Podcast appearances and mentions of Rivka Galchen

La memoria y la indeterminación, dos de los pilares del teatro de Harold Pinter, llegan a la escena madrileña con Viejos tiempos, dirigida por Beatriz Argüello en el Teatro de la Abadía. Ernesto Alterio (Deeley), Marta Belenguer (Anna) y Mélida Molina (Kate) interpretan esta historia en la que el pasado y el presente se entrelazan de manera ambigua, cuestionando la fiabilidad de los recuerdos y la naturaleza de las relaciones humanas.Desde Madrid viajamos a Toronto con Laura Fernández para descubrir a la escritora Rivka Galchen, una autora imprescindible cuya obra mezcla el humor y la reflexión. También analizamos la serie Adolescence, el nuevo estreno de Netflix que explora la complejidad de crecer en la era digital.En el ámbito de la fotografía, Joan Fontcuberta presenta en Tabakalera, Donosti, la exposición Monstrorum historia, donde reúne cuatro proyectos que exploran la relación entre imagen, tecnología y verdad. En esta muestra, se combinan creaciones con inteligencia artificial y obras de su etapa predigital, en una reflexión sobre los límites de lo real.El arte barroco tiene un lugar especial en el Museo Nacional de Catalunya con una gran exposición sobre Francisco de Zurbarán y su legado en el arte contemporáneo. La muestra reúne por primera vez las tres versiones de San Francisco de Asís según la visión del papa Nicolás V, una obra cumbre del pintor sevillano, gracias a la colaboración de tres importantes pinacotecas europeas.Escuchar audio

On this episode we speak to Alejandro Zambra about his latest book, Childish Literature; a chronicle of early fatherhood. Written in a 'state of attachment', it is a beautiful collection of roaming essays, poetry and short stories - that show how the birth and growth of a child changes not only the present and the future but also reshapes our perceptions of the past. We also hear from Alejandro's close friend and translator Megan McDowell on the process of their working relationship and her role in bringing this graceful, funny and poignant account of parenthood into being.'Every beat and pattern of being alive becomes revelatory and bright when narrated by Alejandro Zambra. He is a modern wonder.' Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch Childish Literature is published by Fitzcarraldo  @fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine

As a culture we've long been fascinated by witchcraft, with witches through the ages practicing magic and making spells. Even through the spread of misinformation, and when they've been hunted and silenced. We take you from the 17th century to the online witch communities of today.Original Air Date: October 30, 2021Interviews in this hour:WitchTok, the super-connected coven - Are you now, or have you ever been, a witch? The witch hunt of Kepler's mother - From alchemy to internet witchcraft - the thousand-year history of magic - Spellcraft, field hockey and Emilio Estevez - the girl power of novelist Quan Barry's teen witchesGuests:Honey Rose, Rivka Galchen, Chris Gosden, Quan BarryNever want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast.Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? Subscribe to our newsletter.

Librarians Meagan and Sarah talk about the guilt and angst of their TBR lists as well as books they are looking forward to reading ... someday. They also talk about how author events can be fun—and add to the TBR pile. Books mentioned: Perfect World and The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson, True North and Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff, The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo, No One Belongs Here More Than You and All Fours by Miranda July, One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware, and Little Labors by Rivka Galchen. Learn more about West Allis Reads at westallislibrary.org/weread. Check out books and movies at countycat.mcfls.org, wplc.overdrive.com and hoopladigital.com. For more about WAPL, visit westallislibrary.org. Music: Tim Moor via Pixabay

The New Yorker staff writer Rivka Galchen joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss a class at the University of Chicago with a tantalizingly dark title: “Are We Doomed?” It's in the interdisciplinary field of existential risk, which studies the threats posed by climate change, nuclear warfare, and artificial intelligence. Galchen, who spent a semester observing the course and its students, considers how to contend with this bleak future, and how to understand the young people who may inherit it. This week's reading: “Are We Doomed? Here's How to Think About It,” by Rivka Galchen  “It's a Climate Election Now,” by Bill McKibben To discover more podcasts from The New Yorker, visit newyorker.com/podcasts. To send feedback on this episode, write to themail@newyorker.com.

Solar eclipse eve (April 7) centennial ep with Harold on The Sound and the Fury, Madame Bovary, the Book of Samuel and the Gospels. Intro correction: Faulkner was born 1897, not 1899. Read Tropicalia, which Rivka Galchen called "Intense, tender, and wise": https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tropicalia/Harold-Rogers/9781668013878 Fuccboi: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sean-thor-conroe/fuccboi/9780316394918/ Intro song by Thomas Thatcher: https://soundcloud.com/thomas55350/tryna-get-right-for-minute-prod-atm

When was the last time you read a short story? This hour, we talk about why short stories are so popular in the classroom, but why adults don't seem to read them much once they're done with school. And we make the case for why you should. Plus, a look at the art of the short story with some masters of the craft.   You can read Rebecca Makkai's Substack post that inspired this show here.    Here is the story that is discussed in the final segment, “How I Became a Vet” by Rivka Galchen.    As part of this show we asked each of our guests to recommend a short story, a collection, or an author. Here are those recommendations: Rebecca Makkai: “The Dinner Party” by Joshua Ferris George Saunders: “The Stone Boy” by Gina Berriault, “The Conventional Wisdom” by Stanley Elkin Deborah Treisman: Liberation Day by George Saunders, After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley, “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak” by Jamil Jan Kochai Amy Bloom: “The Dead” by James Joyce, stories by Edward P. Jones, essays by Samantha Irby Irene Papoulis: “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by ZZ Packer Brian Slattery: “Hell is the Absence of God” by Ted Chiang Colin McEnroe: “The Hole on the Corner” and “What's the Name of That Town?” by R.A. Lafferty GUESTS:  Rebecca Makkai: Author of the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-finalist The Great Believers, among other books; her newest book is I Have Some Questions For You, and she is artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago George Saunders: Author of twelve books; his most recent is Liberation Day, a collection of short stories Deborah Triesman: Fiction editor for The New Yorker and the host of their Fiction Podcast Amy Bloom: Author of four novels and three collections of short stories; her most recent book is the memoir In Love Irene Papouli: Teaches writing at Trinity College Brian Slattery: Arts editor for the New Haven Independent Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter.   Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show.   The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode.    Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired on August 7, 2023.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the two hundredth episode of the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, Rivka Galchen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Bees, Part 1,” by Aleksandar Hemon, which was published in The New Yorker in 2002. Galchen's books include the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch.”

Rivka Galchen reads her story “Crown Heights North,” from the January 1 & 8, 2024, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch.”

