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3 episodes with Robert Gottlieb
2 episodes with Robert Gottlieb
2 episodes with Robert Gottlieb
2 episodes with Robert Gottlieb
2 episodes with Robert Gottlieb
2 episodes with Robert Gottlieb
On today's show, Stig Brodersen talks with co-host William Green, the author of “Richer, Wiser, Happier.” In their quest for meaningful relationships and being the best version of themselves, they discuss what has made them Richer, Wiser, or Happier in the past quarter. You're invited to join them on their journey. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 00:07:45 - Why you will waste years if you can't waste hours 00:08:04 - The power of (not) structuring your day 00:13:53 - What you can clone from an optimal life design 00:59:46 - What William and Stig have read the last quarter that made them Richer, Wiser, and Happier 01:01:55 - How to have work-play integration rather than a work-life balance 01:03:55 - Why what is important starts and ends with quality 01:22:13 - Why the best things in life come from compounding Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join Clay and a select group of passionate value investors for a retreat in Big Sky, Montana. Learn more here. Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members. William Green's book Richer, Wiser, Happier – Read reviews of this book. Stig Brodersen and William Green's episode on being Richer, Wiser, and Happier, Q1 2025. Stig Brodersen and William Green's episode on being Richer, Wiser, and Happier, Q4 2024 Stig Brodersen and William Green's episode on being Richer, Wiser, and Happier, Q3 2024. Stig Brodersen and William Green's episode on being Richer, Wiser, and Happier, Q1 2024. Stig Brodersen and William Green's episode on being Richer, Wiser, and Happier, Q3 2023. Stig Brodersen and William Green's episode on being Richer, Wiser, and Happier, Q2 2023. Simon Singh's book, Fermat's Last Theorem – Read reviews of this book. David Hawkins' book, Letting Go – Read reviews of this book. Pico Iyer's book, Aflame – Read reviews of this book. Tara Springett's book, The Stairway to Heaven – Read reviews of this book. Robert Caro's book, Working - Read reviews of this book. Robert Gottlieb's documentary, Turn Every Page. Check out all the books mentioned and discussed in our podcast episodes here. Enjoy ad-free episodes when you subscribe to our Premium Feed. NEW TO THE SHOW? Get smarter about valuing businesses in just a few minutes each week through our newsletter, The Intrinsic Value Newsletter. Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Follow our official social media accounts: X (Twitter) | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: • SimpleMining • Hardblock • AnchorWatch • Unchained • Vanta • Human Rights Foundation • Fundrise • reMarkable • Onramp • Netsuite • Shopify HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review on Spotify! It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm
Silver Alert On Bank Short Positions -"Someone May Be Very Exposed" As the silver price shoots through the $35 level to its highest price since March of 2012, the signs of trouble beneath the surface continue to emerge. And you're going to want to hear the latest comments from former JP Morgan precious metals managing director Robert Gottlieb. So click to watch the video now! - Get access to Arcadia's Daily Gold and Silver Substack go to: https://goldandsilverdaily.substack.com/ - To get your very own 'Silver Chopper Ben' statue go to: https://arcadiaeconomics.com/chopper-ben-landing-page/ - Join our free email list to be notified when a new video comes out: click here: https://arcadiaeconomics.com/email-signup/ - Follow Arcadia Economics on twitter at: https://x.com/ArcadiaEconomic - To get your copy of 'The Big Silver Short' (paperback or audio) go to: https://arcadiaeconomics.com/thebigsilvershort/ - Listen to Arcadia Economics on your favorite Podcast platforms: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/75OH2PpgUpriBA5mYf5kyY Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/arcadia-economics/id1505398976 - #silver #silverprice #gold And remember to get outside and have some fun every once in a while!:) (URL0VD)Subscribe to Arcadia Economics on Soundwise
In the spotlight is the late novelist Joseph Heller of Catch-22 fame, and one of his biographers, Tracy Daughtery, who is himself the author of six novels, a novella connection, six short story collections, a book of personal essays, and a collection of essays on literature and writing. In addition, he has published biographies of Donald Barthelme, Larry McMurtry, Joan Didion, Billy Lee Brammer, etc.We discuss: >> Catch-22's original title>> Heller's celebrity lifestyle>> His other novels>> Book editor Robert Gottlieb>> The Heller Cult>> Wartime novels>> Tracy Daugherty's latest books>> Etc. Learn more about Tracy Daugherty and his books here: https://tracydaugherty.com Learn more about Joseph Heller here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Heller Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol. Check out his novels here: https://snip.ly/yz18no Write to Mike Consol at novelistspotlight@gmail.com
Is money the root of all evil? Or does it change happiness to despair simply by existing? Booth Tarkington, today on The Classic Tales Podcast. Welcome to The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening. The Vintage Episode for the week is “Paul's Case”, by Willa Cather. Be sure to check it out on Tuesday. If you have found value in the show, please consider becoming a monthly supporter. Help us to help other folks like you. Please go to http://classictalesaudiobooks.com and become a monthly supporter for as little as $5 a month. As a thank you gesture, we'll send you a coupon code every month for $8 off any audiobook order. Give more, and you get more! Thanks for helping us out. Go to http://classictalesaudiobooks.com and become a supporter today. This summer we are showcasing short stories that have been nominated for the O. Henry Memorial Award from 1919-1923. Booth Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. Once in 1919 for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons, and also in 1923 for Alice Adams. He was well-known and prolific, penning many best-selling novels including Penrod and Seventeen. He was also an illustrator, playwright and politician, serving one term in 1905 in the Indiana House of Representatives. In the 1910s and 1920s, Tarkington was regarded as “the most important and lasting writer in his generation”. By the end of the 20th Century, however, he had been completely ignored by academia, and in 2019 he was described by Robert Gottlieb as “America's most distinguished hack”. Apparently, Tarkington's penchant for glorifying the past, going beyond typical nostalgia, rubbed the modern academicians the wrong way. I think it might be time we give him another chance. And now, “The One Hundred Dollar Bill”, by Booth Tarkington. Follow this link to become a monthly supporter: Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel: Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast: Follow this link to follow us on Instagram: Follow this link to follow us on Facebook: Follow this link to follow us on TikTok:
The queen of living her life her own way! Learn all about her now. Sources: Tallulah: My Autobiography by Tallulah Bankhead; Tallulah Bankhead: A Life from Beginning to End (part of the Hourly History series;) New Yorker article by Robert Gottlieb (5/8/05) titled The Strange Case of Tallulah Bankhead; Tallulah's biography page in the Encyclopedia of Alabama Cover Images: Lifeboat, Wikipedia; Tallulah, Town & Country Magazine; Tallulah, Wikipedia
To fully enjoy this episode, it is recommended that you watch the documentary Turn Every Page about the unique working relationship between biography giant Robert Caro and his editor of fifty years, Robert Gottlieb. Robert Caro is regarded by many as the greatest biographer of his generation, thanks to the ambition, scope and meticulous detail of his 1974 best selling biography The Power Broker, about Robert Moses, the unscrupulous developer who built the New York we know today. Now 88, he is currently at work on the eagerly awaited fifth volume of his biography of President Lyndon Johnson. Robert Gottlieb is a former editor of the New Yorker and has edited many of the greats of twentieth century American literature from Joseph Heller to Toni Morrison. His partnership with Robert Caro was a unique relationship between author and editor that never translated into a personal friendship outside of work. Lizzie Gottlieb, Robert Gottlieb's daughter, was given unprecedented access to the very shy, modest and private Robert Caro. Her observational documentary tells the story of his research methods, of how he uncovered the racism inherent in Robert Moses' approach to urban development and of the secrets and lies buried within the Johnson family that Caro's unflagging patience and active listening uncovered in Texas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What is the secret to Argylle?!? Is the CAT the spy? Did Taylor Swift write it?!? Is it the obvious twist that Dan guessed after a moment of thought having only seen the trailer?!? Is it that it doesn't work at all as a movie, but at least it's not as relentlessly boring as a lot of Flop House topics?!? It's definitely at least two of those things!Tonight is our SPEED 2 live show, and tickets are still available! All 3 of us will be IN THE CHAT, watching along, tonight! BUT if you can't join us, you can watch (or rewatch) until Sunday, May 19 at 11:59PM ET!And if you happen to prefer your live shows really live? We've got LIVE SHOWS for you, in Oxford, England! Plus the colonies get their own NEW one, just announced, in Boston!Wikipedia page for ArgylleRecommended in this episode:I'm 'George Lucas': A Connor Ratliff Story (2024)Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (2022)Zone of Interest (2023)The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993)Get 30% off your first order, plus free shipping today at Microdose.com, promo code FLOP.Aura has a great deal for Mother's Day. Listeners can save on the perfect gift by visiting AuraFrames.com to get $30-off plus free shipping on their best-selling frame. That's A-U-R-A Frames.com. Use code FLOP at checkout to save.
3.22.2024 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Haiti's Humanitarian Crisis Worsens, Working with Shirley Chisholm, The Anti-DEI Crusade The situation in Haiti is worsening as gangs continue to wreak havoc on the innocent and the country's transitional government struggles to take shape. Retired Army Lieutenant General Russel Honoré is here to explain what needs to be done to get Haiti back on track. Netflix's biopic Shirley premiered today. Tonight, I'll talk to Robert Gottlieb, a man who worked on Shirley Chisholm's presidential campaign, about what it was like to work for the first black woman to run for president and how he felt about being portrayed in the film. "Shirley" PREMIERES Friday, March 22nd on Netflix
Join biographer Julie Phillips for Jӓgerschnitzel as we discuss why she called The Baby on the Fire Escape "a weird hybrid monster of a book," the one thing she regrets not researching more thoroughly for her Tiptree bio, the reason there's more space for the reader in a biography than a memoir, why some children of artistic mothers can make peace with their relationships and others can't, the three things she felt it important to squeeze into the seven minutes she was given to speak at Ursula K. Le Guin's memorial service, her writing method of starting in the middle of a book and working out toward both ends, the occasional difficulty of withholding judgement on one's biographical subjects, the relationship between biographer Robert Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb, plus much more.
Meg investigates the twisted tale of embezzlement in the Diamond District that led to the CBS Murders. Jessica delves into the hilariously twisted minds of Johnny Kennedy Toole and Robert Plunket.Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica
“It doesn't have to be good, it just has to happen” - Seth Godin, The Practice“F*ck it, I feel like sh*t” - Jess LaheyHi everyone! Jess here. We actually managed to get Sarina, Jennie, KJ and Jess together for an episode even though Jess and KJ have been under the weather. All December and January, the group text thread has been moaning and groaning about feeling awful and needing to work but feeling awful. So what do you do when you are not at your physical or mental peak and working becomes more difficult? Do you push on through and grind it out? Sometimes. Do you close the computer and recline in your bed with your hot tea and tissues? Sometimes. Here are our thoughts on working when under the weather. #AmReadingJennie * Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb documentary * Avid Reader: A Life by Robert GottliebJess * Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun* Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada CalhounWhile we have your attention, we'd love our listeners and readers to help out the Institute for Independent Journalists Foundation in their work, “…to track the demographics of the nearly 3,000 journalists laid off in 2023, and to understand the implications for our field” by taking this census. From the IIJF:The project aims to take a census of the journalists laid off or bought out in the last year-plus, uncover any trends, and assess the impact on newsroom demographics headed into a pivotal election year. Results will be published in Nieman Reports and shared through IIJ Foundation channels, including conference presentations and webinars. We're aiming to collect data through mid-February and release results in March.As you know, the IIJ is a one-year old organization whose mission is the financial and emotional sustainability of freelance journalists of color, entirely led by BIPOC women. The IIJ Foundation is our nonprofit arm.You've heard us talk about Author Accelerator's book coach training program, and now they're offering a unique chance to peek inside a successful book coaching business and see what it really looks like. Grab the FREE 52-page mini magazine, From Lost Lawyer and Empty Nest Mom to Thriving Author and Book Coach -- How I Built My Book Coaching Business, HERE. You don't even have to hand over your email! You can read about book coach Suzette Mullen's journey as a writer, a book coach, and a human -- and on February 6 at 9am PST / 12 EST, you can join Author Accelerator CEO Jennie Nash and Suzette for a conversation about Suzette's journey. The sign-up for the February event is on the same page where you download the magazine. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit amwriting.substack.com
Many New Yorkers have read (or plan to read) The Power Broker, the Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Robert Moses from Robert Caro. But a key force behind that book, and the rest of Caro's biographies, is his editor, Robert Gottlieb. The new documentary "Turn Every Page-The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb" explores their 50 year working relationship and friendship. Director Lizzie Gottlieb, daughter of Robert Gottlieb, joins us to discuss the film, which is in theaters now.
In Episode 14 of this season's Digital and Dirt Podcast, Ian welcomes Robert Gottlieb, President of Marketing at FOX Sports. To Learn more about this episode, check out Lamar's blog linked here - programmatic.lamar.com/posts/robert-gottlieb
On an Upper Byrdcliffe Road walk in Woodstock this past summer, I noted to my friends, Perry Beekman and David Gordon, the recent death of Robert Gottlieb, the most acclaimed book editor of the last 50+ years. I've previously mentioned on the podcast, Gottlieb's really great memoir, Avid Reader. David noted that writer Cormac McCarthy had also then recently died. David expressed enthusiasm for McCarthy's great works over the years. I had read McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece, The Road, many years prior and I still get a chill in my bones when I think about it. I asked David whether he would like to come on the podcast to commemorate Cormac McCarthy and to talk about The Road, and the rest of McCarthys great works. And here we are. Published in 2006, The Road is a dystopian, post-apocalyptic and frightening warning, but it's also a story of the love between a father and a son and of the lengths to which a father might travel for his son, literally and figuratively. It's emotional, chilling and also beautifully written.
