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This month BBC Radio 4's Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie, speaks to the writer Michel Faber about his debut novel, Under the Skin. Published in the year 2000 by Canongate it went on to be shortlisted for the Whitbread Award that same year. The book follows the female protagonist of Isserley who roves the A9 in the Scottish Highlands looking to pick up hitchhikers (preferably ones with big muscles). In 2013 the book was made into a film, shot in Glasgow, and directed by Jonathan Glazer. It starred Scarlett Johansson as Isserley.Producer: Dominic Howell Editor: Gillian WheelanThis was a BBC Audio Scotland production.
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This week, Josh and Drusilla are divided on Jonathan Glazer's 2013 film, Under the Skin. From wiki: “Under the Skin is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Jonathan Glazer and written by Glazer and Walter Campbell, based on the 2000 novel by Michel Faber. It stars Scarlett Johansson as an otherworldly woman who preys on men in Scotland. The film premiered at Telluride Film Festival on 29 August 2013. It was released in the United Kingdom on 14 March 2014, and in other territories later in the year.”Also discussed: muppets, Exotica and the careers of Atom Egoyana nd Mia Kirshner, Black Christmas (1974) Silent Night, Deadly Night, Sicko, Luigi Mangione, Christmas Evil, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and more. NEXT WEEK: Return of the Cat PeopleFollow them across the internet:Bloodhaus:https://www.bloodhauspod.com/https://www.instagram.com/bloodhauspod/ Drusilla Adeline:https://www.sisterhydedesign.com/https://letterboxd.com/sisterhyde/https://www.instagram.com/sister__hyde/ Joshua Conkelhttps://www.joshuaconkel.com/https://www.instagram.com/joshua_conkel/https://letterboxd.com/JoshuaConkel/https://bsky.app/profile/joshuaconkel.bsky.social
This was a Patreon episode from May 2022, where I talked about Under the Skin by Michel Faber with my friend Laura. We also talk about the movie and that episode is still available to access on Patreon. We are talking SPOILERS Shownotes: https://booksinthefreezer.com
For the latest podcast Ali caught up with writer and academic Dr Rodge Glass to learn about his extraordinary new book, Joshua In The Sky: A Blood Memoir. It's a slightly different interview as Ali picks certain texts which are referenced throughout, allowing Rodge to talk about the book in a different way. Before that he explains who Joshua is and the reasons for writing Joshua In The Sky, and talks about HHT (Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia) the rare genetic disorder they share. The two then go on to talk about the work of Caroline Bird, Jenny Offill, Tom Leonard, Hassan Blasim, and Grace Paley, among others. They also discuss the life and work of Alasdair Gray and Michel Faber, both of whom Rodge has written biographies of, which raises the subject of memoir, the differing ways to approach the form, and how both these writers, and writing about them, feed into this one. Fittingly for a book which defies easy explanation, this is an insightful and honest conversation which touches upon just some of the themes in Joshua In The Sky and which will hopefully lead to you wanting to know more. For full details, including all the ways to listen, head to https://www.scotswhayhae.com Photos of Rodge Glass - credit Alan Dimmick
Georgina Godwin is joined by two authors who are both on a quest to find new ways to listen – and they invite you to do the same. Dutch-born writer Michel Faber has written several works of fiction including ‘The Crimson Petal and the White'. His first non-fiction book, ‘Listen: On Music, Sound and Us' explores how psychological pressure influences musical taste. Author and science journalist Caspar Henderson's ‘A Book of Noises: Notes on the Auraculous', shows us how we can become re-enchanted by the sounds around us, from the everyday to the celestial.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
"This started life as an ambient dawn chorus, but then I heard Michel Faber describing how his tinnitus resembles the "quite harsh electronica" music he really loves during the 30 Oct 2023 episode of Start the Week (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ry9f) and the birdsong mutated!" Stroud dawn chorus reimagined by Michael Lilley.
In this episode we welcome acclaimed novelist Michel Faber to RBP's Hammersmith HQ and ask him about his new book ... as well as about a 1979 interview he did with the young Nick Cave. Barney gets the ball rolling by asking the author of Under the Skin and The Crimson Petal and the White what he set out to do with Listen: On Music, Sound and Us. Viewing music through a variety of prisms — from nostalgia and snobbery to racial bias and auditory biology — was the book at least partly an exercise in demystification? A stimulating conversation unfolds as Michel answers questions about "MOJO-fication", vinyl fetishisation, and live performance. A tangent on tinnitus takes us to his memories of seeing (and hearing) one of the Birthday Party's last shows... and waking up temporarily deaf the next morning. Which in turn leads to discussion of the interview our guest did as a student at Melbourne University with the pre-Birthday Party Boys Next Door, and then to clips from a 1995 audio interview in which Nick Cave answers Andy Gill's questions about Murder Ballads and Kylie Minogue. Finally the "panel" considers the week's featured artist (and a key influence on the early Birthday Party): the archetypal "MOJO-fied" cult hero who traded musically under the moniker Captain Beefheart — and whose exceptional paintings as Don Van Vliet feature in a new exhibition at Mayfair's Michael Werner Gallery. After Mark quotes from recently-added library pieces on Little Walter, Sylvester, Ornette Coleman and Björk, Jasper wraps up the episode with his thoughts on articles about the aforementioned Kylie Minogue, Goodie Mob and The Face. Many thanks to special guest Michel Faber. Listen: On Music, Sound and Us is published by Canongate and available now from all good bookshops Pieces discussed: 'Revolution 9', David Byrne's How Music Works, Nick Cave: A Boy Next Door, Nick Cave audio, People talk about BEEFHEART!, Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet, Little Walter, Joni Mitchell, Iggy & the Stooges, Ornette Coleman, Björk, Phil Everly, Sylvester, McAlmont & Butler, Kylie Minogue, Goodie Mob and The Face.
The American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant often uses fictional or mythological characters in her songs, to capture contemporary and political concerns. Her latest album, Keep Your Courage, is a song cycle composed entirely of love songs. She tells Kirsty Wark she wanted to explore the isolation of illness and the power of care, felt in the last few years. In his new book, Musical Truth, the educator and broadcaster Jeffrey Boakye creates a soundtrack that encapsulates key historical moments of the 20th and 21st century – from the carving up of Africa to feminism and football. Using jazz, disco and hip hop he explores how music both feeds into and mirrors its time, as well as its political and cultural impact. But the writer Michel Faber is more interested in how music affects the individual. In a collection of essays, Listen: On Music, Sound and Us, he explores what's going on inside when we listen to a whole range of tunes. And he asks two questions: how do we listen to music and why? Producer: Katy Hickman
Blake and Jamison dish on their most recent book club book Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things and how it triggered Blake's memory of LOST. Then we talk about what we are drinking in order to prepare to talk about what some people eat...namely other people. That's right, we take on the cult classic Cannibal Holocaust as the first entry in our October series on proto-found footage films. In this episode, we talk about this film's reputation, how it started a subgenre craze, and simply whether it has anything valuable to say. Then we talk about the likelihood of watching Eli Roth's Green Inferno having now seen the original inspiration. It's a fun romp and we hope you enjoy it! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/flybyfilms/message
Michel Faber is one of the most acclaimed contemporary novelists in the English language; a master of the form able to move effortlessly between historical, contemporary, and futuristic settings in pursuit of emotional truth. But music, not literature, is his first love, and in his new book Listen he draws on that passion to investigate why music matters to us and how it works its magic. The owner of thousands upon thousands of records, Michel draws on an encylopedic knowledge of both mainstream and avante garde musics to get to approach that seemingly ineffable question: why do we listen? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today I've got my first "three-peat" guest, Marion Hill. Just like in our two previous conversations, Marion introduced me to a book that I wouldn't have picked up on my own, that I sort of dreaded reading, and that I wound up loving and thinking about nonstop after I finished! Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram Guest: Marion Hill Website/Instagram Join the Best Book Ever Newsletter HERE! Subscribe for FREE to receive weekly emails with complete show notes, photos of our guests, and updates on what Julie is reading on her own time. Support the podcast for just $5/month and you'll receive the weekly newsletter AND a monthly themed curated book list. Become a Founder for $100 and you'll receive the weekly newsletter, the monthly curated book list, AND a personal thank you on the podcast AND a Best Book Ever T-Shirt in your favorite color and style. Discussed in this episode: The Book of Strange new Things by Michel Faber The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende Eva Luna: A Novel by Isabel Allende Marion's previous picks on the podcast Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint, which we talked about on Episode 008 Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, which we talked about on Episode 083 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Gilead by Marilyn Robinson Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy 1 by Richard Ford Independence Day: Bascombe Trilogy 2 by Richard Ford The Lay of the Land: Bascombe Trilogy 3 by Richard Ford Let Me Be Frank with You: A Frank Bascombe Book by Richard Ford Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel by Richard Ford The Kammbia Series by Marion Hill Marion's 25 by Marion Hill Marion's 25 Volume II by Marion Hill (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links. If you shop using my affiliate link on Bookshop, a portion of your purchase will go to me, at no extra expense to you. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores and for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)
Episode Notes Please rate, review, and/or subscribe on Apple Podcasts to help promote this show! You can explore all of my podcasts, including over 200 hours of Patreon content, on my website https://www.lostinthemovies.com/p/film-in-focus.html & https://www.lostinthemovies.com/p/film-capsule.html Listen to Part 2 of my Under the Skin discussion on Patreon, focused on the book https://www.patreon.com/posts/78889983 (begins at 3:14:58) OTHER LINKS Under the Skin's Transgender Allegory by Willow Maclay (Curtsies and Hand Grenades) https://curtsiesandhandgrenades.blogspot.com/2018/03/under-skins-transgender-allegory.html The Alien Gender: Under the Skin (2014, dir. Jonathan Glazer) by Tessa Racked (Consistent Panda Bear Shape) https://pandabearshape.com/2014/07/26/under-the-skin-2014-dir-jonathan-glazer/ An Interview with Michel Faber, Author of 'Under the Skin' by Gabriel Diego Valdez (Basil Mariner Chase) https://basilmarinerchase.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/an-interview-with-michel-faber-author-of-under-the-skin/ PODCAST: Jonathan Glazer on Under The Skin; Spinal Tap 30 years on; SXSW highlights; Rome on film https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xgl48 PODCAST: Starred Up; Mica Levi; The future of film; Emergency cinema from Syria (including interview w/ Under the Skin's composer) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03y38kh PODCAST: The Projection Booth Episode 231: Under the Skin (2014) https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2015/08/episode-231-under-skin.html PODCAST: Two Philosophers Drink Beer & Discuss Film Episode 2: Under the Skin https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-2-under-the-skin/id1508137039?i=1000471546815 MY RECENT WORK... ON MY SITE (TWIN PEAKS Character Series) Anthony Sinclair (#50) https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2023/04/anthony-sinclair-twin-peaks-character.html & notes on old entries: John Justice Wheeler / Harold Smith (#49 & 48) https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2023/04/links-to-john-justice-wheeler-harold.html & Richard Horne (#47) https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2023/04/richard-horne-twin-peaks-character.html & notes on an old entry: Evelyn Marsh (#46) https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2023/04/link-to-evelyn-marsh-twin-peaks.html + separated the directory from the intro https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2023/04/lost-highway-as-twin-peaks-cinema-24.html Cross-posts for Patreon round-ups of March https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2023/04/march-2023-patreon-round-up-including-6.html & April round-ups https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2023/04/april-2023-patreon-round-up-including-3.html OTHER PODCASTS Twin Peaks Cinema: Lost Highway (Long Road Home #1) https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2023/04/lost-highway-as-twin-peaks-cinema-24.html PATREON ($1/month) EXCLUSIVE advances: TWIN PEAKS Character Series #37 (#38 & 36 already published) https://www.patreon.com/posts/80897305 & #35 & 33 (#34 already published) https://www.patreon.com/posts/80929423 + Updates: Twin Peaks Conversations delay, Twin Peaks Characters schedule shift, etc https://www.patreon.com/posts/82043373 PREVIOUSLY ON THIS PODCAST The Power of Nightmares https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2023/04/the-power-of-nightmares-lost-in-movies.html This episode's home page on my site is https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2023/05/under-skin-lost-in-movies-podcast-53.html This podcast is powered by Pinecast.
