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John J. Miller is joined by Peter Meilaender of Houghton University to discuss 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Goethe.
The Canadian Screen Awards announced their nominations for the June 1st gala with Universal Language leading the pack with 13 nominations. Jeff Bulmer, one half of the Classic Movies Live podcast, joins the show as the guys try to predict who will be nominated and then react to actual films that made the cut.See the Letterboxd list that Jeff made that features all of the nominated films. Check out some of our Canadian Screen Award reviews from this past year, Darkest Miriam, Paying For It, Rumours, Shepherds, The Apprentice, Universal Language and Young Werther.Check out new reviews from Contrazoompod.com including Wolf Man, The Penguin Lessons and Julie Keeps Quiet.Follow Classic Movies Live on Twitter and Instagram.Follow Contra Zoom on Instagram, Threads and Bluesky.Check out more great Contra Zoom content on That Shelf!Listen to Contra Zoom on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, Overcast, Breaker and more!Please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. For more information, visit contrazoompod.com.Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr
Writer and director José Lourenço joined me for #CarolynTalks to chat about his film YOUNG WERTHER based on the1774 novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. José and I chatted about adapting the language of the novel for a modern day film and working with actors Douglas Booth, Alison Pill, and Patrick J. Adams to work out the speech and relationship dynamics of their characters.#FilmCritic #Interview #YoungWertherMovie premiered at #TIFF24 and stars Amrit Kaur and Iris Apatow.*Trailer and film still courtesy of @LionsgateMovies Find me on Twitter and Instagram at: @CarrieCnh12Buy me a coffee or pizza at https://buymeacoffee.com/carolynhinds?status=1paypal.com/paypalme/carolynhinds0525My Social Media hashtags are: #CarolynTalks #DramasWithCarrie #SaturdayNightSciFi #SHWH #KCrushVisit Authory.com/CarolynHinds to find links to all of my published film festival coverage, writing, YouTube and other podcasts So Here's What Happened!, and Beyond The Romance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jose Laurenço is the Canadian filmmaker behind the new hit Young Werther. Based off the novel by Johnann Wolfgang von Goethe and shot in Hamilton and Toronto, the film stars Douglas Booth, Alison Pill, Iris Apatow, and Patrick J. Adams. It was releassed on January 10th. For years, Michael Polish made films with his twin brother Mark, with Michael often behind the camera, and Mark in front, and both being credited as writer. He also worked solo for the last decade or so, including his new film, the spy-thriller Alarum starring Scott Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone. It is available January 17th. Subscribe - Apple, Spotify, PocketCast, Radio Public Socials @EndeavoursRadio
Independent Film Focus focuses on talking to filmmakers and highlighting their projects that might not have a wide release or are independently backed. In today's episode Daniel chats to José Lourenço about his debut feature, Young Werther. Starring Alison Pill, Douglas Booth and Patrick J Adams, Young Werther, based on the acclaimed German novel The Sorrows of Young Werther gets a new modern take. José chats about the long process to get the film made, the experience of having the film premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and working with a extremely talented cast in his first feature. Films discussed during this episode: Young Werther Saturday Night Alien: Romulus Barbie The Princess Bride Young Werther is out now in limited theaters across Canada and is on VOD in the United States. To find a showing near you click here. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to recommend a movie we cover next please reach out to us on social media. We're on Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter) and Instagram. Next Episode: Top 5 Films of 2024 with Michael Denniston
José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço is a Toronto-based writer and filmmaker whose debut film, “Young Werther,” reimagines Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic novella “The Sorrows of Young Werther” as a modern-day rom-com. José sits down with Tom Power to talk about the film and why he thinks this 18th-century German tragedy is a universal story that we can still learn from today.
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks to José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço the writer and director of the movie Young Werther. (Which premiered at TIFF 24.) My Summer Lair Chapter #309: Is Young Werther As Sweet As Werther's Original Candy? Recorded: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 12:20 pm (EST) For more show notes visit MySummerLair.com. Bonus Fun? Sign up for my newsletter because the F in FOMO doesn't stand for Fun. Stress free pop culture (TV shows! Books! Movies! Music! So Many Recommendations!!) tastefully harvested for your divine delight. Once a week a carefully curated edition of My Pal Sammy goes directly to your inbox. Magic or Science? You decide.
His delightful first feature Young Werther opens across Canada this Friday, so writer-director José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço is here to kick off the new year by being entirely worthy of Mike Myers' 1992 blockbuster-slash-breakout Wayne's World, directed by Penelope Spheeris. Your genial host Norm Wilner is happy to kick off 2025 riding shotgun in the Mirthmobile.
On CinemAddicts Episode 271, we review movies that are coming out December 13, 2024. New films covered include "The Man in the White Van," "Young Werther," "Nickel Boys," and "Endless Summer Syndrome." Cinema-Attic inhabitant Bruce Purkey also delivers a couple of recommends with "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," "Smile 2," and "Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branching Out." (0:00) - Intro (15:45) - The Man in the White Van arrives in theaters December 13. Photo/poster: Relativity Media. (22:18) - Young Werther hits Theaters, Digital, and On Demand 12/13. Photo/poster: Lionsgate. (32:12) - Nickel Boys hits NY December 13 and Los Angeles December 20th. More cities in subsequent weeks. Photos/poster courtesy of Orion Pictures (42:44) - Bruce Purkey is stuck in the Cinem-Attic!! (44:12) - Endless Summer Syndrome - in theaters and VOD 12/13. Photo/poster: Altered Innocence. (53:28) - The Man in the White Van (61:54) - Smile 2 (68:03) - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (72:12) - Adult Swim Yule Log 2: Branching Out ***Support CinemAddicts by purchasing/renting movies using our Amazon affiliate links or our SiteStripe. ***CinemAddicts Movie Picks (worth Renting/Purchasing) include: Seven Cemeteries Dominique The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Red Rooms Take Cover For Ad-Free CinemAddicts episodes, subscribe to our CinemAddicts YouTube Channel. Like Our CinemAddicts Facebook Page Join our CinemAddicts Facebook Group for daily movie recommendations. Questions/comments on CinemAddicts email Greg Srisavasdi at info@findyourfilms.com. Our website is Find Your Film. Shop our CinemAddicts Merch store (shirts, hoodies, mugs). Interested in what book Eric Holmes is adapting into a screenplay? Check out Patera. CinemAddicts hosts: Bruce Purkey, Eric Holmes, Greg Srisavasdi Thanks to our Patreon Community 1. Ryan Smith 2. Stephen Schrock 3. Susan 4. Charles Peterson 5. Nelson B. McClintock 6. Diana Van De Kamp 7. Pete Abeyta 8. Tyler Andula 9. Stephen Mand 10. Edmund Mendez 11. Abbie Schmidt 12. Jeff Tait 13. Superfan Giovanni 14. Robert Prakash 15. Kristen 16. Chris M 17. Jeremy Chappell 18. Lewis Longshadow 19. Iver 20. Alex Clayton 21. Daniel Hulbert 22. Andrew Martin 23. Angela Clark 24. Myron Freeman 25. Kayn Kalmbach 26. Aaron Fordham 27. Tracy Peters 28. Grant Boston 29. Ken Cunningham
For Find Your Film episode 208 I interview "Young Werther" filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lorenço and "Our House" playwright/actor Julia Wosiak. Young Werther photos/poster courtesy of Lionsgate. Julia Wosiak photo courtesy of Thomas Chimney. José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lorenço's website: https://www.jagcl.com/ Julie Wosiak's Instagtram: https://www.instagram.com/julia.wosiak/ Website: https://www.juliawosiak.com/ Timesetamps (0:00) - Intro (10:55) - José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço (22:35) - Julia Wosiak intro (26:06) - Julia Wosiak interview Find Your Film Follow Us On Facebook. Podcast website is Find Your Films. Find Your Film and CinemAddicts merch is available! Members of our CinemAddicts Patreon receive a bonus episode per month and early access to exclusive Movie spoilers (discussed by actors and filmmakers). For daily movie recommendations and conversation, join our CinemAddicts Facebook Group. For questions/comments on Find Your Film podcast, contact me at info@findyourfilms.com. Support my podcast and Find Your Films website by purchasing items via my Amazon SiteStripe or the affiliate links in the show notes (I receive a slight commission).
In her new FX docuseries “Social Studies,” the artist and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield delves into the post-pandemic lives—and phones—of a group of L.A. teens. Screen recordings of the kids' social-media use reveal how these platforms have reshaped their experience of the world in alarming ways. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz discuss how the show paints a vivid, empathetic portrait of modern adolescence while also tapping into the long tradition of fretting about what the youths of the day are up to. The hosts consider moral panics throughout history, from the 1971 book “Go Ask Alice,” which was first marketed as the true story of a drug-addicted girl's downfall in a bid to scare kids straight, to the hand-wringing that surrounded trends like rock and roll and the postwar comic-book craze. Anxieties around social-media use, by contrast, are warranted. Mounting research shows how screen time correlates with spikes in depression, loneliness, and suicide among teens. It's a problem that has come to define all our lives, not just those of the youth. “This whole crust of society—people joining trade unions and other kinds of things, lodges and guilds, having hobbies,” Cunningham says, “that layer of society is shrinking. And parallel to our crusade against the ills of social media is, how do we rebuild that sector of society?” Read, watch, and listen with the critics:“Social Studies” (2024)“Into the Phones of Teens,” by Naomi Fry (The New Yorker)“Generation Wealth” (2018)Marilyn Manson“Reviving Ophelia,” by Mary Pipher“Go Ask Alice,” by Beatrice Sparks“Forrest Gump” (1994)“The Rules of Attraction,” by Bret Easton Ellis“Less Than Zero,” by Bret Easton Ellis“The Sorrows of Young Werther,” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“Seduction of the Innocent,” by Fredric Wertham“Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?,” by Andrew Solomon (The New Yorker)“The Anxious Generation,” by Jonathan Haidt“Bowling Alone,” by Robert D. PutnamNew episodes drop every Thursday. Follow Critics at Large wherever you get your podcasts.
Welcome to The CB Media Network Khalil (@khaliljamal03) interviews Young Werther director and writer José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço! Other Podcast: Check out Movie Madness with Khalil Jamal: https://ciut.fm/shows-by-day/movie-madness/ Subscribe: If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to CB Media Network for more instant reactions, news breakdowns and amazing podcasts! Click the bell icon to receive notifications whenever we upload new videos. Connect with Us: Instagram: @comicboys_ X: @comicboys_ Website: https://cbmedianetwork.wixsite.com/thecbmn About The CB Media Network: We're your backstage pass to the world of cinema and entertainment. Our team is dedicated to bringing you exclusive interviews with actors, directors, and industry insiders. But that's not all—we're here to expand your cinematic horizons, sharing unique perspectives and uncovering hidden gems that may have slipped under your radar. What's in Store: Interviews with actors, directors, and film industry experts. Spotlighting movies you may have never considered. Exploring unique perspectives on beloved classics. Reviews, recommendations, and behind-the-scenes insights. A dash of humor and a whole lot of cinephile enthusiasm! #tiff #film #movie #review #YoungWerther #romcom #interview director #canada #toronto
With TIFF now behind us, it is time to discuss some of our favourite films that played, the award winners and what comes next for the People's Choice selection. Joining the show is Jeff Bulmer from Classic Movies Live, Thomas Stoneham-Judge from For Reel and Darren Zakus from Movie Scene Canada. We review The Life of Chuck, The Substance, Queer, Eden, The Shrouds, SATURDAY NIGHT, The Assessment and Heretic. Read Dakota's reviews of SATURDAY NIGHT and The Last Showgirl. Read Jeff's reviews of The Substance, Vice is Broke, The Return, Julie Keeps Quiet, Universal Language, Young Werther, Paying For It and Seeds. Read Brodie Cotnam's review of The Life of Chuck. Read Darren's reviews of Eden, Babygirl and The Life of Chuck. Check out Thomas and For Reel's complete TIFF coverage. Leave a comment on Spotify for what movies you saw at TIFF! Follow Darren Zakus on Twitter and Instagram. Follow For Reel on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. Follow Thomas on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Classic Movies Live on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Contra Zoom on Twitter and Instagram. Check out more great Contra Zoom content on That Shelf! Listen to Contra Zoom on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, Overcast, RadioPublic, Breaker, Podcast Addict and more! Please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. For more information, visit contrazoompod.com. Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr
Today on The Social, Kate Middleton reveals she has finished chemotherapy in an unprecedented video message. Then, despite its success, Beyoncé's “Cowboy Carter” album fails to land a single nomination from the CMA. And, one woman admits she's envious of people who get to take time off work because they're having a baby. Plus, Anna Wintour asks Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb to “quiet down” at the US Open. And, Jamie Lee Curtis shares her secret to her long marriage to Christopher Guest. Plus, David Grohl confesses he has a new baby…outside of his marriage. Then, is Orlando Bloom checking out Kim Kardashian's butt? And, Alison Pill and Douglas Booth discuss their TIFF film, “Young Werther”.
CW: Suicide and Mental Illness Professor Kozlowski concludes his discussion of Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther by examining the causes (and the effects) of Werther's death. Goethe's treatment of Werther's case is careful and multifaceted - we'll look at some of the different perspectives Goethe offers us for understanding why Werther kills himself, and how we should interpret this act.
