Podcast appearances and mentions of Maria Dahvana Headley

Andy and Dani celebrate Andy's 50th birthday! Doesn't he look so good for his age? Ya we know! Ok but really, how much did Andy hate his birthday book? It def wasn't his favorite. How much did Dani love his birthday book? WAY more than Andy! The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley

Join us this month as we interview Kelly from themiddlepage, exploring her deep dive into Tolkien's lesser-read works in her Year of Tolkien Book Club project, and her passion for making Tolkien's complex themes accessible and engaging. Discover how her community-driven approach and love of Tolkien's poetry, On Fairy-stories, and medieval literature bring new insights into the Professor's work.    Citations   Thank you to Kelly from themiddlepage for joining us! Kelly's links:  Year of Tolkien Book Club Substack: https://themiddlepage.substack.com/p/a-year-of-tolkien-library   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themiddlepage/   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/themiddlepage.bsky.social   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themiddle.page   Find Kelly on these other great podcasts: https://beacons.ai/kelly.themiddlepage/podcastappearances You can also find Kelly on videos with the Voices of Arda folks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4nCiY805E   Join Athrabeth's Discord:  https://discord.gg/4rZynfWv3f   Hwæt! Bro! Maria Dahvana Headley, Beowulf: A New Translation (MCD x FSG Originals, 2020) https://bookshop.org/p/books/beowulf-a-new-translation-maria-dahvana-headley/9892043

On this SELECTED SHORTS, host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about moving out of familiar territory into new spaces and new understanding.  In Meron Hadero's “The Thief's Tale,” read by Teagle F. Bougere, an émigré can't leave some of his old ways behind.  “The Tallest Doll in New York City,” by Maria Dahvana Headley, imagines what happens when two iconic skyscrapers fall in love.It's read by Becca Blackwell.  And summer trip yields unexpected treasures in Anne Tyler's “The Feather Behind the Rock,” read by Jane Curtin.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Many of us struggled with the Old English poem "Beowulf" in high school. But what if you could actually hear "Beowulf" in the English of today? There's a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary language and even internet slang to create a fresh take on this centuries-old poem -- right down to addressing the reader as Bro! Also, what's a word for feeling desperately lonely, but also comfortable in your solitude? And: the story of the word nickname. It comes from words that literally mean "an additional name." Plus laundry list, snaggletooth, breakfast, desayuno, circus lingo, gaffle, a search-engine brain teaser, hogo, logomachy, Waldeinsamkeit, and a book about book burning that's bound in asbestos!  Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welkom bij Herwaarns Verwikkeld! Dit is een variant op de Herwaarns podcast waarbij Merel en Wessel niet beginnen bij een thema, maar bij een centraal cultureel object. Van daaruit bekijken we verbanden met andere culturele objecten om een intertekstueel web te weven en daarmee het central object te onderzoeken. Je wordt ingewikkeld geprikkeld in Herwaarns Verwikkeld! Met in aflevering 3: Beowulf. Luister! We vertellen over de grootste held van het oude Engeland, protosuperheld, protomonsterjager en protocarriè-idool. Eén van de oudste en meeste vormende teksten van de vroege Engelse taal en cultuur, die onder andere inspiratie was voor Tolkien, Dr. Seuss en de Animaniacs. Wil je een object aandragen voor een Herwaarns Verwikkeld? Neem contact op. Bronnen: Beowulf. Auteur onbekend, vermoedelijk uit de 8e eeuw. Verschillende vertalingen worden genoemd, waaronder die van Maria Dahvana Headley en Seamus Heaney. Academisch onderzoek Baker, Peter S. Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf. 2013. The Beowulf's Afterlives Bibliographic Database. http://beowulf.dh.tamu.edu/. 2020. The Beowulf Reader. Ed. Peter S. Baker. 2000. Tolkien: J. J. R. Tolkien – “The Homecoming of Beorthnoth Beorthelm's Son”. 1953. The Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit. Schilderijen en tekeningen: http://beowulf.dh.tamu.edu/detail?id=417 Andere verwijzingen: Beowulf. Regie: Robert Zemeckis. 2007. Beowulf – Een Zeeroovergeschiedenies. Leeuwarer Nieuwsblad, 1934. https://thijsporck.com/2019/12/05/paper-doll-beowulf/ “Beowulf infographic.” Beowulf Study Guide Course Hero. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/Beowulf/infographic/ Rockwell, Kent – Beowulf kunstwerken. Bijvoorbeeld: Beowulf, 1931 (https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/beowulf-13581) en Beowulf and the Dragon, 1931 (http://beowulf.dh.tamu.edu/detail?id=417). Beware: Children at Play. Regie: Mik Cribben. 1989. Corzon, Walter and Horacio Ottolni. “Brainwulf.” Animaniacs. DC Comics, 1999. Gaiman, Neil. “Bay Wolf.” 1998. Smoke and Mirrors. Jeffs, Amy. “The Wanderer and the Hall". Wild. 2022. Dr. Seuss – How The Grinch Stole Christmas Homerus Odyssee en Iliad. Risden, E. L. Beowulf for Business: The Warrior's Guide to Career Building. Whitston Publishing Company, 2007. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. “Green' ich Grendel.” Lil' Red Riding Hood. UMG Recording, 1966. Treharne, Elaine. “#Beow100” Beowulf in 100 Tweets. https://historyoftexttechnologies.blogspot.com/2014/01/beowulf-in-hundred-tweets-beow100.html Wood, Wally. “The Ghost Beast.” Tower of Shadows, number 6. Marvel Comics. 1970. www.herwaarns.nl YouTube: https://youtu.be/P7ZW0wo6iXE Google Podcasts: Spotify: Apple Podcasts:

Jared, Oriana and Ned discuss Jared's choice of topic: Beowulf. The famed Old English poem, the longest extant poetic work in general preserved in that language, almost accidentally survived over the years until it became more widely recognized in the 1700s, including surviving a fire. It has since become a cornerstone of studies of English literature, telling the story of a heroic Geat warrior who defeats two monstrous presences on a visit to an afflicted Danish kingdom, and who in later years as an aging king slays a dragon at the cost of his life and, it is strongly implied, his kingdom's. Tolkien knew the work thoroughly and regularly taught it in his academic career, leading to both a prose translation and various notes and commentaries that Christopher Tolkien presented and edited for a 2015 publication. But besides the notable connections that can be made between the poem and elements of his own legendarium, Tolkien has a further place in Beowulf scholarship thanks to his most famed academic work, the 1936 lecture “Beowulf: The Monsters and The Critics,” which single-handedly reframed the poem from being primarily seen as a historical document to being considered as a remarkable work of imagination. What are some of the key differences between Beowulf's world and ethos and Tolkien's own reworking of it into his legendarium, in terms of character, society and more? What points does Tolkien bring up in his lecture that provides a deeper insight into how he was not only arguing for the Beowulf poet – whoever it might be – but also placing his own work into that lineage? How do the portrayals of the various monsters Beowulf faces differ, and what in particular makes Grendel's mother such a fascinating character? And how many moments per episode are points raised and then suddenly realized to be maybe not accurate? (Sorry about that.)Show Notes.Jared's doodle. Gotta be careful with dragons.Ooooooh boy, the angst this Fellowship of Fans post unleashed in some corners when it came to Rings of Power rumors. (On a side note, RoP's Morfydd Clark is in the new two part Agatha Christie Murder is Easy adaptation on Britbox and is unsurprisingly really good!)The whole Matthew Weiner spoiler-war thing re Mad Men was a thing. Was it ever a thing. Here's a sample.Beowulf! You might have heard of it. Plenty of translations freely available, and of course there's Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley and etc. And yes there's Tolkien's too.“HWAET!” (Tolkien allegedly really loved to get his students' attention by delivering this full on.)If you haven't read “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics,” we really do encourage this. (And picking up the full essay anthology too, key pieces like “A Secret Vice” and “On Fairy-Stories” are included among others.)Kennings are very cool. (But please avoid ‘whale road.')Imagining Tolkien delivering this to the other Beowulf critics is something wild to think about.There's a wide variety of pieces about the women of Beowulf out there; here's one that provides a general summary and consideration about them.If you'd like to see the Nowell Codex, head on over to the British Library, physically or virtually.We've mentioned E. R. Eddison before. Definitely NOT Tolkien.The full historical background that Beowulf draws on is definitely there, though treating the poem as a history itself is not the way to go. Here's a useful piece tackling the history as such.The Geats aren't around as such anymore, and there are reasons for that…It's not directly mentioned in the episode but Tolkien did write and lecture about one of the ‘side' stories in Beowulf, with the results published in the book Finn and Hengest.Did we mention we're not impressed with Silicon Valley's take on Tolkien?Grendel's mother is, no question, awesome.Kenneth Grahame's “The Reluctant Dragon” – definitely not Smaug.“Sellic Spell” really is interesting, and may be the most notable part of the volume it's published in.Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead! (But avoid The 13th Warrior.)A last little bonus: didn't bring it up in the episode but Ned remembered seeing Robert Macneil's 1986 documentary series on PBS The Story of English back when it first ran, and the second episode, “The Mother Tongue,” has a brief bit discussing Beowulf and how it might have been performed as a song, as well as a separate section on the impact of the Viking invasions on English as a language led by noted Tolkien scholar and academic descendant Tom Shippey.Support By-The-Bywater (and our network) on Patreon, and you can hang out with us in a friendly Discord.

Bro — this is definitely not the “Beowulf” that you read back in school. Maria Dahvana Headley's gutsy, swaggering translation brings the Old English epic poem roaring into this century, showing you why this tale of fraught family ties, power plays and posturing, and mighty, imperfect people is as relevant as ever.  Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of eight books, most recently Beowulf: A New Translation (MCD X FSG Originals, 2020). Her novel The Mere Wife (MCD X FSG, 2018), an adaptation of the Beowulf poem set in suburban America, was named by The Washington Post as one of its Notable Works of Fiction in 2018. Her essays on gender, chronic illness, politics, propaganda, and mythology have been published and covered in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Nieman Storyboard, and elsewhere. She grew up in the high desert of Idaho on a survivalist sled dog ranch, where she spent summers plucking the winter coat from her father's wolf.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We're pleased to offer Maria Dahvana Headley's poem, and invite you to read Pádraig's weekly Poetry Unbound Substack, read the Poetry Unbound book, or listen back to all our episodes.

And the Raucous Depths Abide by Sam Schreiber, Read by Rish Outfield An alien empire sends a drone to monitor Earth, but things go awry and the device's CPU and backup end up at cross purposes. After centuries at the bottom of the ocean, the CPU has gone mad and is bent on destroying humanity. The backup finds a way to save the day, though there is of course pain involved. But life is pain. Anyone who says anything different is selling something. Sam Schreiber is a writer living in Brooklyn with his wife and two cats. His work can be found in such markets as Tales to Terrify, PodCastle, Escape Pod, Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, where this story first appeared. Keep up with his work at https://www.thesamschreiber.com/ or on Twitter @ahzimandias Rish Outfield is a writer, narrator, and podcast host who magically reverts to childhood every time he hears a strange sound out in the woods in the night. Maybe it was just an owl, or an elk, or a will o' the wisp, or an escaped criminal convicted of serial cannibalism . . . I mean, no big deal, right? The Tallest Doll in New York City by Maria Dahvana Headley, Read by Wilson Fowlie In a pre-World War Two Manhattan, the buildings come alive and share a budding romance, much to the horror and endangerment of the people around and within them. Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of eight books, including Beowulf: A New Translation (FSG, 2020), which won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her novel The Mere Wife, under development at FX, is a contemporary adaptation of the Beowulf story, set within American suburbia. Headley's genre-bending work has won the Hugo and the World Fantasy Awards. Her ten-episode musical adaptation of The Aeneid will be released by Audible in 2023. She grew up in the high desert of Idaho on a survivalist sled dog ranch, where she spent summers plucking the winter coat from her father's wolf. Wilson Fowlie lives in a suburb of Vancouver, Canada and has been reading aloud since the age of 4. His life has changed recently: he lost his wife to cancer, and he changed jobs, from programming to recording voiceovers for instructional videos, which he loves doing, but not as much as he loved Heather.