Cade and Harrison are joined by artist Spencer Plumlee to discuss two indie science fiction films: Under the Skin (2013) and Upstream Color (2013). Watch the video version at: YouTube.com/@CadeThomas/streams Check out Spencer Plumlee's artwork here: https://www.spencerplumleeart.com/ Double Feature Movie Club is a weekly movie review show with a retro vibe. Two movies. Three people. One rambling conversation. Each film is our first time watching them. We often go off-topic. Under the Skin is a 2013 science fiction film directed by Jonathan Glazer and written by Glazer and Walter Campbell, loosely based on the 2000 novel by Michel Faber. It stars Scarlett Johansson as an otherworldly woman who preys on men in Scotland. Upstream Color is a 2013 American experimental science fiction film written, directed, produced by, and starring Shane Carruth. The film is the second feature directed by Carruth, following his 2004 debut Primer. It stars Amy Seimetz, Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, and Thiago Martins. In the film, the behaviors of two people are unwittingly affected by a complex parasite that has a three-stage life cycle.
Michel Faber patrí medzi súčasné literárne hviezdy, z jeho kníh sa predali milióny výtlačkov po celom svete, viaceré boli sfilmované. Je to spisovateľský chameleón - každá jeho kniha je úplne iná a každá je skvelá. V slovenčine mu už dávnejšie vyšiel román Pod kožou, preslávil sa najmä výpravnými románmi Kvítek karmínový a bílý či jedným z najúžasnejších sci-fi príbehov Kniha zvláštních nových věcí.
Show notes: Let's do some book matchmaking today, shall we? In the same way that restaurants will recommend a particular wine to go with your dinner, we'll be recommending books that pair well together. Just think of us as your gourmet book connoisseurs! Click here to join us on Patreon to get an exclusive bookish goodie every single Friday. With fun bonus episode series like: Books We Both Love, Monthly Overflow Books, Bookish Conundrums, and The New Books in Our Lives plus a private community for RTL Book Nerds only, you're going to love being a part of our Patreon. Not only that, but you're helping to support our show by saying I LOVE WHAT YOU DO. Find the time stamped show notes below with links to all of the fun things we mentioned. Bookish Goodies: [4:28] Mia - The Read Aloud Revival Podcast hosted by Sarah Mackenzie [6:33] Sarah - Bookish tattoos Book Pairings: [8:25] Mia - Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, Dracul by Dacre Stoker [11:09] Sarah - The Idea of You by Robinne Lee, Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman [13:18] Mia - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis, Wild by Cheryl Strayed [16:08] Sarah - Verity by Colleen Hoover, The Push by Ashley Audrain [18:10] Mia - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber [19:55] Sarah - One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London, If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy, The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun [22:08] Mia - City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, Summer of ‘69 by Elin Hilderbrand [24:15] Sarah - Olympus Texas by Stacey Swann, We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange [25:36] Mia - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams [27:45] Sarah - People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry, Every Summer After by Carley Fortune Follow us on Instagram: @readingthroughlifepod Follow Sarah: @thekindredvoice Follow Mia: @miasutton55 * The books noted above contain affiliate links. This means that we may get a small kickback if you purchase through our links, at no additional cost to you.
In 2014, Scarlett Johansson was in the middle of her Avengers and Marvel Cinematic Universe fame, yet she still starred in a little known (at the time) Sci-Fi film called Under The Skin out of Scotland. Adapted from a book by Michel Faber and directed by Jonathan Glazer, it went on to be one of the most critically acclaimed roles of Johansson's career. The seventh film distributed by A24 became a benchmark for the type of films they'd be known for later. So what do these A24 fans think of it? Tune in and find out.
Hey there. Welcome to episode 18 of the HoloGraham Media Club Podcast. In today's episode we're joined by Andrea Subissati, executive editor of Rue Morgue Magazine and Co-Host of the Faculty of Horror Podcast! We discuss the darkly satirical "Under the Skin," by Michel Faber! You could be on the show too! Just email or get in touch, with or without a book suggestion, and be prepared to talk geek! The next episode will be - 'Rendezvous With Rama' by Arthur C. Clarke. Hope you'll join us for the discussion of this Classic Sci-Fi! We're Will and Gavin Graham + Aaron, a couple of cousins that enjoy speculative fiction, Sci-Fi movies, and all things geeky. We focus on books but we'll talk about movies, TV, and nerd culture in general. Get in touch. Email us ideas, thoughts, praise and complaints: holograhammc@gmail.com Follow us on Insta; HoloGrahamMC #BookClub #Sci-fiBooks #AudiobookClub #Sci-FiBookClub #SpeculativeFictionAudiobook #BookReview #Sci-FiBookReview #UnderTheSkin #MichelFaber #RueMorgueMagazine #FacultyOfHorror #SciFi
Hey there. Welcome to episode 17 of the HoloGraham Media Club Podcast. In today's episode we're joined by Steve, Gavin's long time friend and Sci-Fi confidant. We discuss the epic Trilogy "Bobiverse," by Dennis E. Taylor! You could be on the show too! Just email or get in touch, with or without a book suggestion, and be prepared to talk geek! The next episode will be - 'Under The Skin' by Michel Faber. Hope you'll join us for the discussion of this Horror Sci-Fi! We're Will and Gavin Graham + Aaron, a couple of cousins that enjoy speculative fiction, Sci-Fi movies, and all things geeky. We focus on books but we'll talk about movies, TV, and nerd culture in general. Get in touch. Email us ideas, thoughts, praise and complaints: holograhammc@gmail.com Follow us on Insta; HoloGrahamMC #BookClub #Sci-fiBooks #AudiobookClub #Sci-FiBookClub #SpeculativeFictionAudiobook #BookReview #Sci-FiBookReview #WeAreLegion #WeAreBob #Bobiverse #DennisETaylor #SciFi
Bentornati in Bookatini - il podcast per chi è ghiotto di libri. L'episodio 20 è dedicato ai libri vittoriani o comunque scritti o ambientati nell'800, ma non sempre i soliti. Ne parliamo insieme a Matteo Zanini che trovate su instagram qui: https://www.instagram.com/matteo_zanini/ e sul web qui: https://www.matteozanini.it/. Nel sito web trovate anche tutti i riferimenti ai suoi libri. Nell'episodio di oggi abbiamo chiacchierato di questi libri: -I misteri di Udolpho, di Ann Radcliffe, BUR editore-Il castello di Otranto, di Horace Walpole, Mondadori editore-La donna in bianco, di Wilkie Collins, Fazi editore-Cranford: il paese delle nobili signore, di Elizabeth Gaskell, Elliot editore-Nord e sud, di Elizabeth Gaskell, Elliot editore-Via col vento, di Margareth Mitchell, Neri Pozza editore-Il petalo cremisi e il bianco, Michel Faber, Einaudi editore-Natale a Silver street. Nuove storie del petalo cremisi, Michel Faber, Einaudi editoreLa sigla di Bookatini è scritta e suonata da Andrea CereaPotete contattarci, scrivere commenti, suggerimenti, domande e condividete con noi le vostre letture su questo tema contattandoci nella pagina Instagram Bookatini_podcast o scrivendoci alla mail bookatini@gmail.comSe volete vederci in live ci trovate su: https://www.twitch.tv/bookatini
TW: suicide and depression. This book was such a surreal fever dream. It was confusing, then frightening, then immediately tragic. Loneliness can conjure many harrowing mental illnesses, one of those is Maladaptive Daydreaming, which is how I decided to interpret this book. In this episode I'll discuss MADD and also loneliness and the importance of social interaction, through the lens of “I'm Thinking of Ending Things”. This is the Goodreads Summary for anyone wanting to read it: Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won't know why… I'm thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It's always there. Always. Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.” And here's what I'm thinking: I don't want to be here. In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Reminiscent of Jose Saramago's early work, Michel Faber's cult classic Under the Skin, and Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin, “your dread and unease will mount with every passing page” (Entertainment Weekly) of this edgy, haunting debut. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, I'm Thinking of Ending Things pulls you in from the very first page…and never lets you go.
