Podcast appearances and mentions of john biguenet

Matt was joined by the director of Broomstick (playing at Open Eye Theatre), Joel Sass and the one-woman show star, Cheryl Willis. Written by John Biguenet and directed by Joel Sass, Broomstick is a perfect blend of humor and suspense, guaranteed to make your Halloween season unforgettable. Don't miss out on this hauntingly delightful performance!…

Matt was joined by the director of Broomstick (playing at Open Eye Theatre), Joel Sass and the one-woman show star, Cheryl Willis. Written by John Biguenet and directed by Joel Sass, Broomstick is a perfect blend of humor and suspense, guaranteed to make your Halloween season unforgettable. Don't miss out on this hauntingly delightful performance!…

On our first episode of Phantom Power, we ponder those moments when the air remains unmoved. Whether fostered by design or meteorological conditions or technological glitch, the absence of sound sometimes affects us more profoundly than the audible. We begin with author John Biguenet discussing his book Silence (Bloomsbury, 2015) and the relationship between quietude, reading, writing, and the self. Next, we speak to poet and hurricane responder Rodrigo Toscano, who takes us into the foreboding silence in eye of a storm. Finally, our own co-host and poet cris cheek ponders the many contradictory experiences of “dead air” in an age of changing media technologies. Today's episode features music by our own Mack Hagood and by Graeme Gibson, who is currently touring on drums with Michael Nau and the Mighty Thread. 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

With all of the publishing scandals going on, I thought it made sense to re-up this conversation with novelist John Biguenet. Why is the standard narrative in American writing the narrative of victimhood? How do we move past seeing creativity as only a form of personal expression?  http://patreon.com/publicintellectual http://jessacrispin.com

“In the United States, failure is seen as a sin. In New Orleans we treasure our successes but we embrace life on its way down as well. Our failures come back home, and are afforded a respect they wouldn’t get anywhere else.” —John Biguenet In this episode of Deviate, John Biguenet and Rolf discuss the first three centuries of New Orleans history and how history influences the city today (2:45); how Hurricane Katrina affected the city and its residents in 2005 and the months/years after (9:30); why so many locals decided to stay in New Orleans after Katrina, and what makes the city special (30:30); local and national institutional shortcomings, and lessons learned (and unlearned) after Katrina (38:20); and the social and environmental factors that will put New Orleans at risk in coming years (48:00). John Biguenet (@JohnBiguenet) is an author, playwright, and social commentator. He is the author of ten books, including the short-story collection The Torturer’s Apprentice, and the novel Oyster. His poems, stories, plays, and essays have been reprinted or cited in The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The Best American Short Stories, Best Music Writing, and various other anthologies. He is currently the Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. Named a New York Times guest columnist after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Biguenet chronicled his return to New Orleans amid efforts to rebuild the city. Notable Links: History of New Orleans Louisiana Purchase (1803) Robert R. Livingston (diplomat) Hurricane Katrina (2005) United States Army Corps of Engineers Federal Emergency Management Agency Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina This episode is brought to you by AirTreks, an industry leader in multi-stop international travel. If you've ever planned a trip with multiple stops, you know that finding the right flights can be difficult. AirTreks is a distributed travel company with employees working from all corners of the world to help with your flight planning, specializing in complex routes with up to 25 stops. The AirTreks website offers suggested pre-planned travel itineraries to help you get started, but can customize to fit your journey. The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel’s 2017 album Lumber. Note: We don't host a “comments” section, but we’re happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at deviate@rolfpotts.com.

