Podcasts about Neapolitan Novels

There's arguably no better time for falling down a cultural rabbit hole than the languid, transitory summer months. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss how the season allows us to foster a particular relationship with a work of art—whether it's the soundtrack to a summer fling or a book that helps make sense of a new locale. Listeners divulge the texts that have consumed them over the years, and the hosts share their own formative obsessions, recalling how Brandy's 1998 album, “Never Say Never,” defined a first experience at camp, and how a love of Jim Morrison's music resulted in a teen-age pilgrimage to see his grave in Paris. But how do we square our past obsessions with our tastes and identities today? “Whatever we quote, whatever we make reference to, on so many levels is who we are,” Cunningham says. “It seems, to me, so precious.”Read, watch, and listen with the critics:“Heathers” (1988)“Pump Up the Volume” (1990)The poetry of Sergei YeseninThe poetry of Alexander PushkinGoldenEye 007 (1997)“Elvis” (2022)“Jailhouse Rock” (1957)“Pride & Prejudice” (2005)The Neapolitan Novels, by Elena Ferrante“Ramble On,” by Led Zeppelin“Never Say Never,” by Brandy“The Boy Is Mine,” by Brandy and Monica“The End,” by The Doors“The Last Waltz” (1978)“The Witches of Eastwick,” by John Updike“Atlas Shrugged,” by Ayn Rand“Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003)“Postcards from the Edge” (1990)“Rent” (1996)New episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.

ciao, brilliant friends! get ready to talk about translated fiction and dive into the world of Elena Ferrante's "My Brilliant Friend”. join us for a whirlwind discussion where we navigate through poorly pronounced Italian words, questionable cover designs, and the magical art of translated fiction.from dissecting the brilliance of Ann Goldstein's translation to brief mentions of Italian cultural icons like the Lizzie McGuire movie and Stefano from A Series of Unfortunate Events, we're leaving no stone unturned.can we relate to Lila and Elena's adventures as much as we relate to Lizzie's Roman holiday? let's find out!so grab your espresso and channel your inner Italian stallion as we laugh, cry, and discuss all things "My Brilliant Friend." tune in and let's get lost in translation together!synopsis music by William Kingspecial things mentioned in the episode:Have Italian Scholars figured out the identity of Elena Ferrante? The Unmasking of Elena Ferrante An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante - Whoever You AreWhy Australia Has Better Covers for Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Serieschoose our next podcast read by going here and voting in the first week of each month!make sure you subscribe to hear our groundbreaking thoughts as soon as they are unleashed. if you want to be on the same page as us, follow us at talklit.gethit on Instagram and TikTok.theme music born from the creative genius of Big Boi B.talk lit, get hit acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands and waterways where we record this podcast. further, we acknowledge the cultural diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay respect to Elders past, present and future.

JOIN OUR PATREON FOR BoNuS EPISODES!https://www.patreon.com/TheBookPile*My Brilliant Friend is a book that BOTH of us agree is a timeless, emotional masterpiece, and if either host says they were ever BORED, then that host is JOKING and LYING and UGLY. Please enjoy the first entry in the world famous Neapolitan Novels. Plus, Kellen has some lyric notes for The Turtles and Dave has a new twist for The Great Gatsby.*To purchase this book (Audible, Kindle, or paperback!) AND support the podcast, click here!https://amzn.to/44z3VrP*Kellen Erskine has appeared on Conan, Comedy Central, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC's America's Got Talent, and the Amazon Original Series Inside Jokes. He has garnered over 100 million views with his clips on Dry Bar Comedy. In 2018 he was selected to perform on the “New Faces” showcase at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. He currently tours the country www.KellenErskine.com*David Vance's videos have garnered over 1 billion views. He has written viral ads for companies like Squatty Potty, Chatbooks, and Lumē, and sketches for the comedy show Studio C. His work has received two Webby Awards, and appeared on Conan. He currently works as a writer on the sitcom Freelancers.

On Monday, First Republic Bank folded before being sold by regulators to JPMorgan Chase. At the time, it was the 14th largest bank in the U.S. and it is the second-largest American bank by assets to ever collapse. The story of First Republic's fall is similar to that of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature before it – the value of the bank's assets began to plummet as the Fed raised interest rates to fight inflation, causing a crisis of confidence among investors and depositors. This is exactly the kind of situation that the economic historian Adam Tooze warned of when he came on the show in October of 2022. In that conversation, Tooze argued that the Fed's interest rate hikes were “shaking the entire system” – putting pressure on every level of the global financial system, from regional banks to countries that borrow on the U.S. dollar. It would only be a matter of time, he predicted, before things started breaking. Well, things are certainly breaking now, and it's very possible there's more to come. The Fed decided to raise interest rates once again on Wednesday, bringing them above 5 percent for the first time in more than 15 years. So it felt like the right time to revisit our conversation about the fragile, uncertain future of the global economy at this history-making moment and the Fed's role in it. We also discuss what the British financial market meltdown means for the rest of the world, how the interest rate hikes in rich countries export inflation to other countries, the looming possibility of a global recession, why Tooze believes the confluence of high inflation, rising interest rates and high levels of debt points to an economic “polycrisis” unlike any the world has seen, why countries in South Asia are experiencing a particularly severe form of polycrisis, how the Fed should weigh its mandate to bring down inflation against the global consequences of its actions, why he believes analogies to the American inflationary period of the 1970s are misguided and more.Editor's note: Due to a technical error, a previous version of this episode featured the wrong audio file. The episode is now updated with the correct audio.Mentioned:“Slouching Towards Utopia by J Bradford DeLong — fuelling America's global dream” by Adam ToozeBook recommendations:The Neapolitan Novels by Elena FerranteYouthquake by Edward PaiceSlouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLongThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Rollin Hu, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Original music by Isaac Jones. Mixing by Jeff Geld. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin, Kristina Samulewski, Jason Furman, Mike Konczal and Maurice Obstfeld.