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia discuss the strange career of now ex-Republican Congressman George Santos.  Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show:   ·      George Santos' lies are so numerous, it is difficult to keep track of them. Niki referred to this Atlantic article about how Santos got elected, and Neil and Natalia referred to this one by Adam Serwer. We all drew on this New York Times history of expelled Congress members.   In our regular closing feature, What's Making History: ·      Natalia declared her ambition to compete in the HYROX fitness competition. ·      Neil recommended the Slate podcast Dear Prudence and historian Julie Golia's book, Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age. ·      Niki discussed Rivka Galchen's New Yorker article, “Inside the Illegal Cactus Trade.”

When's the last time you read a short story? This hour, we talk about why short stories are so popular in the classroom, but why adults don't seem to read them much once they're done with school. And we make the case for why you should. Plus, a look at the art of the short story with some masters of the craft. You can read Rebecca Makkai's Substack post that inspired this show here.  Here is the story that is discussed in the final segment, “How I Became a Vet” by Rivka Galchen.  As part of this show we asked each of our guests to recommend a short story, a collection, or an author. Here are those recommendations: Rebecca Makkai: “The Dinner Party” by Joshua Ferris George Saunders: “The Stone Boy” by Gina Berriault, “The Conventional Wisdom” by Stanley Elkin Deborah Treisman: Liberation Day by George Saunders, After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley, “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak” by Jamil Jan Kochai Amy Bloom: “The Dead” by James Joyce, stories by Edward P. Jones, essays by Samantha Irby Irene Papoulis: “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by ZZ Packer Brian Slattery: “Hell is the Absence of God” by Ted Chiang Colin McEnroe: “The Hole on the Corner” and “What's the Name of That Town?” by R.A. Lafferty GUESTS:  Rebecca Makkai: Author of the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-finalist The Great Believers, among other books; her newest book is I Have Some Questions For You, and she is artistic director of StoryStudio Chicago George Saunders: Author of twelve books; his most recent is Liberation Day, a collection of short stories Deborah Triesman: Fiction editor for The New Yorker and the host of their Fiction Podcast Amy Bloom: Author of four novels and three collections of short stories; her most recent book is the memoir In Love Irene Papouli: Teaches writing at Trinity College Brian Slattery: Arts editor for the New Haven Independent Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode.  Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're joined by the founding editors of Great Place Books--Emily Adrian and Alex Higley--to talk about why they started a new press, and the kinds of books they're hoping to publish. We also discuss Rivka Galchen's short story, "How I Became a Vet," from a recent issue of The New Yorker.  You can learn more about Great Place Books here: https://www.greatplacebooks.com/ You can read "How I Became a Vet" here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/13/how-i-became-a-vet Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/higley_alex Emily on Twitter: https://twitter.com/adremily Join our Patreon, support the show, and get access to fun bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/BookFight  

Rivka Galchen reads her story “How I Became a Vet,” which appeared in the March 13, 2023, issue of the magazine. Galchen is the author of three books of fiction, including the story collection “American Innovations” and the novel “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,” which was published in 2021. 

This conversation was live from the Miami Book Fair. See more programming from this year's festival at MiamiBookFair.com. Rivka Galchen is the recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for The New Yorker, whose editors selected her for their list of 20 Under 40 American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel Atmospheric Disturbances (2008) and her story collection American Innovations were both New York Times Best Books of the Year. She has received an MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Galchen lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over half of the world's population doesn't know how to swim. But it wasn't always that way. Swimming has been practiced by humans for thousands of years for fun, health, survival, competition and community. Swimming has also been used by some cultures to differentiate themselves from others - the swimmers from the non-swimmers. OPB's Paul Marshall talks with Bonnie Tsui, author of “Why We Swim,” and Karen Eva Carr, author of “Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming,” about what swimming can tell us about ourselves as individuals and as a culture.And last year, OPB's Crystal Ligori spoke with Rivka Galchen, author of “Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch,” and A.K. Blakemore, author of “The Manningtree Witches.”

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch. Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It's enough to make anyone jealous, and Katharina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone's business. So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her, the Werewolf) accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill, Katharina is in trouble. Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin, torture, and even execution, Katharina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets. Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which Rivka Galchen is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch will both provoke and entertain. The story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time. Galchen's bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society and a family undone by superstition, the state, and the mortal convulsions of history.

Rivka Galchen's Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a darkly funny historical novel about witchcraft, justice, and stupidity: Through the story of how Katharina Kepler, mother of famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, was accused of witchcraft, Galchen shows us how your community can turn on you, how people are governed by greed, and how flimsy "justice" often is. Tune into this mini-review to find out how this novel might give you some solace in our troubling times, or at least a few laughs. You can join our discussion here:https://www.reddit.com/r/CanonicalPod where you can also find show notes, credits and extended discussions for every episode. You can support us by rating/liking/sharing our podcast! Subscribe to us here: Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | Google | Youtube We are also on Twitter and Facebook @CanonicalPod. Follow us to get updates on upcoming episodes!

THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH by Michael Chabon / EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR MOTHER IS A WITCH by Rivka Galchen. What do an angsty college grad discovering himself in 1988 Pittsburgh and an onery old woman accused of witchcraft in 1618 Germany have in common? They're the protagonists of this week's reviewed books, of course! Andrew dives into his first Chabon with the problematic bildungsroman THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH. Then, Bailey learns the twisted fate of Johannes Kepler's mother in the darkly hilarious EVERYONE KNOWS YOUR MOTHER IS A WITCH. All that, and we still have time to discuss Garfield the cat's perspective on death and dying!

George Saunders calls Dana Spiotta a ‘great American writer'. It's true - but why does it feel so surprising to hear a woman given that accolade. Join Lucy Scholes as she meets the award-winning author of Wayward and four other novels, celebrating the rare joy and complexity of midlife characters, from the accused widow in Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen to Olivia Colman's haunting performance in ‘The Lost Daughter'. Together they ask: Why is this moment in life so disturbing and so powerful, and what can we learn from confronting it? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rivka Galchen talks to Tom about two recent books on the history of vaccine opposition and reluctance, from smallpox to covid, including the role of 'Big Supplement' and the effectiveness of mandates.Find further reading here: https://lrb.me/antivaxpodSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20bMusic by Kieran Brunt / Produced by Les Mommsen and Anthony Wilks See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ayla Zuraw-Frieldand joins the squad to discuss Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen. The team takes it back to the 1600s to talk about ageism, humor, and history in this quirky standout 2021 novel. Next time, we'll discuss our favorite things of 2021 and exchange presents. On our next bookpisode, we'll discuss My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. TOC:30–Welcome, Ayla! And Icebreakers8:50–Book intro12:00–Galchen's voice and the book's style23:30–Is she actually a witch?28:00–witches are trending40:51–”People don't like an old lady story”53:21–Kelli thought this book would be funny. Is it?1:01:19–Ratings1:08:25–Listener feedback1:24:03–What's on the blog? What's up next?Show links: https://www.vulture.com/article/rivka-galchen-profile.html https://twitter.com/kaylasansk

Kevin Moore talks with Rivka Galchen, Dasha Shishkin, Reiner Leist, Leo Rubinfien, Julie Curtiss, Alex Rosenberg, A. K. Burns, Ankit Shrestha, Francis Cape, Moyra Davey, Vera Iliatova, Nilko Andreas, Ben Gould, Hugo Montoya, Anne Lindberg and May Chatham

Today we bring you a selection of conversations from the Portland Book Festival. OPB's Tiffany Camhi spoke with Aminder Dhaliwal about her book “Cyclopedia Exotica.” OPB's Jenn Chavez spoke with Qian Julie Wang about her book “Beautiful Country.” And OPB's Crystal Ligori spoke with Rivka Galchen, author of “Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch,” and A.K. Blakemore, author of “The Manningtree Witches.”