This week's SGV Connect breaks our regular mold as Streetsblog L.A. editor Joe Linton conducts both interviews on the past and future of ArroyoFest which returns at the end of this month, on Sunday October 29th when a portion of the I-110 will be closed to cars and open to other uses in the morning. First, Linton interviews Robert Gottlieb and Marcus Renner some of the leaders that brought Southern California the first ArroyoFest in 2003. Seven years before the first CicLAvia, ArroyoFest changed the conversation around transportation in the region. While we haven't seen the seismic change away from cars in the past two decades that some might have hoped for, the steps towards regional bike networks and an expanded transit system might not have been possible without ArroyoFest. Linton then moves into an interview with Wes Reutimann with ActiveSGV who has been leading efforts for the 10/29 ArroyoFest. Reutimann goes over the schedule for the day that begins with a 10k run at 6:00 a.m. After Arroyofest ends at 11, there are local parties and cultural events planned for just off the route. For more information on ArroyoFest 2023, visit their website. SGV Connect is supported by Foothill Transit, offering car-free travel throughout the San Gabriel Valley with connections to the new Gold Line Stations across the Foothills and Commuter Express lines traveling into the heart of downtown L.A. To plan your trip, visit Foothill Transit. “Foothill Transit. Going Good Places.” Sign-up for our SGV Connect Newsletter, coming to your inbox on Fridays, and catch past episodes of SGV Connect and #DamienTalks on LibSyn, iTunes, Google Play, or Overcast.
"All of this stuff is predicated and decided by people who are petty and upset with each other over the smallest differences" Show Notes Andrew and Austin discuss various movies they have recently seen, including "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie." They delve into the historical context and significance of the events portrayed in "Oppenheimer," highlighting the paradoxical nature of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in building the nuclear bomb. They also touch upon the decision to drop the bomb on Japan and the long-lasting impact on the affected areas. They then shift their conversation to the Mission Impossible movie franchise, discussing their favorite moments and ranking the films. They also discuss other movies they have watched, including "Interstellar" and "Shortcuts." The conversation concludes with a discussion on horror movies and recent movie experiences. The Things We Had To Say Discussion of the movie "Oppenheimer" and its historical context Appreciation for the nuanced portrayal of historical events in "Oppenheimer" Discussion of the impact and complexities of the nuclear bomb and firebombing during World War II Excitement for upcoming movies based on popular toys Thoughts on the Barbie movie and its reception Discussion of the Blue Beetle movie and its exclusive IMAX release Disappointment with the focus of "Oppenheimer" Discussion of the Mission Impossible movie franchise and ranking the films Thoughts on Tom Cruise's dedication to the franchise Discussion of other movies watched, including "Interstellar" and "Shortcuts" Discussion of filmmaker Robert Altman's movies and desire to watch more Recommendation and discussion of the horror movie "Talk to Me" Thoughts on trailers before movies and animated movies in general Discussion of Robert Downey Jr.'s transition to more serious acting Mention of documentaries watched, including one about Robert Gottlieb and Robert Caro Discussion of the documentary "Oppenheimer" and Robert Caro's book "The Power Broker" Get early access, exclusive content, and so much more!
This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are reunited with John Dickerson to discuss the Wisconsin Republicans' effort to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz and protect their gerrymander; Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to start an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden and prevent a government shutdown; and Biden's age problem and Donald Trump's battleground-state difficulties. Join us for Political Gabfest Live in Madison, Wisconsin on October 25! Here are some notes and references from this week's show: Scott Bauer for AP: “Why Wisconsin Republicans are talking about impeaching a new state Supreme Court justice” City Cast Madison podcast: “How We Know Wisconsin's Maps are Gerrymandered” Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 536 U.S. 765 (2002) Luke Broadwater for The New York Times: “What We Know About the Impeachment Case Against Biden” and Carl Hulse and Luke Broadwater: “McCarthy Tries to Leverage Biden Impeachment to Avoid a Shutdown” Nate Cohn for The New York Times: “Trump's Electoral College Edge Seems to Be Fading” and “How to Interpret Polling Showing Biden's Loss of Nonwhite Support” FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast: “Why Biden Is Losing Support Among Voters Of Color” Paul Waldman for MSNBC: “You can talk about Biden's age. Just not like this.” The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency by John Dickerson The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer Dan Balz for The Washington Post: “Mitt Romney says he will not seek a second term in the Senate” McKay Coppins for The Atlantic: “What Mitt Romney Saw In The Senate” “Mitt” on Netflix Laura Vozzella for The Washington Post: “Va. Dem. House candidate performed sex online with husband for tips” Here are this week's chatters: Emily: The Knockout Queen: A Novel by Rufi Thorpe and The Vaster Wilds: A Novel by Lauren Groff John: The Journals of John Cheever edited by Robert Gottlieb; CBS News Sunday Morning; Ted Gioia in The Honest Broker: “Why Is Music Getting Sadder?”; and Chris Dalla Riva: “Tears Are Falling And I Feel The Pain” David: Zhong sauce by Fly By Jing Listener chatter from Ben: Tyler Vigen's “The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge” For this week's Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David discuss Susanna Gibson, the Virginia Democratic House candidate who “performed sex online with husband for tips.” In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily, David, and John talk with Barbara Kingsolver about her best-selling book, Demon Copperhead. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com or X us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Hosts Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz Follow @SlateGabfest on X / https://twitter.com/SlateGabfest Slate Gabfest on Facebook / https://www.facebook.com/Gabfest/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are reunited with John Dickerson to discuss the Wisconsin Republicans' effort to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz and protect their gerrymander; Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to start an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden and prevent a government shutdown; and Biden's age problem and Donald Trump's battleground-state difficulties. Join us for Political Gabfest Live in Madison, Wisconsin on October 25! Here are some notes and references from this week's show: Scott Bauer for AP: “Why Wisconsin Republicans are talking about impeaching a new state Supreme Court justice” City Cast Madison podcast: “How We Know Wisconsin's Maps are Gerrymandered” Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 536 U.S. 765 (2002) Luke Broadwater for The New York Times: “What We Know About the Impeachment Case Against Biden” and Carl Hulse and Luke Broadwater: “McCarthy Tries to Leverage Biden Impeachment to Avoid a Shutdown” Nate Cohn for The New York Times: “Trump's Electoral College Edge Seems to Be Fading” and “How to Interpret Polling Showing Biden's Loss of Nonwhite Support” FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast: “Why Biden Is Losing Support Among Voters Of Color” Paul Waldman for MSNBC: “You can talk about Biden's age. Just not like this.” The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency by John Dickerson The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer Dan Balz for The Washington Post: “Mitt Romney says he will not seek a second term in the Senate” McKay Coppins for The Atlantic: “What Mitt Romney Saw In The Senate” “Mitt” on Netflix Laura Vozzella for The Washington Post: “Va. Dem. House candidate performed sex online with husband for tips” Here are this week's chatters: Emily: The Knockout Queen: A Novel by Rufi Thorpe and The Vaster Wilds: A Novel by Lauren Groff John: The Journals of John Cheever edited by Robert Gottlieb; CBS News Sunday Morning; Ted Gioia in The Honest Broker: “Why Is Music Getting Sadder?”; and Chris Dalla Riva: “Tears Are Falling And I Feel The Pain” David: Zhong sauce by Fly By Jing Listener chatter from Ben: Tyler Vigen's “The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge” For this week's Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David discuss Susanna Gibson, the Virginia Democratic House candidate who “performed sex online with husband for tips.” In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily, David, and John talk with Barbara Kingsolver about her best-selling book, Demon Copperhead. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com or X us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Hosts Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz Follow @SlateGabfest on X / https://twitter.com/SlateGabfest Slate Gabfest on Facebook / https://www.facebook.com/Gabfest/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Emily Bazelon and David Plotz are reunited with John Dickerson to discuss the Wisconsin Republicans' effort to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz and protect their gerrymander; Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to start an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden and prevent a government shutdown; and Biden's age problem and Donald Trump's battleground-state difficulties. Join us for Political Gabfest Live in Madison, Wisconsin on October 25! Here are some notes and references from this week's show: Scott Bauer for AP: “Why Wisconsin Republicans are talking about impeaching a new state Supreme Court justice” City Cast Madison podcast: “How We Know Wisconsin's Maps are Gerrymandered” Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 536 U.S. 765 (2002) Luke Broadwater for The New York Times: “What We Know About the Impeachment Case Against Biden” and Carl Hulse and Luke Broadwater: “McCarthy Tries to Leverage Biden Impeachment to Avoid a Shutdown” Nate Cohn for The New York Times: “Trump's Electoral College Edge Seems to Be Fading” and “How to Interpret Polling Showing Biden's Loss of Nonwhite Support” FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast: “Why Biden Is Losing Support Among Voters Of Color” Paul Waldman for MSNBC: “You can talk about Biden's age. Just not like this.” The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency by John Dickerson The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer Dan Balz for The Washington Post: “Mitt Romney says he will not seek a second term in the Senate” McKay Coppins for The Atlantic: “What Mitt Romney Saw In The Senate” “Mitt” on Netflix Laura Vozzella for The Washington Post: “Va. Dem. House candidate performed sex online with husband for tips” Here are this week's chatters: Emily: The Knockout Queen: A Novel by Rufi Thorpe and The Vaster Wilds: A Novel by Lauren Groff John: The Journals of John Cheever edited by Robert Gottlieb; CBS News Sunday Morning; Ted Gioia in The Honest Broker: “Why Is Music Getting Sadder?”; and Chris Dalla Riva: “Tears Are Falling And I Feel The Pain” David: Zhong sauce by Fly By Jing Listener chatter from Ben: Tyler Vigen's “The Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge” For this week's Slate Plus bonus segment, Emily, John, and David discuss Susanna Gibson, the Virginia Democratic House candidate who “performed sex online with husband for tips.” In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily, David, and John talk with Barbara Kingsolver about her best-selling book, Demon Copperhead. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com or X us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth Research by Julie Huygen Hosts Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz Follow @SlateGabfest on X / https://twitter.com/SlateGabfest Slate Gabfest on Facebook / https://www.facebook.com/Gabfest/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If you've been wondering whether or not to tackle the work of Nobel-prizewinner Annie Ernaux, and in partiular The Years, generally considered to be definitive, listen in and find out what Laura's book club thought (you might be surprised). We're also generally delighted by how interesting the life of 17th-century poet John Donne is in the hands of Katherine Rundell, and her Baillie-Gifford prizewinner Super-Infinite. But were Kate's book club unanimous in their praise? Discover more great reads as we delve into our recent reading piles. Find out the hits and misses, plus the books we've got on the go right now. Booklist The Years by Annie Ernaux Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell The Banished Immortal by Ha Jin Grey Bees by Andrei Kurkov Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb (and we also mentioned the film Turn Every Page) Book Lovers by Emily Henry Watch us Dance by Leila Slimani (and we also mentioned her other books Lullaby or The Perfect Nanny, and The Country of Others) Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton (and we also mentioned her previous book The Luminaries) Monsters by Claire Dederer The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tocarczuk Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor Leave us a rating If you enjoy our shows and want to do a nice thing in return please do leave us a quick star rating and review. Wondering how to do that? From apple podcasts click the '...' next to the episode title (under the square graphic) and choose 'go to show'. From there scroll down past the episodes till you find 'Ratings & Reviews'. Tap the stars to add a star rating, tap 'write a review' slightly further down to add a comment. Thank you! Notes Website: https://www.thebookclubreview.co.uk Instagram @bookclubreviewpodcast Kate's Threads reading log: @bookclubreviewpodcast@threads.net Newsletter sign-up: https://substack.com/@thebookclubreview Patreon and book club: We're cooking up a pod bookclub, launching September, as part of our Patreon account. You'll be supporting our show, and once a month on Sunday nights (UK time) you'll also be able to join Kate for an online book-club, to be held over zoom. We'll put all the details on our Patreon soon, and hope you'll sign up as we can't wait to talk books in person.