On this SELECTED SHORTS, host Meg Wolitzer presents three stories about moving out of familiar territory into new spaces and new understanding.  In Meron Hadero's “The Thief's Tale,” read by Teagle F. Bougere, an émigré can't leave some of his old ways behind.  “The Tallest Doll in New York City,” by Maria Dahvana Headley, imagines what happens when two iconic skyscrapers fall in love.  It's read by Becca Blackwell.   And summer trip yields unexpected treasures in Anne Tyler's “The Feather Behind the Rock,” read by Jane Curtin.

Adjani Salmon is the writer of the award-winning web-series Dreaming Whilst Black, now on BBC Three. He tells Tom Sutcliffe about the reality and his fictional portrayal of the everyday struggles of being an aspiring filmmaker. Also on Front Row - the Aeneid, the epic poem written by Virgil more than 2000 years ago. As well as being one of the great works of classical literature, it's also one of the earliest examples of a work commissioned as political propaganda. Maria Dahvana Headley - the writer behind Vergil! A Mythological Musical, a new audiobook that fuses the life of the poet with that of his greatest work, and Sarah Ruden, who recently updated her translation of the Aeneid and publishes a new biography of the poet in October, discuss why the Aeneid still packs a punch today. And - the Twitter sensation known only as West End Producer, has finally removed his mask and revealed his true identity - one of the theatre industry's biggest secrets. He's... actor Christian Edwards and he's telling Tom about life behind the mask and why he did it. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe Producer: Harry Parker

These two new novels ask a crucial question: who gets to tell our stories?  Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers follows one young journalist as she seeks answers within the unpublished manuscript of a recently dead author while her own life starts to crumble. Weir joins us to talk about likeable female characters, what makes the literary canon, AI storytelling and more. My Murder by Katie Williams is a fast-paced, inventive mystery where the victims of a serial killer are brought back to life to solve the case. Williams talks with us about how she came to write her book, including technology in her fiction, what she learns from teaching and more. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.          New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app.         Featured Books (Episode):   The Mythmakers by Keziah Weir  My Murder by Katie Williams  The Guest by Emma Cline  The Idiot by Elif Batuman  American Pastoral by Philip Roth  Beowulf translated by Maria Dahvana Headley  The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson  The Wife by Meg Wolitzer   Delicious Foods by James Hannaham   Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams     Featured Books (TBR Topoff):   The Muse by Jessie Burton  The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes 

Sometimes, the world you're working in is already built... because it's the one we live in! But that doesn't mean you don't still have choices to make. Guest Kat Howard joins us to talk about what happens when you flick one of reality's dominos and see what changes. Maybe you've added magic -- but is it a secret, hidden society, or something that's out in the open? One will lead to different worldbuilding considerations than the other! Or maybe you've added dragons, werewolves, fairies, or some other paranormal or supernatural force. How do they fit it -- or not -- to life as we know it? And then, when you know you're changing the world, how do you prepare for -- or dismiss -- the Authenticity Police who may start to nitpick? (Transcript TK) Our Guest: Kat Howard is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror who lives and writes in Minnesota. Her novella, The End of the Sentence, co-written with Maria Dahvana Headley, was one of NPR's best books of 2014, and her debut novel, Roses and Rot was a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. An Unkindness of Magicians was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, and won a 2018 Alex Award. Her short fiction collection, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, collects work that has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, performed as part of Selected Shorts, and anthologized in year's best and best of volumes, as well as new pieces original to the collection. She was the writer for the first 18 issues of The Books of Magic, part of DC Comics' Sandman Universe. Her next novel, A Sleight of Shadows, the sequel to An Unkindness of Magicians, is coming April 25, 2023. In the past, she's been a competitive fencer and a college professor. You can find her @KatwithSword on Twitter and on Instagram. She talks about books at Epigraph to Epilogue.

Magonia by Maria Dahvana HeadleyAza Ray is struggling – to breath. Every since she was about a year old, and suddenly developed a serious problem with breathing, Aza's life has seemed an endless series of trips to the E.R. and hospitals, where doctors struggle to figure out what on earth is Aza's problem. In fact, they can't find another person alive like her, and have named her condition, after her!Aza tries as best she can to be “normal,” but seems to fail. She wasn't supposed to make to 10 let alone almost 16. But here she is, just a few days shy of that big milestone. She has a great family, two supportive parents, a crazy fun younger sister and a great friend, Jason. Jason, who, just like her family, is trying everything possible to keep her living just a little bit longer.One day at school, not long before her birthday, Aza sees something in the sky that she can't explain, as much as she'd like to be able to. Her family think it must be the results of all the medications she is taking, but as she talks to Jason about it – he gives her another possible explanation. An explanation that sounds almost as out of this world as what she saw.

One of Le Guin's lesser known but lifelong practices was that of a translator. Her translations of the first Latin American Nobel Prize Laureate in literature (and the only Latin American woman to receive the award), Gabriela Mistral, were the first truly substantive presentations of her work in both English and Spanish. She's translated other […] The post Crafting with Ursula : Maria Dahvana Headley on Feminist Translation & Classical Retellings appeared first on Tin House.

