war correspondent in the Middle East. Obsessed with Joan Didion, but really working in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, he embarked on a series of often ill-fated reporting trips to Yemen and Lebanon. Smith's adventures ranged from discovering new surfing beaches on the Arabian Peninsula to being kidnapped by Hezbollah. His experiences are chronicled in Reports from Hell with his trademark wry, self-effacing, and ironic, but also insightful, informed, and even touching, prose. Smith's previous books include Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing and Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair. In 2022, he published Blessed Are the Bank Robbers: The True Adventures of an Evangelical Outlaw, a family history of his Bible preaching and bank robbing uncle. Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he's not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

While now a prominent and controversial surf journalist, Chas Smith started his career as a war correspondent in the Middle East. Obsessed with Joan Didion, but really working in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, he embarked on a series of often ill-fated reporting trips to Yemen and Lebanon. Smith's adventures ranged from discovering new surfing beaches on the Arabian Peninsula to being kidnapped by Hezbollah. His experiences are chronicled in Reports from Hell with his trademark wry, self-effacing, and ironic, but also insightful, informed, and even touching, prose. Smith's previous books include Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing and Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair. In 2022, he published Blessed Are the Bank Robbers: The True Adventures of an Evangelical Outlaw, a family history of his Bible preaching and bank robbing uncle. Michael G. Vann is a professor of world history at California State University, Sacramento. A specialist in imperialism and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, he is the author of The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empires, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (Oxford University Press, 2018). When he's not reading or talking about new books with smart people, Mike can be found surfing in Santa Cruz, California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Part 2 of our Meet Me in the Bathroom 2 part specialWriter Lizzy Goodman and I discuss the New York music scene, Joan Didion, collecting, fashion, imposter syndrome and how she came to write the oral history of the 00's New York music scene.

Relationships with cities are very much like relationships with people. Sometimes even stronger, or more formative. You fall into them feeling like a child. Everything is new and exciting, endless opportunities, everything is possible. You wake up in a rented bed, smiling not knowing what the day will bring, and you lie down at night taking a long exhale, perfectly overwhelmed by all new smells and sounds and sights and sounds. You feel like your life has restarted. You imagine yourself in this new relationship, who you could be now, who you could grow to be, the life you could live out. Shiny. Everything is shiny. But you change and sometimes the person, or city, you're in a relationship with does not, or just changes in a different direction, and one day you find yourself in an argument and you can't seem to reach each other. Like suddenly you speak two different languages and nothing translates. You flail your arms, raising the white flag, not understanding where you're being misunderstood, but off you both go and there's a separation growing in between you. Something has changed.  I left Berlin many times between then and now. Asked for a break, needed to see if maybe there was another match for me out there. Something always felt a little off but I never managed to put my finger on it. I felt in love, but also constantly daydreaming about something else. You know those people who say you just know it's right when you meet the right one? I guess I still want to believe in that. I guess I still want to feel that, certain, knowing this is it. I had secret affairs with Bali, with Barcelona, with Lisbon, with Prague… but I always came back. For a person, for a job, the wind brought me back, a flight… I always ended up riding a bike through Friedrichshain in July. Flip flops and cheap wine from the corner shop. And I always found my way back to moments of falling asleep smiling, thinking, “maybe I could be happy here”.  Joan Didion describes her time in New York as never really realizing she lived out a life there, like she only planned on staying for a few more months. But suddenly 8 years went by and she had lived out a life there, without meaning to. That's how I feel about every place I've ever lived out a life in, I never actually meant to stay anywhere, just a few months, which sometimes turned into a bit more. I wonder what it would feel like to actually intend to stay somewhere, live out a life, make some plans. It was somewhere on the streets of Budapest that I realized I have reached the beginning of an ending. I have started my leaving. Like that moment in a relationship when you know there is no saving. You stand empty in front of someone who used to make you feel a million feelings per second and suddenly you feel nothing at all. And even though it will take months, maybe even a year, you know the breakup started for you in that second, and one day you'll say goodbye for the last time and it will feel heavy and free at the same time, because endings are always beginnings and they carry you forward, always to something new and different.  Where to next? Not sure, I know I'll find it when I get there. Maybe Porto. Maybe Prague. Maybe I'll spend a few months dancing to rhythms in Ibiza. Maybe something brand new. I always wanted to visit Canada. Maybe a few months in New York? I have no one who will miss me, nothing pulling me back. Maybe I'll go nowhere at all, for a while. Floating somewhere in between, feeling everything, holding on to nothing.

