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10 MILLIONS - Le PODCAST
FELP : La Psychologie de l'Argent (Morgan Housel)

10 MILLIONS - Le PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2024 143:58


Dans ce nouvel épisode où nous avons la chance d'être accompagné de Madeleine et de Rémi de Truchis de Varenne (chaîne Parlons Long Terme) nous allons parler du livre de Morgan Housel : La psychologie de l'argent. Nous allons essayer d'extraire à 4 le maximum de concepts, de valeur et échanger, discuter, argumenter pour t'apporter le maximum de valeurLes liens utiles pour aller plus loin :

San Clemente
Sin Blaché + Helen MacDonald: Fandom, Genre Bending & Collaborating

San Clemente

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2024 28:06


Sin + Helen have teamed up to write Prophet, in every bookshop you've ever seen right now. Sin is a musician and writer- this is their first novel. Helen, who uses she/they pronouns, is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. They have previously been celebrated internationally for their book H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It was also shortlisted for The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and The Duff Cooper Prize. Their book Vesper Flights was a Sunday Times Bestseller. They presented the BBC Four documentary, The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway, in 2020 and worked as an an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, until 2015. Sin + Helen have been interviewed by The Washington Post, LitHub, The London Review of Books podcast & The Guardian. Get their book ⁠here⁠, or at your local bookshop.

San Clemente
Sin Blaché + Helen Macdonald: Sci-Fi, Nostalgia + Hopeless Romance

San Clemente

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2024 50:53


Sin + Helen have teamed up to write Prophet, in every bookshop you've ever seen right now. Sin is a musician and writer- this is their first novel. Helen, who uses she/they pronouns, is a writer, poet, naturalist and historian of science. They have previously been celebrated internationally for their book H is for Hawk, which won many prizes including the Costa Book of the Year, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It was also shortlisted for The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and The Duff Cooper Prize. Their book Vesper Flights was a Sunday Times Bestseller. They presented the BBC Four documentary, The Hidden Wilds of the Motorway, in 2020 and worked as an an affiliated research scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, until 2015. Sin + Helen have been interviewed by The Washington Post, LitHub, The London Review of Books podcast & The Guardian. Get their book here, or at your local bookshop.

Story in the Public Square
Azar Nafisi on the Power of Literature in Our World Today

Story in the Public Square

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2023 28:35


So much of our modern life is built upon simplifying the complex. We reduce social interactions to likes and follows on social media and dilute the “news” in our favorite echo chambers. But Azar Nafisi warns that life is not simple, and the complexity found in great literature is ultimately liberating of the mind and essential to the health of our democracy. Nafisi is a best-selling author and professor. She was a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., from 1997 and 2017. She taught as professor of aesthetics, culture and literature there, as well as acting as Director of The Dialogue Project & Cultural Conversations. She released her nationally best-selling book “Reading Lolita in Tehran” in 2003, which went on the spend over 117 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. The book has been translated in 32 languages and won many awards such as the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Frederic W. Ness Book Award, Non-fiction Book of the Year Award by Booksense, the Latifeh Yarsheter Book Award, an achievement award from the American Immigration Law foundation and the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle. It has also been a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Memoir. Nafisi won a Persian Golden Lioness Award for literature in 2005, presented by the World Academy of Arts, Literature and Media. The Times named Reading Lolita in Tehran one of the “100 Best Books of the Decade,” in 2009. She has worked with both policy makers and human rights organizations to improve human rights for the women and girls of Iran. She was awarded the Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation International Thought and Humanities Award in 2011 and was named a Georgetown University/Walsh School of Foreign Service Centennial Fellow in 2018. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from Susquehanna University (2019), Pomona College (2015), Mt. Holyoke College (2012), Seton Hill University (2010), Goucher College (2009), Bard College (2007), Rochester University (2005) and Nazareth College.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Baptiste Noury : Le Podcast (Kiff et alignement pour les entrepreneurs)
245. Le MEILLEUR livre sur la persévérance

Baptiste Noury : Le Podcast (Kiff et alignement pour les entrepreneurs)

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2023 4:29


Le lien du livre Du sang, des larmes et des pixels : https://amzn.to/40RlT7V Le lien du second livre de l'auteur : https://amzn.to/3KjA52q Et le lien du meilleur livre d'Amazon : https://amzn.to/4142BvD

