Podcasts about Robert Penn Warren

This conversation starts with fictional candidate Willy Stark, a favorite subject of our guest, Steve Ealy. Steve has written on how to read the Qur'an, the Federalist Papers and constitutional interpretation, the philosophers Jurgen Habermas, Michael Oakeshott, and Eric Voegelin, and the writers C. S. Lewis, Ralph Ellison, Fyodor Deostoevsky, James Fenimore Cooper, John Steinbeck, and Robert Penn Warren. He is currently working on a book-length study of Robert Penn Warren.  In other words, he is qualified to dicsuss Donald Trump in the perspective of history.  

“All the King's Men” is a great American novel and its author Robert Penn Warren has roots in Middle Tennessee. Plus, the local news for May 5, 2025, and a conversation about last month's Biscuits and Banjos festival. Credits: This is a production of Nashville Public RadioHost/producer: Nina CardonaEditor: Miriam KramerAdditional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, Rachel Iacovone, LaTonya Turner and the staff of WPLN and WNXP

Join the #McConnellCenter as we welcome Steve Ealy as he attempts to convince us of the importance of reading All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren! Steve Ealy is a Senior Fellow Emeritus at Liberty Fund, Inc. He has published academic articles on Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison, the Qur'an, and The Federalist Papers. He received his BA in political science from Furman University, and earned an MA in government at Claremont Graduate University and his PhD in political science from the University of Georgia. We all know we need to read more and there are literally millions of books on shelves with new ones printed every day. How do we sort through all the possibilities to find the book that is just right for us now? Well, the McConnell Center is bringing authors and experts to inspire us to read impactful and entertaining books that might be on our shelves or in our e-readers, but which we haven't yet picked up. We hope you learn a lot in the following podcast and we hope you might be inspired to pick up one or more of the books we are highlighting this year at the University of Louisville's McConnell Center. Stay Connected Visit us at McConnellcenter.org Subscribe to our newsletter  Facebook: @mcconnellcenter Instagram: @ulmcenter  Twitter: @ULmCenter This podcast is a production of the McConnell Center

Episode 493 - Phyllis Gobbell - PRODIGAL, a Southern novel that echoes an ancient Biblical storyPhyllis Gobbell's writing career spans four decades. Her history of publication includes both fiction and nonfiction, with a total of five novels and over thirty stories and articles in literary journals, anthologies, and magazines. One of her first stories appeared in the anthology, HomeWorks, in 1996, a collection of writings by Tennessee authors living at that time, including Alex Haley, Robert Penn Warren, and Peter Taylor.Gobbell, a Nashville author, writes a little bit of everything. Two true-crime books, An Unfinished Canvas (Berkley, 2007; Diversion 2020) and A Season of Darkness (Berkley, 2010), are accounts of high-profile, cold-case murders in Nashville. Now Gobbell authors the Jordan Mayfair Mystery Series: Pursuit in Provence (Five Star, 2015), Secrets and Shamrocks (Five Star, 2016), and Treachery in Tuscany (Encircle, 2018), winner of Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion Award for Best Cozy Mystery.Gobbell received the Tennessee Arts Commission's Individual Artist Award in Fiction. Other writing achievements include the Leslie Garrett Fiction Prize awarded by the Knoxville Writers Guild, Tennessee Writers Alliance Short Story First Place Award, and the North Carolina Writers' Workshop First Place Award in Creative Nonfiction. She received a Pushcart nomination for her story, “Primates,” which was published in Bellevue Literary Review. She won the Creative Nonfiction First Place Award from the Knoxville Writers' Guild for her essay, “In the Car with Mother on Christmas Eve.” Twice she has received the Leslie Garrett Award for Fiction.An active participant in the writing community, Gobbell helped organize the Tennessee Writers Alliance in 1990 and served on its Board of Directors for ten years, including two terms as president and one as chair of the Board. She was also a founding member of a writers group that still meets every Tuesday night, the Nashville Writers Alliance.For twenty years, Phyllis Gobbell served on the English faculty at Nashville State Community College as Associate Professor. She taught courses in composition, creative writing, and literature. She served as editor of the literary magazine, Tetrahedra, for eight years.Gobbell earned her B.S. in Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and received her M.A. in English from Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, where the graduate program offered a creative thesis option. Her thesis was a collection of stories entitled Listen to Me. Most of the stories have been published in literary journals and have received awards.https://phyllisgobbell.com/Support the show___https://livingthenextchapter.com/podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/Coffee Refills are always appreciated, refill Dave's cup here, and thanks!https://buymeacoffee.com/truemediaca

Luke 1:39-45In those days, Mary set out with haste and went to a Judean town in the hill-country where she entered the home of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard the sound of her greeting, the child leaped in her womb. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord has come to me? For when I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy! And blessed is she who believed there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.” When David Brooks talks about what it means to see others deeply and to let ourselves be more deeply seen, he leans pretty heavily into acknowledging the significance of a person's family tree, history, and culture, in order to do that. And he asks this really great question: How Do Your Ancestors Show Up in Your Life?He quotes the novelist and poet, Robert Penn Warren, who said, “You live through time, that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. …What you are is an expression of history.”And we forget this, don't we? …about ourselves, about each other, and about the strangers we meet and see in the world? When someone upsets or angers us on any given day – by cutting us off in traffic, or acting selfish or unkind at the grocery store, by talking behind our back in the church parking lot, or by not pulling their weight on that group assignment at school – it's worth wondering what else might be going on in their life at the moment, don't you think?We've all seen that meme or heard the notion that “Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about, so be kind. Always.” Well, I think David Brooks takes this to another, more meaningful level, when it comes to really seeing and knowing a person.We don't just land here, showing up out of nowhere – so unique, individual, special, and in control of our own respective destinies. Like it or not, we are beholden to or influenced – in some way – by those who came before us; by all of the culture, history, and baggage – good, bad, and ugly – that come along with us. All of the good stuff we'd like to claim about ourselves and be most proud of – isn't all or only of our own creation. And the hard stuff we work so hard or wish we could change about ourselves – isn't … always … either.And the same is true about our neighbor.Which is to say – what we've been trying to show throughout these Advent days – is that seeing others deeply and being deeply seen takes time, work, effort, energy, and faith. And as Christmas draws ever nearer, my hope is that we see this work as ours, because it is and was God's, in the coming of Jesus. God showed up to see us more fully, completely, deeply … And so that we might take the time and do the work to see Jesus – and each other, through him – more fully, completely, and deeply, too.What child is this? What child is this? What child is this, and this, and this, and this?And, perhaps the most human thing about Jesus, is that he had a family tree, ancestors, and a rich human history of his own. And the Gospel writers – heck the whole of the Scriptural narrative – reveals this for us.I was tempted, but decided to spare you the reading of Jesus' genealogy from the first chapter of Matthew's gospel to prove this point. But you know – or I suspect you've heard about – all of those old-school “begats” – Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah and so on down the line – 77 times, until you get to Jesus. The point of that litany of names, speaks to the power of ancestry, the impact of a person's family tree, and the meaning behind all that comes before us and that is poured into our identity and personhood.Well, for generations, theologians and professors, pastors and preachers have used Matthew's genealogy of Jesus for nothing more and nothing less than proving Jesus to be the fulfillment of God's plan for salvation; to establish his credibility as the Messiah; to prove his promised, prophetic pedigree, if you will, as the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, King David, and so on.And that's not nothing. It may very well have been Matthew's point. And it serves its purpose. But there's more to it than that. It's subtle, surprising, beautiful and impossible to miss once you see it – and I think it comes to a head in this morning's meeting between Mary and Elizabeth, in Luke's Gospel.See, buried in Matthew's account of Jesus' genealogy … hidden almost among the names of all those men – the well-known patriarchs, the faithful fathers, and the powerful kings – are also listed the lesser-known names of five women: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, herself.And because we know that women – generally – weren't held in high regard in first-century Palestinian culture, if they were regarded at all, it is profoundly noteworthy to understand, just briefly, who these particular women were; to know their own history as part of this mix, and to acknowledge why their participation in the lineage of Jesus matters.First, there's Tamar, who saved her own life and livelihood by surreptitiously sleeping with her Father-in-Law, Judah, becoming pregnant, and thus preserving the family line that led to Jesus. Rahab was likely an owner/operator of the best little brothel in Jericho, who used her wisdom, hospitality, faith, and bravery to save some Israelite spies once, insuring a victory for God's chosen ones in battle, and securing for herself a worthy branch on the family tree of Jesus.Ruth was a Moabite – an outsider of the highest order as far as God's people were concerned at the time – but, by way of her steadfast faithfulness to her mother-in-law and some sexual self-preservation of her own, she ingratiated and grafted herself into Jesus' genealogy, too.Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, was the – likely unwilling – sexual conquest of King David. Though it's rarely described as such, she survived a sexual assault by the most powerful man in the land people, who then had her husband killed to cover up the indiscretion, so that she could be kept, by the king, as his wife.And then there's Mary, who shows up to Elizabeth this morning with some insane news about a baby on the way.And Mary and Elizabeth, good, faithful, Hebrew women that they were – would have known every bit of this history, tradition, and genealogy. Which is why it's not hard to see or imagine how a.) Elizabeth could believe such a thing, and b.) why Mary breaks into song in the verses following what we just heard – that little ditty we call “The Magnificat.” And it's a song that sounds strikingly similar to a song Hannah, a different ancestral sister from way back in the day – was known to have sung, as well.And this song is one about a God who scatters the proud, remember; who brings down the powerful from their thrones, who lifts up the lowly, who fills the hungry with good things, who sends the rich away empty. This song, from a Hebrew woman, in the presence of another Hebrew woman, was an anthem of joy, rebellion, prophecy, and hope … that the world was about to turn, with the coming of this Jesus.And do you think that was the last time Mary ever sang those words, or expressed those desires, or proclaimed that kind of hope? I find that hard to believe. I like to think she sang that song as a lullaby to a nursing baby Jesus. I bet she taught him well about the source of those sentiments from her sisters in the faith. I imagine Mary whispered that good news to her little boy every chance she got … over breakfast, on their way home from synagogue, when he walked out the door to go play with the neighbors, and certainly on his birthday, don't you think?!And I think that's why Jesus knew how to see people more deeply. It's why I think Jesus knew how to look beneath the surface of another's suffering; to forgive the choices they made, when necessary; to love an enemy; to turn the other cheek; to treat others the way he would want to be treated; to love the God of his creation; and to love his neighbor, as himself, in every way.Jesus knew about the battles people were fighting, he had compassion for them because of it, and he came to fight those battles with love, mercy, and grace. When we learn to see him more clearly and understand the source of his compassion and love for the least and most lowly among us … we might get better at seeing them, and each other more clearly, too.And when we ask and wonder about “What Child this Is?” for whom we're waiting, we might find him, more often, already in our midst – and live differently because of it.Amen

