Podcasts about Sebald

di e con Fabrizio Coppola Letture: W.G. Sebald, Sulla terra e sull'acqua, Poesie scelte 1964-2001 (a cura di Sven Meyer, trad. A. Vigliani); Miks Koljers, Le montagne dei Paesi Baltici (trad. S. Rota Sperti, The Passenger Paesi Baltici, Iperborea). Musica: Afterhours, Gloria Bruni, U2, Coro della radio lettone, David Bowie.

Mit «Il Ritorno in Patria» schuf W. G. Sebald ein Stück Weltliteratur. Die autobiografisch anmutende Erzählung handelt vor allem von der Sehnsucht nach Heimat – und von der unerbittlichen Gegenwart der Erinnerung. Mit Originaltönen von W. G. Sebald. Wer das Hörspiel am Radio hören will: Samstag, 31.05.2025, 20.00 Uhr, Radio SRF 2 Kultur Ein Ausgewanderter kehrt nach dreissig Jahren in seine Heimat zurück, ins kleine Allgäuer Dorf Wertach. Er will überprüfen, «ob das, was in meiner Fantasie von diesem Ort noch existiert, tatsächlich auffindbar ist». Einzig seiner Schulfreundin Anna gibt er sich zu erkennen, sie lebt noch immer im gleichen Haus wie damals. Gemeinsam beschwören die beiden die Welt der Kindheit. Den Erzähler begleitet während der ganzen Reise ein gespenstischer Schatten, ein Doppelgänger, der sich mit düsteren Vorhersagen zu Wort meldet. Am Ende stirbt ein Jäger, ein krankes Kind kommt gerade noch mit dem Leben davon – und eine unerwartete Einsicht treibt den Ausgewanderten zum zweiten Mal zur Flucht aus der Heimat. ____________________ Mit: August Zirner (Erzähler), Crescentia Dünsser (Anna Ambroser), Paul Bartdorff (Max), Catalina Bartdorff (Anna, jung), Monica Anna Cammerlander (Bedienerin), Christian Heller (Holzknecht), Jürg Kienberger (Dr. Piazolo), Händl Klaus (Tiroler Polizist), Karl Knaup (Bauer Erd), Martin Ostermeier (Zollbeamter), Mona Petri (Fräulein Rauch), Seraphina Schweiger (Romana), Gabi Striegl (Rezeptionistin) sowie W. G. Sebald (Wanderer) ____________________ Musik: Cico Beck – Tontechnik: Basil Kneubühler – Dramaturgie: Wolfram Höll – Hörspielfassung und Regie: Ralf Bücheler und Johannes Mayr ____________________ Produktion: SRF/ORF 2021 ____________________ Dauer: 50'

En este episodio nos adentramos en el oscuro y sangriento universo de Doom, el icónico videojuego de id Software que cambió para siempre el modo en que entendemos el terror interactivo. Pero hoy no hablaremos de armas ni de demonios... sino de narrativa. ¿Puede un FPS de los 90 ser interpretado como una alegoría existencial? ¿Qué hay detrás de sus laberintos pixelados y su violencia desatada? Aquí respondemos a esas preguntas con un enfoque literario y simbólico que te hará mirar a Doom con otros ojos. Gilgamesh, Homero, Virgilio, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, William Blake, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Celan, Elfriede Jelinek, W. G. Sebald, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Georges Bataille, Thomas Ligotti, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nick Land, Cormac McCarthy..., todos ellos, de un modo u otro, están relacionados con el tema que nos ocupa el día de hoy. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vuelodelcometa YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@vuelodelcometa Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/vuelodelcometa Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/vuelodelcometa.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vuelodelcometa Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vuelodelcometa Telegram: https://t.me/vuelodelcometacomunidad WhatsApp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb16aSZEawdwoA2TD235 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vuelodelcometa Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@Vuelodelcometa Web: alvaroaparicio.net Si quieres apoyar este y otros proyectos relacionados: https://www.patreon.com/vuelodelcometa o a través del sistema de mecenazgo en iVoox. Y si quieres contactar con nosotros para una promoción, no dudes en ponerte en contacto a través de: vuelodelcometapodcast@gmail.com Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

In this episode of the OODAcast, host Matt Devost is joined by Alok Sama, author of The Money Trap, for a compelling conversation about Sama's journey from modest beginnings in India to leading some of the most ambitious investment efforts in tech history. Sama recounts his early days in Delhi, the unlikely path to Wharton, and his time at Morgan Stanley before stepping into the eye of the storm as President and CFO of SoftBank. Alongside Masayoshi Son, he helped deploy the groundbreaking Vision Fund, a $100B initiative that forever changed the scale of tech investing. Sama offers behind-the-scenes insights into the wild ride of investing in giants like Uber, WeWork, and ARM, reflecting on how bold vision and massive capital shaped, and sometimes distorted, the future of technology. es candid lessons from massive wins and public missteps, including the now-infamous WeWork saga. He also delves into how a high-stakes smear campaign impacted his health and priorities, offering an unflinching look at the personal costs of operating at the top of global finance. Throughout the episode, Sama's honesty, humor, and humility shine, echoing the voice that made his book so impactful. Beyond business, the conversation turns deeply personal. Sama reflects on what really matters after decades of chasing financial success. He opens up about regrets around time lost with loved ones, the role of humility in leadership, and how ancient Indian philosophy helped him reframe his priorities. Now entering a new chapter focused on writing, mentoring, and giving back, Sama offers timeless advice for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone navigating high-pressure careers. This episode is a must-watch for those curious about the intersection of power, capital, and purpose. Additional Links: Alok on X Book Recommendation: The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald

In episode 89 of the Podcast for Social Research, recorded live at BISR Central, BISR faculty Danielle Drori, Jude Webre, and Lauren K. Wolfe sat down following a screening of Stanley Kubrick's controversial final film, Eyes Wide Shut, to discuss its long thirty years in the making, its source material in fin-de-siècle Vienna, and its vision of bourgeois marriage and sexual morality in turn-of-the-millennium New York. Kicking off with behind-the-scenes Hollywood details, Jude adumbrates an argument for the film as an auteur's personal reverie, tracing resonances between it and the enigmatic story of Kubrick's own (second) married life in postwar New York City; Lauren then lets us in on the lurid sexual obsessions of Arthur Schnitzler, on whose 1926 novella Dream Story the film is based, with the interpretive aid of W.G. Sebald; while Danielle guides us through a collective Freudian analysis of the dreams that run through and construct the film's emotional core. With insightful and witty participation from the audience, the talk touches on masculinity within marriage; nudity and nakedness; coitus interruptus; Freud's stages of sexual development; dream as unconscious communication; sex and death; fucking down and marrying up; Nicole Kidman as gay icon; and whether anything of substance appears to have changed in bourgeois sexual morality between circa 1900 and 1999. The Podcast for Social Research is produced by Ryan Lentini. Learn more about upcoming courses on our website. Follow Brooklyn Institute for Social Research on Twitter / Facebook / Instagram / Bluesky  

Austerlitz es una elegía monumental al olvido. Sebald construye una obra donde la arquitectura, la fotografía y la digresión histórica son síntomas de un trauma irresoluble. La genialidad radica en mostrar cómo el siglo XX —con sus guerras y genocidios— convirtió la identidad en un puzzle con piezas perdidas.AVISO LEGAL: Los cuentos, poemas, fragmentos de novelas, ensayos y todo contenido literario que aparece en Crónicas Lunares di Sun podrían estar protegidos por derecho de autor (copyright). Si por alguna razón los propietarios no están conformes con el uso de ellos por favor escribirnos al correo electrónico cronicaslunares.sun@hotmail.com y nos encargaremos de borrarlo inmediatamente. Si te gusta lo que escuchas y deseas apoyarnos puedes dejar tu donación en PayPal, ahí nos encuentras como @IrvingSun  https://paypal.me/IrvingSun?country.x=MX&locale.x=es_XC  Síguenos en:  Telegram: Crónicas Lunares di Sun  ⁠Crónicas Lunares di Sun - YouTube⁠ ⁠https://t.me/joinchat/QFjDxu9fqR8uf3eR⁠  ⁠https://www.facebook.com/cronicalunar/?modal=admin_todo_tour⁠  ⁠Crónicas Lunares (@cronicaslunares.sun) • Fotos y videos de Instagram⁠  ⁠https://twitter.com/isun_g1⁠  ⁠https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy9lODVmOWY0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz⁠  ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4x2gFdKw3FeoaAORteQomp⁠  https://mx.ivoox.com/es/s_p2_759303_1.html⁠ https://tunein.com/user/gnivrinavi/favorites⁠ 

