Podcast appearances and mentions of peter nichols

Adam Higginbotham discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Adam Higginbotham is the author of Midnight in Chernobyl, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of 2019. His latest book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, was published by Avid Reader Press in May this year. An immediate New York Times bestseller, Challenger is the winner of the 2024 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. William Friedkin's Sorcerer https://rogersmovienation.com/2024/04/07/classic-film-review-reconsidering-sorcerer-1977/ Roger Boisjoly https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/06/146490064/remembering-roger-boisjoly-he-tried-to-stop-shuttle-challenger-launch The Allen Room at the New York Public Library https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schwarzman/research-study-rooms Len Deighton https://www.deightondossier.net/ Strong Words magazine https://www.strong-words.co.uk/ Peter Nichols' A Voyage For Madmen https://thetidesofhistory.com/2022/10/09/book-review-a-voyage-for-madmen-by-peter-nichols/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In this message, Peter Nichols preaches about how Jesus and His truth sets us free. He taught about how we are called to live out this freedom by walking with Jesus, and testify of this freedom and our relationship with Jesus to see Jesus' Kingdom spread.

Encountering Jesus - Peter Nichols - 08/25/24 by Border City Church

But Christ - Peter Nichols - 07-21-24 by Border City Church

Summary: We're choosing the scenic route this summer as we travel around the United States book by book. Join Holly and Devin on their first stop today - Maine! Known for its lobsters, gruff people, rocky shores and gorgeous landscapes this state is the easternmost state of the 50. While the vibes skew much more toward Holly's wheelhouse, we're reminded that love can happen anywhere with Devin's book.  Topics Discussed: The Heart (4:01): Devin discussed Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes, a novel following Eveleth “Evvie” Drake as she becomes a recluse after the untimely death of her husband. Dean Tenney, former MLB pitcher whose career tanked after a case of the yips, seeks to find solace and escape by moving into Evvie's spare apartment. They agree at the start - Dean doesn't ask Evvie about her husband, and Evvie doesn't ask Dean about his baseball career. As their rocky friendship solidifies into something more, though, they risk letting everything into the light. Devin's key takeaways were: Known as a very culturally New England, isolated place, Maine can also be a safe haven once you find your people. This state as the backdrop of this romance is perfect - there is pain, grief, and isolation but there's also connection and building something sustainable out of the bedrock of the shoes of the region.  Both through the more traditional grief of losing someone and through the grief of losing the life you thought you'd live, Evvie and Dean work to recover together and the reader gets to see how people come back to themselves through the help of others. While the premise is heavy, Holmes breathes this novel full of life, joy, and romantic connection. While not the steamiest book Devin has ever read, love is at the forefront as both the most challenging and the most healing thing our protagonists can do.  The Dagger (15:29): Holly discussed Granite Harbor by Peter Nichols, a novel that opens on three teenage boys skateboarding after dark and quickly turns even darker when a boy's body is found at the historic settlement in Granite Harbor. We follow Alex, former writer and now detective in town as he investigates first one murder and then escalates as more bodies are found and the parents in town realize none of their teens are safe. Holly's key takeaways were: Both literally as well as within the history that lingers in Maine - its violence, its folklore and traditions, the need for survival in a harsh climate - all resonate throughout the book and serve to heighten the tension at every turn.  Nichols really packs a punch when it comes to gore and gruesome scenes (though it isn't overdone). There are some gross, unsettling scenes in the story and Holly shares trigger warnings for animal cruelty and gore/violence.  A lot of this book explores the anxiety of parenting teens. We see characters like Isabel, who has just started working at the Granite Harbor Living History Settlement, struggle to navigate keeping her teenage son Ethan safe while often feeling helpless. Nichols highlights the tenacity with which parents will fight for their kids even when they're almost grown themselves.  Hot On the Shelf (38:16): Holly: The Mantis by Kotaro Isaka Devin: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles What's Making Our Hearts Race (41:10): Holly: Ripley on Netflix Devin: Anyone But You on Netflix    Instagram: @heartsanddaggerspod Website: www.heartsanddaggerspod.com   If you like what you hear, please tell your friends and rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so that we can find our perfect audience.