On the early morning of November 7, 1825, in Frankfort, Ky., Jereboam Beauchamp stabbed Kentucky Legislator Solomon Sharp, in an event that would become known as the Kentucky Tragedy. But did the murder really occur as Beauchamp explained in his sensational confessions? Join us today for a special discussion of one of Kentucky's most notorious murders, and a story that inspired Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Penn Warren. Dr. Matthew Schoenbachler is a professor of history at the University of North Alabama. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Kentucky and has co-authored a book and published in the Journal of the Early Republic. We are delighted to talk with him today about Murder and Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy, which was published in 2009. Kentucky Chronicles is inspired by the work of researchers from across the world who have contributed to the scholarly journal, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, in publication since 1903. https://history.ky.gov/explore/catalog-research-tools/register-of-the-kentucky-historical-society Hosted by Dr. Daniel J. Burge, associate editor of The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, and coordinator of our Research Fellows program, which brings in researchers from across the world to conduct research in the rich archival holdings of the Kentucky Historical Society. https://history.ky.gov/khs-for-me/for-researchers/research-fellowships Kentucky Chronicles is presented by the Kentucky Historical Society, with support from the Kentucky Historical Society Foundation. https://history.ky.gov/about/khs-foundation Our show is recorded and produced by Gregory Hardison, and edited by Gregory P. Meyer. Thanks to Dr. Stephanie Lang for her support and guidance. Our theme music, “Modern Documentary” was created by Mood Mode and is used courtesy of Pixabay. Other backing tracks are also used courtesy of Pixabay. To learn more about our publication of The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, or to learn more about our Research Fellows program, please visit our website: https://history.ky.gov/ https://history.ky.gov/khs-podcasts

The panel discusses the American Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren—the only person to win the Pulitzer prize both for Poetry and for Fiction—reading two of his poems from the November 1979 Poetry Magazine volume issued in honour of Allen Tate.Continue reading

This Sunday on Vintage Classic Radio's "Sunday Night Playhouse," we feature a captivating rebroadcast of the "NBC University Theater" radio show, also known as "University Theater of the Air." In the spotlight is the episode titled "All the King's Men," which originally aired on January 16, 1949. The episode is an adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, exploring the dramatic rise and fall of Willie Stark, a charismatic but morally ambiguous politician who resembles the real-life figure Huey P. Long of Louisiana. The narrative delves into themes of power, corruption, and betrayal as Stark's idealistic start spirals into a ruthless quest for influence. The production features Wayne Morris in the role of Willie Stark, with supporting performances by Betty Lou Gerson, Edwin Jerome, Dan O'Herlihy, and John McIntire. The show captures the tense and atmospheric essence of political maneuvering and personal dilemmas, making it a compelling listen for fans of classic literary adaptations.

Warren (1905-1989) was born in Kentucky and educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, Berkeley. Though perhaps best known for his 1946 novel All the King's Men, he was the author of over a dozen books of poetry in addition to his prose work. He is the only writer to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction (in 1947) and poetry (in 1958 and 1979). Warren's other honors include a Rhodes Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the National Medal of Arts. He taught at Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis and co-authored several literature textbooks.-bio via Library of Congress Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

We are in an imperfect world populated with flawed people. We ourselves are flawed. We can't afford to feel or act superior. We have too much work to do, there is too much good we can do.

NB: OK, so the names I couldn't remember in the intro were as follows: LM is how we all consistently refer to Literary Matters because we are so cool. James is James Matthew Wilson, who comes up toward the end of the conversation, when I continually complain about him and Ryan and Elijah gently defend him. Armen is Armen Davoudian, who requires no defense because everybody loves him.Elisabeth is Elisabeth Clark, David's wife and Managing Editor of 32 Poems.Warren is Robert Penn Warren.See notes below for more.Finally, happy birthday, Philip Metres!My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or hereFor more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it's easier). Thanks!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– The YouTube footage of the big Cleveland reading/conference/shouting match: Pt. 1 & Pt. 2– In Ghostlight by Ryan Wilson– Newly Not Eternal by George David Clark– Some Problems with Autobiography by Brian Brodeur– The last issue of Literary Matters– The continuation of 32 Poems– The Sentence by Morri Creech—and my review of same– Grace Schulman– Jean Valentine– Charles Simic– Fred Chappell– Stephen Dunn– Christian Wiman– Don Share– Horace ii.10– J. D. McClatchy– Little Boats, Unsalvaged by Dave Smith– Raphael Krut-Landau– Michael Shewmaker– Ernie Suarez– Rosanna Warren– Alex Pepple– Lothrop Stoddard– The nightmarish putto from the Ligotti-esque hotel where I stayed on Brian Brodeur's recommendation.– Wiseblood Books– JMW (see Nota Bene)– Dappled Things– Katy Carl– Bernardo Aparicio Garcia– Joshua Hren– Franciscan University Press– Modern Age– Catholic Imagination Conference– Contemporary Catholic Poetry – The Contemporary Poetry Review– The Vision of the Soul by James Matthew WilsonFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

NB: OK, so the names I couldn't remember in the intro were as follows: LM is how we all consistently refer to Literary Matters because we are so cool. James is James Matthew Wilson, who comes up toward the end of the conversation, when I continually complain about him and Ryan and Elijah gently defend him. Armen is Armen Davoudian, who requires no defense because everybody loves him.Elisabeth is Elisabeth Clark, David's wife and Managing Editor of 32 Poems.Warren is Robert Penn Warren.See notes below for more.Finally, happy birthday, Philip Metres!My book Midlife now exists. Buy it here, or leave it a rating here or hereFor more SLEERICKETS, check out the SECRET SHOW and join the group chatLeave the show a rating here (actually, just do it on your phone, it's easier). Thanks!Wear SLEERICKETS t-shirts and hoodies. They look good!Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– The YouTube footage of the big Cleveland reading/conference/shouting match: Pt. 1 & Pt. 2– In Ghostlight by Ryan Wilson– Newly Not Eternal by George David Clark– Some Problems with Autobiography by Brian Brodeur– The last issue of Literary Matters– The continuation of 32 Poems– The Sentence by Morri Creech—and my review of same– Grace Schulman– Jean Valentine– Charles Simic– Fred Chappell– Stephen Dunn– Christian Wiman– Don Share– Horace ii.10– J. D. McClatchy– Little Boats, Unsalvaged by Dave Smith– Raphael Krut-Landau– Michael Shewmaker– Ernie Suarez– Rosanna Warren– Alex Pepple– Lothrop Stoddard– The nightmarish putto from the Ligotti-esque hotel where I stayed on Brian Brodeur's recommendation.– Wiseblood Books– JMW (see Nota Bene)– Dappled Things– Katy Carl– Bernardo Aparicio Garcia– Joshua Hren– Franciscan University Press– Modern Age– Catholic Imagination Conference– Contemporary Catholic Poetry – The Contemporary Poetry Review– The Vision of the Soul by James Matthew WilsonFrequently mentioned names:– Joshua Mehigan– Shane McCrae– A. E. Stallings– Ryan Wilson– Morri Creech– Austin Allen– Jonathan Farmer– Zara Raab– Amit Majmudar– Ethan McGuire– Coleman Glenn– Alexis Sears– JP Gritton– Alex Pepple– Ernie Hilbert– Joanna PearsonOther Ratbag Poetry Pods:Poetry Says by Alice AllanI Hate Matt Wall by Matt WallVersecraft by Elijah BlumovRatbag Poetics By David Jalal MotamedAlice: Poetry SaysBrian: @BPlatzerCameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] comMatthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] comMusic by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