Beaux-Arts de Paris
Penser le Présent avec Alain Damasio

Beaux-Arts de Paris

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2022 50:37


Auteur salué par la critique et lauréat de plusieurs Grands Prix de l'Imaginaire, Alain Damasio revient sur son dernier roman, Les Furtifs (La Volte), qui réunit ses préoccupations politiques, son inventivité de langage et ses innovations typographiques. Né à Lyon en 1969, Alain Damasio caracole sur les cimes de l'imaginaire depuis la parution en 2004 de son deuxième roman, La Horde du contrevent. Il explique sa prédilection pour les récits polyphoniques, et pour le travail physique, physiologique de la langue, par un besoin vital d'habiter plusieurs corps, et de se laisser lui-même habiter. Après la réédition par la Volte en 2007 de La Zone du Dehors (Cylibris, 2001), récit d'anticipation inspiré par Michel Foucault, et un recueil de nouvelles, Aucun souvenir assez solide, Alain Damasio publie son roman Les Furtifs, qui réunit ses préoccupations politiques, son inventivité de langage et ses innovations typographiques. Amplement salué par la critique, Alain Damasio construit une œuvre rare, sans équivalent dans les littératures de l'imaginaire. La Horde du Contrevent a reçu le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2006 et le prix Imaginales des Lycéens 2006. La Zone du Dehors a reçu le Prix Européen Utopiales 2007. Self-made-man ? Ou la créativité discutable de Nolan Peskine a reçu le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2018 dans la catégorie meilleure nouvelle. (À lire dans le recueil Au bal des actifs). Les Furtifs a été élu Meilleur Livre 2019 par le magazine Lire, a reçu le prix Libr'à Nous 2020 dans la catégorie Imaginaire et a reçu le Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2020. Penser le Présent est réalisé avec le soutien de Société Générale. Mardi 7 juin 2022 Amphithéâtre des Loges Crédit Photo : © Cyrille Choupas

Le podcast livresque musulman
Le meilleur livre pour présenter l'Islam : Clarification limpide de l'Islam de Laura Vaglieri

Le podcast livresque musulman

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2021 14:51


On me demande souvent quel livre je recommande pour présenter l'Islam à quelqu'un qui ne connaît pas du tout cette religion. Et ma réponse reste invariablement la même : "Clarification limpide de l'Islam" de Laura Veccia Vaglieri. Universitaire italienne au début du vingtième siècle, L. V. Vaglieri est la seule personne non musulmane à avoir été admise au "Congrès des Musulmans d'Europe" de 1935 à Genève. Elle y est même intervenue en langue arabe. Commandez le livre : https://albayyinah.fr/fr/culture-societe-actualite/2877-clarification-limpide-de-l-islam-d-apres-l-oeuvre-de-1925-de-laura-veccia-vaglieri-azzedine-barika-9782356828002.html?lli  Plus de partages de lecture sur Instagram : https://instagram.com/lecteurillettre  Abonne-toi à la chaîne Telegram : http://t.me/lecteurillettre 

The Quarantine Tapes
The Quarantine Tapes 168: Salman Rushdie

The Quarantine Tapes

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2021 40:28


On episode 168 of The Quarantine Tapes, Paul Holdengräber is joined by Salman Rushdie for a two-part conversation. Salman recounts his own experience with COVID that prevented him from appearing on The Quarantine Tapes last year. Then, he and Paul dive into a fascinating discussion of film, music, and writing.Salman tells Paul about his recent return to the movies of his youth, ruminating on what holds up and what falls short of his memories. Then, they talk about some of his recent writing projects and dig into how historical fiction can speak to the present as much as to the past. Finally, Paul and Salman end with a look at the music that has stuck with them across the years. Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen novels: Grimus, Midnight’s Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, and The Golden House. His fourteenth novel, Quichotte, is forthcoming from Random House in the Fall of 2019.Rushdie is also the author of a book of stories, East, West, and four works of non-fiction – Joseph Anton – A Memoir, Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, and Step Across This Line. He is the co-editor of Mirrorwork, an anthology of contemporary Indian writing, and of the 2008 Best American Short Stories anthology. A Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature, Salman Rushdie has received, among other honours, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice), the Writers’ Guild Award, the James Tait Black Prize, the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature, Author of the Year Prizes in both Britain and Germany, the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, the Crossword Book Award in India, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, the London International Writers’ Award, the James Joyce award of University College Dublin, the St Louis Literary Prize, the Carl Sandburg Prize of the Chicago Public Library, and a U.S. National Arts Award. He holds honorary doctorates and fellowships at six European and six American universities, is an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.I.T, and University Distinguished Professor at Emory University. Currently, Rushdie is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.