This week on From the Front Porch, it's another New Release Rundown! Annie, Erin, and Olivia are sharing the April releases they're excited about to help you build your TBR. When you purchase or preorder any of the books they talk about, enter the code NEWRELEASEPLEASE at checkout for 10% off your order! To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (type “Episode 471” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode), or download and shop on The Bookshelf's official app: Annie's books: Clear by Carys Davies Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner (releases 4/30) Granite Harbor by Peter Nichols (releases 4/30) Olivia's books: The Wrong Way Home by Kate O'Shaughnessy The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr (releases 4/9) The Night War by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (releases 4/9) Erin's books: Table for Two by Amor Towles Begin Again by Helly Acton Honey by Victor Lodato (releases 4/16) Thank you to this week's sponsor, the 103rd Annual Rose Show and Festival here in Thomasville, Georgia. Held in historic Downtown Thomasville, the Rose Show & Festival is sponsored by the City of Thomasville and has been a southwest Georgia tradition since 1922. Enjoy rose and flower shows, live music, an artisan market, an antique car show, a parade and fantastic shopping and dining in Downtown Thomasville. This year's 103rd annual event is April 26-27. Plan your visit at thomasvillega.com. From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf's daily happenings on Instagram, Tiktok, and Facebook, and all the books from today's episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  This week, Annie is reading The Hunter by Tana French.  Olivia is reading The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton.  Erin is listening to Worry by Alexandra Tanner. If you liked what you heard in today's episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O'Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.

** THIS EPISODE DOES DISCUSS SUICIDE BRIEFLY. If you are having any thoughts or feelings that lead you down the path of contemplating taking your own life, please contact 988 the suicide and crisis hotline. Help is always available!** In 1968 nine men would set sail all striving to reach the same goal: be the first to sail around the world non-stop, alone, and without assistance.  Tune in to learn of their success and demise and how the tradition continues today.  The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you're in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.  Want some merch? Find it here! https://5c8ffc-3.myshopify.com/ Be sure to join us on Patreon and become a happy hiker for bonus content, or get the bonus content AND sneak peaks on future episodes by becoming a Trail Blazer: https://patreon.com/TragedywithaView?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Be sure to follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tragedywithaview?igsh=MTN2ZDF3dWhobHI2Yw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr  and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092478859666&mibextid=LQQJ4d to get the most up to date information on episode and merch.  And don't forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.  Sources: https://www.nathab.com/blog/travel-tale-rite-of-passage-crossing-the-drake/#:~:text=The%20Drake%20Passage%20has%20been,hold%20more%20than%20800%20shipwrecks. A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols. 

This week on From the Front Porch, Annie recaps the books she read and loved in March. You get 10% off your books when you order your March Reading Recap bundle! Each month, we offer a Reading Recap bundle, which features Annie's three favorite books she read that month. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (type “Episode 470” into the search bar and tap enter to find the books mentioned in this episode), or download and shop on The Bookshelf's official app: Annie's March Reading Recap Bundle - $68 James by Percival Everett Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel Ladies' Lunch by Lore Segal Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley Granite Harbor by Peter Nichols (releases April 30) Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel James by Percival Everett Happily Never After by Lynn Painter Mostly What God Does by Savannah Guthrie They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraquib The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center (releases June 11) Ladies' Lunch by Lore Segal Thank you to this week's sponsor, the 103rd Annual Rose Show and Festival here in Thomasville, Georgia. Held in historic Downtown Thomasville, the Rose Show & Festival is sponsored by the City of Thomasville and has been a southwest Georgia tradition since 1922. Enjoy rose and flower shows, live music, an artisan market, an antique car show, a parade and fantastic shopping and dining in Downtown Thomasville. This year's 103rd annual event is April 26-27. Plan your visit at thomasvillega.com. From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf's daily happenings on Instagram, Tiktok, and Facebook, and all the books from today's episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  A full transcript of today's episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  This week, Annie is listening to Worry by Alexandra Tanner. If you liked what you heard in today's episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We're so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are...Ashley Ferrell, Cammy Tidwell, Chanta Combs, Chantalle C, Kate O'Connell, Kristin May, Laurie Johnson, Linda Lee Drozt, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Stacy Laue, Stephanie Dean, Susan Hulings, and Wendi Jenkins.

On this week's instant reaction episode of Silo by Apple TV, we break down episode seven titled ‘The Flamekeepers'. Juliette continues her investigation into George's death, leading her to Gloria, the supposed crazy fertility counselor who spoke to Holston's wife Allison before she went out to clean. Gloria is being drugged against her will to avoid her disseminating information that isn't permitted to be shared by Janitorial. In her efforts to find out just who this woman is and how she's connected to George, Juliette enlists the help of her father, Dr. Peter Nichols. Meanwhile, Sims and his Janitorial cronies look on, looking to control the damage from their monitoring room. See what Linder shared: https://youtu.be/o2ObCoCm61s Keep up with all things Story Archives:  Official Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://soapbox.house/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Email us your Silo Theories and anything else you'd like to contribute to the show:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Contact@Soapbox.House⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support this show:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/story-archives⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠http://paypal.me/soapboxnetwork⁠ Follow the hosts on Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/mariobusto/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/zacharyrnewton/⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/story-archives/support

Living in Christ - Peter Nichols - 02-19-23 by Border City Church

Ephesians 5 & 6 - Paul, Minda and Peter Nichols - 12-04-22 by Border City Church

For the three years before sculptor Peter Nicholls' death last year, he worked with his friend and editor Don Hunter on a biography charting his 60 years of creating often monumental work from found materials. While he didn't live to see the finished book, which he titled Dynamics / Memory / Grace: Peter Nicholls, he did proof a colour draft of it a fortnight before he died, in his 80s. Most of his sculptures, crafted mainly from 'found' native wood and steel, were designed for outdoor settings. But many are also in galleries and homes around the country. We have a selection on them on our webpage rnz.co.nz/standingroomonly. Peter also shared his expertise with the next generation of artists as a lecturer in Sculpture at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic from 1979 until 2001. That's where Don Hunter first met Peter, as he explains to Lynn Freeman.

Cultivating the Presence of Jesus through Worship, Abiding and Faith - Peter Nichols - 06-26-22 by Border City Church

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/6vcHvOUB5Tc It was in Michael Stewart and Cy Coleman's musical I Love My Wife (1977) – a satire on wife-swapping – that Gleason made her Broadway debut, playing Monica, for which she won a Theatre World Award. She returned to Broadway in a 1985 revival of Peter Nichols's play Joe Egg. Along with Marlo Thomas and Olympia Dukakis, Gleason was a member of the opening-night cast of Andrew Bergman's comedy Social Security (1986), for which Gleason won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. Although she had already gained attention and honors for her stage work, her performance as the Baker's Wife in Stephen Sondheim's wry fairy-tale musical Into the Woods (1987) made her a Broadway leading lady. The musical itself won Tonys® for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score, and Gleason earned a Tony® for Best Actress in a Musical. Her singing is preserved on the original Broadway cast recording. In the Thin Man-inspired musical Nick and Nora (1991) by Arthur Laurents, Charles Strouse, and Richard Maltby Jr., Gleason played the leading lady, and in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). A familiar presence in movies and on television, Gleason appeared in two of Woody Allen's films – as Tony Roberts's embarrassed wife in Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and as Allen's spouse in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). In Boogie Nights, she played Mark Wahlberg's abusive mother. On television, she was a regular on the CBS sitcom Love & War as the restaurant waitress Nadine Berkus. Other series in which Gleason appeared regularly are Hello, Larry; Temporarily Yours; Oh Baby; and Bette. She is married to the actor Chris Sarandon.

In the Red Room with Fr. Ralph, with co-host Nate McKeon, brings you the life and times of Notre Dame's oldest and most storied residence hall, St. Edward's. This week's guest are Dane Storch and Louis Rauch, freshmen Hall pool champions, and Peter Nichols, Senior and film producer, followed by Good News and Weather with Henry Bergstrom.