“So, geopolitics really is more about defining possibilities and getting ready for any possibility so that if the crazy thing happens, ah, I've thought about it before. And I know what I'm going to do when that happens, rather than I'm going to perfectly be able to identify the scenario.” - Jacob Shapiro, Cognitive Investments--This week's episode features a future regular guest of Taylor Made Macro, Jacob Shapiro, from Cognitive Investments. Jacob is a true neutral geopolitical analyst that approaches the world and the markets with humility and back-breaking labor to arrive at his conclusions. Chase and Jacob discuss current events in global elections, the importance of finding original news sources, paying attention to news that seems strange, and implementing a ranking system for the avalanche of information one needs to get through to do this work each day. This helps you with the most important takeaway of the episode: scenario planning. Thinking about what could happen helps you prepare if it does happen. --Timestamps:(00:00) – Intro(01:38) – Charity: William and Anne Monroe Shapiro Endowment(02:16) – Mexican Elections: Shienbaum is a Scientist (08:13) – Modi's Age and Charisma Have Their Limits(11:29) – South Africa's Apartheid History Overshadows the Geopolitical Potential(14:39) – Individual Leaders Can Have a Great Amount of Agency in the Right Moment, with the Right Circumstances(17:54) – Milei's Economic Changes Could be Trading Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Meaningful Change(25:23) – Mexican, Brazilian, and Saudi Arabian ETFs Are (as of recording) Mispriced. (27:16) – Between Two Pines(32:43) – Scenario Imagination and Admitting You're Wrong are too Important When Money is on the Line(36:32) – Google Translate Your Way to More Accurate, Ground-level News, and Dissect the Piece of Info that Seems Strange(44:04) – Spanx vs. High Nutritional Reading (46:07) – Jacob's Books: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren & Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards Heuer [Jr.](47:14) – Notion Helps Organize Information(51:44) – Finding the Original is the Most Important Task (53:37) – High Level Meeting Summaries: Pay Attention to Divergence (56:10) – Don't Put on a Trade Unless You Can Get to Confidence(58:40) – Geopolitical Analysis is not a Hard Science(1:02:14) – Swim to Connect Dots(1:03:10) – Half-Holocaust Survivors / Half D.C. Socialites – Bridging the Various Classes Perspectives for Better Political Analysis(1:06:36) - Plugs--This Episode's Charity:In honor of Jacob's parents, an endowment for First Generation American citizens has been established at Oxford College of Emory University. Please donate here.Jacob and Chase raised $20 for charity this week! --Referenced in the Show:Cognitive Dissidents (Soon The Jacob Shapiro Podcast): Depreciable Line of InformationMovie:

Author and YouTuber John Green thought his breakout bestseller wouldn't be a commercial success, wrote 40,000 words for one sentence, and brought Steve to tears. SOURCE:John Green, best-selling author and YouTube creator. RESOURCES:"The Deadliest Infectious Disease Isn't a Science Problem. It's a Money Problem," by John Green (The Washington Post, 2024).“Tuition Inflation Isn't as Bad as You Think,” by Felix Salmon (Axios, 2022).“Fast Facts: Expenditures,” by the National Center for Education Statistics (2022).“Trends in College Pricing and Student Aid 2021,” by the College Board (2021).“#37 John,” by Heavyweight (2021).The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, by John Green (2021).“Scratch ‘n' Sniff Stickers and the Indianapolis 500,” by The Anthropocene Reviewed Podcast (2019).“How Joan of Arc Conquered Mark Twain,” by Ted Gioia (America: The Jesuit Review, 2018).Turtles All the Way Down, by John Green (2017).The Fault in Our Stars, film (2014).The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green (2012).Looking for Alaska, by John Green (2005).All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren and Noel Polk (1946).Harvey, film (1950).vlogbrothers, YouTube channel by John and Hank Green.Crash Course, YouTube channel by John and Hank Green. EXTRAS:“Peter Singer Isn't a Saint, But He's Better Than Steve Levitt,” by People I (Mostly) Admire (2022).“Freakonomics Radio Goes Back To School,” series by Freakonomics Radio (2022).

J. Burden, Host of The J. Burden Show, joins us to discuss how the events of 2020 exposed the liberal ruling class for the tyrants they are, how these same people, with contempt for the working class, have permitted our society to devolve into a quasi-police state replete with failing infrastructure, and how we're approaching the end of the American empire as we know it, and entering into a new, potentially depoliticized culture where we can all agree on fundamental facts.  - - -  Today's Sponsor: Beam - Get 40% off for a limited time! Use promo code KLAVAN at http://www.ShopBeam.com/Klavan #JBurden #GenZ #Politics

In this special MLK Holiday edition of WUKY's Saving Stories, Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries highlights an extraordinary interview with Dr. King from March of 1964. Hear the non-violent advocate and activist at the height of his influence in a one-on-one conversation with Kentucky author Robert Penn Warren discussing the revolutionary nature of the Civil Rights movement and where he thought it should go next.

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979) was a poet, critic, biographer, and novelist. Born and raised in Kentucky, he earned his BA from Vanderbilt University, where he was the only undergraduate to be admitted to the Fugitives, an informal group of Southern intellectuals that included John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Merrill Moore, and Robert Penn Warren. Tate is now remembered for his association with the Fugitives and Southern Agrarians, writers who critiqued modern industrial life by invoking romanticized versions of Southern history and culture. Tate's best-known poems, including “Ode to the Confederate Dead,” confronted the relationship between an idealized past and a present he believed was deficient in both faith and tradition. Despite his commitment to developing a distinctly Southern literature, Tate's many works frequently made use of classical referents and allusions; his early writing was profoundly influenced by French symbolism and the poetry and criticism of T.S. Eliot. During the 1940s and 1950s, Tate was an important figure in American letters as editor of the Sewanee Review and for his contributions to other midcentury journals such as the Kenyon Review. As a teacher, he influenced poets including Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Theodore Roethke, and he was friends with Hart Crane, writing the introduction to Crane's White Buildings (1926). From 1951 until his retirement in 1968, Tate was a professor of English at the University of Minnesota.In the decades that he was most active, Tate's “influence was prodigious, his circle of acquaintances immense,” noted Jones in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. James Dickey could write that Tate was more than a “Southern writer.” Dickey went on, “[Tate's] situation has certain perhaps profound implications for every man in every place and every time. And they are more than implications; they are the basic questions, the possible solutions to the question of existence. How does each of us wish to live his only life?”Allen Tate won numerous honors and awards during his lifetime, including the Bollingen Prize and a National Medal for Literature. He was the consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress and president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Look at us! Living in history, what Robert Penn Warren called "the awful responsibility of Time." We're here, and we, we happy few, will sort things out before even the geniuseseseses.  That's how it is around here. 

our “suck shit, sufjan stevens” module (#1) continues as we stay in the sticky, humid louisiana weather for all the king's men by robert penn warren, our first of two pulitzer prize-winning novels in a row. we discuss the parallels you can (easily) draw between willie stark and donald trump, compare the protagonist (and their levels of inaction) of this novel (jack) to the protagonist of our last novel (binx in the moviegoer), and talk about our favorite/least favorite chapters. we talk about its status as another “great american novel,” compare it to other similar works, and lament an overall lack of characters in the story. we talk about david simon, read egg's email, and wonder whether or not anne “should” love willie. not enough jokes in this write-up, if we're being honest, but hey — what can you do. reading list for season four the moviegoer by walker percy all the king's men by robert penn warren a confederacy of dunces by john kennedy toole

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In this Black History Month edition of WUKY's award winning history series Saving Stories, Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries highlights an extraordinary interview with Malcolm X from June of 1964. The conversation with Robert Penn Warren was part of a series of interviews the Kentucky author and poet conducted as part of his book “Who Speaks for the Negro.” The Muslim minister provides his opinions of the white race and the lasting effects of slavery and oppression on both the white race and African Americans. Malcolm X also questions the effectiveness of integration as well as non-violent tactics, like those advocated by Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement. Less than a year after this interview was conducted Malcolm X would be assassinated on February 21, 1965.

In this special MLK Holiday edition of WUKY's award winning history series Saving Stories, Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries highlights an extraordinary interview with Dr. King from March of 1964. Hear the non-violent advocate and activist at the height of his influence in a one-on-one conversation with Kentucky author Robert Penn Warren discussing the revolutionary nature of the Civil Rights movement and where he thought it should go next.

Our subject for this episode is Albert Murray's South to a Very Old Place. Part memoir, part travelogue, part dialogue with a range of interlocutors, this book is remarkable for both its variety and depth. Murray travels from Harlem to New Haven and then down south to Tuskegee and Mobile and beyond. Murray chats with the likes of Robert Penn Warren and Walker Percy and meditates on the themes of home, history, place, and myth. Our guest and I discuss Murray's life and the peculiar nature of this wonderful book. We explore Murray's critique of social science and his respect for folk wisdom. Our guest is Greg Thomas. Greg is CEO of the Jazz Leadership Project, a private company that uses the principles and practices of jazz music to enhance leadership success and team excellence. Along with his wife and partner Jewel, the Jazz Leadership Project works with notable firms such as JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, TD Bank, and Google. Their leadership blog, TuneIntoLeadership.com, features both of their writings.  Greg has been a professional journalist for over 25 years. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Evolution. As an educator, Greg recently taught a course on Cultural Intelligence, and co-facilitated a six-month class, which ended this past March, titled, “Stepping Up: Wrestling with America's Past, Reimagining Its Future, Healing Together.” As a social entrepreneur, Greg co-produced a two-day broadcast, "Combating Racism and Antisemitism Together: Shaping an Omni-American Future" in October 2021. In September 2022, he co-facilitated a one-day conference, "Resolving the Race-ism Dilemma." He also serves on the advisory boards of The Consilience Project, and FAIR, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism. 

