Podcasts about Rowling

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2025 67:43

این قسمت با فضایی شروع می‌شه که بیشتر شبیه شلوغی قبل از عروسیه تا آماده شدن برای جنگ با ولدمورت. همراه با خشایار، امید، ملیحه و ایاز دربارهٔ روزهایی حرف می‌زنیم که هری، رون و هرماینی در خانه ویزلی‌ها بین تدارک‌های عروسی بیل و فلور گیر افتادن؛ تدارک‌هایی که به نظر می‌رسه بیش از هر چیز، تلاشی‌ان برای عقب انداختن یک خداحافظی خطرناک. در این فصل بررسی می‌کنیم چطور پشت ظاهر عادی زندگی، نقشهٔ نابودی هورکراکس‌ها شکل می‌گیره، چرا «غول پیژامه‌پوش» فقط یک شوخی ساده نیست و چطور سکوت‌ها و حفظ ظاهرها، خودشون بخشی از تنش داستان می‌شن.آنچه در این قسمت می‌شنوید:شروع و اسم فصل00:00:00نگرانی مالی ویزلی00:05:07احساسات هری به جینی00:16:03سوگواری پیش‌دستانهٔ هرماینی00:21:10اقدام پیش‌دستانهٔ رون00:30:53جزئیات اتاق رون00:32:50خوانش کتاب00:42:26هورکراکس‌ها00:46:30رابطه هرماینی با کتاب‌هاش00:54:39اومدن خانوادهٔ دلاکور01:00:26حمایت‌های شما و کلام آخر ما01:03:06اجراکنندگان: ملیحه، ایاز، امید، خشایارمترجم: حسین غریبیراوی: آرشیدا لاریآهنگساز: علی خانیکپی‌رایت: Warner Bros and J.K.Rowlingارتباط با ما: podcast@wizardingcenter.com (توییتر و اینستاگرام)

Why Hallmarked Man is the Best Cormoran Strike Novel and Will Be Considered the Key to Unlocking the Series' Mysteries

