Podcasts about necessary lies

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for returning to the show notes and being such faithful listeners! We apologize for the delay in publishing this episode! Life tends to have a way of allowing things to get away from us, we're only human, and all of that! So I hope you'll forgive your favorite bookcasters for being a bit behind on this week's episode! 10:35 - How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found by Sara Nickerson 11:17 - The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer 11:43 - Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling 12:32 - Dr. Seuss Books 12:43 - Nancy Drew Books by Carolyn Keene / The Hardy Boys Books by Franklin w. Dixon/ The Boxcar Children Books by Gertrude Chandler Warner / American Girl Books 12:59 - The Secret Garden by Francs Hodgson Burnett13:08 - The Babysitter Club Books by Ann M. Martin 13:26 - Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen / The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain14:14 - Edgar Allan Poe 14:21 - The Odyssey by Homer / The Iliad by Homer 19:59 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 22:15 - Blood Red by James A. Moore 23:55 - The Mysterious Island by Jules VerneTV Show Lost / TV Show Black Mirror / TV Show The I-Land25:56 - Murder In The Bowery by Victoria Thompson 27:23 - Old Magic by Marianne Curley 28:35 - Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain29:50 - Some Kind Of Happiness by Claire Legrand31:01 - An Arrow To The Moon by X. R. Pan    32:09 - Storm And Silence by Robert Thier 33:22 - The End Of October by Lawrence Wright 39:44 - Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn 40:45 - DragonQuest (2) by Donita K. Paul / Dragonspell (1) / Dragonknight (3)41:39 - Run, rose, Run by James Patterson & Dolly Parton 42:28 - Goblin: A Novel In Six Novellas by Josh Malerman 45:05 - The Sandman Act I, Audible Original by Neil Gaiman / Also mentioned The Sandman Graphic Novels by Neil Gaiman 46:27 - Lock Every Door by Riley Sager 47:17 - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager49:30 - Follow Me To Ground by Sue Rainsford 53:36 - Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente / Also mentioned Movie, Mother! 201757:38 - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 59:31 - Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie 1:00:00 - I'm Thinking Of Ending Things by Iain Reid / Foe: A Novel by Iain Reid 1:02:00 - The Haunting Of Hill House / The Haunting Of Bly Manor Netflix Originals1:06:37 - The Lottery by Shirley Jackson1:07:43 - The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James 1:08:39 - Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling Be sure to keep yourself Happily Booked! Instagram/ TikTok - happilybookedpodcastFacebook - Happily Booked PodcastLikewise - BrookeBatesHappilyBookedGoodreads - Brooke Lynn Bates Storygraph - brookebatesratesbooks THE Sideways Sheriff - Permanent Sponsor Insta/ TikTok - Sideways_sheriffFacebook - Sideways SheriffYoutube - Sideways Sheriff

   March 7, 2022 - Best-selling author Eva Stachniak joins us to discuss her latest novel, The School of Mirrors. "During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished but lovely teenage girls from all over France are sent to a discreet villa in the town of Versailles. Overseen by the King's favorite mistress, Madame de Pompadour, they will be trained as potential courtesans for the King. ... The students at this 'School of Mirrors' rarely ask questions, and when Louis tires of them, they are married off to minor aristocrats or allowed to retire to one of the more luxurious nunneries." It's a rich and enjoyable story, focusing not just on the ribald details, but on the relationship between a mother and her daughter, who succeeds despite the many obstacles to women at the time, but longs to know the truth about her father's identity. Eva Stachniak was born in Wrocław, Poland, moved to Canada in 1981, and has worked for Radio Canada International and Sheridan College, where she taught English and Humanities. She is the bestselling author of The Winter Palace, Empress of the Night, Necessary Lies, and  Garden of Venus, in addition to The Chosen Maiden. You can find our interview on The Chosen Maiden in our archives. I was also honored that Eva asked me to MC an event and Q&A at the Kosciuszko Center in Manhattan some years back. You should absolutely check them out if you're interested in preserving the history of this dual American and Polish hero. Visit our guest at EvaStachniak.com or find her at Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