An episode of literary games and  gossipAre you even gay if you can't differentiate between Debbie Harry, Deborah Digges, and Debora Greger? Are you even a writer if you don't know which poet won 4 Pulitzers?Loyalty Bookstore, a black-owned bookstore in DC, is a great place to buy books by authors we discussed today.If you need resources to cope with some mental health struggles, we recommend visiting the National Alliance on Mental Illness: https://www.nami.org/help Deborah Greger (Leo) does not have a book with the word "animals" in the title. You can read more about this incredible poet here. James's favorite Greger poem is "Head, Perhaps of an Angel" which you can read in New England Review here.Deborah Digges (Aquarius) wrote poetry and memoir. Read more about her here. Digges's second memoir, The Stardust Lounge, is a portrait of her younger son, who by the time he was 13 was involved in gangs. The book details how Digges decides to "shadow" him to try to understand him better. The book Aaron references overhearing a conversation about might have been The Stardust Lounge. You can read Digges's poem "Rough Music" here.Debbie Harry is the lead singer of the band Blondie. She's a Cancer (July 1). Slash of Guns 'n' Roses has donated his time, energy, and money to animal welfare and children's music education causes. In 2008, he donated to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.Robert Penn Warren's racism and his attempts to educate and enlighten his ignorance remain a topic of conversation. One incredible essay in the discourse is this one by Natasha Trethewey, delivered when she was U.S. Poet Laureate.

On our February podcast we visit the Robert Penn Warren Birthplace Museum to discuss his book "Night Rider". His book talks about the Black Patch War and the Association that was started in Robertson County TN. We record from Guthrie, Kentucky where the first meeting took place as the farmers of the dark fired tobacco rebelled against the big corporation ran by James Buchanan Duke. While in the birthplace of Warren, we talk with Mrs. Bobbie Doris on the younger years of Warren. We will be at the Historic Museum of Hopkinsville - Christian County to meet with Alissa Keller, the Director, in front of the Night Rider's display. She will talk about the rise of the Association and how some of the group gained the name Night Rider's. Come joining us for this journey.

We mob together to discuss Willie Stark's rants and political fall from grace as we're discussing the 22nd Best Picture winner All The King's Men. This 1949 film takes the gaze of a noir film and applies it to a political thriller about a local farmer turned politician. All The King's Men was based on the popular novel by Robert Penn Warren from 1946. We descend into the earthly mess that is politics to discuss how politics are often portrayed in film as well as some of our favorite “political films”.     We discuss Mercedes McCambridge's film debut in All The King's Men and how it even earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming only a handful of actors to win an Oscar in their film debut. It's impossible to discuss this film without mentioning the sharp script and the dominating performance by Broderick Crawford who even won the Best Actor award for his performance as farmer turned politician Willie Stark.   If you like this episode and the show, please leave a review! It really does help us. Give us a follow on Instagram at WorthyPodcast and on Twitter @WorthyPod. Subscribe on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you may get your podcasts! Tell us how we're wrong at worthysubmissions@gmail.com 

In this special MLK Holiday edition of WUKY's award winning history series Saving Stories, Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries highlights an extraordinary interview with Dr. King recorded in March of 1964. Hear the non-violent advocate and activist at the height of his influence in a one on one interview with Kentucky author Robert Penn Warren talking about where he thought the Civil Rights movement would go next.

CBS Audio Network Presents: MLK DAY 2022: A Three-hour Special hosted by Nina Turner Nina Turner, an American educator and former Ohio state senator, examines the influences that shaped Rev. King's activism as a global champion of human rights.The show will include Author and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar on how Mahatma Gandhi inspired King to pursue the path of nonviolence in his civil rights leadership; Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University discus​sing King's relationship with his parents and how they how they helped to formulate Rev. King's calling; and King Biographer Richard Lischer examines the formative years that Rev. King spent at the Crozer Theological Seminary, where ​he became class president of the majority white student body . In addition, we will unearth the rare audio recordings made by celebrated author Robert Penn Warren with dozens of influential Civil Rights leaders in 1964, capturing the thoughts of King's contemporaries like Malcolm X and James Baldwin.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

CBS Audio Network Presents: MLK DAY 2022: A Three-hour Special hosted by Nina Turner Nina Turner, an American educator and former Ohio state senator, examines the influences that shaped Rev. King's activism as a global champion of human rights.The show will include Author and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar on how Mahatma Gandhi inspired King to pursue the path of nonviolence in his civil rights leadership; Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University discus​sing King's relationship with his parents and how they how they helped to formulate Rev. King's calling; and King Biographer Richard Lischer examines the formative years that Rev. King spent at the Crozer Theological Seminary, where ​he became class president of the majority white student body . In addition, we will unearth the rare audio recordings made by celebrated author Robert Penn Warren with dozens of influential Civil Rights leaders in 1964, capturing the thoughts of King's contemporaries like Malcolm X and James Baldwin.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

CBS Audio Network Presents: MLK DAY 2022: A Three-hour Special hosted by Nina Turner Nina Turner, an American educator and former Ohio state senator, examines the influences that shaped Rev. King's activism as a global champion of human rights.The show will include Author and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar on how Mahatma Gandhi inspired King to pursue the path of nonviolence in his civil rights leadership; Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University discus​sing King's relationship with his parents and how they how they helped to formulate Rev. King's calling; and King Biographer Richard Lischer examines the formative years that Rev. King spent at the Crozer Theological Seminary, where ​he became class president of the majority white student body . In addition, we will unearth the rare audio recordings made by celebrated author Robert Penn Warren with dozens of influential Civil Rights leaders in 1964, capturing the thoughts of King's contemporaries like Malcolm X and James Baldwin.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

James Lundy's book, The History of the Poetry Society of South Carolina: 1920 to 2021, is a chronicle of the first 100 years of the oldest state poetry society in America, the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Founded in Charleston in 1920 by DuBose Heyward, John Bennett, Josephine Pinckney, Hervey Allen, and Laura Bragg, the Society's first 101 seasons run from the Jazz Age to the COVID era, where everyone from Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Ogden Nash, Billy Collins, Sherwood Anderson, Jericho Brown, Thornton Wilder, Robert Pinsky, and hundreds of others appeared before the membership.Talking with Walter Edgar, Lundy, also currently the Society's president, gives us an insider's view, with insights into the inner workings and disfunctions of the organization and its slow progress from a Whites-only organization of the segregated South founded in the aftermath of World War I and the Spanish Flu Pandemic, through the Roaring Twenties, into the darkness of the Great Depression, World War II, a resurgence during the Atomic Age, the turbulent Sixties, the decline of Charleston, its rebound into a tourist mecca, and into the present day.

  Frederick Douglas was the “prose poet of America's (and perhaps a universal) body politic. He searched for the human soul, envisioned through slavery and freedom in all their meanings. There had been no other voice quite like Douglass's.” Join me and Professor David Blight as we discuss his Pulitzer Prize winning biography, Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom. The lessons Douglass taught about freedom, dignity, and justice nearly 150 years ago are as important and relevant today as they were then. Guest David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University David W. Blight  is a teacher, scholar and public historian. At Yale University he is Sterling Professor of History, joining that faculty in January, 2003. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. In his capacity as director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, Blight organizes conferences, working groups, lectures, the administering of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and many public outreach programs regarding the history of slavery and its abolition. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. In 2013-14 he was the William Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University, UK, and in 2010-11, Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th-Century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. In October of 2018, Simon and Schuster published his new biography of Frederick Douglass, entitled, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which garnered nine book awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. The Douglass book has been optioned by Higher Ground Productions and Netflix for a projected feature film. Blight works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards of museums and historical societies, and as a member of a small team of advisors to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum team of curators. For that institution he wrote the recently published essay, “Will It Rise: September 11 in American Memory.”  In 2012, Blight was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and delivered an induction address, “The Pleasure and Pain of History.” In 2018, Blight was appointed by the Georgia Historical Society as a Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Teaching Fellow, which recognizes national leaders in the field of history as both writers and educators whose research has enhanced or changed the way the public understands the past. Blight's newest books include annotated editions, with introductory essay, of Frederick Douglass's second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom (Yale Univ. Press, 2013), Robert Penn Warren's Who Speaks for the Negro, (Yale Univ. Press, 2014), and the monograph, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (Harvard University Press, published August 2011), which received the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award for best book in non-fiction on racism and human diversity. American Oracle is an intellectual history of Civil War memory, rooted in the work of Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin.  Blight is also the author of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their Narratives of Emancipation, (Harcourt, 2007, paperback in 2009).  This book combines two newly discovered slave narratives in a volume that recovers the lives of their authors, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, as well as provides an incisive history of the story of emancipation.  In June, 2004, the New York Times ran a front page story about the discovery and significance of these two rare slave narratives.