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2025 107:45

John Granger Attempts to Convince Nick (and You!) That The Hallmarked Man will be Considered the Best of the Series.We review our take-away impressions from our initial reading of The Hallmarked Man. Although we enjoyed it, especially John's incredible prediction of Robin's ectopic pregnancy, neither of us came away thinking this was the finest book in the series. For Nick, this was a surprise, as enthusiastic J. K. Rowling fan that he is other than Career of Evil every book he has read has been his favourite. Using an innovative analysis of the character pairs surrounding both Cormoran and Robin, John argues that we can't really appreciate the artistry of book number eight until we consider its place in the series. Join John and Nick as they review the mysteries that remain to be resolved and how The Hallmarked Man sets readers up for shocking reveals in Strike 9 and 10!Why Troubled Blood is the Best Strike Novel:* The Pillar Post Collection of Troubled Blood Posts at HogwartsProfessor by John Granger, Elizabeth Baird-Hardy, Louise Freeman, Beatrice Groves, and Nick JefferyTroubled Blood and Faerie Queene: The Kanreki ConversationBut What If We Judge Strike Novels by a Different Standard than Shed Artifice? What About Setting Up the ‘Biggest Twist' in Detective Fiction History?* If Rowling is to be judged by the ‘shock' of the reveals in Strike 10, then The Hallmarked Man, the most disappointing book in the series even to many Serious Strikers, will almost certainly be remembered as the book that set up the finale with the greatest technical misdirection while playing fair.* The ending must be a shock, one that readers do not see coming, BUT* The author must provide the necessary clues and pointers repeatedly and emphatically lest the reader feel cheated at the point of revelation.* If the Big Mysteries of the series are to be solved with the necessary shock per both Russian Formalist and Perennialist understanding, then the answers to be revealed in the final two Strike novels, Books Two and Three of the finale trilogy, should be embedded in The Hallmarked Man.* Rowling on Playing Fair with Readers:The writer says that she wanted to extend the shelf of detective fiction without breaking it. “Part of the appeal and fascination of the genre is that it has clear rules. I'm intrigued by those rules and I like playing with them. Your detective should always lay out the information fairly for the reader, but he will always be ahead of the game. In terms of creating a character, I think Cormoran Strike conforms to certain universal rules but he is very much of this time.* On the Virtue of ‘Penetration' in Austen, Dickens, and Rowling* Rowling on the Big Twist' in Austen's Emma:“I have never set up a surprise ending in a Harry Potter book without knowing I can never, and will never, do it anywhere near as well as Austen did in Emma.”What are the Key Mysteries of the Strike series?Nancarrow FamilyWhy did Leda and Ted leave home in Cornwall as they did?Why did Ted and Joan not “save” Strike and Lucy?Was Leda murdered or did she commit suicide?If she was murdered, who dunit?If she commited suicide, why did she do it?What happened to Switch Whittaker?Cormoran StrikeIs Jonny Rokeby his biological father?What SIB case was he investigating when he was blown up?Was he the father of Charlotte's lost baby? If not, then who was?Why has he been so unstable in his relations with women post Charlotte Campbell?Charlotte CampbellWhy did her mother hate her so much?What was her relationship with her three step-fathers? Especially Dino LongcasterWho was the father of her lost child?Was the child intentionally aborted or was it a miscarriage?What was written in her “suicide note”?Was Charlotte murdered or did she commit suicide?If she was murdered, who done it?If she committed suicide, why did she do it?What happened to the billionaire lover?What clues do we get in Hallmarked Man that would answer these questions?- Strike 8 - Greatest Hits of Strikes 1-7: compilation, concentration of perumbration in series as whole* Decima/Lion - incest* Rupert's biological father not his father of record (Dino)* Sacha Legard a liar with secrets* Ryan Murphy working a plan off-stage - Charlotte's long gameStrike about ‘Pairings' in Lethal WhiteStrike continued to pore over the list of names as though he might suddenly see something emerging out of his dense, spiky handwriting, the way unfocused eyes may spot the 3D image hidden in a series of brightly colored dots. All that occurred to him, however, was the fact that there was an unusual number of pairs connected to Chiswell's death: couples—Geraint and Della, Jimmy and Flick; pairs of full siblings—Izzy and Fizzy, Jimmy and Billy; the duo of blackmailing collaborators—Jimmy and Geraint; and the subsets of each blackmailer and his deputy—Flick and Aamir. There was even the quasi-parental pairing of Della and Aamir. This left two people who formed a pair in being isolated within the otherwise close-knit family: the widowed Kinvara and Raphael, the unsatisfactory, outsider son.Strike tapped his pen unconsciously against the notebook, thinking. Pairs. The whole business had begun with a pair of crimes: Chiswell's blackmail and Billy's allegation of infanticide. He had been trying to find the connection between them from the start, unable to believe that they could be entirely separate cases, even if on the face of it their only link was in the blood tie between the Knight brothers.Part Two, Chapter 52Key Relationship Pairings in Cormoran Strike:Who Killed Leda Strike?To Rowling-Galbraith's credit, credible arguments in dedicated posts have been made that every person in the list below was the one who murdered Leda Strike. Who do you think did it?* Jonny Rokeby and the Harringay Crime Syndicate (Heroin Dark Lord 2.0),* Ted Nancarrow (Uncle Ted Did It),* Dave Polworth,* Leda Strike (!),* Lucy Fantoni (Lucy and Joan Did It and here),* Sir Randolph Whittaker,* Nick Herbert,* Peter Gillespie, and* Charlotte Campbell-RossScripted Ten Questions:1. So, Nick, back when we first read Hallmarked Man we said that there were four things we knew for sure would be said about Strike 8 in the future. Do you remember what they were?2. And, John, you've been thinking about the ‘Set-Up' idea and how future Rowling Readers will think of Hallmarked Man, even that they will think of it as the best Strike novel. I thought that was Troubled Blood by consensus. What's made you change your mind?3. So, Nick, yes, Troubled Blood I suspect will be ranked as the best of series, even best book written by Rowling ever, but, if looked at as the book that served the most critical place in setting up the finale, I think Hallmarked Man has to be considered better in that crucial way than Strike 5, better than any Strike novel. Can you think of another Strike mystery that reviews specific plot points and raises new aspects of characters and relationships the way Strike 8 does?4. Are you giving Hallmarked Man a specific function with respect to the last three books than any of the others? If so, John, what is that exactly and what evidence do we have that in Rowling's comments about reader-writer obligations and writer ambitions?5. Nick, I think Hallmarked Man sets us up to answer the Key mysteries that remain, that the first seven books left for the final three to answer. I'm going to organize those unresolved questions into three groups and challenge you to think of the ones I'm missing, especially if I'm missing a category.6. If I understand the intention of your listing these remaining questions, John, your saying that the restatement of specific plot points and characters from the first seven Strike novels in Hallmarked Man points to the possible, even probable answers to those questions. What specifically are the hallmarks in this respect of Hallmarked Man?7. If you take those four points, Nick, and revisit the mysteries lists in three categories, do you see how Rowling hits a fairness point with respect to clueing readers into what will no doubt be shocking answers to them if they're not looking for the set-ups?8. That's fun, Nick, but there's another way at reaching the same conclusions, namely, charting the key relationships of Strike and Ellacott to the key family, friends, and foes in their lives and how they run in pairs or parallel couplets (cue PPoint slides).9. Can we review incest and violence against or trafficking of young women in the Strike series? Are those the underpinning of the majority of the mysteries that remain in the books?10. Many Serious Strikers and Gonzo Galbraithians hated Striuke 8 because Hallmarked Man failed to meet expectations. In conclusion, do you think, Nick, that this argument that the most recent Strike-Ellacott adventure is the best because of how it sets us up for the wild finish to come will be persuasive -- or just annoying?On Imagination as Transpersonal Faculty and Non-Liturgical Sacred ArtThe Neo-Iconoclasm of Film (and Other Screened Adaptations): Justin requested within his question for an expansion of my allusion to story adaptations into screened media as a “neo-iconoclasm.” I can do that here briefly in two parts. First, by urging you to read my review of the first Hunger Games movie adaptation, ‘Gamesmakers Hijack Story: Capitol Wins Again,' in which I discussed at post's end how ‘Watching Movies is a a Near Sure Means to Being Hijacked by Movie Makers.' In that, I explain via an excerpt from Jerry Mander's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, the soul corrosive effects of screened images.Second, here is a brief introduction to the substance of the book I am working on.Rowling is a woman of profound contradictions. On the one hand, like all of us she is the walking incarnation of her Freudian family romance per Paglia, the ideas and blindspots of the age in which we live, with the peculiar individual prejudices and preferences and politics of her upbringing, education, and life experiences, especially the experiences we can call crises and consequent core beliefs, aversions, and desires. Rowling acknowledges all this, and, due to her CBT exercises and one assumes further talking therapy, she is more conscious of the elephant she is riding and pretending to steer than most of her readers.She points to this both in asides she make in her tweets and public comments but also in her descriptive metaphor of how she writes. The ‘Lake' of that metaphor, the alocal place within her from her story ideas and inspiration spring, is her “muse,” the word for superconscious rather than subconscious ideas that she used in her 2007 de la Cruz interview. She consciously recognizes that, despite her deliberate reflection on her PTSD, daddy drama, and idiosyncratic likes and dislikes, she still has unresolved issues that her non-conscious mind presents to her as story conflict for imaginative resolution.Her Lake is her persona well, the depths of her individual identity and a mask she wears.The Shed, in contrast, is the metaphorical place where Rowling takes the “stuff” given her by the creature in her Lake, the blobs of molten glass inspiration, to work it into proper story. The tools in this Shed are unusual, to say the least, and are the great markers of what makes Rowling unique among contemporary writers and a departure from, close to a contradiction of the artist you would expect to be born of her life experiences, formative crises, and education.Out of a cauldron potion made from listening to the Smiths, Siouxie and the Banshees, and The Clash, reading and loving Val McDermid, Roddy Doyle, and Jessica Mitford, and surviving a lower middle class upbringing with an emotionally barren homelife and Comprehensive education on the England-Wales border, you'd expect a Voldemort figure at Goblet of Fire's climax to rise rather than a writer who weaves archetypally rich myths of the soul's journey to perfection in the spirit with alchemical coloring and sequences, ornate chiastic structures, and a bevy of symbols visible only to the eye of the Heart.To understand Rowling, as she all but says in her Lake and Shed metaphor, one has to know her life story and experiences to “get” from where her inspiration bubbles up and, as important, you need a strong grasp of the traditionalist worldview and place of literature in it to appreciate the power of the tools she uses, especially how she uses them in combination.The biggest part of that is understanding the Perennialist definition of “Sacred Art.” I touched on this in a post about Rowling's beloved Christmas story, ‘Dante, Sacred Art, and The Christmas Pig.'Rowling has been publicly modest about the aims of her work, allowing that it would be nice to think that readers will be more empathetic after reading her imaginative fiction. Dante was anything but modest or secretive in sharing his self-understanding in the letter he wrote to Cangrande about The Divine Comedy: “The purpose of the whole work is to remove those living in this life from the state of wretchedness and to lead them to the state of blessedness.” His aim, point blank, was to create a work of sacred art, a category of writing and experience that largely exists outside our understanding as profane postmoderns, but, given Rowling's esoteric artistry and clear debts to Dante, deserves serious consideration as what she is writing as well.Sacred art, in brief, is representational work — painting, statuary, liturgical vessels and instruments, and the folk art of theocentric cultures in which even cutlery and furniture are means to reflection and transcendence of the world — that employ revealed forms and symbols to bring the noetic faculty or heart into contact with the supra-sensible realities each depicts. It is not synonymous with religious art; most of the art today that has a religious subject is naturalist and sentimental rather than noetic and iconographic, which is to say, contemporary artists imitate the creation of God as perceived by human senses rather than the operation of God in creation or, worse, create abstractions of their own internally or infernally generated ideas.Story as sacred art, in black to white contrast, is edifying literature and drama in which the soul's journey to spiritual perfection is portrayed for the reader or the audience's participation within for transformation from wretchedness to blessedness, as Dante said. As with the plastic arts, these stories employ traditional symbols of the revealed traditions in conformity with their understanding of cosmology, soteriology, and spiritual anthropology. The myths and folklore of the world's various traditions, ancient Greek drama, the epic poetry of Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe, the parables of Christ, the plays of Shakespeare's later period, and the English high fantasy tradition from Coleridge to the Inklings speak this same symbolic language and relay the psychomachia experience of the human victory over death.Dante is a sacred artist of this type. As difficult as it may be to understand Rowling as a writer akin to Dante, Shakespeare, Homer, Virgil, Aeschylus, Spenser, Lewis, and Tolkien, her deployment of traditional symbolism and the success she enjoys almost uniquely in engaging and edifying readers of all ages, beliefs, and circumstances suggests this is the best way of understanding her work. Christmas Pig is the most obviously sacred art piece that Rowling has created to date. It is the marriage of Dantean depths and the Estecean lightness of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, about which more later.[For an introduction to reading poems, plays, and stories as sacred art, that is, allegorical depictions of the soul's journey to spiritual perfection that are rich in traditional symbolism, Ray Livingston's The Traditional Theory of Literature is the only book length text in print. Kenneth Oldmeadow's ‘Symbolism and Sacred Art' in his Traditionalism: Religion in the light of the Perennial Philosophy(102-113), ‘Traditional Art' in The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr(203-214), and ‘The Christian and Oriental, or True Philosophy of Art' in The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy(123-152) explain in depth the distinctions between sacred and religious, natural, and humanist art. Martin Lings' The Sacred Art of Shakespeare: To Take Upon Us the Mystery of Things and Jennifer Doane Upton's two books on The Divine Comedy, Dark Way to Paradise and The Ordeal of Mercy are the best examples I know of reading specific works of literature as sacred art rather than as ‘stories with symbolic meaning' read through a profane and analytic lens.]‘Profane Art' from this view is “art for art's sake,” an expression of individual genius and subjective meaning that is more or less powerful. The Perennialist concern with art is less about gauging an artist's success in expressing his or her perception or its audience's response than with its conformity to traditional rules and its utility, both in the sense of practical everyday use and in being a means by which to be more human. Insofar as a work of art is good with respect to this conformity and edifying utility, it is “sacred art;” so much as it fails, it is “profane.” The best of modern art, even that with religious subject matter or superficially beautiful and in that respect edifying, is from this view necessarily profane.Sacred art differs from modern and postmodern conceptions of art most specifically, though, in what it is representing. Sacred art is not representing the natural world as the senses perceive it or abstractions of what the individual and subjective mind “sees,” but is an imitation of the Divine art of creation. The artist “therefore imitates nature not in its external forms but in its manner of operation as asserted so categorically by St. Thomas Aquinas [who] insists that the artist must not imitate nature but must be accomplished in ‘imitating nature in her manner of operation'” (Nasr 2007, 206, cf. “Art is the imitation of Nature in her manner of operation: Art is the principle of manufacture” (Summa Theologia Q. 117, a. I). Schuon described naturalist art which imitates God's creation in nature by faithful depiction of it, consequently, as “clearly luciferian.” “Man must imitate the creative act, not the thing created,” Aquinas' “manner of operation” rather than God's operation manifested in created things in order to produce ‘creations'which are not would-be duplications of those of God, but rather a reflection of them according to a real analogy, revealing the transcendental aspect of things; and this revelation is the only sufficient reason of art, apart from any practical uses such and such objects may serve. There is here a metaphysical inversion of relation [the inverse analogy connecting the principial and manifested orders in consequence of which the highest realities are manifested in their remotest reflections[1]]: for God, His creature is a reflection or an ‘exteriorized' aspect of Himself; for the artist, on the contrary, the work is a reflection of an inner reality of which he himself is only an outward aspect; God creates His own image, while man, so to speak, fashions his own essence, at least symbolically. On the principial plane, the inner manifests the outer, but on the manifested plane, the outer fashions the inner (Schuon 1953, 81, 96).The traditional artist, then, in imitation of God's “exteriorizing” His interior Logos in the manifested space-time plane, that is, nature, instead of depicting imitations of nature in his craft, submits to creating within the revealed forms of his craft, which forms qua intellections correspond to his inner essence or logos.[2] The work produced in imitation of God's “manner of operation” then resembles the symbolic or iconographic quality of everything existent in being a transparency whose allegorical and anagogical content within its traditional forms is relatively easy to access and a consequent support and edifying shock-reminder to man on his spiritual journey. The spiritual function of art is that “it exteriorizes truths and beauties in view of our interiorization… or simply, so that the human soul might, through given phenomena, make contact with the heavenly archetypes, and thereby with its own archetype” (Schuon 1995a, 45-46).Rowling in her novels, crafted with tools all taken from the chest of a traditional Sacred Artist, is writing non-liturgical Sacred Art. Films and all the story experiences derived of adaptations of imaginative literature to screened images, are by necessity Profane Art, which is to say per the meaning of “profane,” outside the temple or not edifying spiritually. Film making is the depiction of how human beings encounter the time-space world through the senses, not an imitation of how God creates and a depiction of the spiritual aspect of the world, a liminal point of entry to its spiritual dimension. Whence my describing it as a “neo-iconoclasm.”The original iconoclasts or “icon bashers” were believers who treasured sacred art but did not believe it could use images of what is divine without necessarily being blasphemous; after the incarnation of God as Man, this was no longer true, but traditional Christian iconography is anything but naturalistic. It could not be without becoming subjective and profane rather than being a means to spiritual growth and encounters. Western religious art from the Renaissance and Reformation forward, however, embraces profane imitation of the sense perceived world, which is to say naturalistic and as such the antithesis of sacred art. Film making, on religious and non-religious subjects, is the apogee of this profane art which is a denial of any and all of the parameters of Sacred art per Aquinas, traditional civilizations, and the Perennialists.It is a neo-iconoclasm and a much more pervasive and successful destruction of the traditional world-view, so much so that to even point out the profanity inherent to film making is to insure dismissal as some kind of “fundamentalist,” “Puritan,” or “religious fanatic.”Screened images, then, are a type of iconoclasm, albeit the inverse and much more subtle kind than the relatively traditional and theocentric denial of sacred images (the iconoclasm still prevalent in certain Reform Church cults, Judaism, and Islam). This neo-iconoclasm of moving pictures depicts everything in realistic, life-like images, everything, that is, except the sacred which cannot be depicted as we see and experience things. This exclusion of the sacred turns upside down the anti-naturalistic depictions of sacred persons and events in iconography and sacred art. The effect of this flood of natural pictures akin to what we see with our eyes is to compel the flooded mind to accept time and space created nature as the ‘most real,' even ‘the only real.' The sacred, by never being depicted in conformity with accepted supernatural forms, is effectively denied.Few of us spend much time in live drama theaters today. Everyone watches screened images on cineplex screens, home computers, and smart phones. And we are all, consequently, iconoclasts and de facto agnostics, I'm afraid, to greater and lesser degrees because of this immersion and repetitive learning from the predominant art of our secular culture and its implicit atheism.Contrast that with the imaginative experience of a novel that is not pornographic or primarily a vehicle of perversion and violence. We are obliged to generate images of the story in the transpersonal faculty within each of us called the imagination, one I think that is very much akin to conscience or the biblical ‘heart.' This is in essence an edifying exercise, unlike viewing photographic images on screens. That the novel appears at the dawn of the Modern Age and the beginning of the end of Western corporate spirituality, I think is no accident but a providential advent. Moving pictures, the de facto regime artistry of the materialist civilization in which we live, are the counter-blow to the novel's spiritual oxygen.That's the best I can manage tonight to offer something to Justin in response to more about the “neo-iconoclasm” of film This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

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Is Canada Silencing Professionals? Nurse Amy Hamm Punished for Speaking Out

Leaders on the Frontier

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2025 67:42

B.C. nurse Amy Hamm has been fined $93,639 and suspended for one month by the BC College of Nurses and Midwives over her views on sex and gender. Part of the case stems from a billboard she co-sponsored that read: “I ❤️ J.K. Rowling.” Now she's fighting back—and the policy consequences could affect every Canadian. David Leis is joined live by Amy Hamm, her lawyer Lisa Bildy, and Marco Navarro-Genie, VP of Research at Frontier Centre, to examine how regulatory policies are being used to discipline speech outside the workplace, what this means for professional freedom, and whether current policies protect Canadians' rights—or quietly erode them. Is this really about patient safety, or about enforcing ideology through policy?