This episode concludes Stanley's transition from soldier to civilian. It's December 1945. The Silver King has arrived in Chicago to live with the Bernsteins as he begins his job as a production engineer at the Acme Paperbox Manufacturing Co. Michael G. Sievers, the writer, producer & creator of The Silver King's War podcast series, reviews the confluence of the lives of Robert Gottlieb, Robert Caro, Joseph Heller, Sammy Singer and Stanley Silverfield. Contact us: thesilverkingswar@gmail.com Please review The Silver King's War on Apple Podcasts Share our hero, The Silver King, with family & friends Share The Silver King's War on social media Thank you for listening to our podcast
On this episode of the SeventySix Capital Sports Leadership Show, Wayne Kimmel is joined by Robert Gottlieb. Gotlieb serves as President, Marketing, FOX Sports, a position he was elevated to in September 2022. As the company's head of marketing since 2014, Gottlieb's team consists of strategic planning, marketing services, consumer marketing, in-house and out-of-house creative and is responsible for all aspects of the network's on-air, off-air and consumer marketing efforts including television, print, online, radio and outdoor creative for FOX Sports, FS1, FS2, FOX Deportes and FOX Sports Digital assets. Previously, Gottlieb served as FOX Sports' Executive Vice President, Marketing, a role he held since 2014, Gottlieb has developed and led numerous notable marketing efforts, including the branding and launch of FOX's immensely successful BIG NOON SATURDAY college football franchise, award-winning campaigns for the FIFA World Cupä and the network launch of WWE Friday Night Smackdown. In addition to key TV properties, Gottlieb has guided the marketing and brand-building efforts of businesses such as FOX Super 6 and the 2021 launch of the United States Football League (USFL). The FOX Sports in-house creative team, with Gottlieb at the helm, has been widely recognized for excellence by industry peers, having won several awards including seven Sports Emmys, scores of Promax honors, 2020 AdWeek Media Plan of the Year and 2021 Cynopsis Marketer of the Year. A New York native, Gottlieb graduated with a B.F.A. in film from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Blind app, Starlink dominance, NSA surveillance, NASA+ Elon Musk's New Flashing X Sign Is Infuriating Neighbors: 'It's Hard to Describe How Bright It Is.' Is anyone still using Threads? With Starlink, Elon Musk's Satellite Dominance Is Raising Global Alarms. Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: We Must Regulate Big Tech. Licensing Social Media Companies Makes No Sense. Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'. Facebook passed 3 billion users for the first time. NASA+ is the space agency's very own streaming platform. Uber's Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison. Tesla's secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints. Android will now warn about unknown Bluetooth trackers, like AirTag, traveling with you. YouTube Q2 Ad Sales Up 4.4%, Alphabet Handily Tops Earnings Estimates. Microsoft earnings: FY23 Q4. FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon. How Blind Became the App Silicon Valley Bosses Love to Hate. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Louis Maresca, and Shoshana Weissmann Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT ziprecruiter.com/twit
Blind app, Starlink dominance, NSA surveillance, NASA+ Elon Musk's New Flashing X Sign Is Infuriating Neighbors: 'It's Hard to Describe How Bright It Is.' Is anyone still using Threads? With Starlink, Elon Musk's Satellite Dominance Is Raising Global Alarms. Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: We Must Regulate Big Tech. Licensing Social Media Companies Makes No Sense. Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'. Facebook passed 3 billion users for the first time. NASA+ is the space agency's very own streaming platform. Uber's Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison. Tesla's secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints. Android will now warn about unknown Bluetooth trackers, like AirTag, traveling with you. YouTube Q2 Ad Sales Up 4.4%, Alphabet Handily Tops Earnings Estimates. Microsoft earnings: FY23 Q4. FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon. How Blind Became the App Silicon Valley Bosses Love to Hate. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Louis Maresca, and Shoshana Weissmann Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT ziprecruiter.com/twit
Blind app, Starlink dominance, NSA surveillance, NASA+ Elon Musk's New Flashing X Sign Is Infuriating Neighbors: 'It's Hard to Describe How Bright It Is.' Is anyone still using Threads? With Starlink, Elon Musk's Satellite Dominance Is Raising Global Alarms. Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: We Must Regulate Big Tech. Licensing Social Media Companies Makes No Sense. Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'. Facebook passed 3 billion users for the first time. NASA+ is the space agency's very own streaming platform. Uber's Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison. Tesla's secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints. Android will now warn about unknown Bluetooth trackers, like AirTag, traveling with you. YouTube Q2 Ad Sales Up 4.4%, Alphabet Handily Tops Earnings Estimates. Microsoft earnings: FY23 Q4. FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon. How Blind Became the App Silicon Valley Bosses Love to Hate. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Louis Maresca, and Shoshana Weissmann Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT ziprecruiter.com/twit
Blind app, Starlink dominance, NSA surveillance, NASA+ Elon Musk's New Flashing X Sign Is Infuriating Neighbors: 'It's Hard to Describe How Bright It Is.' Is anyone still using Threads? With Starlink, Elon Musk's Satellite Dominance Is Raising Global Alarms. Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: We Must Regulate Big Tech. Licensing Social Media Companies Makes No Sense. Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'. Facebook passed 3 billion users for the first time. NASA+ is the space agency's very own streaming platform. Uber's Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison. Tesla's secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints. Android will now warn about unknown Bluetooth trackers, like AirTag, traveling with you. YouTube Q2 Ad Sales Up 4.4%, Alphabet Handily Tops Earnings Estimates. Microsoft earnings: FY23 Q4. FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon. How Blind Became the App Silicon Valley Bosses Love to Hate. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Louis Maresca, and Shoshana Weissmann Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT ziprecruiter.com/twit
Blind app, Starlink dominance, NSA surveillance, NASA+ Elon Musk's New Flashing X Sign Is Infuriating Neighbors: 'It's Hard to Describe How Bright It Is.' Is anyone still using Threads? With Starlink, Elon Musk's Satellite Dominance Is Raising Global Alarms. Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: We Must Regulate Big Tech. Licensing Social Media Companies Makes No Sense. Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'. Facebook passed 3 billion users for the first time. NASA+ is the space agency's very own streaming platform. Uber's Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison. Tesla's secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints. Android will now warn about unknown Bluetooth trackers, like AirTag, traveling with you. YouTube Q2 Ad Sales Up 4.4%, Alphabet Handily Tops Earnings Estimates. Microsoft earnings: FY23 Q4. FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon. How Blind Became the App Silicon Valley Bosses Love to Hate. Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Paris Martineau, Louis Maresca, and Shoshana Weissmann Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: GO.ACILEARNING.COM/TWIT ziprecruiter.com/twit
Diane wanted to share a special conversation from the archives, an interview with legendary book editor Robert Gottlieb, who died in June at age 92. Gottlieb worked with many of the best-known writers of the 20th century. On the list of names whose work he made shine was Diane Rehm. Diane remembers him as a masterful editor who was so kind to her – someone with name recognition in the world of public radio, but no track record as a writer. Gottlieb became one of Diane's closest friends and confidantes. She says, “he was a genius,” and she was so lucky to have him by her side. Robert Gottlieb joined Diane several times as a guest on the Diane Rehm Show over the years. This is their conversation from September 2016 in which he discussed his memoir, “Avid Reader.”
In today's episode, we bring you a Q&A with the filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb and her father, the legendary New York writer and editor Robert Gottlieb, following the U.S. theatrical premiere screening of Lizzie's documentary TURN EVERY PAGE: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT CARO AND ROBERT GOTTLIEB on December 30, 2022. TURN EVERY PAGE is a portrait of the literary partnership between Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, the former editor in chief at Knopf and The New Yorker. Robert Gottlieb recently passed away at the age of 92. Gottlieb was a good friend of Film Forum, introducing and presenting many classic films here over the years, and in tribute to his memory, we're presenting four encore screenings of TURN EVERY PAGE at the theater on June 28 and 29, and posting this previously unreleased Q&A. Special thanks to Lizzie Gottlieb, Jennifer Small, Joanne Nerenberg, Sony Pictures Classics and Falco Ink for making this event possible.
The lasting legacies of Cormac McCarthy and editor Robert Gottlieb, and we talk to author Kathryn Bromwich about her debut novel, At the Edge of the Woods.
Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb (2016)
Recently, two giants of modern American literature died within a single day of each other. Gilbert Cruz talks with Dwight Garner about the work of Cormac McCarthy's work, and with Pamela Paul and Emily Eakin about the life and legacy of Robert Gottlieb.
Gottlieb, who died last week at age 92, edited Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John le Carré and, for more than 50 years, Robert Caro. He went on to become editor of The New Yorker. We'll listen to our recent interview with Gottlieb, and we'll hear some of our interview recorded in 2000 with Gottlieb and musical theater expert Robert Kimball. They co-authored a book on some of the best lyricists of the last century.Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Brandon Taylor's, The Late Americans, and Andre Dubus III's novel, Such Kindness.
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Gottlieb, who died last week at age 92, edited Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John le Carré and, for more than 50 years, Robert Caro. He went on to become editor of The New Yorker. We'll listen to our recent interview with Gottlieb, and we'll hear some of our interview recorded in 2000 with Gottlieb and musical theater expert Robert Kimball. They co-authored a book on some of the best lyricists of the last century.Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Brandon Taylor's, The Late Americans, and Andre Dubus III's novel, Such Kindness.
SCARLET SUMMER kicks off Independence Day weekend! Nathaniel Hawthorne's birthday is July 4th, so we consider it an auspicious start for our summer-long readalong. Our website has a new page, https://www.bookcougars.com/scarletsummer2023, where you can find all the info about SCARLET SUMMER, including a link to download your BINGO! card. As Emily noted in the episode, at least one reader is already making “witchy substitutions” on her card. We listed each of the three readalong books three times to make it easy to win, but feel free to swap out any of the repeat squares for other witch-related or Hawthorne or Albanese or Hoffman books. We are both making progress on our #BigBookSummer reads (DEVIL IN THE GROVE and ULYSSES) and we've read a few fun/interesting/thought-provoking books including: —EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END by C.L. Polk (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9781250849458) —THE WHISPERS by Ashley Audrain (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9781984881694) —THOUGHTS FROM THE OAK by Audrey Colasanti (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9781913606602) —GRACELAND by Nancy Crochiere (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9780063288430) In Biblio Adventures we recap our day in Newport, Rhode Island visiting the Redwood Library & Athenaeum, the Newport Public Library, and Charter Books where we attended their event with Claire Fuller for her new novel, THE MEMORY OF ANIMALS. (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9781953534873) Chris watched the documentary Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb about their decades-long writer/editor relationship. We recorded this episode in the early afternoon of June 21st and were deeply saddened when news broke later in the day of Gottlieb's death. Emily had a lovely trip to Manhattan to visit Aunt Ellen who is back on the East Coast for a visit. They went to P&T Knitwear Books (which has a podcast studio you can reserve for free) and Sweet Pickle Books (where you can trade books for pickles!). Our Author Spotlight features a conversation with Bethanne Patrick discussing her memoir LIFE B: OVERCOMING DOUBLE DEPRESSION. (https://bookshop.org/a/17535/9781640091290) As always, thank you for listening and we wish you lots of Happy Reading! Emily & Chris
This week's Nose thinks that a semicolon is worth fighting a civil war about. Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is a 2022 documentary directed by Lizzie Gottlieb. We decided late Monday or early Tuesday — kind of randomly, to be honest — that we wanted to talk about this movie this week. And then Robert Gottlieb died on Wednesday. The Nose feels vaguely, cosmically responsible. On the other hand, we're glad we get to talk about Gottlieb at length this hour. And: “The Binge Purge” is a nearly 6,000-word New York magazine feature on TV's broken streaming model and what the hell Hollywood can possibly do about it. The Nose has thoughts. Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 “All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders. Glenda Jackson, Oscar-Winning Actress Turned Politician, Dies at 87 She walked away from a successful acting career to enter the British Parliament, before returning to the stage as the title character in an acclaimed “King Lear.” Treat Williams, Actor Known for ‘Hair' and ‘Everwood,' Dies at 71 His many other roles included a detective turned informant in “Prince of the City.” He was killed in a motorcycle accident in Vermont. Pat Sajak, host of ‘Wheel of Fortune,' says 41st season will be his last 10 of the Most Valuable Cassette Tapes From the ‘80s and ‘90s The Startling Intimacy of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour Even addressing a stadium of seventy thousand people, the singer seems to be speaking directly to you, confessing something urgent. Paul McCartney Used AI to Purify John Lennon's Voice on Upcoming ‘Last Beatles Record': AI ‘Is Kind of Scary, but Exciting Because It's the Future' This alien ocean is the first known to have all elements crucial for life The subsurface waters on an icy moon of Saturn appear to contain the ingredients needed for ‘habitability' GUESTS: Illeana Douglas: The Official Movie Star of The Colin McEnroe Show Gene Seymour: A “writer, professional spectator, pop-culture maven, and jazz geek” Lindsay Lee Wallace: Writes about culture, health care and health equity, and other stuff, too Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omny.fm/listener for privacy information.
Erin and Paul review the Adam Sandler basketball flick HUSTLE, the Nan Goldin documentary ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, the word-of-mouth animated hit PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH, the documentaries FIRE OF LOVE and TURN EVERY PAGE: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBERT CARO AND ROBERT GOTTLIEB, the Irish Oscar nominee THE QUIET GIRL, and the intersectional courtroom drama SAINT OMER.
Over the last year, The Nose has covered 14 of this year's Academy Award-nominated movies, encompassing 64 nominations. So on this special edition of The Nose, we look back at our discussions of nominated movies, and we look ahead to Sunday's Oscars ceremony with film and television star (and Oscars voter) Illeana Douglas. Some of the movies covered include: The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, Triangle of Sadness, Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, The Whale, Women Talking, and more. Note: This special two-part Oscars season finale edition of The Nose, airing over two days on the radio, is presented here as one double-length (or so) episode. Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: Tom Sizemore, Intense Actor With a Troubled Life, Dies at 61 He earned praise for his work in films like “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down.” He also served prison time for drug possession and domestic abuse. Robert Blake, ‘Baretta' Star Acquitted in Wife's Murder, Dies at 89 His film and TV career began with “Our Gang” comedies and was highlighted by his performance as a killer in “In Cold Blood.” But he led a tempestuous life. Topol, Star of ‘Fiddler on the Roof' Onscreen and Onstage, Dies at 87 Wide acclaim for his portrayal of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, “Israel's most famous export since the Jaffa orange.” Ricou Browning, Who Made the Black Lagoon Scary, Dies at 93 He helped bring “Flipper” to the movies and TV but was best known for his plunge in a monster suit in “Creature From the Black Lagoon.” This is the most populist Oscars in a long time So why doesn't it feel like it? The Stunt Awards Vulture's inaugural celebration of stunt professionals is here. Because if the Oscars won't recognize them, we will. Who Are You Rooting Against at the Oscars This Year? And the Oscar Goes to…The Guy Who Inspired Big League Chew? Todd Field is the Oscar-nominated director of ‘Tár.' Major League Baseball players are more familiar with his shredded bubble gum. The Year the Movies Died (Over and Over and Over Again) Joseph Kosinski Doesn't See Top Gun: Maverick As an Action Movie Bad Projection Is Ruining the Movie Theater Experience Multiplexes are failing at their most basic function: delivering a bright, sharp image. Peak TV Is Over. Welcome to Trough TV. Streaming's golden age has been ending for a while, but it's only now become clear what's replacing it. Seth Rogen Gets Brutally Honest About Negative Reviews: Film Critics Should Know ‘How Much It Hurts….It F—ing Sucks' Twenty Years Later, ‘Irreversible' Still Shocks A look back at Gaspar Noé's brutal told-in-reverse drama, which has been rereleased in a “Straight Cut” version. GUESTS: Raquel Benedict: The most dangerous woman in speculative fiction and the host of the Rite Gudpodcast Rebecca Castellani: Co-founder of Quiet Corner Communications and a freelance writer Illeana Douglas: The Official Movie Star of The Colin McEnroe Show and a real, live Oscars voter Sam Hadelman: Works in music public relations and hosts The Sam Hadelman Show at Radio Free Brooklyn James Hanley: Co-founder of Cinestudio at Trinity College Shawn Murray: A stand-up comedian, writer, and the host of the Nobody Asked Shawn podcast Carolyn Paine: An actress, comedian, and dancer, and she is founder, director, and choreographer of CONNetic Dance Irene Papoulis: Teaches writing at Trinity College Mercy Quaye: Founder and principal consultant for The Narrative Project Gene Seymour: A “writer, professional spectator, pop-culture maven, and jazz geek” Pedro Soto: President and CEO of Hygrade Precision Technologies Bill Yousman: Professor of Media Studies at Sacred Heart University The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Eugene Amatruda, Cat Pastor, and Catie Talarski contributed to this show, parts of which have aired previously in different form.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Scott has just 1000 pages left to read in The Power Broker, which he was inspired to begin reading by the documentary Turn Every Page, which Tom has just seen as well, detailing the decades old working relationship between Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. In addition to his powerful and precise writing, Caro exemplifies the German word, referred to in the film, “sitzfleish”, the ability to focus, sit and work hard for several hours at a time. Which begs the question, “If Scott can read The Power Broker, why has it taken him almost ten years to finish the Johnny Carson book?” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tom-saunders9/support
Listen in as we interview Chase Stokes, Rudy Pankow about Outer Banks, Mila Davis-Kent about Creed III and Christopher Landon about We Have a Ghost. We'll review those three, plus Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. Host Avalon N. is joined by KIDS FIRST! Film Critics Katherine, Zoe and Nathalia. Before you spend your hard earned dollars at the movies, be sure to listen to what our youth reporters have to say.