Sage and Danielle eat a feast based on the culinary delights mentioned in Rat Rule 79 by Rivka Galchen. 

We're journeying back through 2000s pop culture to discuss all the best gay stuff! Join us for our chat about Grace Perry's essay collection The 2000s Made Me Gay. We talk about the personal aspects of the collection, Harry Potter, Taylor Swift, Buffy, Mean Girls, The Real World, and of course, anxiety. Tune in on December 27th for our next Bookpisode on Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen (featuring special guest Ayla Zuraw-Friedland). Then it's time for a BSG tradition: The Best of the Year episode! Join us on January 10th as we recap our favorite pop culture things of 2021and trade Secret Santa gifts! TOC:30–icebreaker12:50–book intro14:04–memoir and essay22:16–revisiting old faves29:13–the dumbledore in the room42:50–Taylor Time1:06:10–Kelli shares a quote, the importance of representation 1:21:45–ratings!1:26:33–what's up next?

Today, we're letting out a bit of wanderlust with a fishbowl question about our travel bucket lists - which is especially timely since Becky and Kayla returned from a trip to France recently. A couple reminders before we get into it: join Kayla's fan club book club chat about her pick for the month, which is *drumroll* Always, In December by Emily Stone! Book club is on December 27, so mark your calendars. Also! Just a heads up that we're taking our (first ever and much needed) break in January 2022. No new eps, but stay tuned to the Patreon where we'll continue hanging out, AND we'll be rereleasing some fun throwback episodes every Monday in January 2022. Jump in and listen to how far we've come since the beginning of the pod :) and finally, what you're actually here for: the books! We're covering some fun ones in this ep. THANK YOU for listening! You can grab your (discounted) BATC merch here: https://www.booksandthecitypod.com/merch. Browse and shop all the books we've discussed on this episode and past episodes at https://www.bookshop.org/shop/booksandthecity. Subscribe to our newsletter on our website, and send us an email at booksandthecitypod@gmail.com-------------> Emily's pick: K-Pop Confidential by Stephan Lee (10:35-28:30) https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/k-pop-confidential-9781338639933.html On Emily's TBR: If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha Becky's pick: The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Gray Tedrowe (28:31-36:05) https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-talented-miss-farwell-emily-gray-tedrowe?variant=33021714890786 On Becky's TBR: A History of Wild Places by Shea Ernshaw Libby's pick: Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen (36:06-44:21) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374280468/everyone-knows-your-mother-is-a-witch On Libby's TBR: Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed, edited by Saraciea J. Fennell Kayla's pick: Always, In December by Emily Stone (44:22-52:33) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/692803/always-in-december-by-emily-stone/ On Kayla's TBR: The Holiday Swap by Maggie Knox Music by EpidemicSound, logo art by @niczollos, all opinions are our own.

Come along to the (not as cozy as you'd think) English countryside for our discussion of "Unsettled Ground" by Claire Fuller. We talk about the setting, the writing style, the sibling relationship at the heart of the novel, the twist(s), and whether this book is sadness porn. Read along with us for our upcoming Othersode on December 13th as we shift gears into nonfiction with the essay collection "The 2000s Made Me Gay" by Grace Perry. Then for our next Bookpisode, we'll be discussing "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" by Rivka Galchen on December 27th. TOC:30 – Icebreaker q7:53 – Trigger warnings and book intro9:11 – What's the point of the book?20:21 – Romanticizing poverty and rural life26:55 – Does the novel seem out of time?30:33 – Sibling relationships44:12 – Twists??52:26 – Ratings1:04:36 – What's on the blog? What's up next?

It's the day before Fred's 13 birthday when she sees her mom walk into a giant lantern and disappear! Fred decides to go after her mom and is transported on a spectacular journey to find a mysterious leader called the Rat Queen. Rat Rule 79 by Rivka Galchen reviewed by Mirabel, age 9 For questions or to suggest a book for us to review email us at bookpowerforkids@gmail.com . Our website is https://bookpowerforkids.com/, or visit us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookpowerforkids/ and Twitter @bookpower4kids We are proud members of Kids Listen. For more quality children's podcasts visit http://www.kidslisten.org/members All of our music was created using Music Maker Jam for non-commercial purposes, http://www.justaddmusic.net/en/ . Credit to http://www.freesfx.co.uk/ for the country ambience sound effect.  Thanks for listening!

Thinly veiled racism! Drug-sniffing monkeys (that are actually apes)! Roving hoards of wiener dogs! A Cervantes-esque arc! Oh, we have just loads to talk about in this episode, that's for sure. More questions are raised than answered in this latest episode of Fuse 8 n' Kate and that's okay. We return to the world of Curious George with all its peculiarities. There's a lot to discuss here and we're ready for it. Show Notes: Be sure to check out this year's fabulous picture book, Strollercoaster. Yay, crediting spouses that color! This is the moment when I need to praise Furious George by Michael Rex, which is the only picture book to make perfectly clear what's really going on in this and other Curious George books. We do urge you to seek out and read The Unexpected Profundity of Curious George by Rivka Galchen for The New Yorker which touches on many of the issues we've mentioned here: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-unexpected-profundity-of-curious-george For the full Show Notes please visit: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2021/11/15/fuse-8-n-kate-curious-george-takes-a-job-by-h-a-and-margret-rey/

Novelists A.K. Blakemore and Rivka Galchen discuss their latest works with OPB's Crystal Ligori.

Writer Rivka Galchen talks about enigmatic terrains, from offbeat neighborhoods to scientific mysteries and arbitrary authority.

Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Galchen lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances. About Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances. The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch. Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It's enough to make anyone jealous, and Katharina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone's business. So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her, the Werewolf) accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill, Katharina is in trouble. Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin, torture, and even execution, Katharina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets. Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which Rivka Galchen is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch will both provoke and entertain. The story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time. Galchen's bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society and a family undone by superstition, the state, and the mortal convulsions of history.