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I For One Welcome Our New AI Overlords - With Andy Mills

Ask a Jew

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 82:51

You know Andy Mills from such podcasts as “The Daily” from The New York Times, “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling” from The Free Press, and most recently, the award winning show “The Last Invention” about the Al revolution from his new company ”Longview Investigations”.We discuss wether or not Al has a soul, human-robot babies, why some of the founders of the technology think we need to stop it like, now, and what does connection with humans look like in the age of machines.Over the weekend, we were all consumed by the events in Sydney, that sadly seemed inevitable. The Australian Jewish community is so small, as is the Chabad family, and almost everyone in these two groups knows someone that was affected. In days like these, Jews are often advised to lay low, keep their heads down, and not draw too much attention to themselves. Do we really need to celebrate publicly? Maybe replace that star of david necklace with something a little less conspicuous? In light of that, we share two videos of two different celebrations right here in NYC. The more we try to kill us, the louder we sing. Happy Hanukkah! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askajew.substack.com/subscribe

I For One Welcome Our New AI Overlords - With Andy Mills

Ask a Jew

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 85:25

Happy Hanukkah! You know Andy Mills from such podcasts as “The Daily" from The New York Times, “The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling” from The Free Press, and most recently, the award winning show “The Last Invention” about the AI revolution from his new company Longview Investigations”.We discuss wether or not AI has a soul, human-robot babies, why some of the founders of the technology think we need to stop it like, now, and what does connection with humans look like in the age of machines.Over the weekend, we were all consumed by the events in Sydney, that sadly seemed inevitable. The Australian Jewish community is so small, as is the Chabad family, and almost everyone in these two groups knows someone that was affected. In days like these, Jews are often advised to lay low, keep their heads down, and not draw too much attention to themselves. Do we really need to celebrate publicly? Maybe replace that star of david necklace with something a little less conspicuous? In light of that, i'll share two videos of two different celebrations on Substack that I attended right here in NYC. The more we try to kill us, the louder we sing. Happy Hanukkah! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askajew.substack.com/subscribe

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Episode 410 THE GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS (Part 8) The British Invasion - Ian Fleming and J. K.. Rowling

Nixon and Watergate

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 69:49

Send us a textJames Bond meets Harry Potter in this episode of our series. Two favorites of mine from across the pond in this special edition. Ian Fleming's writing tips emphasize speed, research, clarity, and sensory detail to keep the reader engaged and "turn over the page". He wrote primarily for "pleasure and money," aiming to create compelling thrillers rather than "Literature with a capital L". Here are his key writing tips and habits:The Writing ProcessWrite Fast and Never Look BackEdit LaterEstablish a Routine Style and ContentBlend Fact with Fantasy: Use real-world facts, locations, and brand names to ground the more fantastical plot elements in reality. This gives the story authenticity and stimulates the reader's senses, a technique known as the "Fleming effect".Prioritize Clarity and ConcisionFocus on Sensory Details: Describe food, drink, clothes, and locations to provide a vivid, vicarious experience.Create Strong VillainsHook the Reader: The most important rule: "You have to get the reader to turn over the page". He used plot hooks (often involving sex or violence) at the end of chapters to compel the reader to continue.Vary Sentence LengthListen to Your Audience: Fleming was sensitive to feedback from his readers and adjusted his approach based on their expectations, such as ensuring Bond traveled to exotic locations after a UK-only novel ( Moonraker). MindsetWrite for Pleasure and Money: He was unashamed about his motivations, believing a writer's life was a good one, offering a decent living if film deals and other rights were secured.Be Aware of the WorldView Writing as a Craft: He considered himself a "writer" rather than an "author" or "artist," viewing writing as a craft where one constantly learns by studying peers. J.K. Rowling emphasizes discipline, extensive planning, and resilience as core to her writing process. Her tips focus on the craft and the emotional connection to the story. Key writing tips from J.K. Rowling include:Read Extensively Rowling consistently advises aspiring writers to read as much as possible. This helps you analyze what works and what doesn't, discover your preferences, and eventually find your own distinctive voice.Plan Meticulously Rowling is a thorough planner who mapped out the entire seven-book Harry Potter series before completing the first novel, using detailed, color-coded spreadsheets and outlines. Knowing the overall arc and destination provides structure, allowing for creative freedom along the way.Be DisciplinedRewrite and Edit Develop Complex Characters Give characters flaws and contradictions, making them morally complex and realistic. This allows readers to relate to them on a deeper, more human level.Write What You Know (Emotionally) While not a literal tip to only write from personal experiences, Rowling suggests drawing from your own emotions, truths, and instincts. She used her personal struggles with depression as the raw material for the Dementors, for example.Minimize Adverbs Be Resilient a Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

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A Meal of Thorns 39- THE SECRET HISTORY with Roseanna Pendlebury

A Meal of Thorns

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2025 85:51

We’re tracking down the wellspring of “dark academia” in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, and plucking on threads that stretch out to current fantasy and science fiction literature, with reviewer Roseanna Pendlebury as our guide. Casella manages to throw some shade at Arrival, somehow, and also references Dumb & Dumber. Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books. Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon! Guest: Roseanna Pendlebury Title: The Secret History Host: Jake Casella Brookins Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork by Rob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson References: Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide E.J. Swift’s When There Are Wolves Again Ned Beauman’s Venomous Lumpsucker Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality Simon Roy's Griz Grobus & A Star Called The Sun Ursula Whitcher's North Continent Ribbon Tartt’s The Goldfinch Euripides’ The Bacchae Jane Alison's Meander Spiral Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative Roger Ebert's review of Roger Avary’s film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction (which, we didn’t get into this in the episode, is sort of in the Expanded Secret History Universe) Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Grey J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Sofia Samatar's The Practice The Horizon and the Chain R.F. Kuang's Katabasis & Babel Fellman's The Two Doctors Górski Marina & Sergei Dyachenko's Vita Nostra, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey Ceaușescu's bathroom Peter Farrelly’s film Dumb and Dumber Sir Arthur Conan Doyles’ Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" vs. Denis Villeneuve's film Arrival Becky Chamber’s To Be Taught if Fortunate Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch "All art is perfectly useless" C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces Samatar's A Stranger In Olondria and The Winged Histories Fellman's The Breath of the Sun Katherin Addison's The Goblin Emperor & sequels Dungeons & Dragons Roseanna’s Small Press Dispatch series at ARB Roseanna's blog Tolkien's Beowulf & The Tolkien Reader Lina Palera’s Seikilos Epitaph with the Lyre of Apollo, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0* *Note that ARB & AMOT are generally distributed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, but will match the CC of any incorporated material for particular posts/episodes.

یادگاران مرگ - فصل ۵: جنگجوی از پا افتاده

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2025 85:26

در این قسمت همراه با خشایار، امید و فرزانه وارد یکی از تلخ‌ترین و در عین حال سرنوشت‌سازترین لحظه‌های «یادگاران مرگ» می‌شیم؛ لحظه‌ای که فرار هری و همراهانش به پایان می‌رسه و تازه ابعاد فاجعه روشن می‌شه. از سقوط ناگهانی هگرید در باغ و انتقال هری به خانهٔ تد و آندرومدا، تا رسیدن به لانه و شمردن تلفات شبی که قرار بود امن باشه اما به تراژدی تبدیل شد. دربارهٔ مرگ هدویگ، جراحت جرج و شوخی تلخش و مرگ مودی حرف می‌زنیم و نگاهی هم می‌کنیم به رویای هری؛ جایی که ولدمورت مستاصل به دنبال پاسخی برای رفتار عجیب چوب‌دستی‌هاست. این فصل، نقطه‌ایه که جنگ واقعا چهرهٔ خودش رو نشون می‌ده و ما همین‌جا درباره سنگینی این لحظه و پیامدهایش صحبت می‌کنیم.آنچه در این قسمت می‌شنوید:شروع و اسم فصل00:00:00حمایت‌های شما00:04:57تانکس‌ها00:07:01وضعیت روحی هری00:17:40رفتن به «آشیانه» و صحبت‌های لوپین و هری00:29:13بحران جانشینی دامبلدور00:36:54نایس‌بازی هری00:40:47نکات ترجمه00:45:15خوانش کتاب00:52:32بی‌اعتمادی همه به هم و واکنش هری00:56:00مرگ مودی01:05:32نقش ارتش دامبلدور در شکست ولدمورت01:13:03شکنجهٔ الیوندر توسط ولدمورت و نکات پایانی01:16:47پایان‌بندی01:22:59اجراکنندگان: امید، خشایارمهمان: فرزانه ابراهیم‌زادهمترجم: حسین غریبیراوی: آرشیدا لاریآهنگساز: علی خانیکپی‌رایت: Warner Bros and J.K.Rowlingارتباط با ما: podcast@wizardingcenter.com (توییتر و اینستاگرام)

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast

234. Pamela Paul Spills On Her Exit From The New York Times

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2025 19:55

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comThis is a hot one! Pamela Paul — longtime editor of the New York Times Book Review, author of nine books, current writer-at-large for the Wall Street Journal — tells Nancy and Sarah about her unceremonious exit from the New York Times, where she had been an Opinion columnist. What happened? Well, it's a long and juicy story, one that includes a J.K. Rowling column, a “lot of dishonesty and fear,” and an email dispatched in the middle of the night, a story that caused Nancy's and Sarah's jaws to literally drop. (It's on video!) Paul joined the Opinion section in 2022 to “create space for liberal opinions that had been snuffed out,” the thorny topics most journalists in 2020 were afraid to write about — and might still be. “It's really unsettling when an Opinion section is afraid of opinions,” says Paul. “You cannot pretend culture out of existence.”Also discussed:* How were things inside the New York Times in 2020? “Really awful.”* George Will, 2014: “Victimhood [as] a coveted status that confers privileges.” NYT 2020: “Hold my beer.”* “You've lost the room…”* We are not finished talking about the defenestrations of Times' James Bennett, Bari Weiss, Donald McNeil Jr….* New York Times readers are smarter than we give them credit for.* Props for Jesse Singal, Michael Powell, whoever Pamela's editor was at Opinion, whose stand-up-ness makes Nancy tear up* “The truth is a motherfucker.”Plus, tasty bits in the hotbox: a Disneyland for Netflix grown-ups, the 1000-page book about revenge and justice you should be reading, a new old-skool medical drama, and much more!Aren't you tired of the paywall yet? Become a paid subscriber. we told you…