Listen in as we interview Chase Stokes, Rudy Pankow about Outer Banks, Mila Davis-Kent about Creed III and Christopher Landon about We Have a Ghost. We'll review those three, plus Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. Host Avalon N. is joined by KIDS FIRST! Film Critics Katherine, Zoe and Nathalia. Before you spend your hard earned dollars at the movies, be sure to listen to what our youth reporters have to say.
In this episode of 92NY Talks, join two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize Robert Caro with his legendary editor, Robert Gottlieb and director Lizzie Gottlieb, for a conversation about Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb — a dual documentary portrait of their decades-long professional relationship. Robert Caro, frequently hailed as the greatest political biographer of our time, has spent decades writing his multi-volume masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Hear two fiercely brilliant minds discuss the culmination of their shared project — why Lyndon Johnson's life has become so important to their own intellectual lives, their unique working relationship, and how they have impacted generations of readers, writers, activists, and politicians — and much more. The conversation was recorded on December 18th, 2022 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.
David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss awards season contenders such as Living and Return to Seoul, dive into some weird horror movies like Possession and Skinamarink, then switch gears and decide to shun The Pale Blue Eye in favor of Plane. Also: we're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Weekly Plugs David - Decoding TV: The Last Of Us Devindra - Engadget Podcast on the trouble with air travel Jeff - DLC with Gabe Patillo and Kahlief Adams Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only) What we've been watching (~24:30) David - Return to Seoul, All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, Break Point Devindra - Possession, Skinamarink, The Last of Us Jeff - Living, Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb, The Last of Us Featured Review (~1:17:45) Plane SPOILERS (~1:35:50) Support David's artistic endeavors at his Patreon. Listen and subscribe to David's interview podcast Culturally Relevant and subscribe to his YouTube channel. Check out Jeff Cannata's podcasts DLC and We Have Concerns. Listen to Devindra's podcast with Engadget on all things tech. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, follow us on Twitter @thefilmcastpod. Credits: Our theme song is by Varsity Blue, the newest project by Tim McEwan from The Midnight. Our weekly plugs music comes from Noah Ross. Our spoiler bumper comes from filmmaker Kyle Corwith. If you'd like advertise with us or sponsor us, please e-mail slashfilmcast@gmail.com. You can support the podcast by going to patreon.com/filmpodcast or by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts.
David Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater and music. He has a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University and was, until 2105, Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics. Sterritt is known for his intelligent discussions of controversial films and his lively, accessible style
We're thrilled to share our next Trailblazer episode this week—we had a great time talking with Catherine Coulter about her place in romance history as one of the earliest authors of the Signet Regency line—and the author who many believe revolutionized the Regency…by making them sexy. She tells a million great stories here, and we talk about writing historical romance, about sex in romance, about the way she thinks about plot vs. story, about the way she's evolved as a writer, and about revisiting her old books. All that, and Catherine has a lot to say about heroes. Thank you to Catherine Coulter for making the time for us.Next week, we're back with more interstitials, but our first read along of 2023 is Tracy MacNish's Stealing Midnight—we've heard the calls from our gothic romance readers and we're delivering with this truly bananas story, in which the hero is dug out of a grave and delivered, barely alive, to the heroine. Get ready. You can find Stealing Midnight (for $1.99!) at Amazon, B&N, Kobo, or Apple Books.Show NotesPeople Mentioned: publisher Peter Heggie, editor Robert Gottlieb, publisher Bob Diforio, publisher Phyllis Graham, editor May Chen, editor David Highfill, and marketing consultant Nicole Robson at Trident Media. Authors Mentioned: Georgette Heyer, Janet Dailey, LaVyrle Spencer, Linda Howard, Iris Johansen, Kay Hooper, Debbie Gordon and Joan Wolf
We talk about the January 6th Committee's work with Luke Broadwater, who covers Congress for the New York Times. He was in the Capitol the day of the assault, and has reported on the Committee's work from the beginning.John Powers reviews Noah Baumbach's film adaptation of Don DeLillo's White Noise.The list of authors Robert Gottlieb has edited include Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John Le Carré, Katharine Graham, Bill Clinton, Nora Ephron and Michael Crichton. The documentary Turn Every Page, by his daughter Lizzie Gottlieb, examines his decades-long editing relationship with Power Broker author Robert Caro.
We talk about the January 6th Committee's work with Luke Broadwater, who covers Congress for the New York Times. He was in the Capitol the day of the assault, and has reported on the Committee's work from the beginning.John Powers reviews Noah Baumbach's film adaptation of Don DeLillo's White Noise.The list of authors Robert Gottlieb has edited include Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John Le Carré, Katharine Graham, Bill Clinton, Nora Ephron and Michael Crichton. The documentary Turn Every Page, by his daughter Lizzie Gottlieb, examines his decades-long editing relationship with Power Broker author Robert Caro.
French American documentary filmmakers & brothers, Jules & Gédéon Naudet, have made a documentary about January 6th currently on the Discovery+ streaming service; also, filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb has a new documentary about her father, editor/publisher Robert Gottlieb's 50 year plus professional relationship with the historian/author Robert Caro called "Turn Every Page".
Many New Yorkers have read (or plan to read) The Power Broker, the Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Robert Moses from Robert Caro. But a key force behind that book, and the rest of Caro's biographies, is his editor, Robert Gottlieb. The new documentary "Turn Every Page-The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb" explores their 50 year working relationship and friendship. Director Lizzie Gottlieb, daughter of Robert Gottlieb, joins us to discuss the film, which is in theaters now.
Robert Gottlieb has been working in publishing since 1955. The list of authors he's edited include Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John Le Carré, Katharine Graham, Bill Clinton, Nora Ephron and Michael Crichton. The documentary Turn Every Page, by his daughter Lizzie Gottlieb, examines his decades-long editing relationship with Power Broker author Robert Caro. Terry Gross spoke with both Lizzie and Robert Gottlieb. Also, John Powers reviews the British drama Living, adapted by Kazuo Ishiguro from Akira Kurosawa's classic 1952 film Ikiru.
Robert Gottlieb has been working in publishing since 1955. The list of authors he's edited include Joseph Heller, Toni Morrison, John Le Carré, Katharine Graham, Bill Clinton, Nora Ephron and Michael Crichton. The documentary Turn Every Page, by his daughter Lizzie Gottlieb, examines his decades-long editing relationship with Power Broker author Robert Caro. Terry Gross spoke with both Lizzie and Robert Gottlieb. Also, John Powers reviews the British drama Living, adapted by Kazuo Ishiguro from Akira Kurosawa's classic 1952 film Ikiru.
"Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb" looks at the relationship between Lyndon Johnson's biographer and his editor. Filmmaker Lizzie Gottlieb brings a personal perspective as the editor's daughter.
Bryan and David start off the pod by discussing a documentary revolving around the relationship of writer Robert Caro and editor Robert Gottlieb called ‘Turn Every Page' (00:58). Then, they address all the drama with Elon Musk and Twitter and examine how the press should cover this story (13:25). Later, they give their match report from the World Cup final (36:13) and discuss how The New York Times figures out which books are bestsellers (46:58). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline (56:05). Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producer: Eduardo Ocampo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have done one final review show for 2022 and close it out with some biggies. It was quite a year for documentaries and they finish with four new ones including the story of a natural disaster tragedy (The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari), the face of the Psychic Readers Network (Call Me Miss Cleo), a relationship between author and editor (Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb) and Laura Poitras' new film on artist and activist Nan Goldin (All The Beauty and the Bloodshed). The pair revisit their Sundance review of the remake of Ikiru with Bill Nighy (Living) and Olivia Colman takes an unexpected trip with a kid (Joyride). Rebel Wilson deals with a traumatic brain injury (The Almond And The Seahorse), Hugh Jackman deals with a depressed teenager (The Son) and director Alejandro G. Inarritu deals with his own career (Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths). Antonio Banderas returns as the swashbuckling kitty (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish), Damien Chazelle tackles Hollywood pre-and-post talkies (Babylon) and James Cameron finally takes us back to the world of the Na'vi after 13 years (Avatar: The Way of Water) 0:00 - Intro 2:18 - Living 14:20 - Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb 23:51 – The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari 31:28 - All The Beauty and the Bloodshed 41:37 - Call Me Miss Cleo 49:29 – The Almond And The Seahorse 57:08 - The Son 1:11:35 - Joyride 1:18:27 - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 1:31:06 - Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths 1:45:10 - Babylon 2:04:44 - Avatar: The Way of Water 2:29:38 - Outro
Iran has executed a second protester related to the anti-government demonstrations gripping the nation. But even in the face of brutal punishments and possibly even a death sentence, the protests have continued. The regime vows to continue its crackdown. Christiane's first guest says that executions are a tactic of repression from an outdated playbook. Hadi Ghaemi is the Executive Director of the Centre for Human Rights in Iran. Next, we hear from Princeton professor Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian diplomat and chief nuclear negotiator. Also on today's show: Lizzie Gottlieb, director of Turn Every Page, which reveals the extraordinary, 50-year relationship between her father, editor Robert Gottlieb, and Robert Caro, one of America's most widely read political biographers.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy
Dr. David Lakey, former Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, discusses the Texas response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak as a wave of Ebola cases in Uganda expands; Robert Gottlieb, a GIS Data Analyst for the Indiana Department of Health, says GIS technology can help public health agencies improve their response; and Public Health Thank You Day is Monday, November 21st. GIS Day Webpage
This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitable care-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic racism, and deep inequalities have all underscored the centrality of care in our lives. Yet care work is, for the most part, undervalued and exploited. In Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet (MIT Press, 2022), Robert Gottlieb examines how a care economy and care politics can influence and remake health, climate, and environmental policy, as well as the institutions and practices of daily life. He shows how, through this care-centered politics, we can build an ethics of care and a society of cooperation, sharing, and solidarity. Arguing that care is a form of labor, Gottlieb expands the ways we think about home care, child care, elder care, and other care relationships. He links them to the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, immigration, and the militarization of daily life. He also provides perspective on the events of 2020 and 2021 (including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and movements calling attention to racism and inequality) as they relate to a care politics. Care, says Gottlieb, must be universal--whether healthcare for all, care for the earth, care at work, or care for the household, shared equally by men and women. Care-centered politics is about strategic and structural reforms that imply radical and revolutionary change. Gottlieb offers a practical, mindful, yet also utopian, politics of daily life. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitable care-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic racism, and deep inequalities have all underscored the centrality of care in our lives. Yet care work is, for the most part, undervalued and exploited. In Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet (MIT Press, 2022), Robert Gottlieb examines how a care economy and care politics can influence and remake health, climate, and environmental policy, as well as the institutions and practices of daily life. He shows how, through this care-centered politics, we can build an ethics of care and a society of cooperation, sharing, and solidarity. Arguing that care is a form of labor, Gottlieb expands the ways we think about home care, child care, elder care, and other care relationships. He links them to the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, immigration, and the militarization of daily life. He also provides perspective on the events of 2020 and 2021 (including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and movements calling attention to racism and inequality) as they relate to a care politics. Care, says Gottlieb, must be universal--whether healthcare for all, care for the earth, care at work, or care for the household, shared equally by men and women. Care-centered politics is about strategic and structural reforms that imply radical and revolutionary change. Gottlieb offers a practical, mindful, yet also utopian, politics of daily life. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine
This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitable care-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic racism, and deep inequalities have all underscored the centrality of care in our lives. Yet care work is, for the most part, undervalued and exploited. In Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet (MIT Press, 2022), Robert Gottlieb examines how a care economy and care politics can influence and remake health, climate, and environmental policy, as well as the institutions and practices of daily life. He shows how, through this care-centered politics, we can build an ethics of care and a society of cooperation, sharing, and solidarity. Arguing that care is a form of labor, Gottlieb expands the ways we think about home care, child care, elder care, and other care relationships. He links them to the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, immigration, and the militarization of daily life. He also provides perspective on the events of 2020 and 2021 (including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and movements calling attention to racism and inequality) as they relate to a care politics. Care, says Gottlieb, must be universal--whether healthcare for all, care for the earth, care at work, or care for the household, shared equally by men and women. Care-centered politics is about strategic and structural reforms that imply radical and revolutionary change. Gottlieb offers a practical, mindful, yet also utopian, politics of daily life. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy
This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitable care-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic racism, and deep inequalities have all underscored the centrality of care in our lives. Yet care work is, for the most part, undervalued and exploited. In Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet (MIT Press, 2022), Robert Gottlieb examines how a care economy and care politics can influence and remake health, climate, and environmental policy, as well as the institutions and practices of daily life. He shows how, through this care-centered politics, we can build an ethics of care and a society of cooperation, sharing, and solidarity. Arguing that care is a form of labor, Gottlieb expands the ways we think about home care, child care, elder care, and other care relationships. He links them to the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, immigration, and the militarization of daily life. He also provides perspective on the events of 2020 and 2021 (including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and movements calling attention to racism and inequality) as they relate to a care politics. Care, says Gottlieb, must be universal--whether healthcare for all, care for the earth, care at work, or care for the household, shared equally by men and women. Care-centered politics is about strategic and structural reforms that imply radical and revolutionary change. Gottlieb offers a practical, mindful, yet also utopian, politics of daily life. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics
This agenda-setting book presents a framework for creating a more just and equitable care-centered world. Climate change, pandemic events, systemic racism, and deep inequalities have all underscored the centrality of care in our lives. Yet care work is, for the most part, undervalued and exploited. In Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet (MIT Press, 2022), Robert Gottlieb examines how a care economy and care politics can influence and remake health, climate, and environmental policy, as well as the institutions and practices of daily life. He shows how, through this care-centered politics, we can build an ethics of care and a society of cooperation, sharing, and solidarity. Arguing that care is a form of labor, Gottlieb expands the ways we think about home care, child care, elder care, and other care relationships. He links them to the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, immigration, and the militarization of daily life. He also provides perspective on the events of 2020 and 2021 (including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and movements calling attention to racism and inequality) as they relate to a care politics. Care, says Gottlieb, must be universal--whether healthcare for all, care for the earth, care at work, or care for the household, shared equally by men and women. Care-centered politics is about strategic and structural reforms that imply radical and revolutionary change. Gottlieb offers a practical, mindful, yet also utopian, politics of daily life. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Robert Gottlieb is Professor Emeritus of Urban and Environmental Policy and the Founder and former Director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. Professor Gottlieb research is focused on environmental and food justice, care politics, power and inequality, global cities and the infrastructure of everyday life. He is also the author of numerous publications, including 14 books. His newest book “Care-Centered Politics” was published this year by MIT Press. Tune in to learn more about: His move from New York City to Los Angeles in 1969; The link between community action and academic research; About the Urban and Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College; The community building process and the pioneering of the farm to school initiative; His newest book “Care-Center Politics: From the Home to the Planet”and how care oriented politics and economy can shape and reorient issues in health, environment, food justice, climate and inequality. To learn more about Professor Gottlieb go to https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/robert-gottlieb.