It's Spooky Season, y'all! This month the Always YA panel classifies themselves as Spooky, Scary, or Slasher. We all share some YA book picks to read during October, and Susan shares some interesting info about the history horror comics. Listen if you dare! Instagram: @alwaysyapod Email: alwaysyapod@gmail.com Media mentioned in this episode: The Sandman streaming on Netflix, based on the graphic novels by Neil Gaiman. Prey (2022) streaming on Hulu. Kingdom streaming on Netflix. All of Us Are Dead streaming on Netflix. Cobra Kai streaming on Netflix. Hocus Pocus 2 streaming on Disney+. Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman Grady Hendrix's My Best Friend's Exorcism streaming on Amazon Prime on September 30th. Sonia Saraiya. The Karate Kid, Cobra Kai, and the Odd Legacy of Mr. Miyagi. Vanity Fair, July 3, 2019. Dade Hayes. ‘Cobra Kai' KOs ‘Bridgerton' On Nielsen Streaming List; ‘Soul' Enters Limbo State. Deadline, February 8, 2021. Problematic Fave podcast on Spotify. Darren Mooney. The Karate Kid Movies Explore Hollywood's Complicated Martial Arts History. The Escapist, January 1, 2021. Haiyang Yang and Kuangjie Zhang, The Psychology Behind Why We Love (or Hate) Horror. Harvard Business Review, October 26, 2021. Merphy Napier's Youtube video How Reading Fiction Affects Your Brain explains the benefit of reading Stephen King's Pet Sematary in helping her process grief. Mike Duran, ordained minister and author of Christian Horror: On the Compatibility of a Biblical Worldview and the Horror Genre, blog post “Is Beowulf the First “Religious Horror” Story Ever Written?” published July 28, 2015. “The Top 10 Most Watched Shows During Quarantine.” Daily Infographic, September 5, 2021. My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley. Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV, Deluxe hardcover edition book one (collects comic #1-15). The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu. Fredric Wertham. What Parents Don't Know About Comic Books. Ladies Home Journal, November 1953. Joe Sergi. 1948: The Year Comics Met Their Match. Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. June 8, 2012. “How America Almost Destroyed The Comic Book Industry”. CNBC, YouTube, July 17, 2021. Provides a brief overview of the censorship of horror comics. The documentary Comic Book Confidential includes footage from the testimony of Bill Gaines, founder of EC Comics and later Mad Magazine, at the 1954 Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. You can watch some clips from the hearings on YouTube. Kelly McEvers, These 'Paperbacks From Hell' Reflect The Real-Life Angst Of The 1970s. NPR, October 26, 2017. Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories by Ray Bradbury, Fantagraphics Books, 2022.

In past episodes we've added such creatures as goats, cats, and everyday snakes to our Mephistophelean menagerie, but today… Here there be dragons. We're making the biggest addition ever – in more ways than one. We explore the history of devilish dragons and why these mythical monsters are so often associated with Satan.   SHOW LINKS Satanic Bay Area: Preorder our Halloween parody tract! San Francisco's best haunt: Terror Vault PopCrush: Mom Slammed Over Satanic Party Follow David's adults-only voice work at his Twitter The Penguin Book of Dragons, Scott G Bruce (2021) The Firedrake In Beowulf, Alan K Brown (1980) (info from Wikipedia) Natural History, Pliny the Elder (77 CE) Book of Beasts, Oxford M.S. Bodley 764, The Bodleian Library  The Bible - New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition, Daniel 14 Early Jewish Writings, Bel & the Dragon Beowulf: An Introduction, RW Chambers (1921) The Monsters & the Critics, JRR Tolkien (1936) Dragons and Dragon Lore, Ernest Ingersoll (1928) WorldHistory.biz, St George & the Crusades, Samantha JE Riches (2015) St. George and the Dragon: Introduction, Whatley, Thompson, & Upchurch (2004) YouTube: Dragon Size comparison Beowulf: A New Translation, Maria Dahvana Headley (2020) Dragons: The Modern Infestation, Pamela Wharton Blanpied (1997) Reddit: How to spot a dragon using an illusion spell   GET IN TOUCH WITH BLACK MASS APPEAL Facebook Twitter Instagram Patreon Tabitha Slander's Instagram Discord server   SATANIC BAY AREA Website Facebook Twitter (as @SatanicSF) Instagram Sign up for Satanic Bay Area's newsletter On TikTok as DailyBaphirmations Coffee Hour is the third Thursday of every month from 6 – 8 pm at Wicked Grounds in San Francisco!

This episode we're talking about Classics! We talk about what makes a book a classic, whether a classic has to be good or not, fiction vs non-fiction classics, and how classics change over time. Plus: Pro strats and speedrunning techniques for classics! (Apologies for some audio problems this episode, should be fixed for next time!) You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Netflix show (Wikipedia) In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Comic adaptation by Emi Gennis Passing by Nella Larsen The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, adapted by Crystal S. Chan, Stacy King, and SunNeko Lee Manga Classics: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Crystal S. Chan and Nokman Poon  Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, adapted by Stacy King and Po Tse All the Manga Classics titles! Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition by Natsume Sōseki, adapted by Chiroru Kobata, translated by Zack Davisson Other Media We Mentioned King John by William Shakespeare (Wikipedia) The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (Wikipedia) A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (Wikipedia) Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Wikipedia) Evelina by Frances Burney (Wikipedia) Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (Wikipedia) Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg Faggots by Larry Kramer Beowulf: A New Translation translated by Maria Dahvana Headley, read by JD Jackson The Sandman (Wikipedia) I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara, read by Gabra Zackman Unsolved Mysteries (Wikipedia) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Wikipedia) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (Wikipedia) Complete Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Clueless (Wikipedia) Manga Classics: Emma by Jane Austen, adapted by Crystal S. Chan, Stacy King, and Po Tse Emma by Jane Austen (Wikipedia) Clue (film) (Wikipedia) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Ena Moriyama The Nose by Nikoai Gogol Read on Project Gutenberg We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie  (Wikipedia) Ranking the original 150 Pokémon for #WorldGothDay - Friday Night Spooktacular (RJ & Matthew livestream!) All the Manga Classics titles! Links, Articles, and Things FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) (Wikipedia Jonathan Swift (Wikipedia) Daily Dracula Roger Zelazny (Wikipedia) Episode 027 - Non-Fiction Audiobooks Trip the light fantastic (Wikipedia) Clothbound Connoisseur (Instagram) 22 Classics by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin Kindred by Octavia Butler The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Silence by Shūsaku Endō Love Medicine by Louise Erdich Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Passing by Nella Larsen One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Beloved by Toni Morrison Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki Cane by Jean Toomer The Color Purple by Alice Walker Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson Native Son by Richard Wright American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa Give us feedback! Fill out the form to ask for a recommendation or suggest a genre or title for us to read! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, June 21st we'll be talking about Beach Reads. Then on Tuesday, July 5th we'll be discussing the genre of Humour Non-Fiction!

Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There's a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary language and even internet slang to create a fresh take on this centuries-old poem — right down to addressing the reader as Bro! Also, what's a word for feeling desperately lonely, but also comfortable in your solitude? And: the story of the word nickname. Plus laundry list, snaggletooth, breakfast, desayuno, circus lingo, gaffle, a search-engine brain teaser, hogo, logomachy, Waldeinsamkeit, and a book about book burning that's bound in asbestos! Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Our listener phone line 1 (877) 929-9673 is toll-free in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere in the world, call +1 (619) 800-4443; charges may apply. From anywhere, text/SMS +1 (619) 567-9673. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben and Hank did a deep dive into all things Beowulf. They talked about the Seamus Heaney and Maria Dahvana Headley translations of the original text, the Santiago García and David Rubín Beowulf comic, the Gareth Hinds comic, the DC Comics Beowulf Dragon Slayer comic, the 1999 Beowulf movie starring Christopher Lambert, the 2005 Beowulf movie Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard Butler along with the documentary Wrath of Gods about what a nightmare making that movie was, and the 2007 animated Robert Zemeckis movie written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avery. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Bil and Raleel interview their guest, Kristin, about her 11th century campaign set in the far north of Norway. The discussion broadens significantly beyond that and we go on talking about RPGs and campaigns more generally. References: The Age of Vikings by Anders Winroth https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21981623-the-age-of-the-vikings Viking Age: Everyday Life During the Extraordinary Era of the Norsemen by Kirsten Wolf https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19659470-viking-age Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World by Johanna Katrin Fridriksdottir https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50765199-valkyrie Beowulf: A New Translation by Unknown, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41940267-beowulf The Saga Thing Podcast https://sagathingpodcast.wordpress.com/ Inside the Viking Mind Not mentioned in the podcast, but recommended - a three part lecture by Professor Neil Price focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age. The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJZBqmGLHQ8 Life and Afterlife: Dealing with the Dead in the Viking Age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu2gN8n15_A The Shape of the Soul: The Viking Mind and the Individual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Db9sG1PSsQ This episode's cover image is of Hel, Norse goddess of the underworld. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/opposedroles/message

The Dark Ages, Late Antiquity, the late Roman . . . however you define the years spanning the fall of Rome, the period is rich in stories, real or reimagined. In this episode Dr Andy Merrills, Associate Professor of Ancient History, joins the Slightly Foxed team to cast light on the surviving literature. We begin with Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire before delving into 4th-century accounts by the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus, a spiritual autobiography by Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, ecclesiastical chronicles by the Venerable Bede, Gallic tales of Christian miracles and relic-looting with Gregory of Tours and an alternative look at the period with the modern-day master of Late Antiquity, Peter Brown. From there we venture into fiction with Rosemary Sutcliff's adventures inspired by archaeological finds and a retelling of the old British folk ballad ‘The Twa Sisters' in Lucy Holland's Sistersong, as well as Gore Vidal's Julian and Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant. We swap tales from Icelandic sagas and set sail on a tenth-century Viking long ship with Frans G. Bengtsson before heading beyond Hadrian's Wall for a glimpse of the Lindisfarne Gospels on Holy Island and a hunt for second-hand gems at Barter Books in a converted Victorian railway station in Northumberland. And there's more historical fiction to be found in further reading recommendations too, as we plunge into the seventeenth-century Essex witch trials with poet A. K. Blakemore's novel The Manningtree Witches and follow the fortunes of a group of friends in wartime Europe in Olivia Manning's classic Balkan Trilogy. (Episode duration: 42 minutes; 49 seconds ) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch with Jess in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. A Countryman's Winter Notebook, Adrian Bell (1:02) Letters to Michael: a father writes to his son 1945–1947, Charles Phillipson (1:12) The Rosemary Sutcliff Novels, Slightly Foxed Cubs. The final two in the series, The Shield Ring and Sword Song, are now available (2:00) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon (4:18) The Later Roman Empire, Ammianus Marcellinus (9:30) The History of the Franks, Gregory of Tours (10:41) Confessions, Saint Augustine (13:54) The City of God, Saint Augustine is out of print (14:46) Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede (15:34) The World of Late Antiquity, Peter Brown (17:34) Julian, Gore Vidal (22:14) The Dream of Scipio, Iain Pears (22:54) The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro (23:38) Dawn Wind, Rosemary Sutcliff (25:06) The Long Ships, Frans G. Bengtsson (26:08) Beowulf: A New Translation, Maria Dahvana Headley (27:13) Sistersong, Lucy Holland (27:30) Le Morte Darthur, Thomas Malory (30:53) The Last Kingdom, Bernard Cornwell (32:11) The Manningtree Witches, A. K. Blakemore (38:17) The Balkan Trilogy, Olivia Manning (40:47) Related Slightly Foxed Articles Scaling Gibbon's Everest, Richard Crockatt on Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Issue 68 (8:17) A Frank Look at History, Andy Merrills on Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks, Issue 65 (12:48) Last of the Pagans, Patrick Welland on Gore Vidal, Julian, Issue 45 (22:50) The Sound of Chariots, Sue Gaisford on the Roman Britain novels of Rosemary Sutcliff, Issue 63 Light in the Dark Ages, Sue Gaisford on Rosemary Sutcliff, Dawn Wind, Issue 69 Magical Talisman, Sue Gaisford on Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword Song & The Shield Ring, Issue 71 Adrift on the Tides of War, Patrick Welland on Olivia Manning's Balkan trilogy, Issue 63 (40:47) Other Links Listen to Episode 18 of the Slightly Foxed Podcast: An Odyssey Through the Classics (0:20) Barter Books, Alnwick (36:12) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable

On this week's episode we're discussing classics rewritten by women! The tentpoles are Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott, The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo, and Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley.   What We're Into Lately Subtle Blood by KJ Charles For the Wolf by Hannah F. Whitten Luca “Choosing” by Susan Taitel The Imaginary Corpse by Tyler Hayes Victoria Goddard's books: Tales of the Nine Worlds series Greenwing & Dart series   Other Stuff We Mentioned Will Darling Adventures by KJ Charles Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare The Good Place (see Janet with a cactus behind her back) Moana Carmina Burana (text) Carmina Burana (cantata by Orff) Hamilton “Saltwashed” by Jennifer Mace The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Lord of the Flies by William Golding Empresses in the Palace  The Heroine's Journey by Gail Carriger Rule 63 of the internet Persona 5 videogame Peter Darling by Austin Chant Peter Pan by JM Barrie Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis E. Jade Lomax's fanfic reinterpretations of The Susan Problem The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis Genderswap in fanfiction Mad Max: Fury Road Atomic Blonde For Next Time Wicked the musical Content Warnings Domestic abuse in The Chosen and the Beautiful Warfare and gore in Beowulf and Unconquerable Sun Discussion of trans and nonbinary erasure   Transcription The transcript for this episode can be found here.  Huge thanks to our amazing team of scribes!!

We're not always aware of the world we're creating for ourselves and for others. We don't always understand our impact. But there is impact nonetheless. Read by Tatiana Grey, Maria brings us a story of the world that crept up on us screaming for our attention. Read by Lucie Pohl, Brit's story is about a hero who is rescued by the city she loves. "The Kleptographer" by Brit E.B. Hvide, Read by Lucie Pohl Brit E. B. Hvide is a writer and a Hugo Award-nominated editor. She studied creative writing and physics at Northwestern University. Originally from Singapore, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their dog. Follow her on Twitter @bhvide Lucie Pohl is a German-born-NYC-raised comedian, actor, writer & creator of Edinburgh Fringe & OFF B'way solo hits 'Hi, Hitler', 'Apohlcalypse Now!' a.o. Lucie has been featured on NPR, in The NY Times and is also the voice of Mercy on Blizzard's Overwatch. Acting credits include Red Dwarf, Homeland and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. "The Scavenger's Nursery" by Maria Dahvana Headley, Read by Tatiana Grey Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of eight books, most recently The Mere Wife. Her new translation of Beowulf comes out from FSG in August, 2020. Her stories have been short-listed for the Nebula, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Tiptree awards, and regularly appear in Year's Best anthologies. Tatiana Grey is a critically acclaimed actress of stage, screen, and the audio booth. She has been nominated for dozens of fancy awards but hasn't won a single damned thing. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. See more about Tatiana at www.tatianagrey.com

Join us for a robust discussion of Beowulf, one of the most well-known Old English poems. We talk about the monstrous feminine, the political landscape of 7th-10th century Britain, and wanting to fight Seamus Heaney. The cat has actually read this one, sort of.Content WarningsWar, battles, Beowulf rips someone's arm off. Social MediaYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFXi9LNQv8SBQt8ilgTZXtQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/teachmycat2read/Twitter: https://twitter.com/teachmycat2read?s=09Tumblr: https://teachingmycattoread.tumblr.comGoodread: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/130760733-teachmycat2read-podcastWebsite: https://teachingmycattoread.wordpress.com/Email: teachingmycattoread@gmail.comSupport the show (https://ko-fi.com/teachingmycattoread)

Laura Varnam discusses dragons in fantasy literature. Laura Varnam discusses dragons in fantasy literature, exploring the ways in which the dragon of Beowulf inspired Tolkien in his writing of Smaug, allowed Maria Dahvana Headley to explore female power in her 2020 interpretation of the text, and gave Varnam herself new material for two original poems, read here for the first time.

Author Maria Dahvana Headley reads from her 2018 novel The Mere Wife, is interviewed by Prof. Carolyne Larrington, and shares drafts from her 2020 translation of Beowulf. This lecture was recorded live at St John's College, Oxford in November 2018. Author Maria Dahvana Headley reads from her 2018 novel The Mere Wife, is interviewed by Prof. Carolyne Larrington, and shares drafts from her 2020 translation of Beowulf. This lecture was recorded live at St John's College, Oxford in November 2018.

Editor and publisher Sean McDonald and novelist Monica West join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss how the “reopening” of the country is affecting authors and the publishing industry. First, McDonald, founder of MCD Books, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, talks about publishing in the pandemic, and how that experience may shape the industry going forward. Then, West reads from her debut novel, Revival Season, and shares what it's been like to launch a book during (fingers crossed!) the pandemic's waning days.To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and don't miss our brand-new website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope.Selected readings:Sean McDonald MCD x FSG The Electric Eel newsletter Monica WestRevival Season Others: “FSG Names McDonald Head of Experimental Imprint,” Publishers Weekly Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn Until Proven Safe by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant, Phil Jackson and Pau Gasol Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon F/N/F Season 3, Episode 10: Coronavirus and Contagion: Laurie Chen and Richard Preston on Writing About the Spread of Disease F/N/F Season 4, Episode 3: Monsters for President: Maria Dahvana Headley on Modern Mythmaking F/N/F Episode 26: Garrard Conley and SJ Sindu on the Mainstreaming of Queer Identity F/N/F Season 3, Episode 6: Rene Denfeld and Megan Phelps-Roper on Isolating the Language of Abuse in Politics, Gender Relations, and Sexual Abuse F/N/F Season 3, Episode 24: Summer Books Extravaganza: Margot Livesey and Jaswinder Bolina on Beach Reading When the Beach is Closed   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Editor and publisher Sean McDonald and novelist Monica West join co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss how the “reopening” of the country is affecting authors and the publishing industry. First, McDonald, founder of MCD Books, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, talks about publishing in the pandemic, and how that experience may shape the industry going forward. Then, West reads from her debut novel, Revival Season, and shares what it's been like to launch a book during (fingers crossed!) the pandemic's waning days. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and don't miss our brand-new website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Sean McDonald MCD x FSG The Electric Eel newsletter Monica West Revival Season   Others: “FSG Names McDonald Head of Experimental Imprint,” Publishers Weekly Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn Until Proven Safe by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant, Phil Jackson and Pau Gasol Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon F/N/F Season 3, Episode 10: Coronavirus and Contagion: Laurie Chen and Richard Preston on Writing About the Spread of Disease F/N/F Season 4, Episode 3: Monsters for President: Maria Dahvana Headley on Modern Mythmaking F/N/F Episode 26: Garrard Conley and SJ Sindu on the Mainstreaming of Queer Identity F/N/F Season 3, Episode 6: Rene Denfeld and Megan Phelps-Roper on Isolating the Language of Abuse in Politics, Gender Relations, and Sexual Abuse F/N/F Season 3, Episode 24: Summer Books Extravaganza: Margot Livesey and Jaswinder Bolina on Beach Reading When the Beach is Closed   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Novelist Maria Dahvana Headley has created a revisionist translation of the Old English poem Beowulf, infusing it with feminism and social-media slang. She speaks to Magdalena Ball about being one of only a few women translators who has tackled the 3182-line poem.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hwaet! Our guest in this week’s Book Club Podcast is Maria Dahvana Headley, whose new book is a translation of the Anglo-Saxon classic Beowulf. She talks to us about how she has produced what she bills as a 'feminist translation' of this most macho of poems; about the poem’s braided history and complex language; and about what it tells us of the Anglo-Saxon worldview.

Hwaet! My guest in this week’s Book Club Podcast is Maria Dahvana Headley, whose new book is a translation of the Anglo-Saxon classic Beowulf. She talks to me about how she has produced what she bills as a 'feminist translation' of this most macho of poems; about the poem’s braided history and complex language; and about what it tells us of the Anglo-Saxon worldview.

Maria Dahvana Headley knows how to write - and read - monsters. And in doing both she remakes them, as she explains to Kate Evans

Emma and Gil sit down with James Mendez Hodes to discuss his work as a cultural consultant, and the series of "orcticles" he wrote describing how the depiction of orcs in fantasy games can bring up problematic real-world stereotypes. CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes many references to racism and a section discussing sexual assault. SHOW NOTES 01m55s: Orcus, a god of the underworld. 04m29s: J.R.R. Tolkien's Urak-hai, the strongest kind of Orc in Middle Earth. 27m49s: The Marathi people from India. We also get into the thorny, complicated, and vitally-important subject of intersectionality. 32m57s: Here is the Adam Ruins Everything episode on the "model minority" myth. 34m30s: Gil meant the "domino theory," a Cold War idea that suggested that one country that became communist would inevitably make its neighbors, and those neighbors, communist as well. 38m04s: More information about James Baldwin's writings on race. 45m19s: We had John talking safety tools on Ludology 227 - Respect the X. 53m03s: Edward Said’s Orientalism is an important analysis of how a group of colonizing nations perceive the nations they colonize. 57m56s: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story  1h06m28s: Here is the comic Gil and Mendez are talking about, as well as the Sam Sykes tweet that inspired it. 1h11m43s: Here's another link to Jiangsi: Blood in the Banquet Hall (which seems to come up every episode!). We spoke with Banana in Ludology 228 - The Roles We Play, and Sen most recently in Ludology 236 - Role With It. Of course, you will hear a lot more from Sen soon on this very show! We also mention the RPG Agon. 1h14m43s: Blaise Pascal first expressed the sentiment in his 16th Letter from his lettres provinciales: "Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." Mark Twain wrote out a similar thought two centuries later: "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." 1h19m08s: More information about Maria Dahvana Headley's modern-day vernacular translation of Beowulf. Also, Eric Zimmerman's plea to keep games away from art, because in his words, "enshrining something as art is death." 1h22m47s: Mendez' website, Twitter, and Patreon.

In this bonus episode, the One World team shares an excerpt of Maria Dahvana Headley's short story called “Read after Burning,” from the audiobook of A People's Future of the United States, a spectacular collection of speculative fiction from 25 extraordinary writers, edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams. In this excerpt from "Read After Burning," the main character is born into a broken, oppressive world where books and stories are being destroyed. Despite witnessing and enduring countless horrors and injustices, the narrator still finds hope and a way to survive through ingenuity and imagination. To get the full story and/or the whole collection, visit www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

Maria Dahvana Headley has dusted off Beowulf with a new translation and author of The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald, has a new thriller centred around a boarding school.

Maria Dahvana Headley has dusted off Beowulf with a new translation and author of The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald, has a new thriller centred around a boarding school.

Kate and Cassie are joined by Prof of Mediaeval Literature Louise D'Arcens and novelist Petronella McGovern as they discuss Maria Dahvana Headley's new translation of Beowulf, Una Mannion's The Crooked Tree and Robert Jones Jr's The Prophets

On this very special episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, are joined by the most erudite and entertaining Lisa L. Hannett, author of Blue Grass Symphony, Lament for the Afterlife and the recently published collection Songs for Dark Seasons.  The three of them jump straight into their discussion of two books by Maria Dahvana Headley, Beowulf: A New Translation and The Mere Wife [47:20]. Grab a tasty beverage ... this is going to take some time. You might also want to the check out the following links for further exploration: Beowulf as translated by Seamus Heaney The Beowulf episode of the Backlisted podcast A marathon reading of Beowulf by an all star cast - new chapters daily from 1 to 25 December 2020. If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:31:00 for brief final remarks. This is the last episode for the year ... hope the door hits you on the arse on the way out, 2020. For the first episode of 2021, airing in February, Kirstyn and Ian will be turning their attention to: Finna by Nino Cipri The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

