Plain Reading

We're joined by author and publisher Deborah Shapiro for conversation about working within limitations, publishing on your own terms, and even Columbo!

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A. R. Ammons The Snow Poems Roland Barthes Mythologies Walter Benjamin The Arcades Project John Berger Bento's Sketchbook Brian Blanchfield Proxies Marianne Brooker Intervals B-Side Editions James M. Cain Mildred Pierce Elias Canetti Auto-da-Fé Wah-Ming Chang Robert Cochrane / Joel Surnow 24 Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Brian Dillon Essayism George Eliot Middlemarch Peter Falk Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life Rainer Werner Fassbinder The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes Gustave Flaubert Heinrich Heine "Die Lorelei"

Hercule Poirot Walter Isaacson Leonardo da Vinci Matthew Jacobson Immanuel Kant Jack Kerouac John Le Carré Nathalie Léger Suite for Barbara Loden Jonathan Lethem Richard Levinson / William Link Columbo Barbara Loden Wanda Donato Loia 1095 Short Sentences David Lynch Twin Peaks Herman Melville "Billy Budd" Henry Miller Black Spring Errol Morris The Pigeon Tunnel (John Le Carré documentary) Ian Penman Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time Rob Reiner The Princess Bride Theodore Roszak Flicker Theodore Roszak The Making of a Counter Culture W. G. Sebald The Rings of Saturn Deborah Shapiro Consolation Deborah Shapiro The Summer Demands Deborah Shapiro The Sun in Your Eyes Matthew Specktor The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood Helen Vendler The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar Wim Wenders Wings of Desire Nathanael West Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust Anthony E. Zuiker CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

We're talking to environmental studies professor and author Liam Heneghan, who joins us to talk about sustained reading, the politics of biography, Samuel Beckett, and more!

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Anaximander Samuel Beckett Endgame Samuel Beckett Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable: A Trilogy Deirdre Blair Samuel Beckett: A Biography Patricia Claus "The Miletian School: Ancient Greece's Pioneers of Philosophy"

Hart Crane Charles Darwin The Origin of Species Charles DarwinVegetable Mould and Worms René Descartes David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest Alan Garner The Owl Service "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" Jack Halberstam The Queer Art of Failure Thomas Hardy Václav Havel Liam Heneghan Through Pleated Light: Confessions and Translations David Hume James JoyceFinnegans Wake James Joyce Ulysses

Patrick Joyce Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason John Locke London Review of Books Lucretius On the Nature of the Universe Mabinogion Louis MacNeice Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks David Marr Patrick White: A Life Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh Lapvona Ottessa Moshfegh McGlue Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest and Relaxation New York Review of Books Flannery O'Connor "Good Country People" Presocratics Roger Scruton Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story Socrates Wallace Stevens "The Three Little Pigs" Colm Tóibín "Seagulls as Playmates" Helen Vendler The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry Patrick White Riders in the Chariot Patrick White Voss

We're talking to management professor and executive director of the Clifton Strengths Institute Tim Hodges, who joins us to talk about writing (or not!) in books, notes from your past self, third spaces, and more!

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A Novel Idea Bookstore Albert Bandura Ruha BenjaminRace After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Walter Benjamin"Unpacking My Library"

David BrooksHow to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David BrooksThe Road to Character

Pascale CasanovaThe World Republic of Letters

Don CliftonFirst, Break all the Rules

CliftonStrengths Henry Cloud

Mark FisherPostcapitalist Desire

Stephen FrearsHigh Fidelity

Adam Grant

Chip and Dan HeathDecisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

Dan HeathWhat It's Like to Be… podcast

Daniel Kahneman

Tressie McMillan CottomLower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

James MerrillFrom the First Nine: Poems, 1946–1976

Leonard MichaelsThe Essays of Leonard Michaels

C. Wright MillsWhite Collar

Lukas MoodyssonTilsammens (Together)

Vivek MurthyTogether: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

PBS News Hour

Daniel H. PinkWhen: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Proverbs

Psalms

Tom Rath / Jim HarterWellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

Howard Schultz / Joanne GordonOnward: How Starbucks Fought for its Life without Losing its Soul

Studs TerkelWorking

Richard H. Thaler / Cass R. SunsteinNudge

J. D. VanceHillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Boris VianBlues for a Black Cat and Other Stories

Tara WestoverEducated: A Memoir

We're talking to literature scholar Niloofar Ghaemi about Hart Crane, the call of poetry, and memory and destruction.

