Podcast appearances and mentions of John Banville

Mark Sarvas is the award-winning author of the novels @UGMAN (ITNA Press), MEMENTO PARK (FSG, Picador) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). MEMENTO PARK is the winner of a 2019 American Book Award (Before Columbus Foundation), and the 2019 American Jewish Library Association Fiction Award. It was a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and was shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize and longlisted for the Sophie Brody Medal. His debut novel, HARRY, REVISED, was published in more than a dozen countries around the world, earning raves from Le Monde to The Australian. A finalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association's 2008 Fiction Award and a Denver Post 2008 Good Read, HARRY, REVISED has been called "A remarkable debut" by Booker Prize winner John Banville, and was compared to John Updike and Philip Roth by the Chicago Tribune. He was awarded a 2018 Santa Monica Arts Fellowship and is a 2021 Guild Hall Artist in Residence. Want to be a guest on Book 101 Review? Send Daniel Lucas a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/17372807971394464fea5bae3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Authors Naoise Dolan, John Banville & Emer McLysaght bring us an eclectic list of book recommendations for your suitcase this summer.

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A mi kis bakink: Trokán Nóri keményen beszólt Lengyel Tamásnak rtl.hu     2025-04-19 21:15:00     Film Lengyelország A mi kis falunk A mi kis falunk 9. évadának 19. részének forgatásán csak úgy záporoztak a káromkodások: Döbrösi Laura elfelejtette a szöveget, Mikecz Estillának összeakadt a nyelve, a feltámadó szél pedig bezavart a felvételbe. A vendégszereplő Trokán Nóri nem bírta tovább magában tartani tomboló érzelmeit, és szemtől szemben esett neki Lengyel Tamásnak. Nézd meg, A világ egyik legjobb háborús sorozata? A kritikusok szerint egyértelműen igen Igényesférfi.hu     2025-04-20 07:04:55     Film háború Trónok harca George R. R. Martin A Richard Flanagan Booker-díjas regénye alapján készült ötrészes széria rendezője Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Macbeth, Nitram), a főszerepben pedig a feltörekvő Jacob Elordi (Eufória, Saltburn) és a veterán Ciarán Hinds (Belfast, Trónok harca) láthatóak. Új a Maxon: Minden idők egyik legviccesebb kultfilmje felkerült a platformra Mafab     2025-04-19 19:47:02     Film Mozi Vannak azok a kultfilmek, amelyekről talán az elkészítésük idején még senki sem gondolta, hogy évtizedekkel később is milliók fognak értük rajongani. Az Idétlen időkig tipikusan ilyen film. Eredetileg 1993-ban került a mozikba, de még ma, harminckét évvel később is bármikor szívesen leülünk elé megnézni. Ráadásul ezt mostantól a Maxon is megtehetjü Visszatér a Star Wars-univerzum izgalmasabb oldala Telex     2025-04-20 07:20:52     Film Törökország Star Wars Isztambul Jön az elmúlt évek egyik legkülönlegesebb sorozatának folytatása, új évaddal jelentkezik az Andor és úgy mutatkozik be Isztambul, mint ahogy még eddig talán soha sem. Streamingajánló. Miért untam végig John Banville krimijét, és mégis olvasnék tőle újra? Librarius     2025-04-20 08:00:47     Könyv John Banville a lassú, gondolkodó olvasás írója. Nem sodor magával – inkább elcsendesít, megállít, és arra kér: figyelj jobban a világra. Április 20-án történt kultura.hu     2025-04-20 00:01:00     Film Olaszország Színház Fejér Székesfehérvár London Jászai Mari-díj Ma ünnepli 71. születésnapját Derzsi János Jászai Mari-díjas színész, érdemes művész, a székesfehérvári Vörösmarty Színház társulatának tagja. Derzsi János a színpadi szerepei mellett számtalan filmben is játszott, többek között Tarr Béla alkotásaiban – a Sátántangóban, a Werckmeister harmóniákban, A londoni férfiben és A torinói lóban – láthattuk. Sam Mendes nem bízza a véletlenre: az internet kedvenc boyfriendjei indítják be újra a Beatle-mániát? refresher.hu     2025-04-20 08:02:00     Zene Sony Beatles Sam Mendes Sam Mendes és a Sony bejelentették: 2028-ban négy részletben érkezik a Beatles-filmjük. A színészválasztás egyértelmű pragmatizmust sugall, viszont mégis van kockázatvállalás a projektben, aminek az üzleti terve a Barbenheimerhez is kapcsolódik. A Família Kft. Mónikájára közel hetvenévesen újra rátalált a szerelem Story     2025-04-20 07:00:05     Bulvár Párkapcsolat Egy ideje minden rendben van Sir Kati életében, de nem volt ez mindig így. Manapság boldogabb már nem is lehetne, a szerelem is rátalált. Filmbéli nyulak, akik miatt ma is pszichiáterhez járunk port.hu     2025-04-20 01:35:00     Film Húsvét Bár a gyermekdalok és az animációs filmek más képet mutatnak róluk, húsvét beköszöntével kötelességünknek érezzük, hogy lerántsuk a leplet a nyulak sötét oldaláról – mindezt öt filmalkotáson keresztül. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

A mi kis bakink: Trokán Nóri keményen beszólt Lengyel Tamásnak rtl.hu     2025-04-19 21:15:00     Film Lengyelország A mi kis falunk A mi kis falunk 9. évadának 19. részének forgatásán csak úgy záporoztak a káromkodások: Döbrösi Laura elfelejtette a szöveget, Mikecz Estillának összeakadt a nyelve, a feltámadó szél pedig bezavart a felvételbe. A vendégszereplő Trokán Nóri nem bírta tovább magában tartani tomboló érzelmeit, és szemtől szemben esett neki Lengyel Tamásnak. Nézd meg, A világ egyik legjobb háborús sorozata? A kritikusok szerint egyértelműen igen Igényesférfi.hu     2025-04-20 07:04:55     Film háború Trónok harca George R. R. Martin A Richard Flanagan Booker-díjas regénye alapján készült ötrészes széria rendezője Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, Macbeth, Nitram), a főszerepben pedig a feltörekvő Jacob Elordi (Eufória, Saltburn) és a veterán Ciarán Hinds (Belfast, Trónok harca) láthatóak. Új a Maxon: Minden idők egyik legviccesebb kultfilmje felkerült a platformra Mafab     2025-04-19 19:47:02     Film Mozi Vannak azok a kultfilmek, amelyekről talán az elkészítésük idején még senki sem gondolta, hogy évtizedekkel később is milliók fognak értük rajongani. Az Idétlen időkig tipikusan ilyen film. Eredetileg 1993-ban került a mozikba, de még ma, harminckét évvel később is bármikor szívesen leülünk elé megnézni. Ráadásul ezt mostantól a Maxon is megtehetjü Visszatér a Star Wars-univerzum izgalmasabb oldala Telex     2025-04-20 07:20:52     Film Törökország Star Wars Isztambul Jön az elmúlt évek egyik legkülönlegesebb sorozatának folytatása, új évaddal jelentkezik az Andor és úgy mutatkozik be Isztambul, mint ahogy még eddig talán soha sem. Streamingajánló. Miért untam végig John Banville krimijét, és mégis olvasnék tőle újra? Librarius     2025-04-20 08:00:47     Könyv John Banville a lassú, gondolkodó olvasás írója. Nem sodor magával – inkább elcsendesít, megállít, és arra kér: figyelj jobban a világra. Április 20-án történt kultura.hu     2025-04-20 00:01:00     Film Olaszország Színház Fejér Székesfehérvár London Jászai Mari-díj Ma ünnepli 71. születésnapját Derzsi János Jászai Mari-díjas színész, érdemes művész, a székesfehérvári Vörösmarty Színház társulatának tagja. Derzsi János a színpadi szerepei mellett számtalan filmben is játszott, többek között Tarr Béla alkotásaiban – a Sátántangóban, a Werckmeister harmóniákban, A londoni férfiben és A torinói lóban – láthattuk. Sam Mendes nem bízza a véletlenre: az internet kedvenc boyfriendjei indítják be újra a Beatle-mániát? refresher.hu     2025-04-20 08:02:00     Zene Sony Beatles Sam Mendes Sam Mendes és a Sony bejelentették: 2028-ban négy részletben érkezik a Beatles-filmjük. A színészválasztás egyértelmű pragmatizmust sugall, viszont mégis van kockázatvállalás a projektben, aminek az üzleti terve a Barbenheimerhez is kapcsolódik. A Família Kft. Mónikájára közel hetvenévesen újra rátalált a szerelem Story     2025-04-20 07:00:05     Bulvár Párkapcsolat Egy ideje minden rendben van Sir Kati életében, de nem volt ez mindig így. Manapság boldogabb már nem is lehetne, a szerelem is rátalált. Filmbéli nyulak, akik miatt ma is pszichiáterhez járunk port.hu     2025-04-20 01:35:00     Film Húsvét Bár a gyermekdalok és az animációs filmek más képet mutatnak róluk, húsvét beköszöntével kötelességünknek érezzük, hogy lerántsuk a leplet a nyulak sötét oldaláról – mindezt öt filmalkotáson keresztül. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Recorded April 9th, 2025. A discussion between Prof Chris Morash (English) and Dr Mark O'Connell (Author and Rooney Writer Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub) organised by the Library of Trinity College Dublin. Professor Chris Morash, Trinity's Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, and prize-winning author Dr Mark O'Connell discuss on the writing of John Banville. This event coincides with the inclusion of works from Banville's archive, housed in Trinity, in the current exhibition in the Old Library Long Room. On display in the exhibition is the manuscript draft of The Singularities (2022), which – differing from the published text - concludes with the line “at the last inscribe a full, and infinitely full, full stop.” Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub

It's a small world. The great David Rieff came to my San Francisco studio today for in person interview about his new anti-woke polemic Desire and Fate. And half way through our conversation, he brought up Daniel Bessner's This Is America piece which Bessner discussed on yesterday's show. I'm not sure what that tells us about wokeness, a subject which Rieff and I aren't in agreement. For him, it's the thing-in-itself which make sense of our current cultural malaise. Thus Desire and Fate, his attempt (with a great intro from John Banville) to wake us up from Wokeness. For me, it's a distraction. I've included the full transcript below. Lots of good stuff to chew on. Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 5 KEY TAKEAWAYS * Rieff views "woke" ideology as primarily American and post-Protestant in nature, rather than stemming solely from French philosophy, emphasizing its connections to self-invention and subjective identity.* He argues that woke culture threatens high culture but not capitalism, noting that corporations have readily embraced a "baudlerized" version of identity politics that avoids class discussions.* Rieff sees woke culture as connected to the wellness movement, with both sharing a preoccupation with "psychic safety" and the metaphorical transformation of experience in which "words” become a form of “violence."* He suggests young people's material insecurity contributes to their focus on identity, as those facing bleak economic prospects turn inward when they "can't make their way in the world."* Rieff characterizes woke ideology as "apocalyptic but not pessimistic," contrasting it with his own genuine pessimism which he considers more realistic about human nature and more cheerful in its acceptance of life's limitations. FULL TRANSCRIPTAndrew Keen: Hello everybody, as we digest Trump 2.0, we don't talk that much these days about woke and woke ideology. There was a civil war amongst progressives, I think, on the woke front in 2023 and 2024, but with Donald Trump 2.0 and his various escapades, let's just talk these days about woke. We have a new book, however, on the threat of woke by my guest, David Rieff. It's called Desire and Fate. He wrote it in 2023, came out in late 2024. David's visiting the Bay Area. He's an itinerant man traveling from the East Coast to Latin America and Europe. David, welcome to Keen on America. Do you regret writing this book given what's happened in the last few months in the United States?David Rieff: No, not at all, because I think that the road to moral and intellectual hell is trying to censor yourself according to what you think is useful. There's a famous story of Jean Paul Sartre that he said to the stupefaction of a journalist late in his life that he'd always known about the gulag, and the journalist pretty surprised said, well, why didn't you say anything? And Sartre said so as not to demoralize the French working class. And my own view is, you know, you say what you have to say about this and if I give some aid and comfort to people I don't like, well, so be it. Having said that, I also think a lot of these woke ideas have their, for all of Trump's and Trump's people's fierce opposition to woke, some of the identity politics, particularly around Jewish identity seems to me not that very different from woke. Strangely they seem to have taken, for example, there's a lot of the talk about anti-semitism on college campuses involves student safety which is a great woke trope that you feel unsafe and what people mean by that is not literally they're going to get shot or beaten up, they mean that they feel psychically unsafe. It's part of the kind of metaphorization of experience that unfortunately the United States is now completely in the grips of. But the same thing on the other side, people like Barry Weiss, for example, at the Free Press there, they talk in the same language of psychic safety. So I'm not sure there's, I think there are more similarities than either side is comfortable with.Andrew Keen: You describe Woke, David, as a cultural revolution and you associated in the beginning of the book with something called Lumpen-Rousseauism. As we joked before we went live, I'm not sure if there's anything in Rousseau which isn't Lumpen. But what exactly is this cultural revolution? And can we blame it on bad French philosophy or Swiss French?David Rieff: Well, Swiss-French philosophy, you know exactly. There is a funny anecdote, as I'm sure you know, that Rousseau made a visit to Edinburgh to see Hume and there's something in Hume's diaries where he talks about Rousseau pacing up and down in front of the fire and suddenly exclaiming, but David Hume is not a bad man. And Hume notes in his acerbic way, Rousseau was like walking around without his skin on. And I think some of the woke sensitivity stuff is very much people walking around without their skin on. They can't stand the idea of being offended. I don't see it as much - of course, the influence of that version of cultural relativism that the French like Deleuze and Guattari and other people put forward is part of the story, but I actually see it as much more of a post-Protestant thing. This idea, in that sense, some kind of strange combination of maybe some French philosophy, but also of the wellness movement, of this notion that health, including psychic health, was the ultimate good in a secular society. And then the other part, which again, it seems to be more American than French, which is this idea, and this is particularly true in the trans movement, that you can be anything you want to be. And so that if you feel yourself to be a different gender, well, that's who you are. And what matters is your own subjective sense of these things, and it's up to you. The outside world has no say in it, it's what you feel. And that in a sense, what I mean by post-Protestant is that, I mean, what's the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism? The fundamental difference is, it seems to me, that in Roman Catholic tradition, you need the priest to intercede with God, whereas in Protestant tradition, it is, except for the Anglicans, but for most of Protestantism, it's you and God. And in that sense it seems to me there are more of what I see in woke than this notion that some of the right-wing people like Chris Rufo and others have that this is cultural French cultural Marxism making its insidious way through the institutions.Andrew Keen: It's interesting you talk about the Protestant ethic and you mentioned Hume's remark about Rousseau not having his skin on. Do you think that Protestantism enabled people to grow thick skins?David Rieff: I mean, the Calvinist idea certainly did. In fact, there were all these ideas in Protestant culture, at least that's the classical interpretation of deferred gratification. Capitalism was supposed to be the work ethic, all of that stuff that Weber talks about. But I think it got in the modern version. It became something else. It stopped being about those forms of disciplines and started to be about self-invention. And in a sense, there's something very American about that because after all you know it's the Great Gatsby. It's what's the famous sentence of F. Scott Fitzgerald's: there are no second acts in American lives.Andrew Keen: This is the most incorrect thing anyone's ever said about America. I'm not sure if he meant it to be incorrect, did he? I don't know.David Rieff: I think what's true is that you get the American idea, you get to reinvent yourself. And this notion of the dream, the dream become reality. And many years ago when I was spending a lot of time in LA in the late 80s, early 90s, at LAX, there was a sign from the then mayor, Tom Bradley, about how, you know, if you can dream it, it can be true. And I think there's a lot in identitarian woke idea which is that we can - we're not constricted by history or reality. In fact, it's all the present and the future. And so to me again, woke seems to me much more recognizable as something American and by extension post-Protestant in the sense that you see the places where woke is most powerful are in the other, what the encampment kids would call settler colonies, Australia and Canada. And now in the UK of course, where it seems to me by DI or EDI as they call it over there is in many ways stronger in Britain even than it was in the US before Trump.Andrew Keen: Does it really matter though, David? I mean, that's my question. Does it matter? I mean it might matter if you have the good or the bad fortune to teach at a small, expensive liberal arts college. It might matter with some of your dinner parties in Tribeca or here in San Francisco, but for most people, who cares?David Rieff: It doesn't matter. I think it matters to culture and so what you think culture is worth, because a lot of the point of this book was to say there's nothing about woke that threatens capitalism, that threatens the neo-liberal order. I mean it's turning out that Donald Trump is a great deal bigger threat to the neoliberal order. Woke was to the contrary - woke is about talking about everything but class. And so a kind of baudlerized, de-radicalized version of woke became perfectly fine with corporate America. That's why this wonderful old line hard lefty Adolph Reed Jr. says somewhere that woke is about diversifying the ruling class. But I do think it's a threat to high culture because it's about equity. It's about representation. And so elite culture, which I have no shame in proclaiming my loyalty to, can't survive the woke onslaught. And it hasn't, in my view. If you look at just the kinds of books that are being written, the kinds of plays that are been put on, even the opera, the new operas that are being commissioned, they're all about representing the marginalized. They're about speaking for your group, whatever that group is, and doing away with various forms of cultural hierarchy. And I'm with Schoenberg: if it's for everybody, if it's art, Schoenberg said it's not for everybody, and if it's for everybody it's not art. And I think woke destroys that. Woke can live with schlock. I'm sorry, high culture can live with schlock, it always has, it always will. What it can't live with is kitsch. And by which I mean kitsch in Milan Kundera's definition, which is to have opinions that you feel better about yourself for holding. And that I think is inimical to culture. And I think woke is very destructive of those traditions. I mean, in the most obvious sense, it's destructive of the Western tradition, but you know, the high arts in places like Japan or Bengal, I don't think it's any more sympathetic to those things than it is to Shakespeare or John Donne or whatever. So yeah, I think it's a danger in that sense. Is it a danger to the peace of the world? No, of course not.Andrew Keen: Even in cultural terms, as you explain, it is an orthodoxy. If you want to work with the dominant cultural institutions, the newspapers, the universities, the publishing houses, you have to play by those rules, but the great artists, poets, filmmakers, musicians have never done that, so all it provides, I mean you brought up Kundera, all it provides is something that independent artists, creative people will sneer at, will make fun of, as you have in this new book.David Rieff: Well, I hope they'll make fun of it. But on the other hand, I'm an old guy who has the means to sneer. I don't have to please an editor. Someone will publish my books one way or another, whatever ones I have left to write. But if you're 25 years old, maybe you're going to sneer with your pals in the pub, but you're gonna have to toe the line if you want to be published in whatever the obvious mainstream place is and you're going to be attacked on social media. I think a lot of people who are very, young people who are skeptical of this are just so afraid of being attacked by their peers on various social media that they keep quiet. I don't know that it's true that, I'd sort of push back on that. I think non-conformists will out. I hope it's true. But I wonder, I mean, these traditions, once they die, they're very hard to rebuild. And, without going full T.S. Eliot on you, once you don't think you're part of the past, once the idea is that basically, pretty much anything that came before our modern contemporary sense of morality and fairness and right opinion is to be rejected and that, for example, the moral character of the artist should determine whether or not the art should be paid attention to - I don't know how you come back from that or if you come back from that. I'm not convinced you do. No, other arts will be around. And I mean, if I were writing a critical review of my own book, I'd say, look, this culture, this high culture that you, David Rieff, are writing an elegy for, eulogizing or memorializing was going to die anyway, and we're at the beginning of another Gutenbergian epoch, just as Gutenberg, we're sort of 20 years into Marshall McLuhan's Gutenberg galaxy, and these other art forms will come, and they won't be like anything else. And that may be true.Andrew Keen: True, it may be true. In a sense then, to extend that critique, are you going full T.S. Eliot in this book?David Rieff: Yeah, I think Eliot was right. But it's not just Eliot, there are people who would be for the wokesters more acceptable like Mandelstam, for example, who said you're part of a conversation that's been going on long before you were born, that's going to be going on after you are, and I think that's what art is. I think the idea that we make some completely new thing is a childish fantasy. I think you belong to a tradition. There are periods - look, this is, I don't find much writing in English in prose fiction very interesting. I have to say I read the books that people talk about because I'm trying to understand what's going on but it doesn't interest me very much, but again, there have been periods of great mediocrity. Think of a period in the late 17th century in England when probably the best poet was this completely, rightly, justifiably forgotten figure, Colley Cibber. You had the great restoration period and then it all collapsed, so maybe it'll be that way. And also, as I say, maybe it's just as with the print revolution, that this new culture of social media will produce completely different forms. I mean, everything is mortal, not just us, but cultures and civilizations and all the rest of it. So I can imagine that, but this is the time I live in and the tradition I come from and I'm sorry it's gone, and I think what's replacing it is for the most part worse.Andrew Keen: You're critical in the book of what you, I'm quoting here, you talk about going from the grand inquisitor to the grand therapist. But you're very critical of the broader American therapeutic culture of acute sensitivity, the thin skin nature of, I guess, the Rousseau in this, whatever, it's lumpen Rousseauanism. So how do you interpret that without psychologizing, or are you psychologizing in the book? How are you making sense of our condition? In other words, can one critique criticize therapeutic culture without becoming oneself therapeutic?David Rieff: You mean the sort of Pogo line, we've met the enemy and it is us. Well, I suppose there's some truth to that. I don't know how much. I think that woke is in some important sense a subset of the wellness movement. And the wellness movement after all has tens and tens of millions of people who are in one sense or another influenced by it. And I think health, including psychic health, and we've moved from wellness as corporal health to wellness as being both soma and psyche. So, I mean, if that's psychologizing, I certainly think it's drawing the parallel or seeing woke in some ways as one of the children of the god of wellness. And that to me, I don't know how therapeutic that is. I think it's just that once you feel, I'm interested in what people feel. I'm not necessarily so interested in, I mean, I've got lots of opinions, but what I think I'm better at than having opinions is trying to understand why people think what they think. And I do think that once health becomes the ultimate good in a secular society and once death becomes the absolutely unacceptable other, and once you have the idea that there's no real distinction of any great validity between psychic and physical wellness, well then of course sensitivity to everything becomes almost an inevitable reaction.Andrew Keen: I was reading the book and I've been thinking about a lot of movements in America which are trying to bring people together, dealing with America, this divided America, as if it's a marriage in crisis. So some of the most effective or interesting, I think, thinkers on this, like Arlie Hochschild in Berkeley, use the language of therapy to bring or to try to bring America back together, even groups like the Braver Angels. Can therapy have any value or that therapeutic culture in a place like America where people are so bitterly divided, so hateful towards one another?David Rieff: Well, it's always been a country where, on the one hand, people have been, as you say, incredibly good at hatred and also a country of people who often construe themselves as misfits and heretics from the Puritans forward. And on the other hand, you have that small-town American idea, which sometimes I think is as important to woke and DI as as anything else which is that famous saying of small town America of all those years ago which was if you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all. And to some extent that is, I think, a very powerful ancestor of these movements. Whether they're making any headway - of course I hope they are, but Hochschild is a very interesting figure, but I don't, it seems to me it's going all the other way, that people are increasingly only talking to each other.Andrew Keen: What this movement seems to want to do is get beyond - I use this word carefully, I'm not sure if they use it but I'm going to use it - ideology and that we're all prisoners of ideology. Is woke ideology or is it a kind of post-ideology?David Rieff: Well, it's a redemptive idea, a restorative idea. It's an idea that in that sense, there's a notion that it's time for the victims, for the first to be last and the last to be first. I mean, on some level, it is as simple as that. On another level, as I say, I do think it has a lot to do with metaphorization of experience, that people say silence is violence and words are violence and at that point what's violence? I mean there is a kind of level to me where people have gotten trapped in the kind of web of their own metaphors and now are living by them or living shackled to them or whatever image you're hoping for. But I don't know what it means to get beyond ideology. What, all men will be brothers, as in the Beethoven-Schiller symphony? I mean, it doesn't seem like that's the way things are going.Andrew Keen: Is the problem then, and I'm thinking out loud here, is the problem politics or not enough politics?David Rieff: Oh, I think the problem is that now we don't know, we've decided that everything is part, the personal is the political, as the feminists said, 50, 60 years ago. So the personal's political, so the political is the personal. So you have to live the exemplary moral life, or at least the life that doesn't offend anybody or that conforms to whatever the dominant views of what good opinions are, right opinions are. I think what we're in right now is much more the realm of kind of a new set of moral codes, much more than ideology in the kind of discrete sense of politics.Andrew Keen: Now let's come back to this idea of being thin-skinned. Why are people so thin-skinned?David Rieff: Because, I mean, there are lots of things to say about that. One thing, of course, that might be worth saying, is that the young generations, people who are between, let's say, 15 and 30, they're in real material trouble. It's gonna be very hard for them to own a house. It's hard for them to be independent and unless the baby boomers like myself will just transfer every penny to them, which doesn't seem very likely frankly, they're going to live considerably worse than generations before. So if you can't make your way in the world then maybe you make your way yourself or you work on yourself in that sort of therapeutic sense. You worry about your own identity because the only place you have in the world in some way is yourself, is that work, that obsession. I do think some of these material questions are important. There's a guy you may know who's not at all woke, a guy who teaches at the University of Washington called Danny Bessner. And I just did a show with him this morning. He's a smart guy and we have a kind of ironic correspondence over email and DM. And I once said to him, why are you so bitter about everything? And he said, you want to know why? Because I have two children and the likelihood is I'll never get a teaching job that won't require a three hour commute in order for me to live anywhere that I can afford to live. And I thought, and he couldn't be further from woke, he's a kind of Jacobin guy, Jacobin Magazine guy, and if he's left at all, it's kind of old left, but I think a lot of people feel that, that they feel their practical future, it looks pretty grim.Andrew Keen: But David, coming back to the idea of art, they're all suited to the world of art. They don't have to buy a big house and live in the suburbs. They can become poets. They can become filmmakers. They can put their stuff up on YouTube. They can record their music online. There are so many possibilities.David Rieff: It's hard to monetize that. Maybe now you're beginning to sound like the people you don't like. Now you're getting to sound like a capitalist.Andrew Keen: So what? Well, I don't care if I sound like a capitalist. You're not going to starve to death.David Rieff: Well, you might not like, I mean, it's fine to be a barista at 24. It's not so fine at 44. And are these people going to ever get out of this thing? I don't know. I wonder. Look, when I was starting as a writer, as long as you were incredibly diligent, and worked really hard, you could cobble together at least a basic living by accepting every assignment and people paid you bits and bobs of money, but put together, you could make a living. Now, the only way to make money, unless you're lucky enough to be on staff of a few remaining media outlets that remain, is you have to become an impresario, you have become an entrepreneur of your own stuff. And again, sure, do lots of people manage that? Yeah, but not as many as could have worked in that other system, and look at the fate of most newspapers, all folding. Look at the universities. We can talk about woke and how woke destroyed, in my view anyway, a lot of the humanities. But there's also a level in which people didn't want to study these things. So we're looking at the last generation in a lot places of a lot of these humanities departments and not just the ones that are associated with, I don't know, white supremacy or the white male past or whatever, but just the humanities full stop. So I know if that sounds like, maybe it sounds like a capitalist, but maybe it also sounds like you know there was a time when the poets - you know very well, poets never made a living, poets taught in universities. That's the way American poets made their money, including pretty famous poets like Eric Wolcott or Joseph Brodsky or writers, Toni Morrison taught at Princeton all those years, Joyce Carol Oates still alive, she still does. Most of these people couldn't make a living of their work and so the university provided that living.Andrew Keen: You mentioned Barry Weiss earlier. She's making a fortune as an anti-woke journalist. And Free Press seems to be thriving. Yascha Mounk's Persuasion is doing pretty well. Andrew Sullivan, another good example, making a fortune off of Substack. It seems as if the people willing to take risks, Barry Weiss leaving the New York Times, Andrew Sullivan leaving everything he's ever joined - that's...David Rieff: Look, are there going to be people who thrive in this new environment? Sure. And Barry Weiss turns out to be this kind of genius entrepreneur. She deserves full credit for that. Although even Barry Weiss, the paradox for me of Barry Weiss is, a lot of her early activism was saying that she felt unsafe with these anti-Israeli teachers at Columbia. So in a sense, she was using some of the same language as the woke use, psychic safety, because she didn't mean Joseph Massad was gonna come out from the blackboard and shoot her in the eye. She meant that she was offended and used the language of safety to describe that. And so in that sense, again, as I was saying to you earlier, I think there are more similarities here. And Trump, I think this is a genuine counterrevolution that Trump is trying to mount. I'm not very interested in the fascism, non-fascism debate. I'm rather skeptical of it.Andrew Keen: As Danny Bessner is. Yeah, I thought Danny's piece about that was brilliant.David Rieff: We just did a show about it today, that piece about why that's all rubbish. I was tempted, I wrote to a friend that guy you may know David Bell teaches French history -Andrew Keen: He's coming on the show next week. Well, you see, it's just a little community of like-minded people.David Rieff: There you go. Well, I wrote to David.Andrew Keen: And you mentioned his father in the book, Daniel.David Rieff: Yeah, well, his father is sort of one of the tutelary idols of the book. I had his father and I read his father and I learned an enormous amount. I think that book about the cultural contradictions of capitalism is one of the great prescient books about our times. But I wrote to David, I said, I actually sent him the Bessner piece which he was quite ambivalent about. But I said well, I'm not really convinced by the fascism of Trump, maybe just because Hitler read books, unlike Donald Trump. But it's a genuine counterrevolution. And what element will change the landscape in terms of DI and woke and identitarianism is not clear. These people are incredibly ambitious. They really mean to change this country, transform it.Andrew Keen: But from the book, David, Trump's attempts to cleanse, if that's the right word, the university, I would have thought you'd have rather admired that, all these-David Rieff: I agree with some of it.Andrew Keen: All these idiots writing the same article for 30 years about something that no one has any interest in.David Rieff: I look, my problem with Trump is that I do support a lot of that. I think some of the stuff that Christopher Rufo, one of the leading ideologues of this administration has uncovered about university programs and all of this crap, I think it's great that they're not paying for it anymore. The trouble is - you asked me before, is it that important? Is culture important compared to destroying the NATO alliance, blowing up the global trade regime? No. I don't think. So yeah, I like a lot of what they're doing about the university, I don't like, and I am very fiercely opposed to this crackdown on speech. That seems to be grotesque and revolting, but are they canceling supporting transgender theater in Galway? Yeah, I think it's great that they're canceling all that stuff. And so I'm not, that's my problem with Trump, is that some of that stuff I'm quite unashamedly happy about, but it's not nearly worth all the damage he's doing to this country and the world.Andrew Keen: Being very generous with your time, David. Finally, in the book you describe woke as, and I thought this was a very sharp way of describing it, describe it as being apocalyptic but not pessimistic. What did you mean by that? And then what is the opposite of woke? Would it be not apocalyptic, but cheerful?David Rieff: Well, I think genuine pessimists are cheerful, I would put myself among those. The model is Samuel Beckett, who just thinks things are so horrible that why not be cheerful about them, and even express one's pessimism in a relatively cheerful way. You remember the famous story that Thomas McCarthy used to tell about walking in the Luxembourg Gardens with Beckett and McCarthy says to him, great day, it's such a beautiful day, Sam. Beckett says, yeah, beautiful day. McCarthy says, makes you glad to be alive. And Beckett said, oh, I wouldn't go that far. And so, the genuine pessimist is quite cheerful. But coming back to woke, it's apocalyptic in the sense that everything is always at stake. But somehow it's also got this reformist idea that cultural revolution will cleanse away the sins of the supremacist patriarchal past and we'll head for the sunny uplands. I think I'm much too much of a pessimist to think that's possible in any regime, let alone this rather primitive cultural revolution called woke.Andrew Keen: But what would the opposite be?David Rieff: The opposite would be probably some sense that the best we're going to do is make our peace with the trash nature of existence, that life is finite in contrast with the wellness people who probably have a tendency towards the apocalyptic because death is an insult to them. So everything is staving off the bad news and that's where you get this idea that you can, like a lot of revolutions, you can change the nature of people. Look, the communist, Che Guevara talked about the new man. Well, I wonder if he thought it was so new when he was in Bolivia. I think these are - people need utopias, this is one of them, MAGA is another utopia by the way, and people don't seem to be able to do without them and that's - I wish it were otherwise but it isn't.Andrew Keen: I'm guessing the woke people would be offended by the idea of death, are they?David Rieff: Well, I think the woke people, in this synchronicity, people and a lot of people, they're insulted - how can this happen to me, wonderful me? And this is those jokes in the old days when the British could still be savage before they had to have, you know, Henry the Fifth be played by a black actor - why me? Well, why not you? That's just so alien to and it's probably alien to the American idea. You're supposed to - it's supposed to work out and the truth is it doesn't work out. But La Rochefoucauld says somewhere no one can stare for too long at death or the sun and maybe I'm asking too much.Andrew Keen: Maybe only Americans can find death unacceptable to use one of your words.David Rieff: Yes, perhaps.Andrew Keen: Well, David Rieff, congratulations on the new book. Fascinating, troubling, controversial as always. Desire and Fate. I know you're writing a book about Oppenheimer, very different kind of subject. We'll get you back on the show to talk Oppenheimer, where I guess there's not going to be a lot of Lumpen-Rousseauism.David Rieff: Very little, very little love and Rousseau in the quantum mechanics world, but thanks for having me.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