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AI, Lawsuits, and the Death of Web Traffic with David Hoppe

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2025 38:55

Today, Erik sits down with David Hoppe. David is the founder and managing partner of Gamma Law, a firm focused on emerging legal issues in media and technology. He is an experienced international transactional lawyer with expertise in video games, esports, blockchain, digital assets, and immersive technologies. Over his nearly 30-year career, he has advised global clients on financing, licensing, and regulatory matters. David is also a frequent speaker on legal trends shaping the tech and entertainment industries. Topics Covered in this Episode: Big AI lawsuits are here, with billion‑dollar payouts over using stolen content to train models. AI "answer boxes" are stealing clicks from websites, similar to how Google once hurt Yelp's traffic. Large AI companies are paying some publishers for data while still fighting older copyright complaints in court. There's real copyright danger when AI spits out content that is almost identical to the original, including images with old watermarks. Entertainment brands worry that letting AI change their main characters could weaken or confuse ownership of their IP. In schools, using AI too much can hurt students' ability to think deeply, read long texts, and solve problems on their own. Virtual worlds and the metaverse raise new questions about what "private property" and "privacy" mean online. If a chatbot encourages someone to do something dangerous or illegal, the company could face serious legal trouble. Letting AI write legal documents is risky because it can invent cases and laws that do not exist. One of the best current uses of AI in law is sorting and summarizing huge piles of documents for big cases. Connect with David Hoppe: Website: Gamma Law Facebook: Gamma Law Twitter/X: GammaLaw Bsky: Gammalaw.bsky.social‬ LinkedIn: David B. Hoppe Is there a guest you want Equalman to interview on the podcast? Do you have any questions you wish you could ask an expert? Send an email to our team: Equalman@equalman.com 5x #1 Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached over 50 million people this past decade. He was voted the 2nd Most Likable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. Have Erik speak at your conference: eq@equalman.com Motivational Speaker | Erik Qualman has inspired audiences at FedEx, Chase, ADP, Huawei, Starbucks, Godiva, FBI, Google, and many more on Focus and Digital Leadership. Learn more at https://equalman.com

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Coffee Hurts Your Productivity

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2025 14:31

This audible clip from Erik Qualman's #1 Bestselling book The Focus Project dives into why real rest matters, and whether that cup of coffee is truly boosting your alertness. 5x #1 Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached over 50 million people this past decade. He was voted the 2nd Most Likable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. Have Erik speak at your conference: eq@equalman.com Motivational Speaker | Erik Qualman has inspired audiences at FedEx, Chase, ADP, Huawei, Starbucks, Godiva, FBI, Google, and many more on Focus and Digital Leadership. Learn more at https://equalman.com

Episode 62 - Ashley Guggia

SBCC Vaquero Voices

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2025 60:47

Mentioned in this episode:SBCC Admissions and Records - https://sbcc.edu/admissions/SBCC Forms/Petitions - https://sbcc.edu/forms/SBCC Etrieve electronic forms - https://sbcccentral.etrieve.cloud/Admissions and Records general contact email - admissions@sbcc.eduA&R Petitions email - arpetitions@sbcc.eduNordstrom (customer service model) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NordstromYacht Rock - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_rockRascal's Vegan - https://www.rascalsvegan.com/Your Choice - https://www.yourchoicerestaurant.com/Masala Spice - https://www.masalaspicesb.com/Shalimar - https://www.shalimarslo.com/Ziggy's Plant-Based Food - https://www.eatziggys.com/My Thai - http://www.mythaislo.com/Homemade Nut Milk - https://www.loveandoliveoil.com/2017/03/homemade-nut-milk-flavors.htmlHomemade Granola - https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/275749/grandmas-homemade-granola/Chocolate Chip Cookies - https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/10813/best-chocolate-chip-cookies/Lentil Soup - https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016062-red-lentil-soupArmchair Expert podcast - https://armchairexpertpod.com/Flightless Bird podcast - https://www.flightlessbirdpod.com/listenBeth's Dead podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/beths-dead/id1842968648The Cormoran Strike by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) - https://robert-galbraith.com/strike-books/Degrassi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DegrassiRupaul's Drag Race - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul%27s_Drag_RaceBridgerton Official Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX5Hl0iWtr5b3Lindsey Stirling - https://www.lindseystirling.com/Dancing on My Own by Robyn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQVundabar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vundabar

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#171 – Malandro é Malandro… a Lei NÃO!!

Cueca Apertada

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2025 46:36

Neste episódio especialíssimo, o Cueca Apertada mergulha no universo do Art. 171 do Código Penal, o clássico Estelionato — o crime mais amado pelos golpistas e mais odiado pelos boletos pagos. Com linguagem simples, humor inteligente e base técnica sólida, o episódio acompanha a trajetória completa do golpista, desde o golpe inicial (com artifício, ardil ou outro meio fraudulento), passando pela investigação, denúncia, defesa, audiência de instrução, julgamento, recursos e finalmente… o Trânsito em Julgado. Você vai entender: ✔️ O que realmente diz o Art. 171 e por que ele é tão versátil✔️ Diferença entre estelionato, furto e roubo✔️ O papel da Representação após o Pacote Anticrime✔️ Como funciona a investigação e o trabalho da Polícia Civil✔️ A atuação do Ministério Público ao decidir denunciar, arquivar ou pedir mais diligências✔️ A defesa do réu, a audiência de instrução e a importância da prova do engano✔️ Como funciona a sentença, as penas, os regimes e as substituições✔️ Tudo sobre os recursos até chegar ao Trânsito em Julgado Entre piadas, cultura pop, referências jurídicas e comparações improváveis com Harry Potter, videogames e o Datena, este episódio entrega conhecimento real com a leveza que só o Cueca Apertada sabe fazer. "Personagens, nomes e indícios relacionados de HARRY POTTER são marcas registradas e de propriedade da Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Todos os direitos reservados. O MUNDO MÁGICO de J.K. Rowling é uma marca registrada de J.K. Rowling e Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Os materiais da série de filmes Harry Potter são cortesia da Warner Bros. Entertainment." Músicas utilizadas: "Malandro é Malandro e Mané é Mané"Composição: J. LaureanoIntérprete Original: Bezerra da SilvaTodos os direitos reservados aos autores, editores e produtores fonográficos originais. O uso desta obra deve ser autorizado pelas entidades gestoras de direitos autorais competentes, como Abramus ou UBC." ______ “171" Intérprete: Sem Miséria Letra: Yuri Green e LM Base: Forage the Kid Mixagem e Master : Felipe Ferreira Baixo: Bruno Silva Gravação : Studio Reluz ___________ "Eu Sou 157" (ou Artigo 157)Compositores: Paulo Eduardo Salvador (ou Paulo Brown/Mano Brown) e Edivaldo Pereira Alves (ou Edi Rock), conforme créditos oficiais da obra.Gravadora (Fonograma): Cosa Nostra.Ano de Lançamento: 2002.Álbum: Nada Como um Dia Após o Outro Dia (Volumes 1 & 2). _________ "Tema da Vitória"Composição: Eduardo Souto NetoPerformance (versão original): Roupa NovaCortesia: Rede Globo __________ "Walk" (Pantera) Compositores: Philip Hansen Anselmo, Rex Rocker (Rex Brown), Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Lance Abbott) e Vinnie Paul (Vincent Paul Abbott). Gravadora original: Atco Records. Editoras: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Cota Music, Inc. ______ "La ballata di periferiaComposição e Letra (Autor): Philippe Lhommet ______________ "Masser" de The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimComposição por: Jeremy SoulePropriedade intelectual e direitos autorais © 2011 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company.

The Light at the End of the Tunnel: Finding Hope When You're Ready to Give Up

MIRROR TALK

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2025 14:18

When life feels unbearably dark, even a single spark of hope can change everything. In this vulnerable solo episode of Mirror Talk: Soulful Conversations, I share a personal story of nearly giving up—and the small, unexpected moments that pulled me back toward the light.Drawing wisdom from Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl and the early struggles of author J.K. Rowling, we'll explore how meaning, micro-movements, and honest connection can become lifelines. You'll also discover practical tools—like grounding exercises, gratitude practices, and micro-promises—that can help you build hope that lasts.If you or someone you love feels close to the edge, this episode is a gentle reminder: you are not alone, and tunnels do end. Crisis resources are included in the show notes.Your transformation begins the moment you decide to look within.Let this book walk with you.