  Frederick Douglas was the “prose poet of America's (and perhaps a universal) body politic. He searched for the human soul, envisioned through slavery and freedom in all their meanings. There had been no other voice quite like Douglass's.” Join me and Professor David Blight as we discuss his Pulitzer Prize winning biography, Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom. The lessons Douglass taught about freedom, dignity, and justice nearly 150 years ago are as important and relevant today as they were then. Guest David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University David W. Blight  is a teacher, scholar and public historian. At Yale University he is Sterling Professor of History, joining that faculty in January, 2003. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. In his capacity as director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, Blight organizes conferences, working groups, lectures, the administering of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and many public outreach programs regarding the history of slavery and its abolition. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. In 2013-14 he was the William Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University, UK, and in 2010-11, Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th-Century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. During the 2006-07 academic year he was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library. In October of 2018, Simon and Schuster published his new biography of Frederick Douglass, entitled, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which garnered nine book awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. The Douglass book has been optioned by Higher Ground Productions and Netflix for a projected feature film. Blight works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards of museums and historical societies, and as a member of a small team of advisors to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum team of curators. For that institution he wrote the recently published essay, “Will It Rise: September 11 in American Memory.”  In 2012, Blight was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and delivered an induction address, “The Pleasure and Pain of History.” In 2018, Blight was appointed by the Georgia Historical Society as a Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Teaching Fellow, which recognizes national leaders in the field of history as both writers and educators whose research has enhanced or changed the way the public understands the past. Blight's newest books include annotated editions, with introductory essay, of Frederick Douglass's second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom (Yale Univ. Press, 2013), Robert Penn Warren's Who Speaks for the Negro, (Yale Univ. Press, 2014), and the monograph, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era (Harvard University Press, published August 2011), which received the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award for best book in non-fiction on racism and human diversity. American Oracle is an intellectual history of Civil War memory, rooted in the work of Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin.  Blight is also the author of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including their Narratives of Emancipation, (Harcourt, 2007, paperback in 2009).  This book combines two newly discovered slave narratives in a volume that recovers the lives of their authors, John Washington and Wallace Turnage, as well as provides an incisive history of the story of emancipation.  In June, 2004, the New York Times ran a front page story about the discovery and significance of these two rare slave narratives.  A Slave No More garnered three book prizes, including the Connecticut Book Award for non-fictio...

Episódio 119, de Dias Úteis, um podcast que lhe oferece poesia pela manhã, de segunda a sexta-feira. Por vezes não apenas poesia, por vezes não apenas nos dias úteis...  Durante as próximas semanas, em modo veraneante, trazemos textos que podem levar para longe, sem sair do lugar. Para hoje, viagem de Inglaterra até aos Estados Unidos da América, com o poema de Robert Penn Warren pela voz de David Kendall ( http://www.davidkendall.co.uk/ ) Tema musical original de Marco Figueiredo, com voz de José Carlos Tinoco. Design de Catarina Ribeiro. Edição de Filipe Lopes. Saiba mais sobre os nossos projectos em www.assdeideias.pt. Procure os poemas lidos e muitos outros, adquirindo livros através da ReLi, Rede Independente de Livrarias (https://www.reli.pt) e apoie assim o sector livreiro em Portugal.

Robert Penn Warren is primarily known as the author of the great American novel All the King's Men, but he's also a well-respected poet, and was the USA's first Poet Laureate. He grew up in Guthrie, KY, and then crossed the state line to go to high school in Clarksville, TN. In 1921, he began his studies at Vanderbilt University and joined a group of poets who called themselves the Fugitives. He went on to publish over 40 books, and he is the only writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry. Links: https://poets.org/poem/vision-0 (Read "Vision" and other poems by Robert Penn Warren at Poets.org) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-penn-warren (Biography and poems at the Poetry Foundation) https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/warren/ (Online Resources (Library of Congress Web Guide))

Robert Penn Warren is primarily known as the author of the great American novel All the King's Men, but he's also a well-respected poet, and was the USA's first Poet Laureate. Though he grew up in Guthrie, KY, he crossed the state line to go to high school in Clarksville, TN. In 1921, he began his studies at Vanderbilt University and joined a group of poets who called themselves the Fugitives. He went on to publish over 40 books, and he is the only writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry. Links: https://poets.org/poem/vision-0 (Read "Vision" and other poems by Robert Penn Warren at Poets.org) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-penn-warren (Biography and poems at the Poetry Foundation) https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/warren/ (Online Resources (Library of Congress Web Guide))

Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:– The poem vaccine– Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic – Sortes Vergilianae– Poems are spells/Poetry is not magic– Margarita Engle's essay "The Care and Feeding of Poetry"– Snail sonnets are fine– Natural child poetry geniuses– Insulting tanka masters– Katherine Dunn's short story "The Resident Poet"– Kristen Roupenian's short story "Cat Person"– Millenial jerks vs. Boomer jerks– Naked poets in a thunderstorm– Bad sex with bad poets– The poetry lifestyle– Randall Jarrell– Plato's dialogue "Ion"– Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren's textbook Understanding Poetry – Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain! My Captain!"– "What is the author trying to say?" is a stupid question– Mainstream poetry is free verse poetry– Archibald MacLeish's poem "Ars Poetica"– Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poem "Halloween"– Philip Larkin's poem "An April Sunday"– Front yard cemeteries– A few real gods– End rhymes aren't intrinsically evilPlease rate, review, and subscribe!Send questions, comments, and suggestions to sleerickets@gmail.com. Or just go to matthewbuckleysmith.com and direct your hate mail straight to my personal inbox.Music by ETRNLArt by Daniel Alexander Smith

This week another name synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement passed away. Former National Urban League President and Clinton Administration advisor Vernon Jordan died at his home in Georgia at the age of 85. In this special edition of WUKY's award winning history program Saving Stories, Dr. Doug Boyd with the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries presents audio from a collection of interviews Robert Penn Warren conducted in 1964 on the unfolding Civil Rights Movement. Listen as a 29 year old Jordan and Warren engage in a philosophical discussion on the revolutionary nature of the movement.

Tell Me a StoryRobert Penn Warren - 1905-1989[ A ]Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stoodBy a dirt road, in first dark, and heardThe great geese hoot northward.I could not see them, there being no moonAnd the stars sparse. I heard them.I did not know what was happening in my heart.It was the season before the elderberry blooms,Therefore they were going north.The sound was passing northward. [ B ]Tell me a story.In this century, and moment, of mania,Tell me a story.Make it a story of great distances, and starlight.The name of the story will be Time,But you must not pronounce its name.Tell me a story of deep delight.Find us online at thatsnotcanon.com/epigraphySubscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, RADIOPUBLIC or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  John and Hunter ring in the new year with Robert Rossen's All the King's Men, an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren. Steve Zaillian's notorious 2006 remake is also discussed, as well as the history behind the inspiration for the story, Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long. And of course, we can't help but tie it all in to recent events.   A note about this episode: We had some trouble getting going with recording, and during our technical issues, Hunter's audio settings were reset, so the audio on this episode is not up to our usual standards. We apologize to your ears for the inconvenience!            

La semana pasada iniciamos el resumen de Figuras iii hablando de los modos narrativos, para ello partimos de la mimesis según Platón hasta llegar al concepto de focalización en Genette, en el camino nos encontramos con los reguladores de información narrativa: distancia, aquí hicimos una aproximación a los conceptos de mimesis y diégesis; y perspectiva, acá hablamos de los tipos de narración según la perspectiva, lo hicimos a partir de las teorías de Cleanth Brooks y Robert Penn Warren, Friedman, Todorov y finalizamos con Genette; en este punto ya habíamos logrado identificar una serie de herramientas para la construcción de la perspectiva de la narración. Pero nos hacía falta descubrir, en la teoría de Genette, cómo construir la identidad narrador, entonces pasamos a hablar de la instancia literaria y la instancia narrativa para luego ampliar la discusión alrededor de los tipos de narración según tres factores de la voz narrativa, es decir, de la relación entre historia, personajes y narración: hablamos entonces de las relaciones de temporalidad y hoy cerraremos hablando de las relaciones según el nivel de narración y la persona. https://gimnasioparaescritores.com https://facebook.com/gimnasioparaescritores https://instagram.com/eddyjanethmh --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gimnasioparaescritores/message

Carlsen's pick for best political thriller is Robert Rossen's All The Kings Men, based off the novel by Robert Penn Warren that was in turn based off the life of Huey Long. We talk smack on John Wayne. #BroderickCrawford #BrodCrawdArmy Please subscribe so we can get a custom URL or even turn on monetization. Click to SUBSCRIBE ► https://bit.ly/MovieTrap ********************************************* We have a NEW EPISODE every OTHER FRIDAY! ********************************************* TWITTER ► https://www.twitter.com/themovietrap FACEBOOK? ► https://www.facebook.com/Movie-Trap-108572075827123 Movie Trap are: Boruff ► https://twitter.com/kboruff Carlsen ► https://twitter.com/RussellCarlsen Powers ► https://twitter.com/Powerswerth Music by Harry Foster! harryfostermusic@gmail.com #MovieTrap #RobertPennWarren #AllTheKingsMen

Market [2:45] - Why did you decide to build an automation solution for crypto trading? Why that asset class? [4:47] - What is the current state of crypto trading? [8:12] - What is the maturity of crypto trading today? [11:37] -What is the geographical landscape for crypto trading? On Coinrule [13:32] - Who is this platform for and what problem does it solve for them? [20:16] - Are you worried about the exchanges building the functionality you have? [22:24] - How do you make money? What fees does an investor incur? [24:02] - Can you comment on the state of legislation in regulating these virtual currencies? On Scaling [27:18] - Why did you decide to raise money through a crowdfunding platform? [29:38] - How did you get your first 16000 users? [32:59] - Biggest mistakes and advice for other entrepreneurs  If you like the show, please leave a review on Apple or any other platform you listen too,LinksCoinruleBooksTraction by Gabriel Weinburg and Justin MaresOpen: An Autobiography by Andre AgassiAll the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Bearded Oaks by Robert Penn Warren, US Poet Laureate 1986-87.