Jordan Tromblee and Deezy Youngdahl opened Novelette Booksellers in Nashville, Tennessee, less than six months ago. The vibrant, colorful, inclusive and welcoming shop has already been hailed as one of the city's most talked about indies. They join Matt this week to tell us why. Books We Talk About: Exalted by Anna Dorn, Babel by R.F. Kuang, Less by Andrew Sean Greer, The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, Melissa Broder's books, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston and No Choice by Becca Andrews.Venture Europepersonal conversations with the entrepreneurs and investors reshaping our futureListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

“There are moments when history making creeps up on you,” writes the economic historian Adam Tooze. “This is one of those moments.”Countries across the world are raising interest rates at unprecedented speeds. That global monetary tightening is colliding with spiking food and energy prices, financial market instability, high levels of emerging market debt and economies still struggling to recover from the Covid pandemic. Alone, each of these factors would warrant concern; combined, they could be catastrophic.We're already beginning to see what happens as these dynamics intersect: Britain just experienced a bond market meltdown that threatened one of the most advanced financial systems in the world. Developing countries like Sri Lanka, Argentina and Pakistan are experiencing political and economic crises. The World Bank believes we could be headed for a severe global recession.Tooze is the director of the European Institute at Columbia University and the author of multiple histories of financial crises and near crises and of the excellent Chartbook newsletter. He believes this particular confluence of high inflation, rising interest rates and high levels of debt points to an economic “polycrisis” unlike any the world has seen. And he and others have argued that the U.S. Fed's decision to raise interest rates is a core driver of that crisis.So this is a conversation about the fragile, uncertain future of the global economy at this history-making moment and the Fed's role in it. We discuss what the British financial market meltdown means for the rest of the world, how the interest rate hikes in rich countries export inflation to other countries, the looming possibility of a global recession, why Tooze believes something could break in the global financial system, why countries in South Asia are experiencing a particularly severe form of “polycrisis,” how the Fed should weigh its mandate to bring down inflation against the global consequences of its actions, why he believes analogies to the American inflationary period of the 1970s are misguided and more.Mentioned:“Slouching Towards Utopia by J Bradford DeLong — fuelling America's global dream” by Adam ToozeBook recommendations:The Neapolitan Novels by Elena FerranteYouthquake by Edward PaiceSlouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLongThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Rollin Hu, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Original music by Isaac Jones. Mixing by Jeff Geld. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin, Kristina Samulewski, Jason Furman, Mike Konczal and Maurice Obstfeld.

While a steady stream of disturbing news continues to come from Ukraine, new works of fiction highlight the ways in which lives there have been transformed by conflict. On this week's podcast, the critic Jennifer Wilson talks about two books, including the story collection “Lucky Breaks,” by Yevgenia Belorusets, translated by Eugene Ostashevsky.“Belorusets has been compared to Gogol in these stories,” Wilson says. “There's a certain kind of supernatural quality to them. I think anyone looking to these books for a play-by-play of the conflict is going to be disappointed for that reason, but I think delighted in other ways.”Ben McGrath visits the podcast to talk about his new book, “Riverman: An American Odyssey,” which tells the story of Dick Conant, a troubled and charismatic man who disappeared while on a canoe trip from New York to Florida. Conant was in his 60s when McGrath met him, and had spent many years questing on various waterways.“What he learned was that there wasn't really anything he was going to find out about himself that was going to improve things, and that the secret to finding happiness was to turn his lens outward,” McGrath says. “Rather than, in the Thoreauvian model, retreating to Walden Pond and staring into his reflection, he decided to go out into the world and to keep seeing new places and meeting new people; and by doing that, keep himself sufficiently occupied that he didn't have to struggle too much with worrying about who he was and what his own problems were.”Also on this week's episode, Elizabeth Harris has news from the literary world; and Lauren Christensen and MJ Franklin talk about what they've been reading. John Williams is the host.Here are the books discussed in this week's “What We're Reading”:“Young Mungo” by Douglas Stuart“Heartstopper: Volume One,” by Alice OsemanElena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, read by Hillary Huber“Catholics” by Brian MooreWe would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.

Writer Danyl McLauchlan returns to tackle life's big questions, ideas and thinkers. This week: in the 2010s readers devoured the four-book series known as the Neapolitan Novels, written under the pseudonym Elene Ferrante. The books are deeply political, and Danyl McLauchlan has been reading them and pondering our own politics - wondering whether Ferrante's novels explain it all.

THE WRITERS' ROOM - Should You Focus On One Writing Idea At A Time?“What you stay focused on will grow.”― Roy T. BennettThere is a metaphor describing the delicate balance of holding many projects on the go at the same time - plate spinning. Like the circus act, with all the plates spinning, you work successfully with several things at once. Can you do that with writing projects? Pete and Laura chat about the reasons spinning projects could be a way of procrastination, and how focus brings results. Laura mentions author Ryan Holiday's process of focus from his Instagram post storing information to write Courage Is CallingPersonal ProjectsIn this section, we share what we've been working on. Laura explains more about Derbyshire Writing School's 3% Club and her work this week in - working on theme based sessions created sessions for the course. Pete and Laura discuss the importance of book covers and book blurbs as Pete's part travel/part memoir second edit is complete. LESSONS WE'VE LEARNED THIS WEEK - What have we learned about writing & publishing this week?Pete talks about his experiences of asking for permission for quotes in his book. He mentions two resources:1 - Jane Friedman Sample Permission Letter2 - PSL ClearLaura explains why sometimes you can only see things with time.Recommended Product of the Week - The Alliance of Independent AuthorsLaura talks about how valuable she finds being a member of The Alliance of Independent Authors. The advice, supportive guidance, and the range of resources she has found within a welcoming community of authors, she finds, is worth exploring if you are an independent author. Not only can you join other developing writers if you become a member of The Alliance of Independent Authors, but by using our link, it helps support the work of Derbyshire Writing School. Thanks! BOOKS WE ARE READING AND RECOMMEND - What books are we reading this week?Laura enjoyed the fiction story - They both die at the end: ​​Adam Silvera.After watching Richard E. Grant BBC Series - Write Around The World - Pete embarks on the epic - The Neapolitan Novels #1,2,3 - now 4 - from Elena Ferrante Collection.WHAT'S HAPPENING AT DERBYSHIRE WRITING SCHOOL THIS WEEK? - How are we building the business this week?Laura talks through a fresh course led by Alex Davis, which is taking bookings now.Our Editing Your Novel course is perfect if you're looking to take your novel to the next level. With engaging and practical sessions, feedback on your work, plus advice from a working editor ­– this online course will help you learn how to edit your novel ready for publication.PERSONAL UPDATES - What's going on in our lives?Pete is finding fun strumming his guitar again, and Laura reads a wonderful email from our listener Renata.We want to hear from you! info@derbyshirewritingschool.comSend us a voice message.Thanks for listening!