March 2023 Dante's Old South Alicia Blue It's difficult to pin down exact musical influences on Alicia Blue's Inner Child Work—and that's exactly how the California singer-songwriter likes it. Although her folk roots are never far from the surface, the album encompasses dreamy indie-rock ("Dog Days in L.A."), delicate pop meditations ("Saline Waters"), '90s alternative rock ("Dirty Hippie"), and even Tori Amos-esque introspection ("Fine"). Growing up in Los Angeles, Blue admired authors like Jack Kerouac and Joan Didion, as well as songwriter/poets like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen.  Inspired by music mentors such as the late Malcolm Clark Hayes, Jr., who had recorded for Liberty Records and toured with Little Richard in his youth, Blue found her identity as an insightful, poetic lyricist who isn't afraid to get deeply personal. Her songs grapple with long-overdue emotional reckonings, facing mortality and taking control of the turmoil in your life. Inner Child Work is an album that finds Blue examining who she was—and setting her sights on where she wants to be.  "This album and my existence as an artist come from a need to connect and develop relationships—yet simultaneously I've always felt like this lone candle in a dark room," she says. "My artistry and the album have this wildness to them. But I can also feel this softening happening. Inner Child Work is caught right at the point of in-between, which I would call healing." Instagram.com/aliciabluemusic Twitter.com/aliciabluemusic Tiktok: @aliciabluemusic Facebook.com/aliciabluemusic Surrender Hill As the songwriters behind Surrender Hill, Robin and Afton Salmon play more than 200 shows annually, sharpening their blend of soul, country, and rock & roll one gig at a time. They aren't just an Americana duo; they are full-time world travelers, too, funneling their experiences into the story-driven songs and autobiographical anthems that fill albums like A Whole Lot of Freedom and their latest, Just Another Honky Tonk in a Quiet Western Town. Many of Surrender Hill's songs respond to the modern moment — songs about division, struggle, survival, and redemption, anchored by melodic hooks and diverse arrangements. Some songs nod to the band's longtime appreciation for mellow, melancholic Americana music. Others skew closer to honky-tonk and western swing, influenced by larger-than-life Texans like Bob Wills and Willie Nelson. facebook.com/surrenderhill instagram.com/surrenderhillmusic youtube.com/surrenderhillmusic linktr.ee/surrenderhill  Michael Amidei is a musician, author, and podcaster based out of Denver, Colorado. He is the leader of the world-famous Flying W Wranglers, an author of books such as "The Fall", "The Adventure Chooses You", and "The Path" and is the host of "The Michael Amidei Show" and co-host of "This Business Of Music & Poetry".  Instagram: www.Instagram.com/MichaelAmidei Facebook: www.Facebook.com/MichaelAmidei www.MichaelAmidei.com www.FlyingW.com Special Thanks Goes to: Mercer University Press: www.mupress.org Woodbridge Inn: www.woodbridgeinnjasper.com Autism Speaks: www.autismspeaks.org Mostly Mutts: www.mostlymutts.org The Red Phone Booth: www.redphonebooth.com Liberty Trust Hotel: https: www.libertytrusthotel.com The host, Clifford Brooks', The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics and Athena Departs are available everywhere books are sold. His chapbook, Exiles of Eden, is only available through my website. To find them all, please reach out to him at: cliffordbrooks@southerncollectiveexperience.com  Check out his Teachable courses on thriving with autism and creative writing as a profession here: www.brooks-sessions.teachable.com

After a spate of more or less contemporary horror novels set in and around New York, Victor LaValle's latest book, “Lone Women,” opens in 1915 as its heroine, Adelaide Henry, is burning down her family's Southern California farmhouse with her dead parents inside, then follows her to Montana, where she moves to become a homesteader with a mysteriously locked steamer trunk in tow.“Nothing in this genre-melding book is as it seems,” Chanelle Benz writes in her review. “The combination of LaValle's agile prose, the velocity of the narrative and the pleasure of upended expectations makes this book almost impossible to put down.”LaValle visits the podcast this week to discuss “Lone Women,” and tells the host Gilbert Cruz that writing the novel required putting himself into a Western state of mind.“There was the Cormac McCarthy kind of writing, which is more Southern," he says, “but certainly has that feeling of the mythic and the grand. But I also got into writers like Joan Didion and Wallace Stegner, even though that's California: the feeling of the grand but also spare nature of the prose. So it was less about reading, say, the old Western writers — well, they were Western writers but not writing westerns, if that makes sense. And then, if I'm honest, I also was very steeped in, my uncle used to make me watch John Wayne films with him when I was a kid. And so I felt like that was another kind of well that I was dipping into, in part for what I might do but also what I might not do.”We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.

This week, we turn to non-fiction and events in a decade of U.S. history that is unknown to most Americans. The 1920's were known for remarkable social change. In the wake of World War I, there was cultural exuberance, the first real skyscrapers, jazz age, flappers, the Charleston, and also prohibition. There was also a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, and surprising to many, it came in the north. As award-winning journalist Timothy Egan writes in his remarkable new book to be released April 4th A Fever in the Heartland, the Klan held a lot of power in the state of Indiana. As a vicious, sadistic, charlatan, Eagan says the KKK leader David C. Stephenson encouraged millions in Indiana alone to join the Klan. Egan says one in three white men in the state, not to mention women and children, took the oath. And this in a state that had lost 25,000 Union soldiers in the Civil War just 50 years previous. Egan writes that Stephenson thought himself above the law - “I am the law” he declared. But his brutal treatment of one woman, largely unknown to history, Madge Oberholtzer, brought him down and began the disintegration of the Klan, not only in Indiana, but in the rest of the country. It's a sobering story well told by Egan. One, we felt, worthy of attention by all of us. Books mentioned in the podcast: A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith by Timothy Egan Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West by Timothy Egan Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan The Good Rain by Timothy Egan The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Blue Nights by Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

“I'm so interested in the moment when the reader takes over … I wanted it to be a book that feels like I'm walking alongside the reader, learning as they learn.” Katherine May's first book, Wintering, was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble 2020 Book of the Year, and we've been waiting, waiting, waiting for her follow-up, Enchantment. Katherine joins us on the show to talk about the importance of humor, holding space for joy and curiosity and wonder in her work, journaling (and the scrappy beginnings of all her books), hierophany, the memoirist's terror, her admiration for the work of Joan Didion and much more in a charming, laughter-filled conversation with Jenna Seery, Associate Producer of Poured Over. And we end the episode with TBR Topoff book recommendations from Marc and Jamie. Featured Books (Episode) Enchantment by Katherine May Wintering by Katherine May Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susannah Clarke Featured Books (TBR Topoff) And Yet by Kate Baer The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer This episode of Poured Over was produced and hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang. Poured Over is brought to you by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and the booksellers of Barnes & Noble. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).