“I thought I came here to talk about books.” John Banville is one of Ireland's great writers. He won the Booker Prize for his novel The Sea and he has remained one of the foremost figures in Ireland since. John Banville will turn 80 this year. In an extraordinary interview on Free State today, he talks about life, death and why we live too long. He has lived a complicated life and he discusses those complications, the hurt he caused his wife and the other women in his life. He speaks about his hatred of the Catholic Church, how his mother was cheated by the clergy and why he feels the church has never really gone away. He explains why he wants to be cancelled and what will be left when he is gone. “The work will be forgotten and my sins will be remembered.”Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning is a Gold Hat Production in association with SwanMcG.For more on Free State: https://freestatepodcast.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Send us a textWas 1950s Dublin really a place of murder and intrigue? On today's show we travel to the Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation  in Dublin's Fenian Street to talk to novelist John Banville about his latest novel, The Drowned, the fourth in a series featuring Detective Inspector St John Strafford and the pathologist Quirke familiar to many from the Benjamin Black novels. And we talk to Estonian poet Doris Kareva who visited the Centre recently about her own poetry, translation, and Estonia. Brew up a big pot of coffee and join us for a lively show!This episode is supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry' from The Hare's Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it. Logo designed by Freya Sirr.Reviews of The Drowned'Cold, compelling and seamlessly plotted, The Drowned also offers a fine portrait of that familiar and never likeable figure in Banville's fictions: the supercilious villain who has lost his moral compass.' ― Financial Times'A beautifully written and intriguing slowburn of a book, in which the various quandaries in the main characters' private lives are as absorbing as the central mystery'. ― Guardian'Brilliant . . . You need not have read the earlier novels to follow this one, but it will be a better read if you do . . . while various loose ends are left tantalisingly in the air, making it clear that a sequel will follow. It can't come too soon for this devoted fan. '― Irish Examiner'Richly atmospheric . . . It's a Dublin where you can smell the pubs, feel the drizzle, and taste the Bewley's coffee. [...]At the centre of it all is the strained relationship between Quirke and Strafford, a couple at odds who are right up there with Banville's greatest achievements.' ― Irish Independent'Tight-lipped humour thrums through the latest in the Booker winner's Strafford and Quirke crime series . . . The Drowned stands alone, too, suspenseful on its own terms . . . while it's ultimately evil, not good, that gives The Drowned its crackling denouement, the novel takes care to part on a more cheerful note - even if the logic of the series demands that Quirke can hardly be content for too long.' ― ObserverThe Drowned delivers an ultimately satisfying and immersive mystery in beautifully wrought prose. ― Irish Independent Books in BriefBravo! ― The TimesDoris Kareva is one of Estonia's leading poets. She was born in Tallinn in 1958, daughter of the composer Hillar Kareva, and published her first poems at the age of 14. In 1977 she entered the University of Tartu as an already acknowledged young poet. Due to her dissident connections she was expelled but graduated as a distance student in Romance and Germanic philology. She has worked for the cultural weekly Sirp (Sickle) and as the Secretary-General of the Estonian National Commission for UNESCO from 1992 to 2008, and is currently an editor for the literary journal Looming (Creation).Support the show

