Podcasts about merve emre

It's been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate control and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. This episode originally aired on June 8, 2021.You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript6 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate control and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. This episode originally aired on June 8, 2021.You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript6 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Merve Emre's Paradise Lost New Yorker piece, The Winter of Our Discontent by Steinbeck, Harold's Gogol piece, DFW, Tristram Shandy. https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod

We've got some exciting news regarding the future of The Critic and Her Publics—and here to bring it to you is the latest episode of Literary Hub's The Lit Hub Podcast. If you don't know The Lit Hub Podcast, it's the in-house show at Lit Hub, hosted by podcasts editor Drew Broussard. This week features Merve Emre talking about what's next for TCAHP as well as Lit Hub's editor-in-chief Jonny Diamond on why supporting independent media is important and a raucous round-table of Lit Hub staff talking about awards season. Be sure to subscribe to The Lit Hub Podcast for more bookish fun—and to stay tuned for the return of The Critic and Her Publics in January 2025!

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I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is the writer, critic, and author, Merve Emre. Currently the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University – and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism – Emre is also the acclaimed and award-winning author of numerous books. These include Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America; The Personality Brokers (selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, and others); The Ferrante Letters (winner of the 2021 PROSE award for literature). A holder of prizes in Literary Criticism, Emre is also a contributing writer to The New Yorker, where she has written extensively on art and literature, from Leonora Carrington to Susan Sontag. But! The reason why we are speaking to Emre today is because she is also an ardent expert on Virginia Woolf and the wider Bloomsbury Group, having authored the stunningly beautiful – and informative – The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway, a book that brings alive Woolf's life and words, and contextualises the radical and pioneering lives of those in the Bloomsbury Group in the most effervescent ways. So today on the podcast, we are going to be discussing the sisters at the centre of this movement: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, women who were born into a Victorian society in London but who broke free of all traditions, who formed languages, both artistic and literary, that paved the way of modernism and modernist thinking in the UK and beyond. We are going to be delving into their life and work: looking at how they informed each other and visualised or put into words the world from their distinct and radical perspectives. Merve's book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-annotated-mrs-dalloway/merve-emre/virginia-woolf/9781631496769 Charleston Trust: https://www.charleston.org.uk/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw99e4BhDiARIsAISE7P857bJ_t36EZCN2JGBsJDUlVSxga42Bmq66SzIuCslkje6DXQsi94AaAmYZEALw_wcB Mrs Dalloway's Party: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/05/discovered-a-lost-possible-inspiration-for-virginia-woolfs-mrs-dalloway -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.famm.com/en/ https://www.instagram.com/famm_mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield

A conversation with Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and contributing writer to The New Yorker magazine, Merve Emre. We talk about the work and goals of a book critic; what it means to think about the reader's experience of our writing; creating a community of readers; and what it's like to be edited at the New Yorker. Don't forget to rate and review our show and follow us on all social media platforms here: https://linktr.ee/writingitpodcast Contact us with questions, possible future topics/guests, or comments here: https://writingit.fireside.fm/contact

I was delighted to talk to the novelist Catherine Lacey, whose book Biography of X I admired very much indeed. We talked about personal websites, how she learned to code in HTML, 9 Beet Stretch, her writing on Substack (Untitled Thought Project), biography as a genre, modern novels, figurative art, Derek Parfit, MFAs, fiction and non-fiction, short stories, Merve Emre, W.S. Merwin, television, and plenty more. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.commonreader.co.uk/subscribe

Join Bobby and Bridge as they dive into the world of emotional intelligence (EQ) and uncover its complexities. From the origins of EQ to its impact on leadership and corporate culture, they explore how EQ can be both a powerful tool and a potential weapon. Whether it's leaders who thrive despite low EQ or the rise of "dark empaths" who use their emotional savvy for manipulation, we tackle the good, the bad, and the controversial sides of EQ. Tune in for a lively discussion that challenges the conventional wisdom on what it really means to be emotionally intelligent.  Links The Art of Managing Emotions | Daniel Goleman (youtube.com) Merve Emre on Emotional Intelligence as Corporate Control - WorkLife with Adam Grant | Spotify Is Emotional Intelligence Real - WorkLife with Adam Grant - Apple Podcasts Emotional Mastery: The Gifted Wisdom of Unpleasant Feelings | Dr Joan Rosenberg (youtube.com) The Power of Emotional Intelligence | Travis Bradberry (youtube.com) Emotional Intelligence from a Teenage Perspective | Maximillian Park (youtube.com) The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence (simplypsychology.org) 15 Most Valuable Emotional Intelligence TED Talks on Youtube (positivepsychology.com) Adam Grant podcast work life with Merve Emre Walter Michelle: Marshmallow study No stupid question Angela Duckworth and Stephen Dubner - How important is Emotional Intelligence Mayor-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) Merve Emre - The repressive politics of Emotional Intelligence Salovey and Mayer - model of 4 emotional intelligence abilities (You Tube) 12 Traits of Emotionally Intelligent People: Daniel Goleman (Podcast) ‘Dark empaths': how dangerous are psychopaths and narcissists with empathy? Daniel Goleman On How To Manage Your Emotions At Work & Why EQ Is More Valuable Than IQ (LinkedIn) Preview YouTube video The Salovey & Mayer Model of Four Emotional Intelligence Abilities The Salovey & Mayer Model of Four Emotional Intelligence Abilities

Writer and historian Agnes Arnold-Forster's most recent book, Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion, blends fields such as neuroscience and psychology with social history to explore a feeling that many might view as a simple human fondness for the past. Nostalgia, though, is also vulnerable to misuse, manipulation by unreliable narrators and it often reflects many of our deeper anxieties as a society. Joining her to discuss the book is the scholar, critic and editor Merve Emre, who is Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/IS for £100 sponsored credit. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all of our longer form interviews and Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events - Our member-only newsletter The Monthly Read, sent straight to your inbox ... Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series ... Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. ... Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

https://www.maurojaviercardenas.com buy the book from : https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/american-abductions Current reads /looking forward to The Pinochet File - Peter Kornbluh Mónica Ojeda Herscht 07769 - László Krasznahorkai Gateway books Correction - Thomas Bernhard Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker To The Light House - Virginia Woolf Desert Island books: Melancholy of Resistance Collected Novellas of Bolano Annotated Mrs Dalloway - with Merve Emre

Reading Writers' first season draws to a close. To celebrate, Charlotte and Jo speak with the wise, bold, and original Merve Emre, who brings news of a secret Plautian aspect to Erich Segal's 1970 novel Love Story—the big book so bad it wrecked its author's career. Or was it?Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and the Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism. Her books include Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America, The Personality Brokers (selected as one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times, The Economist, NPR, and The Spectator), The Ferrante Letters (winner of the 2021 PROSE award for literature), and The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway. She has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.Send questions, requests, recommendations, and your own thoughts about any of the books discussed today to readingwriterspod at gmail dot com. Charlotte is on Instagram and Twitter as @Charoshane. She writes semi-regularly in newsletter form, with additional work linked on charoshane.comJo co-edits The Stopgap and their writing lives at jolivingstone.comLearn more about our producer Alex at https://www.alexsugiura.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we welcome my friend and writer/editor Alana Pockros to tackle the work and persona of Lauren Oyler. We discuss how Lauren seized authority as the millennial literary critic, how her abandonment of the “rules” makes her work difficult to engage with critically, her famous distaste for Vulnerability, the Berlin piece (...), and what it means to be both brave and mean. Plus, in my quarterly pulse check on Culture, I declare a massive return to all things folklore: earthy spirituality, magic, psychedelics, freak folk, boho chic, metal music, and more.  Follow Alana on Twitter!  Discussed: Evidence of the Folkloric Return: Joanna Newsom upcoming tour Timmy as Bob Dylan  Kacey Musgraves profile by Allison P. David in the Cut “The runway—not TikTok—brought back Boho Chic” Madeline Schulz in Vogue Business Rebecca Yarros books  Sotce and @sighswoon  Shanin Blake ayahuasca singer vibes Shawn Mendes + Hitomi: Page Six, Hola.com (lol!) Regarding Lauren Oyler: Lauren at SantaCon for VICE (2017) “The Miseducation of Lady Bird” Oyler in The Baffler (2017) “Ha ha, ha ha” Oyler on Trick Mirror in LRB (2020) “Lauren Oyler thinks she's better than you” Becca Rothfeld in Washington Post (2024) Interview with Lauren Oyler in Lit Hub (2024) Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler (2021) No Judgment, Lauren Oyler (2024) “Dance Factory” Lauren in Harper's “What's Your Type?” Merve Emre in NYRB (2024) Rachel Comey x NYRB collab

How has feminist thought evolved throughout the ages? Beginning in the fifteenth century with Christine de Pizan, who imagined a City of Ladies that would serve as a refuge from the harassment of men, historian of ideas Hannah Dawson has magnificently drawn together an anthology of six hundred years of feminist thinking from all over the world in her latest book, The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing. Alongside traditional feminist icons such as Mary Wollstonecraft, who stated that she did ‘not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves,' we find perhaps lesser known women such as Qiu Jin who proclaimed ‘Why should women lag behind?' Joining Dawson for this episode to discuss the book is literary critic, scholar and editor Merve Emre, who is Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University. If you'd like to get access to all of our longer form interviews and members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events - Our member-only newsletter The Monthly Read, sent straight to your inbox ... Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series ... Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more. ... Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and what's coming up. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Introducing The Critic and Her Publics, a new podcast series from The New York Review of Books and Lit Hub. Hosted by Merve Emre. New episodes every other week beginning Tuesday January 30th.

