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Sean talks to New York Times best selling author Julia Pierpont (Among the Ten Thousand Things, The New Yorker) about Wonder Boys. They discuss teaching writing and the film's depiction of a novelist. Every episode is available at Patreon.com/TheFlagrantOnes on The Bundle Tier with selected episode available for free here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
¿Quieres escuchar el audiolibro completo? Visita www.penguinaudio.comEn este luminoso audiolibro, la exitosa escritora del The New York Times, Julia Pierpont, y la artista Manjit Thapp combinan biografías breves, vibrantes y sorprendentes con preciosos retratos de santas seculares, campeonas de la fuerza y el progreso: mujeres que sacudieron la tierra, rompieron techos e hicieron explotar los moldes. Entre ellas, se encuentran:Nina SimoneJane AustenAmelia EarhartFrida KahloMichelle ObamaSonia SotomayorPussy RiotRosario CastellanosNyayoi KusamaLas Hermanas BrontëVictoria OcampoSimone De BeauvoirSafoEmily DickinsonSor Juana Inés De La CruzMadonna See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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It’s our Best of 2018 episode! Of course, these are not necessarily the best things published in 2018, but instead the best things we read for the podcast (including everything from Family Sagas to Nature/Outdoors Non-Fiction) and the best we read of everything else. Join us for our #libfaves18! [Sorry this is a bit late coming out, Matthew had a terrible bout of food poisoning.] You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Favourite books read for the podcast Fiction Meghan: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (Episode 045 - Family Sagas) Anna: Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell (Episode 049 - Southern Gothic) Matthew: Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North (Episode 053 - Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy) RJ: Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (Episode 053 - Comedic Science Fiction & Fantasy) Non-Fiction: Anna: This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins (Episode 051 - Essay Collections) Matthew: Manga in Theory and Practice: The Craft of Creating Manga by Hirohiko Araki (Episode 047 - Creative Writing/Books About Writing) RJ: Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley (Episode 059 - Food and Cooking) Meghan: My Conversations with Canadians by Lee Maracle (Episode 051 - Essay Collections) Favourite books we read not for the podcast Fiction Matthew: Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers RJ: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Meghan: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang Anna: Jørn Lier Horst (Anna talked about his book The Caveman for Episode 057 - Nordic/Scandinavian Noir) Here’s Jørn Lier Horst’s tweet about us! Non-Fiction: RJ: Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis Meghan: The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White Anna: Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast Matthew: Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr Other Meghan: The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O'Neill Matthew: Last of the Sandwalkers by Jay Hosler Matthew talked about this one in Episode 062 - French and Dinosaurs and Beetles and Cereal RJ: "Revenant" from Invasions by Calvin Gimpelevich Anna: Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal E-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning by Ruth C. Clark and Richard E. Mayer Runner ups (not necessarily mentioned in the podcast) Meghan: Non-Fiction Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence War's Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich The Pursuit of Endurance: Harnessing the Record-Breaking Power of Strength and Resilience by Jennifer Pharr Davis The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont and Manjit Thapp What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan Sci Fi: Home by Nnedi Okorafor Romance: A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson Graphic Novel: Spinning by Tillie Walden Poetry: A Place Called No Homeland by Kai Cheng Thom Middle-grade/YA: The Agony of Bun O'Keefe by Heather Smith Anna: My Neighbor Totoro Matthew: Non-Fiction: How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller by Ryan North Graphic Novels: Persephone by Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky (So good!) About Betty's Boob by Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau (Great!) Erased, vol. 1 by Kei Sanbe Frankenstein by Junji Ito Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac Ménage à 3, vol. 1 by Gisèle Lagacé and David Lumsdon (webcomic) Gunnerkrigg Court, vol. 4-5 by Tom Siddell (webcomic) Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew (webcomic) Dimension W by Yuji Iwahara Delicious in Dungeon by Ryoko Kui Silver Spoon by Hiromu Arakawa Dodo by Felipe Nunes RJ She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Crunch, the Shy Dinosaur by Cirocco Dunlap and Greg Pizzoli The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up the Marvel Universe by Ryan North and Erica Henderson Links, Articles, and Things Hark! Episode 146: Fuck Yes Dragon Tuesday JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, January 15th we’ll be talking about Bizarro Fiction! Then on Tuesday, February 5th we’ll be talking about Erotic Romance! (Just in time for Valentine’s Day!)
In this episode, team Noonan, Dunleavy and Offord chat what's hot on DVD in the next few weeks with film buff Yosra Osman. Mick catches up with author Julia Pierpont to talk The Little Book of Feminist Saints and the fierce women that inspired it, and Hannah and Mick get all hot and flustered in the presence of Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton, deputy assistant commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, psychologist, author, TV muse and all-round brilliant bird, as she tells them what inspired her forthcoming book, Through The Fire, and explains the realities of being a firefighter.Jen's chatting football in Jenny Off The Blocks, Hannah's reached Bolt in Dunleavy Does Disney and there's all manner of wrongness on Tinder and coming out of John Humphry's mouth in the Bush Telegraph. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In this episode of Sinica, Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody who has written about the internet and its effects on society since the 1990s, joins Kaiser and Jeremy to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of China's tech industry and the extraordinary advances the nation has made in the online world. The hour-long conversation delves into the details and big-picture phenomena driving the globe's largest internet market, and includes an analysis of Xiaomi's innovation, the struggles that successful Chinese companies face when taking their brands abroad and the nation's robust ecommerce offerings. Clay has written numerous books, including Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream in addition to the aforementioned Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. He is also a Shanghai-based associate professor with New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the school's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Please take a listen and send feedback to sinica@supchina.com, or leave a review on iTunes. Recommendations: Jeremy: Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont, and Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre by Ning Ken Clay: Internet Literature in China by Michel Hockx Kaiser: A Billion Voices: China’s Search for a Common Language by David Moser
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable change, and a startlingly original story of love and time lost. - Amazon Review The Avid Reader Show airs Mondays at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. The Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com
Martha Frankel’s guests this week are Julia Pierpont, Leah Stewart, Shaun Usher and Kyra Davis.
This week, Jacob Heilbrunn discusses Michael B. Oren’s “Ally”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Julia Pierpont talks about her debut novel, “Among the Ten Thousand Things”; questions from readers; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
On this episode, we've got stories of children trying to make sense of the world... and adults trying to do the same. Figuring out the unspoken rules, trying to get the answers they want, a little lost, a little hopeful, a little strange. Julia Pierpont reads her short story, "Times For Us Alone," and Gabriel Roth reads from his novel, The Unknowns. CatapultReads.com // @CatapultReads