Hablamos con Sara Herrera Peralta de El piar de los pájaros y el goteo del agua que cae del techo (Ed. La bella Varsovia), su décimo tercer poemario, en el que rescata la producción más desconocida de Louise Bourgeois para establecer un diálogo con la famosa artista, pero también consigo misma y con tantas otras mujeres que crean mientras crían, cosen un botón o pasan la fregona. Luego, Ignacio Elguero nos sugiere otras lecturas: Miserable vejez (Ed. Visor), el nuevo y demoledor poemario de Luis Antonio de Villena, de título muy elocuente, y Los ahogados (Ed. Alfaguara), novela de Benjamin Black, pseudónimo con el que el irlandés John Banville firma sus historias de género negro.Además, Javier Lostalé abre su ventanita poética a Treinta años: el silencio y la lluvia (Ed. Libros de la resistencia), poemario de Francisco Javier Ávila en el que lo racional y lo irracional conviven y en el que el abordaje de los asuntos más graves no impide la ironía y el humor. Además, en Peligro en La estación nuestro colaborador Sergio C. Fanjul nos lleva de paseo a propósito de la psicogeografía, disciplina que se encarga de analizar los efectos del entorno geográfico en las emociones y que protagoniza algunas novedades editoriales como: Psicogeografía (Ed. Pepitas) de Julio Monteverde, que es una buena introducción al tema, De fuego cercada (Ed. Alianza), volumen en el que Servando Rocha pone el acento en lo oculto y olvidado de la ciudad de Madrid, Psicogeografía del ahí (Ed. Icaria), de Emilio Santiago Muiño, que trata sobre exploraciones de París y otros entornos menos explotados como Móstoles y Ferrol, Lo quieras o no, libro de Luis Navarro y el colectivo Democracia que propone la posibilidad de hacer psicogeografía en el metro, La ciudad y sus pliegues (Ed. La Torre Magnética), de Luis Gálvez, que trata la vertiente más poética del asunto fijándose en todas las maravillas y azares que puede provocar el paseo atento por el entorno y La ciudad infinita (Ed. Reservoir Bokks), del propio Sergio C. Fanjul. Terminamos el programa junto a Mariano Peyrou, que nos recomienda La belleza de la escritura (Ed. Eolas), ensayo de Miguel Casado que reflexiona sobre la escritura a partir de cuestiones muy concretas.Escuchar audio