CW: Mental Illness and Suicide Professor Kozlowski discusses the first half of Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther, including character introductions, an examination of typically Romantic characteristics, and discussion of mental illness and suicide.
Robin Skinner's open-hearted songwriting as Cavetown matches lyrical vulnerability with an emotive approach to production. In the first episode of Doing Music, Robin tells host Craig Schuftan about his rise to fame as a teenage YouTube sensation and what that means for him and his music. It's a sensitive insight into a DIY artist who has shared his most intimate issues through song, touching on the search for a sense of home, navigating fame and collaborative songwriting as the next step in self-therapy. Along the way, prepare to bask in the nostalgic warmth of the Moomins and contemplate the idea of an 18th century emo kid. Explore further: Comet in Moominland by Trove Jansson ‘Homesick' by Cavetown, from Moominvalley Official Soundtrack The Sorrows of Young Werther by J.W. von Goethe Keep up with Cavetown on Instagram, YouTube and via his website — and check out his latest EP Little Vice. Tell us what you think of this episode: doingmusic@ableton.com Doing Music is brought to you by Ableton. Follow us on TikTok and Instagram.
Danny O'Brien joined RSN on Thursday morning ahead of what will be a big weekend at Eagle Farm, with Vow And Declare and Young Werther in the HKJC World Pool Q22. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Danny O'Brien joined RSN on Thursday morning as his stable has two live chances in the Doomben Cup in Young Werther and Vow And Declare, he also had a winner yesterday at Bendigo and gave an update on the team he's taking to Sandown on Saturday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1151, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Back To The Hotel 1: In 1975, Lyn Weiner opened the Kennelworth, a hotel in New York City for these pets. dogs. 2: The Celtic Lodge and Kelly's Hotel are famous hotels in this world capital. Dublin. 3: This large ocean liner that's been docked in Long Beach since 1967 is a hotel and tourist attraction. Queen Mary. 4: With canals, piazzas, and St. Mark's Square, this Vegas hotel sits on the old Sands Hotel site. the Venetian. 5: This "presidential" hotel was elected to host the first Academy Awards ceremony. the Roosevelt. Round 2. Category: Significant Old Books 1: Dating from the 5th century B.C., this Asian philosopher's "Analects". Confucius. 2: This ancient Greek playwright's comedies, which include "The Frogs". Aristophanes. 3: This German's 18th century coming of age classic "The Sorrows of Young Werther". Goethe. 4: Greek historian and soldier Thucydides' firsthand account "The History of" this peninsular war. the Peloponnesian War. 5: This Swiss-French writer's 18th century political covenant "The Social Contract". Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Round 3. Category: The Last Category. With Last in quotes 1: Something about to tumble down is standing on these. its last legs. 2: Type of final effort that might be required to finish a trench. last-ditch. 3: It breaks a camel's back. the last straw. 4: It's what you have when your joke succeeds when all told you it would fail. the last laugh. 5: A desperate attempt, such as defending the endmost trench. a last ditch effort. Round 4. Category: It'S A Flat-Out Fact 1: All babies have flat feet, but if you develop the condition later in life, it's called fallen these. arches. 2: Please pass over this bread in unleavened form or now that I think of it, as a ball in some delicious soup. matzah. 3: "Tortilla Flat", a 1935 novel set in Monterey, established him as a successful author. Steinbeck. 4: In 2021 a vehicle aptly named Speed Demon hit 466 mph at these salt flats in Utah. Bonneville. 5: Some Native Americans practiced skull binding for a rounded look; Lewis and Clark called the Salish this because they didn't. the Flathead. Round 5. Category: China Patterns 1: Ruins of this run from Bo Hai, a gulf of the Yellow Sea, to the Gansu province in the west. The Great Wall. 2: This former crown colony is partly on the southeast coast of China and partly on over 200 islands. Hong Kong. 3: The Hainan province has this type of climate, hence the coconut trees and pineapple plants. Tropical. 4: The 3 Gorges Dam, over 1 mile long, is being built to control the flooding of this river. Yangtze. 5: Immensely popular in China, this paddle sport is known as the "national game". ping pong. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used
Amalia Holst's defence of female education, published in 1802, was the first work by a woman in Germany to challenge the major philosophers of the age, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. Unlike Mary Wollstonecraft writing in England, Holst failed to make headway with her arguments. New Generation Thinker Andrew Cooper teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Warwick. His essay explores the publishing of Holst's book On The Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Education.Andrew Cooper is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI.Producer: Luke MulhallYou can hear more from Andrew in a Free Thinking discussion about The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe available as an Arts & Ideas podcast and on BBC Sounds
Amalia Holst's defence of female education, published in 1802, was the first work by a woman in Germany to challenge the major philosophers of the age, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant. Unlike Mary Wollstonecraft writing in England, Holst failed to make headway with her arguments. New Generation Thinker Andrew Cooper teaches in the philosophy department at the University of Warwick. His essay explores the publishing of Holst's book On The Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Education. Andrew Cooper is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI. Producer: Luke Mulhall You can hear more from Andrew in a Free Thinking discussion about The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe available as an Arts & Ideas podcast and on BBC Sounds.
Young Werther will return to the races on Saturday and his trainer says he looks to be in the best shape he's been. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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REFERENCES "Pilot". Madam Secretary. Season 1, Episode 1, CBS, 21 Sep. 2014. Netflix https://www.netflix.com/watch/80112456?trackId=14277283 “Left of the Boom." Madam Secretary. Season 2, Episode 14, CBS, 14 Feb. 2016. Netflix, https://www.netflix.com/watch/80112456?trackId=14277283 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. "The Sorrows of Young Werther". Penguin Classics. 1774. Print
Danny O'Brien joined Racing Pulse on Wednesday, with three of his stable stars to go around this weekend.
Wowee, what a day Saturday was! Brutality grabbed his first win in 582 days while Young Werther broke a 1043-day winless drought. Did Hell freeze over?Racing Reacts is the light-hearted Saturday racing review show, presented by Dabble! Blake, Sam & Nick have a light-hearted discussion about the days' races, find some horses worth following and some to forget. Don't have a Dabble account? Sign up here and follow us @TheLegUp bit.ly/FollowTheLegUpSupport the show
Jack Dickens joined Gareth to recap a massive weekend of action, as Young Werther got a long-awaited victory, Mimi's Award took out the Deane Lester Flemington Cup and plenty more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
An instant bestseller in 1774, The Sorrows of Young Werther was carried by Napoleon on his campaign in Egypt, it led to spin offs in fashion, porcelain and perfume and created Werther fever. A work of his Sturm und Drang years, Goethe's epistolary novel was published anonymously when he was aged 24. The story captures the intensity of unrequited love, frustrated ambition and mental suffering. It is also a novel that keys into the big philosophical arguments of its age and has given rise to a wide range of artistic responses in the two centuries since. With the Royal Opera House staging Massenet's operatic adaptation of the story, Anne McElvoy explores the ideas that fed into it. Professor Sarah Hibberd is Stanley Hugh Badock Chair of Music at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on nineteenth century opera and music theatre in Paris and London. Dr Sean Williams is a BBC Radio 3 AHRC New Generation Thinker and Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield and is a BBC Radio 3 AHRC New Generation Thinker. Dr Andrew Cooper is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and is a BBC Radio 3 AHRC New Generation Thinker. Dr Sabina Dosani is a doctoral researcher in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. She is a consultant psychiatrist and a BBC Radio 3 AHRC New Generation Thinker. Producer: Ruth Watts Werther: Antonio Pappano conducts Massenet's opera with a cast including Jonas Kaufmann and Aigul Akhmetshina. Performances at the Royal Opera House are from June 20th - July 4th You can find other discussions about artworks, literature, film and TV which are Landmarks of culture gathered into a collection on the Free Thinking programme website. They include episodes about Gunter Grass, ETA Hoffmann, Hannah Arendt, and Thomas Mann https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44
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This week on The Literary Life podcast, we bring you another fun Literary Life of…episode. Angelina, Thomas, and Cindy's guest today is Lia Techand, our first international guest on the podcast. Lia, a German born in Kyrgyzstan, currently serving with her husband as a missionary in Australia, along with their two book-loving children. We start off the interview hearing Lia tell about her young life and how she started loving English literature. She talks about her parents and grandparents' reading lives and the legacy of loving books that they left for her. She also shares how literary analysis and symbolism teaching in high school and college challenged her enjoyment of literature. Lia tells about how she stopped reading in university because she was too busy but then started reading again once she became a mother. Lia and Angelina share some examples of crazy literary theory that is taught in university programs, and how that confused and discouraged Lia so much. She also tells the story of finding The Literary Life podcast and taking classes with Angelina. They wrap up the conversation with some encouragement for readers looking for the meaning in the stories they read. Join us next time for a discussion of Plato's Ion, led by Mr. Banks! Register now for our 5th Annual Literary Life Online Conference coming up April 12-15, 2023, Shakespeare: The Bard for All and for All Time. Get all the details and sign up today at houseofhumaneletters.com. Commonplace Quotes: A story is a work of art. Its greatest use to the child is in the everlasting appeal of beauty by which the soul of man is constantly pricked to new hungers, quickened to new perceptions, and so given desire to grow… The storyteller…has, in short, accomplished the one greatest aim of story-telling,–to enlarge and enrich the child's spiritual experience, and stimulate healthy reaction upon it. Of course this result cannot be seen and proved as easily and early as can the apprehension of a fact. The most one can hope to recognize is its promise, and this is found in the tokens of that genuine pleasure which is itself the means of accomplishment. Sara Cone Bryant, from How to Tell Stories to Children Every thirty years a new race comes into the world–a youngster that knows nothing about anything, and after summarily devouring in all haste the results of human knowledge as they have been accumulated for thousands of years, aspires to be thought cleverer than the whole of the past. For this purpose he goes to the university, and takes to reading books–new books, as being of his own age and standing. Everything he reads must be briefly put, must be new, as he is new himself. Then he falls to and criticizes. Arthur Schopenhauer, “On Men of Learning” What has drawn the modern world into being is a strange, almost occult yearning for the future. The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for heaven. Wendell Berry, from The Unsettling of America In these days, when Mr. Bernard Shaw is becoming gradually, amid general applause, the Grand Old Man of English letters, it is perhaps ungracious to record that he did once say there was nobody, with the possible exception of Homer, whose intellect he despised to so much as Shakespeare's. He has since said almost enough sensible things to outweigh even anything so silly as that. But I quote it because is exactly embodies the nineteenth-century notion of which I speak. Mr. Shaw had probably never read Home; and there were passages in his Shakespearean criticism that might well raise a doubt about whether he ever read Shakespeare. But the point was that he could not, in all sincerity, see what the world saw in Home and Shakespeare, because what the world saw was not what G. B. S. was then looking for. He was looking for that ghastly thing which Nonconformists call a Message. G. K. Chesterton, from The Soul of Wit: G. K. Chesterton on William Shakespeare Still ist de Nacht by Heinrich Heine Still is the night, and the streets are lone, My darling dwelt in this house of yore; ‘Tis years since she from the city has flown, Yet the house stands there as it did before. There, too, stands a man, and aloft stares he, And for stress of anguish he wrings his hands; My blood runs cold when his face I see, ‘Tis my own very self in the moonlight stands. Thou double! Thou fetch, with the livid face! Why dust thou mimic my lovelorn mould, That was racked and rent in this very place So many a night in the times of old? Books Mentioned: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Astrid Lindgren Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer Agatha Christie Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers Margery Allingham The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Formation of Character by Charlotte Mason (section on Goethe) Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne Beatrix Potter Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc Struwwelpeter in English Translation by Heinrich Hoffman Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Find Cindy at morningtimeformoms.com, on Instagram @cindyordoamoris and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/. Check out Cindy's own Patreon page also! 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Hello Interactors,[This is a repost from last Christmas eve. It's a great story worthy of another share!]For all you Christmas celebrators out there, happy Christmas Eve. Since many will be gathering ‘round a Christmas tree, I thought I'd tell the story of its origin. And like so much of American history, it has ties to immigrants and slavery; but in this case — anti-slavery.As interactors, you're special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You're also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let's go…A TREE SO YEE MAY BE FREE“If the morning drives are extended beyond the city, there is much to delight the eye. The trees are eased in ice; and when the sun shines out suddenly, the whole scene looks like one diffused rainbow,—dressed in a brilliancy which can hardly be conceived of in England. On days less bright, the blue harbour spreads in strong contrast with the sheeted snow which extends to its very brink.”These are the words of Harriet Martineau. She was a English writer, journalist, and social theorist who pioneered observational methods that came to influence the field of sociology. One of her more popular books came at the end of her travels through the United States in the 1830s titled, Retrospect of Western Travel. The passage above describes what she saw as she left the Boston city limits in the snow the winter of 1835.You may have images of her bundled up in a one horse open sleigh, over the hills she went, dashing all the way. But according to Martineau, you can let go of any such romantic inclinations. Here's her take on sleighing.“As for the sleighing, I heard much more than I experienced of its charms. No doubt early association has something to do with the American fondness for this mode of locomotion; and much of the affection which is borne to music, dancing, supping, and all kinds of frolic, is transferred to the vehicle in which the frolicking parties are transported. It must be so, I think, or no one would be found to prefer a carriage on runners to a carriage on wheels,—except on an untrodden expanse of snow. On a perfectly level and crisp surface I can fancy the smooth rapid motion to be exceedingly pleasant; but such surfaces are rare in the neighbourhood of populous cities. The uncertain, rough motion in streets hillocky with snow, or on roads consisting for the season of a ridge of snow with holes in it, is disagreeable, and provocative of headache. I am no rule for others as to liking the bells; but to me their incessant jangle was a great annoyance.”And if that's not enough to convince you, she offers up a quote from unknown source that puts a finer touch on the realities of sleighing.“Do you want to know what sleighing is like? You can soon try. Set your chair on a spring board out in the porch on Christmas-day: put your feet in a pail full of powdered ice: have somebody to jingle a bell in one ear, and somebody else to blow into the other with the bellows,—and you will have an exact idea of sleighing.”Martineau was on her way to a Christmas evening celebration at the home of a former Harvard German language professor, Charles Follen. Although, due to scheduling conflicts the event was actually on New Years Eve and not Christmas Eve. The cozy holiday scene that Martineau proceeds to unfold came to be the most, though not the first, read articulation of what came to be the center piece of American Christmas celebration – the Christmas tree.Follen was a German immigrant so perhaps it's not that surprising that a Christmas tree would feature prominently in her story. It's been a long held belief that German immigrants brought their time-honored Christmas tree tradition with them. Though, as we'll soon see, the evolution of the Christmas tree tradition in America paralleled that of Germany.Martineau's account of that evening, while factual, leaves out important historical details as to why she was celebrating Christmas with Follen and his family that night. These were two radical Unitarian abolitionists who bonded over their insistence that slavery be eradicated totally and immediately. Northerner's, and New England Unitarians, were split on the matter of abolition. Follen's convictions are what got him fired from Harvard a year prior.As for Martineau, she was a well known and respected journalist but not yet a public activist. But after attending a women's abolitionist meeting that November, she was convinced she needed to act. She was asked at that meeting to write publicly avowing her beliefs. Being one of the only women writers of her time to sustain herself through writing and still requiring access to America's mainstream elite for her book, she faced an ethical dilemma.Later she wrote, “I foresaw that almost every house in Boston, except those of the abolitionists, would be shut against me; that my relation to the country would be completely changed, as I should suddenly be transformed from being a guest and an observer to being considered a missionary or a spy.…”News leaked of her position on slavery and Boston newspapers ridiculed her. Their headlines spread across the country and she was forced to alter her itinerary. The event she was attending at Follen's home wasn't just a Christmas celebration, but an anti-slavery strategy session. That spring, she (in the company of Charles Follen) took to the road not as journalist, but as an activist.CHRISTKINDLE AND BELSNICKELHistorians and folklorists have determined that the first Christmas tree in America was most likely in the home of a German immigrant in Pennsylvania. But it's unlikely to have occurred anytime before 1810. The first known sketch of a family celebrating Christmas, featuring a small tree atop a table, was not printed until recent decades but dates to either 1812 or 1819.Recall from my November posts on the origins of Thanksgiving, this was also the time when St. Nicholas was also entering the picture in New York. The Christmas tree tradition was also just emerging in Germany at this very same time. The Christmas tree, like Santa Claus himself, wasn't a long held German tradition but a story told by a select group of elites who latched on to a small, isolated, and obscure holiday event that was occurring in what was then Strasbourg, Germany but is now part of France.It was established sometime in the 17th century as a quasi-religious way of judging children on the basis of them being naughty or nice. If you were nice you got a visit that night from Christkindle (i.e. the Christchild) and if you were naughty you got a visit from Hanstrapp; Strasbourg's equivalent of what became known as Belsnickle (roughly translated: St. Nicholas in Fur). This character has echo's of behavior seen by Wassailers during Thanksgiving celebrations where men, often of lower class, would dress up and go door to door, often times even welcoming themselves in. Perhaps this offers a clue into how Santa became a home invader. Though, should Belsnickle determine a child in the home had been naughty, he gifted the parents with a stick with instructions to whip the poor child.The Christmas tree tradition expanded beyond Strasbourg around 1750. Its spread may have been accelerated by a young up and coming writer, naturalist, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1771. Recall from my October post, that by the dawn of the 18th century Goethe had established himself as the go-to guy by the German government for writing, organizing, and evangelizing his opinions and observations on everything from gardening, to parks management, to economics.He had spent some time in Strasbourg and “discovered in this city a new sense of “German” identity that transformed his larger cultural vision.” His 1774 novel, The Sufferings of Young Werther, is a story of a love triangle that ends tragically. And in the lead up to this tragedy, Goethe writes how young Werther “spoke of the pleasure the children would feel and remembered how in times long past he had himself been transported to paradise by the surprise opening of a door and the appearance of the decorated tree with its candles, sweets, and apples.”It wasn't until 1810 that the Christmas Tree tradition made it's way to Berlin. It was introduced in Munich in 1830 by the Queen of Bavaria. Goethe had inspired a string of writers publishing stories of Christmas trees that were disseminated throughout Europe and the United States. And it was all happening at the same time of the first recorded evidence of a Christmas tree in America – 1820.And then, in 1836, came the first printed image of a Christmas tree in America. It was titled “Christmas Eve” and was featured in a story called The Stranger's Gift. It was written, as you might expect, by a German immigrant. But not just any German immigrant. It was written by Herman Bokum, the professor who replaced Follen after Harvard let him go for his public opposition to slavery just one year earlier.YOUR BOUGHS CAN TEACH A LESSONAfter Follen lost his job at Harvard he was hired by a family to home school their two children. Follen strictly followed a progressive teaching method derived from a Swiss educational reformer named Johann Pestalozzi. Pestalozzi had a child-centered and directed educational philosophy. He believed every child is born with inherently good qualities and it's the teachers role to find them and cultivate them. It's unclear whether Follen's enemies convinced the family to reconsider, the family themselves had a change of heart, or Follen, ever dogmatic in his principles, refused to budge on his teaching approach, but two weeks before Christmas of 1835 he was terminated.It is in this context that Harriett Martineau attended the Christmas celebration in Follen's newly built home on the corner of Follen Avenue outside of Boston. Martineau did not mention Follen by name in her retelling of their Christmas tree celebration, only Follen's son who everyone called “Little Charley.” She writes,“I was present at the introduction into the new country of the spectacle of the German Christmas-tree. My little friend Charley, and three companions, had been long preparing for this pretty show…I rather think it was, generally speaking, a secret out of the house; but I knew what to expect…The tree was the top of a young fir, planted in a tub, which was ornamented with moss. Smart, dolls, and other whimsies, glittered in the evergreen; and there was not a twig; which had not something sparkling upon it… Charley looked a good deal like himself, only now and then twisting himself about in an unaccountable fit of giggling. I mounted the steps behind the tree to see the effect of opening the doors. It was delightful. The children poured in; but in a moment, every voice was hushed. Their faces were upturned to the blaze, all eyes wide open, all lips parted, all steps arrested. Nobody spoke; only Charley leaped for joy.”It was two years before Martineau's book was published. She continued her friendship with Follen until his tragic death in 1841. He was killed when a steamship he was traveling on exploded. His photograph hung on the wall of her home until she died in 1876.And in the intervening years of her book being published, a writer friend of theirs, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, wrote a fictional story called “New Years Day” that included a brief mention of a Christmas tree celebration akin to what actually took place at the Follens. It was published that same year, 1835, making it the first piece of American literature to mentioned a Christmas tree.It's unfortunate America's Christmas tree origin story doesn't start with the telling of Charles Follen and Harriett Martineau and their New Years Eve anti-slavery strategy meeting around the Christmas tree. Not only is their relationship full of intrigue, but the idea of the Christmas tree immortalized as an historic symbol of freedom from slavery seems an appropriate American Christmas tale. Perhaps the story of Follen and Martineau is what we should be reading to children every Christmas eve and not just T'was the Night Before Christmas.Both the story of the Christmas tree as a time-honored German cultural tradition and America's favorite Christmas time fable, T'was the Night Before Christmas, were largely fabricated and perpetuated by a select group of elites on both sides of the Atlantic.Clement Clark Moore, the author of T'was the Night Before Christmas, — and his reactionary New York Episcopalian Knickerbocker friends — were interested in imbuing their Christmas tales with aristocratic authority. In contrast, Bollen and his Unitarian Christmas tree literary acquaintances used the Christmas tree to add momentum to the swelling progressive reformist movement of the 1830s.Stephen Nissenbaum, in his book The Battle for Christmas, explains the similarities between the unfolding of these two events, American traditions, and these two men,“There were important similarities between the antislavery sensibility and the new attitude toward children. Abolitionists and educational reformers shared a joint empathy for people who were powerless to resist the wrath of those who wielded authority over them—slaves and children, respectively. (Both types of reformers had a particular abhorrence of the use of the lash as a form of punishment.)”He continues,“In fact, what Charles Follen did in 1835 is similar in that sense to what Clement Clarke Moore had done more than a decade earlier, although his reasons—Moore was a reactionary, Follen a radical—were profoundly different. But both men had reason to feel alienated from their respective communities, and both responded by turning inward, to their own children, and using Christmas as the occasion for doing so.”And in both cases, literature, and access to it, played a starring role. Nissenbaum, writes,“As it turns out, the most important channels through which the ritual was spread were literary ones. Information about the Christmas tree was diffused by means of commercial literature, not via immigrant folk culture—from the top down, not from the bottom up. It was by reading about Christmas trees, not by witnessing them, that many thousands of Americans learned about the custom. Before they ever saw such a thing, they already knew what Christmas trees were all about—not only what they looked like, but also how and why they were to be used.”It seems another mythical folk tradition is still propagated from the top down more than experienced from bottom up. 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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Case for Reading Books, published by xander balwit on June 21, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR––––N/A I recently engaged in a lively discussion with several high-profile EAs wherein they voiced their indifference, or even distaste, towards reading books. Having assumed that those who prioritize rigorous epistemics would be avid book-readers, this took me by surprise. They argued that unlike a podcast, which one can listen to at double speed while doing other things, reading doesn't optimize for information absorption. While some conceded the value of reading nonfiction or condensed summaries of academic articles, few “wasted” their time on literature. While optimization has its utility, I would echo Owen Cotton-Barratt's claim that there are cases where it misses the mark. When it comes to reading books (or not reading them as the case may be), over-optimization discounts several key human values. Aristotle's Ethics offers us a great starting point to better understand these values. He begins: “Every art and every investigation, and similarly every action and pursuit, is considered to aim at some good. Hence the good has been rightly defined as ‘that at which all things aim.' For our purposes here, arguing for the “good” derived from reading fiction is rather bootless unless one agrees with the premise; humans strive toward the good, and the good is attained through a plurality of pursuits. Aristotle goes on to claim “that the supreme good is obviously something final.Now we call an object pursued for its own sake more final than one pursued because of something else.Well, happiness more than anything else is thought to be just such an end.” I argue that reading books engenders this happiness, propelling us towards a multitude of intrinsic goods. Given this, reading books for the sake of reading books, more than for the sake of acquiring knowledge or synthesizing facts is precisely what must be defended. THE CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL MILIEU My first argument in favor of reading fiction is to better understand its capacity to influence worldviews and shift values. Books such as Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther defined whole movements, inspiring objectivists and romantics to find their exemplars and cultivate their own unique aesthetics. George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm mobilized readers against totalitarianism and coined lasting prescient phrases, such as “Big Brother is watching you.” Eliezer Yudkowsky's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality has attracted numerous people to the EA and the rationality community. Yudkowsky teaches readers how to think more rationally through entertainment and memorable characterization, effects that employ far more emotional power and resonance than reading them in a nonfiction context would. While not every movement looks to the literary canon, there are myriad examples that show how fiction communicates ideas powerfully and persuasively. Reading books allows us to uncover and explore the ideas, assumptions, and hypotheses that inform humanity's past and present and, quite possibly, its future. WORLD BUILDING Another argument in favor of reading fiction would be its world-building. A good novel creates a believable alternate reality. While many people may have heard the adage about how fiction forces readers to suspend their disbelief, I am far more partial to the idea that good fiction generates belief in proportion to its skill at world-building. This may be a trip back in time to a well-documented historical period, a visit to a foreign country or a different city, or a journey to a utopia or imagined future. We inhabit these worlds utterly alongside their residents in a far different way than when we are shooting the shit over the dinner table about what life was like in...
Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Frances, Dorian, and Rebecca as they discuss Susan Sontag's 1992 novel THE VOLCANO LOVER and chat about their current reading. For our next episode, we will discuss WOMAN RUNNING IN THE MOUNTAINS by Yūko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt. Books mentioned: The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag Styles of Radical Will by Susan Sontag Susan Sontag by Benjamin Moser Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann von Goethe The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, translated by Anton Hur Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle A New Name by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin, translated by Sophie R. Lewis A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem by Manda Collins Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure by Menachem Kaiser Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt Visit us online at onebrightbook.com. Find us on Twitter at @pod_bright Frances: @nonsuchbook Dorian: @ds228 Rebecca: @ofbooksandbikes Dorian blogs at https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/ Rebecca writes a newsletter at https://readingindie.substack.com/ Our theme music was composed and performed by Owen Maitzen: https://soundcloud.com/omaitzen.
The Sorrows of Young Werther is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement
Simon and Lee talk about depression, suicide and asking for help.UK: https://www.samaritans.orgUSA: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.orgAustralia: https://www.lifeline.org.au NZ: https://www.lifeline.org.nzWorldwide: https://www.who.int/health-topics/suicideGet in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.Related links:The Sorrows of Young Werther: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_WertherNot saying 'committed suicide': https://www.irmi.com/articles/expert-commentary/language-matters-committed-suicide13 Reasons Why: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837492/Katherine Langford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Langford Male to female suicide rates by country: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/male-female-ratio-of-suicide-rates---The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net. ---The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)
Loads of bridge books that I didn't get to read last month, new horror picks from patron bookworms for this month and next, and two great new releases on the reading pile right now... Hetty by Eddie Generous https://amzn.to/3LdFY0U The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward https://amzn.to/3ISLB2O Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester https://amzn.to/3hPtSxv * I forgot I read Cannibal Creator! https://amzn.to/3CpNIJ1 The Patron Pick for February was The Lake of the Dead by André Bjerke https://amzn.to/3hJSsQ7 Behemoth Risen by Eddie Generous https://amzn.to/35Vb1hX A Black and Endless Sky by Matthew Lyons https://amzn.to/3GmzdGo The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe https://amzn.to/3rq4RhZ Spontaneous Human Combustion by Richard Thomas https://amzn.to/3opSH6X See more from Luke Ramer https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfW3Ln89AVMmhbhHnQEWDJg ✮✮✮✮✮✮ Welcome to Typical books; horror fiction unbound - I am Lydia Peever, horror author and co-host of the horror film podcast Dead Air and creator of the horror booktube channel Typical Books. If you want more, head over to Patreon for extended and bonus shows! Typical Books is one of the Top 35 Canadian podcasts! Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and youtube channels in several niche categories. If you are looking for something new to read, some insight or reviews of horror you have read, or even talk from a writer's perspective, I hope you enjoy this little podcast. Check out the Youtube version by searching Typical Books, or visit me at typicalbooks.com. Music by ænorex ▹ https://aenorex.com music used by permission of the artist --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/typicalbooks/message
His wet shirt glistened in the summer haze. "Romantic love," he offered, "Was its Western manifestation unique, a response to early industrialisation?" Images of muscled men with sweat and soot upon the brow filled her fevered mind. "Is it a stage in the liberation struggle of women?" she countered. "Consider chivalric romance, Goethe, Gyorgy Lukacs. What of romance as a continuation of the spirit of the French revolution, a struggle within liberalism?" Meanwhile, the blacksmith and the heiress were arguing about Jane Austen. Then the doorbell trilled ominously. You could hear their breathing. It was the postman delivering a package. He proffered A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes, two inverted commas in 69 on the cover, and shards of Sappho. Plus, the gypsy maps of Damian Le Bas. Our Patreon Second Row Socialists on Twitter Comradio on Twitter Alternative Left Entertainment Follow ALE on Twitter Love and Structure - Charles Lindholm (1998) The Sorrows of Young Werther by JW von Goethe (1774) Samaritans The Sorrows Of Young Werther - Georg (György) Lukács (1936) Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat - Georg Lukacs (1923) Bryter Later - Nick Drake Elizabeth crossing the field Chuck Tingle A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes (1977) at Hive Poems of Sappho. Translated by Julia Dubnoff Maps - Gypsy Dada by Damian Le Bas
This is a conversation with Asser Khattab, a Syrian writer who has reported on Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq for various international news outlets. We spoke about his essay for New Lines Magazine, "why I stopped writing about Syria." Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi.Me Substack: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes Topics Discussed: How Asser started writing about Syria Pigeonholing as Arab journalists Why Asser stopped writing about Syria Us leaving Lebanon at the same time Picturing safe spaces What is 'normal'? The role of Twitter in journalism The dangers of living in Lebanon as an undocumented Syrian Survivor's guilt and imposter's syndrome Resources Mentioned: A look at the Lebanon uprising through its chants Syrian melancholy in Lebanon's revolution Newlines Podcast That Cairo Concert, Mental Health and Growing Up Queer in Lebanon (With Hamed Sinno) ‘Revolution everywhere': A conversation between Hong Kong and Lebanese protesters Hong Kong's Existential Crisis (with JP) Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights (with Shareah Taleghani) Syria, Journalism and the Cost of Indifference In the End, It Was All About Love (with Musa Okwonga) Recommended Books: Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Werther continues his epistolary friendship with Wilheim, in which he shares his joys and disappointments. Charlotte is never far from his thoughts. Thanks for listening. @ReadsKarla $JessTSM #Goethe #TheSorrowsofYoungWerther #Charlotte #Wilheim #Karlareadstheclaqssics #AtticusFinch #CharlesDickens #ATaleofTwoCities --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/karla3507/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/karla3507/support
Through a series of letters written to his friend Wilhelm, Werther describes how he is happy to be away after having caused some distress to a young woman with whom he was involved named Lenore. He focuses on the beauty of his new surroundings in a place his family owns, Walheim. This beauty distracts him from his usual pursuits like reading and drawing. He meets a judge with whom he gets on well. The judge invites him to his home. after some time, he accepts an invitation to a ball at the judge's home, where he meets and immediately falls for Charlotte as they dance. He hangs on her every word, but as the dance proceeds, a woman there finds it necessary to remind Charlotte that she is betrothed to Albert. $JessTSM #Goethe #TheSorrowsofYoungWerther #Literature #ClassicLiterature #ReadToMe #Charlotte #Lotte #KarlaReadstheClassics --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/karla3507/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/karla3507/support
Hello Interactors,For all you Christmas celebrators out there, happy Christmas Eve. Since many will be gathering ‘round a Christmas tree, I thought I’d tell the story of its origin. And like so much of America history, it has ties to immigrants and slavery; but in this case — anti-slavery.As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…A TREE SO YEE MAY BE FREE“If the morning drives are extended beyond the city, there is much to delight the eye. The trees are eased in ice; and when the sun shines out suddenly, the whole scene looks like one diffused rainbow,—dressed in a brilliancy which can hardly be conceived of in England. On days less bright, the blue harbour spreads in strong contrast with the sheeted snow which extends to its very brink.”These are the words of Harriet Martineau. She was a English writer, journalist, and social theorist who pioneered observational methods that came to influence the field of sociology. One of her more popular books came at the end of her travels through the United States in the 1830s titled, Retrospect of Western Travel. The passage above describes what she saw as she left the Boston city limits in the snow the winter of 1835.You may have images of her bundled up in a one horse open sleigh, over the hills she went, dashing all the way. But according to Martineau, you can let go of any such romantic inclinations. Here’s her take on sleighing.“As for the sleighing, I heard much more than I experienced of its charms. No doubt early association has something to do with the American fondness for this mode of locomotion; and much of the affection which is borne to music, dancing, supping, and all kinds of frolic, is transferred to the vehicle in which the frolicking parties are transported. It must be so, I think, or no one would be found to prefer a carriage on runners to a carriage on wheels,—except on an untrodden expanse of snow. On a perfectly level and crisp surface I can fancy the smooth rapid motion to be exceedingly pleasant; but such surfaces are rare in the neighbourhood of populous cities. The uncertain, rough motion in streets hillocky with snow, or on roads consisting for the season of a ridge of snow with holes in it, is disagreeable, and provocative of headache. I am no rule for others as to liking the bells; but to me their incessant jangle was a great annoyance.”And if that’s not enough to convince you, she offers up a quote from unknown source that puts a finer touch on the realities of sleighing.“Do you want to know what sleighing is like? You can soon try. Set your chair on a spring board out in the porch on Christmas-day: put your feet in a pail full of powdered ice: have somebody to jingle a bell in one ear, and somebody else to blow into the other with the bellows,—and you will have an exact idea of sleighing.”Martineau was on her way to a Christmas evening celebration at the home of a former Harvard German language professor, Charles Follen. Although, due to scheduling conflicts the event was actually on New Years Eve and not Christmas Eve. The cozy holiday scene that Martineau proceeds to unfold came to be the most, though not the first, read articulation of what came to be the center piece of American Christmas celebration – the Christmas tree.Follen was a German immigrant so perhaps it’s not that surprising that a Christmas tree would feature prominently in her story. It’s been a long held belief that German immigrants brought their time-honored Christmas tree tradition with them. Though, as we’ll soon see, the evolution of the Christmas tree tradition in America paralleled that of Germany.Martineau’s account of that evening, while factual, leaves out important historical details as to why she was celebrating Christmas with Follen and his family that night. These were two radical Unitarian abolitionists who bonded over their insistence that slavery be eradicated totally and immediately. Northerner’s, and New England Unitarians, were split on the matter of abolition. Follen’s convictions are what got him fired from Harvard a year prior.As for Martineau, she was a well known and respected journalist but not yet a public activist. But after attending a women’s abolitionist meeting that November, she was convinced she needed to act. She was asked at that meeting to write publicly avowing her beliefs. Being one of the only women writers of her time to sustain herself through writing and still requiring access to America’s mainstream elite for her book, she faced an ethical dilemma.Later she wrote, “I foresaw that almost every house in Boston, except those of the abolitionists, would be shut against me; that my relation to the country would be completely changed, as I should suddenly be transformed from being a guest and an observer to being considered a missionary or a spy.…”News leaked of her position on slavery and Boston newspapers ridiculed her. Their headlines spread across the country and she was forced to alter her itinerary. The event she was attending at Follen’s home wasn’t just a Christmas celebration, but an anti-slavery strategy session. That spring, she (in the company of Charles Follen) took to the road not as journalist, but as an activist.CHRISTKINDLE AND BELSNICKELHistorians and folklorists have determined that the first Christmas tree in America was most likely in the home of a German immigrant in Pennsylvania. But it’s unlikely to have occurred anytime before 1810. The first known sketch of a family celebrating Christmas, featuring a small tree atop a table, was not printed until recent decades but dates to either 1812 or 1819.Recall from my November posts on the origins of Thanksgiving, this was also the time when St. Nicholas was also entering the picture in New York. The Christmas tree tradition was also just emerging in Germany at this very same time. The Christmas tree, like Santa Claus himself, wasn’t a long held German tradition but a story told by a select group of elites who latched on to a small, isolated, and obscure holiday event that was occurring in what was then Strasbourg, Germany but is now part of France.It was established sometime in the 17th century as a quasi-religious way of judging children on the basis of them being naughty or nice. If you were nice you got a visit that night from Christkindle (i.e. the Christchild) and if you were naughty you got a visit from Hanstrapp; Strasbourg’s equivalent of what became known as Belsnickle (roughly translated: St. Nicholas in Fur). This character has echo’s of behavior seen by Wassailers during Thanksgiving celebrations where men, often of lower class, would dress up and go door to door, often times even welcoming themselves in. Perhaps this offers a clue into how Santa became a home invader. Though, should Belsnickle determine a child in the home had been naughty, he gifted the parents with a stick with instructions to whip the poor child.The Christmas tree tradition expanded beyond Strasbourg around 1750. Its spread may have been accelerated by a young up and coming writer, naturalist, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1771. Recall from my October post, that by the dawn of the 18th century Goethe had established himself as the go-to guy by the German government for writing, organizing, and evangelizing his opinions and observations on everything from gardening, to parks management, to economics.He had spent some time in Strasbourg and “discovered in this city a new sense of “German” identity that transformed his larger cultural vision.” His 1774 novel, The Sufferings of Young Werther, is a story of a love triangle that ends tragically. And in the lead up to this tragedy, Goethe writes how young Werther “spoke of the pleasure the children would feel and remembered how in times long past he had himself been transported to paradise by the surprise opening of a door and the appearance of the decorated tree with its candles, sweets, and apples.”It wasn’t until 1810 that the Christmas Tree tradition made it’s way to Berlin. It was introduced in Munich in 1830 by the Queen of Bavaria. Goethe had inspired a string of writers publishing stories of Christmas trees that were disseminated throughout Europe and the United States. And it was all happening at the same time of the first recorded evidence of a Christmas tree in America – 1820.And then, in 1836, came the first printed image of a Christmas tree in America. It was titled “Christmas Eve” and was featured in a story called The Stranger’s Gift. It was written, as you might expect, by a German immigrant. But not just any German immigrant. It was written by Herman Bokum, the professor who replaced Follen after Harvard let him go for his public opposition to slavery just one year earlier.YOUR BOUGHS CAN TEACH A LESSONAfter Follen lost his job at Harvard he was hired by a family to home school their two children. Follen strictly followed a progressive teaching method derived from a Swiss educational reformer named Johann Pestalozzi. Pestalozzi had a child-centered and directed educational philosophy. He believed every child is born with inherently good qualities and it’s the teachers role to find them and cultivate them. It’s unclear whether Follen’s enemies convinced the family to reconsider, the family themselves had a change of heart, or Follen, ever dogmatic in his principles, refused to budge on his teaching approach, but two weeks before Christmas of 1835 he was terminated.It is in this context that Harriett Martineau attended the Christmas celebration in Follen’s newly built home on the corner of Follen Avenue outside of Boston. Martineau did not mention Follen by name in her retelling of their Christmas tree celebration, only Follen’s son who everyone called “Little Charley.” She writes,“I was present at the introduction into the new country of the spectacle of the German Christmas-tree. My little friend Charley, and three companions, had been long preparing for this pretty show…I rather think it was, generally speaking, a secret out of the house; but I knew what to expect…The tree was the top of a young fir, planted in a tub, which was ornamented with moss. Smart, dolls, and other whimsies, glittered in the evergreen; and there was not a twig; which had not something sparkling upon it… Charley looked a good deal like himself, only now and then twisting himself about in an unaccountable fit of giggling. I mounted the steps behind the tree to see the effect of opening the doors. It was delightful. The children poured in; but in a moment, every voice was hushed. Their faces were upturned to the blaze, all eyes wide open, all lips parted, all steps arrested. Nobody spoke; only Charley leaped for joy.”It was two years before Martineau’s book was published. She continued her friendship with Follen until his tragic death in 1841. He was killed when a steamship he was traveling on exploded. His photograph hung on the wall of her home until she died in 1876.And in the intervening years of her book being published, a writer friend of theirs, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, wrote a fictional story called “New Years Day” that included a brief mention of a Christmas tree celebration akin to what actually took place at the Follens. It was published that same year, 1835, making it the first piece of American literature to mentioned a Christmas tree.It’s unfortunate America’s Christmas tree origin story doesn’t start with the telling of Charles Follen and Harriett Martineau and their New Years Eve anti-slavery strategy meeting around the Christmas tree. Not only is their relationship full of intrigue, but the idea of the Christmas tree immortalized as an historic symbol of freedom from slavery seems an appropriate American Christmas tale. Perhaps the story of Follen and Martineau is what we should be reading to children every Christmas eve and not just T’was the Night Before Christmas.Both the story of the Christmas tree as a time-honored German cultural tradition and America’s favorite Christmas time fable, T’was the Night Before Christmas, were largely fabricated and perpetuated by a select group of elites on both sides of the Atlantic.Clement Clark Moore, the author of T’was the Night Before Christmas, — and his reactionary New York Episcopalian Knickerbocker friends — were interested in imbuing their Christmas tales with aristocratic authority. In contrast, Bollen and his Unitarian Christmas tree literary acquaintances used the Christmas tree to add momentum to the swelling progressive reformist movement of the 1830s.Stephen Nissenbaum, in his book The Battle for Christmas, explains the similarities between the unfolding of these two events, American traditions, and these two men,“There were important similarities between the antislavery sensibility and the new attitude toward children. Abolitionists and educational reformers shared a joint empathy for people who were powerless to resist the wrath of those who wielded authority over them—slaves and children, respectively. (Both types of reformers had a particular abhorrence of the use of the lash as a form of punishment.)”He continues,“In fact, what Charles Follen did in 1835 is similar in that sense to what Clement Clarke Moore had done more than a decade earlier, although his reasons—Moore was a reactionary, Follen a radical—were profoundly different. But both men had reason to feel alienated from their respective communities, and both responded by turning inward, to their own children, and using Christmas as the occasion for doing so.”And in both cases, literature, and access to it, played a starring role. Nissenbaum, writes,“As it turns out, the most important channels through which the ritual was spread were literary ones. Information about the Christmas tree was diffused by means of commercial literature, not via immigrant folk culture—from the top down, not from the bottom up. It was by reading about Christmas trees, not by witnessing them, that many thousands of Americans learned about the custom. Before they ever saw such a thing, they already knew what Christmas trees were all about—not only what they looked like, but also how and why they were to be used.”It seems another mythical folk tradition is still propagated from the top down more than experienced from bottom up. Recalling Harriet Martineau’s American observation that “As for the sleighing, I heard much more than I experienced of its charms.” Subscribe at interplace.io
Synopsis Falling in love with someone else's spouse can result in divorce, emotional turmoil, or (in the case of composers) some very Romantic music. Take the case of Brahms, who for most of his adult life carried a torch for Mrs. Clara Schumann, the wife of his friend and mentor, Robert Schumann. Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 3 was conceived during an especially turbulent period in his relationship with the Schumanns. When finished, Brahms wrote to his publisher: “On the cover you must have a picture, namely a head with a pistol to it. I'll send you my photograph, and since you like color printing, you can use blue coat, yellow breeches, and top-boots.” That garb was favored by Young Werther, the Romantic hero in a novel by Goethe, who commits suicide after falling in love with a married woman. Coincidentally, in the audience for the Viennese premiere of Brahms's Quartet on today's date in 1875 were Richard and Cosima Wagner. Cosima had run off with Wagner while still married to the famous conductor Hans von Bulow, but her diary entry for November 18th suggests she didn't find anything Romantic in Brahms or his music. She writes: “[Brahms] a red-faced, crude-looking man, his music dry and stilted.” Music Played in Today's Program Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) — Piano Quartet No. 3 in c (Ames Piano Quartet) Dorian 90217
The Rush Hour Melbourne Catch Up - 105.1 Triple M Melbourne - James Brayshaw and Billy Brownless
Jarrod Brander to GWS, Demons Flag Celebrations planned for the 'G, Brandon Smith in demand, Young Werther scratched from the Cup, Marcus Bontempelli, what strange prize have you won... unusual?!, Billy's Joke See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The O'Brien stable yesterday withdrew Young Werther from next week's Melbourne Cup after the CT scanner spotted an area of concern
In this episode we discuss the category of 'attractiveness.' What social purchase does being attractive carry? Is this category something we that we should transcend, or ought we rather extend it to all persons? Main episode begins at 25:30. If you like what you hear, find us on Patreon at patreon.com/therilkeanzoo for more content. Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, "Book I, May 10th." (publisher sucks so not putting that in here)
Grace, SD and Jules look forward to one of the great days on the racing calendar, Caulfield Cup Day. The team dive into all the form lines ahead of what looks to be a thrilling edition of the Caulfield Cup -- can boom horse Incentivise defy the barrier and claim another group one? Or are there better value propositions for punters with the likes of Young Werther and Explosive Jack? The team also cast their eyes north of the border as Australia's best sprinters go head-to-head in The Everest. It's jam-packed episode, full of insights and tips for punters for one of the great days on the racing calendar.
Top Trainer Danny O'Brien joins Andrew Bensley to chat about his Spring team, including his top Caulfield Cup contender this week, YOUNG WERTHER, as well as his potential runners in both the VRC Oaks and Victoria Derby.
Young Werther is one of the main chances in Saturday's Caulfield Cup for the Danny O'Brien stable
Jockey Daniel Moor joins Andrew Bensley to chat about his fantastic run of form recently. We also chat about his rides coming up this week, headlined by YOUNG WERTHER who he'll partner in Saturday's Caulfield Cup.
It's our latest Book Club episode, and we're discussing Rachel Cusk's latest novel, Second Place. It was longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, but didn't make the cut for the shortlist. Sally Rooney calls it ‘masterful', saying it ‘achieves a kind of formal perfection' while the Observer newspaper lauds it as ‘A landmark in twenty-first-century English literature.' But what did Laura's book club make of it? And who would we rather have to dinner, Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy? Listen in to find out. Book recommendations To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf The Outline trilogy, by Rachel Cusk, read on audio by Kristen Scott Thomas Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe The audiobook of Second Place by Rachel Cusk is published by Faber & Faber and narrated by Kate Fleetwood. It's available for download now. Listen to the Rachel Cusk interview Phil mentioned at the Edinburgh Literary Festival Find our full episode archive and sign-up link for our newsletter at our The Book Club Review website. Follow us on Instagram or Facebook @BookClubReview podcast, on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod or email thebookclubreview@gmail.com. And if you're not already, why not subscribe to us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what we do please help spread the word and tell a book-loving friend about our show.
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by: Carl R. Trueman Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by: Elizabeth Kolbert Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't by: Julia Galef Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by: Mike Duncan This Is How You Lose the Time War by: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism by: Sharyl Attkisson Plato: Complete Works by: Plato Stillness Is the Key by: Ryan Holiday The Sorrows of Young Werther by: Goethe
Professor Kozlowski guides us carefully through Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wertherism, and the tangled, radical philosophy of Romanticism as we embark on our study of nineteenth-century philosophy. If you have questions or topic suggestions for Professor Kozlowski, e-mail him at profbkozlowski2@gmail.com To see what else Professor Kozlowski is up to, visit his webpage: https://professorkozlowski.wordpress.com/
Descarga Cultura UNAM y Gerardo Kleinburg presenta "Werther de Massenet" Por favor tenga en cuenta: este episodio incluye contenido para adultos y puede no ser adecuado para todos los oyentes. Como parte de la trama de la historia, se discuten los temas del suicidio y la salud mental. Lifeline ofrece apoyo gratuito y confidencial las 24 horas del día, los 7 días de la semana para personas en peligro, y recursos de prevención y crisis para usted o sus seres queridos. Los servicios están disponibles por teléfono y por chat en línea. Web: http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org Teléfono: (888)628-9454 - Español Jules Massenet (Saint-Étienne, 1842 - París, 1912) nació en la plenitud del romanticismo y muere en vísperas de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Inició sus estudios de música a los once años en el Conservatorio de París y en 1863 ganó el Grand Prix de Roma gracias a su cantata David Rizzio. Fue compositor de más de cuarenta obras operísticas. Manon, La grand'tante, Don Quichotte, Hérodiade, Le Cid, y Werther son algunas de sus composiciones más reconocidas. Para la ópera Werther, Massenet se basó en la novela epistolar Las desventuras del joven Werther, del escritor alemán Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. A lo largo de esta charla, Kleinburg, expone los antecedentes tanto de la obra literaria de Goethe como los de la obra operística de Massenet, y evidencia las relaciones que mantienen ambas con la naturaleza, el motivo del amor incondicional, la amenaza, la muerte y el suicidio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Descarga Cultura UNAM and Gerardo Kleinburg present "Massenet – Werther” Please note: This episode includes adult content and may not be suitable for all listeners. As part of the story's plot, themes of suicide and mental health are discussed. The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, and prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones. Web: http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org Phone: (800)273-8255 On this episode of Behind the Curtain, you'll be listening to a talk presented by Gerardo Kleinburg and graciously shared by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Descarga Cultura UNAM. Jules Massenet (Saint-Étienne, 1842 - Paris, 1912) was born in the prime of the Romantic era and died on the eve of the World War I. He began his music studies at the age of eleven at the Paris Conservatory, and in 1863 he won the Grand Prix of Rome thanks to his cantata David Rizzio. He composed more than forty operatic works. Manon, La grand'tante, Don Quichotte, Hérodiade, Le Cid, and Werther are some of his most recognized compositions. Massenet based his opera Werther on the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Throughout this talk, Kleinburg discusses the antecedents of both Goethe's literary work and those of Massenet's operatic work, and highlights the relationships that both maintain with nature, the motive of unconditional love, threat, death, and suicide.
Storycast: Goethe's "Erlkönig", "Der Zauberlehrling" and "Abschied" If you'd like to read along, you can find the text to the story by clicking this Link In this Storycast, we're taking you back to the 18th century with three poems by Goethe. Goethe was born on August 28th, 1749 and in true polymath fashion, he is known as a poet, playwright, novelist, theater director, a critic of arts, and a scientist. Goethe, a lawyer by education, achieved noble status at the ripe age of 25, after writing The Sorrows of the Young Werther. As a scientist, he wrote the Metamorphosis of Plants in 1788 and just three years later, he became the managing director of the theater in Weimar. Among his famous works are Faust, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, Prometheus, and several others. What’s as surprising as his seemingly limitless talents, was that he had time to get married to Christiane Vulpius in 1806. Goethe was the father of 5 children, although 4 died at a young age. Truthfully, this short summary is a grave injustice to a genius who died in March 1832, and left literary works for us to cherish for what likely will be eternity. ### Goethe's poems leave us with numerous things to ponder and discuss. If you have a German group to talk with, your interpretation of the poems always creates a fantastic conversation. ### Audience Participation: If you want us to include any stories in our Storycast series, please connect with us at podcast@gaimn.org ### Enjoy!
Leading trainer Danny O’Brien has a strong hand this weekend, headlined by Young Werther in the Group 1 Australian Derby and Order Of Command in the Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes.
To support this podcast so I don't ever have to bore you with CBD underwear ads from sponsors, please become one of my Patreon donors. My Patreon tiers range from $2/month to $50/month with various rewards and features at each level. You can save 15% if you donate annually rather than monthly. Music in this episode: "The Big Scioty" [theme music] - Matt Brown & Greg Reish "Polska efter Monis Olle" - Patrik Ahlberg "Werther's Dream" - Patrik Ahlberg "Polska av Karl Stenberg" - Patrik Ahlberg "Deer Walk" - Matt Brown & Greg Reish "Soldier's Joy" - Matt Brown & Matt Brown "Gamlestovslåtten" - Patrik Ahlberg "The Big Scioty" [more theme music] - Matt Brown & Greg Reish In the episode, Patrik mentions The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. We talk about Simon Stålspets , one of Patrik's teachers who plays cittern and guitar. One of Simon's bands is the Stockholm Lisboa Project with Patrik's first fiddle teacher Sergio Crisostomo. Patrik also mentions Sven Ahlbäck from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH). Sven wrote the folk music theory textbooks they used at Sjöviks Folkhögskola, the folk music school Patrik attended. I also mention: * Brittany Haas * Seman Violins in Skokie, IL * The Lonesome Touch - Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill * Jacob Collier * Greg Reish and the album we made together, Speed of the Plow * Bruce Molsky * Ginny Hawker * Jayme Stone * Dave Sinko Relax Your Grid is produced, edited & mixed by Matt Brown. This episode was recorded by Matt Brown and Patrik Ahlberg. Tim Brown and Dave Sinko provided essential post-production assistance. The Relax Your Grid logo was designed by Otto Allard.
There are two things about Christmas that you can count on, says historian and author Judith Flanders: most of the origin stories you’ve heard are false and people have always thought ‘Christmas was better in the old days.’ Though it may not be true that Santa’s red suit came from Coca Cola, nor that Prince Albert brought the Christmas tree to Britain, the history of Christmas that Flanders relates in her 2017 book, Christmas: A Biography, is just as compelling. In this episode, I talk to her about the history of the Christmas tree, a subject I first looked into a couple of years ago when dwelling on a simple question: what does it mean to bring a tree into our homes in the dead of winter? Flanders, who has written numerous books on the Victorian period - including The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime and The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London - as well as her own crime fiction, is more reluctant to speculate on the larger meanings of certain historical connections - for instance, that the tree of knowledge was probably the earliest inspiration for the Christmas tree - than I might be, but she helps us set the record straight, telling us, for instance, about the impact of Goethe’s novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, which was all the rage at the end of the eighteenth century and introduced many to the German tradition of the Christmas tree. Revisiting this history of Christmas and of the Christmas tree in particular puts current customs and our own personal histories - for those of us who celebrate Christmas - into a broader perspective and reminds us that this celebration was originally - and still is - a chance to take a break and have a good time in what (for those of us in the Northern hemisphere) is the darkest time of the year. Thanks to Dave Larzelere for his rendition of O Tannenbaum, to Sonia Fujimori for her recording of her family expedition to cut down their Christmas tree and to my Mom and Dad for all the great memories of Christmas trees past.
This week on The Literary Life podcast, our hosts Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks continue their series on George MacDonald’s Phantastes, covering chapters 10-14. Angelina and Thomas open the book chat talking about disorientation and how MacDonald is using the mirror images to help us enter into Anados’ feelings. Some of the topics covered in these chapters are disenchantment and demystifying the world, the child of mysterious origin, seeing and not seeing, romanticism and the dark imagination. Don’t forget to check out the Advent and Christmas resources our hosts have ready for your holiday season. As mentioned before, Cindy’s new edition of Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions with Handel’s Messiah is available now, and you can access the replay of her special live event if you visit her website. Check our CindyRollins.net for more information. Also, Thomas and Angelina have a sale going on for an Advent Bundle of their popular webinars, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and The Poetry of Advent. Additionally, Kelly Cumbee will be teaching a webinar series called “Seeking the Discarded Image: Nature.” Commonplace Quotes: He extended the boundaries of the world, but he never shifted its center. Alfred Noyes "Absolute attention is prayer." When May Sarton quoted those words of Simone Weil in her journal, she went on to say, "I have used that sentence often in talking about poetry to students, to suggest that if one looks long enough at almost anything, looks with absolute attention at a flower, a stone, the bark of a tree, grass, snow, a cloud, something like revelation takes place. Something is given." Simone Weil, May Sarton, Esther de Waal For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, then retarded into lethargy. George MacDonald The Palm and the Pine by Heinrich Heine Beneath an Indian palm a girl Of other blood reposes; Her cheek is clear and pale as pearl Amid that wild of roses. Beside a northern pine a boy Is leaning fancy-bound. Nor listens where with noisy joy Awaits the impatient hound. Cool grows the sick and feverish calm, Relaxed the frosty twine.– The pine-tree dreameth of the palm, The palm-tree of the pine. As soon shall nature interlace Those dimly-visioned boughs, As these young lovers face to face Renew their early vows. Book List: (Amazon affiliate links) William Morris by Alfred Noyes The Well at the World’s End by William Morris The Celtic Way of Prayer by Esther De Waal The Imagination: Its Functions and Its Culture by George MacDonald William Morris Textiles Coloring Book Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams The Four Men by Hilaire Belloc Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carol The Arabian Nights translated by Sir Richard Burton The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare Support The Literary Life: Become a patron of The Literary Life podcast as part of the “Friends and Fellows Community” on Patreon, and get some amazing bonus content! Thanks for your support! Connect with Us: You can find Angelina and Thomas at HouseofHumaneLetters.com, on Instagram @angelinastanford, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ANGStanford/ Find Cindy at https://cindyrollins.net, on Instagram @cindyordoamoris and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/cindyrollins.net/. Check out Cindy’s own Patreon page also! Follow The Literary Life on Instagram, and jump into our private Facebook group, The Literary Life Discussion Group, and let’s get the book talk going! http://bit.ly/literarylifeFB
Miss Ellie Mumme joins The Wittenberg Hour to discuss "Ten Books Boys Should Read Before They are 21." ______________ What does it mean to be a man? How do boys become men? How might books aid boys in that journey from boys to men? ______________ Bump music: Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain - Kirk Meyer - Kloria Publishing Suggested reading: Homer's Iliad. Virgil's Aeneid Augustine's Confessions. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. _____________ Coming up on Episode 22: Culture and Life- An Outsider Inside with Mrs. Holly James _____________ Learn more about Wittenberg Academy. Register for classes (2020-21 academic year).
Mick Young (aka Young Werther) makes music that wraps you in its arms and slowly seeps into your skin. From the gently finger-picked guitar through his more rollicking moments, to the poetic shivers of his beautiful voice, this is glorious modern folk music for the soul, with a distinctive Australian bent. Mick began his career with Melbourne indie folk/rock band The Restless in 2000 writing all the songs on their critically acclaimed 2004 self-titled album. The album received nationwide radio coverage on Triple J (Australia's national network) and 3 singles from the album were named “King Pick” by Australia's top radio DJ, Richard Kingsmill. After 3 EPs and one album, The Restless went their separate ways in 2006 and Mick became a solo artist under the name Young Werther. In 2008, he released the beautifully haunting, autumnal Treasure mini-album which was named in Beat Magazine's “Singles of the Year”. This success led to shows with some of Australia's biggest names including Paul Dempsey (Something for Kate), Kate Miller Heidke, Clare Bowditch, Katie Noonan and James Reyne. After extensive touring Young released Knights of the Department Store (Popboomerang Records) in 2010 and was named Triple J “Feature Artist”. Mick has recently moved to Europe and now England to grow his fan base there and is working on a new album. Connect with Mick: https://www.facebook.com/youngwerthermusic/ To get a free download of Mijo's music: https://www.mijobiscan.com/freemusic To get a limited edition, signed CD of Mijo's latest album Golden Moment, head to: https://www.mijobiscan.com/gmcd A video version of this podcast is available at http://www.youtube.com/user/MijoBiscanMusic/Videos Please 'like' the podcast, subscribe, review it and leave us a comment below. Thanks for listening. Stay golden. Mijo --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mijobiscan/message
Damien Oliver has an exceptional book of eight at Flemington Saturday, headed by Derby fav Young Werther. James Winks & Michael Felgate, with Damien Oliver
We review the Group Ones from the Cox Plate carnival at The Valley, debate if Young Werther can win the Derby and wonder what to do with the Bondi Stakes. We'd love to become Australia's number one racing podcast over the spring but we can't do it without your support. The best way you can help us is to leave a review with your podcast provider and hopefully a 5-star rating! We'll be reading a few of them out over the next few weeks so give us a shout. Cheers! For the full review and flops and forgive yarns discussed in today’s pod, head to Punters.com.au Segment Timings 03:20 - G1 Recap 10:20 - Post Race Experts 20:00 - The Washup 31:22 - Flops and Forgives See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Beaver and Ado dissect a big weekend of racing, kicking off with the feature Cox Plate meeting at Moonee Valley. Rain is on the way in Melbourne and with the rail staying the the true both nights concerns that the inside might be off by the time the feature race jumps. Ado's best of the day is Ancestry in the first, while Beaver is with Young Werther. At Randwick the rail is in +4m position, potential of a thunderstorm later in the day. Both the boys agree Criaderas is the best bet on the card King and Cummings set to rule Randwick: https://www.progroupracing.com.au/news/cummings-and-king-set-to-rule-at-randwick-2020-10-23
Pro group racing presents Show Us Your Tips with Beaver & Ado as they preview Group 1 Racing in Sydney & Melbourne The Epsom Handicap is one of three Group 1s at Randwick, with the Rail +3m on a Good Track the boys are expecting a fair Flemington, no disadvantage being drawn wide. Beaver's Bets of the day is Fierce Impact, while Ado's best is Discharged in the first. Down at Flemington the Group 1 Underwood is the headline act, while black type racing fills the card. Ado's best bet is the William Pike ridden Perfect Jewel, while Beaver is tipping Young Werther in the last. Good Gate key for Mugatoo: https://www.progroupracing.com.au/news/good-gate-key-factor-for-mugatoo-in-metrop-2020-10-01 Firm Deck a concern for Alexander: https://www.progroupracing.com.au/news/firm-deck-a-concern-for-alexanders-stayer-2020-10-01
Our guest this week, Tabby Pawlitzki, is helping us continue our series on Global Readers. Once a season, we talk with a book lover who grew up in another country but has made the United States their home. In seasons 1 and 2 we talked to readers from Somalia and Ireland. In Season 3 we are exploring Germany. Fortunately Instagram has made meeting book-loving people who come from all over the world much easier which is how we connected with Tabby. She joined us remotely from her home in Los Angeles. Tabby moved from Germany to the United States as a teenager where she struggled a bit to understand American English versus the British English she had been taught in her home country, but she came to appreciate the American educational system which she found more inclusive. Tabby didn’t read much in her teen years but came to love literature again in her 20s by reading Jane Austen. Now she is a pastry chef and co-host of the Modern Life podcast where she combines her love of literature and cinema by discussing book to movie adaptations. Tabby talks to us about why she thinks texts by German writers have the reputation of being very heavy, what destination in Germany you should definitely visit if you are a book lover, what is one of the strangest book to movie adaptations she has talked about on her podcast, and which of her favorite fairy tales hasn’t been Disney-fied. Book mentioned in this episode: 1- The Little Witch by Orfried Preussler 2- Lottie and Lisa (The Parent Trap) by Erich Kastner 3- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende 4- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren 6- Fairytales by the Brothers Grimm - Star Thaler; Snow White and Rose Red 7- Books by Enid Blyton 8- Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting 9- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 10- Urmel by Max Kruse 11- Dune by Frank Herbert 12- Nothing Lasts Forever (Die Hard) by Roderick Thorp 13- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 7- Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse 8- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann 9- The Metamorphisis/ The Trial by Franz Kafka 10- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 11- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 12- Clothes Make The Man by Gottfried Keller 13- Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 14- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 15- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 15- Little Women - The Screenplay by Greta Gerwig The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Our guest this week, Tabby Pawlitzki, is helping us continue our series on Global Readers. Once a season, we talk with a book lover who grew up in another country but has made the United States their home. In seasons 1 and 2 we talked to readers from Somalia and Ireland. In Season 3 we are exploring Germany. Fortunately Instagram has made meeting book-loving people who come from all over the world much easier which is how we connected with Tabby. She joined us remotely from her home in Los Angeles. Tabby moved from Germany to the United States as a teenager where she struggled a bit to understand American English versus the British English she had been taught in her home country, but she came to appreciate the American educational system which she found more inclusive. Tabby didn't read much in her teen years but came to love literature again in her 20s by reading Jane Austen. Now she is a pastry chef and co-host of the Modern Life podcast where she combines her love of literature and cinema by discussing book to movie adaptations. Tabby talks to us about why she thinks texts by German writers have the reputation of being very heavy, what destination in Germany you should definitely visit if you are a book lover, what is one of the strangest book to movie adaptations she has talked about on her podcast, and which of her favorite fairy tales hasn't been Disney-fied. Book mentioned in this episode: 1- The Little Witch by Orfried Preussler 2- Lottie and Lisa (The Parent Trap) by Erich Kastner 3- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende 4- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 5- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren 6- Fairytales by the Brothers Grimm - Star Thaler; Snow White and Rose Red 7- Books by Enid Blyton 8- Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting 9- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 10- Urmel by Max Kruse 11- Dune by Frank Herbert 12- Nothing Lasts Forever (Die Hard) by Roderick Thorp 13- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 14- Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse 15- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann 16- The Metamorphisis/ The Trial by Franz Kafka 17- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 18- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 19- Clothes Make The Man by Gottfried Keller 20- Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 21- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 22- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 23- Little Women - The Screenplay by Greta Gerwig 24- The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
In 1774, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published “The Sorrows of Young Werther,” a novel about a young man, Werther, hopelessly in love with a woman, Charlotte, engaged to another man, Albert. Obsession, self-destruction and the are a constant of human society. European society, especially the young, dressed like Young Werther, romanced like him and in some cases took their own lives. How to avoid obsessing about something? The Gospel of Matthew provides a path. Music today recorded by Gina McCann and Russ Ronnebaum by permission under One License # A-726294
Mike Drucker, head writer for Full Frontal W/ Samantha Bee, joins Rebecca to discuss the first pop culture phenomenon, Young Werther, a romantic tragedy written in 18th century Europe. Killing yourself because of romance being seen as very romantic, being a huge try hard, trying to "act deep" your way into a relationship, and when an entire culture forms around a book. Preachers gave sermons against this book! Also, idiot confidence, and Mike is doing fine in quarantine. @MikeDrucker @ComicsBookClub
Young Werther is the embodiment of Romanticism. He swoons for nature, sighs for love, and marvels at the innocence of childhood. These impulses, however, can turn dark when his desires are thwarted. A sensation when it was published, Goethe’s story of a young poet in love, captured the imagination of a generation. Massenet’s riveting opera takes us into the world of a sensitive poet and the object of his desire. Hosted by Pat and guest co-host Kathleen Van de Wille
For Steve’s book, Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Thought You Knew (2012) see: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/darwin-god-and-the-meaning-of-life/A3055F89051D5F4ADE4AFE9473BF0AAB For Steve’s book, The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (2019) see: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ape-that-understood-the-universe/3448755E3BF801C936343555DA7AECBB Find out more about Steve here: https://www.stevestewartwilliams.com/ Follow Steve on Twitter @SteveStuWill Further References Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976) David Sloan Wilson, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution (2019) Erwin Frey, see the survival of the weakest Geoffrey Miller, The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (2001) Tim Taylor, The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution (2010) Wilhelm von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) Iona Italia, “A Wrong against Boys: An Impossible Conversation about Circumcision,” in Areo Magazine (2019) Battlestar Galactica remake (TV series, 2004) Timestamps 2:08 The gene’s eye view 7:04 Explaining altruism and strong reciprocity 13:44 Culture as an evolutionary accelerator 15:06 Lactose tolerance 16:12 The survival of the weakest 17:56 Sexual selection as an evolutionary ratchet 23:13 Intelligence and language 24:46 Homosexuality 32:22 Evolution and ethics 33:48 Technology and cumulative culture 38:39 The meme’s eye view 44:50 Inclusive fitness 48:46 Evolutionary psychology doesn’t provide a moral template 53:03 Memes and ethics 53:57 Gene-culture co-evolution 57:06 Traits vs. the selection processes that produce them 58:09 Romantic love and jealousy 1:00:39 Why do men hunt? 1:04:00 How will humanity develop in the future? 1:06:40 Intrasexual competition and mate choices 1:15:46 Why women prefer pretty boys 1:19:07 Memetic fitness 1:20:53 Misconceptions about evolutionary psychology; & when adaptationism goes too far
Today we read a depressing book that killed dozens of people, and then we try to solve a murder in California with help from a haunted billboard! Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=18482113 MERCH STORE!!! https://www.redbubble.com/people/deadrabbitradio/works/35749420-dead-rabbit-radio?asc=u Help Promote Dead Rabbit! Dual Flyer https://i.imgur.com/OhuoI2v.jpg "As Above" Flyer https://i.imgur.com/yobMtUp.jpg Bridgend (2012) - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02uI7uxa1h8 Suicide bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bridge Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Yangtze_River_Bridge Golden Gate Bridge http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=88 Copycat suicide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide Choi Jin-sil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Jin-sil#Death The Sorrows of Young Werther https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther The National Directory Of Haunted Places Arroyo Abduction https://books.google.com/books?id=kAK1p91zJEwC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=arroyo+abduction+ghost+sign&source=bl&ots=u3YfcHxbAj&sig=ACfU3U2Mc5TQ5tzKNMD9eYVMG1xwkKgj8A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjxxKyg6JflAhWBNX0KHa4CBx4Q6AEwC3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=arroyo%20abduction%20ghost%20sign&f=false California Code, Penal Code - PEN § 190.2 https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-190-2.html Otay Mesa girl probably ‘incapacitated’ when she was killed, expert says https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-otay-mesa-girl-probably-incapacitated-when-she-2005aug20-story.html UNSOLVED CHILD MURDER : LAURA ARROYO https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missing87975/unsolved-child-murder-laura-arroyo-t1721.html Chula Vista Man Sentenced to Death for the Kidnapping, Molestation and Murder of 9-Year-Old Otay Mesa Girl http://www.sdcda.org/files/Bracamontes%20Sentence12-14-05.pdf Girl, 9, Taken From Home and Slain : Crime: Child vanishes after answering apartment door in San Ysidro. Her battered body is discovered later in Chula Vista. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-21-me-903-story.html Family Agonizes as Girl’s Death Remains Unsolved : Crime: Police have had a suspect since the beginning in the killing of 9-year-old Laura Arroyo, but no arrest has been made. Some evidence is still being analyzed. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-05-me-1359-story.html Listen to the daily podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts! ------------------------------------------------ Logo Art By Ash Black "As Above" Art By Grant Scott Dead Rabbit Skull By John from the SCAR Group Halloween Monster By Finn Opening Song: "Atlantis Attacks" Closing Song: "Bella Royale" Music By Dr. Huxxxtable Rabbitron 3000 created by Eerbud Thanks to Chris K, Founder Of The Golden Rabbit Brigade http://www.DeadRabbit.com Email: DeadRabbitRadio@gmail.com Twitter: @DeadRabbitRadio Facebook: www.Facebook.com/DeadRabbitRadio Paranormal, Conspiracy, and True Crime news as it happens! Jason Carpenter breaks the stories they'll be talking about tomorrow, assuming the world doesn't end today. All Contents Of This Podcast Copyright Jason Carpenter 2018 - 2019
Join me and Steph (Time to Read!) as we discuss Out by Natsuo Kirino (translated by Stephen Snyder) Podcast Transcript Mentioned in this episode; Elena Ferrante Haruki Murakami Daunt Books Leo Tolstoy Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) Powell's Indie Bookstore Day Open Letter Coffee House Press Fitzcarraldo Editions The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold The Faculty of Dreamsby Sara Stridsberg (translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner) The Dinnerby Herman Koch (translated by Sam Garrett) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui (translated by Andrew Driver) Paprika (2006) Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa (translated by David Boyd) Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Lucy North) In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami (translated by Ralph McCarthy) Auditions by Ryū Murakami (translated by Ralph McCarthy) Auditions (1999) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (translated by Alfred Birnbaum) Stephen King James Patterson Anne Rice Neapolitan Novels Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein) The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein) Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein) Karl Ove Knausgård My Struggle 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård (translated by Don Bartlett) New York Review of Books Podcast New York Review of Books The New Sorrows of Young W by Ulrich Plenzdorf (translated by Romy Fursland) The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translated by David Constantine) Man Booker International Prize BTBA Prize Transparent City by Ondjaki (translated by Stephen Henighan) The Little Girl in the Ice Floeby Adelaïde Bon (translated by Tina A. Kover) The Seven Madmen by Roberto Arlt (translated by Nick Caistor) The Linden Tree by César Aira (translated by Chris Andrews) Wordstock Three Percent Podcast Haymarket Books Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming by Winona LaDuke The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk (translated by Christopher Moseley) Find Steph online Booktube: Time to Read! Twitter: timetoread___ Goodreads: Stephanie Support the show via Patreon Social Media links Email: losttranslationspod@gmail.com Twitter: @translationspod Instagram: translationspod Litsy: @translationspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/translationspod/ Produced by Mccauliflower.
“Look, it’s 1980, boys are growing out their hair like girls, girls are wearing pants, and rock n’ roll is spreading like the venereal disease, which can only mean one thing: Satan has wrapped his leathery wings around the children and they are ensnared in his insidious worship,” said Ethel McCudgins, a local parent, commenting on the recent disappearance of high school senior, Nancy Johnson. Johnson, 18, is the editor of the Smallton High School’s weekly newspaper--the Smallton High Snoop. Burton McGillicuddy, Smallton High’s gym teacher and presbyter of his church had the following to say on Johnson’s disappearance, “I just think that the young people and the sex and the rock music are the source of our great nation’s trouble and only Ronald Reagan's moral majority can put America back on track.” Though there have been no confirmed reports of Johnson’s whereabouts, her disappearance is only one of a series of strange occurrences in the greater Smallton area including livestock deaths, pentagrams appearing in the Smallton Sycamore Sanctuary, and rumors of late-night rituals accompanied by rock music and sexual promiscuousness. Notes: The Peoples Temple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple Manson Family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manson_Family Aum Shinrikyo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo Order of the Solar Temple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Solar_Temple The Branch Davidians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians Sullivan Institute https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/03/nyregion/custody-case-lifts-veil-on-a-psychotherapy-cult.html Running with Scissors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_with_Scissors_(memoir) Church of Bible Understanding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Bible_Understanding Scientology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology NXIVM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM Children of God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_International Heaven’s Gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group) World Peace and Unification Sanctuary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_movement 12 Tribes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Tribes_communities Trail Days http://www.traildays.us/ Thule society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society Rosicrucianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucianism Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn Thelema https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema Aleister Crowley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley Rosemary’s Baby (1968) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(film) Rosemary’s Baby (2014) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(miniseries) Last Exorcism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Exorcism The Wickerman (1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man The Wickerman (2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wicker_Man_(2006_film) Mohs Hardness Scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale_of_mineral_hardness Poltergeist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist_(1982_film) Satanic Panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse#As_a_moral_panic Martha Marcy May Marlene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Marcy_May_Marlene Ti West https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti_West ABCs of Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ABCs_of_Death Sorrows of Young Werther https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrows_of_Young_Werther Eleusinian Mysteries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries
A picture may paint a thousand words, but nothing compares to the intimacy and immediacy of a handwritten letter. Hearing the "Letter Aria" from Jules Massenet's Werther will prove it. From an opera based on the Goethe novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, this scene finds the tortured heroine Charlotte re-reading the letters of the doomed poet. In this episode, host Rhiannon Giddens welcomes soprano Isabel Leonard, pianist Mary Dibbern and author Peter Bognanni to explore why the words we write to each other have so much power – sometimes even more than the ones we say aloud. They'll reflect on Massenet's talent for showing Charlotte's deep connection to Werther and you'll even get a real-life story about how email brought two people together. Then you'll hear Isabel Leonard sing the complete scene onstage at the Metropolitan Opera. The Guests Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard can handle many different roles – this season she's sung everything from Nico Muhly to Claude Debussy – but describes Charlotte as one of her most challenging. "The vocal writing is relentless," she says. "Massenet had a way of expressing a very deep understanding of Charlotte's complex struggle." Pianist Mary Dibbern began her love affair with French opera began in Paris more than 30 years ago. Since then, she’s translated a biography of Jules Massenet and is currently the Music Director of Education for the Dallas Opera. Minneapolis-based Peter Bognanni fell in love with his wife over email. He is also the author of Things I’m Seeing Without You, a modern-day story about two teens who fall in love over text messages and email.
Proustian mediatation on love and desire? Atmospheric beach read? What did Laura's book club make of André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name? First published in 2007 and recently made into an Oscar-nominated film, the story follows 17-year-old Elio's obsession with charismatic houseguest Oliver. But were we carried away by Aciman's evocation of one long passionate summer? Or did it leave us only with a feeling we should start planning our July getaways now? Our interview is with Kay Dunbar, founder of the Ways With Words literary festivals, who lets us in on the secret to running a successful bookclub for over twenty years. And we finish with some great recommendations for your next book club read. • Find out more about Kay Dunbar's Ways With Words festivals at www.wayswithwords.co.uk • Episode booklist: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, Barracuda by Christos Tsioklas, Olivia by Dorothy Strachey and At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill. Kay Dunbar mentions Patrick Gale, whose most recent novel is A Place Called Winter. And if you keep listening you'll hear our extra bit at the end where we get into Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff, This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay, Hot Milk by Deborah Levy and Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels. • Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @bookclubreviewpodcast. Email us at thebookclubreview@gmail.com, find us on Twitter @bookclubrvwpod, or leave us a comment on iTunes. If you like the show then click subscribe and never miss an episode.
Do you really know a book from reading it just once? Annie and Chris weigh in on re-reading and why they do it--or don't. Is there a value in re-reading or is it a waste of time? Are there some books that deserve to be read more than once and others that don't? Also, move over, Schrödinger. We've got our own theoretical cat experiment. "Finding out what happens is the least part of reading." Mentioned this week: + Historia Regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth + Little Women by Louisa May Alcott + An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott + Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott + Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott + the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling + the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis + The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien + The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald + The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger + Brave New World by Aldous Huxley + To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee + The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins + Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel + Paradise Lost by John Milton + The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt + The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon + The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe + Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff + Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Check out Shelf Subscriptions, a new monthly book delivery service from The Bookshelf, on our website and sign up for fresh picks from Annie, Chris, and the rest of The Bookshelf staff!