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یادگاران مرگ – فصل ۴: هفت پاتر

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2025 86:55

در این قسمت از پادکست لوموس همراه با میلاد، خشایار، ملیحه و مرضیه وارد یکی از پرهیجان‌ترین و سینمایی‌ترین فصل‌های کل مجموعه می‌شیم؛ شبی که آسمون بریتانیا پر از «هری پاتر»‌های قلابی می‌شه. دربارهٔ نقشهٔ عجیب و جسورانهٔ محفل برای نجات هری، لحظه‌های بامزه و تلخ تغییر چهره‌ها با معجون پالیجوس و تبدیل شدن هر کدوم از دوستانش به نسخه‌ای از او صحبت می‌کنیم. بعد سراغ حملهٔ ناگهانی مرگخوارها و مرگ هدویگ می‌ریم. همین‌طور واکنش عجیب چوب‌دستی هری در برابر ولدمورت و لحظه‌ای که ورق کاملا برمی‌گرده رو بررسی می‌کنیم. این فصل، مجموعه‌ای از آشوب، شجاعت و ضربه‌های احساسیه که توی این قسمت با هم مرورش می‌کنیم.آنچه در این قسمت می‌شنوید:شروع و اسم فصل00:00:00خداحافظی هری با خانه شماره ۴ خیابان پریوِت00:03:46هدویگ و هگرید00:16:05بزرگ شدن و تغییرات شخصیتی هری00:20:34اومدن اعضای محفل برای اجرای نقشه00:26:47هفت پاتر00:31:05هگرید آخه؟00:39:02صدای مخاطب: روزبه00:42:00لحظه‌های جالب فصل00:49:32خوانش کتاب00:58:21مرگ هدویگ و تغییر نحوه فهمیدن مرگخوارها توی فیلم01:01:49استن شانپایک و تاثیر اقدامات وزارتخونه روی اون01:07:26لحظه‌های جالب فصل01:09:50اومدن ولدمورت و واکنش چوبدستی هری01:14:04پایان‌بندی01:24:08اجراکنندگان: خشایار، میلاد، مرضیه، ملیحهمترجم: حسین غریبیراوی: آرشیدا لاریآهنگساز: علی خانیکپی‌رایت: Warner Bros and J.K.Rowlingارتباط با ما: podcast@wizardingcenter.com (توییتر و اینستاگرام)

The Brain on Exercise

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2025 13:57

This audible clip from Erik Qualman's #1 Bestselling book The Focus Project explores how exercise strengthens not only the body, but also your focus, mood, and overall mental health. 5x #1 Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached over 50 million people this past decade. He was voted the 2nd Most Likable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. Have Erik speak at your conference: eq@equalman.com Motivational Speaker | Erik Qualman has inspired audiences at FedEx, Chase, ADP, Huawei, Starbucks, Godiva, FBI, Google, and many more on Focus and Digital Leadership. Learn more at https://equalman.com

The Case for Butterbeer: How Universal Won the Sip Heard 'Round the World (Ep. 7)

The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2025 36:15

In this week's episode of The Case For, Jim and Chris dive deep into the foamy, sugary mystery of Butterbeer – from its first mention in Prisoner of Azkaban to its billion-calorie domination of Universal's theme parks. Along the way, they track the near-miss Disney deal, J.K. Rowling's taste-testing power, and exactly why Len Testa is currently horizontal. It's a sweet, strange, and slightly sticky journey through theme park history. FEATURE • How Butterbeer evolved from J.K. Rowling's books to real-world theme park phenomenon • Disney's early plans for a Harry Potter mini-land – and how the deal slipped through their fingers • Universal's long development process, the top-secret taste test in Scotland, and why the drink became a runaway hit • The many forms of Butterbeer across the Wizarding World, from frozen to fudge to the notorious cream puff HOSTS • Jim Hill – IG: @JimHillMedia | X: @JimHillMedia | Website: JimHillMedia.com • Chris Cox – IG: @magiccox | X: @bigcox | Website: magiccox.com FOLLOW • Facebook: JimHillMediaNews • Instagram: JimHillMedia • TikTok: JimHillMedia SUPPORT Support the show and access bonus episodes and additional content at Patreon.com/JimHillMedia. PRODUCTION CREDITS Edited by Dave Grey Produced by Eric Hersey – Strong Minded Agency If you would like to sponsor a show on the Jim Hill Media Podcast Network, reach out today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Talking About 'A Rowling Reading of Aurora Leigh'

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2025 77:45

John Granger in September 2022, weeks after the publication of Ink Black Heart, tackled the tangle of 108 poetic epigraphs in Strike 6 from twenty-two Anglo-American Victorian women poets in search of a common theme, of a prevalent meaning, or, the Holy Grail, a work among the many works that acted to Heart as Rosmersholm did to Lethal White and Faerie Queene did to Troubled Blood. This effort involved listing the poets, the epigraphs (citing poems by each woman), and, without reading each poem, noting simply what each brief excerpt included. You can read the results of those surveys at ‘Ink Black Heart: Intro to Epigraphs 101.'The anticipated result of those tabulations was that the poetic epigraphs in Heart, in tandem with the cardiac Part headings from Grey's Anatomy, were consistently about the heart as spiritual faculty rather than bodily pump. The surprise finding was that 13% of the epigraphs were from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh. John speculated in conclusion that it was the heart of Rowling's sixth Strike-Ellacott novel:Again, this is not the place to write at any length about the relevance of ‘Aurora Leigh' as a mirroring text within Ink Black Heart. Like you, I look forward to Beatrice Groves' exegesis to complement her Cuckoo's Calling work with Rossetti's ‘Dirge' and Tennyson's ‘Ulysses.' The two important things to note here are only that ‘Aurora Leigh' is the poem most deployed in Strike6 epigraphs and that it is a melange of “Biblical and classical history and mythology, as well as modern novels.” That it would work as something of a template or touchstone for Ink Black Heart, a novel with mythological and hermetic backdrops and archetypal symbols used to reinvent the depth and range of the most modern of genres, the murder mystery, as psychomachian allegory, seems almost a no-brainer. If you can only read one book or poem to buttress your understanding of Strike6, it has to be Durkheim's Suicide, Evola's Ride the Tiger, or Browning's ‘Aurora Leigh,' and I think the epic poem is your best bet.When Rowling agreed to a live interview with Serious Strikers on Twitter the month after Ink Black Heart's publication, one hosted by the Barmy Army, John listed the first question he would ask her to be about the importance if any of Aurora Leigh for understanding Strike 6: “Is Barret Browning's Aurora Leigh the backdrop story to Ink Black Heart the way Rosmersholm and Faerie Queen were to the fourth and fifth Strike mysteries?”Nick Jeffery included this question in a veritable barrage of questions he launched during the Barmy Army interview, and, incredibly, Rowling responded:John concluded in his write up of the Barmy Army interview:If I get “all credit” for the spotting, I must take the blame as well for misspelling Browning's name and for Nick's saying there were thirteen rather than fourteen Leigh epigraphs. All credit to @gbjeffen for succeeding in getting Rowling to answer a question, something I have not succeeding in doing in more than two decades of reading her work and writing about its artistry and meaning. Look for the seven point Ink Black Heart: Aurora Leigh post in the coming week.John, however, never wrote up that '“seven point Ink Black Heart Aurora Leigh post” and his expectation of a Beatrice Groves exegesis also never materialized. That project was delayed until Nick Jeffery, in his years long effort to read everything Rowling has admitted to reading and liking (see this list of those books, a list that predates the 2022 revelations in re Aurora Leigh), arrived at the 1856 epic novel in blank verse. Last week Nick wrote up his findings here as ‘A Rowling Reading of Aurora Leigh: The Influence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh on J.K. Rowling.'John and Nick put Hallmarked Man aside, consequently, in this week's conversation to talk about this poem, Nick's essay, and the place of this work in Fourth Generation Rowling Studies. Enjoy!Next week they'll chart Part Three of Hallmarked Man, discuss the astrological symbols and meaning embedded in Strike 8's names and plot points, and review with a Generation Hex special guest the long anticipated full-cast audio book of Harry Potter. and the Philosopher's Stone. Stay tuned — and please join the Paid Subscribers club to keep the HogPro lights on and restore heat and power to John's home! Many thanks to all subscribers around the world with a special shout-out this week to the six listeners in Norway: Tussen Takk!The Ten Questions and Promised Links:Little Women and Harry Potter: Jo Rowling is Jo March The Seven Points of CorrespondenceYou see, I was a plain — and that is relevant! you know that is relevant, that isn't a trivial thing, especially when you're a kid — I was a very plain, bookish, freckly, bright, little girl. I was a massive book worm and I spent a significant part of my reading looking for people like me.Now I didn't come up with nothing. Y'know, I remember Jo March who had a temper and wanted to be a writer so that was a lifeline. There's a heroine in a book called Little White Horse that I've spoken about publicly who was plain and that was fabulous. “Wow! You get to be a heroine and get not to be a raving beauty..”But y'know these were pretty slim pickings. J. K. Rowling: Deathly Hallows, Part 2, DVD extras, ‘The Women of Harry Potter‘ Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for AmericaA fascinating look at the cultural roots, political impact, and enduring legacy of Harriet Beecher Stowe's revolutionary bestseller.Uncle Tom's Cabin is likely the most influential novel ever written by an American. In a fitting tribute to the two hundredth anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's birth, Bancroft Prize-winning historian David S. Reynolds reveals her book's impact not only on the abolitionist movement and the American Civil War but also on worldwide events, including the end of serfdom in Russia, down to its influence in the twentieth century. He explores how both Stowe's background as the daughter in a famously intellectual family of preachers and her religious visions were fundamental to the novel. And he demonstrates why the book was beloved by millions―and won over even some southerners―while fueling lasting conflicts over the meaning of America. Although vilified over the years as often as praised, it has remained a cultural landmark, proliferating in the form of plays, songs, films, and merchandise―a rich legacy that has both fed and contested American racial stereotypes. Interview Questions1. [Nick] I wrote the essay, John, but the reason I read Aurora Leigh late 2025 dates back to September 2022 and a discovery you made while sorting through the 108 poetic epigraphs of Rowling's Ink Black Heart. Before we jump into the Elizabeth Barrett Browning epic poem, can you run us through that effort and finding?2. [John] 13% of course is nothing like the 100% epigraphical backdrops of Lethal White and Troubled Blood but, just reading the Wikipedia summary of Aurora Leigh, I thought it a very strong possibility that it might have served a similar function for Ink Black Heart. Which is where you enter the picture, Nick. I've never managed to get Rowling to answer even one of my questions in a quarter century of asking; you pried three answers out of her in one go! And on your first effort? Please tell us that story and what Rowling revealed about Aurora Leigh.3. [Nick] And so we had almost immediate confirmation of your highly speculative conclusion from the epigraphs, John. And you promised a seven point essay of compare and contrast criticism vis a vis Aurora Leigh and Ink Black Heart. What happened to that post?4. [John] So my notes for that were put aside, literally folded and stuffed in my Norton Critical edition of Aurora Leigh, waiting for the leisure time post dissertation to read the verse-novel and write up the seven points. But you revived that long forgotten project with your essay, Nick, so let's skip to that work. I'm confident few of our listeners are familiar with Elizabeth Barrett Browning or her most important and final poem; can you introduce us to both subjects?5. [John] How easy or hard was it to enter into the story, visualize the surroundings, and empathize with the characters?6. [John] And you charted the ring of Aurora Leigh's nine parts in your post! How hard was that? You didn't discuss it at any length in your post; how important do you think that is for understanding the work? Was it largely a hat-tip to the great epic poets?7. [John] If I had one complaint about your exegesis it's that you only spent two sentences on what I thought were profound findings, namely the ‘meaning in the middle' and the turtle-back correspondences between parts two and eight. Those are the giant take-aways, I think, of Leigh's influence on Rowling the Re-Reader and Magpie Borrower-Writer, no? Say some more about that, please.8. [John] You wrote that Rowling's selections from Aurora Leigh for epigraphs “are not arbitrary; they serve as interpretive keys, inviting readers to draw connections between the 19th-century verse and Rowling's modern tale of online toxicity, anonymity, and justice.” Can you give us some examples of what you mean?9. [John] Rowling specifies a parallel between Heart's Zoe and Leigh's Marian. Can you explain that link and its importance and any other character parallels and inspirations?10. [John] You close with ‘Thematic Resonances and Broader Literary Influence,' which are probably the most important connections between EBB and JKR beyond the plot point parallels and character echoes in Ink Black Heart. Can you summarize those in a way to push Serious Strikers and Rowling Readers to make the effort to find a copy of Aurora Leigh and read it?*Optional [Nick] So how close did I come to your ‘seven points,' John? This is a public episode. 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یادگاران مرگ – فصل ۳: عزیمت خانوادهٔ درزلی

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2025 81:59

این‌بار همراه با امید، میلاد، خشایار و ایاز ماجرا رو از دل یکی از خاص‌ترین لحظه‌های شروع کتاب دنبال می‌کنیم؛ شبی که خانهٔ شمارهٔ چهار خیابان پریوت درایو برای همیشه پشت سر گذاشته می‌شه. در این قسمت درباره تصمیم سخت خانوادهٔ درزلی برای ترک خانه، حضور اعضای محفل برای اسکورت، و مهم‌تر از همه گفت‌وگوی غیرمنتظره و انسانی دادلی با هری صحبت می‌کنیم. نگاهی می‌ندازیم به تغییرات ظریف شخصیت‌ها، لایه‌های احساسی این خداحافظی عجیب و این‌که چرا همین چند جملهٔ ساده می‌تونن یکی از به‌یادماندنی‌ترین لحظه‌های دنیای هری پاتر باشن.آنچه در این قسمت می‌شنوید:00:00:00گزیدهٔ این قسمت و شروع00:02:47آخرین لوموس با درزلی‌ها00:04:20طرح محفل برای محافظت از درزلی‌ها00:09:55هری ناجی00:16:01خوانش کتاب00:19:33فرجام دادلی درزلی00:28:36تربیت ورنون و پتونیا00:33:40تغییر شخصیت اسنیپ در فیلم00:45:07صدای مخاطب00:49:00بیرون و درون00:56:07ورنون و حکومت01:08:57پیام شما و کلام آخراجراکنندگان: ایاز، امید، میلاد و خشایارمترجم: حسین غریبیراوی: آرشیدا لاریآهنگساز: علی خانیکپی‌رایت: Warner Bros and J.K.Rowlingارتباط با ما: podcast@wizardingcenter.com (توییتر و اینستاگرام)

Achieving your Goals

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2025 17:29

This audible clip from Erik Qualman's #1 Bestselling book The Focus Project highlights how partnering with others can improve motivation and reinforce the habits that lead to achieving your goals. 5x #1 Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached over 50 million people this past decade. He was voted the 2nd Most Likable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. Have Erik speak at your conference: eq@equalman.com Motivational Speaker | Erik Qualman has inspired audiences at FedEx, Chase, ADP, Huawei, Starbucks, Godiva, FBI, Google, and many more on Focus and Digital Leadership. Learn more at https://equalman.com

What It Really Means to Thrive & Win in Life

Growth Unleashed with Makosi

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2025 27:28

Send us a textWhat It Really Means to Thrive & Win in LifeIn a world obsessed with looking successful, I want you to focus on becoming successful — from the inside out. Thriving is not a destination; it is an alignment. A way of living where your purpose, your authenticity, your faith, and even your failures all work together to build the person you're becoming.Today's episode breaks it down beautifully:1. Find Your Why — Your Inner CompassYour “why” is not a slogan. It's a remembering.A remembering of when you felt most alive, most powerful, most you.Ask yourself:When did I last feel deeply engaged, lit up, unmistakably myself?What patterns run through the moments where I felt most purposeful or impactful?Your why is found where your skills × your passions × what the world needs intersect.And truthfully… finding it is a journey. Be patient with yourself. Purpose is revealed through living, not overthinking.2. Live Authentically — Your SuperpowerJay-Z once said, “My biggest flex is showing up as myself every day.”That's the real flex. That's the real win.Authenticity is disruptive, magnetic, and rare.It's the one thing nobody can duplicate — your truest self.Ask yourself:How authentic am I in my interactions?Where do I shrink or perform?What would life feel like if I stopped auditioning for acceptance?Thriving begins when you choose authenticity over approval.3. Anchor in Faith — Trust the UnfoldingFaith isn't having all the answers.Faith is trusting that the answers will show up at the exact moment you need them — not a second earlier.It's trusting that the season you're in is part of your journey.It's believing in the quiet, unseen work happening behind the scenes.Your job isn't to predict… it's to stay aligned and stay moving.4. Redefine Failure — It's the Beginning, Not the EndAs long as you're trying new things, you will fail. We all fail.Failure is not a sign that you're unworthy — it's evidence that you're evolving.The difference between the people who eventually win and the ones who don't…is what they do with failure.Do you use it as a teacher?Do you get curious instead of ashamed?Do you extract the lesson and move forward?Think about J.K. Rowling — rejected by 12 publishers, living on welfare, depressed, and convinced she had nothing left.Yet that version of her wrote Harry Potter.That version of her turned failure into the beginning of a global phenomenon.Failure isn't a full stop.It's a comma.A pause.A redirection.A new chapter forming.THAT'S HOW YOU THRIVE.You find your why.You honour your authenticity.You walk in faith.You give failure permission to shape you, not stop you.This is how you win — not just on paper, but at the deepest level of your lifeSupport the show

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Johann Kurtz (Becoming Noble) - Leaving a Legacy

The Reformed Financial Advisor

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2025 58:16

I speak with with the semi-pseudonymous Johann Kurtz on his terrific new book Leaving a Legacy: Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families. Johann lays out the foundation for why it can be moral to leave an inheritance when pared with virtue. We talk how ‘Die with Zero' misses the mark, why true charity is necessarily multi-generational, family business as a conduit for generational continuity, and what J.K. Rowling instinctively understands about the re-enchantment of the world. Intro/Outro: Legends of the Fall Main Theme - James Horner This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.gentlemanspeculator.com

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The Viral Educator: Warren Smith on Wokeness, Campus Culture, and Losing His Job

Conversations With Coleman

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2025 74:58

Today I'm joined by Warren Smith, a teacher and filmmaker. He created a viral video challenging a student to explain why they believed J.K. Rowling was a bigot. It sparked a national conversation and ultimately cost Smith his job. We talk about that fallout, compare our experiences on college campuses during the height of wokeness, dig into Trump's attempts to reshape elite universities, and explore what might actually fix higher education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dark Horse: Letting Go of the Baggage We Carry

MIRROR TALK

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2025 5:08

In this vulnerable solo episode of Mirror Talk: Soulful Conversations, we explore what it means to be a dark horse—the underestimated soul carrying unseen baggage from trauma, betrayal, or painful experiences. Through heartfelt storytelling, real-life examples like Oprah Winfrey, Michael Phelps, and J.K. Rowling, and practical steps to release resentment, Tobi Ojekunle invites you to lay down your burdens and step into your brightest life.What You'll Learn in This Episode:How to recognise the hidden baggage and grudges weighing you downReal-world stories of transformation from public figures who turned pain into powerPractical, soulful steps to release resentment and reclaim your futureWhy forgiving isn't weakness, but freedomEncouragement for every “dark horse” to rise and thrivePower Quote from the Episode:“Letting go doesn't erase your past—it opens your future. You are not your trauma. You are the possibility waiting to unfold.”Call to Action:✨ If this episode spoke to you, share it with someone who might need the reminder that their story isn't over. Tag me on Instagram @MirrorTalkPodcast and let's keep the conversation going. Don't forget to leave a review on your favourite podcast platform—it helps this soulful community grow.Listen on your favourite podcast platform: ⁠https://lnkfi.re/mirrortalk⁠Don't forget to subscribe, rate, share, and comment. Thank you!CONFESSIONS is now available: https://mirrortalkpodcast.com/confessions-book/ Thank you for joining me on this MIRROR TALK podcast journey. Please subscribe to any platform and remember to leave a review and rating.Stay connected: https://linktr.ee/mirrortalkpodcast More inspiring episodes and show notes are here: https://mirrortalkpodcast.com/podcast-episodes/ Your opinions, thoughts, suggestions, and comments are important to us. Please share them here: https://mirrortalkpodcast.com/your-opinion-matters/ Could you support us by becoming a Patreon? Please consider subscribing to one or more of our offerings at http://patreon.com/MirrorTalk All proceeds will help enhance the quality of our work and outreach, enabling us to serve you better.We use and trust these podcasting tools, software, and gear. We've partnered with amazing platforms to give our Mirror Talk community exclusive deals and discounts: https://mirrortalkpodcast.com/mirror-talks-recommended-podcasting-tools-exclusive-discounts/

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یادگاران مرگ – فصل ۲: یادبود

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2025 93:15

در این قسمت همراه با امید، ملیحه، خشایار و میلاد نگاهی می‌اندازیم به فصل «یادبود»؛ جایی که هری بین وسایلش می‌گرده و با خواندن مقاله‌ها و یادداشت‌های مربوط به دامبلدور وارد دنیایی از روایت‌های متناقض می‌شه. درباره‌ دو نگاه کاملا متفاوت به گذشتهٔ دامبلدور حرف می‌زنیم، از ماجرای پروندهٔ پدرش و شایعه‌های ریتا اسکیتر گرفته تا ادعاهای بحث‌برانگیز درباره‌ گذشته او با گریندلوالد. در این اپیزود بررسی می‌کنیم چطور این اطلاعات تازه، تصویر هری (و ما) از دامبلدور رو دگرگون می‌کنه، چه سوال‌های جدیدی ایجاد می‌کنه، و چرا این فصل یکی از مهم‌ترین نقاط آغاز تنش‌های کتاب «یادگاران مرگ» حساب می‌شه.آنچه در این قسمت می‌شنوید:00:00:00گزیدهٔ این قسمت و شروع00:04:10صندوق هری یا کمد آقای گوفی00:09:26ناتوانی جادویی هری00:12:53اشیا درون صندوق00:19:29صدای مخاطب00:23:38مقالهٔ الفی‌یس دوج00:38:16خوانش کتاب00:40:50ارتباط دوج و دامبلدور00:51:51مقالهٔ ریتا اسکیتر00:59:02اعتمادتون به دامبلدور کجا از بین رفت؟01:07:52تاثیر رسانه01:20:44کلام آخراجراکنندگان: امید، میلاد و خشایار و ملیحهمترجم: حسین غریبیراوی: آرشیدا لاریآهنگساز: علی خانیکپی‌رایت: Warner Bros and J.K.Rowlingارتباط با ما: podcast@wizardingcenter.com (توییتر و اینستاگرام)

Jonny Rokeby was both Cormoran and Charlotte's Father: The Incest Twist Rowling Has Hidden Inside the Strike Series