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond briefly discuss the usual COVID guff before jumping into this month's books: The Employees by Olga Ravn [4:20] and Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen [37:55]. The visual artists referenced during are Lea Guldditte Hestelund and Patricia Piccinini. If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:22:50 for final remarks. Next month, the two books up on the slab will be: Dissolve by Nikki Gemmell The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography by Deborah Levy Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

The deadline is one of the most powerful tools we have for getting work done. So why are we all so afraid of it? After studying organizations that manipulate deadlines to their advantage, Christopher Cox (former chief editor of Harper's and executive editor of GQ) has figured out how to transform deadlines from something to be feared into a superpower to boost productivity and stimulate creativity. He's bottled his findings in a new book called “The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It's the Last Minute—Before the Last Minute,” and in this episode, he shares what he has learned with novelist Rivka Galchen.Join The Next Big Idea Club today at nextbigideaclub.com/podcast and get a free copy of Adam Grant's new book!Listen ad-free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad-free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/thenextbigidea.Support us by supporting our sponsors!Peloton — Learn more at onepeloton.comNoom — Sign up for your trial at noom.com/bigideaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The deadline is one of the most powerful tools we have for getting work done. So why are we all so afraid of it? After studying organizations that manipulate deadlines to their advantage, Christopher Cox (former chief editor of Harper's and executive editor of GQ) has figured out how to transform deadlines from something to be feared into a superpower to boost productivity and stimulate creativity. He's bottled his findings in a new book called “The Deadline Effect: How to Work Like It's the Last Minute—Before the Last Minute,” and in this episode, he shares what he has learned with novelist Rivka Galchen.

We're super excited about Season 6!Our first episode will be Chaska reviewing Nick of Time by Ted Bell, targeted to come out on September 19th (Talk like a Pirate Day!)Next will be Leilani reviewing Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer.After that we're all looking forward to Mirabel reviewing Rat Rule 79 by Rivka Galchen.We hope you'll be listening! Bye!For more about our podcast go to:https://bookpowerforkids.com/

Eric Newman talks with Nawaaz Ahmed about his debut novel, Radiant Fugitives, which loosely centers on Seema, a woman who makes a life for herself as a San Francisco-based campaign worker for progressive politicians after her Muslim family in Chennai, India reject her for being a lesbian. As the book opens, Seema is dying just as she is about to give birth to a son, conceived with a fellow campaign worker to whom Seema was briefly married. Gathered around are Seema's mother, Nafeesa, and Tahera, her deeply devout and jealous younger sister. Narrated by Seema's newborn son, Ishraaq, Radiant Fugitives moves back and forth in time and space, from Chennai to London to the United States, charting the struggles of a family in the throes of rupture and reconciliation. Set against the backdrop of the Obama era, the novel explores what it means to belong, to be free, to love, to understand, and to forgive across countries, cultures, and desires. Also, Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, returns to recommend a book that was featured on the LARB Radio Hour just two weeks ago — Katie Kitamura's Intimacies.

Eric Newman talks with Nawaaz Ahmed about his debut novel, Radiant Fugitives, which loosely centers on Seema, a woman who makes a life for herself as a San Francisco-based campaign worker for progressive politicians after her Muslim family in Chennai, India reject her for being a lesbian. As the book opens, Seema is dying just as she is about to give birth to a son, conceived with a fellow campaign worker to whom Seema was briefly married. Gathered around are Seema's mother, Nafeesa, and Tahera, her deeply devout and jealous younger sister. Narrated by Seema's newborn son, Ishraaq, Radiant Fugitives moves back and forth in time and space, from Chennai to London to the United States, charting the struggles of a family in the throes of rupture and reconciliation. Set against the backdrop of the Obama era, the novel explores what it means to belong, to be free, to love, to understand, and to forgive across countries, cultures, and desires. Also, Rivka Galchen, author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, returns to recommend a book that was featured on the LARB Radio Hour just two weeks ago — Katie Kitamura's Intimacies.

Lindy joins me to talk books, where we discuss Canadian lit, vignettes and white space in writing, and what really makes a monster.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 226: Cucumber Sandwiches Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:  You're Eating an Orange. You are Naked. by Sheung-KingEveryone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka GalchenThe Centaur's Wife by Amanda LeducThe Seed Keeper by Diane WilsonWhat Willow Says by Lynn BuckleOther mentions:Shadow Giller PrizeHow to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham ThammavongsaGiller PrizeKuessipan by Naomi FontaineTournament of BooksA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiJeanette WintersonAtmospheric Disappearances by Rivka GalchenThe Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey DragerDisfigured by Amanda LeducLitFest AlbertaThe Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester and Kevin SylvesterBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer2019 Canadian Human Rights Tribunal report about Indigenous childrenWhen the Light of the World was Subdued.... edited by Joy HarjoThe Summer Book by Tove JanssonBeneath the Rising by Premee MohamedAnd Miles to Go Before I Sleep by Jocelyn SaucierCome Together, Fall Apart by Cristina HenriquezRelated episodes: Episode 095 - Lose the Outside World with Lindy Pratch Episode 124 - Mush Creatures with Lindy PratchEpisode 159 - Reading Doorways with LindyEpisode 196 - Miscommunication with Lindy Episode 221 - Joint Poetry Readalong with Book CougarsEpisode 223 - Cicada Season with Rachel Mans McKennyStalk me online:Lindy Reads and Reviews (blog)Lindy on Twitter Lindy is @Lindy on LitsyJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy Follow ShadowGiller on Twitter All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Rivka Galchen, whose new novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, is set in the Holy Roman Empire in 17th-century Germany, amid the plague and the Thirty Years' War. It fictionalizes the real-life story of Katharina Kepler, the mother of astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler. Katharina, an elderly widow who seems to care most for her cow Chamomile, is accused of being a witch by another woman in the small town of Leonberg. Soon everyone in town is testifying to Katharina's wickedness. Her own side of the story is told by her neighbor, Simon, who acts as her guardian — but as a bookseller later tells him, “People don't like an old lady's story.” The novel is told through both fictional testimonials as well as actual translated historical documents. Also, Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl, returns to recommend Raven Leilani's acclaimed first novel, Luster.

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by Rivka Galchen, whose new novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, is set in the Holy Roman Empire in 17th-century Germany, amid the plague and the Thirty Years' War. It fictionalizes the real-life story of Katharina Kepler, the mother of astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler. Katharina, an elderly widow who seems to care most for her cow Chamomile, is accused of being a witch by another woman in the small town of Leonberg. Soon everyone in town is testifying to Katharina's wickedness. Her own side of the story is told by her neighbor, Simon, who acts as her guardian — but as a bookseller later tells him, “People don't like an old lady's story.” The novel is told through both fictional testimonials as well as actual translated historical documents. Also, Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl, returns to recommend Raven Leilani's acclaimed first novel, Luster.