In August, West Virginia University announced that it would be dissolving its Department of World Languages, Literature and Linguistics. And a couple months after that, my school Middlebury College, chose to eliminate a faculty position in its creative writing department. As someone studying English Literature, and who cares deeply about the future of humanities education, I was curious to talk to someone who has been thinking about what the study of the humanities looks like in today's world. Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg University Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. She was also a judge for The 2022 International Booker Prize. I've read her essays on various literary topics at The New Yorker, and other publications and it's obvious that her criticism strives to innovate literary study for a changing world. I've been talking a lot about criticism on this show this year. I spoke to Christian Lorentzen over the summer about the future of literary criticism, an art that's been required to reinvent and revitalize itself over the past few years. And my conversations with Jerome Lowenthal and Ethan Iverson focused on how classical music and jazz are received. I think studying the way we approach and talk about art and culture is crucial to the function of the humanities and this conversation gets to the heart of that.  Merve and I start by talking about the school and the trends that literature departments are seeing, but then we progress to a larger discussion about access to the humanities. Merve is a strong advocate for treating aesthetic experience as a social good, and this takes us to the end of our conversation where we try to articulate how the academy and public media, and social media can simultaneously further the reach and scope of humanities education and dissemination in their own ways. This was another work of audio criticism. Regardless of whether you're interested in literature or culture, the topics we discussed are ubiquitous in today's society, and if there's one throughline in all the episodes of Cultural Mixtapes, it's the importance of art in our world. New Yorker Page Recommendations Middlemarch - George Eliot Inland - Gerald Murnane R.P. Blackmur F. O. Matthiessen Elizabeth Hardwick Renata Adler Rebecca West

Vi omges av text hela tiden, även när vi inte tänker på det. Så kanske är inte problemet att vi läser vi för lite utan att vi behöver ro för att läsa ordentligt, funderar Torbjörn Elensky. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Först publicerad den 13 april 2021.Redan som liten var jag en närmast tvångsmässig läsare. Jag plöjde mjölkpaketens baksidor och Kalle Anka medan jag åt mackor efter skolan, med samma glupande aptit som äventyrsböcker innan jag somnade in på kvällen. Snart började jag med ryska klassiker och gick via Jules Vernes till Balzac och Flaubert. Utan minsta känsla för nivåskillnader mellan den stora litteraturens mästerverk och Tvillingdeckarna, Bill och Biggles. Den där vanan har aldrig lämnat mig, men den har förvandlats till en hälsofara.I dag invaderar texter alla delar av livet. Överallt information, underhållning, förströelse utan slut. Även under det som bara vara verkar vara bild, ljud och spel ligger texterna där. Överallt. Vi kommunicerar med korta texter, halvvägs mellan prat och skrift. Vi läser och lyssnar på texter nästan alla dygnets vakna timmar. Och det är inte bara utbrändheten som hägrar, när informationsströmmen knappt ens växlar i intensitet, utan ständigt forsar fram i så många medier, appar och kanaler. Risken är att man blir manipulerad om man motståndslöst låter sig dras med i flödet. Och vem klarar att bjuda motstånd hela tiden? Texterna skrivs med avsikter och algoritmerna tenderar att ge mig det som ligger i linje med det jag tidigare läst, även om jag aktivt försöker motverka deras insnävning av min utblick i världen.Hösten 1956 kontaktade den amerikanske presidenten Dwight D. Eisenhower författaren William Faulkner och frågade om inte han ville leda en kommitté för internationellt litterärt utbyte. Det handlade om att göra världen bättre och öka förståelsen mellan Öst och Väst genom att få fler att läsa amerikansk skönlitteratur. Faulkner var knappast någon framstående organisatör, men han tackade ja. Men nästan alla kolleger han bad att medverka svarade avvisande, en del var oförskämda, andra närmast förorättade över att de förväntades gå regeringens ärenden. Att en amerikansk författare står fri från alla myndigheter och organisationer är det bästa argument världen behöver för den amerikanska litteraturens egenvärde, ansåg de.I februari 1957 skulle Faulkner presentera sitt arbete för regeringen. Natten före presentationen satte han i sig en hel flaska Jack Daniel's. Hans enda förslag inför kommittén var: Vi borde tillverka två stämplar. På den ena ska det stå ”sant”, på den andra ”inte sant”, och med dem stämplar vi all litteratur som exporteras från USA, så råder inga oklarheter om vad som gäller.Man kan se en längtan efter liknande förenklingar i dag. Samtidigt som vi utsätts för alltfler texter, så sjunker läsförmågan. Ungdomar som lämnar gymnasiet med bra betyg i svenska klarar inte att läsa texterna på universitetets grundkurser. Intresset för skönlitteratur, som inte är genrelitteratur, är nog det lägsta sedan läskunnigheten slog igenom och romaner blev ett folknöje under 1800-talet. Varför ska man läsa fantasier när man kan läsa fakta? Varför läsa falskt när man kan läsa sant?Ja, det är inte bara den faktiska läsförmågan som tycks minska, utan förståelsen för texters många nivåer, ironi, självbespegling, och att en berättelse kan vara sann utan att vara faktabaserad, som en riktig saga alltid är sann.Tänk om de som säger att läsning är nyttigt har rätt. Man kanske faktiskt blir klokare, mera vidsynt och empatisk. Litteraturen kanske är viktig för demokratin. Biblioteken är en demokratisk rättighet, läsning utvecklar oss, och om inte annat så blir det svårt för den som inte läser under sin uppväxt att så småningom klara sig i vårt kunskapsintensiva samhälle där till och med träslöjd och idrott numera lär omfatta även teori. Men måste allt vara teori? Måste hela livet handla om text? Jag frågar detta i min egenskap av författare.För det är inte bara så kallat svaga elever som är dåliga läsare. Det gäller oss alla. En del förstår inte twitterspråket, andra inte klassiska romaner. Sociala medier gör att minsta gemensamma nämnare är det som gäller, för såväl tidningar som i privat kommunikation. Allusioner och gemensamma referenser verkar som bortflugna, utom i mindre grupper där självrefererandet gått från intertextualitet och förbindelser med världslitteraturen till intern jargong. Vad som klassas som ”svåra ord” verkar bli allt mer utvidgat, från tekniska termer till äldre uttryck. Komplikation och precision elimineras ur vårt dagliga språk. Ironi fungerar inte på nätet, det vet alla som testat. Bokstavstrogen läsning är det som gäller. Skämt fungerar bara i slutna grupper. Att ta för givet att någon känner till, vet eller förstår något är lika förolämpande som att utgå från att den inte har någon aning om det. Eftersom entydighet är omöjligt att uppnå och all läsning, utom av enklast tänkbara etiketter och skyltar, är tolkning är tillfällena för missförstånd fler än någonsin.Kanske lever vi faktiskt i post-sanningens tid, då vi inte kan enas om något för att vi inte ens kan förstå varandra? Och inte på grund av för lite information, utan för mycket brus, eller nej, dån, av textmassor som uppfyller hela världen.Historien om William Faulkner som återgavs tidigare berättas av den amerikanske litteraturforskaren Merve Emre i hennes bok Paraliterary, The making of bad readers in America. Men det är bara ett av hennes många exempel på hur litteraturen de senaste 100 åren utnyttjats för diverse syften. Hon skriver om hur den använts karaktärsdanande för unga kvinnor, för marknadsföring av USA såväl som för motstånd. Litteratur har varit en bruksvara, omgiven av så många motstridiga avsikter, sedan så länge att det framstår som ett mirakel att skönlitterär prosa ens lyckats överleva som konstform, efter all denna misshandel från både välmenande och ondsinta intressen. Svaret är förstås: på grund av läsarna. Inklusive alla de slarviga läsare som vill ha underhållning och bekräftelse. Om den vore helt beroende av närläsande experter skulle litteraturen kanske ha högre kvalitet, rent teoretiskt – men den skulle snart dö av syrebrist.Och även om jag vill säga att litteraturen har ett absolut egenvärde, höjt över alla intressen, är den också helt grundläggande för vår demokrati, vårt kulturarv, vår syn på oss själva och varandra och den utveckling av såväl kognitiva förmågor som empati, utan vilka vi inte kommer att klara oss. Det ironiska är att det är först då litteraturen befrias från nyttan som hon blir verkligt nyttig.Den tyske författaren Ernst Jünger skrev en gång att det är lika nyttigt för själen att periodvis avstå från tryckta texter som det är för kroppen att fasta. Även om fastans hälsoeffekter inte är oomtvistade är hans poäng tydlig och jag tror att han har rätt. I dagens ständiga textflöden, information och underhållning non stop, är detta att emellanåt stiga ut ur textmassorna viktigt för den mentala hälsan – men också för vår känsla och för vårt intellekt. Omgiven av konstant buller blir man en dålig lyssnare. Omgiven av konstant text blir vi alla dåliga läsare.Torbjörn Elensky, författareSändes första gången 3.11.2020

Merve is renowned critic, scholar, contributing writer at the The New Yorker, and Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University. Gabe and Merve discuss Merve's new piece “What is Mom Rage Actually?” in this week's The New Yorker. Read Merve Emre's new piece “What is Mom Rage, Actually?” in this week's The New Yorker Read Merve's interview with Diane Williams in The New Yorker Read Merve's recent piece on Italo Calvino in The New Yorker Buy Merve's book The Personality Brokers Buy Merve's book The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway Buy Merve's book The Ferrante Letters Visit Merve's website Attend Merve's guest Speaker series The Critic and Her Publics at Weslyan University (free & open to the public) Follow Merve's work as Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism at Weslyan University Rate/review Kurt Vonnegut Radio on podcast platform of your choice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we are joined by an all-star cast to discuss our 2023 summer read, Natalia Ginzburg's The Dry Heart. Two of the most insightful readers we know, Merve Emre and Kim McNeil, share wonderful insights and thoughts and help us uncover aspects of Ginzburg's brilliant work that we had never considered before. We hope your enjoy the conversation as much as we did! For complete shownotes, please sign up for The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast Newsletter. If you'd like to support the show, visit The Mookse and the Gripes Patreon. Visit our blog at http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews. Follow us on Twitter @mookse and @bibliopaul. Email mookseandgripes@gmail.com.

Susan Sontag (1933- 2004) was a writer, critic and activist, one who isn't thought of (and didn't think of herself) as conservative. In this episode, your hosts talk with Prof. Merve Emre to think through Sontag's writing on gender and on the women's movement. How do Sontag's leeriness about identity and identification, her ambivalent attitudes to bodies, sex and beauty, and her elitism land in today's political climate and landscape?