More than half of American voters expect to see a rise in violence after election day, according to a recent poll. Only 49% said Americans will largely accept the results.These findings and others suggest that American democracy is facing intense stress. President Trump has repeatedly refused to say whether he would accept the official results. "Trump and Biden supporters have deep disagreements over several aspects of the election and voting process – including whether it will be clear which candidate won even after all the votes are counted," says Pew Research Center.This episode examines how our current problems compare to past outbreaks of political turmoil. Professor Suzanne Mettler, co-author of the new book, "Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy" is our guest.The four threats are: polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive presidential power. "Today, for the first time ever, all four of these threats to democracy have come together," Suzanne tells us.Richard and Jim, who calls himself "the pushback guy" in this episode, also have a lively discussion about the book's findings.Recommendation: Richard is reading “All the King’s Men” - first published in 1946 and written by Robert Penn Warren. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel portrays the dramatic rise of Governor Willie Stark, a cynical left-wing autocratic populist in the South. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As I have suggested in my past few programs, "remembering" and "memory" are major elements in the creation of poetry. There are essential focuses or common themes that poems that include memories often use.  I took a look last time at remembered cities in general. Today I will read poems about San Francisco, by Vachel Lindsay, Robert Penn Warren, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Richard Brautigan, Nellie Wong, Adele Foley, and Diane di Prima.

385. Every Man a King vs All the King's Men. Last spring, Bruce taught an upper-level course in Louisiana literature. This week, we're airing a class discussion on Huey Long in his autobiography, Every Man a King, vs Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren's  All the King's Men.This week in Louisiana history. October 4, 1792. Under Gov. Carondelet, the first theatre opened in Louisiana on St. Peter St., N.O. This week in New Orleans history. James Gallier Sr. Perishes in Hurricane, October 3, 1866. Was an architect. He died along with his second wife Catherine Maria Robinson, on October 3, 1866, when the steamer Evening Star, on which they were travelling from New York to New Orleans, sank in a hurricane at Cape Hatteras off the Georgia Coast. This week in Louisiana. Red River Revel Arts Festival October 3rd, 2020 - October 11th, 2020 Festival Plaza 101 Crockett St, Shreveport, LA 71101 318-424-4000 | Fax Website | Email This popular art and music festival features nine days of food, live music, children's activities, and some the finest visual and performing arts experiences from local and regional artists. Postcards from Louisiana. Quess @ Take 'em Down NOLA. Listen on iTunes Listen on StitcherListen on Google Play.Listen on Google Podcasts.Listen on Spotify.Listen on TuneIn.The Louisiana Anthology Home Page.Like us on Facebook.Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren

Christian college professors Matt Parks and David Corbin explore the ideas behind today's headlines.Part 1 (starts at 0:55): Headlines - We review the major themes of the Republican National Convention, including the Republican response to the Democratic case against Donald Trump and for Joe Biden. Link: Don Lemon on CNN. Part 2 (33:45): Required Reading - Professor Corbin assigns a selection from Herbert Hoover’s 1922 book, American Individualism, Hoover’s 1941 speech, “The Fifth Freedom,” and Robert Penn Warren’s 1946 novel, All the King’s Men.   Part 3 (54:36): Open the Grade Book -We wrap up our coverage of the Democratic and Republican Conventions by giving an overall grade to each.  Part 4 (1:00:01): Tocqueville's Crystal Ball - After discussing our (relatively successful) predictions for the Republican Convention, we look ahead to the post-convention polls in the six “top battleground states.” Link: “Top Battleground States” polling at RealClearPolitics. Opening and closing music is from the beginning of "Happy Life" by Ryan Andersen from his 2018 album, Americana volume 1. Available here. Licensed by Creative Commons.Matt Parks is an Associate Professor of Politics at The King’s College in New York City. David Corbin is a Professor of Politics and the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Providence Christian College in Pasadena, California. All views expressed in this podcast are their own.

In 1986 Congress designated the term U.S. Poet Laureate to all Poetry Consultants. Warren was the first to be designated. Also, Robert Penn Warren was the 3rd Laureate Poetry Consultant to The Library of Congress serving 1944-1945.

– inspired by the Robert Penn Warren poem of the same name.

In this latest edition of WUKY's award winning history program Saving Stories, Dr. Doug Boyd with the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History in the UK Libraries presents audio from a collection of interviews Robert Penn Warren conducted in 1964 on the unfolding Civil Rights Movement. On April 27, 1964 Penn Warren battled through equipment issues to have a candid conversation with James Baldwin. The author, lecturer and activist was featured in the recent Academy Award nominated documentary "I Am Not Your Negro."

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To support our work and listen to additional content, see here: https://patreon.com/yourshelf and follow us on social media @_yourshelf_. In our latest, fifth episode of The YourShelf Podcast, Everything Is Both, our chief curator Juliano Zaffino (Jay) sits down with author Rebecca Dinerstein Knight to discuss books, Norway, screenplays, Jenny Slate, and Rebecca's second novel, Hex. For full show notes, see here: https://podcast.yourshelf.uk/episodes/5. Thanks for listening.  LinksPatreonInstagramTwitterPodcastYourShelfEpisode NotesJay asks Rebecca about her bookshelves, the books that made her, and which authors she'd invite to a dinner party. (from 1:35)Rebecca begins the discussion with her first novel, The Sunlit Night, and the process involved in writing the screenplay for the film adaptation due out later in 2020. Rebecca and Jay discuss Rebecca's wide-ranging writing career, the impetus behind her latest novel Hex, creative friendships, obsession, the sophomore slump, and the doubleness of everything. (from 10:24)Finally, Rebecca hints at what her next projects are going to look like. (from 48:21)Jay recommends signing up to our Patreon for access to exclusive content, including a short bonus episode with more content from the interview, where Jay and Rebecca play a game of "Celebs Read Nice Tweets", and Rebecca answers some extra questions from Jay.Jay wraps up with all the books that were discussed in the episode and a few other books he recommends. Some of the books and authors we discussed in our latest episode include Kafka, Mark Strand, Louise Glück, Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, Nicole Sealey, Noah Warren; All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Independent People by Halldór Laxness, Changing by Liv Ullmann; Dante, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert; Little Weirds by Jenny Slate, Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery, The Moomins by Tove Jansson, the short stories of Grace Paley, The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West, Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett; Michael Chabon, Walter Pater; Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino, A Burning by Megha Majumdar, and Riding With The Ghost by Justin Taylor. If you're looking for even more recommendations, especially in the age of social distancing, Jay has you covered. Recently, he's read and enjoyed Olivia Laing's Funny Weather, Seán Hewitt's Tongues of Fire, Martha Sprackland's Citadel, Sam Riviere's After Fame, and Deborah Levy's memoirs Things I Don't Want to Know and The Cost of Living.Also, Jay reminds that you can order a copy of his book of poems, the debut publication of The YourShelf Press, on yourshelf.uk/press.Rebecca Dinerstein Knight closes with a reading of the stunning 'Pharmakon' chapter in her new second novel Hex. (from 58:49)Buy, read and review Hex online now, available from most bookstores! Rebecca's first novel The Sunlit Night is also available for purchase, and her debut poetry collection Lofoten is available digitally.Thanks for listening and tune in again soon for Episode Six!

Part two of Colin's talk with author and historian G. J. Meyer goes deeper into the writing life. It's an honest discussion of how the business works and how success is fleeting and difficult to predict amid the "sorry state of the American publishing industry." Jerry is working on a novel, so he and Colin discuss the literary influences that have made Jerry want to write fiction. For him, those included The Paris Review, Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, and Annie Poulx. They also find time to discuss Faulkner, Walker Percy, Robert Penn Warren, and how Otto Von Bismarck turned out to be a not-so-great subject to write about.

Lidewijde Paris (Nieuwsweekend – Omroep Max) en Chris Kijne (Bureau Buitenland - VPRO) bespreken de volgende vier boeken: * How Democracies Die, van Daniel Ziblatt en Steven Levitsky * Vrijwillig naar Auschwitz, van Jack Fairweather * All the King's Men, van Robert Penn Warren * Zwarte schuur, van Oek de Jong In de boekentherapie: vliegschaamte.

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky. Episode 54: All the King’s Men (1949) Released 12 February 2020 For this episode, we watched All the King’s Men, written, produced and directed by Robert Rossen, based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren. Rossen was nominated in all three capacities. Star Broderick Crawford won Best Actor, Mercedes McCambridge won Best Supporting Actress and John Ireland was nominated as Best Supporting Actor. The film was also nominated for its editing. https://slate.com/podcasts/trumpcast Next time we will be discussing Argo. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also visit our website at https://bestpickpod.com and sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n.

My program today is the second of several programs that focus on poems written by poets living in the various regions of the United States. Last time, I read poems by writers living in the Southwest, which is part of the larger Southern region of our country. In today’s program, I read poems by poets from what is traditionally considered to be the South. They are Cal Nordt, William Logan, Michael Mott, Robert Penn Warren, Heather Ross Miller, Elizabeth “Betty” Adcock, and David Larsen.

Preeminent Southern folklorist Bill Ferris has spent the last 40 years documenting the South in print, photography and film. His book, The Storied South, is a collection of interviews with some of the South's (and country's) most iconic writers and artists, including Alice Walker, Alex Haley, Robert Penn Warren and Eudora Welty. We discuss the book, the importance of story and how Bill defines the South. Featuring the song "Remember You Used to Love Me" by War Jacket. Originally aired September 10, 2013.