Midday
Nicole Krauss, On Her New Collection, "To Be A Man"

Midday

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2020 31:32


Tom's next guest is the acclaimed author Nicole Krauss. She is the author of four novels, including the international bestsellers Forest Dark, Great House, The History of Love, and her debut novel, Man Walks Into a Room. She’s been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize, and she a winner of the Saroyan Prize and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Last week, on Election Day as it turns out, Harper Collins published Krauss's first collection of short stories. It’s called To Be a Man: Stories. In it, we are introduced to a dazzling array of characters in locales that span the globe from Israel, to Japan, Switzerland, and both coasts of the United States. Nicole Krauss is doing a number of virtual events in which she’ll talk about her new short-story collection. Tonight, she’ll be online with the Free Library of Philadelphia at 7:30. Tomorrow, the Harvard Bookstore in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will host an event at 7:00. And she’ll be at an event sponsored by the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California, next Wednesday afternoon at 3:00. [Ticketing fees for the online events cover the purchase of Ms. Krauss's new book.] Nicole Krauss joins Tom on Zoom…

Littérature sans frontières
Littérature sans frontières - Une terre, un auteur: au Royaume-Uni avec Jonathan Coe

Littérature sans frontières

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2020 29:00


Jonathan Coe est né en 1961, à Birmingham. Il est l'un des auteurs majeurs de la littérature britannique contemporaine. On lui doit notamment «Testament à l'anglaise», prix du Meilleur Livre étranger 1996, «La Maison du sommeil», prix Médicis étranger 1998, «Bienvenue au club», «Le Cercle fermé», ou encore «La Vie très privée de Mr Sim». Son nouveau roman, formidable chronique des années 2010-2018 en Grande-Bretagne marquées par l'avènement du Brexit, vient de paraître en français sous le titre «Le Coeur de l'Angleterre», dans une traduction de Josée Kamoun, aux éditions Gallimard. "Comment en est-on arrivé là ? C’est la question que se pose Jonathan Coe dans ce roman brillant qui chronique, avec une ironie mordante, l’histoire politique de l’Angleterre des années 2010. Du premier gouvernement de coalition en Grande-Bretagne aux émeutes de Londres en 2011, de la fièvre joyeuse et collective des Jeux Olympiques de 2012 au couperet du référendum sur le Brexit, Le cœur de l’Angleterre explore avec humour et mélancolie les désillusions publiques et privées d’une nation en crise.Dans cette période trouble où les destins individuels et collectifs basculent, les membres de la famille Trotter reprennent du service. Benjamin a maintenant cinquante ans et s’engage dans une improbable carrière littéraire, sa sœur Lois voit ses anciens démons revenir la hanter, son vieux père Colin n’aspire qu’à voter en faveur d’une sortie de l’Europe et sa nièce Sophie se demande si le Brexit est une cause valable de divorce.Au fil de cette méditation douce-amère sur les relations humaines, la perte et le passage inexorables du temps, le chantre incontesté de l’Angleterre questionne avec malice les grandes sources de crispation contemporaines : le nationalisme, l’austérité, le politiquement correct et les identités.Dans la lignée de Bienvenue au club et du Cercle fermé, Le cœur de l’Angleterre est le remède tout trouvé à notre époque tourmentée." (Présentation de l'éditeur) (Rediffusion du 28 septembre 2019)

LifeCode avec Dr Charles Leroux, chiropraticien
418: Le meilleur livre au monde

LifeCode avec Dr Charles Leroux, chiropraticien

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 11:06


On me pose souvent la question: «Quel livre peux-tu me recommander?» Et bien j'ai la réponse pour vous... assurément le meilleur livre pour vous (et la réponse pourrait vous surprendre!) Restons connectés et venez partager avec moi ce que vous en pensez! Sur Facebook: bit.ly/pagefbdrcl Sur Instagram: bit.ly/instagramcl Le groupe Facebook LifeCode Hackers: bit.ly/LifeCodeHackers Mon site: www.charlesleroux.ca

Entre nous soit dit - La 1ere
En nouvelle diffusion - Lydie Salvayre, auteure "Tout homme est une nuit" Ed. Seuil - 02.06.2020

Entre nous soit dit - La 1ere

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2020 56:22


Elle est née dʹun père andalou et dʹune mère catalane et commence à écrire à la fin des années 1970, et à publier dans des revues littéraires d'Aix-en-Provence et de Marseille au début des années 1980. Elle a écrit douze romans, traduits dans une vingtaine de langues, a obtenu le Prix Hermès du premier roman pour "La Déclaration" Ed. Julliard, le prix Novembre (aujourd'hui Prix Décembre) et le Prix du Meilleur Livre de l'année pour "La Compagnie des spectres" Ed. du Seuil, le prix François-Billetdoux pour "B.W" Ed. du Seuil, et le Prix Goncourt pour "Pas pleurer" Ed. du Seuil. Lydia Salvayre est aujourdʹhui lʹinvitée de Mélanie Croubalian.