A sci-fi film, based on Michel Faber's novel and set in Glasgow, follows Scarlet Johansson as a nameless alien recently arrived on earth to prey on men and harvest their organs. The discussion considers whether Johansson's character offers an outsider's view of neurotypicality that is close to that of autism, looking on at a world of perplexing social rituals of seduction and consumption, or whether a suggested affinity between autism and a character who is alien is problematic. Also debated are the topics of posthumanism, feminist alien abduction of the male species, the film's ethnographic style of filming ‘humankind', Glasgow and white working-class culture, compassion between male characters, and the exploration of sexuality and gender as alien concepts. Discussants: Georgia Kumari Bradburn, Janet Harbord, David Hartley, John-James Laidlow, Alex Widdowson. Email us your insights at: cinemautism@gmail.com
Guest host Kate Burton presents four works with a hint of strangeness. Your laptop wants the best for you, with a little reciprocity, in “Cat Pictures Please,” by Naomi Kritzer, performed by Nia Vardalos. “There Will Come Soft Rains” is an eerie post-apocalypse classic by Ray Bradbury, performed by Kathleen Chalfant. A despondent housewife gets a lift from a seductive window treatment in Michel Faber’s “The Eyes of the Soul,” performed by Sam Underwood. Join and give!: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/symphonyspacenyc?code=Splashpage See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
大家好，欢迎收听普通读者。在每一次录节目前后，我们三个主播都会闲聊一下最近读了什么书，在读什么。这一期我们录下了某一次我们的闲聊，大家可以随便听听。也欢迎告诉我们你们正在读什么书？最近有什么书值得推荐。 提到的书和时间点： 1:00 读什么书会觉得酣畅淋漓？ 提到的书： 《克拉拉与太阳》，石黑一雄 “A Swim in a Pond In the Rain”, by Gorge Sanders 《被殺了三次的女孩》，清水潔 “An Odyssey : A Father, a Son and an Epic”, by Daniel Mendelsohn 《二十首情诗与绝望的歌》聂鲁达 “Spring”, by Ali Smith 2:30 从《洛丽塔》聊到对文学作品中的厌女倾向的容忍程度 提到的书： “Lolita”, by Vladimir Nabokov “Stoner”, by John Williams 《情人》，杜拉斯 “My Dark Vanessa”, by Kate Elizabeth Russell 8:43 吐槽《关于那个人的备忘录》，小林泰三 9:38 “D: A Tale of Two Worlds”, Michel Faber *注：此处H把“Faber” 讲成了“Fiber”，抱歉。。 12:26 从《Terminal Borden: Stories》聊到女权主义乌托邦科幻小说，到吐槽为什么到了未来女人还要生孩子 提到的书： “Terminal Boredom: Stories”, by Izumi Suzuki (Polly Barton等多人翻译成英文) “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Herland”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 《十二国记》小野不由美 《使女的故事》，玛格丽特·阿特伍德 23:17 《黑魔法手帖》涩泽龙彦，过于中二。 25:10 从《漫长的星期六》到吐槽文学批评，到喜欢的文学研究学者： 《漫长的星期六》，乔治•斯坦纳，洛尔•阿德勒 《秋水堂论金瓶梅》，田晓菲 《留白》，田晓菲 《追忆》，宇文所安 30:45 “Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass” by Lana Del Rey 一定要听有声书 31:15 “I Want My Hat Back”, by Jon Klassen 的结局是什么鬼？ 34:35 《猫咪带你去观星》斯图尔特•阿特金森（著）， 布兰登•卡尼（绘） 影音： 《记忆碎片》 《男人要自爱》 “The Runaway Bunny” 收听和订阅渠道： 墙内：小宇宙App，喜马拉雅，网易云“普通-读者” 墙外：Apple Podcast, Anchor，Spotify，Pocket Casts，Google Podcast，Breaker， Radiopublic等等 电邮：commonreader@protonmail.com 微博： 普通读者播客 欢迎关注普通读者的豆瓣： 豆瓣“普通读者播客”：https://www.douban.com/people/commonreaders/ 片头音乐credit： Flipper's Guitar - 恋とマシンガン- Young, Alive, in Love - 片尾音乐credit: Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby
Lee is joined by author Maureen Foster to breakdown 'Under The Skin' which is the focus of her acclaimed book 'Alien in the Mirror: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer and Under the Skin'. This is the first book to be written about the movie, revisiting the film scene-by-scene. It features extensive interviews detailing the challenges the filmmakers faced--from hidden filming on the streets of Glasgow to defying a blizzard in the Scottish Highlands. Foster also looks at the original novel from Michel Faber about an extraterrestrial who, manifesting in human form, drives around the Scottish countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet.
Lee is joined by author Maureen Foster to breakdown 'Under The Skin' which is the focus of her acclaimed book 'Alien in the Mirror: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer and Under the Skin'.This is the first book to be written about the movie, revisiting the film scene-by-scene. It features extensive interviews detailing the challenges the filmmakers faced--from hidden filming on the streets of Glasgow to defying a blizzard in the Scottish Highlands. Foster also looks at the original novel from Michel Faber about an extraterrestrial who, manifesting in human form, drives around the Scottish countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet.
One of Scotland’s most gifted and unpredictable writers, Michel Faber has always defied categorisation. His previous novels including Under the Skin, The Crimson Petal and the White and The Book of Strange New Things have been described as ‘unbelievably clever,’ ‘wildly entertaining’ and ‘impossible to put down.’ Now he returns with D, his most shape-shifting book yet. Like The Wizard of Oz, Faber’s novel is a political adventure that will be enjoyed by children and adults alike. Its heroine is brave, resourceful Dhikilo who lives in a faded English seaside town. When the letter ‘d’ suddenly disappears from the alphabet and only Dhikilo notices it’s gone, she embarks on a journey to the land of Liminus to get the ‘d’ back. Reminiscent of Charles Dickens and of Lewis Carroll, Michel Faber’s fable is a delightful sideways look at the evils of our times. He joins us to discuss Dhikilo’s wild odyssey with literary critic Stuart Kelly in this event recorded for the 2020 Book Festival.
In Episode 7 of the EWBR podcast, Anisha and Dhruv discuss and recommend their favourite short story collections from Neil Gaiman, Somerset Maugham, O Henry, Roald Dahl, Michel Faber, Jeffrey Archer and more. Then there's the excellent political potboiler Collateral, headlined by Carey Mulligan, copper show Line of Duty, Gillian Anderson starrer The Fall and the eerily prescient drama Years and Years. Also, eating out vs eating at home in your jammies, post lockdown food wishlist(s) and a recommended versatile food ingredient that allows for culinary culture hopping within the comfort of your own home. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eatwatchbingeread/message
Today we are discussing an ambitious period piece trying to shed new light on a familiar subject--sadly, it is not The Crown. Instead, Erin, Lis, and Sara are discussing Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White. This piece of historical fiction exposed an edgier Victorian London. We have strong opinions on this book we did not want to finish reading.
Magazine literario −dirigido y presentado por Paco Atero− dedicado al mundo de la novela negra en todas sus vertientes: libros, noticias, actualidad, sucesos, televisión, cine, cómic, otros géneros literarios, etc. Contenido del programa: - ACTUALIDAD NEGRAYMORTAL con Alba Prieto. Reseña del TrueCrime ‘JUDAS’ (Astrid Holleeder, Reservoir Books): https://eltaquigrafo.com/el-testamento-de-una-traicion/3769/. Destacando también las novelas ganadoras de Cubelles Noir 2020. - EN LA ONDA CON JULIO a cargo de Julio Megía. Recomendación de la película ‘UN CUENTO DEL BRONX’ (1993) dirigida, producida y protagonizada por Robert De Niro. - CRÍMENES SIN RESOLVER con la detective Roser Ribas. Caso: ‘EL BOSQUE HOIA BACIU’ (Rumanía). - LOS MUNDOS DE MARTA con Marta Pérez: Recomendación de la novela ‘BAJO LA PIEL’ (Michel Faber, Anagrama). - LA VIÑETA DE CARMENA con Adrián Carmena. Recomendación de ‘PULP’ (Ed Brubaker y Sean Phillips, Image ): https://elektracomic.com/pulp-hc-en-ingl-s-978153431644751699. Tema musical portada: ESE VIEJO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL, de Revolver. Tema musical cierre: EL DORADO, de Revolver. Con la colaboración de David Esquius (sintonías musicales). Suscribiros a nuestro canal para recibir de la manera más cómoda todos nuestros podcasts. Nos podéis escuchar en Ivoox, iTunes, Spotify, Podimo y en nuestra sección de Podcast en negraymortal.com Os invitamos a dejar vuestros comentarios tanto en nuestras cuentas en RRSS como enviando un correo electrónico a: podcastnoir@negraymortal.com ¡Gracias por vuestras escuchas!
The stories on this program, hosted by Jane Kaczmarek, start out in one place and end up somewhere completely different. Which pretty much describes our world at the moment. The three authors also talk about how people connect—something that seems important right now. Colin Nissan’s “Wedding Announcement” escalates comically in the reading by John Cameron Mitchell. A wary housewife is surprised by beauty in Michel Faber’s “The Eyes of the Soul,’ performed by Kirsten Vangsness, and teenage lovers grow up quickly in James Lasdun’s “Lime Pickle” performed by David Schwimmer. (The pickle is really not—do not try this at home!)
There are some cars you just shouldn't get into! Michel Faber's thriller Under the Skin is about Isserley, the driver of one such dangerous vehicle. Why do all the men who get into her car disappear? Is she even really human? Are you? Hop in for the answers to these questions and more!