EPISODE 1384: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to BOTTOMS UP AND THE DEVIL LAUGHS author Kerry Howley about her journey through the Deep State and what this suggests about the existence of "truth" and "reality" in contemporary America Kerry Howley is an essayist, screenwriter, and the author of Thrown, a New York Times Notable Book, New York Times Editor's Choice, and pick for best-of-the-year lists in Time, Salon, Slate, and many other venues. Writing in Salon, Lydia Kiesling called Thrown “extraordinary,” “incredibly bracing,” and “reminiscent of some of the boldest voices of twentieth-century fiction.” Novelist Lev Grossman called it “probably the most bizarre and fascinating book I've read this year” in the pages of Time, adding: “The precision of Howley's prose reminds me of Joan Didion or David Foster Wallace. She writes like somebody in ecstasy.” Thrown has been translated into four languages. Howley is the screenwriter behind WINNER, a comic coming of age story adapted from her profile of an endearing young whistleblower. The film stars Emilia Jones, Connie Britton, and Zach Galifianakus, and will be released in 2023. Howley's second nonfiction novel, Bottom's Up and the Devil Laughs, is forthcoming from Knopf. In 2020 Howley left a professorship at the University of Iowa's celebrated Nonfiction MFA program to join the staff of New York Magazine. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Best American Sportswriting, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper's. A Lannan Foundation Fellow and two-time National Magazine Award nominee, she lives in Los Angeles. Her latest book is BOTTOMS UP AND THE DEVIL LAUGHS: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE DEEP STATE (2023) Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sisters conclude their death and spectacle series with further thoughts on the dead deprived of commemoration.  From the repository of graves on New York City's Hart Island to the erasure of historic Black cemeteries in the American South, they explore the ways in which human remains are stratified, relegated and discarded in ways that lay bare the injustice of life.Or, in the case of Body Worlds, forever plastinated and displayed for public view—without their owners' consent—in what Edward Rothstein described as an act of “aestheticized grotesqueness.”  What makes certain land and bodies sacred (or literally, saintly) while rendering others disposable? What can the living learn from the politics of remembering and forgetting remains? Sources cited include Joan Didion's South and West, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Eliza Franklin's Lost Legacy Project for the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, Susan Sontag's "On Photography," the Equal Justice Initiative's Community Remembrance Project, Jacqueline Goldsby's A Spectacular Secret, Dorothea Lange's 1956 photographs of California's Berryessa Valley, Marita Sturkin's “The Aesthetics of Absence,” Seth Freed Wessler's 2022 ProPublica investigation “How Authorities Erased a Historical Black Cemetery in Virginia,” Robert McFarlane's 2019 New Yorker piece “The Invisible City Beneath Paris,” Melinda Hunt's Hart Island Project (www.hartisland.net), Nina Bernstein's 2016 New York Times piece “Unearthing the Secrets of New York's Mass Graves,” “Young Ruin” from 99% Invisible, and NPR's 2006 reporting on ethical concerns over Body Worlds.Cover photo of Hart Island's common trench burials is by Jacob Riis, 1890.

ATELIER VISIT WITH WRITER KRISTEN MILLARES YOUNG: Recently we listened back through all of our ATELIER VISIT installments and, wow, it's a series just too damn good to leave scattered and languishing in the depths of our episode archives. So, for your pleasure, dear listener, we're gathering all these episodes together and running them back to back. These aren't interviews -- they're more intimate and creative than that -- and they're all unique in form and focus. Each is an atmospheric journey into the brilliant imaginative mind, process, and working environment of an artist sure to inspire you. You're welcome! KRISTEN MILLARE YOUNG's debut novel, Subduction (Red Hen Press) was named a Finalist for two International Latino Book Awards in 2020. Her writing appears in The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Review, Joyland Magazine, Psychology Today, Hobart, Crosscut, Moss, and elsewhere. Kristen was the researcher for the New York Times team that produced "Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek," which won a Pulitzer and a Peabody. Visit KristenMYoung.com. Mentioned in this episode: writing while standing; showing your work; taking your time; Makah Tribe; Luis Alberto Urrea; emotion and rigor; Frida Kahlo; Joan Didion; Literary Hub; mica and peeling rock; Sappho; ecstasy; mother goddess worshipping cults; Elissa Washuta; Washuta's "White Magic"; Tin House Books; Melissa Febos; Febos's "Girlhood"; Hugo House. Music: "Walkman Snail Shoes" by Peter Spacey; "Blue Moon Cafe" by Stefano Mastronardi; "Where I Find Rest" by Sun Wash; "Bloody You" by Racoon Racoon; "Clouds" by Stanley Gurvich. (Music used by courtesy of the artists through a licensing agreement with Artlist.) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/in-the-atelier/support

Authors Alix Kates Schulman and Joan Didion make the same observation from their very different experiences: during their long marriages, they and their husbands didn't age. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin's book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,' a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Today, we're joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and critic Hilton Als! To begin, we unpack his approach to writing profiles (5:50), inspired by the words of photographer Diane Arbus (6:10), and how he captured Prince in a new, two-part memoir entitled My Pinup (7:55). Then, Als reflects on his upbringing in Brownsville, Brooklyn (10:25), a timely passage from his 2020 essay "Homecoming" (14:40), and formative works by writers Adrienne Kennedy (20:58) and the late Joan Didion (27:05). On the back-half, we discuss the interplay of memory and writing (36:38), Hilton's writing routine (40:55), his sources of hope today (44:30), and to close, a dialogue from Jean Rhys' unfinished autobiography Smile Please (48:25).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Mountains of California by John Muir (1882) vs Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1968).

HOST: Anne HillmanGUESTS:Rachel Bernhardt and Julie Raymond-Yakoubian, Alaska End of Life AllianceKris Green, Death CafeLINKS:Death Cafe, Anchorage Alaska End of Life Alliance:Death DoulasFuneral HomesAlaska Laws and RegulationsHospice and Palliative CareAdvanced DirectivesGrief and Bereavement SupportHome FuneralsOther Alaska End of Life Alliance resourcesFive WishesGUEST SUGGESTED READING:"Notes for the Everlost: A field guide to grief" by Kate Inglis"The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion]]>

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As the podcast approaches the 5-years mark since its return, Todd revisits his Media 101 episode and further explores why the for-profit media sucks. (Hint: see the title!) Also, how personal attachments corrupt an already frail sense of basic reason, why emotionally compromised victims (and others)  should never be consulted, and how a supposedly idealistic cultist "morality" eventually seeks out and crucifies its traitorous blasphemers & heretics, like Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. Segment 2 starts (27:30) with an overdue return to Joan Didion's essay (and handy extremist test!) On Morality, transitions toward the Woke Book of Shouldism, Haidt's elephant, and steers into Toddzilla's plea for Sausage Party Hope in segment 3 (1:02:40).   "ToddzillaX" on most social media. LIKE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjdLR140l--HufeRSAnj91A https://toddzillax.substack.com https://www.twitch.tv/toddzillax https://www.escapingthecave.com/   Music by Yellow Pills!  https://open.spotify.com/artist/7rDvBzvGcNPV3BYZ1n5VdZ    

Sarah Bagby spent years working at Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita, Kansas, before taking over the reigns of ownership. She walks us through the store's rich history and shares some of the best-selling titles, including a few spring 2023 releases that she predicts will be hits. Books We Talk About: I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, Inciting Joy by Ross Gay, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, Continental Drift by Russell Banks, Devotions by Mary Oliver, The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Stout, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, Search by Michelle Huneven, Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson, I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai, Blaze Me a Sun by Christoffer Carlsson, Spare by Prince Harry.

Plus a listener's email that gets Annabelle and Laura in their feelings.Mentioned in the ShowThe Hammer Museum's exhibit on Joan DidionThings You Should Stop Worrying About This WeekWorriesBanished wordsBoba tea robot Billionaire brain implantsPillows that breathe This episode is sponsored by…Microdose GummiesMicrodose Gummies deliver perfect, entry-level doses of THC that help you feel just the right amount of good. To get free shipping & 30% off your first order, go to Microdose.com, and use code TINY Do YOU have a tiny victory to share? Call the Tiny Victories Hotline: (323) 285-1675We want folks to share their tiny victories on our hotline because, frankly, we'll assume we're just talking into the void every week and nothing matters. Prove us wrong. Did you finally do that thing you were putting off? Tiny victory! Reconnect with someone you haven't been in touch with for ages? Victory! We only ask that you try to keep messages to under a minute so we're able to play it on the show.If you prefer, you can record a tiny victory on your phone and then email us the audio. Email: TinyVictories@maximumfun.orgHOW TO @ USTwitter@GetTinyPod@LAGurwitch@ImLauraHouse@Swish (producer Laura Swisher)Instagram@GetTinyPod

Thank you for tuning in to Episode 246 of the Down Cellar Studio Podcast. Full show notes with photos can be found on my website. This week's segments included: Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins On the Needles, Hook or Bobbins From the Armchair Knitting in Passing KAL News Life in Focus On a Happy Note Quote of the Week Off the Needles, Hook or Bobbins Perry's Socks Yarn: Patons Kroy FX  Pattern: OMG Heel by Megan Williams ($5 Knitting Pattern available on Ravelry) Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm) Ravelry Project Page Megg's 2nd Nanaimo Cardigan Pattern: Nanaimo Cardigan by by Tara-Lynn Morrison Yarn:  Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick & Quick in Colorway: Abalone  (5 skeins) Needles: US 13 – 9.0 mm, US 15 – 10.0 mm, US 19 – 15.0 mm (body) Size XS/S  Ravelry Project Page I added 2 sets of short rows before the bottom ribbing. Hattie's Cat Amigurumi Pattern: Siamese Cat Amigurumi by Mareeva Olga available on Ravelry, FireflyCrochet website & Etsy $6.40 Hook: C (2.75 mm) Yarn: Worsted Weight Acrylic from stash: Magenta with sparkle, Silver with sparkle, Purple. Ravelry Project Page Friends in Fiber Socks Yarn: Friends in Fiber Superwash Merino Nylon (75/25) in the Fibery Jewels Teal Speckle Colorway Pattern: OMG Heel by Megan Williams ($5 Knitting Pattern available on Ravelry) Needles: US 1.5 (2.5 mm) Ravelry Project Page These were my New Year's Cast on socks. 56 sts. 8.5 inches of knitting before starting the toe. On the Needles, Hook or Bobbins Mini Skein Hexagon Blanket  Pattern: Basic Crochet Hexagon Pattern & Tips from Make Do and Crew Website & YouTube Tutorial Hook: F (3.75 mm) Yarn: Mini skeins from 2022 agirlandherwool Advent Calendar, 24 Days of Cheer Swap minis + other scraps/swap yarn Ravelry Project Page From the Armchair Watching: Severance on Apple TV+ Ted Lasso on Apple TV+ Reading: The Vacationers by Emma Straub. Bookshop Affiliate Link. Amazon Affiliate Link. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Bookshop Affiliate Link.  Getting Me Cheap by Amanda Freeman & Lisa Dodson. Bookshop Affiliate Link. Note: Some links are listed as Amazon Affiliate Links. If you click those, please know that I am an Amazon Associate and I earn money from qualifying purchases.Knitting in Passing One of my omg sock students Karen reached out via email with a photo of the 8 pairs of socks she knit and gifted for Christmas after taking my class at the beginning of the year!!  Suzanne, SewRunKnit, sent chemo caps for Mom. She chose one and donated the others to the MGH Cancer Center; the next day they were gone. KAL News Pigskin Party'22: The Official Hashtag is #DCSPigskinParty22 Pigskin Landing Page on the Down Cellar Studio Website. Start Here Thread in the Ravelry Group Link to the Official Rules Player Registration- Google Form Check out our amazing Sponsors! Click here for the Google doc with their websites and Instagram profiles.  Check out the list of available Coupons from our amazing sponsors- Ravelry Link. Google Doc. Check out the Pigskin Exclusive Items in this Ravelry Thread Important Updates in this Episode Tune in to hear if you're a December interception winner of a December participation prize winner. January Self Care Interception: hosted by Fitness by Mara. Get your Bingo Card PDF Here or the JPG here. Find all of the details in this Google Doc or in this Ravelry Thread. Spread the Warmth Challenge; runs through the end of the Pigskin Party. Get details in this Google doc or this Ravelry Thread. Life in Focus I enjoy doing a look back at the end of each year. You can see the video I made about Reviewing My Year/Goal Setting in this video on my YouTube Channel. Knitting/Crochet/Spinning 70 Knitting/Crochet Finished Projects in 2022 41 knitting  29 crochet 53 of 70 are gifts Spinning- 4 finished projects. 872 meters of yarn.  Released 0 new patterns but completed the writing and prototype for 2 designs- a shawl & cowl Sagamore Flyover Hat was my best seller this year. Tune in to hear a recap of my Word of the Year & Goals for 2022. We'll talk more about plans and goals in the next episode. On a Happy Note Going to my cousin Amanda's book party in Plymouth and out to dinner after with family and friends. Musical bingo! 105 people at my parents' Open House on January 7th, including my friend Laura who came in from NYC for the weekend. Starting process to kick off the Fearless Living Fund in my mom's name that will benefit blind population through the Blind Center of Nevada. Friends and family surprised Mom with over $1500 in initial donations. Mom's friend Katy shaved her head in solidarity (check out the YouTube video here) and is raising money.  Donate to the FearLESS Living Fund by sending a Venmo payment to: @FearlessLivingFund -or- a Zelle payment to: lvpinkpanther@cox.net Email the Lassonde family at: FearlessLivingFund@gmail.com Follow Diane's cancer diagnosis and treatment starting here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPseXZ0gqyU&t=0s Learn more about the Blind Center of Nevada: https://www.blindcenter.org/ While my aunt's passing has been incredibly difficult, there is still a happy note there in that many of us were able to go visit the Sunday before she passed. Dan and I picked up my grandmother and my parents met us at my cousin's house armed with leftover trays of food from the Open House. Earlier in the day I was able to help transfer Florence into the guest room bed while Dan and some of the guys disassembled her bed to ready her room for a hospital bed. Then we took turns visiting with her, saying our goodbyes, eating dinner and being together. very time the door to her bedroom opened she smiled and said “I love that sound!” and then “I want you to keep doing that. Even after.” I reminded her its not like we could stop it. It was a hard day but made easier being all together. She passed on Wednesday.  Came home that day to flowers and a beautiful from card that in my daze, I never even saw until he came home and pointed them out! Mom made it through another 3 day round of Chemo. 2 more to go (one in late January & one in February) Getting back into yoga.  Date night with Dan. We hit the local brewery and then onto the tavern for dinner. Just what we needed.  Sleeping in!  Quote of the Week It is amateurs who have one big bright beautiful idea that they can never abandon. Professionals know that they have to produce theory after theory before they are likely to hit the jackpot. – Francis Crick —— Thank you for tuning in! Contact Information: Check out the Down Cellar Studio Patreon! Ravelry: BostonJen & Down Cellar Studio Podcast Ravelry Group Instagram: BostonJen1 YouTube: Down Cellar Studio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/downcellarstudio Sign up for my email newsletter to get the latest on everything happening in the Down Cellar Studio Check out my Down Cellar Studio YouTube Channel Knit Picks Affiliate Link Bookshop Affiliate Link Yarnable Subscription Box Affiliate Link Music -“Soft Orange Glow” by Josh Woodward. Free download: http://joshwoodward.com/ Note: Some links are listed as Amazon Affiliate Links. If you click those, please know that I am an Amazon Associate and I earn money from qualifying purchases.

Get a bottle of Chateau Feret Lambert Bordeaux for your holiday festivities.  We're saying goodbye to the year by discussing grief with The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. Support this podcast on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/dontreaddrunkJoan Didionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion Chateau Feret Lambert Bordeaux https://www.totalwine.com/wine/red-wine/bordeaux-blend/chateau-feret-lambert-bordeaux-superieur/p/112319750?s=1903&igrules=true Get 2 months of Scribd Freehttps://www.scribd.com/g/9s1nq7 Scribdhttps://www.scribd.com/ Media RecommendationsWednesday  – NetflixAvery's Ghost by Annie Dewellhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BH98GL9N Find my sponsors: 1uptilsunup on @1uptilsunup on; TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or YouTubeAvenue Coffee is on Facebook and at: www.avenue-coffeehouse.comSupernova Coffee and Donutshttps://3rdstmarkethall.com/locations/all-vendors/supernova-coffee-doughnuts Find me on Instagram @dontreaddrunk www.dontreaddrunk.buzzsprout.comdontreaddrunk@gmail.com

The thespians discuss David Lindsay-Abaire's 2007 pulitzer prize winning play RABBIT HOLE, Joan Didion's THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING: THE PLAY, grief, loss, and tragedy. Subscribe to the Patreon for exclusive episodes!

The man trudges on, to where he doesn't know. He just needs a place to land. The air is hot and choking, his brain is racing. Then, he realizes: it's Santa Ana season. “The baby frets. The maid sulks. I rekindle a waning argument with the telephone company, then cut my losses and lie down, given over to whatever is in the air. To live with the Santa Ana is to accept, consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human behavior. ...[T]he violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.”— Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem. (1968)

The list of contributors joining Lisa Mullen: Henry Eliot, author of a book of bookish lists which details everything from the different deaths of Greek tragedians to the contents of Joan Didion's travel bag; Florence Hazrat, New Generation Thinker and historian of punctuation; Liam Young, author of a book about lists as a way of organising knowledge, from Ancient Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed; and Joanna Nolan, a researcher in sociolinguistics at SOAS who asks whether lists are ever private languages. Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists, List Cultures by Liam Cole Young and An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Punctuation Mark by Florence Hazrat and The Elusive Case of Lingua Franca: Fact and Fiction by Joanna Nolan are out now and you can hear Joanna talking about that research in a previous episode called What Language Did Columbus Speak? A Radio 3 Essay from Florence Hazrat called Pause for Thought exploring the way punctuation has developed over the centuries is available now on BBC Sounds The Free Thinking programme website has a collection of discussions exploring The Way We Live Now including episodes about breakfast, hitchhiking, immortality, writing about money, tattoos, mental health Producer: Luke Mulhall

Del succumbs to Covid 19 but feels the show must go on, trouper that he is. The good new is he now sounds like Barry White, who has probably assisted in more egg fertilizations than anyone on the planet. Yuks aside, Del gives a graphic description of his symptoms  and issues an earnest warning to take Covid seriously. Send him some love, or at least an email, to buckstwoold@gmail.com.Del is stumped again by Dave's obtuse references to Mauna Loa. Are his solutions too hard?Dave talks about dreams-what do they really mean. Del likens them to a flushing of the mind's debris. Who dreams about Charles Barkley and pie?Del reveals some CIA-like insider information he got regarding the Dems' 2024 presidential candidate. No joke. Well, maybe a joke. You decide.Dave reviews Blue Nights by Joan Didion, a memoir dealing with the death of her daughter. Nobody writes like Joan.       4 of 5 stars.What are you going to do with the rest of your life?Give us your thoughts: BUCKSTWOOLD@GMAIL.COM Find us on Twitter: @twooldbucks1

In this bonus episode, Henry introduces Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists, the perfect stocking-filler for book-lovers.Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?In this eclectic gallimaufry, Henry showcases some of his favourite literary lists: we witness the tragic ends of the Ancient Greek tragedians, learn the name of George Orwell's pet cockerel and rummage through Joan Didion's travelling bag; we consider the history of literary fart jokes, orbit the Shakespearean moons of Uranus and meet several pigs with wings. From the sublime to the ridiculous – and everything in between ­– Eliot's lists, recommendations and nuggets of trivia will delight, inspire and surprise anyone who loves reading.https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/448329/eliots-book-of-bookish-lists-by-eliot-henry/9780241562727 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back for the bits! Sandra questions Paris's insults (how does she know these things?), Emily tells us all about Joan (Didion, that is), and Jess talks winter fashion (scarves, anyone?). Also in this episode: uh, not Emily. At least, not really. Get well soon, Em! Jess and I are not nearly as good with technology... Email us at TownMeetingPod@gmail.com to be featured in future episodes, or leave us a message on Anchor.fm/townmeetingpod! Special thanks to ack106 for the jingles! Some license stuff: Intro: Chord Guitar 002 by Sascha Ende® Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/557-chord-guitar-002 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Outro: Chord Guitar 001 by Sascha Ende® Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/556-chord-guitar-001 License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/townmeetingpod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/townmeetingpod/support

POA for today: BTS of our chaotic merch drop and deets for the restock (!), Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde's breakup, inside the Joan Didion estate sale (spoiler: Grace got something), and a sprawling conversation about Lily-Rose Depp and nepo babies. Restock details: Monday November 28th at 9AM AEDT at https://afterworkdrinks.myshopify.com/ Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Jamelle Bouie sits in for Dana as the panel begins by reviewing She Said, the new film about investigating the Harvey Weinstein story. Then, a discussion about the Hulu limited series Fleishman is in Trouble. Finally, they chat about the auction of Joan Didion's private items.    In Slate Plus, the panel talks to the very online Jamelle Bouie about the recent wild weeks of Twitter.    Email us at culturefest@slate.com.   Endorsements   Jamelle: The Criteron release of Spike Lee's Malcolm X. Biopics have fallen out of style for the most part. I rewatched it last year and I came away struck not just by the sheer ambition of it, but the extent to which it is such a love letter to classic Hollywood.     Julia: My endorsement is episode 10 of Andor. It's a great episode in a bunch of ways, but also the episode ends with an incredible monologue by Stellan Sarsgaard. It's an incredible piece of writing and performance.    Steve: I like this song. I don't know much about it, but a friend sent it to me. It's Super Rich Kids and it's a cover of a Frank Ocean song. This version is from Trio SR9 featuring Malik Djoudi   Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Yesica Balderrama.   Outro music is "Did I Make You Wait" by Staffan Carlen. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You'll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jamelle Bouie sits in for Dana as the panel begins by reviewing She Said, the new film about investigating the Harvey Weinstein story. Then, a discussion about the Hulu limited series Fleishman is in Trouble. Finally, they chat about the auction of Joan Didion's private items.    In Slate Plus, the panel talks to the very online Jamelle Bouie about the recent wild weeks of Twitter.    Email us at culturefest@slate.com.   Endorsements   Jamelle: The Criteron release of Spike Lee's Malcolm X. Biopics have fallen out of style for the most part. I rewatched it last year and I came away struck not just by the sheer ambition of it, but the extent to which it is such a love letter to classic Hollywood.     Julia: My endorsement is episode 10 of Andor. It's a great episode in a bunch of ways, but also the episode ends with an incredible monologue by Stellan Sarsgaard. It's an incredible piece of writing and performance.    Steve: I like this song. I don't know much about it, but a friend sent it to me. It's Super Rich Kids and it's a cover of a Frank Ocean song. This version is from Trio SR9 featuring Malik Djoudi   Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Yesica Balderrama.   Outro music is "Did I Make You Wait" by Staffan Carlen. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You'll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew welcomes writer and author Kaitlyn Tiffany (The Atlantic, Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It) to discuss this week's cultural emergency: the Joan Didion estate sale. The girlies marvel over $7,000 pebbles, leaving a legacy through leather trashcans, Katy Perry and Rick Caruso's flop era, and a little song called "If I Die Young." Plus--they tackle the eternal question: "Are the Barbs alright?" All this and more on the ninety-first episode of Crisis Twink: the only podcast intelligent and sexy enough to fix a culture in crisis. Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Crisis Twink on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Drew on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Kaitlyn on Twitter. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/crisis-twink/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crisis-twink/support