Hay novelas que te devuelven a tus orígenes como lector, a ese momento fundacional en el que tedas cuenta de que te podrías pasar la vida leyendo esa novela que te ha transformado, abriéndola ycerrándola, una y otra vez. A mí me pasó con El túnel. Y ahora, cuarenta años después, me heencontrado con otra obra que tiene muchos puntos de contacto con el clásico de Ernesto Sabato.Hay un muerto. Un personaje perturbado, una mujer, peleando con la locura que le distorsiona aveces la realidad. Y sobre todo, una historia rica en matices, condensada en apenas 200 páginas quecomprenden un mundo complejo. Y esa es la gran virtud de El final del bosque, publicada por Siruela.En esas 200 páginas entran asuntos como el amor, las relaciones paterno-filiales, el dolor cuando tienes lacerteza de que tu padre se está muriendo, e incluso los pactos de silencio entre tres hermanos, que secitan en el bosque que vio cómo crecían, cuando eran niños.María Fasce es editora. Pero sobre todo, es lectora y mujer a la que su medio siglo de vida ya le haaportado experiencias y riquezas que eran imprescindibles para escribir una novela, queseguramente con treinta años no estaría en condiciones de escribir. Sin la experiencia de perderantes de tiempo a su padre, no habría sido posible que escribiera las páginas memorables en las queLola ve cómo el cáncer repta por el cuerpo de su padre. En la entrevista que le hicimos en Madridse emociona, pero no ya por transmitir la pasión que le produce hablar de El final del bosque, sinode su padre, y en su mirada hay una especie de brillo, el de recuerdos o episodios felicescompartidos con él, y que se han quedado guardados en la memoria, como tesoros.El final del bosque conecta con las emociones íntimas de María, pero también con sus lecturas.La novela rinde un homenaje declarado a Patricia Highsmith, tiene ese aire de thriller en el quesentimos inquietud desde la primera página, desde la primera línea, cuando leemos que “El perroladraba desesperado. Ernesto ya tendría que haberlo sacado a pasear”. Highsmith acompañó a María Fasce en el proceso de escritura, pero también Annie Ernaux, a la que leyó y volvió mientras dabaforma a los personajes de esta novela ganadora del Premio Café Gijón. Y leyéndola percibimostambién con claridad la devoción que siente por John Banville y el gusto por la palabra, por la fraseconstruida con paciencia de artesano, con ese gusto por el detalle, el mismo que usa cuando seretoca el rojo del carmín de los labios antes de que le hagamos la foto que acompaña este reportajede Onda Regional.Una vez acabada la lectura de esta novela tenemos la seguridad de que hay libros y fotografías quete tocan físicamente. El final del bosque es uno de esos libros.

El Imperio Romano, con sus emperadores, sus gladiadores, con sus costumbres… está muy dentro de nosotros. Seguramente el cine ha tenido mucha culpa. Y Santiago Posteguillo. Pero sigue despertando un interés especial. Y nadie mejor que Juan Eslava Galán para pasearnos por los siglos en los que Roma dominaba el mundo. Lo ha hecho en Historia de Roma contada para escépticos. Calígula, Nerón, Vespasiano y decenas de personajes extravagantes se asoman a las páginas de este libro escrito con el rigor y la gracia habituales de Juan.Un falsificador de arte y Ava Gardner son dos de los personajes de la nueva novela de Ferran Torrent. Se titula El yo que no muere. Y está ambientada en la Valencia que tan bien conoce el autor.En la sección de Audiolibros, un clásico de Flaubert, el autor de Madame Bovary, y que, sin ser tan conocido, siempre se ha considerado como una obra maestra, la última novela que escribió el autor francés: La educación sentimental. En las últimas novedades, regresa John Banville en el traje de Benjamin Black y novelas de Lorenzo Silva y Almudena Grandes, en bolsillo.

En este nuevo episodio hemos invitado al guionista de 'Segundo premio' Fernando Navarro para hablar de su brillante debut en la novela, conversamos con James Ellroy y John Banville de sus últimos trabajos, viajamos a Barcelona para ver la puesta en escena que Castellucci ha ideado para el Réquiem de Mozart y nos colamos en el estreno de 'La Herencia' de Mathew López en el Lliure, considerada por la crítica norteamericana la obra mas importante del siglo. Acabamos en Jerez donde acaba de comenzar una de las citas fundamentales del flamenco

Hay bandas como La Habitación Roja que te acompañan desde siempre, como aquel adolescente que llevaba su Discman a todas partes. 'Crear' es el nuevo disco de esta icónica banda valenciana, que lleva casi 30 años en la música y nos ha acompañado tanto como tú los has seguido en su fluir vital. Hoy nos acompañan Jorge Martí y Pau Roca, integrantes de la banda, para compartir su trayectoria y su nuevo trabajo.Con Miguel Ángel Delgado, nuestro experto en ciencia, nos enfrentamos a esas miradas que presentan la ciencia como una disciplina aséptica, racional y libre de emociones, prejuicios o sentimientos. La realidad es que, en muchas ocasiones, la ciencia se nos revela como una actividad profundamente humana. En esta ocasión, hablamos de 'Hembras', de Lucy Cooke, un fascinante libro publicado por Anagrama que desafía las narrativas tradicionales sobre la naturaleza y el género en el mundo animal.Además, nos adentramos en el mundo de la literatura con el aclamado escritor irlandés John Banville, ganador del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 2014. Bajo el pseudónimo de Benjamin Black, Banville ha escrito diez novelas de género negro, y ahora regresa con 'Los ahogados.Finalmente, rendimos homenaje a Juan Mariné, una figura legendaria en el mundo del cine y la fotografía. Fue un pionero en la restauración cinematográfica y un referente en la historia del cine español. Su trabajo como director de fotografía en películas icónicas y su labor en la preservación del patrimonio fílmico lo convierten en un personaje indispensable para entender la evolución del séptimo arte.Escuchar audio

El escritor, que firma bajo el seudónimo de Benjamin Black en España, nos presenta 'Los ahogados', nueva entrega de sus novelas negras protagonizadas por el doctor Quarke y el inspector Strafford

A new Craftwork episode featuring a conversation with John Kaag, a philosopher and author who is also now the co-founder and chief creative officer of Rebind, a company that creates interactive reading experiences using AI and featuring leading authors and scholars like Margaret Atwood, Clancy Martin, John Banville, Roxane Gay, Deepak Chopra, and others. Kaag is professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Kaag specializes in American philosophy and is the Donohue Professor of Ethics and the Arts at UMass Lowell, External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and Advisor at Outlier.org. In February 2023, Kaag delivered the lecture "William James and the Sick Soul" for Harvard Divinity School's William James Lectures on Religious Experience series. He lives in Carlisle, MA with his wife, Kathleen, and their two children. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi's email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Instagram  TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A taste of our forthcoming Culture File Debate: Wìngéd Muses, for which we asked some of our favourite writers—Orit Gat, Sara Baume, The Naturalist, Paddy Woodworth and John Banville—to speak to us about a bird they cherish. Here, John Banville puts in a good word for the Swift. Full program Dec 28th, 6.30pm, RTÉ lyric fm.

Matías Rivas y Arturo Fontaime recomendaron libros imperdibles y documentales para este fin de semana.

Matías Rivas y Arturo Fontaime recomendaron libros imperdibles y documentales para este fin de semana.

Brendan is joined by Man Booker prize-winning author John Banville, author and journalist Aingeala Flannery and economist and writer David McWilliams who give their recommendations for the best books from nonfiction to novels to gift this festive season. Book recommendations, see Notes, Resources and Links - Brendan O'Connor show homepage.

A searing literary thriller with Detective Inspector Strafford and pathologist Quirke.Get all the news you need by listening to WBZ NewsRadio 1030 on the free #iHeartRadio app! Or ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio.

John Banville ist einer der bedeutenden Autoren der europäischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Für seinen 2005 erschienenen Roman «Die See» wurde er mit dem Man Booker Prize ausgezeichnet, mit seinen Kriminalromanen begeistert er auch ein breites Publikum. // Von Thomas David/ WDR 2024/ www.radiofeature.wdr.de Von Thomas David.

John Banville ist einer der bedeutenden Autoren der europäischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Für seinen 2005 erschienenen Roman «Die See» wurde er mit dem Man Booker Prize ausgezeichnet, mit seinen Kriminalromanen begeistert er auch ein breites Publikum. // Von Thomas David/ WDR 2024/ www.radiofeature.wdr.de Von Thomas David.

En este nuevo encuentro en el café de Mendel, ⁠⁠⁠⁠José Carlos Rodrigo⁠⁠⁠⁠ y ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jan Arimany⁠⁠⁠⁠ hablan de Sant Jordi, Maria Arimany, Mariana Travacio, Toni Morrison, John Banville, Manuel Puig... Seas de café solo o de los que se alargan describiendo todos los ingredientes añadidos que desean, ¡no te olvides de acompañarlo con una buena lectura! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/elcafedemendel/message

A favourite song of Seán Ó Riada's, wonderful parties, and extraordinary kindness to a young writer starting out: John Banville, Shelly Furlong, Diarmaid Ferriter, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Marina Carr salute seven decades of the Irish Arts Council

Inside Books is a regular popular author interview podcast presented by Breda Brown. In this episode Breda is in conversation with novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter John Banville.

En un área de servicio en mitad de la nada, en el Hotel Restaurante Plácido, el escritor en ciernes Lucas Falena quiere escribir su primera gran novela de true crime. Allí, en una de las habitaciones que la familia propietaria usaba como residencia, ha tenido lugar el crimen del que habla todo el país. Inmerso en el mismo mundo sobre el que está escribiendo, el autor entabla relación con los protagonistas del suceso. Y sobre todo, con Coral, una niña misteriosa. Tan enigmática y deslumbrante como lo sería un arcoíris nocturno.Paul Pen sabe como seducirnos, con historias que nos cogen de las orejas y no nos abandonan hasta la última página. Y acaba de publicar novela: A un lado del la carretera (Harper Collins) engancha desde la primera línea.También nos ha emocionado Operación Lena, donde descubrimos una nueva voz narrativa, la de Macarena Zambrana, una abogada sevillana que se adentra en los secretos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una visita al pasado, desde el presente, donde los objetos son capaces de desencadenar una historia. En este caso, un abrigo vintage. Y un gran personaje, Ángela, que aterriza en Londres después de la muerte de su madre. La novela ha sido publicada por Algaida. En la sección de Audiolibros, nos sumergimos en la Tetralogía Científica de John Banville, donde el autor irlandés da vida a protagonistas de la talla de Copérnico, Kepler o Isaac Newton. Y conocemos una faceta oculta de Hemingway: la de espía. Sí, el autor de libros como El viejo y el mar o París era una fiesta, llegó a espiar para los americanos… y también para los rusos. En la sección de Últimas recomendaciones, Lumen recuperan las mejores novelas de Juan Marsé y Libros Cúpula celebra a los grande los 75 años de Stephen King.