In this episode, Jordan talks to Rivka Galchen about the projects she never finishes, how hard it is for her to stay in love with an idea, and how often she throws projects away. They also talk about her most recent novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, which Galchen says came out in a big “love-affair style rush.” Rivka Galchen is the author of Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch and is the recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for The New Yorker, whose editors selected her for their list of 20 Under 40 American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel Atmospheric Disturbances (2008) and her story collection American Innovations were both New York Times Best Books of the Year. She has received an MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Galchen lives in New York City. Thanks to Our Sponsors! Try MUBI for 30 Days at MUBI.com/Thresholds. For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com -- and be sure to subscribe and review the show on your podcast platform! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharon Wienberg and Amy Zimmerman from Chatham Bookstore in Chatham, New York join us with this week's Book Picks. List: Lala's Words by Gracey Zhang The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris Pleasant View by Celeste Mohammed A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul Darryl by Jackie Ess Love Like Water, Love Like Fire by Mikhail Iossel Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen A Terrible Place by Keith Gessen Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

Rivka Galchen is the recipient of a William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, among other distinctions. She writes regularly for The New Yorker, whose editors selected her for their list of 20 Under 40 American fiction writers in 2010. Her debut novel Atmospheric Disturbances (2008) and her story collection American Innovations were both New York Times Best Books of the Year. She has received an MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Galchen lives in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joshua Cohen's acclaimed novels include Moving Kings, Witz, and Book of Numbers, ''a fascinating look at the dark heart of the Web'' and ''one of the best novels ever written about the Internet'' (Rolling Stone). One of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists in 2017, Cohen is the author of the short story collection Four New Messages and the book of essays Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Cohen has contributed nonfiction to The New York Times, Harper's, and n+1. Blurring the line between the real and the imagined, The Netanyahus follows a Jewish historian who unexpectedly must play host to an exiled Israeli historian and his family on a wintry 1959 upstate New York college campus. Books with signed book plates available from the Joseph Fox Bookshop Rivka Galchen is the author of Atmospheric Disturbances, a comical mystery that follows a doctor who believes his wife has been replaced with a duplicate. The recipient of an MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Galchen also earned an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. She was also the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and published a popular essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics in The Believer. A combination of history and fiction, Galchen's latest novel tells the tale of Katharina Kepler, a 17th century widow accused of witchcraft who seeks help from her son, the renowned mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler. Books with signed book plates available from the Joseph Fox Bookshop (recorded 6/28/2021)

In today's edition of Sunday Book Review: The President's Daughter, by James Patterson and Bill Clinton. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, by Rivka Galchen. The Disappearing Act, by Catherine Steadman Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Valentine’s Day special: Dan is joined by Brooklyn food artist Isabelle Garbani to talk about food and surviving a plague in the Middle Ages. Gather your loved ones close for this one. Where are those disease tables? Thy Links, As Thou Wishest: “Introduction to the Decameron” by Rivka Galchen — https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/07/magazine/what-is-the-decameron.html“What We Eat During a Plague” by Michael Snyder — https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/t-magazine/eating-food-during-plague.htmlDecameron on the Web at Brown University — https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/the_project/ The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 — http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8102Le viandier de Taillevent by Taillevent (in French) — http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26567Sur les routes du Pays Cathare (making bread with ancient grains, in French) — https://youtu.be/ix21SPhGGl0?t=551 D&D Art (1974-1980) with Dan & Isabelle — https://youtu.be/bFJOuDtvZnQFood in D&D (WDMs’ White Gold Cookie recipe) — https://youtu.be/AmOyCwEwyG4Isabelle’s Cow and Covid19 channel (pandemic & puppets) — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Wi6XhseT4RcxkeQoEBKGw Thanks to viewer Jerry McDonnell for the title to this episode — https://twitter.com/jdmcdonnell Visit dScryb, purveyors of finely crafted boxed text, and use code WANDERING at checkout to save 10%! – https://dscryb.com/wandering Wandering DMs Paul Siegel and Dan “Delta” Collins host thoughtful discussions on D&D and other TTRPGs every week. Comparing the pros and cons of every edition from the 1974 Original D&D little brown books to cutting-edge releases for 5E D&D today, we broadcast live on YouTube and Twitch so we can take viewer questions and comments on the topic of the day. Live every Sunday at 1 PM Eastern time. Subscribe to Wandering DMs for new episodes

The one and only Jia Tolentino was our guest on the show. We had Shipley’s donuts & it’s Britney’s Spears birthday all in honor of Jia. She’s a staff writer for the New Yorker and if you haven’t been living in a cave, you know she’s been on an international press tour for her first book, Trick Mirror, which she documented with her signature mix of wheee and disbelief, echoing the rollercoaster of gratitude and surreality we all ricochet between several trillion times a day (when we’re not reeling from helplessness and despair). In every piece of her writing, Jia comes across just as baffled, heartbroken, and furious as the rest of us about the unjust forces we’ve unthinkingly given power to. But because she leads with a genuine desire to understand rather than a hastily applied authority, reading her feels like eavesdropping on a mind at work. Whether she’s documenting her ‘fucking Tatcha’ skincare addiction or peeling back the Lycra’d layers of ‘ideal’ womanhood, Tolentino creates a philosophy of curiosity that implicates herself, not to be coy or pseudo-anything, but because she knows/admits that even hard work, luck, and success don’t guarantee a reprieve from even a reluctant examination of contemporary culture. Reading Jia is self care in the grandest and the most basic sense: she polishes the grimy windows of modern life so we can see into and out from it, and, with our sharpened perceptions, come away with more compassion for ourselves and even, occasionally, for others.Work by Jia Tolentino:Trick Mirror Essays and Critique at The New Yorker (from Waxahatchee to Weinstein)Suggested Reading from Jia:The Yellow House by Sarah BroomWhen You Reach Me by Rebecca SteadIn the Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoThe Supernova Era by Cixin LiuHonorable Mentions:“Does Who You Are at 7 Determine Who You Are at 63?” by Gideon Lewis-Krause for The New York Times MagazineRaymie Nightengale by Kate DiCamilloCheck out the New Yorker radio hour conversation between Rivka Galchen and Jia for more children’s literature love Photo credit Elena Mudd

Greenlight's annual Brooklyn Indie Party (ten years and counting) goes virtual for 2020! Editors and publishers from eleven small publishers introduce authors Adam Smyer, Andrea Rosenberg, Stephanie Jean, Matthew Burgess, Kim McLarin, Jenzo DuQue, Megan Cummins, JinJin Xu, Rivka Galchen, Grace Schulman, and Zahra Patterson for an epic, cutting-edge reading from Brooklyn and beyond. (Recorded October 2, 2020.)