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss updates in the collapse of crypto exchange platform FTX and how the situation compares to past business downfalls. They also talk about Joan Didion's estate sale.   In the Plus segment: the death of Twitter.   Podcast production by Anna Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss updates in the collapse of crypto exchange platform FTX and how the situation compares to past business downfalls. They also talk about Joan Didion's estate sale.   In the Plus segment: the death of Twitter.   Podcast production by Anna Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss updates in the collapse of crypto exchange platform FTX and how the situation compares to past business downfalls. They also talk about Joan Didion's estate sale.   In the Plus segment: the death of Twitter.   Podcast production by Anna Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss updates in the collapse of crypto exchange platform FTX and how the situation compares to past business downfalls. They also talk about Joan Didion's estate sale.   In the Plus segment: the death of Twitter.   Podcast production by Anna Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Walter Romero nació en Buenos Aires, en 1967. Es poeta, traductor, docente, crítico literario y gran intérprete de tango. Hace 25 años que forma parte de la cátedra de Literatura Francesa de la UBA, es profesor del Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires y director del Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades, Dr. Gerardo H. Pagés. Dicta Literatura del siglo XX en el Profesorado Universitario de Letras de la UNSAM, es jefe del Departamento de Lengua del Colegio Northlands. Fue becario en diversos países y es conocido por sus artículos y prólogos a propósito de la obra de grandes autores, desde Racine y Sade a Ranciere y Copi. Es autor de Panorama de la literatura francesa contemporánea y La poética teatral de Alain Badiou. Colabora regularmente con el suplemento Soy del diario Página 12. Como poeta, ha publicado Estriado y El niño en el espejo. Es el actual presidente de la Asociación Argentina de Profesores de Literatura Francesa y Francófona. Recientemente el Malba, en su colección Cuadernos, acaba de publicar su libro Formas de leer a Proust. Una introducción a En busca del tiempo perdido, que reúne lo que fueron las clases que dictó sobre la obra del gran autor francés durante tres años. El libro publicado por el Malba es una prueba del gran talento de Romero para la divulgación y de su capacidad para compartir generosamente su erudición y su conocimiento. En un estilo llano y amable, Romero busca llevar a los lectores las claves para leer una de las grandes obras literarias de la humanidad, que muchas veces desalienta por su extensión y su complejidad. Leer o escuchar a Romero son el estímulo para animarse. En la sección En voz alta, Virgina Cosin leyó un fragmento de “Segunda casa”, de Rachel Cusk, Libros del Asteroide. Virginia nació en Caracas, Venezuela, en 1973 pero vive en Argentina desde los cinco años. Estudió ciencias de la comunicación, filosofía, cine y dramaturgia. Publicó las novelas Partida de nacimiento y Pasaje al acto, además de cuentos en varias antologías. Desde 2011 coordina talleres de lectura y escritura. Escribe sobre cine y literatura y dirige la revista digital Atlas. En Te regalo un libro, el cineasta y guionista Alejandro Maci nos recomendó  “El año del pensamiento mágico” de Joan Didion y “Nada se opone a la noche” de Delphine de Vigan. Maci tiene un gran recorrido como director y guionista en la televisión. Botineras, Tumberos, Lalola  Laura y Zoe , En terapia y recientemente Santa Evita. En 2011, junto con Esther Feldman, recibió el Premio Konex de Platino en Guión de Televisión. Es director del documental María Luisa Bemberg: el eco de mi voz, sobre la gran directora de cine argentina. En Bienvenidos, Hinde habló de “Conferencia sobre nada”, de John Cage. Traducción de Fogwill y Pablo Gianera (Interzona), “Esta historia ya no está disponible”, de Pedro Mairal (Emecé) y “Necromáquina, cuando morir no es suficiente”, de Rossana Reguillo (Ned Ediciones) y en Libros que sí recomendó “Rally de santos”, de Ángeles Alemandi (La parte maldita), “Fallar otra vez”, de Alan Pauls, con prólogo de Julián Herbert (Gris tormenta) y “Una escritora en el tiempo”, de Jane Lazarre (Las afueras)  

The ladies are back once again for a curated discussion of the best in pop culture. Topics include: the Joan Didion's exhibition at the Hammer Museum, the ethics of a good museum owned by a terrible person, bidding on Didion's personal effects, the return of White Lotus, living a Monica Vitti lifestyle, Lauren's longing for a weekly/bing hybrid, also Lauren is aware she said Michael Imperioli's name incorrectly, Chelsea gives a fashion history lesson about Heroin Chic, Hollywood's obsession with Ozempic, Rihanna's latest Savage Fenty show, why was Johnny Depp there (?!), reviewing Barbarian, and SO MUCH MORE! Show NotesVisit The Joan Didion exhibitionPeruse The Joan Didion auctionWatch The White Lotus Season TwoRead the Heroin Chic articleWatch the Savage x Fenty showWatch Barbarian Today's episode is sponsored by Wildgrain.  For a limited time, you can get $30 off the first box - PLUS free Croissants in every box - when you go to Wildgrain.com/outfit to start your subscription.As well as, Nutrafol. Enter the promo code OUTFIT  to save FIFTEEN DOLLARS off  your first month's subscription.And,  Modern Fertility.  Modern Fertility is offering our listeners $30 off the test when you go to Modern Fertility.com/outfit.   Want to hear our thoughts on Titanic? Get episodes early and without ads? Become a Patron! Go to Patreon.com/EveryOutfit

Well before Joan Didion's death in December 2021, acclaimed writer and New Yorker magazine contributor Hilton Als was hard at work on a show for LA's Hammer Museum. But how can one exhibition grapple with Didion's big, uniquely American life? This episode explores that and much more. “Joan Didion: What She Means” runs through February 19, 2023.