Today's poem is Robert Penn Warren's "Heart of Autumn." Remember: subscribe, rate, review! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's poem is Robert Penn Warren's "Boy Wandering in Sims Valley" -- ready by poet and guest contributor, Maurice Manning. Remember: you can help us spread the word by subscribing, rating, and reviewing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's poem is by Robert Penn Warren and it's called "August Moon." If you like this show please rate and review! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, Maggie and Ian are back to award winners, dissecting the clusterfck that is All the King's Men. It's a textbook how not to do a book adaptation with editing that makes you say "just why?". Have our hosts found a new least favorite Best Picture winner? Listen to find out!

In this episode, Erik Rostad discusses book 5 of his 2019 Reading List – All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. Show Notes Author: Robert Penn Warren Suggested by: Joel Tomlin of Landmark Booksellers Erik’s Book Review Share Your Reading List on the Books of Titans Website Stuart Browning’s Reading List on the Books... The post All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren appeared first on Books of Titans.

True Detective Season 3 finally is here! HBO treated us to a double-header Sunday night, and fans are eating it up. Mahershala Ali is on fire, the spookiness is back, and Stephen Dorff's wig is absolutely criminal.  Run down our list of suspects and dig deep into the meanings behind Wayne Hays' memories. We compare the clear links between this season and the West Memphis Three and toss around some tinfoil about the clues fans spotted in the first two episodes. The Shat on TV crew also applauds some standout performances and artistic decisions before The King Bee asks the question on everyone's mind: Would you rather be convicted of a crime you didn't commit or be fatally stricken by a bus? True Detective fan mail from listeners Ashley and Mitch cover the meaning behind the Robert Penn Warren poem being read by Amelia and high hopes for Season 3. Have a listen and write us at hosts@shatontv.com to let us know what you think.  Help Support the Podcast Shop Amazon With Our Free Affiliate Link:https://www.amazon.com/?tag=shatmovies-20 Take the Sponsor Survey:https://survey.libsyn.com/shatontv Leave a Voicemail:(914) 719-SHAT – (914) 719-7428 Donate with Paypal:https://shatontv.com/paypal Subscribe to our Feeds & Follow us on Social Media: https://shatontv.com/subscribe-and-follow/ Check out our Movie Podcast:http://shatthemovies.com Hear Ashley on the Dana Buckler Show:https://player.fm/series/the-dana-buckler-show Tags: True Detective, True Detective TV Series, True Detective Theories, True Detective Spoilers, True Detective Series, True Detective Review, True Detective Recap, True Detective Questions, True Detective podcast, True Detective 2016, TV Series, TV Podcast, Shat The Movies, Shat On TV, Mystery, HBO True Detective, HBO Series, HBO Podcast, Game of Thrones  

In this week's Kentucky Book Festival edition of Think Humanities, Host Bill Goodman is joined by special guest Dr. Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Chairman Peede discusses literature that has influenced him throughout his life, including works by Kentucky natives Robert Penn Warren and Wendell Berry. Chairman Peede will be in attendance at the Kentucky Book Fair on Nov. 17th at noon in conversation with celebrated Kentucky poet, author, and essayist, Wendell Berry.

John J. Miller is joined by Jonathan S. Cullick to discuss Robert Penn Warren's 'All the King's Men.'

Host Bill Goodman is joined by Dr. Michael Cairo, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Political Science at Transylvania University. Dr. Cairo discusses the relevance of Robert Penn Warren’s timeless and celebrated work, "All the King’s Men," in relation to today’s society. Dr. Cairo will serve as a moderator for a community discussion about journalism and politics during our upcoming Kentucky Reads event, Democracy and the Informed Citizen, at Transylvania University’s Carrick Theatre on Tuesday, October 16th at 6:30 PM. The evening will begin with a “cuttings” read of the play "All the King’s Men" featuring regional actors and will be followed by a panel discussion including public figure Mayor Jim Gray, journalist Linda Blackford, and scholar Maurice Manning.

Host Bill Goodman is joined by filmmaker Tom Thurman of KET. Thurman’s latest documentary focuses on Kentucky's celebrated, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert Penn Warren. Thurman and KET will present a sneak preview of his documentary, "Robert Penn Warren: A Vision," on Sunday, September 9th at 2:00 PM at the Lexington Public Library's Farish Theatre. The full-length documentary will debut at Western Kentucky University's Van Meter Hall on Monday, October 22nd. These two events are part of Kentucky Humanities' statewide reading initiative, Kentucky Reads: All the King's Men.

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky. Episode 54: All the King's Men (1949) Released 12 February 2020 For this episode, we watched All the King's Men, written, produced and directed by Robert Rossen, based on the novel by Robert Penn Warren. Rossen was nominated in all three capacities. Star Broderick Crawford won Best Actor, Mercedes McCambridge won Best Supporting Actress and John Ireland was nominated as Best Supporting Actor. The film was also nominated for its editing. https://slate.com/podcasts/trumpcast Next time we will be discussing Argo. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also visit our website at https://bestpickpod.com and sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n.

Bill Goodman visited Guthrie, Kentucky to deliver a special announcement introducing Kentucky Humanities’ new statewide literacy initiative, Kentucky Reads: All The King’s Men. The project will use Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to guide a statewide conversation on contemporary populism and political discourse, and their relationship to journalism. Bill was joined in this announcement by Carrie Cantorelli and Mona Frederick. Carrie Cantorelli, Curator of the Robert Penn Warren Birthplace Museum, discusses the impact of Warren's literature that led her to become the Museum Curator, as well as her hopes for the museum's future. Mona Frederick is the Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. She discusses the early life of Warren in Guthrie, his time at Vanderbilt, and the Center’s work to make Warren’s interviews more accessible as digital archives.

Dr. Richard Taylor joins host Bill Goodman on this episode of THINK HUMANITIES. Dr. Taylor discusses his early life growing up in Louisville, his career as a lawyer, writer, and professor, his collection of work about Kentucky history, and his scholarship on Robert Penn Warren.

Jacob Weisberg is joined by Philip Gourevitch (The New Yorker) and Katie Roiphe (NYU) to discuss Robert Penn Warren's first novel, Night Rider. For the December book club we'll be reading Submission by Michel Houellebecq. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Weisberg is joined by Philip Gourevitch (The New Yorker) and Katie Roiphe (NYU) to discuss Robert Penn Warren's first novel, Night Rider. For the December book club we'll be reading Submission by Michel Houellebecq. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Bosworth is a professor in, and the former director of, the University of Washington’s Creative Writing Program. His fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural essays have been published in numerous journals. His collection of short fiction, The Death of Descartes, was selected by Robert Penn Warren for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and won a special citation from PEN and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. His novel, From My Father, Singing was a recipient of the Editors’ Book Award. Bosworth’s work has been reviewed or discussed in Newsweek, New York Times Book Review, U.S. News and World Report, The Washington Post, The Nation, and elsewhere. He has given readings, lectures, held workshops, and conducted colloquia at various locales, including Harvard University, Pomona College, Boston College, University of Louisville, and the New America Foundation. Brett and David sit down to discuss American Individualism, its philosophical roots, and its cultural manifestations. Topics include: The Enlightenment, American culture, The philosophical and historical roots of Individualism, the connections between individualism and capitalism, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Paine, and how 40 years of capitalist decadence has given rise to Donald "The U.S. Id Monster" Trump. David Bosworth's website, where you can find his books and essays, is here: http://www.davidbosworthauthor.com Our Outro Music is "Precarious Work" by Mohammad Ali which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLB2Y7JAtPE Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio and follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio This podcast is officially affiliated with the Nebraska Left Coalition: https://www.facebook.com/TheNebraskaLeftCoalition/ and the Omaha GDC: https://www.facebook.com/OmahaGDC/

Anything and everything you say, whether it was a gaffe or something on point, can be cut, misconstrued, or marketed in a way that can go and hurt the candidate's position in the race. — Ben Sparks What are politicians telling us? Why do campaigns go negative? *  Political operative Ben Sparks discusses the art and craft of campaign communication. Ben has directed campaign communications and managed campaigns for a variety of household names, including several sitting governors and senators. *  In this interview, we face uncomfortable truths about how campaign messages we despise are simply hideous reflections of ourselves. *  Further readings Ben recommends include: *  "The Iliad" by Homer - http://amzn.to/2lUaamo * "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren - http://amzn.to/2l9ojyV *  "Face the Nation" by Bob Schieffer - http://amzn.to/2mdmSzd *  Never miss another episode of Where Genius Grows. Get each new one delivered straight to your inbox by signing up here: http://eepurl.com/ckKJ1f.

Authors Guy Vanderhaeghe, David Frum, and Walter Kirn discuss the upcoming U.S. Presidential Election with Noah Richler by examining the two candidates as they relate to Jack London's "The Iron Heel," Robert Penn Warren’s "All the King's Men," and Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here.” Actress Janet Green (a.k.a. Janet Porter) reads Lynn Crosbie’s new poem, “Here Pussy,” written exclusively for 128 Sterling. Alix Ohlin, author of “Inside” and “Signs and Wonders,” reads original prose.