The conversation is in English, after a short introduction in Swedish. Rachel Cusk är en av vår tids mest nyskapande och inflytelserika författare. I sin senaste roman "Parad" utforskar hon, genom en serie sammanflätade berättelser, frågor om identitet, konstnärskap och de myter vi skapar om våra liv. Rachel Cusk (född 1967) kommer från Kanada men är bosatt i England. Hon har skrivit ett stort antal hyllade romaner och essäer. Det stora internationella genombrottet kom med trilogin "Konturer", "Transit" och "Kudos". Hon är en av samtidslitteraturens mest inflytelserika röster och har jämförts med W. G. Sebald och Virginia Woolf. Yukiko Duke är kulturjournalist, översättare och verksam som konstnärlig ledare för Norsk litteraturfestival. Hon ingår i juryn för Kulturhuset Stadsteaterns internationella litteraturpris. I samarbete med Albert Bonniers Förlag. Från 13 mars 2025 Jingel: Lucas Brar

With The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography (NYRB), Benjamin Swett brings us a subtly beautiful series of essays that explore memory and identity and what we really see in the viewfinder. We talk about the role of photography in his life, how Musil, Sebald, and Knausgaard and taught him to trust digressions, the freedom to be found in the essay, how working in the NYC Parks Dept. led him into some strange career choices, and the challenge (& reward) of photographing trees. We get into our respective rebellions against our fathers and linearity, the loss of his daughter and how her shadow looms over the book, his idea for a negative-autobiography and my own photo-text project, how his family felt about being included in the essays, and the moment he felt comfortable moving from film to digital. We also discuss his 9/11 and what it revealed to him about himself, how the constraint of Instagram captions can lead to good storytelling, the ~30-year gap he took to finish his MFA, the benefits of leaning in to awkwardness and self-revelation, and a lot more. Follow Benjamin on Instagram • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our e-newsletter

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by the editorial director of the New York Review of Books and the founder of the NYRB classic series, Edwin Frank, to discuss his first work of nonfiction, the book, Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel. Taking the novel as the preeminent art form of the last century, Frank's book charts its winding path of development, beginning with Fyodor Dostoevskey's Notes from the Underground, published in 1864, and ending with W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz which arrived more than a 100 years later. Along the way, Frank looks at the many different forms and categories great 20th century novels take, from the distinctly modern and popular science fiction of H.G. Wells to the “minorness” of Franz Kafka; the historical precision of Thomas Mann to Gerturde Stein's stress on sentence itself, and James Joyce's stress on words. The book connects an eclectic collection of authors by way of style, sensibility, reception, temporality, and perhaps most importantly the influence of cataclysmic world events on their work and the shaping of their work on the world.

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by the editorial director of the New York Review of Books and the founder of the NYRB classic series, Edwin Frank, to discuss his first work of nonfiction, the book, Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel. Taking the novel as the preeminent art form of the last century, Frank's book charts its winding path of development, beginning with Fyodor Dostoevskey's Notes from the Underground, published in 1864, and ending with W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz which arrived more than a 100 years later. Along the way, Frank looks at the many different forms and categories great 20th century novels take, from the distinctly modern and popular science fiction of H.G. Wells to the “minorness” of Franz Kafka; the historical precision of Thomas Mann to Gerturde Stein's stress on sentence itself, and James Joyce's stress on words. The book connects an eclectic collection of authors by way of style, sensibility, reception, temporality, and perhaps most importantly the influence of cataclysmic world events on their work and the shaping of their work on the world.

Notes and Links to Chris Knapp's Work      For Episode 255, Pete welcomes Chris Knapp, and the two discuss, among other topics, a fascination with Elena Ferrante, James Joyce, and other dynamic writers, the interplay between journalism and fiction writing, seeds for his debut novel, the significance of its title, the drawbacks and benefits of writing about such recent times, and salient themes and issues in his novel like colonialism, marital alienation and connection, ennui, and the creep of dystopian mores.      Christopher Knapp's work has appeared in print in the Paris Review and the New England Review, and online at Granta and n+1, among others. He's been a work-study scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. His novel, States of Emergency, was published on September 3 by Unnamed Press. He lives in Paris with my wife, and teaches in the journalism program at the Sorbonne.     Buy States of Emergency   Chris Knapp's Website   At about 2:50, Chris talks about what it's been like in the run-up to publication  At about 4:00, Chris describes his early literary life and battles with spoilers At about 7:10, Pete and Chris discuss and cite the greatness of Faulkner and Joyce's work At about 9:30, Pete highlights a wonderfully Joycean sentence (one of many) from Chris' novel At about 10:25, Chris shouts out inspiring and thrilling writers, including Rachel Cusk, Don DeLillo, and Sebald, and Elena Ferrante At about 14:10, The two discuss Paris and Naples and prices and experiences At about 16:30, Chris responds to Pete's questions about the interplay between his journalistic background and his fiction writing At about 19:45, Pete and Chris reflect on the interesting ways in which the book's narrator functions in the book and connects to  At about 21:15, Chris speaks about seeds for his novel  At about 22:20, The two discuss Chris deciding to start the book with a heat wave and political and cultural  At about 24;45, Chris talks about the fertility procedures that run throughout much of the book and the way waiting relates At about 27:00, Chris delineates between hope and optimism and how these two qualities characterize the narrator and his wife Ella At about 29:20, The two discuss ideas of sympathy and empathy and comfort and shared pain At about 31:50, Chris responds to Pete's questions about the narrator's writing and charting his and Ella's experiences  At about 32:45, Chris reflects on the narrator's writing and the way that Ella sees him and his writing; he references Raven Leilani and writing on grief At about 34:45, The two discuss the ways in which French colonialism and racism is seen (or not) in the book and in the world At about 36:40, Pete highlights the dark humor of the book, and Chris expands on some of the humor and how it flows for him At about 39:35, The two discuss the “carnality” of a climatic scene in Ella and the narrator's relationship  At about 42:20, Chris charts the importance of a getaway for Ella in Skopje At about 44:20, Pete cites a period of separation between the two main characters and asks Chris about the significance of the book's title At about 49:00, Chris responds to Pete's questions about the drawbacks and benefits and vagaries of perspective in the novel At about 55:25, Chris reflects on narrative and its connections to history and to the novel At about 57:00, Pete compliments two anecdotes/scenes from the book, compares Ella's story of the French and Algerians to Wolff's “In the Garden of the North American Martyrs,” and Chris expands on the views of the narrator's family At about 1:02:50, Chris gives contact information, book purchasing info, and social media info At about 1:04:20, Chris talks about what he's working on and wants to write about in the future          You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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Summer Reading Report: hits, misses, and anticipations   We're back from the beach and reflecting on our summer reading in this bonus length bookshelf episode. On Kate's stack summer favourite GRETA AND VALDIN by Rebecca K. Reilly, Olivia Laing's memoir The Garden Against Time, the hotly tipped HEADSHOT by Rita Bullwinkel, TRUST by Hernan Diaz, Miranda July's new novel ALL FOURS and upcoming book club reads THE FRAUD by Zadie Smith and HUMANELY POSSIBLE by Sarah Bakewell. Meanwhile Laura talks about REAL AMERICANS by Rachel Kong, THE LAST UNICORN by Peter S. Beagle, THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Stuart Turton, Kiley Reid's latest COME AND GET IT, Reese's Book Club pick SLOW DANCE by Rainbow Rowell and Austeriltz by W. G. Sebald.    We also hear about the best bookish party Laura attended courtsey of the Vancouver Public Library, and the Kate's experience of reading just one book, and one book only, at a time – a strong departure from her usual habits of three on the go at once. But will she stick to it?   Timecodes for the time poor 08:58 Real Americans by Rachel Kong: A Not-to-Read Recommendation 17:39 The Garden Against Time by Olivia Lange: A Deep Dive 25:27 The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle: A Disappointment 30:44 Headshot by Rita Bullwinkle: A Mixed Review 40:02 Stuart Turton's The Last Murder at the End of the World: A Fun Read 44:20 Exploring 'Trust' by Hernan Diaz 49:34 Campus Life and Money in 'Come and Get' It by Kiley Reid 59:57 Miranda July's 'All Fours': A Perimenopausal Journey 01:12:40 A Lighthearted Romance: 'Slow Dance' by Rainbow Rowell 01:15:13 Upcoming Reads and Final Thoughts Patreon Want more from your favourite podcast? Want to support the person who makes it? Come and join Kate at Patreon.com/thebookclubreview where for a small monthly fee you'll receive benefits such as a weekly books dispatch, which you can read or listen to as a pod, occasional special episodes, and at the higher tier you can join our monthly book club for live discussions with Kate over Zoom.  For the love of a good lamp:  Visit seriousreaders.com/BCR for our special offer on any HD light – use the code BCR at checkout and if you're in the UK you can also benefit from free shipping. You get a month to try out the lights to decide if they're for you, if not you can return them. We seriously love them, and think you will too.