The New York Post says the LA crime spree is a “sh** show”. There was an armed home invasion at a holiday party in Pacific Palisades. Peter Nichols comes on the show to talk about the rising crime in the Melrose/Fairfax district of Los Angeles. Jussie Smollet story update.

Has this ever happened to you? Have you had a dream that didn't make much sense to you at the time, but then a day or a week later discovered that the event in your dream came to pass? These are called precognitive or premonition dreams, and they're not as unusual as you might think. We take a look at the world of precognitive dreams with author and dream expert Tony Hawkins. Tony has been working with his own precognitive dreams for over fifty years and is the author of ten books, including Bliss and Fantasia of Light and Shadow. In our flowing discussion, Tony tells us:•how to realize we are having a precognitive dream•his dreams that predicted Trump's election and future space travel•how the January 6th Insurrection showed up in a dream•what our dreams tell us about ourselves and the world at large•why there's no such thing as a big or little dream You may want to take another look at what your own dreams are telling you after listening to this informative episode of Dream Power Radio. Tony Hawkins is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. He wrote the following biography for this episode. In common with many people born into the 1940s my life was an inheritance of catastrophes. Two world wars left our family in ruins. Life with my mother, an aspiring artist and poet, pin-balled around various states of vagrancy from which we were ‘rescued', she to the mental hospital and me to the children's homes. Out of a three term school year I regularly missed one or two terms through an endless cough ‘cured', from age 14, by running. Three meals a day for several months at the final home brought vitamins as well as oxygen to my brain and suddenly, to everyone's astonishment, I came 2nd in the country in mathematics. I went on to take O and A levels, but my mind, overwhelmed by deprivational excesses, needed healing before it could make sense of ‘education'. I needed to write. ‘A' levels had shown that studying literature was not the way for me. Words were alive. They needed active life. The simple jobs of economic enslavement can be healing to shattered souls. And this was 1960, facing thermonuclear annihilation. The guaranteed future was 30 minutes, the time for ICBMs to arrive from Russia. Working for ‘the Man' who created all this was tantamount to criminal insanity. In the midst of more industrial jobs I became a bus conductor in one of the beautiful places of the world, the English Lake District, being driven about the fells by day and galloping over them the rest of the time. They became like great brothers and sisters, every one an individual. I see now I avoided manmade paths as much as possible. It seemed inculcated into my bones that they were not for me. The same was true of writing. Something bigger than the scale of human preoccupations was trying to get through. After 60 years and 30 million words I might finally have made it in the form of a very short, true story involving a proof of precognitive dreaming. But it's not about precognition as such but precognition as evidence for a whole other level of intelligent life, possibly a kind of completeness, hidden within us, buried by human social and even biological evolution. In the 1970s education began to catch up with me in the form of a Diploma in Higher Education, awarded mainly for the novel IO-IYO, of which my tutor, Malcolm Hay, wrote ‘a glowing report'. The Science Fiction Library was run by his boss Peter Nichols. Had my head been screwed on with half a calorie of common sense it might have been the start of a brilliant career, but I fled back to familiar obscurity as fast as I could, only to surface now with this story of precognitive dreaming offering a way to prove and actively interact with the godlike intelligence which is the heart of everything. Freud called dreams the royal road to the unconscious. The future will have a name more like Golden Gateway or Vast and Beautiful Bridge. As we are dragged towards it, kicking and screaming, we will become aware of the beautiful force of life which is drawing us on and stop living in terror and know ourselves as cosmic pioneers. One unbreakable thread in all of this is soul exploration through dreams. And it's always new. God is you. You are not made by, you are the making and the maker. When you begin to know this the world begins.Website: https://cellwalkersdream.comGet a complementary 30-minute Dream Discovery Session with me by scheduling a time here: https://calendly.com/thedreamcoach53/interview-pre-call

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On this episode of the Defence Deconstructed Podcast, David Perry talks to Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jonathan Vance Participant Bio: - General Vance has deployed across the globe numerous times in the service of Canada, including two tours in Afghanistan as the Commander of Joint Task Force Afghanistan and Task Force Kandahar. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross twice, is a Commander of the Order of Military Merit, and was awarded the Mentioned-in-Dispatches for his leadership during peacekeeping operations in Croatia. (https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/organizational-structure/chief-defence-staff/cds-bio.html) Host Bio: - Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (www.cgai.ca/david_perry) What General Vance is reading - H.R. McMaster, Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, https://www.harpercollins.com/products/battlegrounds-h-r-mcmaster?variant=32116212891682 - Peter Nichols, A Voyage for Mad Men, https://www.amazon.ca/Voyage-Madmen-Peter-Nichols-ebook/dp/B000QTEA4M Recording Date: 4 Nov 2020 Defence Deconstructed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network and is brought to you by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI). Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

Our guest is Louise Chicoine of the Los Angeles hyper-glam pop act Banny Grove! Andy talks with Louise about: the origins and inspiration for her Banny Grove persona, Banny Grove's record label, Nicey Music, Banny Grove's albums, and her bandmates, Peter Nichols and Taylor Bybee. Banny Grove's latest album is a split LP with Lily and Horn Horse titled 4 Partners Road. You can find all of Banny Grove's releases at NiceyMusic.com. Listen to and purchase Banny Grove's music at BannyGrove.bandcamp.com.

Joker: What was it about the new DC comic-based film which helped it to win the highest prize at this year's Venice Film Festival? Starring Joaquin Phoenix, it's a dark affair but is it deserving of the plaudits and prizes? Mary Costello's new novel "The River Capture" is set in rural Ireland where a young woman arrives and changes the life of those she meets A revival of A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg at London's Trafalgar Studios comes shortly after the death of its author Peter Nichols. Dublin Murders is an adaptation by Sarah Phelps of the Tana French novels for BBC TV A new exhibition at London's Barbican Centre - Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art - spans the 1880s to the 1960s, celebrating the creativity of the spaces in which artists, performers, designers, musicians and writers congregated to push the boundaries of artistic expression. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Alex Preston, Katy Puckrik and Amanda Vickery. The producer is Oliver Jones Podcast Extras: Katie: Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast Alex: The poetry of Mary Oliver Amanda: Unbelievable on Netflix Tom: Kara Walker at Tate Modern Main image: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg L-R Lucy Eaton, Claire Skinner, Storme Toolis, Patricia Hodge, Toby Stephens, Clarence Smith Photographer: Marc Brenner

For Sama is a prize-winning documentary by female Syrian filmmaker Waad al-Kateab, recording life in Aleppo for her young daughter who was born shortly after the conflict began there. Film critic Hannah McGill reviews and reports on the winning films at this year's Venice Film Festival. Lucy Caldwell has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with The Children. Her story is about the Victorian social reformer Caroline Norton, who successfully campaigned for women to have the automatic right to have custody of their children in divorce proceedings; and in her story Lucy Caldwell draws parallels with child migrants today who are separated from their mothers. We speak to the author. British playwright Peter Nichols - A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, Privates On Parade, Passion Play - has died at the age of 92. Michael Billington joins us to discuss his importance The Israeli short story writer Etgar Keret discusses his new collection Fly Already, 22 stories – several featuring the surreal and the apocalyptic - which were inspired by a serious car accident he had in America. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Oliver Jones

The Wanderers (G.P. Putnam's Sons) Brilliantly imagined and wholly original, The Wanderers follows three astronauts as they audition for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever. Inspired by real-life experiments designed to test the psychological and physiological demands of a human mission to Mars, Meg Howrey’s intrinsically-researched, stunning new novel is described best by J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times-bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest, “Ambitious and deeply empathetic, Howrey’s exquisite novel demonstrates that the final frontier may not be space after all.” Readers of Station Eleven, Karen Joy Fowler, and Ruth Ozeki will love this imaginative, witty work of literary fiction and its moving tribute to human relationships that define and support incredible scientific achievement. In four years, Prime Space will put the first humans on Mars in a wildly ambitious and history-making mission called MarsNOW. Helen Kane, Yoshihiro Tanaka, and Sergei Kuznetsov must prove they’re the crew for the job by spending seventeen months in the most realistic simulation of a space mission ever created. Helen, recently retired from NASA after a decades-long career and three extended missions to space, has not trained for irrelevance. It’s nobody’s fault that the best of her exists only in space, but her daughter can’t help placing blame. This mission is Helen’s last chance to return to the only place she’s ever felt at home. For Yoshi, the mission is an opportunity to prove himself to the high-powered wife he has loved absolutely, if not quite correctly. Sergei is willing to spend seventeen months in a tin can if it means traveling to Mars, ultimately proving his own immense strength and stamina as an example of solidity for his sons. As the days turn into months aboard the simulated spacecraft, the line between what is real and unreal fractures irreparably, and the astronauts learn that the complications of inner space are no less fraught than those of outer space. As their family members navigate planet Earth thousands of miles away, facing their own greatest fears and achieving incredible personal triumphs, the astronauts grapple with intense loneliness and increasingly prevalent psychological stress. They start to ask themselves the eternal questions that we have all faced: What is life? Who are we? What is the purpose of all this cosmic mayhem? Probing just how well we can ever know ourselves, or hope to know somebody else, The Wanderers gets at the heart of what it means to be human—even when we’re a million miles from home. Sweeping in both its delicious, witty writing and phenomenal, factual exploration of outer space, Howrey’s meticulously researched yet tender novel puts a uniquely human face on the science behind space exploration, bringing sparks of life to each astronaut and reminding us that in an age of space exploration, the thing we search most desperately for is to find ourselves. Praise for The Wanderers "Three astronauts and those who know them best explore the limits of truth and love in Howrey's genre-bending novel...The voices are distinct, each member reviewing and acting on his or her own emotional telemetry with equal parts brilliance and blunder, and the stakes are high, with any heartbeat capable of tipping the scales against the crew's survival...With these believably fragile and idealistic characters at the helm, Howrey's insightful novel will take readers toa place where they too can 'lift their heads and wonder.'"–Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Engrossing…Although the contours of a space drama may seem familiar to a 21st-century readership, Howrey, through the poetry of her writing and the richness of her characters, makes it all seem new. A lyrical and subtle space opera"-–Kirkus, Starred Review “The Wanderers…confronts ageless questions of why humans explore, what they are looking for, and what happens when they find it. Evoking the authenticity of Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves (2015) with the literary sensitivity of Ann Patchett, Howrey has made the mission-to- Mars motif an exquisite exploration of human space, inner and outer.”-–Booklist “The Wanderers is phenomenal. A transcendent, cross-cultural and cross-planetary journey into the mysteries of space and self, the novel explores the dangers and necessities of venturing away from the familiar and finding home in the unknown. Howrey's expansive vision left me awestruck.” —Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling and Man Booker shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being “An expansive tale of the costs of human ambition, The Wanderers is unquestionably the work of a brilliant writer at the height of her powers. Meticulously researched and magnificently rendered, Howrey’s dazzling novel on humankind’s most ambitious project is, in itself, a work of wondrous skill and ambition, a book about space that’s truly about people, but also about the lonely wonder of true trailblazers, the disparate cast behind a great life, and the compromises that build success. Fiercely inventive and deeply empathetic, Howrey’s exquisite novel demonstrates that the final frontier may not be space after all.”—J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest “The Wanderers is a stealthily brilliant novel. A distinct, shimmering vision of who we are and where we think we want to go. Meg Howrey’s three astronauts and their families seem to embody the whole human race at the signal moment of a growth spurt. They exist, as we do now, at the edge of science fiction, their story propelled by a seriousness and intelligence wrapped in a comic and tender humanity. Meg Howrey delivers this vision in a prose that feels new, sui generis, its own necessary vehicle, with a kind of sleek precision that is at once simple, gorgeous, and profoundly moving.”—Peter Nichols, national bestselling author of The Rocks and A Voyage for Madmen “Elegant, thoughtful, gorgeously written. A meditation on solitude, connection, aspiration, imagination and reality, which builds effortlessly to moments of immense power and honesty. There are passages near the end of this book that I will never forget.”—Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe and Sorry Please Thank You “The Wanderers is a wonderful exploration of space, trust, and what it means to be a conscious creature, finely-tuned and funny from the first page to the last. I loved getting lost in Meg Howrey's off-kilter world of astronauts and their simulated fantasies. She's a writer with an amazing eye for freedom and confinement and the thin line that sometimes lies between the two.”—Jonathan Lee, author of High Dive Meg Howrey is a former dancer who performed with The Joffrey, Eglevsky Ballet, and City Ballet of Los Angeles. She toured nationally with the Broadway production of Contact, for which she won the Ovation Award in 2001 for best featured actress in a musical. Howrey is the author of two previous novels, Blind Sight and The Cranes Dance, and the coauthor of the bestselling novels City of Dark Magic, and City of Lost Dreams, published under the pen name Magnus Flyte. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She currently lives in Los Angeles. Charles Yu is the author of three books. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in various publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Wired. He is currently writing for an upcoming HBO show created by Alan Ball, and is also at work on his next novel, The Book of Wishing. 

In this DREAM THINK DO interview, Peter Nichols joins me to discuss that fateful trip, his tips for pursuing big, audacious dreams… AND we talk about one key to a business that's changed everything for him. In this episode of the DREAM. THINK. DO. podcast, be ready to reach your dreams! Listen To The Podcast:                           After a fateful afternoon in rainy Guatemala, Peter Nichols found himself with a new pair of boots and a new dream. That's sometimes how it happens.  You get hit with a new dream… right out of the blue. (Or in Pete's case… right out of a rain cloud!) Fast forward a few years... Peter Nichols is the founder of WILCOX Boots. His company has over 3000 customers in 27 countries and counting!   We dive into: The story behind how WILCOX Boots got started How he started small with a big dream (ie. he had no $$$) His keys for getting started and staying with it Some critical concepts for successful social media And… we dive into questions from Dream.Think.Doer's too! [Tweet ""We're really fortunate to live in a time where anything can be done online.” - Peter Nichols"] EPISODE RESOURCES DREAM. THINK. DO. website MitchMatthews.com/iTunes @MitchMatthews Follow Peter Nichols Wilcox Boots  

  During the siege of Leningrad in World War II, a heroic group of Russian botanists fought cold, hunger, and German attacks to keep alive a storehouse of crops that held the future of Soviet agriculture. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of the Vavilov Institute, whose scientists literally starved to death protecting tons of treasured food. We'll also follow a wayward sailor and puzzle over how to improve the safety of tanks. Intro: Tippi Hedren, star of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, shared her home with a 400-pound lion. In 2009, a California consumer sued PepsiCo for implying that crunchberries are a fruit. Sources for our feature on Nikolai Vavilov: S.M. Alexanyan and V.I. Krivchenko, "Vavilov Institute Scientists Heroically Preserve World Plant Genetic Resources Collections During World War II Siege of Leningrad," Diversity 7:4 (1991), 10-13. James F. Crow, “N. I. Vavilov, Martyr to Genetic Truth,” Genetics 134:4 (May 1993). Olga Elina, Susanne Heim, and Nils Roll-Hansen, "Plant Breeding on the Front: Imperialism, War, and Exploitation," Osiris 20 (2005), 161-179. Peter Pringle, The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov, 2008. Boyce Rensberger, "Soviet Botanists Starved, Saving Seeds for Future," Washington Post, May 12, 1992. Michael Woods, “Soviet Union's Fall Threatens 'Gene Bank' for Food Crops,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 26, 1993. Joel I. Cohen and Igor G. Loskutov, “Exploring the Nature of Science Through Courage and Purpose,” SpringerPlus 5:1159 (2016). Listener mail: Peter Nichols, A Voyage for Madmen, 2001. Nicholas Tomalin and Ron Hall, The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, 1970. Ed Caesar, "Drama on the Waves: The Life and Death of Donald Crowhurst," Independent, Oct. 27, 2006. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Tommy Honton, who cites this source (warning: this link spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and all contributions are greatly appreciated. You can change or cancel your pledge at any time, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Rana Mitter talks to the playwright Peter Nichols as his 1981 Passion Play opens again in the West End with Zoe Wanamaker as the betrayed wife Eleanor. In his latest book Strictly Bipolar, psychoanalyst Darian Leader looks at the cultural setting for bipolar disorder, and suggests a new way of making sense of the condition. And the architect Sunand Prasad and critic Rowan Moore discuss meaning in architecture and the role of the audience - or the public as we call them when discussing buildings rather than plays - in creating that meaning.

With Mark Lawson. Zoe Wanamaker, familiar to TV and cinema audiences from her roles in My Family, Poirot and the Harry Potter films, returns to the stage in a new production of Passion Play by Peter Nichols - a drama about marriage and temptation. She reflects on her approach to theatre, and remembers her father Sam, founder of Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Swedish novelist and critic Jan Arnald uses the pen-name Arne Dahl when writing crime-fiction. His novels about Paul Hjelm and his colleagues in the Intercrime Group, an elite team of Swedish detectives, were adapted for Swedish TV, and are currently being broadcast on BBC Four. The books themselves are now being published in English. He discusses the advantages of having a team of detectives, rather than an individual, and about the reaction in Sweden to the British passion for Scandi Noir fiction. In the latest edition of the Cultural Exchange project, in which 75 leading creative minds share their passion for a book, film, poem, piece of music or other work of art, Suggs from Madness nominates the poem On a Portrait of a Deaf Man by John Betjeman. It's 50 years since The Beatles first topped the UK singles chart with From Me to You, which was a hit in May 1963. But what else was in the Top 40 back then? David Hepworth considers whether this was a turning-point in pop history, and identifies some other classics in that week's chart. Producer Olivia Skinner.

Matthew Sweet speaks to acclaimed director Michael Grandage whose theatre company launches with a new production of Peter Nichols's celebrated play Privates on Parade. As a new centre in Cambridge is set up to assess the dangers that might arise from progress in artificial intelligence, Matthew talks to one of its founders Sir Martin Rees and sustainability innovator Rachel Armstrong. And Jonas Mekas, film-maker, artist, poet, and a leading figure of avant-garde and experimental cinema, discusses his remarkable and prolific sixty-year career.

In 1975 Peter Nichols, John Clute and Brian Stableford launched a project that would ultimately last for more than thirty six years, exceed four million words of careful scholarship, occupy at least three publishers, win many awards, and be recognised as the most important reference work in the science fiction: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia. This week encyclopedist, writer, editor, and critic John Clute joined Gary and I to discuss the coming September launch of the third edition of the SFE, the history of the project, and the exciting SF Gateway project which is being launched by Gollancz at around the same time. As always, we'd like to thank John for joining us, and hope you enjoy the podcast!

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the playwright Peter Nichols. His award winning work, including Privates on Parade and A Day in The Death of Joe Egg has left audiences in stitches and sometimes in tears. With the recent revival of Passion Play, his darkly comic tale about adultery, Peter Nichols talks to Sue Lawley about his life and writing, and chooses eight records to take to the mythical desert island. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Hostias (from Requiem in D Minor) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: His diary which he has kept since he was 18 - to relive life since 1945 Luxury: Cyanide tablet (if he can't have a tower and telescope or a full-size snooker table)

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the playwright Peter Nichols. His award winning work, including Privates on Parade and A Day in The Death of Joe Egg has left audiences in stitches and sometimes in tears. With the recent revival of Passion Play, his darkly comic tale about adultery, Peter Nichols talks to Sue Lawley about his life and writing, and chooses eight records to take to the mythical desert island. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Hostias (from Requiem in D Minor) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: His diary which he has kept since he was 18 - to relive life since 1945 Luxury: Cyanide tablet (if he can't have a tower and telescope or a full-size snooker table)

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Peter Nichols.Favourite track: He Trusted In God by George Frideric Handel Book: Collected essays by George Orwell Luxury: Vibraphone

Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright Peter Nichols. Favourite track: He Trusted In God by George Frideric Handel Book: Collected essays by George Orwell Luxury: Vibraphone