On today's episode of our daily NYFF59 podcasts, NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim is joined by The Lost Daughter writer & director Maggie Gyllenhaal and cast members Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Jessie Buckley, Ed Harris, Paul Mescal, Peter Sarsgaard, and Dagmara Dominczyk to discuss their Spotlight selection of this year's festival. The NYFF59 screenings of The Lost Daughter are presented by Citi. Based on the 2006 novel by Elena Ferrante, Gyllenhaal's screen adaptation stars Olivia Colman as Leda, a divorced professor on a solitary summer vacation who becomes intrigued and then oddly involved in the lives of another family she meets there. Our wide-ranging discussion covers everything from hometown filmmaker Gyllenhaal's initial fascination with Ferrante's four Neapolitan Novels to how she eventually assembled her incredible cast. Also discussed are Johnson's breaking down the unique motivations of her character, Nina, as the story progresses, and how Mescal prepared for his role, his very first in a motion picture. Explore what's playing at NYFF and get tickets: https://filmlinc.org/nyff

For author Christopher Castellani, the proud son of Italian immigrants, the desire to tell the Italian American story through his writing has been a constant motivation. Yet, despite his abundant talent, irrepressible passion, and keen sense of his ethnic experience in America, upon entering the literary world, Christopher encountered one deep-seated -- and often discouraging -- preconception about Italian Americans: that we are people who don't read! So, Christopher set out to dispel that myth with a body of work in which the Italian American experience is a driving force behind his story. The first of his five critically-acclaimed novels, "A Kiss from Maddalena," winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in 2004, was inspired by the story of his Italian immigrant mother. His newest novel, "Leading Men" (for which he received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council) tells the true-life tale of Frank Merlo, partner and soothsayer of playwright Tennessee Williams and an unknown Italian American whose steady presence might just be what helped Williams achieve his greatest fame and literary success. Set to become a major motion picture, this award-winning novel is the result of decades of work by this passionate Italian American. Join us as we sit down with Christopher Castellani and discuss whether or not Italian Americans really are literary people, and how it is we can provide more opportunities for our story to be told. Of course, since this is the Italian American Podcast, we'll cover everything from exploring the impact of Elena Ferrante's “Neapolitan Novels” on Italian American culture to debating the merits of the movie “Fatso." Get ready for another wonderful conversation with a brilliant Italian American novelist!

There are a lot of very good, very long books out there: Middlemarch, War and Peace, Don Quixote, the Neapolitan Novels. And then there are the very long books you probably won't ever want to read, like Leonid Brezhnev's memoirs, Saddam Hussein's hackneyed romance novels, or the Kim family's film theory. This show is about that kind of very long book, and the man who decided to read all of them: Daniel Kalder, who joins us on the show to talk about his journey through The Infernal Library and what these books tell us about the dictatorial soul, assuming there is one. This episode originally aired in 2018.Go beyond the episode:Daniel Kalder's The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of LiteracyDive into Turkmenbashi's Ruhnama, if you dare.Daniel Kalder reviews Saddam Hussein's prose—he “tortured metaphors, too”—or you can read it yourselfOr check out Kalder's dispatches from The Guardian's “Dictator-lit” archivesWhile we couldn't find a video of Fidel Castro's four-hour-and-29-minute address to the United Nations in 1960, you can read it hereTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There are a lot of very good, very long books out there: Middlemarch, War and Peace, Don Quixote, the Neapolitan Novels. And then there are the very long books you probably won't ever want to read, like Leonid Brezhnev's memoirs, Saddam Hussein's hackneyed romance novels, or the Kim family's film theory. This show is about that kind of very long book, and the man who decided to read all of them: Daniel Kalder, who joins us on the show to talk about his journey through The Infernal Library and what these books tell us about the dictatorial soul, assuming there is one. This episode originally aired in 2018.Go beyond the episode:Daniel Kalder's The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of LiteracyDive into Turkmenbashi's Ruhnama, if you dare.Daniel Kalder reviews Saddam Hussein's prose—he “tortured metaphors, too”—or you can read it yourselfOr check out Kalder's dispatches from The Guardian's “Dictator-lit” archivesWhile we couldn't find a video of Fidel Castro's four-hour-and-29-minute address to the United Nations in 1960, you can read it hereTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

See Naples and...LIVE! On this week's episode we talk about My Brilliant Friend, the first in a four-novel series by pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante. The books trace the friendship of two girls, Lila and Lenù, growing up in post-war Naples. We talk about genius and learning, monsters and mobsters, and the city of Naples itself, both as a character in the book as well as a destination. What to see, where to go...and what to eat!Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, a four-volume series beginning with My Brilliant Friend, relate the long and complicated friendship between two girls, Lenù and Lila, from their childhood in the slums to old age, when Lila suddenly and mysteriously disappears. The books have become nothing short of a phenomenon, international bestsellers and an HBO miniseries. Some of the fascination no doubt is with Elena Ferrante herself, pen name of an unknown author, but certainly another source of the interest lies in the city of Naples itself, and its fundamental role in all four novels. This is not the Naples of cruise ships and Capri, this is a harsh and often ugly Naples, a city of squalor and violence.Lenù, narrator of My Brilliant Friend, reports that she left Naples definitely in 1995, just as the city was experiencing a renewal because she “no longer believed in its resurrections.” However Naples today is a surprising mix of ancient artifacts, vibrant street life, and amazing food, all with glorious views of Vesuvius and the sea. My Brilliant Friend tours have sprung up around the city, offering glimpses of Naples beyond the tourist center. And the island of Ischia, a pivotal plot location, can be reached by ferry in about an hour. While you are reading the books and watching the miniseries, start planning your next trip to Naples. Be prepared to be surprised.

Amy and Emily chat about what they're currently reading: Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America by Adam Cohen and The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante.Emily indulges her long-standing obsession with Elena Ferrante and the Neapolitan Novels and tries to convince Amy that her life remains incomplete until she reads them.