This week we have fun with all of the top books of the 21st century hype by sharing our own top 10 lists. We each killed a few darlings and made some very tough decisions. How did we do?What books would make your list?Summer Book ClubThe book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is William Trevor's The Story of Lucy Gault. You can start reading it whenever you want to! We have lined up a guest to join us to discuss the book for the next episode!ShownotesBooks* The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor* The Land Breakers, by John Ehle* Testing the Current, by William McPherson* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young* Schattenfroh, by Michael Lenz, translated by Max Lawton* Lesser Ruins, by Mark Haber* Horror Movie, by Paul Tremblay* Universal Harvester, by John Darnielle* A Head Full of Ghosts, by Paul Tremblay* Cabin at the End of the Woods, by Paul Tremblay* The Indian Lake Trilogy, by Stephen Graham Jones* The Empathy Exams, by Leslie Jamison* In a Strange Room, by Damon Galgut* The Promise, by Damon Galgut* Open City, by Teju Cole* When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West* The MANIAC, by Benjamin Labatut* The Employees, by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken* Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft* Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Croft* The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft* LaRose, by Louise Erdrich* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Life of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson* Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke* Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke* Underland: A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane* The Wild Places, by Robert Macfarlane* Reinhardt's Garden, by Mark Haber* Ducks, Newbury Port, by Lucy Ellmann* Your Face Tomorrow, by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa* The Road, by Cormac McCarthy* The Passenger, by Cormac McCarthy* Runaway, by Alice Munro* 2666, by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson* Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson* Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri* Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Belle* The Immigrants, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Vertigo, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Blinding, by Mircea Cartarescu, translated by Sean Cotter* The Garden of Seven Twilights, by Miquel de Palol, translated by Adrian Nathan West* Antagony, by Luis Goytisolo, translated by Brendan Riley* Monument Maker, by David Keenan* Tomb of Sand, by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell* Praiseworthy, by Alexis Wright* Wizard of the Crow, by Ngugi wa Thiong'o* The Known World, Edward P. Jones* Hurricane Season, by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes* The Twilight Zone, by Nona Fernandez, translated by Natasha Wimmer* Septology, by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls* The Years, by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison Strayer* In the Distance, by Hernan Diaz* Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel* My Struggle, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don BartlettOther Links* The Untranslated* New York Times: 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you'll continue to join us!SubscribeMany thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

Nein, das ist kein Gendersternchen! Die Autorin Katja Sebald zeigt in ihrem neuen Buch die Häuser von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern - von innen und außen. Denn so ein Künstlerhaus ist mehr als nur ein Dach über dem Kopf. Sie ist bei Johannes Hitzelberger zu Gast.

Looking to fit even more books into your life? We think audiobooks are a great solution. This week we chat about reading in different formats and settings and hen and how we both read audiobooks. We also share some of our favorite audio experiences, books, and authors!Summer Book ClubThe book for the Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 has been chosen! It was pretty darn close!The episode discussing The Story of Lucy Gault will be Episode 86, coming out on August 8.ShownotesBooks* The Children of Dynmouth, by William Trevor* Fools of Fortune, by William Trevor* Felicia's Journey, by William Trevor* The Story of Lucy Gault, by William Trevor* The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Not a River, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* The Wind that Lays Waste, by Selva Almada, translated by Chris Andrews* Brickmasters, by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott* It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, by Anne de Marcken* Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett* Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett* Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett* The Patron Saint of Liars, by Ann Patchett* State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett* A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh* The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett* Run, by Ann Patchett* Taft, by Ann Patchett* The Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchett* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling* The Trees, by Percival Everett* A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan* The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Ulysses, by James Joyce* Wolf in White Van, by John Darnielle* The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot* Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders* The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann* The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, by David Grann* The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, by Erik Larson * Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania, by Erik Larson* The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert* The Dead Zone, by Stephen King* Pet Sematary, by Stephen King* The Shining, by Stephen King* The Stand, by Stephen King* Fairy Tale, by Stephen King* You Like It Darker, by Stephen King* Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson* Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson* Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson* Lockwood & Co., by Jonathan Stroud* The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman* The Round House, by Louise Erdrich* Middlemarch, by George Eliot* Fourth of July Creek, by Smith Henderson* The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan* The Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson* Foster, by Claire Keegan* Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie* Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie* Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent* Day, by Michael Cunningham* Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir* “My Purple-Scented Novel,” by Ian McEwan* “Axis,” by Alice Munro* George and Lizzie, by Nancy PearlLinks* The New Yorker Fiction Podcast* The Writer's Voice Podcast* Episode 1: Bucket List BooksThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you'll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

How do you fill the yawning chasm that arises after you finish a great book or a long group read? Is it a time of excitement and possibility, or a daunting and overwhelming trial? Fresh off of finishing several doorstops ourselves, we discuss how we approach what we want to read next.Summer Book ClubThe Mookse and the Gripes Summer Book Club 2024 is coming up fast! This year we are only choosing from William Trevor novels. After losing for the last two years, he will not lose again! But what will the book be? As in the past, we will be holding a vote over on Twitter / X! Watch my account on May 21!The Books:* The Children of Dynmouth (1976)* Fools of Fortune (1983)* Felicia's Journey (1994)* The Story of Lucy Gault (2002)Dates:* Voting starts May 21 and runs through the early hours of May 25 for us in the mountain time zone.* We will announce the winner in the next episode!* The episode discussing the winner will be Episode 86, coming out on August 8.ShownotesBooks* The Peregrine, by J.L. Carr* Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft* A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara* Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry* Butcher's Crossing, by John Williams* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, by Marguerite Young* Ulysses, by James Joyce* The Ambassadors, by Henry James* Tone, by Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno* The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse* Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald* The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton* Urne Burial, by Robert Burton* Reinhardt's Garden, by Mark Haber* The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot* Silas Marner, by George Eliot* The Eustace Diamonds, by Anthony Trollope* O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs* Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, by Rebecca West* Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum, translated by Basil Creighton with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo* The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz* It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over, by Anne De Marcken* The Peasants, by Władysław Reymont, translated by Anna Zaranko* Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford* Collected Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley* The Hour of the Star, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Benjamin Moser* The Complete Stories, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Katrina Dodson* Too Much of Life, by Clarice Lispector, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson* The Murderer, by Roy Heath* The Oppermans, by Lion Feuchtwanger, translated by James Cleugh with revisions by Joshua Cohen* Green Equinox, by Elizabeth Mavor* Twice Lost, by Phyllis Paul* Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, by Manuel Puig, translated by Susan Jill Levine* Elena Knows, by Claudio Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* A Little Luck, by Claudio Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle* Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee* A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell* Anniversaries, by Uwe Johnson, translated by Damion Searls* The Extinction of Irene Rey, by Jennifer Croft* The House on the Strand, by Daphne Du MaurierLinks* Miss MacIntosh, My Darling Substack* Jonathan Golding and Mark Haber on Instagram LiveThe Mookse and the Gripes Podcast is a book chat podcast. Every other week Paul and Trevor get together to talk about some bookish topic or another. We hope you'll continue to join us!Many thanks to those who helped make this possible! If you'd like to donate as well, you can do so on Substack or on our Patreon page. These subscribers get periodic bonus episode and early access to all episodes! Every supporter has their own feed that he or she can use in their podcast app of choice to download our episodes a few days early. Please go check it out! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mookse.substack.com/subscribe

W. G. Sebald. „Austerlicas“. Vertė Rūta Jonynaitė, išleido leidykla „baltos lankos“.Romane „Austerlicas“ W. G. Sebaldas pasakoja apie šaknų, savosios kalbos ir vardo netekusį žmogų, kuris ieškodamas tėvynės, namų, vietos šiame pasaulyje bando išspręsti sudėtingiausią savo praeities mįslę ir sykiu nutapo skausmingą XX a. Europos istorijos panoramą. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Giedrius Arbačiauskas.

W. G. Sebald. „Austerlicas“. Vertė Rūta Jonynaitė, išleido leidykla „baltos lankos“.Romane „Austerlicas“ W. G. Sebaldas pasakoja apie šaknų, savosios kalbos ir vardo netekusį žmogų, kuris ieškodamas tėvynės, namų, vietos šiame pasaulyje bando išspręsti sudėtingiausią savo praeities mįslę ir sykiu nutapo skausmingą XX a. Europos istorijos panoramą. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Giedrius Arbačiauskas.

•Biografie• Autor W. G. Sebald, Meister der dokumentarischen Fiktion, wirft Schlaglichter auf die Biografie des Philosophen Immanuel Kant. Es ist ein Blick hinter die Kulissen - die Kulissen des großen Werks, der großen Gedanken und ihrer Zeitlosigkeit. // Von W. G. Sebald / WDR 2015 // www.wdr.de/k/hoerspiel-newsletter Von W. G. Sebald.