There are some cars you just shouldn't get into! Michel Faber's thriller Under the Skin is about Isserley, the driver of one such dangerous vehicle. Why do all the men who get into her car disappear? Is she even really human? Are you? Hop in for the answers to these questions and more!
Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.”Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.www.creativeprocess.info
Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.”Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.www.creativeprocess.info
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In our final episode for 2019, Robot Overlord Eleanor Teasdale is joined by Dan Abnett (author of Triumff, Embedded, and too many comic books and Black Library novels to count) and Jen Williams (author of The Copper Cat Trilogy and two-time BFS Best Fantasy Novel Award-Winning The Winnowing Flame trilogy, and the upcoming thriller debut Dog Rose Dirt) to finish the year with a bang! Join them as they discuss the delicate art of writing genuinely funny fiction, the pleasures and challenges of working across diverse genres, and why the most importance lesson you can learn as an author is 'don't be like Enya'. Find this month's guests on Twitter: Dan Abnett: @vincentabnett Jen Williams: @sennydreadful Eleanor Teasdale: @Eteasdale And their books here: Triumff by Dan Abnett: https://www.angryrobotbooks.com/shop/year/2009-year/triumff-her-majestys-hero-dan-abnett/ Embedded by Dan Abnett: https://www.angryrobotbooks.com/shop/year/2011-year/embedded-dan-abnett/ The Copper Cat Trilogy by Jen Williams: https://sennydreadful.co.uk/the-copper-cat-trilogy/ The Winnowing Flame Trilogy by Jen Williams: https://sennydreadful.co.uk/the-ninth-rain/ Further reading: Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories Slow Horses by Mick Herron: https://www.amazon.com/Slow-Horses-Slough-House-Herron/dp/1616954167 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon: https://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Adventures-Kavalier-Clay/dp/0812983580 The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber: https://www.amazon.com/Crimson-Petal-White-Michel-Faber/dp/0156028778 Jack Vance's Dying Earth Series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth
Sigam-nos no nosso site em www.oddbullet.com e, naturalmente, no Facebook (@Oddbullet), no Instagram (@odd_bullet) e no Twitter (@Odd_Bullet) e oiçam o Podd Bullet no Spotify, Apple Podcasts/iTunes e Mixcloud. Deixem-nos feedback e não se esqueçam de avaliar e partilhar os episódios! De uma adaptação do livro de Michel Faber, surgiu este filme de 2013 realizado por Jonathan Glazer e protagonizado por Scarlett Johansson sobre um alien de visita a terra para estudar o comportamento do ser humano. Um filme aterrorizador, cheio de subtexto e análise social e uma obra de arte pouco conhecida no mainstream mas cada vez mais relevante na sociedade.
It’s October – so it has to be the Portobello Book Festival. And is so often the case, all but a few tickets have gone; there are a few kept available at the door for each event. Loads of exciting authors, such as Ian Rankin and Michel Faber, will be talking about their work; but there will be some very different events this year. For example, Pamela Gregory and Gica Loening will be discussing their experiences in the Samos Refugee Camp and how a recipe book, ‘Displaced Dishes’, emerged from them. David Calder’s been browsing through the programme.
Episode Summary In this episode of the Sustain Our Software podcast, Benjamin Nickolls talks with the panelists about the potential for an open source community that is self-sustaining. Benjamin helped create Octobox, a notification system for GitHub, which helps filter messages that one receives through GitHub. Benjamin and his partner created Octobox hoping it would be a model of a sustainable open source project, and after 9 months of working on it full time they have been able to step away from it as it continues to pay for its own hosting and software development. The money that they received from the community was donated back into the community to be able to experiment with paying for development in the open source crowd. There are still times when they need to go back in and maintain it, but for the most part it is a self sustaining software. Benjamin explains that as they tried to increase the amount of people paying for their services they noticed that there was organic growth that was occurring so they decided to step back and let it continue to grow on its own. Benjamin and his partner are both interested in seeing how Octobox can lead the way in a new way to create open source development and be an example for effective sustainability and maintainability. Before Octobox, Benjamin and his partner created Libraries.io which helped people search open source software to find what is being used the most by the community. This has stemmed research about the ecosystem of open source software. Open source projects are an extremely diverse thing coming from different builders, maintainers, and funders. Donations, paid services, as well as grants have been the best source for funding for his projects. Diverse funding has created better stability. They discussed the different ways of funding and its benefits through different platforms. Codesponsor was created to help make funding more acceptable on the open source marketplace although there were many critics. GitHub sponsors has been created to promote individual sponsorships for developers similar to how Patreon works. Benjamin is wary of sponsoring individuals because of possible burnout or the individual could feel over committed to the project and will not work on anything else. The lack of diversity in sponsoring an individual compared to sponsoring groups and teams of people is problematic because of this tendency to get burned out before the project is complete.. He stresses throughout the podcast the importance of diversity in every aspect of developing to maximize sustainability. Benjamin wants to start seeing a push of funding towards developers who are creating products that aren’t as visible to the community instead of all the funding going towards those who are building off of the less seen projects and have a bigger name in the open source community. If those who are able to receive money through open source projects are able to put it back into the community, there will be a more stable and self-sustaining environment for developers. The panelists discuss how open source communities have been driven by hobbyists in the past, but the need for change is coming because of the dependency that has been created on these communities. Simply giving those developers what they have received in the past may not be sufficient now that it is a core part of almost every application. Panel Richard Littauer Eric Berry Joined by special guest: Benjamin Nickolls Sponsors Adventures in Devops CacheFly Links Benjamin Nickolls - Twitter Octobox.io Libraries.io SustainOur Software on Twitter SustainOur Software on Facebook Picks Richard Littauer: Scuttlebot: a peer to peer log store Patchwork: a web-based patch tracking system Norman MacGaig: a Scottish poet The Overstory: by Richard Powers Eric Berry: Pipedrive: A CRM tool CodeFund: Funding open source projects through ethical advertising Benjamin Nickolls: YouAreListening.to: ambient noise with police radio Under The Skin: by Michel Faber Special Guest: Benjamin Nickolls.
Episode Summary In this episode of the Sustain Our Software podcast, Benjamin Nickolls talks with the panelists about the potential for an open source community that is self-sustaining. Benjamin helped create Octobox, a notification system for GitHub, which helps filter messages that one receives through GitHub. Benjamin and his partner created Octobox hoping it would be a model of a sustainable open source project, and after 9 months of working on it full time they have been able to step away from it as it continues to pay for its own hosting and software development. The money that they received from the community was donated back into the community to be able to experiment with paying for development in the open source crowd. There are still times when they need to go back in and maintain it, but for the most part it is a self sustaining software. Benjamin explains that as they tried to increase the amount of people paying for their services they noticed that there was organic growth that was occurring so they decided to step back and let it continue to grow on its own. Benjamin and his partner are both interested in seeing how Octobox can lead the way in a new way to create open source development and be an example for effective sustainability and maintainability. Before Octobox, Benjamin and his partner created Libraries.io which helped people search open source software to find what is being used the most by the community. This has stemmed research about the ecosystem of open source software. Open source projects are an extremely diverse thing coming from different builders, maintainers, and funders. Donations, paid services, as well as grants have been the best source for funding for his projects. Diverse funding has created better stability. They discussed the different ways of funding and its benefits through different platforms. Codesponsor was created to help make funding more acceptable on the open source marketplace although there were many critics. GitHub sponsors has been created to promote individual sponsorships for developers similar to how Patreon works. Benjamin is wary of sponsoring individuals because of possible burnout or the individual could feel over committed to the project and will not work on anything else. The lack of diversity in sponsoring an individual compared to sponsoring groups and teams of people is problematic because of this tendency to get burned out before the project is complete.. He stresses throughout the podcast the importance of diversity in every aspect of developing to maximize sustainability. Benjamin wants to start seeing a push of funding towards developers who are creating products that aren’t as visible to the community instead of all the funding going towards those who are building off of the less seen projects and have a bigger name in the open source community. If those who are able to receive money through open source projects are able to put it back into the community, there will be a more stable and self-sustaining environment for developers. The panelists discuss how open source communities have been driven by hobbyists in the past, but the need for change is coming because of the dependency that has been created on these communities. Simply giving those developers what they have received in the past may not be sufficient now that it is a core part of almost every application. Panel Richard Littauer Eric Berry Joined by special guest: Benjamin Nickolls Sponsors Adventures in Devops CacheFly Links Benjamin Nickolls - Twitter Octobox.io Libraries.io Sustain Our Software on Twitter Sustain Our Software on Facebook Picks Richard Littauer: Scuttlebot: a peer to peer log store Patchwork: a web-based patch tracking system Norman MacGaig: a Scottish poet The Overstory: by Richard Powers Eric Berry: Pipedrive: A CRM tool CodeFund: Funding open source projects through ethical advertising Benjamin Nickolls: YouAreListening.to: ambient noise with police radio Under The Skin: by Michel Faber
Episode Summary In this episode of the Sustain Our Software podcast, Benjamin Nickolls talks with the panelists about the potential for an open source community that is self-sustaining. Benjamin helped create Octobox, a notification system for GitHub, which helps filter messages that one receives through GitHub. Benjamin and his partner created Octobox hoping it would be a model of a sustainable open source project, and after 9 months of working on it full time they have been able to step away from it as it continues to pay for its own hosting and software development. The money that they received from the community was donated back into the community to be able to experiment with paying for development in the open source crowd. There are still times when they need to go back in and maintain it, but for the most part it is a self sustaining software. Benjamin explains that as they tried to increase the amount of people paying for their services they noticed that there was organic growth that was occurring so they decided to step back and let it continue to grow on its own. Benjamin and his partner are both interested in seeing how Octobox can lead the way in a new way to create open source development and be an example for effective sustainability and maintainability. Before Octobox, Benjamin and his partner created Libraries.io which helped people search open source software to find what is being used the most by the community. This has stemmed research about the ecosystem of open source software. Open source projects are an extremely diverse thing coming from different builders, maintainers, and funders. Donations, paid services, as well as grants have been the best source for funding for his projects. Diverse funding has created better stability. They discussed the different ways of funding and its benefits through different platforms. Codesponsor was created to help make funding more acceptable on the open source marketplace although there were many critics. GitHub sponsors has been created to promote individual sponsorships for developers similar to how Patreon works. Benjamin is wary of sponsoring individuals because of possible burnout or the individual could feel over committed to the project and will not work on anything else. The lack of diversity in sponsoring an individual compared to sponsoring groups and teams of people is problematic because of this tendency to get burned out before the project is complete.. He stresses throughout the podcast the importance of diversity in every aspect of developing to maximize sustainability. Benjamin wants to start seeing a push of funding towards developers who are creating products that aren’t as visible to the community instead of all the funding going towards those who are building off of the less seen projects and have a bigger name in the open source community. If those who are able to receive money through open source projects are able to put it back into the community, there will be a more stable and self-sustaining environment for developers. The panelists discuss how open source communities have been driven by hobbyists in the past, but the need for change is coming because of the dependency that has been created on these communities. Simply giving those developers what they have received in the past may not be sufficient now that it is a core part of almost every application. Panel Richard Littauer Eric Berry Joined by special guest: Benjamin Nickolls Sponsors Adventures in Devops CacheFly Links Benjamin Nickolls - Twitter Octobox.io Libraries.io Sustain Our Software on Twitter Sustain Our Software on Facebook Picks Richard Littauer: Scuttlebot: a peer to peer log store Patchwork: a web-based patch tracking system Norman MacGaig: a Scottish poet The Overstory: by Richard Powers Eric Berry: Pipedrive: A CRM tool CodeFund: Funding open source projects through ethical advertising Benjamin Nickolls: YouAreListening.to: ambient noise with police radio Under The Skin: by Michel Faber
