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I talk to William Giraldi, author of Hold the Dark, about how he found his way out of the Catholic Church…and then back into it, at least on an aesthetic level. Also: bodybuilding; Michael Jordan; is Christianity the only rebellion left? Support the show on Patreon at https://patreon.com/changedmymind Email the show at changedmymindpod@gmail.com Visit William Giraldi at http://www.wgiraldi.com
Jenny Valentish reading from William Giraldi's The Hero's Body and discussing the ups and downs of reinventing yourself. How far have you pushed yourself? What's the most fragile edge of yourself that you've stumbled out towards? If I had to choose one instance, it would be the time I ran a marathon with no training. I came in last, and I came in at the very limit of what I could've done. I was at my edge. Jenny Valentish has explored the edges, both light and dark, not only in her writing, but in living her life. Jenny's the author of Everything Harder Than Everyone Else, and a journalist. She joins me today to discuss the journey of reinvention. Get book links and resources at https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/ Jenny reads two pages from ‘The Hero's Body' by William Giraldi. [reading begins at 9:34] Hear us talk about: The place for joy in reinvention. [14:45] | Is satisfaction attainable?: “The paradox of being very goal-oriented is that goals have disappointment built into them.” [18:07] | Celebrating the moment. [23:40] | Managing ‘the crash': “There's no rush. It can take a couple of years for an idea to slot into place, so don't panic.” [25:18] | Uncovering what's next. [27:57]
Pousser de la fonte est presque devenu une religion. Aller à la salle, ce n’est plus se préparer physiquement à d’autres pratiques sportives : la musculation est bien devenue un sport en soi. A la fois érotique et viril, le muscle est symbolique, et sa conquête apporte le sentiment de maîtrise et de contrôle. Comment le biscoto est-il devenu si valorisé ? Pour parler biceps et bodybuilding, Anne-Cécile Genre rencontre l’historien Georges Vigarello, Olivier Lafay auteur de la méthode de musculation Lafay, et Bruno Crémonisi et Christian Couturier du Snep-Fsu.RÉFÉRENCES« Le corps du héros » de William Giraldi (2018), « Arnold le magnifique » de George Butler et Robert Fiore (1977), le youtubeur Tibo InShape, « L’infinie comédie » de David Foster Wallace (2017), le documentaire « L’Homme le plus fort » de Louise Hémon (2014). CRÉDITSDu Sport est un podcast de Binge Audio et du Snep-FSU, animé par Anne-Cécile Genre. Production : Joël Ronez. Rédaction en chef : David Carzon. Réalisation : Solène Moulin. Chargée de production et lectures : Juliette Livartowski. Chargée d’édition : Camille Regache. Direction générale : Gabrielle Boeri-Charles. Musique originale : Théo Boulenger. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On this episode Lucas and Matt once again bang their heads against the walls of some of art's big questions. First, Lucas schools Matt on Paul Verhoeven and why he's still important. Then the boys remember Mary Oliver and read the first of what, we hope, will be many more Madonna tweets. Matt talks about what he likes about William Giraldi's book of literary criticism American Audacity. Then, Lucas reads from his piece on the short films of Josh Begley, data artist and law teacher who also writes for The Intercept. https://www.amazon.com/American-Audacity-Defense-Literary-Daring/dp/1631493906 https://theintercept.com/2016/10/26/best-of-luck-with-the-wall/ Music cred Mal Hallett And His Orchestra for "When My Ship Comes In" [Banner 33234, 1934] DJ /rupture (Jace Clayton) & Matt Shadetek – Solar Life Raft (2009). Clayton also wrote an original piece for Begley's film "Best of Luck with the Wall." http://www.negrophonic.com/dj-rupture-mixes-free-download/
Episode 9 of the "7 Minutes With" podcast, brought to you by DoSomeDamage.com, with your host Steve Weddle. As always, Jedidiah Ayres talks about film, while Chris F. Holm suggests some music, and Holly West discusses TV. West: hollywest.com/ Holm: chrisfholm.com/ Ayres: spaceythompson.blogspot.com/ Chris F. Holm talks about writers who rock. -Stona Fitch: Scruffy the Cat, a cult band out of Boston that’s widely credited as one of the forefathers of alt-country. -Tom Pitts: Short Dogs Grow -S.W. (Steve) Lauden: Tsar -Daniel Palmer: “Daniel Palmer Sings,” which you can check out on Bandcamp. Holly West talks about Ozark, now streaming on Netflix. And Jedidiah Ayres tells us about Hold the Dark, a movie based on the book by William Giraldi and we mention a Scott Wolven story: http://plotswithguns.com/8wolven.htm All music in the episode: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Dave and Volpe discuss William Giraldi's novel 'Hold the Dark' and its film adaptation directed by Jeremy Saulnier. https://www.thedisorderly.com/ Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DisorderlyEnt Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/DisorderlyMedia
With novelist and essayist William Giraldi. Author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark, and The Hero's Body, a memoir of misspent youth as a bodybuilder, Giraldi is one of the few contemporary American critics worth reading. This month, he publishes his first collection of essays, American Audacity: In Defense of Literary Daring (Norton). Presented by Dominic Green, Culture Editor of Spectator USA.
This week's segments include a discussion on William Giraldi's New Republic essay "Immortal Beloved: Why writers want fans who last forever;" Hilary Mantel's wildly popular Wolf Hall; Laurie Winer reviews the Broadway hit Fun Home; Maret Orliss, senior programming manager for the LA Times Festival of Books, talks about this coming weekend's festival, now in its 20th year.
William Giraldi is the guest. His latest novel, Hold the Dark, is now available from Liveright Publishing. The New York Times Book Review calls it “[F]ierce, extraordinary…. Hold the Dark is an unnerving and intimate portrayal of nature gone awry. It’s all but bereft of levity, spectacularly violent and exquisitely written.” And the Boston Globe says “Maybe it all began with Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock in 1938, but there is a variety of modern thriller, created these days by Robert Stone and Denis Johnson at their best, that delivers narrative thrust and beautifully composed sentences by the pageful even as it peels away the thin membrane that separates entertainment from art, and nature from civilization. Here’s Boston writer William Giraldi adding to the slender ranks of such masterly fiction… [Hold the Dark] certainly stands out as one of the decade’s best books of its kind, and one that deserves, because of its stylish flaunting of some of our darkest fears, a future readership.” Monologue topics: holiday gift ideas, the holidays, capitalist orgies, bad attitudes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week's podcast features freelance book critic Jacob Silverman, who stirred up a lot of discussion last month when Slate published his piece, "Against Enthusiasm" about "the epidemic of niceness in online book culture." Basically, Jacob argued that online book culture has lead away from legit discussion to a series of endorsements and "+1s." Shortly after he wrote this, William Giraldi trashed Alex Ohlin's recent publications, setting off another Twitter firestorm. And of course, the day we recorded this, Giraldi published a long piece in The Daily Beast explaining his beliefs about book criticism. Anyway, this week we talk about all of that . . .