Our Trailblazer episodes continue this week with Jude Deveraux, an early historical romance author who broke several publishing barriers over her more than forty year career. In this episode, we talk about her journey through the Wild West of romance in the late 1970s, her publishing career at Avon Books, Pocket Books and Ballantine. We talk about the judgement and misogyny that circles romance, the buying power of readers, and the way the genre and bookselling has changed. We also talk about her writing process, and what it's like to be Jude Deveraux. This one is a real joy for us, as we wouldn't be the readers or writers we are without Jude Deveraux. This episode is sponsored by Avon Books, publisher of Joanna Shupe's The Bride Goes Rogue, and Amazon's Kindle Vella, publisher of Eloisa James's The Seduction Series. Our next read along is Virginia Henley's The Dragon and the Jewel, a deep cut from Sarah's childhood. Check your content warnings and remember this one is from 1991, so we don't even know, honestly. We're flying without a net here. Get it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo or your local indie.Show NotesLike many of our trailblazers, Jude Deveraux's first brush with romance was Kathleen E Woodiwiss's The Flame & the Flower. The publisher with “the prettiest covers” in the 1970s she references was Woodiwiss's publisher, Avon Books. Books of Jude Deveraux's that we talk about in depth include: The Enchanted Land (her debut novel), A Knight in Shining Armor (early time-travel romance), Sweet Liar, The Providence Falls series with Tara Sheets, The Girl from Summer Hill, Twin of Ice (the twins!!), and “The Matchmakers” a short story in The Invitation collection (featuring Cale & the angel sex scene).The Four Js were Jude Deveraux, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Judith McNaught.People mentioned in the episode: Kate Duffy, editor at Silhouette Books and Pocket Books; Joan Schulhafer, publicist at Pocket Books; Richard Gallen, publisher & packager; Ronald Busch, publisher of Pocket Books; Robert Gottlieb, agent; Linda Marrow, editor at Ballantine/Doubleday/Dell; Kathryn Falk, publisher of Romantic Times Magazine; Kathe Robin, reviewer at Romantic Times Magazine.
Interview: As one of the most influential book editors of his generation—first at Simon & Shuster and then, for many years, at Knopf and Random House, Robert Gottlieb has lived a charmed life.He was also one of the few storied editors of The New Yorker in the 1990s.Gottlieb's other two passions are modern dance and cinema: He helped program the George Balanchine Theatre for decades from his editor's desk, all while acquiring and editing myriad film books during those years.And now, at 90, he's written a film biography himself: A definitive portrait of Swedish actress Greta Garbo, whose elusiveness, he illustrates, was something she carried with her throughout her life: from her peasant-girl days in Stockholm in the early 20th century to her Hollywood years to her reclusive life in New York for five decades after retreating from Hollywood and acting in the early 1940s, just as the US entered WWII.Garbo, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is a gorgeously illustrated hybrid book, with dozens of images helping to illustrate the enigma that Garbo created onscreen. After Gottlieb's main narrative, the book also includes a Garbo Reader of sorts, with other published work and images about her life and times, illuminating the whole picture of this mysterious yet trailblazing woman, whose own privacy was essential to her happiness and very existence.As a child of the depression years, Garbo was omnipresent in Gottlieb's mind as a young kid going to see films in New York. Here, his wonderful prose captures this complicated woman who became one of the most famous faces in the world, almost overnight. And yet, she retired at age 35, after acting in only 28 films.Garbo is an invaluable book for anyone interested in her work and film history; from the silent era to the Golden Age of cinema.The Reading:For the Reading this episode, we have an excerpt of the audiobook version of Garbo, read by the actress Maria Tucci, Gottlieb's wife.Music composed by William Grant Still and performed by Mark Boozer
From Bharatnatyam in India to modern dance at the Guggenheim, my latest guest embodies both range and depth in her movement practice, insights which she now shares with young people in her role as an educator. Choreographer, performer, and founder of Thresh Performing Arts Collaborative, Preetu Vasedevan joins me in this chat about dance, identity, and story telling which will inspire you to move (even if you're as ungraceful as I am).Listen now below or at www.theindianedit.com and please take a second to rate us wherever you're listening so the voices of these inspiring women can be heard all over the world!SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 66:Learn more about Preeti and Thresh at https://www.threshdance.org/ Connect with them on Instagram BOOKS and MORE:Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata by Karthika NairTwo books of essays on dance I really enjoyed: Through the Eyes of a Dancer: Selected Writings by Wendy PerronDance in America: A Reader's Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication by Mindy Aloff & Robert Gottlieb including an interesting essay by Susan SontagTwo kids books about dance:A graphic novel my daughter and I loved: To Dance by Siena Cherson Siegel & Mark SiegelOn my list to read: A Time to Dance by Padma VenkatramanQuestions? Comments? Get in touch @theindianeditpodcast on Instagram !Special thanks to Varun Dhabe and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!
Host Jo Reed and AudioFile contributor Sandi Henschel discuss Maria Tucci's terrific reading of this examination of the life of Greta Garbo. The author and narrator are husband and wife—he, Robert Gottlieb, is an esteemed writer and editor; she's an accomplished actor. As a star biography, this is simply one of the best, most entertaining and most insightful. By the end of the biography, we understand Garbo better as a person. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Random House Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com Our Audiobook Break podcast is in its 3rd season, and this time listeners are journeying to Pemberley with narrator Alison Larkin as our guide. Enjoy Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE with new chapters each week, free on the Audiobook Break podcast. This episode of Behind the Mic is sponsored by the audiobook editions of Sherryl Woods's Sweet Magnolias series. With the new season available to watch now on Netflix, now is the time to listen to the entire Sweet Magnolias audiobook series, all brought to you by Dreamscape Media. For more information about Sweet Magnolias, please visit www.Dreamscapepublishing.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark and Lisa discuss the life of Huntsville, AL native - the irreverent Tallulah Bankhead.Star of stage and screen, Tallulah Bankhead was a gifted actress that was just as infamous for her antics offstage as she was for her performances onstage.Sources for this episode:Tallulah!: The Life and Times of a Leading Lady by Joel LobenthalTallulah Bankhead A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly HistoryDAH-LING The Strange Case of Tallulah Bankhead by Robert Gottlieb from The New YorkerCruella de Vil is Wicked - But Tallulah Bankhead Was Even Wickeder by Rosemary Counter from Vanity FairContact us at ghostsandcornbread@gmail.com
The writer and editor Robert Gottlieb does double duty on this week's podcast. He talks about the life and career of Sinclair Lewis, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of “Babbitt,” Lewis's best-selling novel about the narrow-mindedness and conformity of middle-class America in the first half of the 20th century. But first, he talks about his own new book, “Garbo,” a biography of the movie star Greta Garbo, whose impact on the culture was matched by the sense of mystery that surrounded her.“I understood the power of the impact, but I didn't really understand — because I hadn't been seeing her movies, I was too young — I didn't really understand what she was on the screen and how she got to the screen in the first place. So as usual, it was curiosity that led me to write about her,” Gottlieb says. “No one had ever seemed like her before, and no one has ever seemed like her since. So to trace what those qualities were became the subject of the book.Carl Bernstein visits the podcast to discuss his new memoir, “Chasing History.” The book is about a time before Bernstein and Bob Woodward became household names for their Watergate reporting. Subtitled “A Kid in the Newsroom,” Bernstein's memoir focuses on the years 1960 to 1965, when he worked at The Evening Star in Washington, then the chief rival of The Washington Post. He was first hired as a copyboy when he was only 16.“I was spending a lot of time at the pool hall,” Bernstein says of his life before he got the job. “I was getting terrible grades in school. I was working Saturdays at a low-rent department store in a bad part of town.” At the newspaper, he saw a clearer future. “The greatest reporters of their time, many of them were in this newsroom. And I saw what they were doing, and I studied what they were doing and I knew that's what I wanted to do.”Also on this week's episode, Elizabeth Harris has news from the publishing world; and Jennifer Szalai and Molly Young talk about the books they've recently reviewed. Pamela Paul is the host.Here are the books discussed by The Times's critics this week:Books about Stoicism“How Civil Wars Start” by Barbara F. WalterWe would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.
My recent brushes with a quotation from Stephen King and the latest piece of writing from Robert Gottlieb holds writing lessons and fresh inspiration. The Stephen King quote is this one: “In fiction, the story value holds dominance over every other facet of the writer's craft; characterization, theme, mood, none of these things is anything if the story is dull. And if the story does hold you, all else can be forgiven.”The Stephen King memoir and writing manual “On Writing”:https://www.amazon.com/On-Writing-Stephen-King-audiobook/dp/B0000547HM/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=on+writing+stephen+king&qid=1641567478&s=audible&sprefix=on+writing%2Caudible%2C139&sr=1-1 The Robert Gottlieb cover piece about the 100th anniversary of “Babbitt” by Sinclair Lewis in the New York Times Book Review:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/31/books/review/sinclair-lewis-babbitt-main-street.html “Avid Reader,” the Robert Gottlieb memoir:https://www.amazon.com/Avid-Reader-Robert-Gottlieb-audiobook/dp/B01K2KRPP0/ref=sr_1_1?crid=31FAO3FHSQNXR&keywords=avid+reader+robert+gottlieb&qid=1641567387&s=books&sprefix=avid+reader%2Cstripbooks%2C642&sr=1-1 Novelist Spotlight is produced and hosted by Mike Consol, author of“Hardwood: A Novel About College Basketball and Other Games Young Men Play” andthree yet-to-be-published manuscripts, including “Family Recipes: A Novel aboutItalian Culture, Catholic Guilt and the Culinary Crime of the Century,” “LolitaFirestone: A Supernatural Novel,” and the short story collection “Love AmericanStyle.” Write to him at novelistspotlight@gmail.com. We hope you will subscribe and share the linkwith any family, friends or colleagues who might benefit from this program.