On our first episode of Phantom Power, we ponder those moments when the air remains unmoved. Whether fostered by design or meteorological conditions or technological glitch, the absence of sound sometimes affects us more profoundly than the audible. We begin with author John Biguenet discussing his book Silence (Bloomsbury, 2015) and the relationship between quietude, reading, writing, and the self. Next, we speak to poet and hurricane responder Rodrigo Toscano, who takes us into the foreboding silence in eye of a storm. Finally, our own co-host and poet cris cheek ponders the many contradictory experiences of "dead air" in an age of changing media technologies. Today's episode features music by our own Mack Hagood and by Graeme Gibson, who is currently touring on drums with Michael Nau and the Mighty Thread. Transcript [♪ ethereal music playing ♪] [CRIS CHEEK] This… is… Phantom Power. [MACK HAGOOD] Episode One. [CRIS] Dead Air. [RODRIGO TOSCANO] You know, silence… [JOHN BIGUENET] It’s like, uh, it’s like a vacuum… like a walkie-talkie, where you’ve gotta press the button to speak and let it go to hear. [CRIS] The signal drops out. [MACK] Hello, and thanks for joining us on Phantom Power, podcast about sound in the arts and humanities. Over the next six or seven episodes this season, we’ll be investigating how artists and scholars are thinking about sound, writing about sound, and using sound to make things. My name’s Mack Hagood, I’m a media scholar, a writer, and a musician. [CRIS] I’m cris cheek, I’m a poet. Sometimes a sound poet, sometimes an unsound poet. I’ve also done a lot of work with music over the years. And I’m gonna be learning a lot as we make this series in terms of thinking about listening and talking together. Sounds about sound. [MACK] And I don’t, I don’t know if this is ironic or fitting, but we’re starting off this first episode talking about silence. So today we sort of have a three parter. We’re thinking about the roles of silence, uh, in reading and writing, and we’re going to think about the dead air in the eye of a hurricane, this kind of silence that prestiges something terrible. And, um, then we’re going to think about silence as a disruption. You know, an interruption of your regularly scheduled broadcast, or what they call [CRIS] Dead air. [MACK] [laughing] So, cris, a long, long time ago, I was a 19 year old college student in New Orleans, Louisiana, at Loyola University. And I just took this, you know, intro English class with this professor named John Biguenet and he just made a huge impression on me, really started making me think in different ways. And then I went on with my life, and it turned out that this gentleman John Biguenet turned into a well known fiction writer, poet, playwright, um, he has written a collection of short stories called The Torturer’s Apprentice, which is just this sort of spellbinding collection that is a little bit Chekov, a little bit Kafka, a little bit Borges. Um, he’s won the O’Henry Award for Short Fiction, uh, he’s won a Harper’s Magazine Writing Award. He wrote this trilogy of plays about Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans. And now he’s written a book on silence, uh, for this series of short books that have titles like Bread, or, uh, Golf Ball. [laughing] So, just kind of thinking deeply about these quotidian objects in our everyday lives and John chose silence. I read it, it’s a terrific short book, I highly recommend it. And so the last time I was down in New Orleans, I went to his office and we had a terrific conversation. [♪ record crackles, loud bells chiming ♪] [JOHN] We may conjecture that somewhere in the cosmos, beyond the border of all human trace, a zone of silence awaits. [♪ bells chime again ♪] Always receding, of course, before the advance of future explorers. A great sea of stillness unperturbed by the animate. An utterly quiet virgin territory. Our imagination misleads us if we conceive of s...

Its Part Two of What The Christ Is Wrong With Straight White Men? For the second installment of this series, Jessa invites writer John Biguenet onto the show to discuss the straight white male writer. What are his obligations during these strange times? How do they differ from the obligations of a straight white male citizen? And why has American literature become a literature of victimhood?SUBSCRIBE to the #PublicIntellectual #Patreon page to access bonus content, merch, and more:https://www.patreon.com/publicintellectualPLEASE SUBSCRIBE AND RATE US on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL IS A FOREVER DOG PODCASThttp://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/public-intellectual/

Bob Wilcox and Gerry Kowarsky review (1) PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, by Rick Elice, at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; (2) BAD JEWS, by Joshua Harmon, at the New Jewish Theatre; (3) THE GIN GAME, by D. L. Coburn, at St. Louis Actors' Studio; (4) SUBLIME INTIMACY, by Ken Page, at Max & Louie Productions; (5) DEVIL BOYS FROM BEYOND, by Buddy Thomas, Kenneth Elliot, & Drew Fornarola, at Stray Dog Theatre; (6) SHOTGUN, by John Biguenet, at the Webster Univ. Conservatory; and (7) ALL IS CALM, by Peter Rothstein, Erick Lichte & Timothy C. Takach, at Mustard Seed Theatre.

On Friday morning, the topic was Hurricane Katrina. Featured speakers were John Biguenet, whose columns on the storm and its aftermath were printed in the New York Times, and environmental justice expert Robert Bullard.