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2025 106:29

The Hogwarts Professor comment threads have been jumping so Nick Jeffery and John Granger decided to dedicate a conversation to a review of the Greatest Hits in the last week (to do a complete review yourself, click on ‘Activity' in the left margin of the Hogwarts Professor Substack home page).After their reviewing the remarkably global and growing audience of Rowling Readers — 36 countries, 46 states! — and tracking The Presence's location — her yacht seems to be in Fiji but she is touring Levesden Studios? — Nick and John read out fifteen comment subjects and discuss the merits, deficiencies, and promise of each.The lede story is the theory shared by Jaclyn Hayes that Cormoran Strike and the late Charlotte Campbell were half-siblings with Jonny Rokeby in common as their absentee father. From her notes: I think Charlotte was blackmailed (via threat of exposing the relatedness btw her and Cormoran) into marrying Jago to provide him a male heir. Perhaps their relatedness is even an open secret in Charlotte's family, similar to the “secret” relatedness of Decima and Rupert in THM (another parallel). Charlotte was forbidden from telling Cormoran about the blackmail, but since she's conniving and obsessed with him, she uses their unexpected encounter at the Paralympics gala to drop hints about her predicament, hoping he'll solve the mystery and save her or take her back once she's fulfilled the terms of her marriage/birth agreement with Jago. She then orchestrates another encounter with Cormoran to drop more hints-- this time at Franco's, which she knows will trigger the memory of her father's outrage at seeing her and Cormoran dating again. She hopes Cormoran will realize her father was angry because he knew they were related, not simply because he thinks Cormoran wasn't good enough for her. She then tells Coromoran things would be different if he'd taken the job her father offered him (calling to mind the job Tara gives Rupert to keep him quiet in THM), and says she found out she was pregnant at Tara's house and later “lost” (not aborted) the baby. Read the whole thing. Ed Shardlow's response, in which he points out that the hallmark given to silver and DNA testing of human beings have a lot in common, and Tamspells and Jaclyn Hayes discussion of Strike's dreams in previous books give the Strike:Charlotte::Rupert:Decima theory some heft. Cheryl Rose Orrocks asked for help with research she is doing on a possible divine marker, mythologically divine at least, being placed in each book at the appearance of that novel's killer. The only holes in her theory at the time Nick and John recorded their conversation were Troubled Blood and Running Grave — and Catherine has since posted a neat solution for Strike 5. Check that out and please share the missing god or goddess from Running Grave!Nick and John also review and discuss:* Ed Shardlow's idea that the characters creating narratives inside Rowling-Galbraith stories are perhaps best understood as creating their stories as Rowling writes hers, i.e., inspired by Lake material and crafted with the tools in their Sheds;* Vicky's thank you to Dr Fimi for the Ursula Le Guin quotation;* Ed Shardlow's ‘RL Mystery' with back-up from Tamspells and J. S. Maleksen;* Cheryl Rose Orrocks' YouTube notes about the Dirty Bomb Theory conversation (and just how wrong John is about Carmen the opera and Carmen Ellacott); and* Answers to listener requests for more information — all of which can be found in the Links section below!In the week to come, John pledges to post his Hallmarked Man Names exegesis, Nick is working on his review of Aurora Leigh, the supposed template of Ink Black Heart (and the only book ever confirmed by Rowling as such), they will record their Part Two ring charting this weekend, and John is reorganizing his 2017 seven week online course — Wizard Reading Formula — for which class Paid Subscribers will get a greater than 50% discount.John and Nick thank everyone listening and especially those active on the comment threads and taking part in the Hallmarked Man Ring Reading Workshop!Links to Subjects Discussed in the Conversation Above:Cheryl Rose Orrocks: Can you let me know the title and author of the book about Gothic elements?The one John used for Harry Potter's Bookshelf was Patterns of fear in the Gothic novel, 1790-1830 by Ann Tracy, now only ‘in print' via a Kindle version.John read from his much longer Harry Meets Hamlet and Scrooge: Harry Potter's Hogwarts Adventures as the Gateway to English Literature in the conversation above, in which the list of subjects is spelled out (e.g., the castle, supernatural atmosphere, horror, isolation, subterranean passages, fragmentation and reunion, prophecy, ancestral curse, tainted blood, bond of blood, graveyard, corpses, Decay of Aristocratic Privilege, Rise of Bourgeoisie, forest, memories, dreams, found book, doppelgangers, scar or tell-tale mark, mysterious stranger, confused origin, night, mist and fog, distant past, death,, etc.).John also recommends The Handbook of Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvy-Roberts, and The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, ed. Jerrold Hogle.Who is the mystery writer John was talking about who killed a women when she was an adolescent?Anne Perry, author of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt and William Monk series of historical detective fiction. John recommends Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century, the book written by the journalist who out'd Perry as a convicted murderer writing murder mysteries. Perry died in 2023. J. S. Maleksen I too enjoyed this post, immensely. Can someone recommend a version of Cupid and Psyche and other relevant works of mythology for a Striker who assiduously avoided mythology through seven years of post-secondary education. I'm willing to gut it out in order to understand Rowling's work. TIA.John shared his favorites in the conversation above — Hamilton's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Graves' The Greek Myths, Powell's Classical Myth, and Schwab's Gods and Heroes: Myths and Epics of Ancient Greece but Dr Dimitra Fimi responded in the thread today:It's a really difficult question this, and yet it shouldn't be. But the truth is that there is no contemporary authoritative collection of Greek/Classical mythological retellings that's up-to-date with recent scholarship, etc. Catherine recommends Hamilton's book below, which is still good in many respects, but these earlier compilations (like Bulfinch's too) often synthesize different versions of mythological narratives, and omit some interesting variations. My recommendations are a bit heavier on the scholarly side of things, but still readable (the issue will be getting hold of them, but I provide links where possible):1) Classical Myth by Barry B. Powell - as implied by the astronomical price on Amazon.uk (https://amzn.to/3JYkLfF) this is mostly available second-hand now, but there is a scanned version via Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/classicalmyth0000powe (you'll need to create a free account, but once you do you can log in and borrow the book digitally to read)2) Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (2 Volumes) by Timothy Gantz is great, and at least easier to get hold of. It gives the tales and their versions as well as an overview of their sources. The Amazon price of Vol. 1, for example, is a bit more accessible: https://amzn.to/4oTFKQ1For those interested in the de profundis interpretation of classical myth, see The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning and Symbolism in Greek Mythology by Paul Diel.You can find the post about Beedle the Bard that Dr Fimi discussed in her conversation with Nick and John at her Substack, ‘A Kind of Elvish Craft:' “You must've heard of Babbitty Rabbitty!”: Secondary World Fairy Tales in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

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Winning at Tetris

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2025 11:38

This audible clip from Erik Qualman's #1 Bestselling book The Focus Project compares life to a game of Tetris: the more blocks you try to manage, the harder it becomes, but when you choose the right ones to focus on, everything starts to fall into place. 5x #1 Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached over 50 million people this past decade. He was voted the 2nd Most Likable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. Have Erik speak at your conference: eq@equalman.com Motivational Speaker | Erik Qualman has inspired audiences at FedEx, Chase, ADP, Huawei, Starbucks, Godiva, FBI, Google, and many more on Focus and Digital Leadership. Learn more at https://equalman.com

Reading Rowling as Myth Maker and Myth Re-Writer: A Conversation with Dr Dimitra Fimi

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2025 110:53

Dimitra Fimi is Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow and Co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic. Her Tolkien, Race and Cultural History won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies and she co-edited the critical edition of A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages which won the Tolkien Society Award for Best Book. Her Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children's Fantasy won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies. Other work includes co-editing Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work, its Precursors and its Legacies and Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy. She has contributed articles for the TLS and The Conversation, and has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs.When the rightly famous and beloved ‘The Great Courses' series decided to offer a Lord of the Rings entry for their catalog of the very best in scholarship for adult-learners, they asked Dimitra Fimi to create ‘The World of J. R. R. Tolkien,' one of their most popular courses and one you can enjoy in an Audible edition.Links Promised in Conversation:A Kind of Elvish Craft: The Dimitra Fimi Substack Site* Miniature Books in Children's Fantasy* Parabasis: A Tribute to Dionysis Stavvopoulos* On Tolkien's Letter 131 (4): “Romance” vs. ScienceDimitra Fimi articles at ‘The Conversation'* After 150 years, we still haven't solved the puzzle of Alice in Wonderland (2015)Kanreki Conversations about Rowling-Galbraith ‘Golden Threads'* Pregnancy Traps in the Works of Rowling-Galbraith* Golden Threads in Rowling-Galbraith (1)* Golden Threads in Rowling-Galbraith (2)* ‘The Lost Child' Golden Thread* Alternative Explanations of ‘The Lost Child' Golden Thread* The Induced Abortion Hypothesis* The July 2025 Kanreki IndexOur Ten Questions for Dr Fimi:1. How does a woman born and raised on the Greek island of Salamis wind up in Cardiff studying Celtic Mythology?2. You're a Tolkien scholar and expert in fantasy and Children's literature. Tolkienistas are legend for looking down their Ent noses at Harry Potter, though there are important exceptions to that rule (the late Stratford Caldecott, his wife Leonie, Amy H. Sturgis, others). How did you meet the Boy Who Lived and what were your first impressions of Rowling as author?3. You have a lot in common with Rowling, no? Tolkien devotee, serious student of mythology, and a wonderful appreciation of the magic of story, especially magical stories for children. The Tolkien influence on Rowling is well documented though she has tried to belittle it, but her use of myths as templates for her stories is less well known but at least as important. What do you make of her admittedly “shameless” borrowing from folk tales and myths?4. I guess this is a segue to the Cormoran Strike books which are awash in myths -- Leda and the Swan, Castor and Pollux, Cupid and Psyche, Artemis and Tisiphone... Am I missing any?5. You've seen Rowling's recent confirmation of the Cupid and Psyche myth in her tweeted painting of ‘Psyche Ascendant.' That suggests we'll see the happy ending of the myth in Strikes 9 and 10. Or does it? What did you see of that myth specifically in Hallmarked Man?6. Running Grave has another embedded text, not a myth per se, one that makes sense in light of Rowling's love of everything the Bronte sisters wrote. Tell us what made you think of Jane Eyre as you were reading Strike 7.7. Rowling did something unusual in 2019, well, among the unusual things she did that year, in inviting readers to interpret her work in light of their ‘Lake' inspiration as well as her intentional ‘Shed' artistry. Writers like Lewis and Tolkien would be aghast at that, though Inkling Studies today necessarily include heavy biographical leanings in almost everything written about those authors. What is your take in general on what Lewis called ‘The Personal Heresy' and about Rowling as a living author inviting that critical perspective while she is still among us?8. It's fascinating, frankly, that you are not so compartmentalized in your reading that Rowling is still a writer you read outside of her fantasy and children's literature. Do you read the Strike-Ellacott stories because you also love a good detective novel or is it your interest in Rowling and whatever she is writing?9. Have you read Christmas Pig? John believes that in fifty years, the Lord tarrying, high school and college students will read Pig as Rowling's representative work the way we had to read Tale of Two Cities or Christmas Carol to be exposed to Dickens.10. John tries to read imaginative fiction through what he calls an “iconological lens,” a method born of his Perennialist beliefs and life as an Orthodox Christian. In what ways do you think your childhood and secondary education gave you a sympathy unusual for multi-valent texts than those born and raised in relatively secular cultures? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hogwartsprofessor.substack.com/subscribe

282. Percy vs Potter

You Don't Know Lit

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2025 52:53

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling (1997) vs The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (2005)

Hour 3: Best of the Jason Rantz Show

The Jason Rantz Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2025 46:40

A Redmond councilmember appears to encourage literal 'fighting back” against ICE, doubles down despite the police chief’s warning. Last month experienced the biggest October job cuts in over two decades and it’s because of AI. // LongForm: GUEST: U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon chimes in on UW forcing professors to pledge allegiance to DEI during their application process. // Quick Hit: J.K. Rowling is calling out Glamour UK magazine for featuring nine biological men as their ‘women of the year.’