Discover the book publishing world through the years with Trident Media Group chairman and top literary agent, Robert Gottlieb, and top literary, Mark Gottlieb. How has publishing changed and developed, and what do Robert and Mark think will happen in the future? Let's find out more and ask those burning questions, LIVE in The Witty Writers Show Christmas Special!!! Robert's Bio: Robert Gottlieb has been the Chairman of Trident Media Group, book publishing's top-ranked literary agency for close to twenty years. In 2000, he co-founded Trident Media Group with the goal of bringing an innovative approach to literary agenting. That approach includes a uniquely organized company that not only delivers the highest level of author management in the industry but also provides unique digital and social media marketing support to help launch authors' careers. Links: https://www.tridentmediagroup.com/agents/robert-gottlieb/ https://twitter.com/rgottlieb_agent?lang=en https://twitter.com/Trident_Media https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/tridentmedia/ Mark's Bio: Mark Gottlieb is a highly ranked literary agent both in overall deals and other individual categories. Using that same initiative and insight for identifying talented writers, he is actively building his own client list of authors. During his time at Trident Media Group, Mark Gottlieb has represented numerous New York Times bestselling authors, as well as award-winning authors, and has optioned and sold books to film and TV production companies. He previously ran the agency's audiobook department, in addition to working in foreign rights. Links: https://literaryagentmarkgottlieb.com/ https://www.facebook.com/MarkGottliebLiteraryAgent/ https://twitter.com/mark_gottlieb https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS9tVk2TjKlznnzgK7Dbr5A https://www.instagram.com/markgottliebliteraryagent/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/markgottliebliteraryagent Watch The Witty Writers Show live interviews here: Youtube Facebook Website Facebook group for writers and authors: WRITER BETTER AUTHOR SMARTER #bethworsdell #robertgottlieb #markgottlieb #thewittywritersshow #TWWS #tridentmediagroup #tridentmedia #literaryagency #literaryagencies #literaryagent #liveinterview #liveshow #writingtips #writingadvice #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #authorcommunity #writing #querying #queryinganagent #iamquerying #amwrting #books #novels #authorssupportingauthors #writingadvice #writingtipsandadvice #publishing #publishingbooks #publishingnovels #publishingtips #publishingadvice #writingabook #writinganovel #bookchat --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beth-worsdell-author/message
With over 40 years of experience, Robert Gottlieb knows all the in's and out's of the publishing world. We were so lucky to be able to chat with him LIVE and ask him our burning questions! For more than ten consecutive years, Trident Media Group continues to rank number one for sales according to Publishers Market Place. Trident Media Group is the only U.S. literary agency to consistently be in the top ten in both UK fiction and UK non-fiction and has ranked as highly as number one in UK fiction deals. Robert Gottlieb's Bio: Robert Gottlieb is the Chairman of Trident Media Group, book publishing's top-ranked literary agency for close to twenty years. In 2000, he co-founded Trident Media Group with the goal of bringing an innovative approach to literary agenting. That approach includes a uniquely organized company that not only delivers the highest level of author management in the industry but also provides unique digital and social media marketing support to help launch authors' careers. Robert Gottlieb works with several New York Times bestselling authors and is skilled at maximizing and establishing his authors' brands on a worldwide basis. When negotiating deals he seeks to retain as many rights as possible, including foreign rights, film/TV rights, and audio rights, to ensure that the author's benefits extend beyond their domestic publishing arrangements. Trident Media Group's robust Foreign Rights Department then sells these titles at the London Book Fair and Frankfurt Book Fair and continues a year-round effort of constant contact with foreign publishers to ensure substantial foreign deals. Robert Gottlieb also has long-standing relationships with many production companies and regularly travels to LA along with his film department to pitch book-to-film projects there. He is devoted to his authors' careers and can guarantee he will advocate for them at every stage of the publishing process. Links: https://www.tridentmediagroup.com/agents/robert-gottlieb/ https://twitter.com/rgottlieb_agent?lang=en https://twitter.com/Trident_Media https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/tridentmedia/ Watch The Witty Writers Show live interviews here: Youtube Facebook Website Facebook group for writers and authors: WRITER BETTER AUTHOR SMARTER #bethworsdell #robertgottlieb #tridentmediagroup #literaryagency #liiteraryagent #TMG #thewittywritersshow #TWWS #live #livestream #liveshow #liveinterview #writing #publishing #books #literature #publishingtips --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beth-worsdell-author/message
Listeners and followers of the show, I have heard your repeated attempts to spice up the In Summation library by bringing on a co-host to discuss legal issues and topics, and I am giving you what you want. In this episode I brought on Robert Gottlieb of Robert C. Gottlieb and Associates, my law firm, to discuss the sensitive topic of the delicate balance between civil rights/civil liberties and national security and safety. I think subscribers of the show will be pleased with the results.For those unfamiliar with the name Fred Korematsu, he became the face of one of the greatest conflicts between civil liberties and national security in the history of America.After the Japanese bombed the U.S. military base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the United States was thrust into World War II. Almost immediately after the attack, there was wide-ranging hysteria about the approximately 112,000 people of Japanese descent living on the west coast (a very large population of which were American citizens). Prominent figures in the military and government, supported by the media, advocated for the expulsion of all Japanese from California, Oregon, Washington and parts of Nevada and Arizona.Ultimately, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the exclusion order relocating the Japanese to interment camps in the middle of the country, where they would be prevented from supporting Japan's war effort, despite not a single instance of even attempted sabotage or harm to the United States from any Japanese person.Fred Korematsu was living in San Francisco when the order was signed. He refused to leave. Fred was not a political activist, he was not attempting to take a bold stand against injustice, he was a patriotic 21 year old, in love with his Italian-American girlfriend, who would not leave California. He actually attempted several times to help the United States war effort, but was rebuffed at every turn.Fred was arrested, convicted of violating the order and his case was appealed to the 9th Circuit and then all the way to the Supreme Court, who were forced to confront the issue of whether the government could intern a whole class of people in the name of national security.The result was one of the most disturbing Supreme Court opinions ever written, one which many justices in the 6-3 majority later said was their greatest regret while serving on the highest court in the country.I hope you enjoy this unique co-hosted episode and my conversation with Robert Gottlieb. If you are new to the show, please subscribe and listen to the other episodes. Leave me feedback at insummationpodcast@gmail.com, tweet me @insummationpod or find me on our law firm's website www.robertcgottlieblaw.com.Thanks for listening!
CME credits: 0.75 Valid until: 15-04-2022 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/fight-covid-19-neutralizing-mabs/12403/ Neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) first received emergency use authorization (EUA) in November 2020 for treating at-risk patients with COVID-19, and the field has continued to evolve since that time. This presentation provides an update in the latest evidence showing reduced severe illness and hospitalization in patients treated with neutralizing mAbs. This presentation will also answer your questions from multidisciplinary expert perspectives in identifying EUA-appropriate patients and administering outpatient infusion therapies: Robert Gottlieb, MD, PhD; Marilyn Bulloch, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM; and Tesha Seabra, MSN, RN.
CME credits: 0.75 Valid until: 15-04-2022 Claim your CME credit at https://reachmd.com/programs/cme/fight-covid-19-neutralizing-mabs/12403/ Neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) first received emergency use authorization (EUA) in November 2020 for treating at-risk patients with COVID-19, and the field has continued to evolve since that time. This presentation provides an update in the latest evidence showing reduced severe illness and hospitalization in patients treated with neutralizing mAbs. This presentation will also answer your questions from multidisciplinary expert perspectives in identifying EUA-appropriate patients and administering outpatient infusion therapies: Robert Gottlieb, MD, PhD; Marilyn Bulloch, PharmD, BCPS, FCCM; and Tesha Seabra, MSN, RN.
Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career to her highly public romantic life and her indomitable spirit. Robert Gottlieb, author of the Jewish Lives biography Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate—and scandalous—daughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France. Music in this episode: Erik Satie performed by Michael Rettig (Klavier) und Miran Zrimsek (Cello) - Gnossienne No. 1 (Klavier, Cello)
We talk about The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton's first book under his own name, which tells the story of an alien bug brought to earth by a military satellite. That microorganism goes on to kill a whole town and create an unholy climax involving a potential nuclear disaster. We read an excerpt and talk about Crichton's reaction to Robert Gottlieb's criticism as his editor and read from Gottlieb's book, Avid Reader, about the process. Finally, we consider the Odd-Man Hypothesis and explore the case of a real scientist who thought he was a fictional character.Spoiler alert!Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:https://www.discreetguide.com/Follow the host on Twitter:@DiscreetGuideThe host on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkcrittenden/
We talk about The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton's first book under his own name, which tells the story of an alien bug brought to earth by a military satellite. That microorganism goes on to kill a whole town and create an unholy climax involving a potential nuclear disaster. We read an excerpt and talk about Crichton's reaction to Robert Gottlieb's criticism as his editor and read from Gottlieb's book, Avid Reader, about the process. Finally, we consider the Odd-Man Hypothesis and explore the case of a real scientist who thought he was a fictional character. Spoiler alert! Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at: https://www.discreetguide.com/ Follow the host on Twitter: @DiscreetGuide The host on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkcrittenden/
We talk about The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton's first book under his own name, which tells the story of an alien bug brought to earth by a military satellite. That microorganism goes on to kill a whole town and create an unholy climax involving a potential nuclear disaster. We read an excerpt and talk about Crichton's reaction to Robert Gottlieb's criticism as his editor and read from Gottlieb's book, Avid Reader, about the process. Finally, we consider the Odd-Man Hypothesis and explore the case of a real scientist who thought he was a fictional character.Spoiler alert!Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:https://www.discreetguide.com/Follow the host on Twitter:@DiscreetGuideThe host on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkcrittenden/
Welcome to SGV Connect 54, which begins our transition from 2019 to 2020. This week we have two different types of interviews, one which looks forward to 2020 and the other that looks back on...2003? Kris talks with Brian Wallace, executive director of the Pasadena Playhouse District, about a plan to bring new open space to the Pasadena with a new park that could break ground as early as next year. The interview is both a celebration of the coming park and to remember all the work that was done over a decade public process to get to this point. Then Damien interviews professor emeritus Robert Gottlieb from Occidental College and one of the creators of the first Arroyo Fest. Earlier this year, Active SGV announced that in 2020 they will open a section of the 110 Freeway to cars and bicycles and other road users by closing it to car traffic, similar to its predecessor in 2003. Damien and Robert talk both about the experience of the original Arroyo Fest, and how much advocacy and policy have changed in the past seventeen years. We have one more episode to the year, but in case you're traveling when we post, we would like to take a second to thank you for listening in 2019. Onward to 2020! SGV Connect is supported by Foothill Transit, offering car-free travel throughout the San Gabriel Valley with connections to the new Gold Line Stations across the Foothills and Commuter Express lines traveling into the heart of downtown L.A. To plan your trip, visit Foothill Transit. “Foothill Transit. Going Good Places.” Catch past episodes of SGV Connect and #DamienTalks on LibSyn, iTunes, Google Play, or Overcast.
In the 1940s, Frances Glessner Lee brought new rigor to crime scene analysis with a curiously quaint tool: She designed 20 miniature scenes of puzzling deaths and challenged her students to investigate them analytically. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death and their importance to modern investigations. We'll also appreciate an overlooked sled dog and puzzle over a shrunken state. Intro: In a lecture at Cornell, Vladimir Nabokov considered Gregor Samsa's new species. Siren Elise Wilhelmsen taught a clock to knit a scarf. Flickr and the Smithsonian American Art Museum have image galleries of Frances Glessner Lee's nutshell studies. Sources for our story: Corinne May Botz, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, 2004. Frances Glessner Lee, "Legal Medicine at Harvard University," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science 42:5 (January-February 1952), 674-678. M. Uebel, "Corpus Delicti: Frances Glessner Lee and the Art of Suspicion," Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences 27:2 (2018), 124-126. Jacquelyn A.D. Jones, "The Value and Potential of Forensic Models," Forensics Journal 8 (2017), 58-65. Katherine Ramsland, "The Truth in a Nutshell," Forensic Examiner 17:2 (2008), 1620. "Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death," Forensic Magazine, Sept. 8, 2017. Jimmy Stamp, "How a Chicago Heiress Trained Homicide Detectives With an Unusual Tool: Dollhouses," Smithsonian.com, March 6, 2014. Sarah Zhang, "How a Gilded-Age Heiress Became the 'Mother of Forensic Science,'" Atlantic, Oct. 14, 2017. Nicole Cooley, "Death and Feminism in a Nutshell," Paris Review, Feb. 5, 2018. Nigel Richardson, "Murder She Built," Telegraph Magazine, Jan. 31, 2015, 36. Catherine Nixey, "Who Shot Barbie?", Times, Nov. 10, 2014, 9. Jessica Snyder Sachs, "Welcome to the Dollhouses of Death," Popular Science 262:5 (May 2003), 38. William L. Hamilton, "Heiress Plotted 19 Grisly Crimes. Investigation Underway," New York Times, Jan. 10, 2018. Ariella Budick, "Bring Up the Bodies: Dioramas," Financial Times, Dec. 30, 2017, 14. "The Art of Murder: Miniature Dioramas of Unexplained Deaths – In Pictures," Guardian, Oct. 27, 2017. Maura Judkis, "Homicide Sweet Homicide," Washington Post, Oct. 27, 2017, T19. "These Miniature Murder Scenes Have Shown Detectives How to Study Homicides for 70 Years," Washington Post, Sept. 17, 2017, A.24. Chris Hewitt, "Crime-Scene Replicas Still Have Tale to Tell in Minneapolis Filmmaker's Documentary," Saint Paul Pioneer Press, March 18, 2013. Michael Sragow, "Murder in a Nutshell," Baltimore Sun, June 3, 2012, E.1. "Visible Proofs: Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death," New York Times, May 11, 2009. Amanda Schaffer, "Solving Puzzles With Body Parts as the Pieces," New York Times, Feb. 28, 2006. Robert Gottlieb, "True Story of Elderly Heiress Who Designed Dioramas of Death," New York Observer, Jan. 24, 2005, 21. Robin Summerfield, "Crime in a Nutshell," Calgary Herald, Jan. 1, 2005, G9. Jennifer Schuessler, "Murder in the Dollhouse," Boston Globe, Oct. 24, 2004, E.2. John Woestendiek, "Murder in Miniature," Baltimore Sun, Oct. 14, 2004, 1E. Eve Kahn, "Murder Downsized," New York Times, Oct. 7, 2004, F.1. "Murder Is Her Hobby: Frances Glessner Lee and The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death," Smithsonian American Art Museum (accessed Nov. 10, 2019). "Dollhouse Crime Scenes," CBS Sunday Morning, Jan. 14, 2018. Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, "The Tiny, Murderous World of Frances Glessner Lee," All Things Considered, National Public Radio, Nov. 18, 2017. Alison Thoet, "Photos: These Gruesome Dollhouse Death Scenes Reinvented Murder Investigations," PBS NewsHour, Nov. 20, 2017. Ann Marie Menting, "Death in a Nutshell," Harvard Medical School, Sept. 18, 2017. Corinne May Botz, "The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" (accessed Nov. 10, 2019). Gabrielle Alberts, "This Is Where I Leave You: Unsettling Realities of a Miniature," dissertation, University of Cape Town, 2013. Ferdinand Demara as "Hospital Doctor" in The Hypnotic Eye (1960). Sources for our listener mail segment: Wikipedia, "Ferdinand Waldo Demara: Films/TV" (accessed Nov. 13, 2019). IMDb, "The Hypnotic Eye" (accessed Nov. 13, 2019). IMDb, "Fred Demara: Biography" (accessed Nov. 16, 2019). Wikipedia, "M*A*S*H (TV series)" (accessed Nov. 13, 2019). "Captain Adam Casey," The Monster M*A*S*H Wiki (accessed Nov. 13, 2019). "Dear Dad ... Again (TV series episode)," The Monster M*A*S*H Wiki (accessed Nov. 13, 2019). Brendan Michael, "Check Out Willem Dafoe Mushing in First Look Image of Disney+’s 'Togo,'" Collider, Oct. 24, 2019. IMDb, "Togo (2019)" (accessed Nov. 16, 2019). Wikipedia, "Togo (film)" (accessed Nov. 14, 2019). "'The Great Alaskan Race' Review: A Historic Sled Rescue Turned to Mush," New York Times, Oct. 24, 2019. IMDb, "The Great Alaskan Race (2019)" (accessed Nov. 16, 2019). Dennis Harvey, "Film Review: 'The Great Alaskan Race,'" Variety, Oct. 24, 2019. It Happens Every Thursday, 1953. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Dianna Gabbard. Here are two corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle). We're very sorry to have to say that we recently had to say goodbye to Sasha. We feel very grateful that we got to share our lives with her for over 18 years, but several days ago we learned that she had advanced bone cancer. Until quite recently she had been very active, alert, and engaged in life, so the news was rather a shock to us. The cancer wasn't treatable, and after a few days we realized that the time had come for us to have to say goodbye. She will be very missed, and no beloved pet is ever fully replaceable, but we do hope at some point in the future to find another cat that needs a good home, when we are ready. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, 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!