In this episode we talk about things that weren't popular and then became strangely popular. Show Notes: The Room Rocky Horror Picture Show DeLorean Motor Company Deadheads The Sorrows of Young Werther
When Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther was published in 1774, it became an overnight sensation. Men wore yellow waistcoats and leather breeches to look like the novel's lovelorn hero, they carried vials of their own tears to display the depth of their feelings, and they even killed themselves in solidarity with the title character. The story of passionate, unrequited love was equally resonant when Jules Massenet's opera premiered a century later, and the glorious music is still just as heart-rending today. On this week's episode of He Sang/She Sang, Merrin Lazyan and Jeff Spurgeon speak with writer James Kuslan about Massenet's Werther. We also hear from mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard about the magnetic power of love at first sight. Kuslan's first YouTube pick (Tatiana Troyanos, 1982): Kuslan's second YouTube pick (Christa Ludwig and Franco Corelli, 1971): Spurgeon's YouTube pick (Lisette Oropesa and Jonas Kaufmann): This episode features excerpts from the following album: Massenet: Werther (Philips, 1981)— José Carreras, tenor; Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano; Isobel Buchanan, soprano; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Sir Colin Davis
What do game design and education design have to say to each other? How about larp and VR? Larpwright and academic Evan Torner joins us to talk uncertainty, ideology, transparency, and other fun things hiding in your games. Evan's website Evan on twitter Evan's talk on Teaching German Literature Through Larp Eirik Fatland What's a "nanogame?" Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" Larps from the Factory The #Feminism Nanogames Anthology The Golden Cobra Challenge What's "Jeepform?" DiGRA Ernest Hemmingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" Dante's Inferno, from The Divine Comedy Dante's Inferno, the video game Robin D. Laws' "Hamet's Hit Points" Mary Flanagan Ian Bogost Lizzie Magie's "The Landlord's Game" The Wyrd Con Companion Books Greg Costikyan's "Uncertainty in Games" Inside Hamlet Treasure Trapped Darkon Uber Goober Delirium College of Wizardry EVE Online Undertale Slayer Cake (and many more!) Analog Game Studies Gone Home
Epigraph We’re here on episode number 5 with Liberty Hardy, contributing editor at Book Riot and co-host of the All the Books! podcast. In addition to this LibSyn landing page, you can find us on Tumblr or stream the episode on iTunes and Stitcher. Follow us on Twitter at @drunkbookseller for updates, book recs, and general bookish shenanigans. Bitches in Bookshops Our theme music is awesome. Bitches in Bookshops comes to us with permission from Annabelle Quezada. Introduction [0:30] In Which We Drink PBR and Discuss ALL THE BOOKS Coming Out in October In addition to her Book Riot work, Liberty is a roaming bookseller, former bookseller at RiverRun Bookstore in New Hampshire, judge for Bookspan’s Book of the Month Club, volunteer librarian, and self-proclaimed velocireader. Drink of the Day: Pabst Blue Ribbon. Yes, that PBR. Originally posted by uponfurtherreview-mark Emma’s reading Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan, and A Wild Swan: And Other Tales by Michael Cunningham Kim’s reading Phoebe and her Unicorn by Dana Simpson, My Fight/Your Fight by Ronda Rousey, The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray, and Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert. Liberty’s reading Mrs. Engels by Gavin McCrea, Twain’s End by Lynn Cullen, and Monsters: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Birth of Pathological Technology by Ed Regis. October is a very exciting month for books, amiright? Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor Slade House by David Mitchell The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff Witches of America by Alex Mar Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers by Matt Kaplan Plotted: A Literary Atlas by Andrew Degraff and Daniel Harmon Our Spoons Came from Woolworths by Barbara Comyns Last Night’s Reading: Illustrated Encounters with Extraordinary Authors by Kate Gavino We Five by Mark Dunn The Mare by Mary Gaitskill Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson Numero Zero by Umberto Eco Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente Also mentioned: The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine Howe, Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn, various books by Cat Valente (Six-Gun Snow White, Deathless, Speak Easy) Chapter I [16:45] In Which Liberty Doesn’t Have To Wear Pants, Tells Us Her Secret to Reading ALL the Books, and Gives Us a Tour of Her Library and Cat B&B Liberty’s last official brick-and-mortar bookselling gig was at RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth, NH. Now she talks about books on the interwebz at Book Riot and doesn’t have to wear pants, which seems like a pretty sweet deal to me. Originally posted by nevadatrek If you’re not listening to Liberty’s podcast every week, you should. Like, stop reading this and go listen to All the Books! instead. We’ll wait. Want to read like a bookseller? You can score advanced digital copies of books from NetGalley and Edelweiss. Learn more about Edelweiss here. Fun Fact: The average person reads 215 words per minute. Liberty reads 536 words a minute. How do you match up? Liberty only sleeps 3 to 4 hours a night. So, that’s a thing. Originally posted by redbullmediahouse Chapter II [31:30] In Which Gary Shteyngart Writes a Successful Blurb, A Giant Crate of Books Washes Up On Liberty’s Desert Island, Liberty’s fav local bookstore haunt is Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH. She also “accidentally” bought a bunch of books from Small Beer Press in the middle of the night (including The Liminial War by Ayize Jama-Everett and Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer, translated byUrsula K. Le Guin). And she gives a big shout out to Sherman’s Books in Portland, ME and their store manager Josh Christie who, spoiler alert, is our next guess on Drunk Booksellers! Liberty’s a judge for Bookspan’s Book of the Month Club. Sounds rad. Liberty’s wheelhouse: anything compared to Kurt Vonnegut or The Secret History by Donna Tartt We talk blurbs. Gary Shteyngart blurbs everything, including this gem about Sloane Crosley’s new novel: “The Clasp reads like The Goonieswritten by Lorrie Moore.” It’s kinda brilliant. Liberty’s Desert Island Books: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Sorrows of a Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, My Name is Asher Levby Chaim Potok Station Eleven Books: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt, a Charles Portis book other than True Grit Wild Book: Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Possibly on an iPad? With an external charger? That’s probably cheating… Originally posted by gifsboom Chapter III [42:45] In Which We Make Authors Awkward with Our Literary Tattoos Go to Handsell: Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Trade Book by Erik Larson Impossible Handsell: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith,Tampa by Alissa Nutting Liberty’s Literary Tattoos include: “What a punishing business it is simply being alive.” -from The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters “Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart.” -from ”In the Desert” Stephen Crane Goodbye Blue Monday Bomb from Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Baba Yaga Chicken Leg House from Hellboy Juice Box w/ Drink Umbrella from The Tick Last Book Gifted: M Train by Patti Smith Liberty has very literary cats. Their names are Steinbeck (instead of Spork from Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway) & Millay Emma’s cat’s name is Link. As in Kelly Link, not this Link: Originally posted by themaverickk Literary media for your immediate consumption: Lit Hub The Scofield Flavorwire Buzzfeed The Millions Electric Literature Publishers Weekly Shelf Awareness Epilogue [56:45] In Which You Can Find Liberty on the Interwebz and She Explains Frampton Comes Alive to Your Hosts Twitter: @MissLiberty Tiny Letter: Franzen Comes Alive Website: FranzenComesAlive.com Tumblr: franzencomesalive.tumblr.com/ posts on Book Riot Originally posted by richardsmanuel Find Emma on Twitter @thebibliot and writing nerdy bookish things for Book Riot. Kim occasionally tweets at @finaleofseem. And you can follow both of us [as a podcast] on Twitter @drunkbookseller! Don’t forget to subscribe to Drunk Booksellers from your podcatcher of choice. Do you love our show? Tell the world! 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How do we read 'in the age of distraction'? When did what we understand as modern reading begin to take shape: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/modern-reading-in-historical-context-from-gutenberg-to-naked-womenDid the publication of Goethe's epistolary novel, 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' (1774) lead to an epidemic of suicides? Is there such a thing as the 'The Werther effect', as suicides apparently prompted by novels became known? Why did eighteenth-century women fear that their response to readings out loud in a group might reveal a lack of 'sensibility'? How do we read 'in the age of distraction'?The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/modern-reading-in-historical-context-from-gutenberg-to-naked-womenGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,500 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.ukTwitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollegeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.In the 1770s a small group of German writers started to produce plays, poetry and novels which were radically different from what had gone before. These writers were all young men, and they rejected the values of the Enlightenment, which they felt had robbed art of its spontaneity and feeling. Their work was passionate, ignored existing conventions and privileged the individual's free will above the constraints of society.The most prominent member of the movement was Johann von Goethe, whose novel The Sorrows of Young Werther became its most notable success, translated into more then thirty languages. Despite this and other successes including Schiller's play The Robbers, the Sturm und Drang disappeared almost as quickly as it had emerged; by the mid-1780s it was already a thing of the past.With:Tim BlanningEmeritus Professor of Modern European History at Cambridge UniversitySusanne KordProfessor of German at University College, LondonMaike Oergel Associate Professor of German at the University of NottinghamProducer: Thomas Morris.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang.In the 1770s a small group of German writers started to produce plays, poetry and novels which were radically different from what had gone before. These writers were all young men, and they rejected the values of the Enlightenment, which they felt had robbed art of its spontaneity and feeling. Their work was passionate, ignored existing conventions and privileged the individual's free will above the constraints of society.The most prominent member of the movement was Johann von Goethe, whose novel The Sorrows of Young Werther became its most notable success, translated into more then thirty languages. Despite this and other successes including Schiller's play The Robbers, the Sturm und Drang disappeared almost as quickly as it had emerged; by the mid-1780s it was already a thing of the past.With:Tim BlanningEmeritus Professor of Modern European History at Cambridge UniversitySusanne KordProfessor of German at University College, LondonMaike Oergel Associate Professor of German at the University of NottinghamProducer: Thomas Morris.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the great German polymath. 'I had the great advantage of being born at a time that was ripe for earth-shaking events which continued throughout my long life, so that I witnessed the Seven Years War...the French Revolution, and the whole Napoleonic era down to the defeat of the hero and what followed after him. As a result I have attained completely different insights and conclusions than will ever be possible for people who are born now...' Goethe's friend Johann Peter Eckermann recorded these remarks made by the great writer at the end of his life in a series of published recollections. Goethe's life was indeed remarkable. At the age of twenty-five he was author of the first German international best-seller The Sorrows of Young Werther. A year later, he was invited by the Grand Duke to join him at the Imperial Court as Privy Councillor where he oversaw commissions on war, roads and tax. He rode to war with the Prussian Army against the French and embarked on a remarkable creative friendship with Schiller which saw the establishment of a new form of German theatre. What made Goethe the dominant cultural icon of his time and after? What links were there between his interest in politics and the arts? Why did he support Napoleon despite the French invasion of Weimar? How did his relationships with women define his work? And how was he able to transform the status of the German language? With Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge; Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh; W. Daniel Wilson, Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the great German polymath. 'I had the great advantage of being born at a time that was ripe for earth-shaking events which continued throughout my long life, so that I witnessed the Seven Years War...the French Revolution, and the whole Napoleonic era down to the defeat of the hero and what followed after him. As a result I have attained completely different insights and conclusions than will ever be possible for people who are born now...' Goethe's friend Johann Peter Eckermann recorded these remarks made by the great writer at the end of his life in a series of published recollections. Goethe's life was indeed remarkable. At the age of twenty-five he was author of the first German international best-seller The Sorrows of Young Werther. A year later, he was invited by the Grand Duke to join him at the Imperial Court as Privy Councillor where he oversaw commissions on war, roads and tax. He rode to war with the Prussian Army against the French and embarked on a remarkable creative friendship with Schiller which saw the establishment of a new form of German theatre. What made Goethe the dominant cultural icon of his time and after? What links were there between his interest in politics and the arts? Why did he support Napoleon despite the French invasion of Weimar? How did his relationships with women define his work? And how was he able to transform the status of the German language? With Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge; Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh; W. Daniel Wilson, Professor of German at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great poet and dramatist, famous for Faust, for The Sorrows of Young Werther, for Storm und Drang and for being a colossus in German literature. Born in the middle of the eighteenth century he lived through the first third of the nineteenth. He wrote lyric and epic verse, literary criticism, prose fiction, translations from 28 languages, he was a politician as well and was hailed by Napoleon as the boundless measure of man; but for much of his time, often to the exclusion of everything else, Goethe was a scientist. That was also part of this late flowering Renaissance man. Some say he paved the way for Darwin, some say he pre-dated the chaos theory, that he foreshadowed Gaia. In an age of romantic giants he was certainly a titan. He gave us the term morphology and sometimes he is even credited with inventing biology itself. How important were Goethe's discoveries, and where does he really stand in the history of science? With Nicholas Boyle, Reader in German Literary and Intellectual History, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and biographer of Goethe; Simon Schaffer, Reader in the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University and Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great poet and dramatist, famous for Faust, for The Sorrows of Young Werther, for Storm und Drang and for being a colossus in German literature. Born in the middle of the eighteenth century he lived through the first third of the nineteenth. He wrote lyric and epic verse, literary criticism, prose fiction, translations from 28 languages, he was a politician as well and was hailed by Napoleon as the boundless measure of man; but for much of his time, often to the exclusion of everything else, Goethe was a scientist. That was also part of this late flowering Renaissance man. Some say he paved the way for Darwin, some say he pre-dated the chaos theory, that he foreshadowed Gaia. In an age of romantic giants he was certainly a titan. He gave us the term morphology and sometimes he is even credited with inventing biology itself. How important were Goethe’s discoveries, and where does he really stand in the history of science? With Nicholas Boyle, Reader in German Literary and Intellectual History, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and biographer of Goethe; Simon Schaffer, Reader in the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University and Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.
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