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یادگاران مرگ – فصل ۱: اوج‌گیری لرد سیاه

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2025 113:54

در این قسمت از پادکست لوموس، همراه با امید، میلاد، خشایار و فرزانه ابراهیم‌زاده عزیز، سراغ آغاز تاریک‌ترین کتاب مجموعه می‌ریم؛ جایی که ولدمورت در عمارت ملفوی با مرگخوارها جلسه‌ای ترسناک برگزار می‌کنه. در این قسمت دربارهٔ وضعیت قدرت در دنیای جادوگران، تغییر جایگاه خانوادهٔ ملفوی، نقش اسنیپ و یکسلی در نفوذ به وزارت‌خونه و قتل بی‌رحمانهٔ چریتی بربج حرف می‌زنیم. همچنین نگاهی داریم به نحوهٔ رهبری ولدمورت و فضایی که نشون می‌ده دوران ترس و تاریکی واقعا شروع شده.آنچه در این قسمت می‌شنوید:00:00:00گزیدهٔ این قسمت و شروع00:03:22عنوان و خاطرات کتاب آخر00:19:03تقدیم و شروع داستان00:24:59عمارت مالفوی00:36:04خوانش کتاب00:38:49رقابت وفاداری00:56:14 01:19:42صدای مخاطب01:25:43حقانیت و تحقیر01:29:08عقلانیت لرد سیاه01:43:46آخرین بخش: تست چوبدستی01:49:21کلام آخراجراکنندگان: امید، میلاد و خشایارمهمان: فرزانه ابراهیم‌زادهمترجم: حسین غریبیراوی: آرشیدا لاریآهنگساز: متین آبانکپی‌رایت: Warner Bros and J.K.Rowlingارتباط با ما: podcast@wizardingcenter.com (توییتر و اینستاگرام)

The Power of Changing Lanes

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2025 11:50

This audible clip from Erik Qualman's #1 Bestselling book The Focus Project emphasizes the importance of knowing who lifts you up and who pulls you down, and that it's perfectly okay to shift paths when someone starts holding you back. 5x #1 Bestselling Author and Motivational Speaker Erik Qualman has performed in over 55 countries and reached over 50 million people this past decade. He was voted the 2nd Most Likable Author in the World behind Harry Potter's J.K. Rowling. Have Erik speak at your conference: eq@equalman.com Motivational Speaker | Erik Qualman has inspired audiences at FedEx, Chase, ADP, Huawei, Starbucks, Godiva, FBI, Google, and many more on Focus and Digital Leadership. Learn more at https://equalman.com

“Nostalgia Hurts Sometimes” - Nostalgia and Toxic Fandoms PART 1

Three Black Halflings | A Dungeons & Dragons Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2025 60:12

This week! Liv, Candace, and Jeremy take a little detour into sharing some of their scariest and spookiest tales. From petrifying Polaroids to demonic dreams, the Halflings dive into it all. Why are we drawn to nostalgia? What exactly makes us feel nostalgic. Within this conversation, they tackle the big elephant in the room: Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling's disappointing outlook. From plagiarism claims to damaging public statements, they unpack why separating the artist from the art doesn't hold up in this case. This episode is about the grief of losing something that once meant everything, and coming to terms with the fact that the magic didn't simply fade — it was taken. But this isn't the full story! If you want to listen to the Halfling's full discussion, head over to the Patreon where you can listen to Parts 1 and 2 right now, along with bonus solo podcasts and extra interactive elements, all completely ad free! Also - did you miss out on our first

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Ep85: Job Uncertainty Got You Down? Do This Now.

The Career Woman's Secret Playbook Podcast - with Dr. Dawn

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2025 18:22

If you're feeling anxious about job uncertainty — whether it's layoffs, budget cuts, or just that uneasy “what's next?” feeling — take a deep breath. You're not alone. I know how that stress can affect not just your career, but your confidence and peace of mind. Here's the truth: you can't always control what's happening around you, but you can absolutely control how you respond. In this episode, I'm sharing three powerful strategies and one bonus tip to help you stay grounded, take action, and turn uncertainty into opportunity. 3 Strategies to Rise Above Job Uncertainty 1. Acknowledge, Don't Avoid You don't have to “stay positive” 24/7. It's okay to admit when you're scared or frustrated. Acknowledging your feelings helps you release them instead of letting them control your decisions. 2. Focus on What You Can Control When everything feels unstable, anchor yourself to action. Update your resume, reconnect with your network, or learn a new skill. Progress, no matter how small, builds confidence — and confidence calms fear. 3. Surround Yourself With Positivity Your mindset is shaped by what surrounds you. Create an uplifting workspace, listen to motivating podcasts, and spend time with people who remind you of your strength. Bonus Tip: Get Inspired by J.K. Rowling Before becoming the world-renowned author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling faced rejection, financial hardship, and doubt. But she refused to give up. She focused on what she could control — her writing — and changed her life forever. Her story is proof that even when everything feels uncertain, your belief in yourself can change everything. That's why, for a limited time, I'm giving away my “You've Got This Cheat Sheet,” normally reserved for my private coaching clients. It's filled with the same tools and mindset exercises I use to help clients navigate career challenges with confidence. To get your free copy, just comment “Cheat Sheet” on YouTube, email me at drdawn@drdawnshoptalk.com, or DM us on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Instagram. As I always say here on The Career Woman's Secret Playbook Podcast: “If you're not having a fantastic day, you have the power to make it one.” Because even in uncertain times, you still hold the power to shift your focus, protect your peace, and create your next opportunity. Until next time, this is Dr. Dawn — reminding you: You've got this. NEW HERE? Here are your “Must-Do's:” Check out our Mentioned Videos: The Career Woman's Secret Playbook Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fR_clXjZ-4&list=PLdguFjdYMwqWXnvIeSAIhDrtPdHdsLGde Facing Your Fears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ShWjl6H-x4 Upskilling Secrets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm6ro9LlUMA&list=PLdguFjdYMwqX3gnuMSrLgaN7hXBSWhqmO Get your copy of The Career Woman's Secret Playbook! Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Career-Womans-Secret-Playbook Contact Me: https://www.drdawnshoptalk.com/book-online Grab your Freebies: https://www.drdawnshoptalk.com/career-secrets https://www.youtube.com/@drdawnshoptalk/podcasts

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Rosalía, Bad Bunny y Taylor Swift: todo lo cultural es político

Las noticias de EL PAÍS

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2025 27:58

Rosalía, Taylor Swift o Bad Bunny son mucho más que artistas musicales, son también símbolos de una época en la que todo, incluida la cultura, puede ser también una forma de hacer política. Cada disco, videoclip o aparición pública desencadena debates sobre feminismo, identidad o clase. De la espiritualidad de Lux a la reivindicación de lo latino y la cultura puertorriqueña de Debí tirar más fotos, de Frida Kahlo a Dante Alighieri, de los discursos anti-trans de J.K. Rowling al impacto político de artistas del pop, cada obra se reinterpreta hoy desde nuevas trincheras ideológicas. En un contexto marcado por la polarización y la mercantilización de las luchas sociales, la cultura popular actúa como espejo de las tensiones contemporáneas. Cualquier gesto creativo se analiza y se discute pero: ¿podemos disfrutar del arte sin pensar en lo que representa? Algunas de las recomendaciones que encontrarás en el podcast: Lux, de Rosalía Debí tirar más fotos, de Bad Bunny FatherMotherSisterBrother, de Jim Jarmusch Divina Comedia, de Danti Alighieri CRÉDITOS: Realizan: Tommaso Koch, Ana Marcos y Jimena Marcos Con información de: María Porcel, Paola Nagovitch, Sergio C. Fanjul, Eneko Ruiz y Jorge Morla Presenta: Jimena Marcos Diseño de sonido: Nicolás Tsabertidis Edición: Ana Ribera Coordina: José Juan Morales Dirección Hoy en El País: Silvia Cruz Lapeña Sintonía: Nicolás Tsabertidis

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Absurd Truth: Failed Dishwashing Robots

The Dana Show with Dana Loesch

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2025 23:47 Transcription Available

Dana Loesch reacts to the first humanoid robot housemaid who took 5 minutes to try and load a dishwasher. Meanwhile, Actress Keira Knightley laughs out loud after a reporter asked if she was aware that trans-allied people are boycotting Harry Potter because of J.K. Rowling.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/Dana OR CALL 972-PATRIOTStand for freedom with Dana's personal cell phone provider--Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANANoble Goldhttps://NobleGoldInvestments.com/DanaOpen a new qualified IRA or cash account with Noble Gold and get a free 10-ounce Silver Flag Bar plus a Silver American Eagle Proof Coin. Limited-time offer. Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaTake advantage of Byrna's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale with 15% off sitewide. PreBornhttps://Preborn.com/DANAAnswer the call and help save lives—dial pound 250 and say “Baby,” or give securely online. Make your gift today.AmmoSquaredhttps://AmmoSquared.comDon't get caught without ammo, and be sure to tell them you heard about Ammo Squared on this show. Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comKelTec builds every KS7 GEN2 right here in the USA with American materials and workers—upgrade your home defense today. All Family Pharmacyhttps://AllFamilyPharmacy.com/Dana Don't wait until flu season knocks at your door. Use code DANA10 at checkout to save 10%. Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! HumanNhttps://HumanN.comStart supporting your cardiovascular health with SuperBeets, now available at your local Walmart.

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Master the Art of Saying No