Silas Farley sits down with Principal Dancer Taylor Stanley, Ballet Master Jean-Pierre Frohlich, NYCB Concertmaster Kurt Nikkanen, and former NYCB dancer and Pacific Northwest Ballet Artistic Director Peter Boal to discuss Jerome Robbins’ Opus 19/The Dreamer on his series Hear the Dance. In this informative episode, the five talk about the otherworldly ballet, Robbins’ choreographic process, and Prokofiev’s ambitious score. (58:11) Music: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major (1931) by Igor Stravinsky Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major (1917) by Sergei Prokofiev All music performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra Listen to a recording of Joseph Szigeti's performance of Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major (1917) by Sergei Prokofiev Reference Books for Hear the Dance: Opus 19/The Dreamer Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Amanda Vaill Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man by Christine Conrad Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography by Harlow Robinson Reading Dance Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Gottlieb
In honor of earth day approaching, in this week’s episode I speak with Leslie VanKeuren Campbell, Founder and Principal of Sustain LA, a company which offers a refill station, consulting for zero waste events, event rentals, and more zero waste services in Los Angeles. Leslie and I chat all about the zero waste lifestyle, what it means, and how to integrate it into your personal life and/or your business. There are a ton of useful tips and tricks in this episode as well! In this episode, we discuss: Leslie’s background and how sustainability went from personal to professional How the zero waste has changed since she started her business 10 years ago We why need to shift what we perceive as convenience How to minimize your impact on the planet The upsides and downsides of instagram and the sustainability movement The definition of zero waste and its history, including why the terms like low waste can be detrimental What a circular versus linear economy is What is the purchasing hierarchy and how to evaluate your purchases Leslie’s advice for being zero waste with kids How Sustain LA reduces waste in events What the challenges are with bioplastics Simple things businesses can do to become more green How to lead by example in the zero waste movement How we can hold companies accountable Mentioned in this episode: Cradle to Cradle by William Mcdonough The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard (also the website) Food Justice by Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan The Zero Waste Solution by Paul Connett Green Collar Economy by Van Jones Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Garbology by Edward Humes Being the Change by Peter Kalmus Anything by Bill McKibben Reduce your Amazon packaging via mama eco Instagram accounts Leslie recommends to follow: @bezerowastegirl (also has great list of resources on her website), @5gyres, @zerowastechef, @mamaeatsplants, @vintage_is_eco, @zerowasteguy, @adventuresinwaste, @plasticpollutes, @storyofstuff, @climatereality, @350org, @aurijackson All the deets: Check out Sustain LA’s services and get a calendar of their events and refill stations on the Sustain LA website Follow along with Leslie at @sustain_la where she also shares where their refill stations will be (and she just announced she is opening and brick and mortar, stay tuned for the location!)— go say hi and tell her you listened to this episode! Tag me (@saraweinreb) and Leslie on Instagram with your favorite takeaways from the episode! Related episodes: Episode 7: Sustainable living, global health, and building an impact-driven business with Megan Faletra Episode 11: Simplifying, turning inwards, and finding clarity with Hilary Pearlson Episode 15: Building a brand that sticks, celebrating women in food, and going green with Kerry Diamond Episode 16: Grounded wellness, adapting through adaptogens, and living with curiosity and empathy with Lopa Van der Mersch
Robert Gottlieb shares his career journey from his early love of film to working on sets as a background extra to writing screenplays in his spare time to, finally, climbing the ranks at Fox Sports.
Becca and Corinne make good on their promise from Episode 8.5 to read a romance novel. This week they discuss how the literature world at large has often maligned romance and they talk about the book they chose, A Week To Be Wicked by Tessa Dare. Becca pitches her perfect romance novel and the ladies pick out their pen names. Does this podcast have an HEA? You'll have to listen to find out. Our next discussion is going to be An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. CALL US! Leave us a voicemail at 616-730-1656. Referenced Articles: Roundup of the Season's Romance Novels by Robert Gottlieb for the NYT Book Review September 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/books/review/macomber-steel-james-romance.html Here's How Not to Critique Romance Novels - Kelly Faircloth for Jezebel https://jezebel.com/heres-how-not-to-critique-romance-novels-1819188174 For the Love of Independence: Romance Authors are Literature's Unsung Heroes by S.E. Smith for Bitch Media https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/the-case-for-romance-authors
Over the past four decades, global cities have emerged in both the United States and China, including Hong Kong. In the process, they have absorbed their local environments and expanded their commercial networks around the world. As the urban landscapes and global reach of Chinese and American cities have grown, so have their environmental footprints. Challenging issues of air and water quality, water supply, transportation, land use, and food have accompanied rapid urban growth. In many cases, municipal leaders have developed innovative solutions that restructure patterns of resource consumption. In a new book, Robert Gottlieb, an urban and environmental policy expert, and sustainability expert Simon Ng assess the policy responses of different cities in the United States and China to rapid urbanization and its environmental impact. In The Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China, Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Ng identify and analyze how urban environmental issues have been addressed in these localities and the reasons behind the policies. They also examine what lessons can be learned from those experiences to inform policy debates, as well as the role of social movements in influencing policy-making. On October 19, 2017, Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Ng joined the National Committee for a discussion of their book, recent developments in municipal sustainability efforts, and opportunities for further policy innovation in city government. Robert Gottlieb is emeritus professor of urban and environmental policy and the founder and former director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. Simon Ng is an independent consultant working on air quality, urban transportation, and sustainability issues. Trained as a geographer, Simon is known for his ground-breaking work on ship emissions inventory and control policy in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, as well as his research on walkability. The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (www.ncuscr.org) is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.
Over the past four decades, global cities have emerged in both the United States and China, including Hong Kong. In the process, they have absorbed their local environments and expanded their commercial networks around the world. As the urban landscapes and global reach of Chinese and American cities have grown, so have their environmental footprints. Challenging issues of air and water quality, water supply, transportation, land use, and food have accompanied rapid urban growth. In many cases, municipal leaders have developed innovative solutions that restructure patterns of resource consumption. In a new book, Robert Gottlieb, an urban and environmental policy expert, and sustainability expert Simon Ng assess the policy responses of different cities in the United States and China to rapid urbanization and its environmental impact. In The Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China, Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Ng identify and analyze how urban environmental issues have been addressed in these localities and the reasons behind the policies. They also examine what lessons can be learned from those experiences to inform policy debates, as well as the role of social movements in influencing policy-making. On October 19, 2017, Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Ng joined the National Committee for a discussion of their book, recent developments in municipal sustainability efforts, and opportunities for further policy innovation in city government. Robert Gottlieb is emeritus professor of urban and environmental policy and the founder and former director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College. Simon Ng is an independent consultant working on air quality, urban transportation, and sustainability issues. Trained as a geographer, Simon is known for his ground-breaking work on ship emissions inventory and control policy in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, as well as his research on walkability. The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (www.ncuscr.org) is the leading nonprofit nonpartisan organization that encourages understanding of China and the United States among citizens of both countries.
Robert Gottlieb is an unschooling dad with two children, ages 11 and 19. He shares that they actually discovered unschooling a few times and, after a variety of school and school-at-home settings, he’s the one who eventually brought it into the family. We chat about that transition, going against societal expectations, stretching comfort zones, what […]
Robert Gottlieb talks about new romance novels, and Celeste Ng discusses her new novel, “Little Fires Everywhere.”
With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – Devoney "Stone Cold Jane Austen" Looser on the slew of Jane Austen reincarnations (and why it's nothing to worry about); David Wheatley on the long-awaited final volume of Samuel Beckett's letters and its "black diamonds of pessimism"; and J. Michael Lennon on the titan of publishing Robert Gottlieb, and the writer-editor relationship. Discover more at www.the-tls.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Legendary publisher and editor Robert Gottlieb talks with Laurie about his new memoir Avid Reader; reflects on his glory days at Knopf and The New Yorker; and expresses confidence about the state of writing today. Tracy Tynan offers PG Wodehouse as comfort reading for these treacherous times. Tom and Laurie launch a new poetry feature with a reading of WB Yeats The Second Coming.
The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of 12 books, Jennifer Weiner, took a few minutes to talk with me about the writer’s life, her new memoir, and Revenge of the Nerds. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why more than 80,000 companies in 135 countries choose WP Engine for managed WordPress hosting. Start getting more from your site today! Prior to her prolific career as a novelist, Ms. Weiner started out as a small town newspaper reporter and freelancer, before signing her first big book deal for her novel Good in Bed (2001). Since then her books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list, she has had a novel made into a major motion picture — In Her Shoes, starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette (2005) — contributed op-eds to the New York Times, executive produced a TV series, and published a children’s book (The Littlest Bigfoot). Her latest offering is the memoir Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, and it “… is about yearning and fulfillment, loss and love, and a woman who searched for her place in the world, and found it as a storyteller.” If you’re a fan of The Writer Files, click subscribe to automatically see new interviews. In Part One of this file Jennifer Weiner and I discuss: How Her Iconic Writing Mentors Joyce Carol Oates and John McPhee Helped Guide Her Why Ten Years and 10,000 Hours in the Trenches Is Par for the Course How Working in Busy Environments Boosts Your Productivity Great Tricks to Keep the Ink Flowing, without Opening a Vein Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes Audible is Offering a Free Audiobook Download with a 30-day Trial: Grab Your Free Audiobook Here – audibletrial.com/rainmaker How Bestselling Author Jennifer Weiner Writes: Part Two JenniferWeiner.com So you want to be a novelist? Jennifer Weiner The Littlest Bigfoot – Jennifer Weiner Jennifer Weiner on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter The Transcript How Bestselling Author Jennifer Weiner Writes: Part One Voiceover: Rainmaker FM Kelton Reid: Welcome back to The Writer Files. I’m your host, Kelton Reid, here to take you on yet another tour of the habits, habitats, and brains of renowned writers to learn their secrets. The number one New York Times bestselling author of 12 books, Jennifer Weiner, took a few minutes to talk with me this week about the writer’s life, her new memoir, and Revenge of the Nerds. Before her prolific career as a novelist, Ms. Weiner started out as a small town newspaper reporter, before signing her first big book deal for her novel Good in Bed. Since then, her books have spent over five years on the New York Times Bestseller List. She’s had a novel made into a major motion picture, In Her Shoes, starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette, contributed op-eds for The New York Times, executive produced a TV series, and published a children’s book. Her latest offering is the memoir Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing. It’s about yearning and fulfillment, loss and love, and a woman who searched for her place in the world and found it as a storyteller. In part one of this file, Jennifer and I discuss how her iconic writing mentors Joyce Carol Oates and John McPhee helped guide her, why 10 years and 10,000 hours in the trenches is par for the course, how working in busy environments boosts your productivity, and great tricks to keep the ink flowing without opening a vein. This episode of The Writer Files is brought to you by Audible. I ll have more on their special offer later in the show but if you love Audiobooks or you’ve always wanted to give them a try, you can check out over 180,000 titles right now at Audibletrial.com/Rainmaker. This episode of The Writer Files is also brought to you by Digital Commerce Summit. We’ll have more about that unique event for Digital Entrepreneurs later in the show but you can check out Rainmaker.FM/Summit for all the details on an amazing educational and networking event. We are rolling today on The Writer Files with a very special guest. Jennifer Weiner is joining me today, and I feel honored to have you on today. Your new book is coming out, or just came out, and this podcast is really a show about writers, for writers, and this new book of yours, Hungry Heart, is I think really that. It’s pretty fantastic, and thank you for coming on. Jennifer Weiner: Thank you so much for having me. I’m really excited to be here and excited to talk about it. Kelton Reid: We usually open the show with kind of getting to know the authors a little bit better, and I think it’s a great place to kind of open. I’m really excited about this book Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, because it really kind of tracks your origins as a bestselling writer, author, essayist now, memoirist, columnist. You’ve done all these different things. You’ve worn all these different hats. You’ve even done some TV production. How Her Iconic Writing Mentors Joyce Carol Oates and John McPhee Helped Guide Her Kelton Reid: Take us back a little bit, because this book really traces those origins extremely well. It’s hilarious. It’s heartbreaking. It’s got all these fantastic moments that have kind of molded you, I think, into the bestselling author that you are. Maybe for listeners who may not be familiar, take us back a little bit to kind of … I’m really interested in those early days that formed you, but also the Joyce Carol Oates, and Toni Morrison moments of your life which are so fantastic in the book. Take us back a little bit. Jennifer