Publisher: Crown/Archetype, 2020 "There were so many of us, children of these double families who dreamed of the other side." Margot Louve is a secret: the child of a longstanding affair between an influential French politician with presidential ambitions and a prominent stage actress. This hidden family exists in stolen moments in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank. It is a house of cards that Margot--fueled by a longing to be seen and heard--decides to tumble. The summer of her seventeenth birthday, she meets the man who will set her plan in motion: a well-regarded journalist whose trust seems surprisingly easy to gain. But as Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend, she learns how one impulsive decision can threaten a family's love with ruin, shattering the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined. Exposing the seams between private lives and public faces, The Margot Affair is a novel of deceit, desire, and transgression--and the exhilarating knife-edge upon which the danger of telling the truth outweighs the cost of keeping secrets. Advance praise for The Margot Affair "Subtle, beautiful, serious."--Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! "Sanaë Lemoine is an extraordinary new talent. One who makes an intergenerational story of loneliness and intrigue read like a diary and a page-turner and a masterful debut, all at once."--Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling "Powerful and affecting . . . truly exceptional."--Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labors --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pbliving/support

Rivka Galchen on her selection: I chose this story because it deals with anxieties both rational and irrational. I love the way the narrator of this story works so hard to be cheerful. We see the labor, sometimes absurd, sometimes heroic, that goes into feeling okay with the basics of the world: that time moves, that calamities happen, that our hearts are unreasonable and panicked. Also Cheever describes California palm trees as "disheveled and expatriated" and like "rank upon rank of wet mops"—those incidental accuracies and pleasures are (for me) sunshine. I admire the story for offering a moment of grace—an almost silly one—that I can believe in. At least briefly. The Stories of John Cheever at Bookshop.org Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

Novelist Rivka Galchen interviews Katy Simpson Smith about her new novel The Everlasting, a portrait of the "Eternal City," Rome, over four centuries. The two authors explore the freedom fiction allows to explore marginalized peoples whose voices history has erased or ignored, the ways in which faith and love intertwine, and the disgusting and miraculous thing that is the human body. (Recorded April 15, 2020)

We discuss the brilliant article 'Complete Trash' written by Rivka Galchen for the March 9th, 2020 edition of The New Yorker. It describes the ongoing efforts of Korea to bring waste management into the 21st century, as well as its applicability to New York City, and America. With more than enough experience of the UK's less-than-poor system, we share our thoughts on how to start tackling the problem on This Turf. Article is available for free, and in audio format: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/09/how-south-korea-is-composting-its-way-to-sustainability --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thisturf/message

Episode 1: Distractions, Escapisms, and Cowboys In this episode, we discuss the Netflix show Tigerking, the Yeehaw Agenda, and the German obsession with the Wild West. Links: Wild West Germany, by Rivka Galchen in New Yorker Magazine https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/09/wild-west-germany El Dorado Wild West Theme Park on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eldoradotemplin/ The YeeHaw Agenda on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theyeehawagenda/ Tiger King’s Chaotic Fashion Will Delight And Inspire You by Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz in The Cut https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/netflix-tiger-kings-big-cat-fashion.html Lost in Translation: Germany’s Fascination With the American Old West by Melissa Eddy in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/world/europe/germanys-fascination-with-american-old-west-native-american-scalps-human-remains.html Lil Nas X's Old Time Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2Ov5jzm3j8 Rina on Twitter https://twitter.com/Rina_Grob_ Madhvi on Twitter https://twitter.com/madhviramani Rina on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rina_grob/ Madhvi on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/madhviinberlin/

In the first segment [1:05-15:05], hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk discuss this week's three must-reads: Compost http://bit.ly/2xiwgc3 (Rivka Galchen, New Yorker)  Tulsa http://bit.ly/2wEpIE4 (Sarah Holder, CityLab)  Quarantine http://bit.ly/2VPTUXv (Ian Bogost, Atlantic)  In the second segment [15:10-20:15], the hosts play a game called “Taking the Local,” focusing on the story of Reno’s Tesla-led tech transformation, and its impact on housing affordability: http://bit.ly/2vzkPfH (Patrick Sisson, Curbed)  And in the final segment [20:20-22:40], the hosts share what made them smile this week. Eric’s Pick: Secrets of slow walking http://bit.ly/2TtBk5R (Lisa Wood Shapiro, Wired) Vanessa’s Pick: The rogue plaque maker http://bit.ly/3cCgaKm  (Aaron Gordon, Vice)

This week, Liberty and Sharifah discuss The Water Dancer, The Dutch House, The Shadow King, and more great books. This episode was sponsored Book Riot's giveaway of the best mysteries and thrillers of the year so far; Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing and Slay by Brittney Morris; and Bombas. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht The World That We Knew: A Novel by Alice Hoffman  The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Dutch House by Ann Patchett Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison The Shadow King: A Novel by Maaza Mengiste  Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger  Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker What we're reading: Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson The Unwilling by Kelly Braffet More books out this week: Hudson's Kill: A Justice Flanagan Thriller by Paddy Hirsch  Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter edited by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall  Violet by Scott Thomas Rat Rule 79 (Yonder) by Rivka Galchen, Elena Megalos (Illustrator) Wrapped Up in You: A Heartbreaker Bay Novel by Jill Shalvis  Verify by Joelle Charbonneau Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn and Paul Murray Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller Inside Out: A Memoir by Demi Moore No Judgments: A Novel by Meg Cabot High School by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills by Seth Grahame-Smith  A Dream So Dark (A Blade So Black) by L.L. McKinney  The Warrior Moon by K. Arsenault Rivera Grave Importance (A Dr. Greta Helsing Novel) by Vivian Shaw  In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop by Fatima Bhutto The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones  The Crossed-Out Notebook: A Novel by Nicolás Giacobone, Megan McDowell (translator) Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith Doppelganger by Daša Drndic, S.D. Curtis and Celia Hawkseworth (translators) Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness Emmy in the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido   Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo  The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring   Rusty Brown by Chris Ware Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) by Jackson Bird A Fist or a Heart by Kristín Eiríksdóttir and Larissa Kyzer Sins of the Fathers: A J.P. Beaumont Novel by J. A Jance  Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep by Erin Carlson  Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America by Nefertiti Austi Slay by Brittney Morris Breaking and Mending: A memoir of burnout, recovery and the journey to become a doctor (Life Lines) by Joanna Cannon  The Tyrant's Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, Book Four) by Rick Riordan  Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution by Tim Smedley The Braid: A Novel by Laetitia Colombani The Incompletes by Sergio Chejfec, Heather Cleary (translator) Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai and Ottilie Mulzet Family Record (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Patrick Modiano and Mark Polizzotti I’m From Nowhere by Linsday Lerman Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe by S. James Gates, Cathie Pelletier How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics by Lauren Duca Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) by Lobo Antunes, António and Jeff Love Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell  Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First-Century Acts of Self-Definition edited by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery Blood in the Water: A Thriller by Jack Flynn The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural by Agatha Christie Invisible as Air by Zoe Fishman  The Fool and Other Moral Tales by Anne Serre, Mark Hutchinson (translator) The Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen 

The cultural critic Doreen St. Félix goes to Madame Tussauds with Justin Kuritzkes, the début author of the novel “Famous People,” to talk about the nature of celebrity. Jia Tolentino heads for the children’s section of a bookstore with Rivka Galchen to compare notes on the kids’ books that still inspire them. And Jelani Cobb recommends three recent works of history that shed light on our current moment.

This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 11, the NASA mission that first put men on the moon. In the decades since Apollo 11, the American space program has atrophied. No manned American space mission has left low Earth orbit since 1972. But recent developments in the space programs of other nations, along with new interest in space from private industry, have instigated a new interest in an American space program. The Trump Administration has announced plans to build an American military presence in space, as well as its intentions to send another manned mission to the moon. Rivka Galchen joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what’s next in outer space.

On this episode, Dan discusses how being a podcast host has led him to be overly confident about his knowledge of facts; Eric counters by reflecting on his over-enthusiasm and thoughtless reliance on broad adjectives.  They also discuss matters of greater substance: Margaret Talbot on US immigration policy; reporter William Finnegan and his thoughtful piece about presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke; Pulitzer prize winner Emily Nussbaum on television in the #metoo era; and Rivka Galchen on the story behind the creation of Curious George.  A nice, long episode, with lots of good banter and discussion. 

This week!  Dan and Eric dicuss Jeffrey Toobin's piece about Michael Cohen, his history, his illegal deeds and how he turned on Trump; Rivka Galchen on the past, present and future of lunar travel and moon mythology; Adam Kirsch on Jewish philosopher Martin Buber and his beliefs about intimacy with God; Benjamin Wallace-Wells critique of David Brooks' most recent book; and Eric's experience seeing Hilton Als speak with poets Brenda Shaughnessy and Michael Dickman.  Plus: the Goose shows up, on the pod and on the potty.

Discussion Notes: Exquisite Corpse This week’s story: Exquisite Corpse by Zadie Smith, Rebecca Curtis, Mohsin Hamid, R.L. Stine, Rivka Galchen, Nicholson Baker, Anthony Marra, David Baldacci, Elif Batuman, James Patterson, Hanya Yanagihara, Joshua Ferris, Ben Marcus, Jenny Offill, Adelle Waldman Next week’s story: Saint Bus Driver by J. E. McCafferty Rated: Explicit Gerald, Anais and... The post Exquisite Corpse | T Magazine | Literary Roadhouse Ep 155 appeared first on Literary Roadhouse.

Discussion Notes: The Second Bakery Attack This week’s story: The Second Bakery Attack by Haruki Murakami Next week’s story: Exquisite Corpse by Zadie Smith, Rebecca Curtis, Mohsin Hamid, R.L. Stine, Rivka Galchen, Nicholson Baker, Anthony Marra, David Baldacci, Elif Batuman, James Patterson, Hanya Yanagihara, Joshua Ferris, Ben Marcus, Jenny Offill, Adelle Waldman Rated: Clean Gerald,... The post The Second Bakery Attack | Haruki Murakami | Literary Roadhouse Ep 154 appeared first on Literary Roadhouse.

Daniel Torday makes a triumphant return to talk about his new novel, BOOMER1. He and James chat about creating the world around the book, reinventing like Dylan, aspiring to anti-lyricism, and getting excited about liking stuff. They try to parse out a comic novel vs. a funny one and what constitutes satire. Plus, Emory Harkins discusses the mobile and now brick-and-mortar book store he co-founded and co-owns with Alexa Trembly, Twenty Stories.   - Daniel Torday: http://www.danieltorday.com/ Daniel and James Discuss:  David Crosby  THE RUMPUS  "Pretty Polly"  Fleet Foxes  Dirty Projectors  Dr. Dog  WXPM  "Superstitious" by Stevie Wonder  The Velvet Underground  PASTORALIA by George Saunders  MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS by Kelly Link  Junot Diaz  Karen Russell  David Foster Wallace  Flannery O'Connor  Bob Dylan William Faulkner  THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow  SEIZE THE DAY by Saul Bellow INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace  John Updike  Philip Roth  Netflix  TREE OF SMOKE by Denis Johnson  JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson  TRAIN DREAMS  RED CALVARY by Isaac Babel  Twenty Stories Bookstore   FLORIDA by Christine Schutt  THE AGE OF WIRE AND STRING by Ben Marcus  Aleksandar Hemon  BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy  NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN by Cormac McCarthy  SUTTREE by Cormac McCarthy  James Joyce  ABSALOM, ABSALOM by William Faulkner  LIBRA by Don DeLillo  Dana Spiotta  Leonard Michaels  Grace Paley  Thomas Bernhard  Laszlo Krasznahorkai  Franz Kafka  Samuel Beckett  Jack Ruby  Lee Harvey Oswald The Titanic  Occupy Wall Street  ORLANDO by Virginia Woolf  WE ARE LEGION McSweeney's  DAWN OF THE DEAD dir George A. Romero  David Remnick  Fyodor Dostoevsky  YOUR DUCK IS YOUR DUCK by Deborah Eisenberg Lydia Davis  Dave Barry  Colson Whitehead  Rivka Galchen  OZARK  ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT  Gary Shteyngart  John Mulaney  Pitchfork  Mike Nichols & Elaine May  Dave Chappelle  Chris Rock  THE SOPRANOS  Alfred Hitchcock  Chris Farley  Jane Goodall  Harold Bloom  Lewis Hyde  Yaddo  Best American Short Stories  The O. Henry Prize Stories  Mary Gaitskill  ESQUIRE  "Messiah" by George Friderick Handel  Chris Thile  The Ramones  - TWENTY STORIES: https://www.twentystoriesla.com/ Emory and James discuss:  ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS by Hunter S. Thompson  Alexa Trembly Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra  DISQUIET AMERICAN SHORT FICTION  TWO DOLLAR RADIO  CURBSIDE SPLENDOR  THE DEEPER THE WATER, THE UGLIER THE FISH by Katya Apekina HALF OF A YELLOW SUN by Chimamanda Adichie COMEMADRE by Roque Larraquy, translated by Heather Cleary WHEN RAP SPOKE STRAIGHT TO GOD by Erica Dawson JESUS' SON by Denis Johnson WHITE GIRLS by Hilton Als  something bright, then holes by Maggie Nelson  - http://tkpod.com / tkwithjs@gmail.com / Twitter: @JamesScottTK Instagram: tkwithjs / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tkwithjs/

The New Yorker’s Rivka Galchen pens a hit piece on Oklahoma, but it’s full of errors and omissions. Plus, what will we do without California bureaucrats? And Trent breaks down today’s Supreme Court decision in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case.