Le Meilleur Podcast
Le Meilleur Livre pour l'Été ?

Le Meilleur Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2019 79:17


Lucie Kosmala et Nawal sont nos invitées pour ce nouveau débat qui sent bon la crème solaire : quel est le Meilleur Livre pour l'Été ? Suivez-nous sur Insta et sur Twitter pour ne rien louper ;) Un nouvel épisode 1 jeudi sur 2Voici tous les trucs cool dont on a (presque) parlé pendant l'émission : Suivre Lucie Kosmala sur Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lucie.kosmala/?hl=fr Meilleure Maison Harry Potterhttps://soundcloud.com/lemeilleurpodcast/la-meilleure-maison-dans-harry-potter La chaîne de Miss Book - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_9Z28lA28JxAgFv-m4_nlw L’article du Figaro sur le temps de lecturehttp://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2013/06/20/03005-20130620ARTFIG00453-l-ete-on-prend-le-temps-de-lire.php Comment se faire des amis ? - Dale Carnegie https://www.amazon.fr/Comment-faire-amis-Dale-Carnegie/dp/2253009105 Bookstore - Max Josephhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIW5jBrrsS0 Wait but Whyhttps://waitbutwhy.com/ Fabcaro - Et si l’amour c’était aimer https://www.telerama.fr/livres/et-si-lamour-cetait-aimer,n5526173.php Le teaser de Akirahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooKBenGK3R4 21 leçons pour le 21eme siècle - Hararihttps://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-paul-baquiast/blog/210918/21-lecons-pour-le-xxie-siecle-de-yuval-noah-harari La vérité sur l’affaire Harry Queberthttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_V%C3%A9rit%C3%A9_sur_l%27affaire_Harry_Quebert Just Kids - Patti Smithhttps://www.lesinrocks.com/2010/10/31/livres/livres/just-kids-de-patti-smith-un-roman-dinitiation-sincere-et-poetique/Marche ou Crève - Stephen Kinghttps://jenesaispointlire.fr/marche-ou-creve/ Damien Maric https://twitter.com/damienmaric?lang=fr Le Renard et la Couronne https://www.telerama.fr/livres/le-renard-et-la-couronne,n5708185.php Une des pépites de WattPadhttps://www.wattpad.com/story/26344257-vendue-par-mes-parents-achet%C3%A9e-par-un-thug

Les livres
« Dans la maison de la liberté – Interventions » aux Editions du Seuil

Les livres

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2018


Immense romancier, David Grossman est aussi un intellectuel d'une rigueur morale infaillible et d'une profonde humanité, dont la voix puissante ébranle régulièrement l'opinion israélienne et internationale. Pour preuve, les onze interventions réunies dans ce volume, qui résument dix ans d'écriture et d'engagement. Au fil des nombreux thèmes abordés – la recherche inlassable de la paix entre Israël et les Palestiniens, les effets dévastateurs de la guerre sur la société israélienne, le terrorisme, la Shoah et son empreinte persistante sur l'âme juive –, Grossman nous entraîne dans les coulisses de son œuvre littéraire, nous dévoilant combien celle-ci se nourrit du quotidien et de la " situation " (euphémisme israélien pour désigner le conflit au Proche-Orient) ; et, inversement, comment le deuil, l'angoisse existentielle et la violence sous toutes ses formes l'ont incité à écrire. Au cœur de la réflexion de l'écrivain, une métaphore récurrente, aussi poignante que riche de résonances : la maison – et l'urgence, pour chacun, de retrouver le sens d'un foyer, dont les murs seraient synonymes non plus de séparation mais de rapprochement, d'harmonie, d'échange et de fraternité. Traduit de l'hébreu par Jean-Luc Allouche et Rosie Pinhas-Delpuech David Grossman, né à Jérusalem en 1954, est l'un des plus grands romanciers israéliens. Salué par le prix Médicis étranger et le prix du Meilleur Livre étranger du magazine Lire en 2011 pour Une femme fuyant l'annonce, couronné par le Man International Booker Prize en 2017 pour Un cheval entre dans un bar, il est également l'auteur d'essais remarqués (Le Vent jaune, 1988) ainsi que d'ouvrages pour la jeunesse. Lauréat en 2010 du prix de la Paix des libraires allemands, David Grossman est officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Olivier Roland Radio
Le MEILLEUR livre pour investir intelligemment et te constituer ta retraite

Olivier Roland Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2018 5:29


Investissez votre ARGENT intelligemment en lisant le livre de Andrew Hallam “Millionaire Expat” et constituez-vous votre retraite. Ressources : Le livre “Millionaire Expat” sur Amazon Le livre “The Global Expatriate′s Guide to Investing: From Millionaire Teacher to Millionaire Expat ” sur ... Read More » L’article Le MEILLEUR livre pour investir intelligemment et te constituer ta retraite est apparu en premier sur Olivier Roland Radio.