Weiner: The joke in Hungry Heart is that the best gift that any writer can receive is an unhappy childhood. What is less discussed is that this is a gift we’d all return if we possibly could. I am the oldest of four kids, and my parents moved us to this very preppy, very wealthy, very WASP-y kind of enclave in Connecticut, for reasons I’m still not really clear on. I’m like, “Why would you do this?” In my high school class of 400, there were nine Jewish kids, and I was one of them, although if you’re going by size, I was probably one and a half. I was, you know, I was this sort of pudgy, Jewish book wormy, had this like, gigantic vocabulary and no OP t-shirts, or Benetton sweaters, or Fiorucci jeans. Just, like, I was a disaster. I was lonely. I was picked on. I was unhappy. I couldn’t even get other Jewish kids to be nice to me, but I always loved books. And I always had books as my place to go, as my refuge, as my place where I could go hide from the world that was a really, really hard place for me to be. I dreamed about being a writer someday. It was the only thing I wanted. It was the only thing I was good at, and so I graduated from high school, and I went to Princeton, and I was an English major, because that was obviously where you got to read all the great books. And I got to take creative writing classes with some amazing people. As you mentioned, Joyce Carol Oates, and Toni Morrison, and John McPhee, who taught nonfiction writing, but who was, I would say, the most influential professor that I had in terms of teaching writing as craft, and not something where you just sat around and you waited for inspiration to come. You waited for your muse to speak to you. He taught that you worked at it. That you wrote something, and then you re-wrote it, and then you re-wrote it again. And then you showed a draft to a friend, and then you revised it one more time, and then you showed it to your professor, then you re-wrote it after that. It was less like being some artiste, you know? Some beret-wearing hipster in Paris or in Brooklyn, than being like the HVAC guy. You know? It’s like, the vents need cleaning, so you’d be the one down there kind of mucking out the vents. Writing, I was taught, was that kind of labor. Obviously not as physical. My sister always likes to tell me when I complain about stuff, she’s like, “Well, you’re not digging ditches,” which is true, but it’s work. I’m glad that I learned that early on. I’m glad I had very smart people there to sort of demystify the process, and teach me really that the difference, I think, between people who want to write, believe they can write, talk about writing, and the ones of us who actually do go on to get published, a lot of times that’s just sheer persistence and nothing more than that. Kelton Reid: The book, and I’ll encourage listeners to pick it up, because it’s a fascinating window into kind of all these things that I think shaped you, and this memoir, Cheryl Strayed called, “Furiously funny, powerfully smart, remarkably brave.” It is brave. It’s at times hilarious. You’ve got a whole Revenge of the Nerds footnote in there, which I thought was pretty good. Jennifer Weiner: I have such love for and problems with that movie. It’s, like, all my faves are problematic. That especially. That more than anything else. Kelton Reid: I would read a whole op-ed column on Revenge of the Nerds. Jennifer Weiner: I wish I could well maybe I will. Maybe I will write one. Kelton Reid: I think you should. Jennifer Weiner: Somebody needs to make the Omega Mus movie. That some might just be me someday. Kelton Reid: Well, you clearly have a love of all media, and you’ve been shaped by these things, and there are heartbreaking pieces in there. You know, kind of the Princeton days, and kind of being chased down by creditors, which I thought was harrowing and inspiring stuff, so kudos on the new book. Jennifer Weiner: I should make it clear. My dad was being chased down by creditors. Kelton Reid: Yeah, right. I’m sorry. Jennifer Weiner: I was just the poor jerk who had to answer the phone. My credit is excellent. Excellent. Very powerful, and big-ly good. Kelton Reid: We will be right back after a very short break. Thanks so much for listening to The Writer Files. This episode of The Writer Files is brought to you by Audible, offering over 180,000 audiobook titles to choose from. Audible seamlessly delivers the world’s both fiction and nonfiction to your iPhone, Android, Kindle or computer. For Rainmaker FM listeners, Audible is offering a free audiobook download with a 30 day trial to give you the opportunity to check them out. Grab your free audiobook right now by visiting Audibletrial.com/Rainmaker. I just hopped over there to grab Stephen King’s epic novel 11.22.63, about an English teacher who goes back in time to prevent the assassination of JFK. You can download your pick or any other audio book free by heading over to Audibletrial.com/Rainmaker. To download your free audio book today, go to Audibletrial.com/Rainmaker. Jerod Morris: Hey, Jerod Morris here. If you know anything about Rainmaker Digital and Copyblogger, you may know that we produce incredible live events. Well, some would say that we produce incredible live events as an excuse to throw great parties, but that’s another story. We’ve got another one coming up this October in Denver. It’s called Digital Commerce Summit and it is entirely focused on giving you the smartest ways to create and sell digital products and services. To get all the details and the very best deal on tickets head over to Rainmaker.FM/Summit. That’s Rainmaker.FM/Summit. Why Ten Years and 10,000 Hours in the Trenches Is Par for the Course Kelton Reid: I thought it was cool, the you know, the Malcolm Gladwell, kind of looking back at the 10,000 hours that shaped you. You were a journalist, you were a small town newspaper reporter. Jennifer Weiner: Freelance writer, trying to get short stories published, yeah. Just, like, 10 years in the trenches, and deep in the trenches. I remember just being, just sick with jealousy when I would read about some 24 year old hotshot being hired by Saturday Night Live, or getting that six figure book deal, and I would just think, like, “Oh, it’s never going to be me. I’m working so hard, and it’s just not going to happen, and I’m going to be in central Pennsylvania for the rest of my life.” Looking back, of course I could not see this at the time, but it was the best thing for me. It was the best thing for me to learn everything I did, and to put in all the time that I did. It was the best thing for me that I was 31 and not 21 when my first book was published, because I don’t think I would have been able to handle it. I don’t think I was ready yet. Kelton Reid: Well kudos. The book is fantastic, and it kind of documents what’s made you this bestselling author, and TV producer, and yeah, definitely cool stuff. Let’s talk about your process. I mean, I’d love to just dig into a little bit more about the writing life. I will point back to your fantastic website, JenniferWeiner.com, and the “For Writers” section I think is notable just because it’s so cool, and in a nutshell, you kind of break down, “So you want to be a novelist …” And these points are, at times, funny, and also maybe cautionary. Jennifer Weiner: Yes, yes. Cautionary is a good way to put it. Kelton Reid: So now that you’ve got this fantastic memoir, this essay collection under your belt, and you’re kind of doing the rounds to promote it, what else do you have in the hopper? I know you’ve just released, also, a kids’ book. Is that right? Jennifer Weiner: Yes. Uh-huh, my first children’s book. It’s called The Littlest Bigfoot. Kelton Reid: Yeah, yeah. So, what else could you possibly be doing? Jennifer Weiner: Well, I had some pretty good Tweets about the debate last night. The first presidential debate. What I’m working on now is a sequel to the children’s books, so I’m writing Little Bigfoot, Big City, which is going to be the next one in that trilogy, and I m also I have another grown up novel that I am eager to get back to. Kind of waiting to … We’re talking before Hungry Heart goes on sale, and when it does, I’m going to have the 12 city book tour, so I’ve got to get through that. But I’m interested in all of the new places there are to tell stories. All of the new ways there are to do it. I’ve been doing some Facebook Live videos that I’m really enjoying. I did some videos for People, for People.com. I like telling stories, and I think wherever I end up doing that, this is my life’s work. My life’s work. Kelton Reid: Yeah, yeah, cool. Well, let’s talk about your life’s work. How much time per day, when you’re really digging in, are you kind of, like, doing research or reading before you settle in and start clacking away? Jennifer Weiner: Generally, I get up in the morning, and I get my daughters off to school, and I exercise, because if I don’t do that first thing, it doesn’t happen. Then, it’ll be kind of an hour of, like, business. You know, e-mails, phone calls, taking care of social media. Usually by 11:00 or noon I’m kind of settling in for the writing day, and I usually aim for three or four solid hours of writing, which at first I thought made me sound like a slacker. Then, I thought about it, and I’m like, “Okay, but when I was at newspapers, and I was there for eight hours, I wasn’t really writing for eight hours. I was hanging out at the water cooler, or at the fax machine, or having lunch, or on the phone.” All of the things that you get to do in an office, and I no longer have an office. I don’t have any people, so I’m just working. Working away. Kelton Reid: Do you set word counts, or you kind of chasing deadlines, or …? Jennifer Weiner: It kind of depends what I’m working on. I’d say probably 1,000 words a day is a general goal. They can be crummy words. They could be words I’ll chuck the next day when I read them over, but I shoot for 1,000 words. 1,000 words a day. How Working in Busy Environments Boosts Your Productivity Kelton Reid: Very nice. Are you someone who can listen to music while you’re working, or do you like silence? Jennifer Weiner: I can. I don’t need to have it. I’m one of these people that we call women, who has generally learned to work with interruptions, with kids screaming, in coffee shops. I worked in a As you said, I was a newspaper reporter for almost 10 years, so I got used to newsrooms, and there would be people yelling, and there are television sets on, like, blaring CNN. Somebody would have a police scanner on his desk, and that would be going off. I can deal with noise. I can deal with interruption. I’m not one of these, you know, “The room must be silent. It must be cooled to a 67 degree temperature, with a pink noise machine in the corner.” I read these things sometimes, and I’m like, “Who are you? Probably, you’re someone who doesn’t have children, is my guess.” Kelton Reid: Do you ever get out to a café or a coffee shop? Jennifer Weiner: I do. I do some writing in coffee shops. Today, my daughter has ceramics club at school, and that gets out at 4:20, so I’ll probably put my laptop in my backpack and her school is two miles away, so I’ll walk up there, and I’ll park myself in the coffee shop and write until she’s done with ceramics, and then bring her home. Kelton Reid: Cool. Here’s the million dollar question. And I have a feeling I know the answer. Do you believe in writer’s block? Jennifer Weiner: No. I really don’t. Again, I would point to my life as a journalist. You can’t go to your editor and say, “I know that you need me to write that 12 inch story on the sewage board hearing, but alas, my muse has not spoken.” You just write the story. Maybe it’s terrible. Maybe it’s the worst story anybody’s ever read, but you can fix it. I think, I mean Robert Gottlieb’s famous advice is, “If you can’t write, type.” So just type. Just get some word shapes onto the page, and then you’ll have something to work with, you know? You’ve got to start with something. Kelton Reid: I like that one a lot. Well cool, that dovetails perfectly into kind of your work flow. “If you can’t write, type.” Are you working on a typewriter? Jennifer Weiner: No. No. I work on a … I have a Mac. I have a Macbook Air. It’s kind of old, and there’s some food in the keyboard. I’ve worked on laptops. I’ve worked on desktops. I’ve had Macs for the last little while, but I used to have Dell. Again, I’m really not picky. I use Microsoft Word. Like that s my I don’t have Scrivner, or one of those fancy schmancy … It’s just, like, basically rolling a sheet of paper into a typewriter. Great Tricks to Keep the Ink Flowing, without Opening a Vein Kelton Reid: Very nice. Straight to the point. Do you have some organizational hacks that kind of keep you on task that you can share with writers? Jennifer Weiner: I walk a lot. I think a lot of my best thinking happens when I’m walking, and so that’s where I kind of will … If I’m stuck on a plot point, or if I’m thinking, “How would a character say this?” Or, “How would they react in a certain situation?” A lot of times I’ll just, like, walk the dog, or walk myself. Just go for a walk if I get stuck. Sometimes not thinking about it helps. You can just sort of kick it to the back part of your brain for a little while, and cook something, or exercise. I have writer friends who color in those grown up coloring books. And I also, I read somebody else, always leave … When you stop for the day, don’t stop at the end of a sentence. Leave half of a sentence so you’ll just have a place to pick right up the next day. It will just be like, “Oh, okay. Here’s where I was. Now I know I’ve got to finish that sentence.” That will hopefully kick start the next day’s work. Kelton Reid: Yeah, that’s a great trick. I think that was a Hemingway trick, also. I think he talked about doing that one. Jennifer Weiner: Yes. Kelton Reid: A good brain training thing. So you kind of lean into the incubation phase. Do you have some ways to beat procrastination, or are you kind of leaning into it, then? Jennifer Weiner: If I find I’m getting distracted, or if I find I’m finding other things to do, sometimes a change of scenery helps. Sometimes it’s even just, like, getting up, and stretching, and getting away from the keyboard for five minutes. I’m not a huge procrastinator, and I think it’s because I’m not one of these writers that thinks it’s like sitting down and opening a vein. I’m not one of these writers who’s like, you know, “I love having written, but I hate writing.” I like writing. I really, really do. It remains the thing that brings me the most joy and makes me the happiest. I really, I can’t complain about it that much. I feel lucky to be able to do it, and so I really do not have a huge procrastination problem. Kelton Reid: How does Jennifer Weiner unwind at the end of a long writing day? Jennifer Weiner: I beat the children. No. I don’t. Kelton Reid: End scene. Jennifer Weiner: No. Honestly, it’s like, I, you know, I don’t want to … I was going to say, like many women, I have what they call the second shift, where it’s like, you stop your professional work, and then you’re mom. And that’s what I do, but I also have a ton of help, so it’s not like I’m like, “And then I get the groceries, and then I make dinner, and then I wash the dishes, and then I do the laundry.” I have people to do those things. I’m super duper lucky, and I’m able to sort of use my money so that all I get to do with my time is spend time with my children and spend time on my work. That’s how I unwind, is I’m with my kids, and they are both very funny, and smart, and interesting young ladies. The eight year old is hilarious, and the 13 year old is brilliant, and prickly, and really into math and science, and sort of thinks I’m useless in the way of 13 year old daughters everywhere. She’s just like, “Ugh, Mom!” Cue eye roll. People say I’ll get her back in, like, four years, so I’m just watching the clock on that. I’m with my kids, and that’s how I unwind. I watch TV, too. I’m very eager to start the new season of Transparent. Kelton Reid: Ah, yes. I can vouch that it is as good as they say. Thanks so much for joining me for this half of a tour through the writer’s process. If you enjoy The Writer Files Podcast, please subscribe to the show and leave us a rating or a review on iTunes to help other writers find us. For more episodes, or to just leave a comment or a question, you can drop by WriterFiles.FM. You can always chat with me on Twitter @KeltonReid. Cheers. Talk to you next week.
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