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This month on the Deerfield Public Library Podcast, I am very pleased to share a conversation with acclaimed critic Merve Emre on the beloved Italian writer Italo Calvino, known for his genre-defying stories and novels like Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler. Merve Emre is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, associate professor of English at Oxford University, and currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Wesleyan University.   In a recent essay in The New Yorker, “The Worlds of Italo Calvino,” Merve Emre calls Calvino, “word for word, the most charming writer to put pen to paper in the twentieth century.” It is an enthusiasm we both share. Indeed, we learn that for both of us, reading Calvino novels set us on a path of making a career out of talking to people about books.    Emre's essay on Calvino was occasioned by the new publication in English of a book of his essays, The Written World and the Unwritten World, translated by Ann Goldstein. 2023 also marks the centenary year of Calvino's birth and here at the Library our Classics Book Discussion celebrated with a recent series on his work.    Whether you are already a Calvino-obsessive or new to his work, you will hear a passionate consideration of how an author creates communications and desires so wonderful (and so thwarted!) that you can not help turning page after page. Appropriately for a discussion of this metafictional novelist, this episode also becomes a conversation about literary conversation itself. Another recent New Yorker piece by Emre considers the fate of literary studies today. I could not help asking her if Calvino's utopian vision of a world of self-appointed readers might  help us revive the literary world itself.  You can check out books by Merve Emre and titles by Italo Calvino here at the library. Or check out The New Yorker, physical copies or through our ebook/emagazine service Libby. Emre is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (University of Chicago Press, 2017), The Ferrante Letters (Columbia University Press, 2019), and The Personality Brokers (New York, 2018). She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (MIT, 2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (Liveright, 2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (Norton, 2021). Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and the London Review of Books to American Literature, American Literary History, PMLA, and Modernism/modernity. Merve is on Twitter @mervatim.  We hope you enjoy our 58th interview episode! Each month (or so) we release an episode featuring a conversation with an author, artist, or other notable guests from Chicagoland or around the world. Learn more about the podcast on our podcast page. You can listen to all of our episodes in the player below or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you listen to podcasts. We welcome your comments and feedback—please send to podcast@deerfieldlibrary.org. The Deerfield Public Library Podcast is hosted by Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the library. We welcome your comments and feedback--please send to: podcast@deerfieldlibrary.org. More info at: http://deerfieldlibrary.org/podcast Follow us: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube 

Roald Dahl's children's books are not exactly the nicest. Dahl's characters glory in insults and meanness. The adults are generally horrible, the children gleefully vengeful; his bullies usually get their comeuppance. So when it came out recently that Dahl's publishers had edited new editions of his work with the help of “sensitivity” readers, it was hardly surprising—and it was also hard not to laugh. How much can a handful of essentially cosmetic changes really do? On episode 63 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk with literary critics Merve Emre and Christian Lorentzen about the unpleasantness in Dahl's work, the interest his publishers may have in making the books more palatable, and how such edits fit into a long tradition of bowdlerizing fiction, especially that aimed at children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tressie McMillan Cottom is the author of Thick and Other Essays, a columnist for the New York Times, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a 2020 McArthur Fellow. Tressie talks to Gabe about the kind of freedom she wants for all Black women. And how her mother was a member of the Black Panther Party in Winston Salem, NC. We learn about Tressie's 18 stages of essay writing. And why are white audiences more comfortable thinking about Black people in a historical context? Visit Tressie McMillan Cottom's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Read Tressie's column in New York Times Buy Tressie's nonfiction book Thick and Other Essays Watch Tressie on The Daily Show More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Diksha Basu (author of Destination Wedding) Qian Julie Wang (NYT's bestselling author of Beautiful Country) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Qian Julie Wang is the New York Times Bestselling author of Beautiful Country and a Yale-educated litigator. Qian Julie has one of the most incredible life stories you have ever heard. But Qian Julie's personal philosophy and inspired worldview may well be the most extraordinary thing about her. Qian Julie tells Gabe what it was like for her and her family to give up everything in China and move to Brooklyn when she was seven years old. Visit Qian Julie Wang's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Julie's memoir Beautiful Country Read Qian Julie in New York Times Watch Qian Julie on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Makkai is the author of 3 novels and her newest novel, I Have Some Questions for You, will be published in February. Rebecca's last novel The Great Believers, a novel set in Chicago at the height of the American AIDS epidemic, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Rebecca and Gabe talk about having ADHD, and the challenges of having a brain that's like Times Square. But also the ways in which ADHD can be a creative superpower. Rebecca talks about her impossibly glamorous grandmother who wrote 30 novels in Hungary. Visit Rebecca Makkai's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Rebecca's novel I Have Some Questions for You Watch Rebecca on PBS Books Read about Rebecca in New York Times More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Joe Hagan (author of Sticky Fingers: the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone) Diksha Basu (author of Destination Wedding) Qian Julie Wang (NYT's bestselling author of Beautiful Country) Tod Goldberg (NYT's bestselling author of Gangster Nation) Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He taught at Princeton University, and currently teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie Land didn't take the traditional path to writing a New York Times Bestselling memoir (MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive). And she didn't take the traditional path to having her memoir be adapted into a Netflix Emmy-nominated series (MAID). Stephanie and Gabe talk about her struggles as a single mother living in public housing with two children and her determination to become a writer. Produced by Lit Hub Visit Stephanie Land's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Stephanie's nonfiction book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive Read about Stephanie in New York Times Watch Stephanie on YouTube More episode resources and links Subscribe to Twitter Verse Rate/Review Twitter Verse Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Joe Hagan (author of Sticky Fingers: the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Yu is an author who has won the National Book Award. He's also a screenwriter who has written for Westworld. Charles gets real about the surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans in recent years and the psychic toll these attacks have had. Charles explains why it feels like something in our society is either broken or it was always there and has just been recently revealed. And how is the adaptation of Charles' novel Interior Chinatown (for Hulu) coming along? Visit Charles Yu's website and follow him on Twitter Buy Charle's novel Interior Chinatown Read about Charles in New York Times Watch Charles on The Daily Show More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) Qian Julie Wang (NYT's bestselling author of Beautiful Country) Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) About the Host Gabe Hudson: Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bethanne Patrick is a renowned book critic, host of the podcast Missing Pages, and author of the forthcoming memoir Life B: Overcoming Double Depression. Her work appears frequently in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NPR Books, and she sits on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Bethanne talks about overcoming her lifelong struggle with "double depression" and her dog Molly Bloom's "resting schnauzer face." Bethanne also tells Gabe what she loves about the writing community on Twitter. Visit Bethanne Patrick's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Bethanne's memoir Plan B: Overcoming Double Depression Listen to Bethanne on Missing Pages Read Bethanne in Washington Post Watch Bethanne on YouTube Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rafia Zakaria is the Pakistani-American author of Against White Feminism, a columnist for The Baffler, and a human rights lawyer. She's also a former Director of Amnesty International. Rafia explains what happened when she wrote a column in The Baffler about how the New York Time's podcast Caliphate was filled with lies. Rafia and Gabe also talk about Angelina Jolie's activist posts on Instagram. Visit Rafia Zakaria's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Rafia's nonfiction book Against White Feminism Read Rafia at The Baffler Read about Rafia in New York Times Watch Rafia on Democracy Now More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Elizabeth McCracken (author of The Hero of This Book) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Merve Emre https://www.merveemre.com @mervatim Gateway books Matilda - Roald Dahl If On A Winters Night A Traveller - Calvino A Portrait of a Lady - Henry James Portrait of a Lady Current reads /Looking forward to Orlando Furioso - Ludovico Ariosto Quaderno proibito (The Forbidden Notebook) - Alba de Céspedes - Translated by Ann Goldstein Catherine Lacey - The Biography of X White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin - Michael W. Clune Desert Island books Don Quixote - Cervantes Clarissa - Samuel Richardson Middlemarch - George Elliot Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - Erich Auerbach Ulysses - Joyce Collected Works of Beckett Collected Diaries of Virginia Woolf Translations by Anne Carson (With Greek) The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt Septology - Jon Fosse The Annotated Arabian Nights - New translation by Yasmine Seale

Elizabeth McCracken is the James A. Michener chaired professor in creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin and the award-winning author of 8 books. Her most recent novel The Hero of This Book was just named one of the 10 Best Books of 2022 by Time Magazine and People Magazine. Elizabeth tells the story of how the dedication page for her most recent novel just showed up in the mail one day. She talks about the time she flew from Provincetown to Austin with a salami in her pocket and the role that Twitter plays in her life. Visit Elizabeth McCracken's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram  But Elizabeth's novel The Hero of This Book Watch Elizabeth on PBS NewsHour Read about Elizabeth in New York Times More episodes resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keri Blakinger is the author of Corrections in Ink and an award-winning journalist at The Marshall Project. As a student at Cornell University in 2010, Keri was arrested in Ithaca for possession of heroin. She was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, after which she became an award-winning journalist who covers death row in the Texas prison system. Keri describes what it felt like to see her book on the shelf at The Harvard Coop Bookstore, where as an unhoused person she used to steal books in order to fund her heroin addiction. Visit Keri Blakinger's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram But Keri's memoir Corrections in Ink Watch Keri on YouTube Read Keri in New York Times Read Keri in Los Angeles Times More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a young Latina superstar novelist and poet whose debut novel recently appeared on a billboard in Times Square. Melissa and Gabe talk about why West Side Story is so relatable for lonely Latinas who obsess over mediocre white guys. Melissa explains why every single woman writer need a big yellow couch. And what happened when Melissa ordered a yellow couch from the internet? Visit Melissa Lozada-Oliva's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Melissa's book Dreaming of You Listen to Melissa on Say More Watch Melissa on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tod Goldberg is the New York Times Bestselling author of over a dozen books and a beloved citizen of Literary Twitter. He is also the Director of the MFA program at the University of California, Riverside. Tod tells Gabe about what his grandfather, who just barely survived the pogroms in Ukraine, taught him about being Jewish. This interview is a portrait of the writer as a wild big-hearted force of nature. Visit Tod's website and follow him on Twitter and Instagram Buy Tod's novel Gangster Nation Read Tod Goldberg in Los Angeles Times Watch Tod on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Merve Emre about literary criticism and how to engage with literature. They discuss what literary criticism is and why it is important. They talk about different ways of reading, author's intent, and the contours of literary genre. They also discuss various forms of interpretation, themes of “becoming” in the philosophy of Nietzsche and writing of Mieko Kawakami, and many more topics. Merve Emre is a professor of literature at Oxford University, Critic at The New Yorker, and the Shaprio-Silverberg Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University. She has her BA from Harvard University and her PhD from Yale University. Her essays have appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. She is the author of numerous books including Paraliterary and The Personality Brokers. You can find her work at her website. Twitter: @mervatim This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit convergingdialogues.substack.com

Soraya Nadia McDonald is the senior cultural critic for Andscape (formerly known as The Undefeated). She won the George Jean Nathan Prize for dramatic criticism, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Soraya tells Gabe about her decision to go public with her cancer diagnosis and the bond she formed with her Twitter followers who are cancer survivors. Soraya also talks about Aretha Franklin's powerful artistry and how Aretha went from feeling like a revered celebrity to a family member. Read Soraya Nadia McDonald on Andscape Visit Soraya's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Watch Soraya on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rachel and Simon speak to author, academic and literary critic Merve Emre. After a stint as a management consultant, she completed a PhD and taught English literature at McGill University in Canada, before taking up a role as an associate professor at Oxford. (This year she is a distinguished writer-in-residence at Wesleyan in the US.) Alongside her academic work, Merve has written books including "Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America", "The Ferrante Letters" and "The Personality Brokers" (published in Britain as "What's Your Type?"), about the Myers-Briggs personality test. She is also a contributing writer at the New Yorker and her essays have been published in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic and the London Review of Books. We spoke to Merve about the differences between academia in America and Britain, her books and her criticism. You can find us online at alwaystakenotes.com, on Twitter @takenotesalways and on Instagram @alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is patreon.com/alwaystakenotes. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

Diksha Basu is an award-winning novelist and journalist. Diksha generously cracks open her heart open so that she and Gabe can carefully examine the contents therein. And what they find is her fabulous grandmother as well as her squad of powerful and hilarious aunts: these women in Delhi have not just shaped who Diksha is but have armed her with invaluable tools to contend with the messiness of life. Read Diksha Basu in New York Times Follow Diksha on Twitter and Instagram Buy Diksha's novel Destination Wedding Watch Diksha on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Elizabeth McCracken (author of The Hero of This Book) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Hagan is cohost of Vanity Fair's podcast Inside the Hive the author of the culture defining book Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone. Joe is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair. He has written in depth about some of the most significant figures of our time, including Beto O'Rourke, Hillary Clinton, the Bush family, Karl Rove, Henry Kissinger, and Dan Rather. This episode has big Gen X energy like you wouldn't believe. Read Joe Hagan at Vanity Fair Listen to Joe on Inside the Hive Visit Joe Hagan's website and follow him on Twitter and Instagram Buy Joe Hagan's nonfiction book Sticky Fingers: the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Watch Joe on CBS Mornings More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sign up for Intelligence Squared Premium here: https://iq2premium.supercast.com/ for ad-free listening, bonus content, early access and much more. See below for details. Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk sits down with Merve Emre, distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University and literary critic for The New Yorker. Together they discuss his latest novel, Nights of Plague, as well as other feats of historical fiction, including works by Tolstoy and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how they help us, the reader, empathise with great unknowns. … We are incredibly grateful for your support. To become an Intelligence Squared Premium subscriber, follow the link: https://iq2premium.supercast.com/  Here's a reminder of the benefits you'll receive as a subscriber: Ad-free listening, because we know some of you would prefer to listen without interruption  One early episode per week Two bonus episodes per month A 25% discount on IQ2+, our exciting streaming service, where you can watch and take part in events live at home and enjoy watching past events on demand and without ads  A 15% discount and priority access to live, in-person events in London, so you won't miss out on tickets Our premium monthly newsletter  Intelligence Squared Merch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie Land didn't take the traditional path to writing a New York Times Bestselling memoir MAID: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive. And she didn't take the traditional path to having her memoir be adapted into a Netflix Emmy-nominated series MAID. Stephanie and Gabe talk about her struggles as a single mother living in public housing with two children and her determination to become a writer. Visit Stephanie Land's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Buy Stephanie's nonfiction book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive Read about Stephanie in New York Times Watch Stephanie on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He taught at Princeton University, and currently teaches at Columbia University.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the young New York Times Bestselling author of the story collection Friday Black and Chain Gang All Stars. But what experiences have shaped the brilliant mind behind this cutting edge work of fiction? Nana and Gabe discuss what it was like for him to grow up Ghanian-American with his family in Spring Valley, Rockland County, NY. Nana & Gabe talk about his rapping, including his song Nabokov, which he does on the show and even breaks down his lyrics. Visit Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's website and follow him on Twitter and Instagram Buy Nana's story collection Friday Black Read about Nana in New York Times Watch Nana on YouTube More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Elizabeth McCracken (author of The Hero of This Book) Rafia Zakaria (author of Against White Feminism) Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

01:00 Tucker Carlson on the Paul Pelosi story 06:00 Where's the bodycam footage from the officers entering the Pelosi home? 09:45 Is this homegrown right-wing political terrorism? 30:00 DHS LEAKS PROVE Government Conspiracy With Twitter, Big Tech, To Censor And Subvert Elections, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7f3hjnQgiI 33:00 Blowing up conspiracies about the Paul Pelosi attack, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-31/shocking-new-details-blow-up-conspiracy-theories-about-paul-pelosi-attack 40:00 Why are Russians so racist? 42:15 Why governments might bring Elon Musk's Twitter dream to an end 50:00 NYRB: ‘The Illusion of the First Person', https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145933 52:00 Merve Emre, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/11/03/the-illusion-of-the-first-person-merve-emre/ 54:00 The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939 by John Carey, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136235 1:17:00 How You Feel Depends on Where You Are, https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-you-feel-depends-on-where-you-are-11594311622 1:54:00 The Act of Persuasion: A Words Without Borders Conversation with Merve Emre, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qABUAl2j2sE The Champions Of Chastity: I love reading stories about those great souls who put the realm of the spirit first. https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145915 https://www.wsj.com/articles/safe-streets-are-a-policy-choice-incapacitation-incarceration-state-federal-prison-violent-crime-1990s-reagan-bush-barr-obama-sentencing-bail-11666785403?mod=opinion_lead_pos5 https://www.takimag.com/article/triggered-2/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/magazine/try-guys-internet-fame.html Cohesive societies rejoice together: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/10/26/south-korea-baseball-fans-cheers/, english soccer fans singing https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/opinion/newsom-desantis-culture-war.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/opinion/condition-of-liberalism.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/us/politics/us-democracy.html - what about dems who said bush is not their president https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/musk-could-cripple-content-moderation/ https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/fear-and-resentment-of-a-changing-america/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/us/politics/republican-election-objectors-rhetoric.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/lies-politics-and-democracy/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/us/politics/republican-election-objectors-demographics.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/24/nyregion/hasidic-yeshiva-fraud-central-united-talmudical-academy.html SA: Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145820 Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145795 Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=145781 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Listener Call In #: 1-310-997-4596 Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 https://www.patreon.com/lukeford http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford Feel free to clip my videos. It's nice when you link back to the original.

Merve Emre is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, the author of many award-winning books, and a professor at the University of Oxford. Merve and Gabe chop it up about Merve's journey from Turkey to Brooklyn as a young child. What was it like for her family to live in Park Slope in the early 90's? How did she break her arm that one time as a kid, and how does that event inform who she is today? Read Merve Emre at The New Yorker Visit Merve's website and follow her on Twitter Buy Merve's nonfiction book The Personality Brokers Watch Merve on YouTube Read about Merve at The New York Review of Books More episode sources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) Joe Hagan (author of Sticky Fingers: the Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone) Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) About the Host Gabe Hudson: Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tressie McMillan Cottom is the author of Thick and Other Essays, a columnist for the New York Times, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a 2020 McArthur Fellow. Tressie talks to Gabe about the kind of freedom she wants for all Black women. And how her mother was a member of the Black Panther Party. We learn about Tressie's 18 stages of essay writing. And why are white audiences more comfortable thinking about Black people in a historical context? Visit Tressie McMillan Cottom's website and follow her on Twitter and Instagram Read Tressie's column in New York Times Buy Tressie's nonfiction book Thick and Other Essays Watch Tressie on The Daily Show More episode resources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (NYT's bestselling author of Friday Black) Stephanie Land (NYT's bestselling author of Maid) Rebecca Makkai (author of The Great Believers) About the Host: Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Molly Jong-Fast is a correspondent for Vanity Fair and host of the podcast Fast Politics. Molly sits down with Gabe to tell him what it felt like to do battle with Elon Musk out on the timeline. Molly explains why she loves Twitter and how she used it to sting Bill Maher. She gets into why a Tucker Carlson presidency is the ultimate doomsday scenario. And why does Molly think that Jon Stewart might be the only one who can stop Tucker Carlson? Read Molly Jong-Fast at Vanity Fair Listen to Molly's podcast Fast Politics Follow Molly on Twitter and Instagram Watch Molly on MSNBC Read about Molly in New York Times More episode sources and links Email Gabe Hudson: gabehudsonsays@gmail.com Follow Gabe on Twitter and Instagram Other episodes you may enjoy: Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYT's columnist) Merve Emre (contributing writer at The New Yorker) Charles Yu (National Book Award Winner) Elizabeth McCracken (author of The Hero of This Book) About the Host Gabe Hudson: Gabe Hudson is the award-winning author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta's “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney's, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I recommend Merve Emre's book, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing (Anchor Books, 2019), and I talk a bit more about the narrative dynamics going on in Genesis 1-2.

This week, a guest episode from the London Review Bookshop Podcast, featuring Elif Batuman talking to Merve Emre about her latest book, Either/Or. The London Review Bookshop podcast comes out every week and has hundreds of events in its archive. Find it wherever you get your podcast.Some events from the London Review Bookshop are broadcast online as well as in person, so you can watch live from anywhere in the world. On Wednesday this week, you can watch food writers Rebecca May Johnson and Jonathan Nunn.Buy tickets here: https://lrb.me/eventspod Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Merve Emre is interviewed by PhD candidate Sarah Edwards. The discussion focuses on Merve Emre's upcoming book, Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities. Music by Oscar Wilkins. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/moveable-type/sites/moveable_type/files/merve_emre_moveable_type_full_episode_transcript.pdf Date of episode recording: 2022-06-01 Duration: 1:08:09 Language of episode: English Presenter:Sarah Edwards Guests: Merve Emre Producer: Oscar Wilkins; Sarah Edwards

The new book ‘Cacaphonies' takes fecal matter and its place in literature seriously. In a stark challenge to the tendency to view 20th- and 21st-century French literature through sanitizing abstractions, Annabel L. Kim argues for feces as a figure of radical equality. ‘Cacaphonies' reveals the aesthetic, political, and ethical potential of shit and its capacity to transform literature and life. Here, Kim is joined in conversation by Merve Emre, Rachele Dini, and Laure Murat.Annabel L. Kim is the Roy G. Clouse associate professor of Romance Literatures and Languages at Harvard University. A specialist in 20th- and 21st-century French literature, Kim is author of ‘Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions' and ‘Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature.'Merve Emre is an associate professor of literature at the University of Oxford and a contributing writer at The New Yorker.Rachele Dini is senior lecturer in English and American literature at the University of Roehampton, London.Laure Murat is professor of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA's Department of European Languages & Transcultural Studies and author of several books.Episode references:Louis-Ferdinand Céline; Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night)Caca communismJean GenetKristin Ross (Fast Cars, Clean Bodies)Susan Signe MorrisonPhilip Roth (Patrimony)Anne GarrétaSamuel Beckett (Molloy)Rey ChowJames Joyce (Ulysses/Leopold Bloom)Alain Resnais (Providence)

Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed and The Idiot, joined us to read from and talk about her latest novel Either/Or. International travel, Harvard, Hungary and of course literature and philosophy collide in a heart-breaking and hilarious coming-of-age story by one of our most consistently thought-provoking writers.She was in conversation with Merve Emre, associate professor of English at the University of Oxford, author of several works of non-fiction and most recently the annotator of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Vi omges av text hela tiden, även när vi inte tänker på det. Så kanske är inte problemet att vi läser vi för lite utan att vi behöver ro för att läsa ordentligt, funderar Torbjörn Elensky. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Först publicerad den 13 april 2021.Redan som liten var jag en närmast tvångsmässig läsare. Jag plöjde mjölkpaketens baksidor och Kalle Anka medan jag åt mackor efter skolan, med samma glupande aptit som äventyrsböcker innan jag somnade in på kvällen. Snart började jag med ryska klassiker och gick via Jules Vernes till Balzac och Flaubert. Utan minsta känsla för nivåskillnader mellan den stora litteraturens mästerverk och Tvillingdeckarna, Bill och Biggles. Den där vanan har aldrig lämnat mig, men den har förvandlats till en hälsofara.I dag invaderar texter alla delar av livet. Överallt information, underhållning, förströelse utan slut. Även under det som bara vara verkar vara bild, ljud och spel ligger texterna där. Överallt. Vi kommunicerar med korta texter, halvvägs mellan prat och skrift. Vi läser och lyssnar på texter nästan alla dygnets vakna timmar. Och det är inte bara utbrändheten som hägrar, när informationsströmmen knappt ens växlar i intensitet, utan ständigt forsar fram i så många medier, appar och kanaler. Risken är att man blir manipulerad om man motståndslöst låter sig dras med i flödet. Och vem klarar att bjuda motstånd hela tiden? Texterna skrivs med avsikter och algoritmerna tenderar att ge mig det som ligger i linje med det jag tidigare läst, även om jag aktivt försöker motverka deras insnävning av min utblick i världen.Hösten 1956 kontaktade den amerikanske presidenten Dwight D. Eisenhower författaren William Faulkner och frågade om inte han ville leda en kommitté för internationellt litterärt utbyte. Det handlade om att göra världen bättre och öka förståelsen mellan Öst och Väst genom att få fler att läsa amerikansk skönlitteratur. Faulkner var knappast någon framstående organisatör, men han tackade ja. Men nästan alla kolleger han bad att medverka svarade avvisande, en del var oförskämda, andra närmast förorättade över att de förväntades gå regeringens ärenden. Att en amerikansk författare står fri från alla myndigheter och organisationer är det bästa argument världen behöver för den amerikanska litteraturens egenvärde, ansåg de.I februari 1957 skulle Faulkner presentera sitt arbete för regeringen. Natten före presentationen satte han i sig en hel flaska Jack Daniels. Hans enda förslag inför kommittén var: Vi borde tillverka två stämplar. På den ena ska det stå sant, på den andra inte sant, och med dem stämplar vi all litteratur som exporteras från USA, så råder inga oklarheter om vad som gäller.Man kan se en längtan efter liknande förenklingar i dag. Samtidigt som vi utsätts för alltfler texter, så sjunker läsförmågan. Ungdomar som lämnar gymnasiet med bra betyg i svenska klarar inte att läsa texterna på universitetets grundkurser. Intresset för skönlitteratur, som inte är genrelitteratur, är nog det lägsta sedan läskunnigheten slog igenom och romaner blev ett folknöje under 1800-talet. Varför ska man läsa fantasier när man kan läsa fakta? Varför läsa falskt när man kan läsa sant?Ja, det är inte bara den faktiska läsförmågan som tycks minska, utan förståelsen för texters många nivåer, ironi, självbespegling, och att en berättelse kan vara sann utan att vara faktabaserad, som en riktig saga alltid är sann.Tänk om de som säger att läsning är nyttigt har rätt. Man kanske faktiskt blir klokare, mera vidsynt och empatisk. Litteraturen kanske är viktig för demokratin. Biblioteken är en demokratisk rättighet, läsning utvecklar oss, och om inte annat så blir det svårt för den som inte läser under sin uppväxt att så småningom klara sig i vårt kunskapsintensiva samhälle där till och med träslöjd och idrott numera lär omfatta även teori. Men måste allt vara teori? Måste hela livet handla om text? Jag frågar detta i min egenskap av författare.För det är inte bara så kallat svaga elever som är dåliga läsare. Det gäller oss alla. En del förstår inte twitterspråket, andra inte klassiska romaner. Sociala medier gör att minsta gemensamma nämnare är det som gäller, för såväl tidningar som i privat kommunikation. Allusioner och gemensamma referenser verkar som bortflugna, utom i mindre grupper där självrefererandet gått från intertextualitet och förbindelser med världslitteraturen till intern jargong. Vad som klassas som svåra ord verkar bli allt mer utvidgat, från tekniska termer till äldre uttryck. Komplikation och precision elimineras ur vårt dagliga språk. Ironi fungerar inte på nätet, det vet alla som testat. Bokstavstrogen läsning är det som gäller. Skämt fungerar bara i slutna grupper. Att ta för givet att någon känner till, vet eller förstår något är lika förolämpande som att utgå från att den inte har någon aning om det. Eftersom entydighet är omöjligt att uppnå och all läsning, utom av enklast tänkbara etiketter och skyltar, är tolkning är tillfällena för missförstånd fler än någonsin.Kanske lever vi faktiskt i post-sanningens tid, då vi inte kan enas om något för att vi inte ens kan förstå varandra? Och inte på grund av för lite information, utan för mycket brus, eller nej, dån, av textmassor som uppfyller hela världen.Historien om William Faulkner som återgavs tidigare berättas av den amerikanske litteraturforskaren Merve Emre i hennes bok Paraliterary, The making of bad readers in America. Men det är bara ett av hennes många exempel på hur litteraturen de senaste 100 åren utnyttjats för diverse syften. Hon skriver om hur den använts karaktärsdanande för unga kvinnor, för marknadsföring av USA såväl som för motstånd. Litteratur har varit en bruksvara, omgiven av så många motstridiga avsikter, sedan så länge att det framstår som ett mirakel att skönlitterär prosa ens lyckats överleva som konstform, efter all denna misshandel från både välmenande och ondsinta intressen. Svaret är förstås: på grund av läsarna. Inklusive alla de slarviga läsare som vill ha underhållning och bekräftelse. Om den vore helt beroende av närläsande experter skulle litteraturen kanske ha högre kvalitet, rent teoretiskt men den skulle snart dö av syrebrist.Och även om jag vill säga att litteraturen har ett absolut egenvärde, höjt över alla intressen, är den också helt grundläggande för vår demokrati, vårt kulturarv, vår syn på oss själva och varandra och den utveckling av såväl kognitiva förmågor som empati, utan vilka vi inte kommer att klara oss. Det ironiska är att det är först då litteraturen befrias från nyttan som hon blir verkligt nyttig.Den tyske författaren Ernst Jünger skrev en gång att det är lika nyttigt för själen att periodvis avstå från tryckta texter som det är för kroppen att fasta. Även om fastans hälsoeffekter inte är oomtvistade är hans poäng tydlig och jag tror att han har rätt. I dagens ständiga textflöden, information och underhållning non stop, är detta att emellanåt stiga ut ur textmassorna viktigt för den mentala hälsan men också för vår känsla och för vårt intellekt. Omgiven av konstant buller blir man en dålig lyssnare. Omgiven av konstant text blir vi alla dåliga läsare.Torbjörn Elensky, författareSändes första gången 3.11.2020

Understanding James Joyce's eye troubles gives you a different way of reading his book Ulysses. That's the contention of Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, who shares her research with presenter Shahidha Bari. Emma West has delved into the history of the Arts League of Service travelling theatre, who went about in a battered old van performing plays, songs, ballets and 'absurdities' to audiences from Braintree to Blantyre. And we look at the Royal Society of Literature's annual Dalloway Day discussion of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway, first published in 1925, with Merve Emre. Merve Emre is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford, and editor of the annotated Mrs Dalloway. Cleo Hanaway-Oakley is Lecturer in Liberal Arts and English at the University of Bristol and author of James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film. Emma West is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. Producer: Torquil MacLeod Find out more about Dalloway Day 2022 on the Royal Society of Literature website. The Bloomsday festival runs from June 11th to 16th You can find a collection of programmes exploring ideas about modernism on the Free Thinking website

With How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti merrily and unforgettably extended our notions of what a novel might or ought to contain. In Pure Colour (Harvill Secker), brilliantly described by Kirkus Reviews as ‘that rarest of novels—as alien as a moon rock and every bit as wondrous,' she continues her extraordinary project of expanding our minds to where they ought to be. Heti was in conversation about that project with Merve Emre, associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Uma habilidade ou uma característica pessoal inata? Algo mensurável e “objetivo” ou uma narrativa com diferentes significados em diferentes contextos? Veja bem. Mais. Padrim (https://www.padrim.com.br/vejabempodcast) – Código PIX: e3257213-46ea-4c97-9740-4c6f268baa0f Referências: Inteligência Emocional – Daniel Goleman (livro) Is Emotional Intelligence Really So Important? – No Stupid Questions (podcast) Merve Emre on Emotional Intelligence as Corporate Control – Taken for Granted […]

Bir akademisyen, yazar ve edebiyat eleştirmeni olarak Merve Emre'nin bu farklı kimliklerinin süzgecinden geçerek derinlik kazanan "notlarının" eşlik ettiği The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway nihayet okuyucuyla buluştu. Virginia Woolf'un ünlü romanını bu akşam kendi yazarının elinden çıkmış ana motifleri üzerinden hem de Emre'nin büyük bir ustalıkla ilmek ilmek ördüğü kenar oyalarından işledik. Sizleri de bu keyifli sohbeti dinlemeye davet ediyoruz.Podcast dili İngilizcedir, buluşmanın Türkçe altyazılı video kaydını ise YouTube kanalımızda izleyebilirsiniz.

In this week's Book Club podcast, we're going back 100 years to 1922 – the year which is usually seen as heralding the birth of literary Modernism. Sam's guests are Richard Davenport-Hines, author of A Night At The Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party, and the scholar and critic Merve Emre, who has worked extensively on Joyce and Woolf. Sam asked them how much Modernism really did represent a break with the past, and how much it looked like a coherent movement at the time. Along the way we learn what Proust and Joyce found to discuss when they met, why Virginia Woolf was so rude about Ulysses, and what the mainstream story of Modernism left out...   

In this week's Book Club podcast, we're going back 100 years to 1922 – the year which is usually seen as heralding the birth of literary Modernism. My guests are Richard Davenport-Hines, author of A Night At The Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party, and the scholar and critic Merve Emre, who has worked extensively on Joyce and Woolf. I asked them how much Modernism really did represent a break with the past, and how much it looked like a coherent movement at the time. Along the way we learn what Proust and Joyce found to discuss when they met, why Virginia Woolf was so rude about Ulysses, and what the mainstream story of Modernism left out...   

A conversation about the personal essay boom, iterations of the memoir in other literary genres, the constructive use of social media, the style of "too late capitalism," and other means of self-indulgence with two decorated literary critics and theorists. For more about this episode, visit MarkTwainStudies.com/AutoEverything

Modernist grouch, Bloomsbury group member, Freud-to-tea-haver, and Great Novelist Virginia Woolf takes center stage in our discussion of Mrs. Dalloway (1925). We recommend this book if you like books or good writing, and we discuss interwar anxiety, shell shock, gender trouble, and class. This episode also features some discussion of real nerd shit, including Viennese playwright/libertine Arthur Schnitzler and many, many Star Trek opinions. Many. Even for us. We read the new Liveright (Norton) edition with truly marvelous notes and introduction by Merve Emre. We recommend Elizabeth Abel's Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis, because she shares our affection for reading Woolf with Freud. Find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @betterreadpod, and email us nice things at betterreadpodcast@gmail.com. Find Tristan on Twitter @tjschweiger, Katie @katiekrywo, and Megan @tuslersaurus.

In this episode, Erin, Alex, and Eric are joined by critic Merve Emre and poet Elisa Gabbert to discuss Jonathan Franzen's sixth novel, Crossroads.

„Ich gebrauche jetzt die besseren Wörter nicht mehr.“ So beginnt Ilse Aichinger ihren kurzen Essay Schlechte Wörter und die gleichnamige Textsammlung, in der sie ihre widerständige Poetik entwickelt. Eine Verweigerung gegen das Gebotene, gegen falsche Zusammenhänge und Gewissheiten. Können wir verlernen, die Gewalt in der Sprache zu reproduzieren? Sind die schwächeren Ausdrücke die Rettung? Ausgehend von Aichingers Text, schafft die Audioserie Schlechte Wörter einen Ort für ein anderes Sprechen über Sprache und Literatur, für die Annäherung an ein neues Sprachgefühl. Aus Gesprächen, Lesungen, Sprachnachrichten, Field Recordings und Musik entsteht mit wechselnden Gästen ein begehbarer, vielstimmiger Raum. Die Verabredung lautet: Wir gehen von einem Text aus, damit ein anderer Text beginnen kann. Eine Audioserie von Fabian Saul, in Zusammenarbeit mit Mathias Zeiske. Schlechte Wörter #3 mit Beiträgen von Don Mee Choi, Sophia Eisenhut, Tanasgol Sabbagh, Fabian Saul, Karosh Taha, Senthuran Varatharajah und Uljana Wolf www.hkw.de/schlechtewoerter +++ “I now no longer use the better words.” This is the beginning of Ilse Aichinger's brief essay Bad Words and the anthology of the same name in which she develops her resistant poetics. A refusal of the imperative, of false certainties and the unassailable. Can we unlearn the reproduction of violence in language? Are the weaker expressions our salvation? Based on Aichinger's work, the audio series Bad Words creates a place for a different way of speaking about language and literature, for approaching a new sense of language. From conversations, readings, voice messages, field recordings and music, a polyphonic space is created with changing guests. The idea is: We start from one text so that another text can begin. An audio series by Fabian Saul, in cooperation with Mathias Zeiske. Bad Words #3 with contributions by Don Mee Choi, Sophia Eisenhut, Merve Emre, Hanne Lippard, Tanasgol Sabbagh, Fabian Saul, Karosh Taha, Senthuran Varatharajah and Uljana Wolf

„Ich gebrauche jetzt die besseren Wörter nicht mehr.“ So beginnt Ilse Aichinger ihren kurzen Essay Schlechte Wörter und die gleichnamige Textsammlung, in der sie ihre widerständige Poetik entwickelt. Eine Verweigerung gegen das Gebotene, gegen falsche Zusammenhänge und Gewissheiten. Können wir verlernen, die Gewalt in der Sprache zu reproduzieren? Sind die schwächeren Ausdrücke die Rettung? Ausgehend von Aichingers Text, schafft die Audioserie Schlechte Wörter einen Ort für ein anderes Sprechen über Sprache und Literatur, für die Annäherung an ein neues Sprachgefühl. Aus Gesprächen, Lesungen, Sprachnachrichten, Field Recordings und Musik entsteht mit wechselnden Gästen ein begehbarer, vielstimmiger Raum. Die Verabredung lautet: Wir gehen von einem Text aus, damit ein anderer Text beginnen kann. Eine Audioserie von Fabian Saul, in Zusammenarbeit mit Mathias Zeiske. Mit Beiträgen von Sophia Eisenhut, Merve Emre, Hanne Lippard, Tanasgol Sabbagh, Fabian Saul, Karosh Taha, Senthuran Varatharajah und Uljana Wolf www.hkw.de/schlechtewoerter +++ “I now no longer use the better words.” This is the beginning of Ilse Aichinger's brief essay Bad Words and the anthology of the same name in which she develops her resistant poetics. A refusal of the imperative, of false certainties and the unassailable. Can we unlearn the reproduction of violence in language? Are the weaker expressions our salvation? Based on Aichinger's work, the audio series Bad Words creates a place for a different way of speaking about language and literature, for approaching a new sense of language. From conversations, readings, voice messages, field recordings and music, a polyphonic space is created with changing guests. The idea is: We start from one text so that another text can begin. An audio series by Fabian Saul, in cooperation with Mathias Zeiske. With contributions by Sophia Eisenhut, Merve Emre, Hanne Lippard, Tanasgol Sabbagh, Fabian Saul, Karosh Taha, Senthuran Varatharajah and Uljana Wolf www.hkw.de/badwords

As career and executive coaches, we're always learning. For this episode of  @CoachingThruIt Laura and Julie share what's in their coaching library -- books, podcasts, and conferences… oh my! Here are a few things we're tuning into to support our clients and craft of coaching:Dare to Lead Ep. Brené with Amy Cuddy on Pandemic Flux Syndrome“Why This Stage of the Pandemic Makes Us So Anxious” from the Washington Post by Amy Cuddy and Jill Ellyn RileyBurnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski & Amelia NagoskiHello Monday with Jessi Hempel; Ep. Jonathan Fields on finding your purpose Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come AliveTake the free assessment: Find Your SparketypeWorkLife podcast with Adam GrantTaken for Granted Ep. Merve Emre on Emotional Intelligence as Corporate ControlScience Diction - 3 Part Series The Rise of the Myers-BriggsChapter 1: KatharineChapter 2: IsabelChapter 3: What Is It Good For?How's Work with Esther Perell The Long Game by Dorie ClarkePeople We Meet on Vacation by Emily HenryYour First 100 Days in a New Executive Job by Robert HargroveBeautiful World Where Are You by Sally RooneyNo One Succeeds Alone by Robert ReffkinSystemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual by Peter Hawkings & Eve TurnerWomen of Discriminating Taste: White Sororities and the Making of American Ladyhood by Margaret FreemanMachiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace by Stacey Vanek SmithThe Leader You Want to Be by Amy Jen SuCoaching Real Leaders with Muriel WilkinsICF Converge 2021 Conference - October 26-28, 2021What's in your own library to learn? How are you exploring and developing lately?-----Want to learn more about coaching? Have a question or topic we should discuss? Let us know!Follow the pod on Twitter: @CoachingThruIt & Instagram: @CoachingThruItEmail us at: coachingthroughit@gmail.com Connect to the hosts: @laurapasquini & @julieclarsenMusic credit: The song reCreation by airtone has been remixed under a CC-BY license. 

„Ich gebrauche jetzt die besseren Wörter nicht mehr.“ So beginnt Ilse Aichinger ihren kurzen Essay Schlechte Wörter und die gleichnamige Textsammlung, in der sie ihre widerständige Poetik entwickelt. Eine Verweigerung gegen das Gebotene, gegen falsche Zusammenhänge und Gewissheiten. Können wir verlernen, die Gewalt in der Sprache zu reproduzieren? Sind die schwächeren Ausdrücke die Rettung? Ausgehend von Aichingers Text, schafft die Audioserie Schlechte Wörter einen Ort für ein anderes Sprechen über Sprache und Literatur, für die Annäherung an ein neues Sprachgefühl. Aus Gesprächen, Lesungen, Sprachnachrichten, Field Recordings und Musik entsteht mit wechselnden Gästen ein begehbarer, vielstimmiger Raum. Die Verabredung lautet: Wir gehen von einem Text aus, damit ein anderer Text beginnen kann. Eine Audioserie von Fabian Saul, in Zusammenarbeit mit Mathias Zeiske. Mit Beiträgen von Merve Emre, Hanne Lippard, Tanasgol Sabbagh, Fabian Saul, Karosh Taha, Senthuran Varatharajah und Uljana Wolf www.hkw.de/schlechtewoerter +++ “I now no longer use the better words.” This is the beginning of Ilse Aichinger's brief essay Bad Words and the anthology of the same name in which she develops her resistant poetics. A refusal of the imperative, of false certainties and the unassailable. Can we unlearn the reproduction of violence in language? Are the weaker expressions our salvation? Based on Aichinger's work, the audio series Bad Words creates a place for a different way of speaking about language and literature, for approaching a new sense of language. From conversations, readings, voice messages, field recordings and music, a polyphonic space is created with changing guests. The idea is: We start from one text so that another text can begin. An audio series by Fabian Saul, in cooperation with Mathias Zeiske. With contributions by Merve Emre, Hanne Lippard, Tanasgol Sabbagh, Fabian Saul, Karosh Taha, Senthuran Varatharajah and Uljana Wolf www.hkw.de/badwords

When Isabel Briggs Myers imagined that her homegrown personality test would change the world, she couldn't have pictured this. Today, millions take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator each year. Countless organizations use it, from General Motors to the CIA. But there's one field that mostly rolls its eyes at the test: psychology.  In our final chapter, Isabel rescues her indicator from the verge of extinction, but has to make some compromises. And we explore what the Myers Briggs does (and doesn't) measure, and why people love it despite psychologists' complaints. Listen to Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of this series. A transcript of this episode is being processed and will be available within a week.  Guests:  Merve Emre is a writer and English professor at the University of Oxford. Annie Murphy Paul is a science journalist and author.   Dan McAdams is a professor of psychology at Northwestern University.  Quinisha Jackson-Wright is a writer and the author of Working Twice as Hard.  Jeffrey Hayes is the President and CEO of the Myers-Briggs Company. Rich Thompson is Senior Director of Global Research at The Myers-Briggs Company. Peter Geyer is a Myers-Briggs practitioner in Melbourne Australia. Footnotes & Further Reading:  Check out Merve Emre's book, ​​The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing. Read Annie Murphy Paul's book, The Cult of Personality Testing. Credits: This episode of Science Diction was produced by Johanna Mayer, Chris Egusa, and Senior Producer Elah Feder. Daniel Peterschmidt is our composer, and they mastered the episode. We had fact checking help from Sona Avakian. Special thanks to Peter Geyer for providing archival audio. Nadja Oertelt is our Chief Content Officer. 

At first, it seemed like Isabel Briggs Myers would have nothing to do with personality typology. That was her mother Katharine's passion project, not hers. But when Isabel enters a tumultuous marriage, she discovers that her mother's gospel of type might just be the thing to save it.  In Chapter 2, Isabel picks up her mother's work, and decides to transform it into a marketable product—but first, she has to convince a group of skeptical PhDs that it actually works. Along the way, one particularly dogged researcher notices some issues with her indicator, threatening to undo everything she'd worked for. If you're new to the series, listen to Chapter 1. A transcript of this episode is being processed and will be available within a week. Guest:  Merve Emre is a writer and English professor at the University of Oxford. Footnotes & Further Reading:  Read Merve Emre's book, ​​The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing. Credits:  This episode was produced by Johanna Mayer, Chris Egusa, and Senior Producer Elah Feder. Our music was composed by Daniel Peterschmidt, who also mastered this episode and helped with archival research. We had fact checking help from Cosmo Bjorkenheim. Peter Geyer provided us with archival audio. Nadja Oertelt is our Chief Content Officer.

In this online event, Ana Paula Cordeiro, the creator of Body of Evidence, speaks from the workshop in New York City where she produced it. She will be joined in conversation by Merve Emre, Associate Professor of American Literature. Body of Evidence (2020) is an artist's book that examines the role of documentary evidence in defining national and individual identity. The red, white, and blue of the printing and binding echo a national story, viewed from the perspective of an immigrant, with quotations from Rebecca Solnit, Emily Dickinson, William James, Agnes Martin, and Fernando Pessoa. We open the conversation by examining the book's unique structure, moving on to consider the questions posed by the book's theme. What qualifies as a document? When does a document become evidence? And what does this evidence prove about an individual or a nation? How can an individual's narrative assert their integrity in face of dehumanization? The conversation will be launched after a live presentation of the copy of this book now in the Bodleian. Originally from Brazil, Cordeiro is based in New York and composes her book works at The Center for Book Arts in New York City, from where she will speak. In 2020 she was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her artist books are collected privately and institutionally. Book Arts programme from the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book. Supported by a generous donation to the Bodleian Bibliographical Press.

In this online event, Ana Paula Cordeiro, the creator of Body of Evidence, speaks from the workshop in New York City where she produced it. She will be joined in conversation by Merve Emre, Associate Professor of American Literature. Body of Evidence (2020) is an artist's book that examines the role of documentary evidence in defining national and individual identity. The red, white, and blue of the printing and binding echo a national story, viewed from the perspective of an immigrant, with quotations from Rebecca Solnit, Emily Dickinson, William James, Agnes Martin, and Fernando Pessoa. We open the conversation by examining the book's unique structure, moving on to consider the questions posed by the book's theme. What qualifies as a document? When does a document become evidence? And what does this evidence prove about an individual or a nation? How can an individual's narrative assert their integrity in face of dehumanization? The conversation will be launched after a live presentation of the copy of this book now in the Bodleian. Originally from Brazil, Cordeiro is based in New York and composes her book works at The Center for Book Arts in New York City, from where she will speak. In 2020 she was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Her artist books are collected privately and institutionally. Book Arts programme from the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book. Supported by a generous donation to the Bodleian Bibliographical Press.

If you're one of the 2 million people who take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator every year, perhaps you thought Myers and Briggs are the two psychologists who designed the test. In reality, a mother-daughter team created the test essentially at their kitchen table. In this episode, we look at the unlikely origins of the Myers-Briggs, going all the way back to the late 1800s when Katharine Cook Briggs turned her living room into a “cosmic laboratory of baby training” and set out to raise the perfect child. In this three-part series, we uncover the strange history of the most popular personality test in the world, and how two women revolutionized personality testing—for better or for worse.  Guest:  Merve Emre is a writer and English professor at the University of Oxford. Footnotes & Further Reading:  Read Merve Emre's book, ​​The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing. Credits:  This episode was produced by Johanna Mayer, Chris Egusa, and Elah Feder. Our music was composed by Daniel Peterschmidt, who also mastered the episode. Fact checking by Danya AbdelHameid. Archival audio was provided courtesy of Peter Geyer. Nadja Oertelt is our Chief Content Officer.

How should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart.In this week's episode Amia Srinivasan speaks to Merve Emre about the politics of desire and how, from consent to capitalism, we need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon. To pre-order 'The Right to Sex' click here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/right-to-sex-9781526612533 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Merve Emre is associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America 2017), The Ferrante Letters (2019), and The Personality Brokers (2018). She is the editor of Once and Future Feminist (2018), The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway (2021), and The Norton Modern Library Mrs. Dalloway (2021). Merve chatted with Adrian and Laura about the troubled masterwork that is BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992).

In 2020, we saw stress from our personal lives seep into our work lives at an uncontrollable magnitude. Employers turned to solutions like workshops on mindfulness, meditation, and the power of positive thinking to help employees cope. All of these are very powerful ideologies that can provide personal benefit—but in the wrong hands can be used to exploit workers. Merve Emre unpacks the surprising history of “emotional intelligence,” how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate control, and why you should rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript5

It's been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate control, and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. You can find the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/T4GTscript6

RtB loves the present-day shadows cast by neglected books, which can suddenly loom up out of the backlit past. So, you won’t be shocked to know that John has also been editing a Public Books column called B-Side Books. In it, around 50 writers (Ursula Le Guin was one) have made the case for un-forgetting … Continue reading "56 Recall This B-Side #1: Merve Emre on Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Dry Heart”"

Jill Richards is an Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. In this episode, she will talk us through her work “The Ferrante Letters”, written in 2020 alongside Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, and Katherine Hill. We will also understand how four women academics have forged their creative personas in an adventurous project born in the wake of the Ferrante Fever.In this episode, we will cover the following topics:(00:17) Intro by Costanza Barchiesi(01.45) Presentation of Costaza Barchiesi by Jane (04:00) Presentation of Jill Richard by Costanza Barchiesi(07:08) "Your book can be defined as the collection of a collaborative effort of four women who move in and out of a more strictly academic form of criticism. How would you define it in terms of genre and what does this do to the figure of the critic in general?"(12:50) "Has the reception of Ferrante changed over time? And how can we frame it in an Italian versus international way?"(17:23) "How did the book come about? In the introduction, you say that it started with “The Slow Burn” in journal Post45. https://post45.org/2015/06/the-slow-burn-an-introduction/ Why the title? Did you want to perhaps make Lenu’s (and Lila’s) anger your own in order to dig deeper into the books’ meaning?"(21:15) "What is the issue with judging a book by its cover with Ferrante?"(22:55) The Queer Counterfactual. "How did you get the main idea for the essay? Which critics inspired your idea? Do the chains of absent notebooks, absent dialect and absent Lila all add up to the translational quality of the novel itself? Does this translational quality, in turn, lend specificity to the queerness that you so well describe in your essay? Finally, do you think that the “queer counterfactual” could potentially be applied to any piece of literature or would you need a set of pre-requisites in order to apply this concept satisfactorily to a text?"(31:59) Role-playing: reading the titular scene. (37:56) Questions from the audience: how was it to write in a collaborative way?(41:54) The humanities and collaborative work.(43:55) Creative writing and research interests. Does creativity play a large part in research?(49:03) Silvia Federici and reproductive labour for valuing academic work in alternative ways.(53:32) Reading the book in translation and working on Ferrante as English scholars.Follow us on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/italian.minds/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/italian-minds/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/italianminds.podcast

Merve Emre on her selection: At the beginning of March, I helped to organize a group reading of Robert Musil's unfinished masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. The excerpt I have chosen to read, from Chapter 32, "The Forgotten, Highly Relevant Story of the Major's Wife," wonderfully compresses much of what I admire about Musil's writing. The story of the major's wife is a story about a man who is in love with the idea of being in love, and as such, is narrated with irony and affectation, but also with pure and gentle beauty. The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil, trans. Sophie Wilkins  Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

Vi omges av text hela tiden, även när vi inte tänker på det. Så kanske är inte problemet att vi läser vi för lite utan att vi behöver ro för att läsa ordentligt, funderar Torbjörn Elensky. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Redan som liten var jag en närmast tvångsmässig läsare. Jag plöjde mjölkpaketens baksidor och Kalle Anka medan jag åt mackor efter skolan, med samma glupande aptit som äventyrsböcker innan jag somnade in på kvällen. Snart började jag med ryska klassiker och gick via Jules Vernes till Balzac och Flaubert. Utan minsta känsla för nivåskillnader mellan den stora litteraturens mästerverk och Tvillingdeckarna, Bill och Biggles. Den där vanan har aldrig lämnat mig, men den har förvandlats till en hälsofara. I dag invaderar texter alla delar av livet. Överallt information, underhållning, förströelse utan slut. Även under det som bara vara verkar vara bild, ljud och spel ligger texterna där. Överallt. Vi kommunicerar med korta texter, halvvägs mellan prat och skrift. Vi läser och lyssnar på texter nästan alla dygnets vakna timmar. Och det är inte bara utbrändheten som hägrar, när informationsströmmen knappt ens växlar i intensitet, utan ständigt forsar fram i så många medier, appar och kanaler. Risken är att man blir manipulerad om man motståndslöst låter sig dras med i flödet. Och vem klarar att bjuda motstånd hela tiden? Texterna skrivs med avsikter och algoritmerna tenderar att ge mig det som ligger i linje med det jag tidigare läst, även om jag aktivt försöker motverka deras insnävning av min utblick i världen. Hösten 1956 kontaktade den amerikanske presidenten Dwight D. Eisenhower författaren William Faulkner och frågade om inte han ville leda en kommitté för internationellt litterärt utbyte. Det handlade om att göra världen bättre och öka förståelsen mellan Öst och Väst genom att få fler att läsa amerikansk skönlitteratur. Faulkner var knappast någon framstående organisatör, men han tackade ja. Men nästan alla kolleger han bad att medverka svarade avvisande, en del var oförskämda, andra närmast förorättade över att de förväntades gå regeringens ärenden. Att en amerikansk författare står fri från alla myndigheter och organisationer är det bästa argument världen behöver för den amerikanska litteraturens egenvärde, ansåg de. I februari 1957 skulle Faulkner presentera sitt arbete för regeringen. Natten före presentationen satte han i sig en hel flaska Jack Daniels. Hans enda förslag inför kommittén var: Vi borde tillverka två stämplar. På den ena ska det stå sant, på den andra inte sant, och med dem stämplar vi all litteratur som exporteras från USA, så råder inga oklarheter om vad som gäller. Man kan se en längtan efter liknande förenklingar i dag. Samtidigt som vi utsätts för alltfler texter, så sjunker läsförmågan. Ungdomar som lämnar gymnasiet med bra betyg i svenska klarar inte att läsa texterna på universitetets grundkurser. Intresset för skönlitteratur, som inte är genrelitteratur, är nog det lägsta sedan läskunnigheten slog igenom och romaner blev ett folknöje under 1800-talet. Varför ska man läsa fantasier när man kan läsa fakta? Varför läsa falskt när man kan läsa sant? Ja, det är inte bara den faktiska läsförmågan som tycks minska, utan förståelsen för texters många nivåer, ironi, självbespegling, och att en berättelse kan vara sann utan att vara faktabaserad, som en riktig saga alltid är sann. Tänk om de som säger att läsning är nyttigt har rätt. Man kanske faktiskt blir klokare, mera vidsynt och empatisk. Litteraturen kanske är viktig för demokratin. Biblioteken är en demokratisk rättighet, läsning utvecklar oss, och om inte annat så blir det svårt för den som inte läser under sin uppväxt att så småningom klara sig i vårt kunskapsintensiva samhälle där till och med träslöjd och idrott numera lär omfatta även teori. Men måste allt vara teori? Måste hela livet handla om text? Jag frågar detta i min egenskap av författare. För det är inte bara så kallat svaga elever som är dåliga läsare. Det gäller oss alla. En del förstår inte twitterspråket, andra inte klassiska romaner. Sociala medier gör att minsta gemensamma nämnare är det som gäller, för såväl tidningar som i privat kommunikation. Allusioner och gemensamma referenser verkar som bortflugna, utom i mindre grupper där självrefererandet gått från intertextualitet och förbindelser med världslitteraturen till intern jargong. Vad som klassas som svåra ord verkar bli allt mer utvidgat, från tekniska termer till äldre uttryck. Komplikation och precision elimineras ur vårt dagliga språk. Ironi fungerar inte på nätet, det vet alla som testat. Bokstavstrogen läsning är det som gäller. Skämt fungerar bara i slutna grupper. Att ta för givet att någon känner till, vet eller förstår något är lika förolämpande som att utgå från att den inte har någon aning om det. Eftersom entydighet är omöjligt att uppnå och all läsning, utom av enklast tänkbara etiketter och skyltar, är tolkning är tillfällena för missförstånd fler än någonsin. Kanske lever vi faktiskt i post-sanningens tid, då vi inte kan enas om något för att vi inte ens kan förstå varandra? Och inte på grund av för lite information, utan för mycket brus, eller nej, dån, av textmassor som uppfyller hela världen. Historien om William Faulkner som återgavs tidigare berättas av den amerikanske litteraturforskaren Merve Emre i hennes bok Paraliterary, The making of bad readers in America. Men det är bara ett av hennes många exempel på hur litteraturen de senaste 100 åren utnyttjats för diverse syften. Hon skriver om hur den använts karaktärsdanande för unga kvinnor, för marknadsföring av USA såväl som för motstånd. Litteratur har varit en bruksvara, omgiven av så många motstridiga avsikter, sedan så länge att det framstår som ett mirakel att skönlitterär prosa ens lyckats överleva som konstform, efter all denna misshandel från både välmenande och ondsinta intressen. Svaret är förstås: på grund av läsarna. Inklusive alla de slarviga läsare som vill ha underhållning och bekräftelse. Om den vore helt beroende av närläsande experter skulle litteraturen kanske ha högre kvalitet, rent teoretiskt men den skulle snart dö av syrebrist. Och även om jag vill säga att litteraturen har ett absolut egenvärde, höjt över alla intressen, är den också helt grundläggande för vår demokrati, vårt kulturarv, vår syn på oss själva och varandra och den utveckling av såväl kognitiva förmågor som empati, utan vilka vi inte kommer att klara oss. Det ironiska är att det är först då litteraturen befrias från nyttan som hon blir verkligt nyttig. Den tyske författaren Ernst Jünger skrev en gång att det är lika nyttigt för själen att periodvis avstå från tryckta texter som det är för kroppen att fasta. Även om fastans hälsoeffekter inte är oomtvistade är hans poäng tydlig och jag tror att han har rätt. I dagens ständiga textflöden, information och underhållning non stop, är detta att emellanåt stiga ut ur textmassorna viktigt för den mentala hälsan men också för vår känsla och för vårt intellekt. Omgiven av konstant buller blir man en dålig lyssnare. Omgiven av konstant text blir vi alla dåliga läsare. Torbjörn Elensky, författare Sändes första gången 3.11.2020

Novelist Elif Batuman and scholar Merve Emre join our host, Nicholas Dames, to consider how novels help us develop an awareness of capitalism, power, and the world we live in. In making pain beautiful, do novels depoliticize us? Or can a novel like Sakaya Murata's Convenience Store Woman help us figure out what freedom looks like? You can find complete show notes here and purchase books from our independent-bookshop partner, Harvard Book Store, here.

Paul Holdengräber is joined by Merve Emre on episode 170 of The Quarantine Tapes. Merve spent time in quarantine working on her upcoming annotated version of Mrs. Dalloway. She tells Paul about her extraordinary experience of getting closer to that text by transcribing it in full as she annotated and considers how reading an annotated edition is always an act of rereading.Paul asks Merve about her writing on Critical Love Studies and the work of Sam See. Then, they discuss the applications of literary pedagogy outside of traditional literary spaces and the questions that those applications raise. Finally, Merve tells Paul about the new documentary, Persona, based on her book The Personality Brokers and what that project reveals about the growing role of personality assessments. Merve Emre is an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of several books, including The Personality Brokers (selected by the New York Times book critics as one of the best books of 2018), and a regular critic for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Her next book is The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway, forthcoming from Liveright in August 2021.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Debie Thomas. Essay by Debie Thomas: *A Crucified God* for Sunday, 5 April 2020; book review by Dan Clendenin: *The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing* by Merve Emre (2018); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz* (2018); poem selected by Debie Thomas: *Pandemic* by Lynn Unger.

Merve Emre är biträdande professor i engelska vid universitetet i Oxford, och har nyligen kommit ut med boken Vilken typ är du? Varför du inte kan lita på personlighetstester som handlar om just personlighetstest, framförallt det mycket populära Meyer-Briggs-testet. Men vad är egentligen Meyer-Briggs-testet, och vilka är de två kvinnorna som skapade detta världsberömda personlighetstest? Lyssna till Emre berätta om sin resa genom personlighetstesternas kultliknande världar.

The Spin Squad strikes again! The current mission is to put the kibosh on the latest trend in evangelicalism: the dreaded “personality tests.”What are the origins of the Enneagram? Can people really be defined and perfectly fit into one of its nine categories? Should Christians rely on such tests, like the Myers-Briggs, for direction in life and ministry?  Since all nine Enneagram categories are pretty positive, you'll discover just how great you really are, and how much awesomeness you can offer to your local church and beyond! Carl swears that this is very much an “American thing;” he's taken the test, and didn't fit any of the categories. Even John Paul II has something to say about such fads. Listen in!Show Notes· George GurdjieffWe're pleased to give away a resource mentioned in this episode. Register for the opportunity to win a copy of The Personality Brokers by Merve Emre.

If you were asked to describe your personality, you might choose words such as “funny” and “outgoing,” or “shy” and “quiet.” But what if those were not quite the right words? The Myers-Briggs - which many of us have taken - promises to assess your personality, and assign you a specific “type.” In her book, The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the birth of Personality Testing, Merve Emre examines the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (which is its full name), and how it has transformed the way we think about ourselves and those around us.

Eric Jensen of Byu on ISIS Prosecutions. Mark Williams of the University of Warwick and Paul Smith of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on the dodo's death. Dave Cawley of KSL News Radio on making a true-crime podcast. Merve Emre of Oxford University on the Myers-Briggs type indicator. Irl Hirsch of the University of Washington on rising cost of insulin. Philip Metzger of the University of Central Florida on plane Pluto.

Nathan Gill, a Welsh member of European Parliament, talks about the Brexit situation. Dr. Tara Vijayan of UCLA addresses last year's deadly flu. Susan Stewart of Iowa State Univ. explains how divorce can affect children's education. Merve Emre of Oxford Univ. describes the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator's origin. Irl Hirsh of the Univ. of Washington laments the rising cost of insulin. Clint Bishop of BYU Broadcasting talks about the internet pop culture.

It’s nearly a century since the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was first conceived. It has gone on to become a multi-million pound industry categorising people from thinking introverts to feeling extroverts. But the mother-daughter team who came up with the idea had no psychological expertise and the test itself has no scientific basis, as the author Merve Emre explains to Tom Sutcliffe. Our genes are the most important factor in shaping who we are, according to the psychologist Robert Plomin. He argues that DNA influences everything from physical traits to intelligence and personality, and that nature not only trumps nurture, but is the main driver of it too. But the educationalist Naomi Eisenstadt argues that environment has a significant impact on children, especially in their early years. Eisenstadt was the first director of the Sure Start Unit when it was set up at the end of the 1990s and has been a government advisor on education and inequality. She questions whether there is any role for DNA testing in government policy. Producer: Katy Hickman

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the most popular personality test in the world. It’s used regularly by Fortune 500 companies and lots of other organizations. Its language of personality types has inspired TV shows and online-dating platforms. Yet, experts in the field of psychometric testing have struggled to validate its results – let alone account for its success. Myers-Briggs was conceived in the 1920s by a pair of devoted homemakers, novelists, and amateur psychoanalysts, the mother-daughter team of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. Their multiple-choice questionnaire would make its way from the smoke-filled boardrooms of mid-century New York to Berkeley, California, where it was administered to some of the twentieth century’s greatest creative minds. And it traveled on across the world to London, Zurich, Cape Town, Melbourne, and Tokyo. How did the homegrown Myers-Briggs questionnaire infiltrate our workplaces, our relationships, our Internet, our lives? Merve Emre, until recently an assistant professor of English at McGill, explores that story in her new book, "The Personality Brokers: the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing". Prof. Emre, now an associate professor at Oxford, joined us in June to discuss the story, shortly before her move to the UK. Her book, published this month, has generated considerable buzz on both sides of the Atlantic. As a New York Times reviewer put it: “’The Personality Brokers’ is history that reads like biography that reads like a novel — a fluid narrative that defies expectations and plays against type.”

Did you ever see the 1951 Disney version of Alice in Wonderland? Where the caterpillar, voiced by actor Richard Haydn, sits laconically on his giant toadstool, wreathed in hookah smoke, peers at Alice under his drooping eyelids and says: Who….Aaaaaaah…..you….? Even as kid, I felt the existential impact of that question. Not, "hey kid, what's your name?" But who, fundamentally, are you as a person? What are you like? Were you born that way? How much of that can you change? All those chilling, thrilling, bottomless, ego-gratifying questions. But what happens when the murky philosophy and psychology of the self meet good-old American pragmatism and business? Something very weird indeed. I'm here today with Merve Emre—she's an associate professor of English at Oxford University and she's the author of The Personality Brokers. It tells the strange history of The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator—a mother-daughter psychological cottage industry that, 70 years in, still has people calling themselves introverts or extraverts, feelers or thinkers, and pondering what that might mean for their lives and their careers. Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Benjamin Hardy, most read person on Medium: Want more happiness, change how you relate to negativity​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's topic is how mothering and the labor associated with nurturing and raising a family has historically been undervalued and hopefully by the end of the show you'll be inspired to deeply value the work of mothering and stop guilting yourself and others into feeling bad when you pay attention to anything other than your… The post https://wellwomanlife.com/117show/ (117 Mothering Under Capitalism with Merve Emre) appeared first on https://wellwomanlife.com (Well Woman Life). Support this podcast