The Flight Room Podcast #63(Importance of perspective, necessary lies, Rachael Nichols, 2M War)

I want to review for you an excellent though often very sad novel by Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies. There are two primary  narrative voices. Ivy, a fifteen year old girl who lives on a tobacco farm and takes care of her intellectually challenged sister, Mary Ella,  her grandmother whom everyone calls Nonnie, and her nephew, Baby William, Mary Ella’s infant son. Jane, the other narrator, is a recently employed social worker for the state of North Carolina, and Ivy, her sister and the household are some of her first clients. Jane has just married a doctor who is not at all happy with her taking a job at all, let alone one in which she deals with welfare recipients and even people of color. Mary Ella has her baby out of wedlock and refuses to name the father. Mary Ella is a beautiful blond girl who is intellectually challenged, and although the reader is not informed of this until fairly far into the novel, she has already been sterilized (under the pretense of an appendectomy) due to her low IQ, and her being on welfare. Nonnie, the grandmother has agreed to the sterilization because she thinks the family simply cannot afford another baby, and May Ella shows no signs of changing her behavior with the boys who chase after her. Mr. Gardiner, the owner of the tobacco farm allows the family to live for free in a tiny shack on the farm; he also allows a black family headed by a mother, Lita, to live in a similar shack with her three sons, one of whom is almost completely blind. Nonnie lives in constant fear that Gardiner will force them to leave the house and to stop giving them produce (which they refer to as a little something extra). Both girls work on the farm for very low wages, and even the grandmother, much hampered by arthritis, works some in the tobacco barns stripping and wrapping tobacco leaves. It is only after some weeks on the job that Jane learns of the eugenics program in North Carolina. She is just beginning to gain the trust of Ivy when she is told by her superior that the state is preparing to take away Baby William. She comes to learn that Mary Ella has already been sterilized, although Mary Ella has not been told, tricked into the procedure and told that she simply had an appendectomy. Ivy is the good girl who worries about the promiscuity of her pretty sister and the declining health of Nonnie. Mary Ella has a wonderful relationship with her infant son, but she is neglectful and the State decides that Baby William is in danger living in the household.Soon, Jane is fighting on two fronts, fighting her husband and his family over her work which they find unnecessary and demeaning, and her superiors who think themselves entirely justified in performing sterilizations without informing the victims for a variety of trumped up reasons, but most of it coming down simply to their being on welfare. Although Ivy does well in school and seems quite bright to Jane (certainly bright enough to keep her family together and fed),  IQ tests brand her her as low normal, and when she, despite her success in school and her general rule of staying away from boys also turns up pregnant, Jane is instructed by her superiors to draw up a petition for sterilization of Ivy at the time she is to give birth to her baby. Ivy has been in love with the Gardner’ youngest son for much of her childhood, and when he insists that by pulling out before ejaculating, she will not/cannot get pregnant, she defers to his “wisdom”. Because Ivy is a minor, she does not need to consent to the sterilization or even to be told about it. Her grandmother is essentially forced into giving permission by the threat of losing her home and her welfare checks.When Jane informs Mary Ella that she has been sterilized and threatens to tell Ivy what will happen to her when she gives birth, she is summarily fired for insubordination. Her husband wants out of the marriage, and it seems her life is about to come completely apart.I have probably already told too much of the story, but there are a number of wrinkles I have not touched on and that make for a very complex ending to this novel. What is very clear is that Diane Chamberlain has thoroughly researched the eugenics program in North Carolina, and as she says in her author’s note: From 1929 until 1975, North Carolina sterilized over seven thousand of its citizens. The program targeted the “mentally defective,” the “feebleminded,”  inmates in mental institutions and training schools, those suffering with epilepsy, and others whose sterilization was considered “for the public good”. While other states had similar programs, most of them stopped performing state-mandated sterilizations after World War II, uncomfortable over comparisons to the eugenics experiments in Nazi Germany. North Carolina,, however, actually; increased its rate of sterilizations after the war.While in the early years of the program, the focus was on institutionalized individuals, it shifted that focus to women on welfare later on and became a tool for reducing the welfare rolls. It also became more and more targeted to African Americans. By the late fifties, 64 percent of those sterilized were African Americans.While it is obvious that Chamberlain’s main focus in this novel is the eugenics program, she creates very believable characters and spins out an intriguing story. I applaud her bravery in informing those of us who are not as historically educated as we should be about  this woeful program. I know I have painted a bleak picture here, but this is really an excellent novel and one that deserves a wide audience. I have been talking about Diane Chamberlain’s 2013 novel, Necessary Lies. 

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In the third episode of WriteStuff, Chris Fitzgerald interviews Kerry Neville. Kerry teaches creative writing at Georgia College and State University and was in Ireland to deliver workshops at the Frank McCourt Creative Writing Festival. Kerry’s first collection of fiction, Necessary Lies, received the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize in Fiction and was named a ForeWord Magazine Short Story Book of the Year. Last year, Kerry published her second collection, Remember to Forget Me, to great acclaim and she is currently working on her memoirs. Kerry has published her non-fction in The Fix, The Washington Post and The Huffington Post. In this wide-ranging conversation, Kerry talks about her Irish heritage, her role as a creative writing facilitator, writing that is ‘radically honest’, diversity of modern writing, publishing through modern media and much more.

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Podgodz 282 Recorded 27 March 2018 LAX Top 10 10) No Agenda #1018: Bunny Wars, #1017: Tech Neck 9)   The Bugle #4063: The Bots have Won 8)   Roadwork #103: Cuesta Verde 7)   Defocused #187: The Three Laws of Jack Sparrow 6)   Hello Internet #99: The Necessary Lies  of Civilization 5)   Sardonicast #03: Cool Cat, This is England 4)   Top Four #38: Tracks in Mario Cart 8 Deluxe 3)   Eureka Podcast #256: #notallchristians 2)   Omnibus: Milli Vanilli 1)    Roderick on the Line #282: The Grand Slam   Add: Somehow I Manage (The Office). The C Word. Up for contention but not making the list this week Defocused #186: Directionally Confused by the Title (Back to the Future) Eureka Podcast #255: Craigs Erroneous Skip to the End #92: Annihilation Roderick on the Read More →

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for an Author's Evening with Eva Stachniak at the Kosciuszko Foundation on Sept. 12, 2017. September 4, 2017 - This week, our time machine travels back to early 20th Century Eastern Europe, where we'll meet ballerina Bronislava Nijinsky. Bronia was a remarkable dancer and woman, who charted a course for greatness despite the upheavals outside and inside her family. The Chosen Maiden blends fiction and fact seamlessly, while including cameos by giants of the period such as prima ballerina Anna Pavlova, Coco Chanel, and Pablo Picasso. Bronislava Nijinsky was born in the last decade of the Victorian Era, and the inspiration for her brother Valaslav's play which gives the novel its title: The Chosen Maiden. Our guide on this journey of historical fiction is Eva Stachniak. The Nijinskys inspired her with their lives as Polish dancers in a Tsarist Russia, that gave way to war and revolution. Born in a Poland still behind the Iron Curtain, Eva emigrated to Canada in 1981, and is the bestselling author of The Winter Palace, Empress of the Night, Necessary Lies, and Garden of Venus. Visit her online at EvaStachniak.com, @EvaStachniak on Twitter, or Facebook.com/EvaStachniakAuthor.    

In this interview beloved Canadian author of historic fiction, Eva Stachniak speaks out frankly about the struggles of writing. She reveals how this draft of her latest work, a tale woven around historic facts of the life of Branislava Nijinsky, sister to the famed ballet dancer Nijinsky, emerges through much confusion. Stachniak speaks with passion about her protagonist, and life at the turn of the century in Russia and Europe with all the tumult of those times. Her energy for her creations sparkles throughout the conversation and her knowledge of Branislava's intimate life as well as her public one demonstrates the depth of Stachniak's own understanding.