Perry and David discuss their recent reading, ranging over a wide range of genres. Coronavirus state of play (02:53) Internet Archive looking for donations (01:43) World Fantasy Awards (02:04) Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender (00:57) Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (00:23) Read After Burning by Maria Dahvana Headley (00:33) Crime Writers Association Awards (03:02) Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham (02:38) Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (18:00) Interview with Susanna Clarke in The Guardian (00:13) Interview with Susanna Clarke in the Hindustani Times (02:24) Heatwave in Berlin by Dymphna Cusack (06:38) The Silence by Susan Allott (08:36) A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinkster (07:36) The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall (04:22) Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James (06:11) How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang (07:25) Wind-up (01:36) Photo from PxHere

In this week's episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan talk to #1 New York Times best-selling author Maria Dahvana Headley about the modern-day relevance of the epic poem Beowulf. She talks about her new translation of the ancient text, and illuminates how the “shit-talking” masculinity of the heroes of old can help us understand our current so-called leaders.To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. And check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel.This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope.Selected readings:Maria Dahvana Headley  Beowulf: A New Translation  The Mere Wife  Arie  Queen of Kings The Year of Yes The End of the Sentence, Kat Howard and Maria Dahvana Headley Unnatural Creatures, Neil Gaiman (Editor), Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illustrator), Maria Dahvana Headley  Others: Transcript: Donald Trump's Taped Comments About Women, The New York Times Sarah Cooper and Helen Mirren Recreate Donald Trump's Infamous ‘Access Hollywood' Tape, HuffPost A “Beowulf” for Our Moment, Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker George Conway (Twitter) Walter Shaub (Twitter) Earth Abides, George R. Stewart  Circe, Madeline Miller The Odyssey, (translated by) Emily Wilson Beowulf, Seamus Heaney Television:The Wire (HBO) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this week's episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan talk to #1 New York Times best-selling author Maria Dahvana Headley about the modern-day relevance of the epic poem Beowulf. She talks about her new translation of the ancient text, and illuminates how the “shit-talking” masculinity of the heroes of old can help us understand our current so-called leaders. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. And check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel. This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Maria Dahvana Headley  Beowulf: A New Translation  The Mere Wife  Arie  Queen of Kings The Year of Yes The End of the Sentence, Kat Howard and Maria Dahvana Headley Unnatural Creatures, Neil Gaiman (Editor), Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illustrator), Maria Dahvana Headley   Others: Transcript: Donald Trump's Taped Comments About Women, The New York Times Sarah Cooper and Helen Mirren Recreate Donald Trump's Infamous ‘Access Hollywood' Tape, HuffPost A “Beowulf” for Our Moment, Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker George Conway (Twitter) Walter Shaub (Twitter) Earth Abides, George R. Stewart  Circe, Madeline Miller The Odyssey, (translated by) Emily Wilson Beowulf, Seamus Heaney Television: The Wire (HBO) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The worst day of Wells the Magician's life begins pleasantly enough, with a shot of whiskey at the Lost Kingdom bar. It's a birthday party day, and as all low-rent magic men know, birthday party days begin with booze and move laterally through coffee, cake, and whichever divorcee can be convinced to unhook her bra, whether offsite or in a back bedroom. Onward from there into (dire case) helium, (better case) weed, or (best case) coke. | Copyright 2018 by Maria Dahvana Headley. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

I was fourteen and at a sleepover when the cult drank poison. The sleepover mom turned on the TV and said “Oh my lord, Mary, would you look at this? It's the feds is what, and a bomb, right out there where you come from.” But it wasn't the feds, and it wasn't a bomb. It was us. We were destined to die. I watched it burn, and listened to the news call us a cult, which was not what we called ourselves. We called ourselves Heaven's Avengers. I watched it for a while, and then I threw up hamburger casserole. | Copyright 2016 by Maria Dahvana Headley. Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are woods, and the woods are dark, though there are lights hung from the trees. Many of the lights no longer light up. Around the edge of the clearing, someone has strung a long chain of origami animals on barbed wire, some gilded paper and some newsprint, some pages torn out of books, some photographs, each animal snagged on its own spike. The animals have been rained on, and more than once. | Copyright 2016 by Maria Dahvana Headley. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

There was a man who built a whale out of wood. He built it in the middle of a field out in the dry country, where nobody bothered him but birds and a couple of farm cats. The whale was white, and it took two years to build. He made it out of planks from old barns, which he stole in the night. He didn't steal them from anyone who'd miss them. Most people were gone. There were a lot of things falling down. | 2015 by Maria Dahvana Headley. | Art © 2015 by Reiko Murakami. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki.

Buildings were built, in the beginning, everyone knows, to hold the dead down. Every cellar floor was built over the ceiling of something else. Now cellars are used for all sorts of purposes. Roots. Paint cans. Pantries. Workshops. Other. There's a rhyme someone invented for children. It's chanted in nurseries in the Banisher's town. The nurseries are upholstered in chintz, and the walls are padded, as though they're asylums and the babies inmates. | Copyright 2015 by Maria Dahvana Headley. Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm in your house, wearing one of your shirts. I'm sitting on your floor, with all the drawers of every desk and dresser open. I have them poured out and I'm looking at what you've kept. Your old laptops and love letters, your hard drives full of photos and emails, your string and wire tangled into little knots, hard and tiny, twisted so tightly that I can't crush them more than they've already been crushed. | Copyright 2015 by Maria Dahvana Headley. Narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir.

Since we were little, Oona's collected Victorian photographs. A certain subset of people love them, but I got a library book of them once, just before I met her, and I've never not been appalled. I don't know what a book like that was doing lost in our local library. It's exactly the kind of thing that would normally have been removed by a logical parent. | Copyright 2014 Maria Dahvana Headley. Narrated by Judy Young.

By your first anniversary, the world's stopped making paper, and so you can't give your boyfriend the traditional gift. You never would have anyway, regardless of circumstances. You're not that kind of girl. You pride yourself on your original sin. It's the hot you trade in. Narrated by Kathe Mazur.

In the middle of the maze, there's always a monster. If there were no monster, people would happily set up house where it's warm and windowless and comfortable. The monster is required. The monster is a real estate disclosure. Narrated by Gabrielle De Cuir.