In anticipation for Wordstock 2017, which announced its return on Nov. 11, we take a step into the time machine and revisit last year's wordsmiths. The big news is that the subject of one of their books, a musician you might know from the soles of his shows, is coming to Oregon.Peter Ames Carlin on Paul SimonPeter Ames Carlin has written about some of the most iconic musicians of the 20th century — Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson — and his new book is no exception.Paul Simon soundtracked the 1960s, together with his soul mate, frenemy and long-time musical partner, Art Garfunkel. But as Carlin’s book “Homeward Bound” shows, the road to Graceland was strewn with contradictions, and the man who gave us some of the sweetest harmonies of the 20th century was not the guy you would want to cross over song royalties. But if he's someone you want to see, you can catch Paul Simon in all his glory at the Les Schwab Ampitheater in Bend on June 24.Lindy WestHow exactly is it Lindy West ended up at the center of so many white-hot flash points in pop culture? She has thought through difficult subjects with rigor, creativity and brio: misogyny in comedy, fat acceptance, trolling on Twitter and more. The celebrated columnist for "The Guardian" talks to us about her memoir, “Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman,” her roots at Seattle’s alt-weekly "The Stranger," and how her parents contributed to the fireproofing that lets her fight her battles.Rivka GalchenThe exquisite essays and stories of Rivka Galchen delight readers of the "New Yorker," the "New York Times" and other hot spots. All great writers meet their match, and Galchen nearly hit her own wall four years ago. Her elegantly constructed idea for a book comparing two medieval Japanese women writers was neatly derailed by the birth of her daughter. Onstage at Wordstock, Galchen tells us how she learned to embrace the kind of thoughts she was having in the throes of baby inebriation.The resulting book, “Little Labors,” is a series of short, splendid essays that perfectly describe the altered state of maternity.

The toast of the literary season is Portland’s book festival, Wordstock. This week we bring you the first of several shows we taped: a bang-up time with three exceptional authors, and one song that left us starry-eyed, recorded in front of a packed audience at the Winningstad Theater. Peter Ames Carlin on Paul Simon - 1:00Peter Ames Carlin has written about some of the most iconic musicians of the 20th century: Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson. His new book taps into one of the most complex characters in pop history. Paul Simon soundtracked the 1960s, together with his soul mate, frenemy, and long-time musical partner, Art Garfunkel. But as Carlin’s book, “Homeward Bound” shows, Simon’s path is piled with contradictions. The road to Graceland was strewn with misunderstandings, and the man who gave us some of the sweetest harmonies of the 20th century was not the guy you would want to cross over song royalties.We also invited Portland singer-songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza, the incredible voice behind the bands Y La Bamba and Tiburones, to interpret Simon's iconic hits "The Sound of Silence" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water," with bandmate Philip Rogers, as well as play an original of her own.Lindy West - 22:38How exactly is it Lindy West ended up at the center of so many white-hot flash points in pop culture? She has thought through difficult subjects with rigor, creativity and brio: misogyny in comedy, fat acceptance, trolling on Twitter, and more. The celebrated columnist for The Guardian talks to us about her memoir, “Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman,” her roots at Seattle’s alt-weekly, The Stranger, and how her parents contributed to the fireproofing that lets her fight her battles.Rivka Galchen - 36:12The exquisite essays and stories of Rivka Galchen delight readers of the New Yorker magazine, the New York Times, and other hot spots. All great writers meet their match, and Galchen nearly hit her own wall four years ago. Her elegantly constructed idea for a book comparing two medieval Japanese women writers was neatly derailed by the birth of her daughter. Onstage at Wordstock, Galchen tells us how she learned to embrace the kind of thoughts she was having in the throes of baby inebriation. The resulting book, “Little Labors,” is a series of short, splendid essays that both speak to and perfectly describe the altered state of maternity.

Rivka Galchen reads her story “How Can I Help?,” from the September 19, 2016, issue of the magazine. Galchen's story collection, “American Innovations,” was published in 2014. She was included in The New Yorker's 20 Under 40 issue in 2010. She's been publishing fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker since 2008.

Rivka Galchen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Cafeteria," from a 1968 issue of the magazine.

In 18th-century England, wealthy landowners would sometimes hire people to live as hermits in secluded corners of their estates. In today's show we'll explore this odd custom and review the job requirements for life as a poetic recluse. We'll also meet a German novelist who popularized an American West he had never seen and puzzle over some very generous bank robbers. Sources for our feature on ornamental hermits: Gordon Campbell, The Hermit in the Garden, 2013. Alice Gregory, "Garden Hermit Needed. Apply Within," Boston Globe, May 19, 2013. Robert Conger Pell, Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things, 1857. Edith Sitwell, The English Eccentrics, 1933. John Timbs, English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1875. Allison Meier, "Before the Garden Gnome, The Ornamental Hermit: A Real Person Paid to Dress Like a Druid," Atlas Obscura, March 18, 2014 (accessed June 9, 2015). Graeme Wood's article "The Lost Man," describing the latest efforts to identify the Somerton Man, appeared in the California Sunday Magazine on June 7, 2015. The case concerns an unidentified corpse discovered on a South Australian beach in December 1948; for the full story see our Episode 25. University of Adelaide physicist Derek Abbott's Indiegogo campaign to identify the man runs through June 28. There's also a petition to urge the attorney general of South Australia to exhume the body so that autosomal DNA can be extracted. Sources for Sharon's discussion of German author Karl May's fictional Apache chief Winnetou: Michael Kimmelman, "Fetishizing Native Americans: In Germany, Wild for Winnetou," Spiegel Online, Sept. 13, 2007 (accessed June 11, 2015). Rivka Galchen, "Wild West Germany: Why Do Cowboys and Indians So Captivate the Country?", New Yorker, April 9, 2012 (accessed June 11, 2015). Winnetou is so popular in Germany that the death this month of French actor Pierre Brice, who played him in the movies, was front-page news. (Thanks, Hanno.) This week's lateral thinking puzzle is from Edward J. Harshman's 1996 book Fantastic Lateral Thinking Puzzles. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes 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 via the Donate button in the sidebar of the Futility Closet website. Please take a five-minute survey to help us find advertisers to support the show. 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. You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks for listening!

Rivka Galchen reads Leonard Michaels's "Cryptology."

Slate's Audio Book Club. Meghan O'Rourke, Katie Roiphe, and Troy Patterson discuss Rivka Galchen's Atmospheric Disturbances. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices