Plain Reading: A Visit to the Bookstore: Annie Clymer
We’re joined by owner of Annie Clymer, who tells us all about running a bookstore, giving old titles another chance, and the weird workings of memory. Intro and outro music: “” courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Trapani, libreria del Corso [cropped]. image courtesy HaguardDuNord and . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! Richard Ayoade Ceren Beilin Ceren Beilin Ceren Beilin Eula Biss Brian Blanchfield Chloë Clifton-Wright "" Percival Everett Will Ferguson Frank Herbert Dave Hickey Rachel Ingalls James Joyce Stephen King Stephen King Stanley Kubrick Dorothea Lasky Norman Mailer Ottessa Moshfegh Ottessa Moshfegh Ottessa Moshfegh Doireann Ní Ghríofa Lauren Oyler Lauren Oyler Sylvia Plath Thomas Pynchon David Foster Wallace "" John Williams John Williams John Williams Joy Williams Rachel Yoder
We're back with another Plain Reading episode! Writer Lara Levitan joins us to talk about sticking to your craft, the influence of other authors, and keeping the mystery alive!
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Plain Reading: Mystery Prevails: Lara Levitan
Writer joins us to talk about sticking to your craft, other authors’ influence, and keeping the mystery alive. Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Theda Bara, still from Madame Mystery [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! Wes Anderson Wes Anderson Annie Baker Jen Beagin Jen Beagin Jen Beagin Hans Blumenberg Mark Frost / David Lynch Nick Hunt Miranda July Adam Kelly Lara Levitan Madame Pamita Simon Morley, ed. Kornél Mundruczó Orhan Pamuk Orhan Pamuk Rainer Maria Rilke "" Rainer Maria Rilke Christoph Rüter George Saunders Peter Sloterdijk Peter Sloterdijk David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace Rachel Yoder
Plain Reading's latest episode is up! We're talking with classicist JC Boyle about looking for a new Greece, the inheritors of Thomas Bernhard, and a massive amount of #Books !
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Plain Reading: In Search of Another Greece: JC Boyle
Classicist and reader extraordinaire JC Boyle tells us about the Greeks, Ezra Pound, Thomas Bernhard, lending out your books, and so much more! Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy [cropped]. Wm. S. Kimball & Co., 1889. CC0 1.0 image courtesy and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! V. C. Andrews Aristophanes Honoré de Balzac Roland Barthes Simone de Beauvoir Andrei Bely Lauren Berlant Thomas Bernhard Thomas Bernhard John Berryman "" John Berryman Roberto Bolaño Brockport Writers Forum Ian Buruma "" (on Jean-Paul Sartre) Michael Cacoyannis Elias Canetti Elias Canetti Catullus Nawal El Saadawi Euripides Euripides Jon Fosse William Gaddis David Graeber / David Wengrow Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Mark Haber Mark Haber John Haffenden Byung-Chul Han Heinrich Heine "" Abbie Hoffman Gitta Honegger James Joyce Eugene Lim Nicole Loraux Nicole Loraux / Laura M. Slatkin / Gregory Nagy Thomas Mann Søren Mau Henry Miller Henry Miller John Mullen Iris Murdoch Mark Neocleous Raoul Peck Bob Perelman Plutarch Chad W. Post "" Ezra Pound “” Hannah Proctor Gerard Reve Walter Rodney Ellen Rutten J. D. Salinger Ousmane Sembène Sophocles Scott Spillman Heiny Srour Leon Trostsky Gregor von Rezzori
We're back with another episode of Plain Reading! Tim Mather and I are having fun breaking down the Aristotelian virtues—and I'm getting the scoop on his family tree!
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Plain Reading: Finding the Mean: Tim Mather
tells us about bringing Aristotle into contemporary life, and about keeping a famous family tree alive. Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Jabril ibn Bukhtishu. Aristotle instructing Alexander the Great [cropped]. image courtesy . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! Wes Anderson Aristotle Robert Caro Anton Chekhov "" Winston Churchill "" John Cotton / Richard Mather Sebastian De Grazia Charles Dickens Anthony Doerr Jonathan Edwards "" Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Jessica Hagy Michael Haneke Samantha Harvey Jane Jacobs Immanuel Kant Søren Kierkegaard John Landis Alasdair MacIntyre Abijah P. Marvin Cotton Mather Morrissey Mihkel Mutt Mike Myers "" POYKPAC Comedy “” Richard P. Rumelt Douglas Rushkoff The Smiths "" Eckhart Tolle Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy "" Leo Tolstoy "" Leo Tolstoy "" Stefan Zweig
Time for another episode of Plain Reading! We're talking to biologist Caroline Turner about #reading around the world, rediscovering childhood favorites, and even a few recommendations for #Chicago - focused #literature!
https://plainreading.libsyn.com/exploration-and-rediscovery-caroline-turner
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Plain Reading: Exploration and Rediscovery: Caroline Turner
Biologist Caroline Turner joins us to talk about the challenges and rewards of reading outside your own culture. Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: World map produced in Amsterdam, 1689 [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! J. J. Abrams / Jeffrey Liebfer / Damon Lindelof Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexievich Jokha Alharthi Poul Anderson "" Isaac Asimov Jane Austen Rick Bass Saul Bellow Charlotte Beradt Dan Brown Margaret Wise Brown Robyn Creswell "" (on translating the Qur'an) Jana Damabrogio / Daniel Starza Smith "" Richard Dawkins Stuart Dybek Julia Fine Louise Fitzhugh Jonathan Gottschall Stephen Jay Gould Jean Hatzfeld Bong Joon Ho Bong Joon Ho Marion Holland Scott Huler Andrey Kurkov Erik Larson Robert McCloskey Dominic A. Pacyga Alexander Pushkin Arthur Ransome Jean Paul Richter Christopher Robbins Kristen Roupenian "" Karen Russell "" Masaoka Shiki “” Murasaki Shikibu Robin Sloan John Steinbeck Amos Tutuola P. G. Wodehouse
Plain Reading: Nature and the Strange: Matt Stansberry
Nature writer and podcaster tells us about the challenges of conservation and management—and the supernatural goings-on that come with it. Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: The Squonk, illustrated by Coert Du Bois and William T. Cox [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! A. R. Ammons Rudolfo Anaya Ted Andrews John Baglow Frank Black "" James Cameron Mike Clelland Mark Z. Danielewski Annie Dillard Dan Flores Dan Flores Nell Greenfieldboyce Tom Hennen Robin Wall Kimmerer Robin Wall Kimmerer Robin Wall Kimmerer John Lane Dave Lucas James Merrill Alice Oswald / Paul Keegan Tom Putnam Mary Ruefle Trevor Shikaze / WAWI Matt Stansberry "" Matt Stansberry Matt Stansberry / Sarah Rose Matt Stansberry / David Wilson Paula Whyman William Butler Yeats
Check out our latest Plain Reading episode, where podcaster, chaplain, and scholar of religion George Schmidt is filling us in on William Blake, scrapping, #StarWars , and more!
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Plain Reading: Some of Them Wrote It Down: George Schmidt
Chaplain, podcaster, and religion scholar joins us to talk William Blake, the support found in reading, and Star Wars galore! Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Manny Warman, Columbia University Bicentennial panel exhibition on banned books [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy Columbia University Archives and . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! Saul D. Alinsky Richard Attenborough James Baldwin / Nikki Giovanni Lynne Reid Banks Gregory Bassham Lenny Bruce Charles Bukowski "" Edward T. Chambers The Charlie Daniels Band "" Gilles Deleuze "" Warren Ellis et al. Rod Hilton "" Aldous Huxley Nicholas Hytner Elias L. Khalil "" C. S. Lewis C. S. Lewis George Lucas et al. George R. R. Martin Julie E. Maybee "" John Cameron Mitchell Alan Moore José Esteban Muñoz Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff Todd Phillips Plato Barb Rosenstock / Mary GrandPré J. R. R. Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkien Sheldon S. Wolin
Plain Reading is back! We're talking to Vahid Friedrich, who not only tells us about story in #SciFi, #videoGames, and #film ; he also reveals the meaning of life!
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Plain Reading: Stories Wherever You Find Them: Vahid Friedrich
Vahid Friedrich, advisor to financial advisors, is talking to us about storytelling—in sci-fi, video games, religion, and more! Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Cover of Science Fiction Quarterly, Nov. 1952 [cropped]. Public domain image courtesy . Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! James Baldwin / Nikki Giovanni Johnny Cash "" Percival Everett Natalie Goldberg Natalie Goldberg Frank Herbert William J. Higginson Isekai: “” (Introductory article on the genre by Amanda Pagan) John Landis Larian Studios Ursula K. Le Guin David Lynch Vladimir Nabokov Nine Inch Nails "" Larry Niven "" nobody103 Hiroaki Sato Peter Singer Sleyca Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy Mark Twain Denis Villeneuve David F. Walker / Mark Kwame Anderson D. D. Webb William Carlos Williams
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. - Gertrude Stein
Plain Reading: Language and Attention: Donato Loia
Art historian and writer joins us today to talk about the interplay of language, music, art and more! Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Three Girls in Yellow Straw Hats [cropped], August Macke. Public domain image courtesy . Ryan Adams Dore Ashton Ingmar Bergman David Brooks John D'Agata James Elkins James Elkins James Elkins Granta Peter Heehs Karl Ove Knausgaard Karl Ove Knausgaard Donato Loia Barry Lopez Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche Lisa Robertson "" Lisa Robertson Leslie Stevens Henry David Thoreau Sarah Thornton Helen Vendler Alejandro Zambra
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