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Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.”Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.www.creativeprocess.info
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Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.”Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.www.creativeprocess.info
Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.” Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space. www.creativeprocess.info
Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.” Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space. www.creativeprocess.info
Jesse Draxler was born in rural Wisconsin, studied in Minneapolis, MN, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. A formal mixed media & inter-disciplinary artist, Draxler has exhibited extensively both domestically and internationally and in 2018 released his first book, Misophonia, through Sacred Bones Records. His client list includes MCQ Alexander McQueen, The New York Times, Hugo Boss, Dita Eyewear, and The Atlantic. Draxler is also one of an upcoming three person exhibition opening at No Gallery in Los Angeles September 7th. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Draxler's experiences moving to LA and living off-grid in Wisconsin Definitions of success and personal growth The effects of religious upbringings Hardcore and metal bands offering rebellion against religion and aesthetic freedoms How boxing, basketball, and running have offered growth in Draxler's creative process The effects of expectations on the creative process Draxler's reflection on the anniversary of his book “Misophonia” Draxler's representation and upcoming show under Casey Gleghorn's No Gallery Navigating the gallery experience Exploring many mediums and Draxler's transition into taking his own collage material and using color in his art Books and authors mentioned: Pema Chodron, Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey, short story collection Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck, Under the Skin by Michel Faber, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, Freedom from Anger by Alubomulle Sumanasara, Peace is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz Graphic novels mentioned: Upgrade Soul by Ezra Clayton Daniels, Ice Cream Man by W. Maxwell Prince, and Black Hole by Charles Burns www.artistdecoded.com
Michel Faber's 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White has been hailed as a Dickensian novel with a saucy, modern narrator. How exactly does he pull that off in an epic story steeped in the history of Victorian London? And how does he play with our own expectations of the period? Find out in this week's episode!
Michel Faber's 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White has been hailed as a Dickensian novel with a saucy, modern narrator. How exactly does he pull that off in an epic story steeped in the history of Victorian London? And how does he play with our own expectations of the period? Find out in this week's episode!
In Jonathan Glazer's loose screen adaptation of Michel Faber's novel Under the Skin, a creature of mysterious origin drives around Scotland in a white van, collecting lonely men and spiriting them away to an otherworld where they are turned into food.... or something. Drawing on a deep well of literary, visual, and musical tradition, Glazer (with help from his score composer Mica Levi) create a vivid work of tragedy and horror, masterfully executed for maximal weirdness and unwaveringly true to the auteur's intent to reveal our world from an "alien perspective." In this episode, Phil and JF discuss some themes and ideas they've pried from this exquisite tangle of image and sound. Along the way, they discuss the role that serendipity, coincidence, and fate play in both art-making and scholarship. REFERENCES Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013) Other films by Glazer: Sexy Beast (2000), Birth (2004) Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch, 2017) Ligeti, Atmosphères Stranger Things (The Duffer Brothers, 2016) Screen shot of "Space Invader" (https://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/e/e38b53e4-e148-4e2d-b301-0b3bb15779ff/RV_ugxHk.jpg) Easter egg in Under the Skin Weird Studies Episode 37: Entities, with Stuart Davis John August, American screenwriter Phil Ford, "The Devil's On Your Side: A Meditation on the Perennially Disreputable Business of Hermeneutics" (unpublished) Room 237 (Rodney Ascher, 2013) William Irwin Thompson, Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science Interview with Mica Levi (https://www.indiewire.com/2014/11/mica-levi-on-why-composing-under-the-skin-was-really-mental-190232/), who composed the score for Under the Skin Atar Arad, American violist David Caspar Friedrich, [Wanderer above the Sea of Fog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WandererabovetheSeaofFog)_
Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we are beginning a new series about Grand Theft Auto III. As always, we spend the first episode situating the title in its release time frame and talk a bit about the history of the studio and creators associated with it before turning to the game proper. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Through "The Fuzz Ball" Podcast breakdown: 0:37 GTA III discussion 58:48 Break 59:16 Feedback Issues covered: perspectives from Lulu about production, games of 2001, bringing the mafia back into popular entertainment, grabbing the zeitgeist, how to deal with the anti-hero, commercial plays with the gritty follow-up, freshening up a franchise by going dark, not being sold on playing this game, mature with a capital M, still being under the shadow, starting and abandoning GTA IV and skipping GTA V altogether, DMA Design founders, programming-centric company, the top-down camera view, introduction of the Houser brothers, British gangster cinema, writing style and tone changes, film-style credit sequence, iconic characterization and key art, having a gritty New York of the 70s and 80s genre films, blaxploitation, the New Hollywood, leaning into character archetypes, impressive voice cast, using Hollywood-level talent, not needing to use them, unsung high-quality voice talent, cinematic representation of the credits, ambition vs genius, going big and not apologizing, putting the developers forward rather than the actors, making their own myth, a voiceless main character (Claude), voiceless being better in first-person, empty vessel to fill, limited representation, defining characters more as time goes on, the risk of changing the character out from under the player, undirected game, tension between genre and character and story, playing a low-level thug in The Godfather, playing your own sort of character, do players care about the tension, do you have to like the character, the chaos engine and the strong cinematic style, player exploration of the possibility space, separating the chaos and the nihilistic stories, dehumanizing women, punching every which way vs punching down, Brett messes up his punching directions, creative decisions, choosing the ones you put in and don't, presenting a boundary that is itself commentary, choices players can't make due to lack of systems, prostitution in multiple media, the crassest flattest two-dimensional representation of sex work, being a target in the industry, disposable human beings, hope for humanity, craftmanship and talent and lack of responsibility, representing themselves, pushing the player to a nihilistic viewpoint, pushing the player to psychopathic driving, spawning cars to gum up the works, diametrically opposing success and responsible citizenship, not overcrediting them with thinking it through, tongue-in-cheek or not, what if it were visually amazing but everything else was the same, how you get the talent, Brett and Tim the ASMR guys, first-person camera, console-centric development, head bobbing, couch vs monitor, motion sickness and movement and FOV, more complicated than you think, stick movement and aim assist, what's the walkin' around like, frame-dependency, noticing something and being able to describe it, reticle, GTA III memories, returning to GTA III, corrupting the youth, killing jaywalking pedestrians, unexamined biases, kitsch, the first draft and tropes, editing a story due to current events. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Lulu LaMer, Thief, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, System Shock 2, Ico, Silent Hill 2, Anachronox, PlayStation 2, Metal Gear Solid 2, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, SSX Tricky, GameCube, Super Smash Bros, Luigi's Mansion, Pikmin, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy X, Max Payne, Black & White, Diablo 2, Xbox, Halo, Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Rare, Jak & Daxter, Game Boy Advance, Castlevania, Oni, Bungie, The Sopranos, Scorcese, Coppola, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Prince of Persia, Jedi Starfighter, Republic Commando, Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA V, Rockstar North/DMA Design, Acme Software, David Jones, Russell Kay, Steve Hammond, Mike Dailly, Crackdown, Lemmings, Take Two, PS1 Classic, Reagent Games, Cloudgine, Epic, the Houser brothers, The Krays, Bob Hoskins, Ian McQue, GTA: Vice City, Robert Loggia, Frank Vincent, Joe Pantoliano, Michael Rapaport, True Romance, Debi Mazar, Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Nolan North, Leslie Benzies, The Godfather: The Game, GTA Online, Eve Online, South Park, Klute, Jane Fonda, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dungeon Keeper, Jigsaw/Saw, Michael Madsen, Lars from Hamburg, Hitman, Giant Beastcast, Tacoma, Steve Gaynor, The Stanley Parable, Nels Anderson, The Witness, David "Heavens To" Murgatroyd, Fallout, Ray Liotta, Brian Moriarty. Next time: Through "Last Requests" @brett_douville, @timlongojr, and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com
Novelist and short-story writer Yiyun Li discusses her two homelands – the China she left when she came to the University of Iowa to study immunology, and America, which has been her home for almost 20 years. In novels like Kinder than Solitude and The Vagrants, and short story collections A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, she has impressed critics and fellow writers with the grace and subtlety of her writing, even as she tells stories so truthful and critical that she won't publish her books in China. Michel Faber, writing for The Guardian, said, “Yiyun has the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries...[she] is the real deal.”Li has received numerous awards, including Whiting Award, Lannan Foundation Residency fellow, 2010 MacArthur Foundation fellow, 2014 Benjamin H. Danks Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, among others. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. She has served on the jury panel for Man Booker International Prize, National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, and other. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine, A Public Space.www.creativeprocess.info
A short episode to tide you over this week! We discuss Arther C. Clarke's The Star (pdf), comparing and constrating it to The Sparrow. Full spoilers for both the story (it's only 4 pages, you should read it!) and The Sparrow. This is a relatively clean episode that's mostly about how and why people lose their faith and whether science fiction generally does a good job at handling this question. --- In addition, we realized that our links to related works aren't showing up in all podcatchers. Here are the links from the last episode, if you're looking for more recommendations that (we think) are better than The Sparrow - Monolingual Fieldwork by Daniel Everett (a linguist learns Hmong)- Do Elephants Have Souls? by Caitrin Keiper for the New Atlantis- Alien intelligence: the extraordinary minds of octopuses and other cephalopods by Elle Hunt- The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber- 1491 and 1493 by Charles Mann --- As always, we'd love to hear from you! Tweet us at @spectologypod, submit the episode at r/printSF, or email us at spectologypod@gmail.com with your thoughts about the book. Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.
The Cambridge Analytica débâcle is hot on many of our minds. Paul and Jeremy discuss leaks of personal data and how it's kind of pointless to #DeleteFacebook at this point. Plus, examination of how insanely fast our brains make gut-level aesthetic decisions. Apparently you know whether you like this show within 50ms.Show NotesGeneral Data Protection Regulation - WikipediaUS Court Finds Anti-Robocall Rule Made Nearly Every Smartphone User a CriminalListen to ‘The Daily’: The Data Harvesters - The New York TimesWhy Is #DeleteFacebook Trending On Twitter? | Daily Wire'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine | News | The GuardianFacebook’s Surveillance Machine - The New York TimesAnnihilation (2018) - IMDbWind River (2017) - IMDbPhantom Thread (2017) - IMDbH. P. Lovecraft - WikipediaThe Call of Cthulhu - WikipediaHighway to Heaven - WikipediaUnder the Skin (2013) - IMDbMichel Faber - WikipediaAmazon.com: The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel (8601423678511): Michel Faber: BooksNot One More Death: John le Carré, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Michel Faber, Harold Pinter: 9781844671168: Amazon.com: BooksThe role of visual complexity and prototypicality regarding first impression of websites: Working towards understanding aesthetic judgmentsSensory Overload AnxietyDid you like this show? If so, support Paul and Jeremy on Patreon. By giving as little as $5.00 per month, you’ll get access to exclusive after-show content. It’s practically a whole second episode each week we publish! Show your appreciation. Support Uncle Weepy today! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jesus Lover One! We review and discuss "The Book of Strange New Things" by Michel Faber.
Bohaterem pierwszego odcinka podkastu literackiego "Tygodnika Powszechnego" jest Michel Faber, który gościł w Polsce w związku z Festiwalem Conrada w 2016 roku. Pisarz szkocki, holenderski czy australijski? Ponadnarodowy? Dlaczego odrzucił propozycję przyjęcia brytyjskiego obywatelstwa, które mogłoby dać mu Nagrodę Bookera? Czy zgodziłby się na nazwanie go "posthumanistą"? Rozmowa z autorem adaptowanych dla kina (jego bohaterkę grała Scarlett Johansson) i telewizji znakomitych powieści i opowiadań przeplatana jest fragmentami jego twórczości w interpretacji aktorów m. in. Starego Teatru. Gość: Michel Faber Rozmówcy: Katarzyna Trzeciak, Michał Sowiński Lektor: Dominik Stroka Muzyka: AudioNetwork Producent wykonawczy: Piotrek Żyła Produkcja: Tygodnik Powszechny.
The hosts discuss auto-buy authors where they can't help but give them our money. They also discuss Schwab's upcoming books. Then they dive in to This Savage Song and cut the discussion short because they could all talk about this book for hours. -This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23299512-this-savage-song) and Amazon (http://a.co/dGF1Bx8) -Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25494343-lady-midnight) and Amazon (http://a.co/j6OKJTq) -Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11607446-the-wishing-spell) and Amazon (http://a.co/5gGKYe6) -City of Heavenly Angels by Cassandra Clare on Goodreads () and Amazon () -The Prince by Machiavelli on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28862.The_Prince) and Amazon (http://a.co/9F0tGjk) -The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/608474.The_Sign_of_Four) and Amazon (http://a.co/180bwEq) -Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3.Harry_Potter_and_the_Sorcerer_s_Stone) and Amazon (http://a.co/4B1Vlaz) -Ready Player One by Ernest Cline on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9969571-ready-player-one) and Amazon (http://a.co/iMZ3c2B) -Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Anderson on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25855506-adulthood-is-a-myth) and Amazon (http://a.co/9BjKxRJ) -Sabaa Tahir (http://sabaatahir.com/) -Marie Lu (http://www.onetrueportal.com/marielu/) -Melissa de la Cruz (http://melissa-delacruz.com/) -Nicola Yoon (http://www.nicolayoon.com/#welcome-new) -Sandhya Menon (https://www.sandhyamenon.com/) -Sarah J. Maas (http://sarahjmaas.com/) -Tana French (http://www.tanafrench.com/) -Taylor Jenkins Reid (http://taylorjenkinsreid.com/) -J. K. Rowling (https://www.jkrowling.com/) -Amie Kaufman (http://amiekaufman.com/) -Billy Collins (http://billycollinspoetry.com/) -Brian K. Vaughan (https://imagecomics.com/creators/view/brian-k-vaughan) -Kwame Alexander (http://kwamealexander.com/) -Stephen King (http://stephenking.com/) -Kate Atkinson (http://www.kateatkinson.co.uk/) -Donna Tartt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Tartt) -Scott Lynch (http://www.scottlynch.us/) -Patrick Rothfuss (https://www.patrickrothfuss.com/content/index.asp) -Sarah Waters (https://www.sarahwaters.com/) -Michel Faber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Faber) -Haruki Murakami (http://www.harukimurakami.com/) -Fredik Backman (http://www.fredrikbackmanbooks.com/) -George Saunders (http://www.georgesaundersbooks.com/) -James Patterson (http://www.jamespatterson.com/alex-cross) -Rainbow Rowell (http://www.rainbowrowell.com/) -CLAMP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamp_(manga_artists)) -Victoria Schwab (http://www.veschwab.com/) -Cassandra Clare (http://cassandraclare.com/) -VE Schwab’s new book deal (https://www.tor.com/2017/08/28/ve-schwab-new-shades-of-magic-trilogy-tor-books-deal/) -I Believe in Book Fairies (http://ibelieveinbookfairies.com/) Next Episode’s Book: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27833670-dark-matter) and Amazon (http://a.co/d2bu8ai)
Michel Faber has written eight books, including the highly acclaimed The Book of Strange New Things, The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fahrenheit Twins and the Whitbread-shortlisted novel Under the Skin. The Apple, based on characters in The Crimson Petal and the White, was published in 2006. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and The Courage Consort, and has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he lives in the Scottish Highlands.
This Writing Life has talked to a pair of writers before: David Mitchell and Michel Faber. But Neil Richards and Matt Costello are the first bona fide writing team. We meet, ostensibly, to discuss Dead in the Water, the first full-length novel in their already successful 'Cherringham' e-book crime series: previous episodes have consisted of short stories and novellas. ----more----But we quickly branch off to talk about their collaborative work for television, video games - and on the day we met - a top secret movie project. After a little podcast skulduggery, we begin by gently denigrating Gloucester, pondering Xanadu, displaying American and reserved English accents before starting at the beginning of their writing partnership. From here, we turn to: the background and evolution of 'Cherringham' death and crime in the Cotswolds how do we define 'cosy' crime? the relative skills of Costello and Richards writing for television v novels pacing and the art of the e-cliffhanger 'I have been scared of writing novels': Neil Richards on learning to writing prose the writing relationship: who's the boss and work schedules cricket or baseball: American v British voices collaboration: creation, structure and editing Part two of three to follow.
The acclaimed author of Under the Skin and The Book of Strange New Things reads from a collection of deeply moving poems entitled Undying in this event recorded live at the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival. In tender, bittersweet verse, Michel Faber grieves for his wife Eva who died in 2014 after a six year battle with cancer. His fearless poems present brutally honest meditations on Eva’s death – and how it feels to say a long, heartbroken, impotent goodbye. Chaired by Richard Holloway
On Start the Week Andrew discusses love, loss and scandal. Carrie Cracknell is directing Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, the story of an overpowering, self-destructive love affair set in post-war Britain. Michel Faber's collection of poetry explores the loss and grief at the death of his beloved wife, Eva. AE Housman wrote a series of poems at the end of the 19th century - A Shropshire Lad - which were hugely popular and came to encapsulate the nostalgia for an unspoilt pastoral idyll, but the writer Peter Parker says they're also shot through with unfulfilled longing for a young man. Homosexuality only became legal in the late 1960s and John Preston retells the story of the MP Jeremy Thorpe - a tale of sex, lies, murder and scandal at the heart of the establishment. Producer: Katy Hickman.
Auckland Writers Festival 2016 The transcendent, unclassifiable novel The Book of Strange New Things is award-winning Michel Faber’s eighth, and his declared last. A pastor is sent to a far-off planet. His job description? "Minister (Christian) to indigenous population". It’s a dystopian tale of love and faith that reviewers have observed is intent on making us kinder. Don’t miss this profound writer on what it is to be human. Faber talks with Paula Morris.