We're joined today by Mark Haber of Coffee House Press (formerly of Brazos Bookstore in Houston). Mark is the author of two novels, Reinhardt's Garden and Saint Sebastian's Abyss, and the forthcoming novel Lesser Ruins, as well as a forthcoming novella, Ada. We chat about his work as well as Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell. A quick note that there was some construction noise we didn't detect during the recording but did get picked up by our mics. We've eliminated it to the best of our ability, but if you hear a bit of an odd thrumming in the background or our voices crackle, it's not your ears.This is a fantastic and wide-ranging conversation, really digging into a lot of what makes Sebald's work unique (and how it does or does not influence Mark's own work). We discuss memory, liminality, style, surveillance and organization, the lack of literary feuds on TikTok, and more.Titles/authors mentioned:W.G. Sebald (all of it, but especially):Vertigo, A Place in the Country, and Campo SantoSergio Chejfec: The Dark and My Two WorldsJavier MaríasFranz KafkaD.H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Rainbow, and Sons & LoversAnthony Trollope (like, all of him)Juan Jose Saer: Scars and The Sixty-Five Years of WashingtonKazuo Ishiguro: The UnconsoledFollow Mark on Instagram (@markhaber) and follow Coffee House on Instagram (@coffeehousepress) and Twitter (@Coffee_House_). And be sure to pre-order Lesser Ruins from your preferred indie bookseller!Click here to subscribe to our Substack and find us on the socials: @lostinredonda just about everywhere.Music: “The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys” by TrafficLogo design: Flynn Kidz Designs

Jede Note solle ausgekostet werden, „als ob man Melancholie aus jeder einzelnen saugen wolle, mit Wollust und Behagen“, hat der rund 60-jährige Brahms über eines seiner späten Klavierstücke gesagt. Die offen eingestandene Schwermut des Komponisten stimulierte seine Kreativität – und drohte doch immer wieder in depressive Episoden überzugehen. Die traurige Gemütsstimmung, die in der so genannten Viersäftelehre mit einem Überschuss an schwarzer Galle erklärt wurde, hat in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte, insbesondere der Kunstgeschichte eine erstaunliche Karriere gemacht – von Albrecht Dürer bis W. G. Sebald. Doch was bedeutet sie im medizinischen Kontext? Was hat die moderne Psychotherapie zum Melancholie-Kult in Literatur, Kunst und Musik zu sagen? Katharina Eickhoff diskutiert mit Prof. Dr. Rainer M. Holm-Hadulla - Psychiater und Psychoanalytiker, Anna Lucia Richter - Mezzosopranistin

Winfried Georg Sebald, német író és irodalomtörténész Légi háború és irodalom – A rombolás természetrajza című kötete fontos, máig és nemcsak az általa középpontba állított német irodalmat ható megállapításokkal vonja kérdőre a múltat. A 180 fok – A kultúra ellenpontjai című könyves podcastünkben Nelhiebel Gábor és Pöltl Oxi Zoltán ezen tanulmánykötet alapján beszélget a Sebald által felvetett nagy témáról, illetve az azon belül és az ahhoz kapcsolódó más témákról is. Sebald erős állítása az, hogy a második világháború után alig volt nyoma a német történelemkönyvekben és a német irodalomban a vereséghez vezető brutális bombatámadásokról, rombolásokról, katonai- és civil áldozatokat követelő pusztításokról. Sebald mindebből arra következtetett, hogy – és persze a nyugati németekről van szó, nem pedig az NDK-val kiegészült teljes országukból – a németek rejtélyes energiájuk titka a tudat- és emlékezetkiesés, mi több maga a második világháború okozta traumát ignorálták, s ez a tudatkiesés lett az NSZk sikerének titka. A két műsorvezető ezúttal sem tudott azonos platformra jutni, de hát a műsornak, mint a címe is mutatja, pont ez a lényege. Az adásban szóba kerül a drezdai bombázás, s ennek kapcsán Kurt Vonnegut Ötös számú vágóhíd című világháborús, illetve hidegháborús regénye is. Ezen túl a beszélgetés egy ponton Trianonról, illetve a magyar háborús veszteségekről is szó volt, ellenpárként állítva a nemzeti traumákról rendszeresen megemlékező magyarokat, a már több, mint hatvan éve az – amúgy hatékonyságában jobban működő – eltörlés kultúráját alkalmazó németeket, mint két módszer alkalmazóit. Ugyancsak része volt az elemző párbeszédnek Sebald azon alaptézise, miszerint a világégés utáni német irodalom utálatos, mert hallgatott a traumáról, köztük Heinrich Böll is, majd jött 1997, amikor Sebald megkapta a Heinrich Böll-díjat.

Giulia Corsalini"La condizione della memoria"Guanda Editorewww.guanda.itUn borgo del centro Italia dove le tracce di un tempo sono racchiuse nei bei palazzi derelitti, nei giardini in penombra e nelle strade assolate ormai disertate. Qui la madre di Anna ha vissuto quando era bambina. Qui torna un'estate, per trascorrere con la figlia una vacanza nella casa che era stata della loro famiglia. Mentre sale la grande scala di pietra logora, la stessa che saliva da piccola, un'intera esistenza, che in quel momento le pare smisurata e breve come un soffio, riaffiora con i suoi drammi sepolti. Ad accogliere le due donne c'è Luca, proprietario dell'antico palazzo di fronte, un uomo singolare ma capace, con la sua esistenza disordinata, di far balenare una diversa possibilità di futuro, un principio da cui ripartire.Giulia Corsalini si muove lungo i confini della grande letteratura: il tempo sospeso del borgo diventa uno spazio mitico in cui il passato si mescola con l'immaginazione e con un presente che conduce a un esito imprevisto. In questa esplorazione profonda della memoria e dei legami umani che sopravvivono al tempo sentiamo l'eco delle pagine memorabili di Sebald, la scrittura evoca i bagliori luminosi di certe poesie di Brodskij. E a noi resta tra le mani un romanzo coraggioso, fatto di perdite e riappropriazioni, piccoli risarcimenti e la promessa che tutto ciò che è esistito può esserci un giorno restituito.Giulia Corsalini vive a Recanati. È docente e critica letteraria. Nel 2018 ha pubblicato con nottetempo il suo fortunato romanzo d'esordio La lettrice di Čechov, che le è valso numerosi premi, tra cui il Premio Letterario internazionale Mondello e il SuperMondello. La condizione della memoria è il primo romanzo per Guanda.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

durée : 00:59:30 - Tous en scène - par : Aurélie Charon - Gaëlle Bourges répète son nouveau spectacle "Austerlitz", inspiré de la méthode de l'auteur W.G. Sebald dans son livre "Austerlitz", son personnage amnésique part sur les traces de son passé. Elle écrit et chorégraphie l'histoire de ses danseurs et danseuses. Une autobiographie collective. - invités : Gaëlle Bourges; Alice Roland Auteure, danseuse; Stéphane Monteiro

In Kate Zambreno & Sofia Samatar's Tone they construct a shared voice, that of the “Committee to Investigate the Atmosphere.” Yes, they do this to investigate tone, in the writings of everyone from Nella Larsen to Clarice Lispector, W.G. Sebald to Franz Kafka, Renee Gladman to Bhanu Kapil. But in chasing the ever-elusive notion of tone, […] The post Kate Zambreno & Sofia Samatar : Tone appeared first on Tin House.

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"On this Book Lunch I try and do some justice to Runia's book, whose subtitle Discontinuity and Historical Mutation, gives you a fairly decent idea of his intellectual project, as well as his highly original theory of history." Extended Look: In this book lunch I will discuss one of the more original and profound works of history to come along in many years: Moved By The Past by Eelco Runia. In this text Runia develops a sophisticated and contrarian theory of History that argues against the prevailing conventions of narrative oriented and deterministic History that are so popular. Instead Runia says that discontinuity is more common than the cause and effect structure of continuity. All too commonly this takes the form of individuals and collective groups of people such as whole nations being willfully destructive, "burning their bridges behind them" and embarking upon the unknown just for the hell of it - without this behavior being either inevitable or necessarily "caused" by preceding history. Runia is a practicing psychologist, an historian and a novelist and accordingly, "Moved By The Past" is a deeply humanistic work. Instead of dry, statistical and mathematical graphs and proofs, he deals with arts and letters: the novels of Sebald and Tolstoy, the poetry of Wordsworth, the writing of Giambattista Vico , the nature of moments and memorialization, as well as psychological theories of selfhood and behavior. In this book lunch I hope to do justice to this unique and imaginative book. #haydenwhite #foucault #history #wordsworth #romanticism #frenchrevolution #copenhagen #townsendceunterforthehumanities #ucberkeley #revolution #iraq #democracy #psychology #trauma #goethe #schiller #tolstoy #isaiahberlin #memory #holocaust #germany #europe #EU #911 #BookLunch Mitch Hampton #eelcorunia #movedbythepast #booktalk #bookreview #bookcommentary --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mitch-hampton/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mitch-hampton/support

Steven and Marlowe discuss the documentary Patience (After Sebald) and why Mark Fisher is confused about Sebald's popularity. ----- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LostFuturesPod Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-futures-a-mark-fisher-podcast/id1685663806 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0EnwNGZijCDZVIl5JtjwGT Follow us on Twitter: @lostfuturespod Theme Song By: EvilJekyll Art By: Gregory --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lost-futures/support

Marlowe and Steve hype Patience (After Sebald) ----- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LostFuturesPod Rate us on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-futures-a-mark-fisher-podcast/id1685663806 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0EnwNGZijCDZVIl5JtjwGT Follow us on Twitter: @lostfuturespod Theme Song By: EvilJekyll Art By: Gregory --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lost-futures/support

Something different for this episode - Sally interviews writer Will Self about his latest book of essays, Why Read. They discuss not just why we read, but how we read; digital reading versus physical books; and Will discusses the writers who had a formative effect on him, including Lewis Carroll, Franz Kafka and W.G. Sebald. The event took place at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford. Our thanks to Will and to Blackwell's. You can find out more about Will Self's book here: https://will-self.com/why-read/    

In 1520 the artist Albrecht Dürer was on the run from the Plague and on the look-out for distraction when he heard that a huge whale had been beached on the coast of Zeeland. So he set off to see the astonishing creature for himself. In this beautifully-evoked episode the award-winning writing Philip Hoare takes us back to those consequential days in 1520. We catch sight of Dürer, the great master of the Northern Renaissance, as he searches for the whale. This, he realises, is his chance to make his greatest ever print. Philip Hoare is the author of nine works of non-fiction, including biographies of Stephen Tennant and Noël Coward, and the studies, Wilde's Last Stand and England's Lost Eden.  Spike Island was chosen by W.G. Sebald as his book of the year for 2001.  In 2009, Leviathan or, The Whale won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. It was followed in 2013 by The Sea Inside, and in 2017 by RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR.  His new book, Albert & the Whale led the New York Times to call the author a 'forceful weather system' of his own. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton, and co-curator, with Angela Cockayne, of the digital projects http://www.mobydickbigread.com/ and https://www.ancientmarinerbigread.com/ As ever, much, much more about this episode is to be found at our website tttpodcast.com. Show notes Scene One: Nuremberg, home of Albrecht Dürer, at the height of its power as an imperial city, of art and technology. Scene Two: The Low Countries. Driven out of Nuremberg by the plague and a city in lockdown, Dürer escapes to the seaside. Scene Three: Halfway through his year away, Dürer hears a whale has been stranded in Zeeland.  This is his chance to make his greatest print, a follow up to his hit woodcut of a rhinoceros.  What follows next is near disaster, a mortal act.  It changes his life. Memento: Memento: A lock of Dürer's hair (which Hoare would use to regenerate him and then get him to paint his portrait) People/Social Presenter: Violet Moller Guest: Philip Hoare Production: Maria Nolan Podcast partner: Colorgraph Follow us on Twitter: @tttpodcast_ Or on Facebook See where 1520 fits on our Timeline 

Lee Klein https://www.litfunforever.com/about/ @leeklein0 twitter @lee.klein_ Instagram Buy Chotic Good here: @saggingmeniscus https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/chaotic_good/ Gateway Books Peter Pan. Where the Wild Things Are. The Big Book of Jokes and RiddlesBlack Stallion series. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths. Gary Gygax (D&D)  Judy Blume's ForeverNarnia/LOTRs (competitively read)Sherlock HolmesThe Bounty Trilogy (Mutiny on the Bounty)Count of Monte Cristo  Gatsby, Prufrock, The WastelandBorges (in Spanish)Crime and Punishment (2x)Narcissus and Goldmund   Steppenwolf, Demian, Siddhartha, Journey to the EastKafka storiesKerouac (Subterraneans, Dharma Bums, Big Sur)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestFear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, The Doors of Perception, Island Another Roadside Attraction and Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Deadeye Dick)The Crying of Lot 49Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Stories by Terry SouthernThe Beat Reader – Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg >> Blake  BelovedLight in AugustSee Under: Love (Grossman -> Bruno Schulz)Maus (graphic novels, Raw vols 1 and 2, Richard McGuire, Here)Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog/Adventures in the Skin Trade (Dylan Thomas) The Tin Drum, A Personal Matter, The Box Man, Carver, Steinbeck short novels, Hamsun (Hunger), Cheever stories, Auster, Beckett, Kafka, Handke, Artaud, Barthelme, Maupassant, Chekhov, TC Boyle, Philip Roth, Sontag essays, Ulysses, Moby Dick DFW essays, Mark Leyner, DeLillo, Moody, The Recognitions, George Saunders, Pnin, The Last Samurai, Bernhard, Sebald, Gogol stories, Salinger stories, Geoff Dyer, Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials)    War and Peace, Proust, Musil, Mann, Hamsun Bolano (Between Parentheses) Knausgaard, Rachel Cusk, Houellebecq, Enard, Gracq, Perec, Zweig, Grace Paley, Hrabal, Aira, The Waves   Currently reading Ute Av Verden, Knausgaard (in Norsk)  Reader's Block, Markson Henri Cartier-Bresson interviews Ubik, Philip K. Dick Looking forward to Middlemarch, Trollope The Wolves of Eternity, KOK MJ Nicholls stories  Steinbeck (shorter novels)  The rest of Hrabal in English (four books) Cormac McCarthy (his first four books) BTZ-inspired purchases: Monument Maker (David Keenan), The Salt Line (Shimoni), The Logos (Mark de Silva), Traveler of the Century and How to Travel Without Seeing (Andreas Neuman), The Kindly Ones (Littel), Too Much Life (Lispecter), Kafka Diaries Recently read All of Us Together in the End, Matthew Vollmer Bang Bang Crash, Nic Brown All Dag Solstad in English (Novel 11, Book 18) All Tomas Espedal in English (Love, Tramp) I Served the King of England, Hrabal  The Belan Deck, Matt Bucher Annie Ernaux (Happening, A Man's Place, I Remain in Darkness) Philip Roth (Zuckerman Unbound, Patrimony, The Facts, The Counterlife) The Magus, John Fowles Desert Island Books   The Birds, Tarjei Vesaas (Archipelago)Weight of the World, Handke  A Time to Live and a Time to Die, Erich Maria Remarque Garden, Ashes, Danilo Kis A Balcony in the Forest, Julien GracqA Musical Offering, Luis Sagasti (Charco, Fionn Petch)Atomik Aztex, Sesshu Foster (Grove Press)Amazons, Cleo Birdwell (DeLillo)A Time for Everything, KOK (Archipelago)Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann (John E. Woods translation; Modern Library)  

Silvia Albesano"Rombo"Esther KinskyIperboreahttps://iperborea.comTraduzione di Silvia AlbesanoIl nuovo, acclamato romanzo di una delle più importanti scrittrici tedesche contemporanee, vincitore del Premio Kleist e candidato al Deutscher Buchpreis e al Premio Strega Europeo 2023. «In seguito, tutti parleranno del rumore. Del rombo. Con cui è iniziato.» Il 6 maggio 1976 un violento terremoto colpisce il Friuli, squarciando il paesaggio e l'esistenza di chi lo abita. A rievocare quei giorni sono sette abitanti di una valle nell'estremo nord-est della regione. Uomini e donne all'epoca già adulti o ancora bambini di cui ricostruiamo le vite in un'arcaica comunità montana di origini slave, con la sua peculiare identità linguistica e storica, le sue suggestive tradizioni, il suo retaggio di terra povera e di confine dove si sognava di fuggire o di vedere il mare, dove si emigrava per lavoro e si ritornava con nostalgia. Una terra di leggende in cui il terremoto ha origine dal mostruoso Orcolat o dalla Riba Faronika, la possente sirena a due code. Alle voci umane che raccontano un mondo antico di colpo travolto dalla paura fanno da controcanto le voci della natura attraverso una vivida descrizione del paesaggio carsico, dai fiori agli uccelli – i soli viventi immuni al terremoto – fino alle rocce che nei loro strati e colori conservano traccia dei movimenti millenari della terra. Così la memoria dell'uomo, che tenta di ricostruire con le parole quello che è andato distrutto, che cerca segni premonitori nelle ore precedenti al sisma per non rassegnarsi alla propria impotenza, che va modellandosi nel tempo insieme alle ferite, sembra confrontarsi con la memoria geologica. In un mosaico narrativo che riesce a combinare scienza e poesia, Rombo racconta la precarietà dell'esistenza e il senso profondo del ricordo mettendo a confronto ciò che passa e perisce per sempre e ciò che rimane, sottoposto a incessante mutamento, in natura come nella memoria.Esther Kinsky, narratrice, poetessa e traduttrice letteraria, è una delle voci più alte e originali della scena letteraria tedesca, insignita dei più prestigiosi riconoscimenti, come il Premio della Fiera di Lipsia, il Premio Paul Celan e il premio Adelbert von Chamisso. La sua opera, spesso paragonata a quella di W.G. Sebald, si distingue per la maestria narrativa con cui indaga l'esperienza umana dei luoghi, la memoria e il ricordo. In Italia ha pubblicato Macchia e Sul fiume (Saggiatore, 2019 e 2021). Il suo ultimo romanzo, Rombo, ha ricevuto il Premio Kleist ed è candidato al Deutscher Buchpreis. Attualmente trascorre lunghi periodi dell'anno in Italia, in un villaggio del Friuli, regione alla quale si è particolarmente legata e che le ha ispirato questo libro.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEAscoltare fa Pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement

Brandon Sebald is the CEO of Brew Crew LLC, the first franchisee for 7 Brew Coffee, which is an exciting and relatively new coffee brand and experience. 7 Brew has a license to open nearly 100 stores in Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, and Texas. Prior to his relationship with Seven Brew, Brandon was part of a Planet Fitness franchise group that had 92 locations across six states. He is also co-owner of a high-end custom home building company in Fayetteville, Arkansas. And then finally, Brandon is also a Buff City Soap franchisee with six New York stores and a territory to build up to 40 locations. Buff City Soap creates scented plant-based soaps made by hand daily in each location. Brandon attended and played football at the University of Miami where he studied business finance and marketing, all skills that he's put to good use. He also attended Hofstra University in New York where he earned a degree in finance. In this episode, Brandon discusses how his upbringing inspired him to become a entrepreneur. Also, he talks about extreme ownership and how that has helped him to be a successful business leader.

In this special, double-length episode, Sally leaves her boat to seek refuge at a friend's house on another island in Oxford, as the rains have flooded the meadow of her narrowboat community. Returning to the boat as the waters subside, she reads a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, then settles down to study a collection of essays by Will Self. The essays lead Sally to reread a chilling short story by the surrealist writer Franz Kafka - and a striking phrase reminds her of one of her favourite sentences in all of modernist literature. Sally's musings are interrupted by a visitation from her seven-year-old neighbour, Maeve Magnus. They discuss why we read, the value of sad stories, and reminisce about trips to a local café for communal reading and ice cream. Sally's reading makes her think of her own medical treatment, and she announces plans for the future of the podcast. Further Reading: Elizabeth Bishop (1911 –1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was effectively orphaned in early childhood and suffered all her life from ill health. In reaction to the then-prevalent confessional style of American poetry, her works reveal very little of her private life. She published the poem Crusoe in England in her collection, Geography III, in 1979. In the poem, Crusoe has left his famous desert island to return to his home island, but ironically feels more displaced and lonely than when he was a castaway. Robinson Crusoe is of course the hero of Daniel Defoe's 1719 eponymous book,  often claimed to be the first novel published in English. It's probably based at least in part on the story of the real-life castaway Alexander Selkirk, and was a huge success in its day, with many readers initially fooled into believing that it was a work of factual autobiography. Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) lived most of her life in virtual seclusion. She wrote deeply private, radically experimental poems, which she hid in her room and were never published in her lifetime. After her death, her sister found her cache of poems and she's now considered one of the greatest poets in the English language The Dickinson poem which Sally riffs on was published posthumously in 1891 in a collection entitled Poems, Series 2. The poem seems to celebrate her position in life, estranged from society and fame, finding communality with similar outsider figures. It reads in full: I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! Will Self's collection of essays, entitled Why Read: Selected Writings 2001 – 2021, was published in November 2022 by Grove Press UK. It's packed with advice for readers - what to read, how to read, and discusses why we read; it also features insights into some of his favourite writers, including Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Joseph Conrad, W.G. Sebald and William S Burroughs. A Country Doctor was written in 1917 by the German-speaking Czech writer Franz Kafka. Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 and died in 1924. His best known works are The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle; his writings are frequently surrealistic, bizarre and unsettling, exploring themes of  existentialism, absurdity, alienation and guilt. To The Lighthouse was written by Virginia Woolf in 1927 and is perhaps her most highly regarded and radically innovative novel. It deals with loss, subjectivity, the encroachments and damages of time, the nature of art and the problems of perception. The sentence Sally discusses is a pivotal moment in the middle section of the book, as Woolf speeds up her account of her characters' lives as if they are caught in a fast-forward film; so the death of Mrs Ramsey, a central character, is dealt with in one almost-throwaway sentence. Maeve Magnus is reading Michael Morpurgo's collection of short stories, Best Mates, published in 2015, which includes the story The Silver Swan. Beware spoilers! Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913 - 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and priest. Throughout his life, he moved to increasingly isolated parishes to escape what he considered to be the materialism of the modern world and the creeping influence of English culture. Throughout his life, he wrote poems of breathtaking spirituality and insight, combining a love for the Welsh landscape with a grittily realistic portrayal of the people who inhabited the landscape.  The Sick Rose is a "poem of experience" which William Blake published in his extraordinary collection, Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Blake (1757 – 1827) was born into the London working classes and worked as a printmaker, set apart from the literary establishment of the time, composing, creating, illustrating and printing his works himself. A visionary and wholly unique figure, considered by some to be verging on the insane, he was largely unrecognised in his life, but is now seen as a trail-blazing figure in the Romantic movement, celebrated both for his poetry and his visual art. The producer of the podcast is Andrew Smith: https://www.fleetingyearfilms.com The extra voice in this episode is Emma Fielding. We are currently raising funds to pay to keep the podcast going. If you would like to support us, please visit - https://gofund.me/d5bef397 Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far. Special thanks go to Violet Henderson, Kris Dyer, and Maeve Magnus, who makes her debut appearance in this episode.  

British painter Tess Jaray talks to Ben Luke about her influences—including those from the worlds of literature, music and, of course, art—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work.For more than 60 years, Jaray relentlessly explored pictorial and architectural space through abstract painting. Born in Vienna in 1937 but based in the UK since she was a child, she achieved notable success early in her career but is only now gaining the recognition that she has long deserved for building one of the most singular and consistent bodies of work in recent British painting. Steeped in the history of her medium, she balances hard edges and precise handling with a distinctive colour sense that lends it a powerful emotional resonance.Among much else, she discusses her instinctive response to the landscape of Worcestershire, England, where she grew up; the impact of the New York School on the UK art scene of the 1960s; her trip to Morocco in Henri Matisse's footsteps; the enduring influence of Italian architecture and painting; and her friendship with the writer W.G. Sebald. Plus, she gives insight into her studio life and answers the ultimate question: what is art for?Tess Jaray, Karsten Schubert, London, 16 March-15 April. Gwangju Biennale: Soft and Weak Like Water, Gwangju, South Korea, 7 April-9 July. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesse invites YNAB Senior Support Manager Chrissy Sebald to the podcast to talk about her budgeting super skill -- saving for frequent travel with her family of six! And not just travel in and around the States. Chrissy has used YNAB to help her budget for two months of travel abroad with her family, on a middle class income.   Got a question for Jesse? Send him an email: askjesse@ynab.com   Sign up for a free 34-day trial of YNAB at www.youneedabudget.com  

New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever traces the links between anti-Semitism now and pogroms in the former Soviet Union and the language used to describe this form of racism. Brendan McGeever lectures at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck University of London. You can hear him discussing an exhibition at the Jewish Museum exploring racial stereotypes in a Free Thinking episode called Sebald, anti-Semitism, Carolyn Forché https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050d2 New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year to turn their research into radio. Producer: Robyn Read

Last week, Graywolf Press released Civil Service, the debut poetry collection by Jewish Currents Culture Editor Claire Schwartz. The book is a daring study of the violence woven into our world, from everyday encounters to the material of language itself. The poems unfold in three main sequences: a quartet of lyric lectures, a fragmentary narrative that follows a cast of archetypal figures named for the coordinates of their complicities with power—the Dictator, the Curator, the Accountant, and so on—and a series of interrogation scenes centered on a spectral, fugitive figure named Amira, who gives us a glimpse of another world. To celebrate the release of Civil Service, Schwartz spoke with Managing Editor Nathan Goldman and the book's editor at Graywolf Press, Chantz Erolin, about the book, as well as poems by Paul Celan and Edmond Jabès that deeply informed it. They discussed dispersed responsibility for state violence, thinking as feeling, and the political possibilities of poetry. Works Mentioned: https://bookshop.org/a/1530/9781644450949 (Civil Service) by Claire Schwartz “https://granta.com/lecture-on-loneliness/ (Lecture on Loneliness)” by Claire Schwartz “https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_MourningAndMelancholia.pdf (Mourning and Melancholia)” by Sigmund Freud “https://apogeejournal.org/2016/09/06/the-felt-house-that-moves-us-a-conversation-with-saretta-morgan/ (The Felt House That Moves Us: A Conversation with Saretta Morgan),” a conversation with Muriel Leung and Joey De Jesus “https://sahityaparikrama.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/0/9/120943912/the_concept_of_character_in_fiction_william_gass.pdf (The Concept of Character in Fiction)” by William H. Gass The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois “https://poets.org/poem/death-fugue (Death Fugue)” by Paul Celan, trans. Pierre Joris “https://poets.org/poem/stretto (Stretto)” by Paul Celan, trans. Pierre Joris “https://jewishcurrents.org/celans-ferryman (Celan's Ferryman),” a conversation between Fanny Howe and Pierre Joris Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis “https://lithub.com/robin-coste-lewis-black-joy-is-my-primary-aesthetic/ (Robin Coste Lewis: ‘Black Joy is My Primary Aesthetic,')” a conversation between Claire Schwartz and Robin Coste Lewis The Book of Questions by Edmond Jabès, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop “https://tinhouse.com/podcast/rosmarie-waldrop-the-nick-of-time/ (Rosmarie Waldrop: The Nick of Time),” a conversation with David Naimon  Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, trans. Anthea Bell “https://nourbese.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gasp.pdf (The Ga(s)p)” by M. NourbeSe Philip “https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/fred-motens-radical-critique-of-the-present (Fred Moten's Radical Critique of the Present)” by David S. Wallace Minima Moralia by Theodor Adorno Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò “https://jewishcurrents.org/assuming-the-perspective-of-the-ancestor (Assuming the Perspective of the Ancestor),” a conversation between Claire Schwartz and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò “https://lithub.com/perennial-a-poem-by-claire-schwartz/ (Perennial)” by Claire Schwartz Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”

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What is the purpose of a novel? What purpose or logic do literary critics assign to a novel? How has the novel changed? What does that mean for its readers and literary criticism in the contemporary era? What does novel share with cinema and what does that mean for contemporary thought? Timothy Bewes provides brilliant insights on these questions in his book, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (Columbia UP, 2022). Everywhere today, we are urged to “connect.” Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of twentieth-century writing - E. M. Forster's “Only connect . . .” and Fredric Jameson's “Always historicize!” - helped establish connection as the purpose of the novel and its reconstruction as the task of criticism. But what if connection was not the novel's modus operandi but the defining aesthetic ideology of our era-and its most monetizable commodity? What kind of thought is left for the novel when all ideas are acceptable as long as they can be fitted to a consumer profile? This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls "free indirect," in which the novel's refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found. It is not situated in a character or a narrator and does not take a subjective or perceptual form. Far from heralding the arrival of a new literary genre, this development represents the rediscovery of a quality that has been largely ignored by theorists: thought at the limits of form. Free Indirect contends that this self-awakening of contemporary fiction represents the most promising solution to the problem of thought today. Iqra Shagufta Cheema is writer, researcher, and chronic procrastinator. When she does write, she writes in the areas of postmodernist postcolonial literatures, transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and film studies. Check out her latest book chapter Queer Love: He is also Made in Heaven. She can be reached via email at IqraSCheema@gmail.com or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

What is the purpose of a novel? What purpose or logic do literary critics assign to a novel? How has the novel changed? What does that mean for its readers and literary criticism in the contemporary era? What does novel share with cinema and what does that mean for contemporary thought? Timothy Bewes provides brilliant insights on these questions in his book, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (Columbia UP, 2022). Everywhere today, we are urged to “connect.” Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of twentieth-century writing - E. M. Forster's “Only connect . . .” and Fredric Jameson's “Always historicize!” - helped establish connection as the purpose of the novel and its reconstruction as the task of criticism. But what if connection was not the novel's modus operandi but the defining aesthetic ideology of our era-and its most monetizable commodity? What kind of thought is left for the novel when all ideas are acceptable as long as they can be fitted to a consumer profile? This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls "free indirect," in which the novel's refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found. It is not situated in a character or a narrator and does not take a subjective or perceptual form. Far from heralding the arrival of a new literary genre, this development represents the rediscovery of a quality that has been largely ignored by theorists: thought at the limits of form. Free Indirect contends that this self-awakening of contemporary fiction represents the most promising solution to the problem of thought today. Iqra Shagufta Cheema is writer, researcher, and chronic procrastinator. When she does write, she writes in the areas of postmodernist postcolonial literatures, transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and film studies. Check out her latest book chapter Queer Love: He is also Made in Heaven. She can be reached via email at IqraSCheema@gmail.com or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

What is the purpose of a novel? What purpose or logic do literary critics assign to a novel? How has the novel changed? What does that mean for its readers and literary criticism in the contemporary era? What does novel share with cinema and what does that mean for contemporary thought? Timothy Bewes provides brilliant insights on these questions in his book, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age (Columbia UP, 2022). Everywhere today, we are urged to “connect.” Literary critics celebrate a new "honesty" in contemporary fiction or call for a return to "realism." Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most famous injunctions of twentieth-century writing - E. M. Forster's “Only connect . . .” and Fredric Jameson's “Always historicize!” - helped establish connection as the purpose of the novel and its reconstruction as the task of criticism. But what if connection was not the novel's modus operandi but the defining aesthetic ideology of our era-and its most monetizable commodity? What kind of thought is left for the novel when all ideas are acceptable as long as they can be fitted to a consumer profile? This book develops a new theory of the novel for the twenty-first century. In the works of writers such as J. M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk, James Kelman, W. G. Sebald, and Zadie Smith, Timothy Bewes identifies a mode of thought that he calls "free indirect," in which the novel's refusal of prevailing ideologies can be found. It is not situated in a character or a narrator and does not take a subjective or perceptual form. Far from heralding the arrival of a new literary genre, this development represents the rediscovery of a quality that has been largely ignored by theorists: thought at the limits of form. Free Indirect contends that this self-awakening of contemporary fiction represents the most promising solution to the problem of thought today. Iqra Shagufta Cheema is writer, researcher, and chronic procrastinator. When she does write, she writes in the areas of postmodernist postcolonial literatures, transnational feminisms, gender and sexuality studies, and film studies. Check out her latest book chapter Queer Love: He is also Made in Heaven. She can be reached via email at IqraSCheema@gmail.com or Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

An interview with debut novelist Peter C Baker. Planes (Knopf, 2022) is the story of a global crime unfolding principally in the domestic lives of two women, Amira, an Italian convert to Islam living in Rome, and Mel, a school board member in North Carolina. Amira is a direct victim of the crime of extraordinary rendition, her husband, Ayoub, having been abducted without criminal charges and taken first to Pakistan and then Morocco, where he was imprisoned and tortured. Ayoub's eventual return to Amira is a lesson in how trauma comes like a wave for all those in its path. Mel's life appears quieter. Her activist days behind her, she lives an ordinary suburban life, throwing herself into work on the school board and into a workmanlike affair that seems, at the surface, to have little effect on her family life. That is until the affair is discovered and her onetime partner on the school board is revealed to be deeply intwined with the rendition program that abducted Ayoub. Peter and I talk about how to write about torture outside of the torture room, our unwitting complicity with illegal rendition programs in the US, and our shared love of W.G. Sebald. Books Recommended in this episode: W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn Marlen Haushofer, The Wall Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An interview with debut novelist Peter C Baker. Planes (Knopf, 2022) is the story of a global crime unfolding principally in the domestic lives of two women, Amira, an Italian convert to Islam living in Rome, and Mel, a school board member in North Carolina. Amira is a direct victim of the crime of extraordinary rendition, her husband, Ayoub, having been abducted without criminal charges and taken first to Pakistan and then Morocco, where he was imprisoned and tortured. Ayoub's eventual return to Amira is a lesson in how trauma comes like a wave for all those in its path. Mel's life appears quieter. Her activist days behind her, she lives an ordinary suburban life, throwing herself into work on the school board and into a workmanlike affair that seems, at the surface, to have little effect on her family life. That is until the affair is discovered and her onetime partner on the school board is revealed to be deeply intwined with the rendition program that abducted Ayoub. Peter and I talk about how to write about torture outside of the torture room, our unwitting complicity with illegal rendition programs in the US, and our shared love of W.G. Sebald. Books Recommended in this episode: W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn Marlen Haushofer, The Wall Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

An interview with debut novelist Peter C Baker. Planes (Knopf, 2022) is the story of a global crime unfolding principally in the domestic lives of two women, Amira, an Italian convert to Islam living in Rome, and Mel, a school board member in North Carolina. Amira is a direct victim of the crime of extraordinary rendition, her husband, Ayoub, having been abducted without criminal charges and taken first to Pakistan and then Morocco, where he was imprisoned and tortured. Ayoub's eventual return to Amira is a lesson in how trauma comes like a wave for all those in its path. Mel's life appears quieter. Her activist days behind her, she lives an ordinary suburban life, throwing herself into work on the school board and into a workmanlike affair that seems, at the surface, to have little effect on her family life. That is until the affair is discovered and her onetime partner on the school board is revealed to be deeply intwined with the rendition program that abducted Ayoub. Peter and I talk about how to write about torture outside of the torture room, our unwitting complicity with illegal rendition programs in the US, and our shared love of W.G. Sebald. Books Recommended in this episode: W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn Marlen Haushofer, The Wall Chris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

  Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1868 Birth of Tsar Nicholas II (books about this person), the last Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. On his fiftieth birthday on this day in 1918, he was essentially under house arrest by the Bolsheviks along with the rest of his family, the Romanovs (books about this family), in Yekaterinburg "Yek-ah-teerin- borg" (the fourth largest city in Russia) in a private home called Ipatiev ("ee-pah-tee-iv") or the "House of Special Purpose." It would be Nicholas's last birthday. In June, he wrote in his diary "It was unbearable to sit that way, locked up, and not be in a position to go out into the garden when you wanted and spend a fine evening outside." That same month, his wife, Alexandra, wrote, "Out in the garden, fearfully hot, sat under the bushes. They have given us. . . half an hour more for being out. Heat, airlessness in the rooms intense." By the 23rd of June, Alexandra noted the wonder of breathing in the fresh summer air. She wrote, Two of the soldiers came and took out one window in our room. Such joy, delicious air at last, and one window no longer whitewashed. The air in the room became clean and by evening, cool. Nicholas observed, The fragrance from all the town's gardens is amazing. This moment would be one of the family's last happy times.   On July 17, 1918, the entire family, including their children and most faithful servants, were brought to the basement and executed. Today there is nothing left of the Ipatiev house. It was demolished in September of 1977, and the land was given to the Russian Orthodox Church. The altar inside a church called the Church on the Blood is on the very spot where the Romanovs died. The beautiful church honors Nicholas and his family, now regarded as saints in the Russian Orthodox Church.   1926 On this day, Ralph Waldo Emerson (books by this author) wrote in his journal: My garden is an honest place.  Every tree and every vine are incapable of concealment and tell after two or three months exactly what sort of treatment they have had.  The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.   1944 Birth of Winfried Georg Sebald ("Say-bald") (books by this author), who went by Max and wrote as W. G. Sebald, German writer and academic. When Max died at 57, he was regarded as one of the greatest authors of his time. His 2001 novel Austerlitz was Sebald's final novel. The book was honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2019, it ranked 5th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. Here's an excerpt: In the warmer months of the year, one or other of those nocturnal insects quite often strays indoors from the small garden behind my house. When I get up early in the morning, I find them clinging to the wall, motionless. I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way since if you do not put them out again carefully, they will stay where they are, never moving, until the last breath is out of their bodies. Indeed they will remain in the place where they came to grief even after death, held fast by the tiny claws that stiffened in their last agony until a draft of air detaches them and blows them into a dusty corner.  Sometimes, seeing one of these moths that have met their end in my house, I wonder what kind of fear and pain they feel while they are lost.   1955 Death of Mary McLeod Bethune (books about this person), American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Mary was the fifteenth child - and the first baby born free - to her newly freed parents, who were enslaved before the Civil War and owned by a different master. Mary's father, Samuel, had worked to "buy" his bride. Most of Mary's older brothers and sisters were sold to other masters. Mary was also the first person in her family to go to school. In 1904, Mary moved to Daytona, Florida. There, she created the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls, and within two years, she had 250 students. Without any means, Mary improvised and used sticks of charcoal for pencils, mashed elderberries for ink, and cardboard boxes for tables and chairs.  Mary put fifteen dollars in pennies, nickels, and dimes down on a swampy piece of land that served as a garbage dump. It was called Hell's Hole. With the help of benefactors, Mary built a four-story building on the site. Over the main doors were the words "Enter to Learn," and looking up over the same doors upon leaving, students saw the words "Depart to Serve." Mary's school continued to grow until it merged with an all-boys school and became Bethune-Cookman College (B-CC). As the school's first president, Mary reflected, When I walk through the campus, with its stately palms and well-kept lawns, and think back to the dump-heap foundation, rub my eyes and pinch myself. And I remember my childish visions in the cotton fields. Mary became a nationally known speaker, and she often spoke of a people garden, a place where people of all colors grew together in harmony. Initially, Mary was disheartened that there was no black blossom to represent her race and make her people's garden complete. But that all changed when she discovered black flowers in gardens during a visit to Europe. During her visit to Holland, Mary received black tulip bulbs. And after she saw a garden with black roses In Switzerland,  she ordered 72 black roses for the grounds at B-CC. The gesture earned Mary a nickname: the black rose. In turn, Mary called her B-CC students her "Black Roses." On this day in 1955, Mary died of a heart attack. Her will ended with this goodbye: I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you racial dignity...   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook by Anne Stobart  This book came out in 2020, and the subtitle is Growing, Harvesting, and Using Healing Trees and Shrubs in a Temperate Climate. This book has tons of practical information on using medicinal trees and shrubs for your own self-sufficiency or for-profit - and it's a fantastic book. Before I get into this review, you should know that Anne has tons of direct experience creating her own medicinal forest in England. And she regularly uses herbal medicine in her practice. What's especially exciting about the way Anne has written this book is she is giving us advice for all kinds of spaces, whether you're looking at small gardens or small properties, all the way up to agroforestry. There is so much in this book. Anne reviews her favorite medicinal trees and offers practical advice on incorporating those into your landscape. She shares the kind of shrubs you should consider if you're interested in medicinal plants. She also reveals how to combine woody and other layers of medicinal plants to look good and make sense with other projects that you may have on your property. And Anne also takes us on a deep dive into some of the main medicinal constituents of woody plants and the latest research. You don't always see this information together in one complete guide. Usually, there are drips and drabs in other books. But what I love about what Anne has done is she's put it all together here - All the information you need to make informed decisions about the medicinal trees and shrubs you want to plant on your property. Now, Anne herself points out that many books on forest gardens focus primarily on food. So to have a book that talks about medicinal forest gardens is especially unique and valuable. And so, what Anne is doing here is sharing her wisdom when it comes to harvesting so that you can create your own herbal remedies. And here's what Anne wrote in the foreword to her book. I love herbs and am especially passionate about medicinal trees and shrubs. This book is not only about how you can cultivate and harvest them, but it is also intended to provide you with the basis for creating your own medicinal planting design and herbal preparations. The medicinal forest garden provides a way to grow and harvest healing plants that draw on natural and sustainable processes to make efficient use of resources of light, space, soil, and water. At a time when forests are regarded as key in combatting climate breakdown, what could be better than seizing the opportunity to promote health and biodiversity by planting more medicinal trees and shrubs!   And speaking for myself, I can say that I've had a few takeaways after reading Anne's book. I'm installing a mini orchard up at the cabin, and I'm also supplementing my old-growth forest all around the border of my property. And I definitely took some of Anne's tree and shrub recommendations, and I'm incorporating them into my garden plan for this summer. Anyway, I love this whole field. I also appreciate this area of using plants, not only for their ornamental or food value but also for their medicinal value, which was a key driver for the early plant explorers. And so, I think it's excellent to reclaim some of that knowledge. This book is 288 pages of a ton of information. It's broken into two parts. Part One has detailed information on the medicinal applications you can get from trees and shrubs, including designing, growing, harvesting, and creating remedies. And then Part Two gives you a fabulous directory of forty medicinal trees and shrubs. And I bet there will at least be a handful that you'll want to add to your garden in the future.  You can get a copy of The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook by Anne Stobart and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $20.   Botanic Spark 1980 On this day, Mount St. Helens erupted.  The deadly eruption triggered the largest landslide ever recorded.  The Honey Market News reported on the impact on bees and local apiaries: The true impact on honeybees from volcanic ash fallout will take a long time to assess...  The Columbia Basin bees died within hours of ash fallout from the St. Helens' eruption on May 18.  The second eruption on May 25 caused great stress in the hives in Southwestern Washington. Brood was pushed out, and colonies with new queens introduced 1-2 days prior to the eruptions were killed.  Central Washington bees took 3-4 days to die or remove brood from the hives. Bees were affected by ash collecting in the respiratory system, resulting in suffocation or the abrasive action on the body and internal organs, causing loss of moisture and eventual death. Early estimates indicate approximately 12,000 colonies have been affected.  Beekeepers were moving colonies out of ash fallout areas. Growers and beekeepers were discussing the availability of bees to pollinate seed crops in the Columbia Basin. Nectar flow had stopped, and heavy syrup feeding was underway.  Beeswax cannot be used... because of the abrasive ash residue that can't be removed. ...Bees avoided foraging on anything that was covered by ash fallout. Yet they would go to blossom that had opened since May 19.    Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

W.G. Sebald's curious book The Rings of Saturn.

W.G. Sebald's curious book The Rings of Saturn.

On this episode of Knowing Animals, we are joined by Dr Dominic O'Key. Dominic is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. We discuss his new book Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals, which was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2022. This episode is brought to you by AASA (the Australiasian Animal Studies Association) and the Animal Publics book series from Sydney University Press.