"What is best and weakest in America goes out to reciprocating strength and deficiencies in Richard Nixon." It's difficult to think of a more electric meeting of author and subject than Garry Wills and Richard Nixon, a meeting that produced what might be the best book ever written about American politics, Wills's Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man. What begins as reporting from the campaign trail during the 1968 presidential contest—where Wills introduces us to Nixon, George Wallace, Nelson Rockefeller, and more—eventually becomes a profound meditation on the fate of liberalism in the United States. Wills found in Nixon the key to unlocking the reigning—but by then faltering—myths of their country's history and self-understanding, and what they reveal about each other. Along the way he discusses the complex psychological dance between Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower; takes us on a tour of Nixon's hometown, Whittier, California; describes the Republicans' "southern strategy"; examines the roiling anger and protests over the Vietnam War; and offers on-the-ground reportage from the 1968 conventions (the GOP's in Miami, the Democrats', infamously, in Chicago). Matt and Sam try to make sense of it all and ponder what Nixon Agonistes might say about how we got here and where we're going. Sources:Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970)                           Confessions of a Conservative (1979)                           Outsider Looking In: Adventures of an Observer (2010)Kevin Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority (1968)Tom Wolfe, The New Journalism (1973)KYE, "Joan Didion, Conservative,  (w/ Sam Tanenhaus)" Jan 13, 2022  ...and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon for access to all of our bonus episodes!                                      

Y by Yves Saint Laurent (1964) + Joan Didion's The White Album (1979) + Play It as It Lays (1970) + Frank Perry's Play It as It Lays (1972) with Filthy Armenian of Filthy Armenian Adventures and The Back Wall  To hear the remainder of this episode and the complete continuing story of The Perfume Nationalist please subscribe on Patreon.  11/4/22 S5E6

We're celebrating fall in the Jen Hatmaker Book Club (and for those of you who live in the deep south like Jen, our sympathies for the fall leaves you won't see). Whether it's actual fall or the idea of fall that gives you that cozy-up-with-a-blanket-in-your-favorite-chair-with-a-good-book feeling, we're here for it. And we've got just the book for your fall reading–our book of the month is none other than Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews. Alexandra is a journalist, an editor, and copywriter who works from New York and Paris, and this is her very first book! We think she hit it out of the park–and a lot of people feel the same. Who Is Maud Dixon? was named best mystery novel of the year by the New York Times, best book of the year by Time Magazine and has gotten kudos from NPR, Publishers Weekly–and host of other publications.. Can we take a minute to imagine your very first book being met with that level of success? It's so exciting what she's accomplished, and you'll love hearing how she crafted such a page turner–it will surprise you and there's more than one twist, which is the best kind of thriller.  If you're not already a member of the book club, there's so much more to discover in the conversations around amazing books we're reading together. Jump on over to jenhatmakerbookclub.com after this episode to sign up!    Thought-Provoking Quotes:“I'm always inspired the same way, which is reading another book and thinking, oh, I wish I could do that. And for a long time it was mostly nonfiction books and I really wanted to be Joan Didion.”  - Alexandra Andrews “There are a lot of women, or people in general, not just women, who've had a tough upbringing, they've been up against a lot of obstacles, and how much leeway do they deserve, and how much can we really blame them for not having the tools to go after success in ordinary ways?” - Alexandra Andrews “I'd been writing for so long and without any success, and even when I just finished the first draft, I was so happy I finished the first draft. And then when I got an agent, I was just thrilled I had an agent. And then when it sold, every step has felt like icing on the cake.” - Alexandra Andrews   Alexandra's Links Alexandra's website Alexandra's Instagram Books & Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeJoan Didon The Talented Mr. Ripley Elena Ferrante Patricia Highsmith

THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, we interview one of the most renowned photographers working in the world right now, Catherine Opie! A photographer of portraits of people, landscapes, the urban environment and American society, Opie uses the tool of the camera to explore sexual and cultural identity. First picking up a camera aged nine, it was in the 1990s that she began to gain recognition for her studio portraits of gay and transgender communities who appear painterly and defiant, powerful and regal. Travelling across the world, and in particular different areas of North America, Opie has documented masculinity through high school footballers; politics and culture through her images of the 2008 presidential election; the landscape through images of sparse urban environments; and memorial through images of house belongings once owned by Elizabeth Taylor. Linked by notions of complexity, community, visibility and empathy, Opie's photographs tell a story about the society in which we live. Speaking about her work she has said, “From early on, I wanted to create a language that showed how complex the idea of community really is, how we categorize who we are as human beings in relation to places we live.” Born in Ohio, and now based in Los Angeles, where she is a professor of photography and the chair of the UCLA department of art, Opie has exhibited in the world's most prestigious museums, from MOCA Los Angeles to the Guggenheim in New York, and at the Whitney Biennial and many more. But the reason why we are speaking with Opie today is because this summer she opened a solo show at Thomas Dane Gallery in London – To What We Think We Remember. Taking its title from a Joan Didion quote, this exhibition focuses on community, collective responsibility and how to move forward while faced with the potentially devastating challenges of climate change, and the erasure of personal and political freedoms. -- LINKS: Thomas Dane show: https://www.thomasdanegallery.com/exhibitions/268/ New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/catherine-opie-all-american-subversive New York Times 2021: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/18/arts/design/catherine-opie-photography-monograph.html Art review: https://artreview.com/catherine-opie/ Opie essay for CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/catherine-opie-beauty/index.html Hilton Als 2021: https://www.regenprojects.com/attachment/en/54522d19cfaf3430698b4568/Press/610b3b9460b7b53c1b733db9 i–D: https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/g5gvk7/catherine-opie-interview-2021-life-in-photos New York Times 2019: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/t-magazine/catherine-opie.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article -- Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Research assistant: Viva Ruggi Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/ -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY CHRISTIES: www.christies.com

Contact:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:On Joan Didion's “Where I was from”David: ‘The Anarchists' is a case study in the decadence of autonomy Will: California Über AllesNinth Circuit rejects Gavin Newsom's effort to send migrant detainees from California to other statesNewsom denies presidential ambitions in Texas visit, attacks Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantisCalifornia governor urges overhaul of Democrats' strategyCommentary: Why Californians are working to flip red state legislatures blueNewsom signs 17 new abortion-rights billsGovernor vetoes full-day and mandatory kindergarten billsGov. Newsom vetoes bill on tax-exempt status for nonprofits tied to insurrectionGov. Newsom signs bill to redefine state's Open Meeting ActRestaurant groups push to repeal California's fast food council lawCalifornia employers will soon be barred from testing employees for marijuana useCompost burial will be a new option for California families in 2027Fact check Florida teacher pay rankingPatagonia founder just donated the entire company, worth $3 billion, to fight climate change