The novelist Benjamin Markovits, the literary historian Lara Feigel and the broadcaster and essayist Kevin Jackson join Matthew Sweet and an audience at Southbank Centre, London to explore some of the key books published in 1946 – a year in which Penguin Classics launched in the UK with a version of the Odyssey, Herman Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature, popular fiction included crime stories by Agatha Christie, Edmund Crispin and John Dickson Carr and children were reading Tove Jansson's Moomin series, the first of Enid Blyton's Malory Towers and the second Thomas the Tank Engine book.Their particular choices include Back, a novel by Henry Green, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, Jill by Philip Larkin and The Moving Toyshop by Edmund CrispinRecorded in front of an audience at Southbank as part of Sound Frontiers: Celebrating seven decades of pioneering music and culture from Radio 3 and the Third Programme. Producer: Zahid Warley.

Jesse Donaldson tells James about the Oxycodone scourge, the effect it has had on his home state of Kentucky, and how it informed his debut novel, THE MORE THEY DISAPPEAR. He also recommends writing while gardening, and recalls the time he drove to New York with a tape-playing robot. Plus Lauren Cerand joins the show to discuss book publicity.    Jesse and James Discuss: FOURTH OF JULY CREEK by Smith Henderson  PHAIDON  ANDY WARHOL CATALOGUE RAISONNE Kenyon College  Lewis Hyde  P.F. Kluge Breece D'J Pancake  Denis Johnson ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD by Mark Richard  Amy Hempel  Raymond Carver  Graham Greene  Ernest Hemingway  Jorge Luis Borges  Becca Wadlinger George Saunders  Mary Karr  RHINOCEROS by Eugene Ionesco  Samuel Beckett  ELBOW ROOM by James Alan McPherson "Trilobites" by Breece D'J Pancake  Raymond Chandler  DREAMLAND by Sam Quinones  ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren  THE QUIET AMERICAN by Graham Greene  Edith Wharton  Daniel Woodrell  FALCONER by John Cheever  Ross Macdonald  KC Constantine  Jamie Gordon  SPORT OF KINGS by C.E. Morgan  Michael Parker         

Political Books for a Political SeasonWe recorded this episode on November 3rd. All the off year electioneering had us thinking about the books that delved into political issues, both fiction and non-fiction. But let's face it, so many books are tinged with politics.   The Books we discussed this episode.Alan Drury, “Advise and Consent.”Robert Penn Warren, “All The King’s Men.”Dale Russakoff,  “The Prize: Who’s In Charge of America’s Schools?” – "Education isn’t separate from quality of life." - NancyGeoffrey Canada, “Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun.”Ari Berman, “Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America.” (Noble story about the passage and the legacy of the voting rights act. It is  one that can fill a reader with despair. “I don’t want this history to be forgotten” - Nancy)Kay Mills, “This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.”John Lewis, “Walking With the Wind.”Duong Van Mai Elliot.“The Sacred Willow: Four Generations In The Life Of A Vietnamese Family”Robert Caro’s “Passage of Power.”Larry Ceplair and Christpher Trumbo,   “Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical”Dalton Trumbo, “Johnny Got His Gun.”Tony Judt, “Ill Fairs the Land.” 

The Dying Grass (Viking) Over the last twenty-five years, National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann has been working on what is arguably one of the most ambitious literary projects currently being undertaken by any living novelist – a seven volume sequence of novels called “Seven Dreams” that examine the repeated collisions between native Americans and European colonizers. This summer, Viking will publish the long-awaited new installment in this acclaimed series, The Dying Grass, which tells the story of the epic fighting retreat of the Nez Perce Indians in 1877. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces, whom Lewis and Clark liked best of all the Indians they met, and who were proud that under all provocations they had never killed any white people, finally went on the warpath. The battles they fought (there were eighteen engagements, including four major battles and four fiercely contested skirmishes) and their long (nearly 1200 miles) retreat from Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border before they finally surrendered, have been taught at West Point and poeticized by Robert Penn Warren.  Vollmann’s main character, however, is not Chief Joseph, whom the press dubbed “The Red Napoleon,” but his pursuer, General Oliver Otis Howard, the brave, shy, tormented, devoutly Christian Civil War veteran.  In this novel, we see him as commander, father, son, husband, friend and killer, in an ever altering myriad of relations with soldiers, scouts, and “hostiles.”The Dying Grass teems with many other vivid characters on both sides of the conflict, including Chief Joseph’s twelve-year-old daughter Sound of Running Feet, his two wives Springtime and Good Woman, the shell-shocked Colonel  David Perry, who lost the war’s first battle (and his best friend), the Nez Perce war chief Looking-Glass, who trusted that treaties with the Americans would save him, the Three Red Blankets, who seem invulnerable against the Army, and Howard’s personally loyal but increasingly anti-war aide-de-camp, C.E.S. Wood.In The Dying Grass, Vollmann brings a new chapter of North American history to life with stylistic daring, sardonic wit, rich imagination, and uncompromising intelligence.Praise for The Dying Grass“Peerless… an epic study of the Nez Percé War of 1877…Vollmann restores that history with an onrushing immediacy that takes on all the contours of a good Greek tragedy, complete with hubris born of supposed military superiority and an avenging angel taking wings in the form of the flight of an arrow… Vollmann's vivid reconstruction is believable and achingly beautiful, as often rendered in a kind of poetry as in ordinary prose: ‘he spies out the dark-tipped wings of the otherwise white snow goose, / the black beak and white breast of the long-billed curlew / but no brothers or enemies.’ Telegraphic and episodic—so much so that it recalls the later work of Eduardo Galeano—Vollmann's saga is a note-perfect incantation. Stunning.”—Kirkus ReviewsWilliam T. Vollmann has written nine novels, four collections of stories, six works of nonfiction, and a memoir. He has won the National Book Award for Europe Central, the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in California.

Robert Penn Warren's 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the King's Men has been called "uneven as a corduroy road," "sloppy," and "one of American literature's definitive political novels." That all seems accurate when you consider that it's a 600-page melange of detective work, City Hall intrigue, and philosophizing about the fallibility of man. Join us this week for a discussion of headgums and selling out, movie-burping, New Criticism, meat axes, Huey Long, and the bummer that is American politics.

Robert Penn Warren's 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the King's Men has been called "uneven as a corduroy road," "sloppy," and "one of American literature's definitive political novels." That all seems accurate when you consider that it's a 600-page melange of detective work, City Hall intrigue, and philosophizing about the fallibility of man. Join us this week for a discussion of headgums and selling out, movie-burping, New Criticism, meat axes, Huey Long, and the bummer that is American politics.

Emmett Till was a 14 year old Chicagoan visiting his cousins in Money, Mississippi in 1955 when he was brutally murdered by white men for supposedly speaking to the 21 year old white wife of the proprietor of the general store. The murder sparked an international outcry. An historic marker now stands in front of the restored Bryant Grocery store. That is a rare occurrence. Officials admit they have allowed so many civil rights landmarks to be destroyed in Mississippi that they say they have lost count. By erasing the landmarks, the white southerners who deny their racist past can also deny the contemporary bigotry that still persists.    I had a US history named Thomas Govan in college. He was an old southerner from Louisiana teaching at the University of Oregon in the 70's. His courses on radical American history focused on the battles over workers rights and racism. We examined the establishment of the Klan, the rise of Jim Crow, the lynchings and the murders of men by white mobs for simply failing to comply with their racist rules.Govan used to quote the Southern writer Robert Penn Warren who said, "History is the painful, powerful, grinding process by which ideas are assimilated by a society." He wished that it was the good ideas that persisted, but my professor knew that the bad ones, like the rotten notion of bigotry, also clung on, He believed only an honest, probing assessment of the past, remembering, could provide the path to change. Emmett Till's murderers were brought to trial. It was covered by media from around the world. They were acquitted by an all-white jury. Because blacks could not vote, they could also not serve on juries. Studies done as recently as 2010 show that African-Americans are still being systematically excluded from juries in at least 8 southern states.The killers went on to admit their guilt in a paid Life Magazine interview. Because of the doctrine of double jeopardy, they couldn't be re-tried. Emmett Till's 1955 murder and the subsequent failure of the legal system is said to have helped jump start the American civil rights revolution. The Tallahatchie County Courthouse where Till's murderers were tried and acquitted is being restored and will serve as a working courthouse and museum.  

Tim Peltason reads from All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, published by Harcourt Brace. " 'But suppose I don't find anything before election day?' The Boss said: 'To hell with election day… if it takes ten years, you find it.' … and I said "But suppose there isn't anything to find?' And the Boss said: 'There is always something.' "

In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry examines trends in African-American criticism through the lens of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Toni Morrison. A brief history of African-American literature and criticism is undertaken, and the relationship of both to feminist theory is explicated. The problems in cultural and identity studies of essentialism, "the identity queue," expropriation, and biology are surveyed, with particular attention paid to the work of Michael Cooke and Morrison's reading of Huckleberry Finn. At the lecture's conclusion, the tense relationship between African-American studies and New Critical assumptions are explored with reference to Robert Penn Warren's poem, "Pondy Woods."

In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry examines trends in African-American criticism through the lens of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Toni Morrison. A brief history of African-American literature and criticism is undertaken, and the relationship of both to feminist theory is explicated. The problems in cultural and identity studies of essentialism, "the identity queue," expropriation, and biology are surveyed, with particular attention paid to the work of Michael Cooke and Morrison's reading of Huckleberry Finn. At the lecture's conclusion, the tense relationship between African-American studies and New Critical assumptions are explored with reference to Robert Penn Warren's poem, "Pondy Woods."

Slate's Audio Book Club. Stephen Metcalf, Julia Turner, and Jacob Weisberg discuss the novel All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren. We recommend, but don't insist, that you read the book before listening to this audio program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices