Podcast appearances and mentions of ray bradbury studies

In the spotlight is Jonathan Eller, author of a three-volume biography of science fiction novelist and short story writer Ray Bradbury. Eller is also founding director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University. We discuss Ray Bradbury's  >> writing lessons>> work ethic>> fear of the dark>> love of magic>> passion for ideas>> Los Angeles basement>> Favorite authors>> Etc. Learn more about Ray Bradbury here: https://raybradbury.com/  Learn more about Jonathan Eller here: https://liberalarts.iupui.edu/centers/iat/directory/jonathan-r-eller/ Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol, author of “Lolita Firestone: A Supernatural Novel,” “Family Recipes: A Novel About Italian Culture, Catholic Guilt and the Culinary Crime of the Century” and “Hardwood: A Novel About College Basketball and Other Games Young Men Play.” Buy them on any major bookselling site. Write to Mike Consol at novelistspotlight@gmail.com. We hope you will subscribe and share the link with any family, friends or colleagues who might benefit from this program.

Guests: Jason Aukerman and Carrie Cooper of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at IUPUI. First broadcast May 13 2022. Playlist at The director and assistant director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies talk about the ins and outs of running a small research center.

Join Professor Jason Aukerman, Director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, to learn about Bradbury's life and work, the creation of the center, and surprising discoveries in the archives. We discuss Fahrenheit 451 in which Bradbury cautioned us about the danger of mass media and censorship, topics even more relevant today. Jason discusses his approach to teaching writing and Bradbury's literary strengths, as well as the role of an archivist in protecting and evaluating a lifetime of work. We conclude with a bio of Bradbury and a reminder about the McCarthy era. A great episode for writers and readers.The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, including the Virtual Tour we discuss, a timeline of Bradbury's life, and where you can sign up for the newsletter:https://bradbury.iupui.edu/The link to donate to the Center:https://bradbury.iupui.edu/top-level-menu-folder/support-us.phpFollow the Center on Twitter:@BradburyCenterOne interesting interview with Ray Bradbury:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTXckvj7KL4Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:https://www.discreetguide.com/podcast-books-shows-tunes-mad-acts/Follow or like us on podomatic.com (it raises our visibility :)https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/books-shows-tunes-mad-actsSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/discreetguideFollow the host on Twitter:@DiscreetGuideThe host on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkcrittenden/

This episode we discuss Ray Bradbury with Bradbury scholars Jason Aukerman and Patrick Mullins. Be sure to check out our newest online exhibit Ray Bradbury: Inextinguishable launching April 14th. More about our guests: Jason Aukerman is a Clinical Assistant Professor of American Studies and English and the Director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies [...]

This episode we discuss Ray Bradbury with Bradbury scholars Jason Aukerman and Patrick Mullins. Be sure to check out our newest online exhibit Ray Bradbury: Inextinguishable launching April 14th. More about our guests: Jason Aukerman is a Clinical Assistant Professor of American Studies and English and the Director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies [...]

Bradbury 100 - celebrating the centenary year of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk. Episode 6 discusses Bradbury and the real-life space programme, and interviews Jonathan R. Eller (Director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies) about his new biographical volume BRADBURY BEYOND APOLLO. Phil and Jon also talk about Jon's first Bradbury book, RAY BRADBURY: THE LIFE OF FICTION, co-written with Bill Touponce.

Imagine a society where truth and knowledge have no value, people are glued to their screens, and world war feels imminent. Or think of a place enraptured by the seductive promises of a carnival-hawker con man. Sound familiar? The first, of course, is the dystopia of Fahrenheit 451, the story of a firefighter charged with burning books in order to destroy knowledge. The second is the fictional Green Town, Illinois, the setting of Something Wicked This Way Comes, the story of a sinister traveling carnival leader and the young boys who thwart his plot to enslave their home. They are two of the most famous novels by one of the most brilliant and beloved science fiction writers of all time: Ray Bradbury. The author, who saw the dangers inherent to the modern world, used a variety of genres, including fantasy, horror, and science fiction, to illuminate pressing issues like censorship and xenophobia. Author Lilliam Rivera, Arizona State University Center for Science and the Imagination professor Michael Bennett, and Jonathan R. Eller, Director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University, visit Zócalo in honor of what would have been longtime Angeleno Bradbury’s 100th birthday, to discuss what he would make of 2020, and what his work can teach us in the current moment. This discussion was moderated by ZYZZYVA managing editor Oscar Villalon, with opening comments by actor Joe Mantegna, and was co-presented with the Fowler Museum at UCLA on August 27, 2020. Visit www.zocalopublicsquare.org to read our articles and learn about upcoming events. Twitter: twitter.com/thepublicsquare Instagram: www.instagram.com/thepublicsquare/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/zocalopublicsquare

Bradbury 100 - celebrating the centenary year of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk. Episode 5 discusses biographies of Bradbury, and interviews Jonathan R. Eller - the author of BRADBURY BEYOND APOLLO, and Director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies.

”People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.” Ray Bradbury has been acclaimed as the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream but, as the quote above shows, he regarded himself as the author of modern philosophical fables, rather than a sci-fi writer. In his dystopian works, such as Fahrenheit 451, he holds up a mirror to contemporary society and then transposes it into fantastical and futuristic scenarios. Bradbury was a prolific writer who tried his hand at everything from poems and novels to TV and radio scripts but it's his early short stories which he produced in his twenties that are perhaps the most imaginative. To mark the centenary of Bradbury's birth, Rajan Datar is joined by three Bradbury experts to help him navigate through the author's prodigious output: Professor Jonathan Eller from Indiana University who is also the Director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies; Dr. Miranda Corcoran who teaches American literature at University College Cork with particular interest in science fiction, horror and the gothic; and Dr. Phil Nichols who combines research into Bradbury's TV and other media work with the teaching of Film and Television Production at Wolverhampton University. (Photo: Ray Bradbury in Los Angeles, circa 1980. Credit Michael Montfort/Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bradbury 100 - celebrating the centenary year of American writer Ray Bradbury, presented by Phil Nichols of Bradburymedia.co.uk. Episode 2 discusses the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies - a museum and archive which holds Ray Bradbury's personal papers, his many awards, and many of his personal effects. Our interview guest is Jason Aukerman, who manages the Center in Indianapolis.

Show Notes Episode 4Topic: Literary Tourism (inspired by Lyndsie Manusos’ article in the June 3 Book Riot newsletter.1. Advisory: This podcast may contain explicit language and contagious ideas. Listener discretion is advised. 2. Welcome/Intro Welcome to WATT, your biweekly home for all things writing instruction, analysis, inspiration, and writing news and trends. We’re sometimes irreverent, but our material is always accessible. I’m Drema Drudge, author of the forthcoming novel, Victorine, from Fleur-di-Lis Press. I’m a graduate of Spalding University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, and I’m currently a freelance writer and writing coach. You can learn more about my writing at dremadrudge.com. I’m Barry Drudge, co-host and recent MFA graduate of Spalding University, former ghostwriter and a songwriter and musician who has worked with Grammy winners in Nashville. I’m writing my first novel. FACT CHECK: Independent bookstores in our area? 3. News and trends: It’s an all-things-Atwood world right now, from Hulu’s adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale to The Testaments, a sequel to Handmaid, coming September 2019. Now, according to Variety, Entertainment One has picked up the rights to Margaret Atwood’s debut novel, The Edible Woman, published in 1969, to create a TV series. We’re happy to relay that the Poetry Foundation tells us that “The Emily Dickinson Museum, located in Amherst, MA, has received a $22 million gift as part of a larger bequest to Amherst College from the late alumnus, William McCall Vickery. "The transformative gift, the largest ever received by the museum, will be known as the 'William McCall Vickery ’57 Emily Dickinson Fund' and is specifically earmarked for the maintenance and improvement of its buildings, grounds and collections."”It's Pride Month, so salute to all of our LGBTQ friends. Lambda Literary, promoters and advocates of the LGBTQ literary community, recently announced the winner of the 31st Lambda Literary Awards. (Nicknamed the Lammies.) The Lambda’s Trustee Award was awarded to Alexander Chee; Masha Gessen won the Visionary Award, and lastly, the Publishing Professional Award went to Barbara Smith. These individuals helped the LGBTQ cause. Additionally, twenty-five book award winners were honored. 4. Whatcha readin’?La Luministe. Review on dremadrudge.com. Barry: Love Poems for Married Couples 5. Topic of the episode:Since it’s vacation time for many people, we want to continue talking abouttraveling and writing: Today’s emphasis is Literary Tourism (From the June 3 Book Riot Newsletter, Lyndsie Manusos – recently moved to Indy. She discusses, which are in our neck of the woods, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library; The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies. A quick list of where we’ve been/what lit figure sites we have seen and what you gain from literary tourism. Writing Instruction: Obviously, if there is an opportunity for you to practice nearby literary tourism, that would be ideal, so seek out museums or libraries or literary locations in your own town and surroundings if possible. If not: Maybe you already know all about your favorite author, but if you don’t: choose your favorite author. Then google your author; read the Wikipedia article about them. Find out where your author was born and where (if they are deceased) they are interred, if they arSupport the show (https://c6.patreon.com/)

On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Dan Churchwell, associate director of program outreach at Acton, speaks with Eugene Kandel, CEO of Start-Up Nation Central, on Israeli innovation. Then, on the Upstream segment, Bruce Edward Walker speaks with Phil Nichols, senior advisor at the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, on the new Fahrenheit 451 movie from HBO, which releases May 19. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today our podcast connects with Jonathan Eller, Director of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Senior Textual Editor of the Institute for American Thought, editor of The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury, author of Becoming Ray Bradbury and Ray Bradbury Unbound (University of Illinois Press), and co-author with William Touponce of Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction (Kent State University Press). Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jonathan Eller

On this episode of Radio Free Acton, Caroline Roberts talks with Ben DeGrow, Director of Education Policy at The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, about school choice, previewing his panel presentation at Acton's upcoming Education and Freedom event. Then, Caroline Roberts hosts another Econ Quiz with guest Dave Hebert, Professor of Economics at Aquinas college on the topic of the week: tax reform. Finally, on the Upstream segment, Bruce Edward Walker talks with Jonathan R. Eller, Chancellors Professor of English at the Indiana University School for Liberal Arts and Director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies about the life and legacy Ray Bradbury. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For Episode #43, the Pavement Pounders are lucky enough to be joined once again by friend of the show Phil Nichols, senior advisor to the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies. Fahrenheit 451 is the topic this time, both the Francois Truffaut adaptation and, of course, the classic dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. Pounder Rankings!: Phil/James/Colin/Seth: Book … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #43: Montag Shot First (Fahrenheit 451, feat. Phil Nichols) →

For Episode #43, the Pavement Pounders are lucky enough to be joined once again by friend of the show Phil Nichols, senior advisor to the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies. Fahrenheit 451 is the topic this time, both the Francois Truffaut adaptation and, of course, the classic dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. Pounder Rankings!: Phil/James/Colin/Seth: Book … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #43: Montag Shot First (Fahrenheit 451, feat. Phil Nichols) →

(Ironic Title Translation: Don’t Change Anything.  You’ll get it once you’ve read the story.) In honor of what would have been Ray Bradbury’s 95th birthday, the Pavement Pounders discuss his well-known short story A Sound of Thunder with Phil Nichols, Senior Advisor to the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University.  Also under consideration … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #28: Deaunt Chaynj Ennithnng (A Sound of Thunder, feat. Phil Nichols) →

(Ironic Title Translation: Don’t Change Anything.  You’ll get it once you’ve read the story.) In honor of what would have been Ray Bradbury’s 95th birthday, the Pavement Pounders discuss his well-known short story A Sound of Thunder with Phil Nichols, Senior Advisor to the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies at Indiana University.  Also under consideration … Continue reading TMTYR Episode #28: Deaunt Chaynj Ennithnng (A Sound of Thunder, feat. Phil Nichols) →