Little Atoms
476: Nicole Krauss and Kamila Shamsie

Little Atoms

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2017 65:12


Nicole Krauss has been hailed by the New York Times as 'one of America's most important novelists'. She is the author of the international bestsellers, Great House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize, and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Médicis, and Femina prizes. Her first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. In 2007, she was selected as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, and in 2010 she was chosen by the New Yorker for their 'Twenty Under Forty' list. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories, and her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Her latest novel is Forest Dark. Kamila Shamsie is the author of six previous novels: In the City by the Sea; Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize); Salt and Saffron; Broken Verses; Burnt Shadows (shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction) and A God in Every Stone, which was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Three of her novels have received awards from Pakistan's Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2013 was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist. Her latest novel, Home Fire has been longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Skylight Books Author Reading Series
ALEXANDER MAKSIK DISCUSSES HIS NEW NOVEL SHELTER IN PLACE, WITH MARISA SILVER

Skylight Books Author Reading Series

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2017


Shelter in Place (Europa Editions)   Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place, by one of America’s most thrillingly defiant contemporary authors, is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligations of family, and the dramatic consequences of love. Joseph March, a twenty-one year-old working class kid from Seattle, has just graduated college, has fallen in love with the fiercely independent Tess Wolff, and his future beckons, unencumbered, limitless, magnificent. Joe’s life implodes when he starts to suffer the symptoms of bipolar disorder, and, not long after, his mother kills a man she’s never met with a hammer. Later, spurred on by his mother’s example and her growing fame, Tess enlists Joe in a secret, violent plan that will forever change their lives. Maksik sings of modern America’s battered soul and of the lacerating emotions that make us human. Magnetic and masterfully told, Shelter in Place is about the things in life we are willing to die for, and those we’re willing to kill for. Praise for Shelter in Place “Shelter in Place is a magnificent novel. Alexander Maksik charts the legacy of violence and the limits of justice with grace, power, and clarity.”—Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena “Unsettling and honest, a remarkably insightful portrait of mental illness, Shelter in Place is elegiac, savage and mournful, a beautifully written novel about the echoes of our actions, of love and its consequences.”—Aminatta Forna, author of The Hired Man “Shelter In Place is a love story like none I’ve ever read before…Densely ruminative, and bracingly unromantic, the ballad of Tess, Joe, and his parents tests the brutal outer-limits of patriarchy, the bleak realities of untreated mental illness, and the nature of loyalty in a world where every woman is out for herself.  And every man, as well.”—Kate Bolick, author of Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own  “An unsettling and beautiful exploration of mental illness, love, violence, family and sexual politics. Maksik’s artful story outruns all sorts of received ideas and cliched narratives...You’ll be haunted by it in the best possible way.”—Katie Roiphe, author of The Violet Hour “On every page we’re reminded of the paradox of how mysterious, thorny, and delicate family relationships can be.”—Kirkus Reviews Alexander Maksik is the author of the novels You Deserve Nothing and A Marker to Measure Drift, which was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2013, as well as finalist for both the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and Le Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. His writing has appeared in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Harper's, Tin House, Harvard Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Narrative Magazine, among other publications. He is a contributing editor at Condé Nast Traveler, and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the Truman Capote Literary Trust and The Corporation of Yaddo. Marisa Silver is the author of the novel Mary Coin, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Southern California Independent Bookseller’s Award. She is also the author of The God of War (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist); No Direction Home; and two story collections, Alone with You and Babe in Paradise (a New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year). Silver’s fiction has won the O. Henry Award and been included in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and other anthologies. She lives in Los Angeles.

5x15
H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald

5x15

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2015 16:17


Helen Macdonald talks about training a goshawk Mabel in the aftermath of her father's death. Her critically acclaimed book H is for Hawk winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year 2014. Helen Macdonald is an English writer, naturalist, and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. She is best known as the author of H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award. In 2016, it also won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: http://5x15stories.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/5x15stories