In the fourth and final episode of our conversation with David Mitchell and Michel Faber, we kick off by talking author events and public readings with reference to The Bone Clocks and Mitchell's performative self. ----more----From there we move to bad readers: 'I have been to see very eminent, Booker Prize winning people at the Edinburgh Festival who are just ticking off another engagement in their tour, and you could tell they would rather be anywhere but there. I vowed I would never allow myself to get into that state of jadedness and alienation from the people who are actually buying my books' Faber Paul McCartney, Yesterday and intimacy 'I hate hotels' Faber 'We did stay in a brothel in Greece...' Faber what do Faber and Mitchell have in common... cities v countryside 'seem' and 'tranquil': words novelists should never use Ezra Pound's marginalia in The Waste Land 'If you are in a bad mood, it is difficult to read DH Lawrence' Faber
In the third, and penultimate, part of the David Mitchell and Michel Faber double-header, we start off by talking immortality and the status of fiction in the 21st century.----more---- 'I am something of an optimist,' Mitchell says before quoting the Rizzle Kicks' 'Skip to the Good Bit'. 'I like to think that starvation sharpens the appetite', he continues, arguing that the demands of the novel might seem more attractive the faster culture moves. 'The novel's imminent death, that bell has been rung so many times...' From there, Faber talked final lines, starting with The Book of Strange New Things: Mitchell asked about naming chapter titles after the final lines of each chapter 'I think we are both concerned with the depth of the thing and layers, but we are both concerned with surface readability' Faber Faber vs 'serious literary writers' 'I think one way that serious literary writers have increasingly let down their readers and driven them into the arms of comfort fiction is by being insufficiently mindful of a reader's needs to fun and thrills' Faber Faber vs Joyce, Woolf and Modernism: 'If you weren't smart enough to get it, you were the Molochs or whatever...' Faber on John Carey's The Intellectuals and the Masses 'I think in old money we are talking about elitism and snobbery, self-promotion over those beneath you' David Mitchell Faber and Mitchell on science fiction (The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, Isaac Asimov) v 'high-brow' fiction reading as young people vs adults, Stephen King, pet cemeteries, Last Rites and Resurrections genre, cliché and fresh forms 'One thing that makes me uneasy is when reviewers talk about the stunning originality of our ideas' Faber 'Where have you come from, matey!' Mitchell Faber v VS Naipaul 'It's alarming if serious literature remains closed off to the potentials of narratives in recent times' Faber how they deal with being called incomparable, original etc 'I am happier than being called shite and a waste of space' Mitchell Ken Kesey, Mr Bean, and reading reviews... 'Reviews are not relevant to the work...' Faber
[...] galvanisée par le récent virage gauchiste de Nathalie kszicu koscuiks Kosciusko-Morizet, la Salle 101 tape du poing sur la table et te parle de plusieurs choses qui méritent ton attention : Le livre des choses étranges et nouvelles, roman de Michel Faber, Trepalium, série télé produite par Arte, Jambes fluettes etc., roman de Tom [...]
[…] galvanisée par le récent virage gauchiste de Nathalie kszicu koscuiks Kosciusko-Morizet, la Salle 101 tape du poing sur la table et te parle de plusieurs choses qui méritent ton attention : Le livre des choses étranges et nouvelles, roman de Michel Faber, Trepalium, série télé produite par Arte, Jambes fluettes etc., roman de Tom […]
In part two of my interview with Michel Faber and David Mitchell, we begin by talking big books and the attempt to say everything in fiction. ----more---- As Mitchell puts it: 'I feel clobbered by the impossibility of translating into words as much of this enormous world we live in – the world itself and the human world with its subtly complex and sprawling Periodic Table of human emotions.' After trading Freddie Mercury and Ringo Starr quotes, we returned to the idea that Faber had written his last novel and from there to: the consolations of poetry improvising The Book of Strange New Things Faber talks about caring for his wife, Eva, and the impact that her illness had on the novel's composition love letters and how letters transcend space, time and grief inciting the reader's emotions for certain characters the hubristic insanity of online Clouds.
I interviewed the novelists David Mitchell and Michel Faber for the Sunday Independent. Mitchell had not long since published The Bone Clocks, and Faber The Book of Strange New Things. ----more----They were old friends, something that was apparent from the moment I met them both at Durrants Hotel in central London. Before the interview proper, Faber asked to speak with Mitchell privately. They had not seen each other since Faber's partner Eva died only a few months before. Faber would talk about his grief and the effect it was already having on his writing - he was writing poetry rather than prose, and indeed saw fiction, to which Eva was central, as a thing of his past. 'The Book of Strange New Things is my last novel, and we both knew that.' You can hear Mitchell's tender, but firm response in part one of this lengthy conversation. The subjects under discussion also included Mitchell's re-mix and match approach to writing, their differing views to the contemporary world and readers, posterity and poetry. We began by talking music - Miles Davis, playing Bartok, Late Junction, and listening to Krautrock while writing The Crimson Petal and The White. I hope you enjoy. Part Two will be posted soon.
As a trailer for thisWriting Life Extra Special, Michel Faber and David Mitchell discuss their firstmeetings, before Faber pulls a mix-tape out of the bag. I will post the rest of the interview -without doubt one of the most memorable ones I have ever been involved with -over the coming couple of weeks. You can hear excerpts from Ohrwurm, Michael Faber's collaboration with Andrew Liles: here. You can buy the album from Andrew Liles' website: here.
Hello and welcome back to You Wrote the Book, with Simon Savidge. Each fortnight Simon is joined by a special guest author to discuss their life as a writer and as a reader. This episode Simon’s special guest is the author, Michel Faber, whose novels such as Under The Skin and The Crimson Petal and […]
If you only read one novel this year, make it The End of Days. A book that takes a series of surprising turns, it confirms German author Jenny Erpenbeck as ‘one of the finest, most exciting authors alive’. That reviewer was fellow novelist Michel Faber, who talks to Erpenbeck about a novel in which the heroine, over the course of a long 20th century life, meets death several times, yet still keeps on going. This event was recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
If you only read one novel this year, make it The End of Days. A book that takes a series of surprising turns, it confirms German author Jenny Erpenbeck as ‘one of the finest, most exciting authors alive’. That reviewer was fellow novelist Michel Faber, who talks to Erpenbeck about a novel in which the heroine, over the course of a long 20th century life, meets death several times, yet still keeps on going. Recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
A woman stalks the streets of Glasgow, Scotland looking for men in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin. We're joined by Alexandra West of the Faculty of Horror podcast to dig into this enigmatic film.
Este episodio de los VerdHugos tiene dos partes bien diferenciadas:Durante la primera hora contaremos con la participación de Carrie Patel, autora de The Buried Life, con quien hablaremos del proceso de elaboración de su novela. Durante toda la entrevista nos acompañará Alexander Páez, bloguero en Donde acaba el infinito y videopodcaster en The Spoiler Club.Durante la segunda hora hablaremos de los premios Nebula, los Kitschies y los BSFA, y terminaremos con nuestras habituales recomendaciones literarias.Recomendaciones VerdHuguerasCarrie PatelUnder the skin, de Michel FaberChina Mountain Zhang, de Maureen F. McHugh. Alexander PáezUzumaki, de Junji ItoMataré a vuestros muertos, de Daniel AusentePedro RománMáscara, de Stanislaw Lem La Broma Infinita, de David Foster WallaceLeticia LaraThe Mechanical, de Ian TregillisLydie, de Jordi Lafebre y ZidrouJosep MariaWolves, de Simon Ings21st century science fiction, de David G. Hartwell (Ed.)Elías Combaro Touch, de Claire NorthThe Grace of Kings, de Ken LiuMiquel CodonyGet in Trouble, de Kelly LinkHijos Bastardos de Matusalen: Eternos, de Raúl AtreidesEl episodio se puede descargar de archive.org y, en cuanto se propaguen los feeds, de iVoox e iTunes.Música: Bitches of your souls (The Saurs) - http://thesaurs.bandcamp.com/Logotipo: Javier Hansard
Under the Skin by Michel Faber is the subject of today's discussion about reading and writing with Pip Adam.
[...] heureuse, décomplexé, la Salle 101 est la police, la Salle 101 est l’armée, la Salle 101 est l’ordre, et pour mieux le prouver, elle t’offre un divertissement sur mesure, sensuel et intellectuel : Under the skin, roman de Michel Faber, Les tuniques bleues, bande-dessinée de Salvérius et Cauvin, et même L’animal, livre-objet de Sylvie [...]