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Booker Prize winning author, John Banville, joined Brendan to share five pieces of music from throughout his life. They discussed ageing, writing, love and loss.

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon, born on 12/13 February 1903 in Liège, Belgium, and passing away on 4 September 1989, was a prolific Belgian writer renowned for creating the iconic fictional detective Jules Maigret. Simenon's literary legacy extends beyond the realm of detective fiction, with his impressive body of work comprising approximately 400 novels, 21 volumes of memoirs, and numerous short stories, totaling sales of over 500 million copies. While Jules Maigret brought Simenon widespread fame, he also garnered critical acclaim for his romans durs, or "hard novels," demonstrating his versatility as a writer. Esteemed literary figures such as Max Jacob, François Mauriac, and André Gide praised Simenon, with Gide hailing him as a "great novelist, perhaps the greatest" in contemporary French literature. Simenon's life unfolded against a backdrop of diverse locales. After being born and raised in Liège, he spent considerable periods residing in France (1922–45), the United States (1946–55), and, ultimately, Switzerland (1957–1989). His literary creations were deeply influenced by his semi-autobiographical reflections, drawing inspiration from his formative years in Liège, extensive travels across Europe and the world, wartime experiences, troubled marriages, and numerous love affairs. Renowned for his psychological insights and vivid portrayal of time and place, Simenon's novels have been lauded by critics such as John Banville. Among his notable works are "The Saint-Fiacre Affair" (1932), "Monsieur Hire's Engagement" (1933), "Act of Passion" (1947), "The Snow was Dirty" (1948), and "The Cat" (1967). Simenon's enduring impact on literature lies not only in the enduring popularity of Jules Maigret but also in the rich tapestry of narratives that reflect the complexities of human nature and the varied landscapes of his own life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's episode, we delve into the world of Irish literature and explore the works of some of the best Irish authors you must read. From the celebrated CS Lewis, who straddled the line between British and Irish, to the incomparable James Joyce and his masterpiece "Ulysses," we'll take you through a journey of influential writers who have shaped modern literature. Join us as we uncover the rich literary heritage of Ireland and provide insights into these renowned authors. So, whether you're searching for your next book club read or simply looking to expand your literary horizons, this episode is for you. Stay tuned as we explore the works of Oscar Wilde, Maeve Binchy, Bram Stoker, Roddy Doyle, John Banville, Brendan Behan, and Samuel Beckett. Let's dive into the fascinating world of Irish literature.Support the showIf you enjoyed the show please leave a review on Apple. And if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter @BryanJCollinsThanks for listening!

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Hay una novela, con ecos de Joël Dicker, que nos ha entusiasmado. Y por eso le abrimos un recuadro especial en este Club. Se trata de El último caso de William Parker, primera novela de un autor que debuta en la narrativa, alguien que viene de la música y que ha llegado a la ficción criminal como si la conociera de toda la vida: Alexandre Escrivà.El asesinato de la joven Sarah Evans pone en marcha una investigación que correrá a cargo del inspector William Parker, ayudado por un periodista español que acaba de llegar a San Francisco.¿Quién era La dama de las camelias? La novela clásica de Alejandro Dumas, que se basó en una experiencia personal, una experiencia que vivió en carne propia (en carne viva, se podría decir). Descubrimos quién fue aquella mujer que se convirtió en el centro de su vida, con una pasión arrasadora, de la que nació esta obra inmortal.Benjamin Black, el alter ego de John Banville, da un giro, se desafía a sí mismo, y junta al patólogo Quirke y al inspector Strafford en Las hermanas Jacobs, que empieza con la aparición del cadáver de Rosa Jacobs. Aparentemente es un suicidio. Pero enseguida nos damos cuenta de que no.Además, Silvia Hidalgo cuenta de qué va Nada que decir, novela con la que ha ganado el premio Tusquets y Nando López habla de Los elegidos, que sigue acumulando nuevas ediciones.

This Week on Screentime John Fardy chats to Legendary Irish Director Thaddeus O'Sullivan about his new film 'The Miracle Club' about a group of women in 1960's working class Dublin who go to Lourdes in search of miracles. Booker Prize-Winner John Banville chats about his favourite film. Plus film critic Chris Wasser reviews the week's new movie releases.

Last week we crowned the best Booker shortlist ever and this week, we're going even deeper into that list. In 2005, the odds were on Julian Barnes to win the Booker Prize with Arthur & George but the judges chose The Sea by John Banville. Arthur & George traces the intersecting lives of an obscure solicitor and the world-famous creator of Sherlock Holmes, while The Sea follows a man attempting to escape a recent loss while confronting a past trauma. So, we're taking a closer look at both books and asking: who was right – the Booker judges or the bookies? In this episode Jo and James: Give plot summaries of Arthur & George and The Sea Share a short biography of Julian Barnes and John Banville Discuss the merits of each novel Consider whether the bookies' favourite should have won the Booker Prize in 2005 Reading list: The Sea by John Banville Arthur & George by Julian Barnes On Beauty by Zadie Smith The Accidental by Ali Smith A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie In the Fold by Rachel Cusk A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel Saturday by Ian McEwan Further resources: How do you place a winning bet on the Booker Prize? via The Atlantic A full transcript of the episode is available at our website. Follow The Booker Prize Podcast so you never miss an episode. Visit http://thebookerprizes.com/podcast to find out more about us, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok @thebookerprizes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early on in this conversation there's a dead patch. The mic didn't pick up the glorious seagull call that comes reverberating down the chimney into the room John Banville and I were sitting in.    John Banville is an Irish novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter who hates his own work. He's won a ton of prizes ("hundreds") including the Booker in 2005 for The Sea. He's currently waiting on the Nobel. John published his first novel, Nightspawn, in 1971, and his first book, a collection of short-stories called Long Lankin, in 1970. In addition to the "literary" work he's also written a string of popular crime novels.  We met at his home in Howth; Howth, as you'll know, is located near that meadow in Ulysses where James Joyce has Molly Bloom saying: "…the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me yes like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said I was a flower of the mountains yes so we are flowers all a woman's body yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes…" "…I was a Flower of the mountains yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him and yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes." John mentions what a curse it is to have Joyce, and Yeats (who, as you'll also know, wooed Maude Gonne on Howth Head), et al, writing like this, constantly looming in the rearview mirror; I follow on with the regular drill, asking John: what he does, how he does it, why he does it, and why it matters.            

"People DO find us. I've always believed that if more people knew about UUMAN, our values, our unique brand of no-dogma spirituality, that many more would come and join us." Mike Chambers shares his vision of the Board President's role in accomplishing such worthy goals, reports relatively good news about UU membership trends, and talks about his past work as VP focusing on UUMAN safety and security policies.  He also points us to some artistic endeavors to which we might wish to read, watch, and hear; and the correct pronunciation of the word "succinct." All while bringing thirty years of experience as a technical writer to provide answers that are the embodiment of succinct.   John Banville's Quirke novels:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirke_(series) Mike's favorite British detective shows  Endeavour: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/endeavour/#  Dalgliesh: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/dalgliesh/s01   Midsomer Murders: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118401/  Josh Ritter's "All Some Kind of Dream":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1rrETw5elw (which, as Mike says, could be "a UU anthem.")  Springsteen's "If I Should Fall Behind" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKOjKKj_TPo  (performed as a duet at Mike and Donna's wedding, gets a mention near the end of the episode) Lastly: Anyone know of a theater group looking for a Roswell, GA stage, with access to a dressing room (aka "the Choir room"), to rent on certain select evenings?   Intro and outro background music by Tim Moor at Pixabay.UUMAN is a welcoming congregation and we thank you for taking the time to get to know us a bit better. You can learn more about us by visiting our website at www.UUMAN.orgUnitarian Universalism is a religion based on seven moral principles which promote the inherent worth of all people and each individual's search for truth and meaning. Learn more at uua.orgUUMAN is a 501(c)3 organization under the Internal Revenue Code. Your contribution is deductible to the full extent provided by law. https://www.uuman.org/donate/UUMAN - Unitarian Universalist Metro Atlanta North 11420 Crabapple Rd, Roswell, GA 30075 (770) 992-3949 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcRwJlKGVhksTvxKeCXhxeQ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UUMAN.ATL Instagram https://www.instagram.com/uuman_atl/ Twitter https://twitter.com/UUMAN_ATL #UUMAN #Unitarian #Universalist #Universalism #UU

Continuing our Seven Ages of Man season, the late Niall Toibin stars as the ageing Shakespearean actor, who plays Touchstone in As You Like It.