Ann Goldstein was just as excited as the most fervent Ferrante fanatics when she found out that Elena Ferrante was writing her first novel since the Neapolitan quartet concluded in 2015. As Ferrante’s longtime English translator, Goldstein was tipped off that the author might be writing a new work of fiction over five years ago. But the enigmatic figure — ”Elena Ferrante” is a pseudonym, as she’s never revealed herself publicly — writes on her own timeline. “She writes for herself. When she thinks that the book is finished then she will hand it in. If she doesn’t think it’s finished, she will not hand it in,” Goldstein tells Bustle of awaiting the manuscript. “Over those five years [the publishers] thought that she was writing something, but she never finished it. So [when] they told me this was the real thing I was really excited.” The result of Ferrante’s nearly half a decade of work is The Lying Life of Adults, which tells the story of Giovanna, a young woman who overhears her father saying that she is beginning to look more and more like her mysterious and controversial aunt Vittoria every day. The revelation sets Giovanna off on a quest to meet her aunt, leading her to discover a grittier, more problematic side of her hometown. While many were elated to find out The Lying Life of Adults would transport them back to the cultural milieu of Lenù and Lila’s Naples, Goldstein’s interests were piqued elsewhere. “The differences were more interesting to me than the similarities,” she explains. “It’s a very different [city] from the Naples of the Neapolitan Novels. You are starting off in a very middle class area and there’s a divide between this Naples and the poor working-class Naples [from the] novels.” The book’s publication marks the 15th anniversary of Ferrante and Goldstein’s creative partnership, during which the two women have grown to become literary giants in their own right. With Ferrante scarcely giving interviews, Goldstein has served as an avatar of sorts for the author, filling in at press events, speaking with the media for stories like this one, and inspiring a fandom all her own. But Goldstein makes the delineation between her and Ferrante clear. “I do not speak for the author. I did not create the characters, I did not write the book,” she says. “I can only really speak about the language [and] my relationship to it.” Ahead of The Lying Life of Adults’ release, Bustle spoke with Goldstein about the word “Smarginatura,” emailing with Ferrante, and why she can’t quit the New Yorker’s style guide. I make a really fast, ugly rough draft. I look up the [Italian] words and if something doesn’t make sense, I just let it go. Then I gradually refine it in the second draft. I’ll usually print it out and do one revise on paper, then again on the screen. I’ll often put two or three different choices for a word into the manuscript. Then I just keep going over it, and over it, and over it until it seems right. Because it’s important to get the right [translation for a] word, but it’s also important to get the word that makes sense [in a larger context]. Sometimes I’ll spend 20 minutes, a half an hour, or days trying to come up with the right word. The famous word that people talk about [me translating] is “Smarginatura.” [It] means dissolving boundaries or margins disappearing. I researched the word and I read several different derivations, but basically [the word] was having to do with the edges of the pages bleeding off the margins. It was literally like the margins of the page dissolving. So I would just think of all the different combinations. I don’t think I even had “dissolving” [in the translation] in the beginning, I just kept trying different combinations. I’m reading a book by an Italian writer called Emanuele Trevi, which isn’t translated in English. It’s called L'allegra brigata. I translated one of his books called Something Written. He writes these memoirs with literary criticism all mixed in together. I just read The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard, which is about Naples actually, and it’s a wonderful book. I worked at the New Yorker [as the head of the copy department] for many years and we had a list of banned words and phrases there, which is still in my writing brain. I spell words with double letters as the New Yorker does. So "cancelled" or "marvellous", "travelled", things like that. There’s also certain grammatical things that I still mostly do — like the way the New Yorker uses commas or where they use hyphens. At some point, I forget if it was after the first or second book, she said that she trusted me. So I just thought that was sufficient. This interview has been edited and condensed.

British artist Luke Jerram discusses his new work, In Memoriam, a large-scale outdoor installation designed specifically to be presented in large open and windy spaces, constructed from bed sheets flying from tall flagpoles arranged in a 36-metre wide circular formation. It was created as a temporary memorial to honour those we have lost during the Covid-19 pandemic and also in tribute to NHS staff and key workers. The Lying Life of Adults is the much-anticipated new novel from Elena Ferrante, the author of the quartet of books known as the Neapolitan Novels. It’s familiar ground as we follow a teenage girl and her negotiation of life both with her middle-class parents and on the rougher side of town – but will it satisfy the Ferrante fans? Critic and writer Thea Lenarduzzi reviews Love in Colour is the name of a collection of fresh and romantic takes on myths from around the world by self-proclaimed "romcomoisseur" and writer Bolu Babalola. She joins Front Row to talk about decolonising traditional tales and why she believes in the power of love. As Britney Spears continues her legal battle to remove father as her conservator, music journalist Laura Barton explains the latest and considers other examples of parents exerting control over their high-profile offspring. Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker would have been 100 years old tomorrow. He died tragically young at the age of 34 but his genius still exerts a powerful influence over popular music today, including bands like Red Hot Chilli Peppers. British alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch is a fan and tells us why Parker is still so important. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Jerome Weatherald

Do you have an active intellectual life? That is a question you may feel uncomfortable answering these days given that the very phrase “intellectual life” can strike some people as pretentious or self-indulgent, even irresponsible in a time of pandemic disease. But what better time could there be for an examination of the subject of the inner life? And what is “the intellectual life,” anyway? In her 2020 book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press, 2020), Zena Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading by oneself but can encompass everything from a lifelong fascination with falcons to strategies for retaining one’s sanity and humanity in a gulag or producing ground-breaking political and sociological writings in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy. In the course of her book, Hitz deploys real-world examples from young Einstein in his day job in a Swiss patent office to Malcolm X’s encounter with the fellow prison inmate who first urged him to embark on a life-changing course of reading to Dorothy Day’s encounters with books throughout her life and their influence on her youthful secular radicalism to her conversion to Catholicism and continued activism. We also encounter St. Augustine and take a deep dive into Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels and travel with a Preston Sturges hero in a screwball comedy/social commentary film. Hitz’s reader-friendly examination of the intellectual life is ideal reading for the millions of us confined to our homes due to the coronavirus and who now have time to read and think seriously about matters of mortality and the meaning of life, which are suddenly front and center in our daily lives. And at a time of pandemic-related economic peril for liberal arts colleges and programs, Hitz’s take on what ailed them even before our current crisis and her prescription for a way forward for those that survive the next several years are must reading for not only academics but all citizens who care about how civilization itself carries on. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you have an active intellectual life? That is a question you may feel uncomfortable answering these days given that the very phrase “intellectual life” can strike some people as pretentious or self-indulgent, even irresponsible in a time of pandemic disease. But what better time could there be for an examination of the subject of the inner life? And what is “the intellectual life,” anyway? In her 2020 book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press, 2020), Zena Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading by oneself but can encompass everything from a lifelong fascination with falcons to strategies for retaining one’s sanity and humanity in a gulag or producing ground-breaking political and sociological writings in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy. In the course of her book, Hitz deploys real-world examples from young Einstein in his day job in a Swiss patent office to Malcolm X’s encounter with the fellow prison inmate who first urged him to embark on a life-changing course of reading to Dorothy Day’s encounters with books throughout her life and their influence on her youthful secular radicalism to her conversion to Catholicism and continued activism. We also encounter St. Augustine and take a deep dive into Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels and travel with a Preston Sturges hero in a screwball comedy/social commentary film. Hitz’s reader-friendly examination of the intellectual life is ideal reading for the millions of us confined to our homes due to the coronavirus and who now have time to read and think seriously about matters of mortality and the meaning of life, which are suddenly front and center in our daily lives. And at a time of pandemic-related economic peril for liberal arts colleges and programs, Hitz’s take on what ailed them even before our current crisis and her prescription for a way forward for those that survive the next several years are must reading for not only academics but all citizens who care about how civilization itself carries on. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you have an active intellectual life? That is a question you may feel uncomfortable answering these days given that the very phrase “intellectual life” can strike some people as pretentious or self-indulgent, even irresponsible in a time of pandemic disease. But what better time could there be for an examination of the subject of the inner life? And what is “the intellectual life,” anyway? In her 2020 book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press, 2020), Zena Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading by oneself but can encompass everything from a lifelong fascination with falcons to strategies for retaining one’s sanity and humanity in a gulag or producing ground-breaking political and sociological writings in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy. In the course of her book, Hitz deploys real-world examples from young Einstein in his day job in a Swiss patent office to Malcolm X’s encounter with the fellow prison inmate who first urged him to embark on a life-changing course of reading to Dorothy Day’s encounters with books throughout her life and their influence on her youthful secular radicalism to her conversion to Catholicism and continued activism. We also encounter St. Augustine and take a deep dive into Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels and travel with a Preston Sturges hero in a screwball comedy/social commentary film. Hitz’s reader-friendly examination of the intellectual life is ideal reading for the millions of us confined to our homes due to the coronavirus and who now have time to read and think seriously about matters of mortality and the meaning of life, which are suddenly front and center in our daily lives. And at a time of pandemic-related economic peril for liberal arts colleges and programs, Hitz’s take on what ailed them even before our current crisis and her prescription for a way forward for those that survive the next several years are must reading for not only academics but all citizens who care about how civilization itself carries on. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you have an active intellectual life? That is a question you may feel uncomfortable answering these days given that the very phrase “intellectual life” can strike some people as pretentious or self-indulgent, even irresponsible in a time of pandemic disease. But what better time could there be for an examination of the subject of the inner life? And what is “the intellectual life,” anyway? In her 2020 book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press, 2020), Zena Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading by oneself but can encompass everything from a lifelong fascination with falcons to strategies for retaining one’s sanity and humanity in a gulag or producing ground-breaking political and sociological writings in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy. In the course of her book, Hitz deploys real-world examples from young Einstein in his day job in a Swiss patent office to Malcolm X’s encounter with the fellow prison inmate who first urged him to embark on a life-changing course of reading to Dorothy Day’s encounters with books throughout her life and their influence on her youthful secular radicalism to her conversion to Catholicism and continued activism. We also encounter St. Augustine and take a deep dive into Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels and travel with a Preston Sturges hero in a screwball comedy/social commentary film. Hitz’s reader-friendly examination of the intellectual life is ideal reading for the millions of us confined to our homes due to the coronavirus and who now have time to read and think seriously about matters of mortality and the meaning of life, which are suddenly front and center in our daily lives. And at a time of pandemic-related economic peril for liberal arts colleges and programs, Hitz’s take on what ailed them even before our current crisis and her prescription for a way forward for those that survive the next several years are must reading for not only academics but all citizens who care about how civilization itself carries on. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you have an active intellectual life? That is a question you may feel uncomfortable answering these days given that the very phrase “intellectual life” can strike some people as pretentious or self-indulgent, even irresponsible in a time of pandemic disease. But what better time could there be for an examination of the subject of the inner life? And what is “the intellectual life,” anyway? In her 2020 book, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Princeton University Press, 2020), Zena Hitz explores the interior world and shows that intellectual endeavor is not simply a matter of reading by oneself but can encompass everything from a lifelong fascination with falcons to strategies for retaining one's sanity and humanity in a gulag or producing ground-breaking political and sociological writings in a prison cell in Mussolini's Italy. In the course of her book, Hitz deploys real-world examples from young Einstein in his day job in a Swiss patent office to Malcolm X's encounter with the fellow prison inmate who first urged him to embark on a life-changing course of reading to Dorothy Day's encounters with books throughout her life and their influence on her youthful secular radicalism to her conversion to Catholicism and continued activism. We also encounter St. Augustine and take a deep dive into Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels and travel with a Preston Sturges hero in a screwball comedy/social commentary film. Hitz's reader-friendly examination of the intellectual life is ideal reading for the millions of us confined to our homes due to the coronavirus and who now have time to read and think seriously about matters of mortality and the meaning of life, which are suddenly front and center in our daily lives. And at a time of pandemic-related economic peril for liberal arts colleges and programs, Hitz's take on what ailed them even before our current crisis and her prescription for a way forward for those that survive the next several years are must reading for not only academics but all citizens who care about how civilization itself carries on. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

Hello you naughty little possums...This week we watched the Netflix equivalent of a 2am kebab, the reality show 'Too Hot to Handle', where a bunch of attractive people have to try to keep their hands to themselves under the watchful eye of a robot.Will also be talking about the controversial mail-order bride industry. Did you know 3000-7000 people move to Australia each year on “prospective marriage” visas? Does true love know no borders?--------------------- Grace's Links -------------------The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante - https://www.booktopia.com.au/my-brilliant-friend-elena-ferrante/book/9781925240009.htmlGhosts TV show on Stan - https://play.stan.com.au/programs/56501Radio Interview with Virginia Trioli - http://www.trashandtreasury.com.au/?page_id=25446An open letter to Osher Günsberg from two quarantine podcasters by Grace Mountford and Miranda Hetherington--------------------- Miranda's Links -------------------Rent the movie 'About Time' on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAYtP5Jg93MWatch 'Normal People' on Stan - https://play.stan.com.au/programs/56885Reminder of the movie 'Yesterday' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VP5B_2JAO8 or Prime Video-------------------- General Links --------------------------1800 Respect - https://www.1800respect.org.au/?gclid=CjwKCAjwztL2BRATEiwAvnALctoV6mQVD3w9QBMu27zoJRTMCSLdneYU8l_xcD4sgkyxv2rszHsJURoCvKUQAvD_BwELifeline Australia - Call 13 11 14 or head to their website https://www.lifeline.org.au/------------------- Show Links --------------------------------Website - https://www.facebook.com/trashandtreasury/Facebook - www.trashandtreasury.com.auInsta - @trashandtreasury

This week's minisode is all about women's voices! We chat about works of women that have inspired us, our favourite books by them and some wonderful empowerment. All voices are important and that's why it's so important to read as many of them as possible! Let us know what you think @throughthepagespod Books/Authors mentioned: The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf's works, Jane Austen, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, Circe by Madeline Miller, The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson, Die zwei Schwerter des Samurai by Natalie Marrer, Becoming by Michelle Obama and last but not least Notes to Self: Essays by Emilie Pine

On this bonus episode, Jenny reports on the first quarter of her TBR Explode project (now on its second year) and announces this year's Reading Envy Summer Reading Challenge! It's almost May, so it's almost summer, depending on how you define it. Please let me know what you are reading for your summer reading by using the hashtag #readingenvysummerreading - yes I left the challenge part out but it's long enough.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 188: TBR Explode and SUMMER READING Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Listen via StitcherListen through Spotify Books discussed: Kept on TBR but did not finish The Forgotten Garden by Kate MortonTalking to Girls About Duran Duran by Rob SheffieldWent ahead and read The River Gods by Brian KiteleyThe Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando SkyhorseBeginner’s Greek by James CollinsA Brief History of Time by Shaindel BeersUnformed Landscape by Peter StammTried and abandoned The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. MoraisHeart of Lies by M.L. MalcolmMy Empire of Dirt by Manny HowardWonder by Hugo ClausThe Twin by Gerbrand BakkerKings of the Earth by Jon ClinchThe Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean GreerTwo Marriages by Phillip LopateWhat is Left the Daughter by Howard NormanThe Bible Salesman by Clyde EdgertonLush Life by Richard PriceIn the Kitchen by Monica AliThe Grift by Debra GinsbergMy Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John UpdikePygmy by Chuck PalahniukA Good Fall by Ha JinThe Case of the Missing Books by Ian SansomThe Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass The Cookbook Collector by Allegra GoodmanCheese Making by Rita AshThe Irresistible Henry House by Lisa GrunwaldCountry Driving by Peter HesslerThe Big Short by Michael LewisOther mentions:The Last Policeman series by Ben H. Winters (The Last Policeman is book 1)Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French (In the Woods is book 1)Tana French - Book Riot recommended order The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante (My Brilliant Friend is book 1)Related episodes:Episode 024 - The Attention of Humanity with guests Seth Wilson and Barret Newman Episode 149 - TBR Explode! (2019)Episode 158 - TBR Explode 2 (2019)Episode 168 - TBR Explode 3 (2019)Episode 169 - Simulacrum with Jon Sealy   Episode 174 - Cozy Holiday Reads and TBR Explode 4 (2019)Stalk us online:Jenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy

This is a rerun, prompted by the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, based on the  “Neapolitan Novels” of Elena Ferrante. Ferrante’s identity remains beguilingly unknown, but she has put so much of her life and ... The post The Many Faces of Ferrante appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

This is a rerun, prompted by the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, based on the  “Neapolitan Novels” of Elena Ferrante. Ferrante’s identity remains beguilingly unknown, but she has put so much of her life and ... The post The Many Faces of Ferrante appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon.

While our scripted finale is in the works, Shannon returns with another bonus episode of "Little Women"-adjacent recommendations to help get listeners through quarantine with their sanity intact. We'll return to heavier subjects, including Louisa May Alcott's time as an army nurse, in a few weeks. Our whole team hopes this episode finds you safe and healthy.Titles recommended include:American Girl: Meet Addie/Addie series, Dear America: A Picture of Freedom, Dear America: When Will This Cruel War Be Over?, Dear America: I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly, Dear America: A Light in the Storm, Anne of Green Gables (series), Anne of Green Gables (miniseries), Anne with an E (Netflix/CBC series), All of a Kind Family (series), Betsy-Tacy (series), Cheaper by the Dozen (book), The works of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (2005 film), Emma. (2020 film), The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (webseries), Marrying Mr. Darcy, Cold Comfort Farm, Cold Comfort Farm (1995 film), I Capture the Castle, I Capture the Castle (2003 film), The Neapolitan Novels, My Brilliant Friend (HBO series).

In the past 10 years, Elena Ferrante's quartet of books, the Neapolitan Novels, so captivated readers that many swarmed Naples, Italy, searching for mentioned sites. Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad" sparked deep conversations on slavery nationwide. Some books of the past decade will stick with us for years and others will drift out of our memories. As we enter the final days of the decade, Forum reflects on its best and most beloved books. Tell us: what is your favorite book of the 2010s?

Our annual roundup of all the books we read in 2019! We share number of books read (Hannah smokes us all, of course), give out awards, and look ahead to 2020. Links:  NYT 100 Notable books for 2019 Patricia Lockwood on John Updike Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Gwenyth Paltrow/Goop  Books mentioned: Furious Hours, Casey Cep; The Topeka School, Ben Lerner; Fleishman is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner; Normal People & Converations with Friends, Sally Rooney; Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday; Trust Exercise, Susan Choi; Transcription, Kate Atkinson; The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson; Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood; Educated, Tara Westover; Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo; Ladies Who Punch, Ramin Setoodeh; Here I am, Jonathan Safran Foer; The Overstory, Richard Powers; Find Me, Andre Aciman; The Patrick Melrose novels, Edward St Aubyn; Circe, Madeline Miller; Frankenstein, Mary Shelley; Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevksy; The Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante; Howard’s End, E.M. Forster.

This Week's Guest If you missed last weeks‘ guest was Marcus G Miller. He was born and raised in Jersey, from a sax-playing accountant father and a schizophrenia suffering Mother, he graduated Harvard University, became a hedge fund trader before becoming a professional jazz musician and mathematician.Marcus has since performed at the Obama White House, Madison Square Garden, The World Economic Forum at Davos, The Montreux Jazz Festival, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and recently spoke at the TED Summit in Edinburgh. Marcus is a genuine polymath and is exploring the structural similarities between math, and music, to enable creative problem solvers to unlock their imagination and to ‘jam' on the world's toughest challenges.I hope you enjoy the intellectual curiosity and expansive imagination of Marcus G Miller. The Podcast we Love Big Questions with Cal Fussman has been one of our weekly listens since Tim Ferris persuaded him to start one. We just caught up on some recent episodes and loved the interview with Muhammad Ali's daughter Hana, three years after Ali's passing.She talks about her dad and the book she has written called 'At Home With Muhammad Ali.The conversation opens a window into how life was like in the moments when the cameras weren't around and his unique capacity to connect with the world. What a giant of a man. What a giant of a man. We found this online As we increasingly seek control over our privacy rights online, China just introduced a new rule requiring face scans of customers signing up for new mobile plans that came into effect Dec. 1, amid widespread adoption of facial-recognition technology across the country.Read here the piece on the policy is part of a broader push by the Chinese government to limit people's ability to stay anonymous online increasing their fear that biometric data could be compromised.Is this the state of things to come?Recommended to usWe have not seen it yet but we have been told that if you are in London a must see theatre experience is stage adaptation of Elena Ferrante's The Neapolitan Novels - into a two part play My Brilliant Friend, five action-packed hours now at the national theatreMovie of the week Diego MaradonaLove him or loathe him Diego Maradonna documentary is mesmerizing as it tells the story of this celebrated and controversial soccer player as he arrives in Naples in 1984, for a world-record fee. It recounts the miracles he performed on the field and includes more than 500 hours of never-before-seen footage from Maradona's personal archives, and decades-old news footage and interviews with historians and journalists. Wonderful storytelling.Mulling on this We found this article on Fast Company... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In todays episode there is lots of love in the air, but as well talks about life, friendship and masculinity. Also we are happy to announce that we have our second guest speaker for the OBR podcast, namely Erik Diaz Milla! Unfortunately, the sound quality is on certain moments even worse than usual during the podcast, our apologies for the inconvenience. Nevertheless, enjoy! Having any thoughts, suggestions, or complaints? We would love to receive your feedback, which you can email to: obrpodcast@gmail.com

In Episode 14, Lindsey J. Palmer (author of Otherwise Engaged) joins me to talk about her book and her reading and writing life. This post contains affiliate links, through which I make a small commission when you make a purchase (at no cost to you!). Highlights Lindsey’s interviews with Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton (from Friday Night Lights). Authors pulling from real life for their fiction…and how that impacts their real life friends and family. Lindsey’s experience writing a novel (her second, If We Lived Here) that pulled parts from her own marriage. If Lindsey is able to choose a favorite of her own books. How Lindsey manages to write novels with a full-time job and a two year old child. When Lindsey fits in reading time. Lindsey’s Go-To Authors. Why publication day is both the best and worst day of authors’ lives. What Lindsey thinks of the term “chick lit”. Lindsey’s Book Recommendations Two OLD Books She Loves Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [19:55] The Divorce Papers by Susan Rieger (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [23:08] Two NEW Books She Loves Joy Enough by Sarah McColl | Buy from Amazon [26:01] There, There by Tommy Orange | Buy from Amazon [27:42] One Book She Didn’t Love A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [29:40] One Upcoming Releases She’s Excited About Normal People by Sally Rooney (April 16) | Buy from Amazon [32:31] Other Books Mentioned Pretty in Ink by Lindsey J. Palmer | Buy from Amazon [8:29] Holly Banks Full of Angst by Julie Valerie (Release Date: November 1) | Buy from Amazon[17:45] You Think It, I’ll Say It: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [18:14] The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante | Buy from Amazon [18:31] The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk | Buy from Amazon [18:43] The Heirs by Susan Rieger | Buy from Amazon [24:59] The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [25:30] The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz | Buy from Amazon [28:46] Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney | Buy from Amazon [32:31] Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (My Review) | Buy from Amazon [39:27] Other Links #SpiveysClub Facebook Group Episode 7: Ashley Spivey (where she recommends Otherwise Engaged) Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY The Wedding Toast I’ll Never Give (Ada Calhoun’s essay for the New York Times Modern Love section) Winter 2019 Book Preview podcast episode Annie Jones from the From the Front Porch podcast About Lindsey Author Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook After a childhood spent devouring every book and magazine I could get my hands on and dreaming up stories that took place along the Oregon Trail, I left the suburbs of Boston to attend the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. As an English major and Benjamin Franklin Honors Scholar, I continued devouring every book and magazine I could get my hands on and dreaming up stories (most of which didn’t take place along the Oregon Trail). Post-college, I shipped out to bucolic Vermont to teach creative writing and Pilates to high school kids at a summer arts camp. There, I picked blueberries, ran across rolling hills, and realized I was not nearly mature enough to be teaching anyone much of anything. And so I moved to Manhattan and broke into magazine publishing, starting at Glamour and then moving on to Redbook and next Self, where I was Features Editor. I worked on stories about relationships and sex, parenting, social activism, career and finances, and well-being; I interviewed the occasional V.I.P. (including Michelle Obama and both Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton, a.k.a. Coach and Mrs. Taylor for Friday Night Lights fans); and I gathered material for what would eventually become my debut novel, PRETTY IN INK. After nearly a decade in publishing, I decided I was finally ready to try my hand at teaching again. So I waved goodbye to magazines and began my Master’s of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. I took classes on Shakespeare and adolescent literature, and talked books with teenagers. I then joined the faculty of NEST+m, a Manhattan public high school, as the A.P. Literature and Creative Writing teacher, plus advisor of the literary magazine, the yearbook, and National Honor Society. During my three years of teaching, I aspired to be a slightly more down-to-earth reincarnation of my favorite fictional teacher, Miss Jean Brody. These days, I work as a scriptwriter at BrainPOP, an animated educational site for kids. I spend my days researching topics as diverse as Nuclear Fusion, Emily Dickinson, and the Tuskegee Airmen, and then translating what I’ve learned into an engaging, narrative format. My scripts get made into short films to be shown in classrooms grades 4-10, nationwide and around the world. I live in Brooklyn, NY with my husband and 1-year-old daughter. Support the Podcast Share - If you like the podcast, I’d love for you to share it with your reader friends…in real life and on social media (there’s easy share buttons at the bottom of this post!). Subscribe...wherever you listen to podcasts, so new episodes will appear in your feed as soon as they’re released. Rate and Review - Search for “Sarah’s Book Shelves” in Apple Podcasts…or wherever you listen to podcasts! Feedback - I want this podcast to fit what you’re looking for, so I truly do want your feedback! 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For pretty much as long as we've been producing Book Shambles, Josie has been recommending everyone read the Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante. She even had the first book on her cape in Cosmic Superheroes. So with the My Beautiful Friend series just coming out we thought we should do a Ferrante special with Josie and two other mega fans. So joined by Sara Pascoe and Tania Edwards, they dig into her work and many other tangents. Fair warning though, spoilers abound. Support the CSN at patreon.com/bookshambles and get extended episodes of Book Shambles. Over 20 minutes extra in this week's episode!

In our 50th episode and last of 2018, we are discussing the 8 episode HBO adaptation of Elena Ferrante's novel My Brilliant Friend. We are joined once again by Max from Well Done Books, who discussed the book with us in episode 41. In anticipation of the upcoming HBO adaptation, this week we are discussing Elena Ferrante's novel My Brilliant Friend. Published in 2011, the book is the first of four Neapolitan Novels, and follows the deep but complicated friendship of two young women in Naples, Italy. Helping us dive into this story this week is Max from Well Done Books. Find us all on Twitter: Max: twitter.com/maxwdunn Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

In anticipation of the upcoming HBO adaptation, this week we are discussing Elena Ferrante's novel My Brilliant Friend. Published in 2011, the book is the first of four Neapolitan Novels, and follows the deep but complicated friendship of two young women in Naples, Italy. Helping us dive into this story this week is Max from Well Done Books. Find us all on Twitter: Max: twitter.com/maxwdunn Nicole: twitter.com/sweeneysays Marines: twitter.com/mynameismarines twitter.com/snark_squad www.snarksquad.com

Yaz and Majka had an oh-so-busy July listening to audiobooks, watching a helluva lot of movies and reality TV shows, bopping to The Killers, and educating themselves - and YOU! - on the White Helmets and the World Cup. Reading My Brilliant Friend (#1 The Neapolitan Novels) by Elena Ferrante The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings #1) by Mackenzi Lee Leah on the Offbeat (Creekwood #2) by Becky Albertalli Watching Big Little Lies The Departed Mama Mia: Here We Go Again Love Island UK Irish Surgery Reveals Increase in Bookings Since The Beginning Of Love Island: https://stellar.ie/trending/irish-surgery-reveals-increase-in-bookings-since-the-beginning-of-love-island/59122 Love Island Viewers Saw A Different Side To Alex Last Night, And They Didn’t Like It: https://stellar.ie/trending/love-island-viewers-saw-a-different-side-to-alex-last-night-and-they-didnt-like-it/58724 Piers Morgan Tried To Humiliate Love Island’s Hayley Live On Air… And It Did Not Work: https://stellar.ie/trending/piers-morgan-tried-to-humiliate-love-islands-hayley-live-on-air-and-it-did-not-work/58453 How Love Island 2018 Is Opening Up The Conversation On Emotional Abuse: https://stellar.ie/real-talk/how-love-island-2018-is-opening-up-the-conversation-on-emotional-abuse/58560 Does Love Island Have A Body Diversity Issue?: https://stellar.ie/real-talk/does-love-island-have-a-body-diversity-issue/57850 Listening The Killers (GO SEE THEM LIVE OR REGRET IT 5EVA) Politics White Helmets Coming to Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/white-helmets-syria-rescue-mission-jordan-canada-freeland-trudeau-1.4757353 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4757768/white-helmets-headed-to-canada-would-stay-in-syria-if-they-could-says-volunteer-1.4758394 Who are the White Helemts?: https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/09/syria-white-helmets/502073/ Russian mis-information about the White Helmets: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/syria-white-helmets-conspiracy-theories Rescue by Israel: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-white-helmets-syrias-noble-rescuers-have-to-be-rescued-by-israel Social Pipes Email: differentthingscanbesad@gmail.com Instagram: @DTCBSpodcast Twitter: @DTCBSpodcast Yaz: @yazminelomax  Majka: @msclearwater

When the temperature and timing are right, some reading experiences can feel like fever dreams; narrative immersions that keep you up late into the night and transport you across oceans and decades. Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels – My Brilliant Friend (2012), The Story of  a New Name (2013), Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay... Read More

This week we're celebrating gal pals in real life and in book life with the help of Kayleen Schaefer's Text Me When You Get Home. You'll find a review, some great suggestions for books about friends, and some friends from books. Books mentioned: The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson, Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Turtles All the Way Down by John Green Our next discussion is going to be about A Week To Be Wicked by Tessa Dare. You can get it at the library or your local bookstore and read along with us.

Founder of the iconic group The Go Betweens, Robert Forster, joins Robin and Josie this week to talk about his new book Grant and I. There's also chat of the work of Alan Bennett, Jack Kerouac and TS Elliot. And then Josie discovers Robert is a fan of The Neapolitan Novels... To hear extended versions of Book Shambles plus the chance to win great book prizes, and bask in the satisfaction of knowing that for as little as $3 a month you can keep BooK Shambles going, head to http://patreon.com/bookshambles

I’m so happy to share with you the interview I had with writer, father, and thinker of cool thoughts, Micheal Hingston. Micheal is an author and journalist, with articles written in The Guardian, The Walrus, Salon, The National Post, Wired, etc etc etc. Mike is also one of the guests that was referred to me by another guest because he wanted to really expand his thoughts on fatherhood, and wanted to share a specific topic. I have to say, I love when both of those things happen, when a guest is referred by another guest, and when they come by with something specific they want to discuss. In this case it was of the nurturing value of a father kissing his son, and how and why he believes it’s important for every father to kiss their son. Between all that, we chat about what it is to raise a son and daughter, what’s it like to be conflicted about a sport you love, and his views about his father.  You can see what Micheal has been up to, and read his articles at his website  You can also buy his book The Dilettantes in Amazon or his other project, The Short Story Advent Calendar. Michael also mentioned a series of books he's been reading called The Neapolitan Novels and they are done by Elena Ferrante. And last but not least, give Michael a follow on Twitter and tell him how much you liked hearing his voice