[…] heureuse, décomplexé, la Salle 101 est la police, la Salle 101 est l'armée, la Salle 101 est l'ordre, et pour mieux le prouver, elle t'offre un divertissement sur mesure, sensuel et intellectuel : Under the skin, roman de Michel Faber, Les tuniques bleues, bande-dessinée de Salvérius et Cauvin, et même L'animal, livre-objet de Sylvie […]
Shock World Service 059 Old Acquaintance Be Forgot by Cian Ó Cíobháin 24/12/2014 Galway, Ireland 1. Mica Levi - Lonely Void Mica Levi's soundtrack for Jonathan Glazer's film ‘Under The Skin' (based on Michel Faber's novel) was, without doubt, the oddest yet most beguiling music I heard all year. I had listened to the soundtrack loads before I finally got to see the movie. Listening to the music out of context had made an impression, finally hearing it as I viewed the film almost made me want to start a cult. 2. Kode9 & The Spaceape - Autumn Has Come The ‘Killing EP' was the last release from Hyperdub vocalist-poet-MC Stephen Samuel Gordon AKA The Spaceape before his untimely demise in the autumn. His parting words “I must learn to dance with life again while autumn is still here” are particularly heartbreaking considering he passed away soon after the recording was made. 3. Visonia & Dopplereffekt - Die Reisen This track should be employed by music teachers in classes to illustrate ‘how to write a bass arpeggio'. A big thanks to Laura O' Connell for putting me onto this one. Released on Last Known Trajectory in January, this should still sound fresh in decades to come. 4. Clark - Snowbird Chris Clark has been a formidable presence on the legendary Warp label for over a decade now. His eponymously titled 2014 LP is rumoured to be his last. If there is any substance to these rumours, it is safe to acknowledge that he refused to go out with a whimper with possibly his most coherent LP to date. 5. Roberto Clementi - Agile The Italian's debut LP for Soma - 'N Lights' - took a slightly organic and dubby approach to electronic music. This one was the diamond in the rough: an ethereal and glistening piece of electronica that has shades of Burial or The Cyclist about it. 6. Actress - Gaze His latest LP ‘Ghettoville' may not be up there with his finest work, but it did bestow upon the world this gorgeous slice of dreamy house. 7. JAW, Philip Wolgast & Benito W - Papersand Is JAW the new Robert Owens? The frontman of electronic French act dOP's voice can be heard lighting up many a house tracks these days. I've never really been a fan of Robert Owens, bar a handful of tracks, though I've slowly began to warm to JAW. However, something about this collaboration - the production and the wistful vocal - made it sounds like a more melancholic take on what Ali Love & Hot Natured have been getting up to. One to slow dance to at the end of a lost weekend. From the ‘Midtown EP' on Circus Company. 8. To Rococo Rot - Baritone Veterans of the German electro-acoustic scene released their eighth studio LP ‘Instrument' this year which included this track, redolent of classic mid-90s Tortoise. 9. Fhloston Paradigm - Never Defeated (feat. Rachel Claudio) King Britt - under his Fhloston Paradigm guise - produced one of the most memorable LPs of the year in ‘The Phoenix' and this collaboration with Rachel Claudio is the kind of gritty soul I subscribe to. 10. Ariel Pink - Lipstick Ariel Pink's new LP ‘Pom Pom' is a riot of ideas. Like an enterprising magpie, he swoops over many different genres and eras and steals the best parts to create a new and vibrant love letter to both AM & FM bubblegum pop. 11. Aphex Twin - PAPAT4 [155] [pineal mix] A period of two weeks listening to Aphex Twin's first LP in 13 years confirmed this and the ‘minipops' single to be my personal highlights. Full tracklist: http://www.shockworldservice.com/#/page59/
I avsnitt 158 önskar Obiter Dictum god jul och diskuterar boken The Book of Strange New Things av Michel Faber. Det blir terraforming, religion och genrebrott.
Tom Sutcliffe explores our relationship with computer technology and the interplay of alien and familiar in science fiction. Tom's joined in the studio by writer William Gibson, novelist Michel Faber, LSE Professor Judy Wajcman and historian Dominic Sandbrook. How have computer technologies transformed our sense of outer space, cyber space and our own inner space? Producer: Simon Tillotson.
This month finds the Book Talk panel reading and discussing The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. Faber's first book in fourteen years is a tale of adventure, faith and the ties that might hold two people together when they are worlds apart.Peter Leigh is a husband, a Christian, and now a missionary. As The Book of Strange New Things opens, he is set to embark on a journey that will be the biggest test of his faith yet. From the moment he says goodbye to his wife, Bea, and boards his flight, he begins a quest that will challenge his religious beliefs, his love and his understanding of the limits of the human body.Sasha de Buyl is joined by Writer Development Coordinator for Scottish Book Trust, Claire Marchant-Collier, and Marketing Manager of Glasgow Film (and former host of Book Talk), Paul Gallagher.Despite creating a strong character whose faith plays a major part in the story, and regularly referencing the Bible (the hardback edition of the book even looks like a copy), Faber is himself an atheist. Do the author's personal beliefs cause him to stereotype his characters or their faith?Peter and his wife describe their feelings for each other and their predicaments through a series of letters - is it a realistic portrayal of a long-distance relationship?Colonialism and the motives of a new alien race are also central to the novel, with Faber developing a new language that Peter, and the book's readers, are introduced to. How successful was Faber in bringing this new culture to life?Book Talk is produced by Colin Fraser of Culture Laser Productions.
Bookrageous Episode 72; Summer Reading Intro Music; Pacific Theme by Broken Social Scene What We're Reading Jenn [1:15] Slash: Romance Without Boundaries [4:30] What We See When We Read, Peter Mendelsund [6:30] Glory O'Brien's History of Future, A.S. King, October 14 2014 [7:35] Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray Josh [9:00] Soil: A Novel, Jamie Kornegay, March 10 2015 [10:35] Morte, Robert Repino, January 20 2015 [13:50] Age of Ultron; X-Men: Battle of the Atom Rebecca [14:30] Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, October 28 2014 [17:15] Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud [19:30] An Untamed State, Roxane Gay [19:35] The Book of Strange New Things, Michel Faber, October 28 2014 [22:45] The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell [24:35] Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes, September 16 2014 [28:05] Almost Famous Women, Megan Mayhew Bergman, January 6 2015 (Birds of a Lesser Paradise) Paul [29:40] The Fever, Megan Abbott [30:40] Bravo, Greg Rucka (Alpha) [32:15] Seconds, Bryan Lee O'Malley [34:50] Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon and Groot Steal the Galaxy!, Dan Abnett Preeti [36:15] Private Eye, Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin [38:30] Afterlife with Archie, Issue 6 [43:05] Hawkeye, Matt Fraction [45:30] Love is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson, September 30 2014 [48:30] The Magician's Land, Lev Grossman --- Intermission; 4 Pow by the Beastie Boys --- Summer Reads (The Good, the Bad, and the Fluffy) [52:48] Vanity Fair; Red or Dead [55:20] The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt; The Vacationers, Emma Straub; Landline, Rainbow Rowell; The Fever, Megan Abbott [56:00] Where'd You Go, Bernadette? Maria Semple [56:50] A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway [58:50] Democracy in America, Alexis De Tocqueville [59:00] Great Expectations, Charles Dickens [1:01:10] Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury [1:01:40] All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque [1:02:15] The Red Pony, John Steinbeck [1:02:50] The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien [1:04:15] China Wakes, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn [1:05:50] Boy's Life, actually by Robert McCammon [1:06:30] The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi [1:07:45] The Stranger; Heart of Darkness [1:09:00] S.E. Hinton and Supernatural [1:15:15] Skippy Dies; The Interestings [1:15:30] This One Summer, Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki [1:16:30] Seating Arrangements, Maggie Shipstead [1:18:00] The Thief, Megan Whalen Turner [1:20:25] Joyland, Stephen King [1:21:25] The Inimitable Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse --- Outro Music; Pacific Theme by Broken Social Scene --- Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Come to the BOOKRAGEOUS BASH at BEA on May 28th in New York City Find Us Online: Jenn, Josh, Paul, Preeti, Rebecca Order Josh's book! Maine Beer: Brewing in Vacationland Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress Note: Our show book links direct you to WORD, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn. If you click through and buy the book, we will get a small affiliate payment. We won't be making any money off any book sales -- any payments go into hosting fees for the Bookrageous podcast, or other Bookrageous projects. We promise.
UNDER THE SKIN is a sleek and bizarre science fiction story by Michel Faber, a sometimes erotic, sometimes ice-cold portrait of a disfigured alien predator. Strategically disfigured as a honeytrap for earth men who will soon be meat. Her name is Isserly and she picks up hitchers on the motorways of Scotland, conducting them into castration, mutation, and processing into foodstuff at the behest of a decadent cosmic aristocracy. The book pushes buttons like JG Ballard on hits of champagne-spiked estrogen. Through the insect eyes of a huntress in disguise, we're tricked into thinking about where our food comes from and who it used [...] The post Under The Skin by Michael Faber | Book Discussion appeared first on Book Circle Online.
UNDER THE SKIN is a sleek and bizarre science fiction story by Michel Faber, a sometimes erotic, sometimes ice-cold portrait of a disfigured alien predator. Strategically disfigured as a honeytrap for earth men who will soon be meat. Her name is Isserly and she picks up hitchers on the motorways of Scotland, conducting them into castration, mutation, and processing into foodstuff at the behest of a decadent cosmic aristocracy. The book pushes buttons like JG Ballard on hits of champagne-spiked estrogen. Through the insect eyes of a huntress in disguise, we're tricked into thinking about where our food comes from and who it used [...]
This month, Book Talk cranks up the heat and settles in for a chat about Michel Faber's creepy sci-fi-meets-horror debut, Under the Skin, soon to be released as a film starring Scarlett Johansson. Joining host Danny Scott are Sarah Stewart, a senior editor at Floris Books, founder of the Lighthouse Children's Literary Consultancy and soon-to-be-published children's author; and Doug Johnstone, novelist, journalist, musician and co-founder of Scotland Writers FC.Under the Skin tells the unsettling story of Isserley, an alien sent to earth to harvest male hitchikers for an intergalactic corporation, which fattens them up and turns them into food. The macabre story is a dark satire on intensive farming, big business and environmental decay, as well as an examination of such issues as sexual identity and humanity.Find out how Faber managed to make Isserley a character readers could empahtize with, which parts our panel found most disturbing and whether they'd recommend the novel to a friend in this spine-tingling podcast.BookTalk is produced by Colin Fraser of Culture Laser Productions.
The astonishing, triumphant television adaptation of Michel Faber's novel The Crimson Petal and the White represents a radical new step for the previously tired costume drama genre. In this event, Faber discussed his book with Lucinda Coxon.
The astonishing, triumphant television adaptation of Michel Faber's novel The Crimson Petal and the White represents a radical new step for the previously tired costume drama genre. In this event, Faber discussed his book with Lucinda Coxon, who adapted the novel for television and Romola Garai, the actor who brought the young prostitute Sugar so vividly to life on screen. Chaired by Guardian literary editor Claire Armitstead. This is the full hour-long event, recorded live at the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Michel Faber reading A Flash of Blue Light. Part of an engaging and varied series of podcasts of leading authors reading their remarkable new stories, poems or essays on the theme of ‘Elsewhere’. Commissioned by Edinburgh International Book Festival and supported by the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund. You can read or download the Elsewhere stories, listen to more Elsewhere podcasts or watch the videos of events filmed live at the Book Festival on www.edbookfest.co.uk.
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