We're joined by Irish author Mark O'Connell (A Thread of Violence, Notes from an Apocalypse, and To Be a Machine, which won the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish literature) to discuss a John Banville novel, The Book of Evidence, a fictionalized account of a famous Irish murder. O'Connell's newest book is actually a nonfiction exploration of that same murder, which took place in the early 80s and made headlines around the country, in part because the murderer was a well-known Dublin socialite. We talk to O'Connell about why he became so obsessed with that murder, his approach to writing and researching nonfiction, and why he's not worried about AI taking any of our jobs. You can find more about O'Connell--and his books--at his website: https://mark-oconnell.com/ If you like our show, and want to support it, we're offering two bonus episodes each month for only $5. Most recently those include our ongoing Summer of Shorts, in which we read short stories and talk about short pants: https://www.patreon.com/BookFight  

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by UVA Law Professor Paul Stephan to talk through the close-calls in this week's national security news, including:“Xi's All That.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing this past week, for a long delayed sit-down with President Xi Jinping to try and de-escalate the two superpowers' tense relationship. Was this meeting a smart move or a giveaway? And what should we make of President Biden calling the Chinese leader a “dictator” shortly after Blinken's return?“Adverse REPOssession.” The question of what to do with the $300 billion in Russia-related assets frozen by the United States and its allies has reemerged, with members of Congress recently introducing a new version of the REPO Act that would seize those assets and make them available as reparations for Ukraine, among other purposes. Is seizure the right way to handle these assets? What challenges and risks might such a dramatic step encounter?“Robo Joe.” President Biden joined a summit of leaders in the AI industry this week as part of his administration's ongoing effort to seriously engage the policy challenges raised by AI technology. But what are the realistic prospects for regulation? And what form should it take?For object lessons, Alan recommended the new Apple comedy “Platonic.” Quinta doubled-down on the TV recommendations with the stage play-turned-movie about leaks in the intelligence community, “Reality.” Scott urged listeners to check out Gil Scott-Heron's classic 2010 final album “I'm New Here,” and two phenomenal reimaginings: “We're New Here” by Jamiexx and “We're New Again” by Makaya McCraven. And Paul recommended the new book “The Lock-Up: A Novel” by John Banville. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we chat with the Mayor of South Lake Tahoe, Cristi Creegan. Cristi served as the president of the board of directors of Live Violence Free for over a decade. She has been actively involved in several non-profit agencies and other volunteer opportunities; her passion for conservation and the Tahoe community itself is abundant. We chat with Cristi about her time as president of the board, her new role as Mayor, and what it looks like to balance working in the civic arena while being a mother and having several other roles.Live Violence Free's Crisis Line: 530-544-4444California Local- Cristi's City Council Bio: https://californialocal.com/localnews/el-dorado/ca/government/show/120-city-of-south-lake-tahoe/representative/417-cristi-creegan/Cristi Creegan's Instagram: @councilmembercristiEarth Day Event at LTCC (April 22, 2023): https://visitlaketahoe.com/event/south-tahoe-earth-day/Soroptmist Advocacy 101 (April 19th at the Tahoe Public Library): https://www.sislt.org/events/State of South Shore Event at Tahoe Beach Retreat: https://business.tahoechamber.org/events/search?c=6Opportunities to Get Involved in The Tahoe Community- WWW.CITYOFSLT.USBooks Mentioned-The Singularities: A Novel by John Banville - https://www.amazon.com/Singularities-novel-John-Banville/dp/0525655174-City of Bohane by Kevin Barry- https://www.amazon.com/City-Bohane-Novel-Kevin-Barry/dp/155597645XIntro Music Provided By: Downtown Walk by | e s c p | https://escp-music.bandcamp.comMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/One Conversation, The Podcast Where We Believe One Conversation Can Change A Life | www.liveviolencefree.org

Daily Quote Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. (Denis Waitley) Poem of the Day I Remember You As You Were by Pablo Neruda Beauty of Words Fiction and the Dream John Banville

Booker Prize-winning author John Banville's new novel "The Singularities" is a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.

In conversation with Colum McCann ''The heir to Nabokov'' (The Sunday Telegraph), Irish novelist John Banville won the Man Booker Prize for The Sea, a story of loss and the fickle nature of memory. His many other novels include The Book of Evidence, Mrs. Osmond, The Untouchable, and April in Spain. He has earned the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Irish PEN Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's most prestigious literary honor. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Banville is also an acclaimed playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, and crime novelist. In The Singularities, a mysterious man with a borrowed name returns to the estate of his youth to find it occupied by the descendants of a famous but controversial scientist. Colum McCann won the 2009 National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin. His other novels include Song Dogs, This Side of Brightness, and the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted TransAtlantic . His most recent novel, Apeirogon, was a New York Times bestseller and won the Prix Montluc, the Elle Prize, and the Jewish National Book Award.The Thomas Hunter Writer in Residence at Hunter College in New York and the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organization Narrative 4, McCann has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, and the Paris Review, among other publications. (recorded 11/4/2022)

This week André Aciman toasts the genius of Marcel Proust, a century after his death; and Richard Lea on the mesmerising multiverses of John Banville.The works of Marcel Proust‘The Singularities' by John BanvilleProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author John Banville spoke to Brendan about his new novel 'The Singularities' which was six years in the writing, why he would erase the words 'good' and 'evil' in the dictionary and his hatred of holidays.

The Dublin Review is a quarterly magazine that publishes fiction, essays, memoirs, journalism and travel writing. Launched in 2000 by Brendan Barrington, the Dublin Review has published pieces by John Banville, Anne Enright, Sally Rooney, Seamus Heaney, etc. Show Your Work is its second anthology.

The first attempt on Everest took place in 1922 by a British team led by George Leigh Mallory. What happened is an extraordinary story full of controversy, drama, and incident, populated by a set of larger-than-life characters straight out of an adventure novel. I spoke with Mick Conefrey about this story. Bio: For thirty years I've made documentaries for the BBC and all the major British and US channels. I've been everywhere from the Arctic to the Himalayas to Angkor Wat and written books on mountaineering and exploration. I've been lucky to have been able to film all over over the world from Cambodia to K2, from Puerto Rico to Spitsbergen. I'm particularly interested in films about exploration and mountaineering, and have filmed in the Alps, the Himalayas and Alaska. Several of my films have won international and British awards, at festivals such as Trento, Telluride, Banff and Kendal. As both a film maker and a writer, I'm fascinated by the art of narrative. I love to find good stories with complex characters dealing with even more complex situations. My definition of good drama is what happens when people are put under pressure, and exploration and mountaineering provide plenty examples of this. My heroes: John Hunt, Graham Greene, Robert Siodmak, Tom Woolfe, Alexandra David Neel, Tom Wolfe, Orson Welles, Ella Maillart, Sir Richard Burton, John Banville, Don Cherry, Lucinda Williams. My current squeezes: Jeanette Winterson, Bobby Womack, Jo Nesbo, Carla Bley. Website - https://www.mickconefrey.co.uk/ Book - https://www.mickconefrey.co.uk/books/everest-1953 Artwork by Phillip Thor - https://linktr.ee/Philipthor_art To watch the visuals with the trailer go to https://www.podcasttheway.com/trailers/ The Way Podcast - www.PodcastTheWay.com - Follow at Twitter / Instagram - @podcasttheway (Subscribe/Follow on streaming platforms and social media!) Thank you Don Grant for the Intro/Outro. Check out his podcast - https://threeinterestingthings.captivate.fm Intro guitar copied from Aiden Ayers at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UiB9FMOP5s *The views demonstrated in this show are strictly those of The Way Podcast/Radio Show*