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Anna Akhmatova Walter Benjamin Renée L. Bergland The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects Pascale Casanova The World Republic of Letters

Howard Caygill Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience Hart Crane "The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge" Kirby Dick / Amy Ziering Kofman Derrida: The Documentary T. S. Eliot "The Waste Land" Farugh Farrokhzad Aros Fioretos, ed. Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan Édouard Glissant Mahagony Langdon Hammer Martin Heidegger Edmund Husserl Alan Kaufman, ed. The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry Jack Kerouac Osip Mandelstam The Noise of Time: Selected Prose Leonard Michaels The Essays of Leonard Michaels Isaac Newton B. P. Nichol The Martyrology Friedrich Nietzsche "On the Use and Abuse of History for Life" OuLiPo Georges Perec "Spoken in Jest: On the Continuing Importance of Georges Perec," by Darran Anderson Mary Ruefle Tupac Shakur Patti Smith Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty Tomas Tranströmer Selected Poems, 1954–1986 Antonio Zadra / Robert Stickgold When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds

We're talking to poet Lewis Freedman about small presses, translations and talismans, and the interplay of sound and sense.

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Episode artwork: Illustration, Encyclopedic Dictionary, Calleja Rodriguez-Navas, 1909 [cropped]. CC BY-SA 4.0 image courtesy Correogsk and Wikimedia Commons.

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ArtScroll

Heimrad BäckerDocumentary Poetry

Charles BaudelaireLes fleurs du mal

Anselm BerriganPregrets

The Beta Band"Dry the Rain"

Black Lawrence Press

Black Square Editions

William Bronk

J. R. ChurchHidden Prophecies in the Psalms

Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)"About the Closure of Small Press Distribution: FAQ"

Claire DeVoogdVia

Stephen Frears High Fidelity

Carol GuessInfodemic

Gregory J. Hakim / Jérôme PatouxWeather: A Concise Introduction

Hwang InChanWashing a Myna

Andrew KlimekThe Flowers of Mel

C. S. LewisThe Chronicles of Narnia

Stephane Mallarmé "Saint"

Namaste America

Poetry in America

Book of Psalms

David RosenbergBlues of the Sky: Interpreted from the Original Hebrew Book of Psalms

Wallace Stevens "The Emperor of Ice Cream" and "The Motive for Metaphor"

Winter Editions

Woodland Pattern

Professor of theology and religious studies Jacqueline Hidalgo tells us about extractive reading, myths of innocence, and recovering the enjoyment of books.

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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 LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Christina Aguilera Hilton Als White Girls Johann Sebastian Bach Anne Carson Paul Celan Ally Condie The Matched Trilogy Roald Dahl "William and Mary" Jacques Derrida Ecclesiastes Aros Fioretos, ed. Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan Federico García Lorca Justo L. González Glenn Gould Leo Guardado Church as Sanctuary: Reconstructing Refuge in an Age of Forced Displacement Dave Hickey Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy Edward Hirsch "Fast Break" Edward Hirsch How to Read a Poem Edward Hirsch The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration Sylvester A. Johnson The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth-Century American Christianity Maia Kotrosits R. F. Kuang Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Libby Burton L. Mack A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins Terrence Malick Badlands Terrence Malick The Tree of Life Karl Marx Writings on alienation Cherríe L. Moraga A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010 Morrissey You Are the Quarry Shaquille O'Neal The Onion"Grad Student Deconstructs Take-Out Menu" Elizabeth Pérez "Sorry Cites: The (Necro) Politics of Citation in the Anthropology of Religion" RadioArt(r) The Phone Book Joanne Ramos The Farm Lou Reed "Hangin' Round" Keri Russell Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading" Britney Spears The Woman in Me Ben Stiller Reality Bites Justin Timberlake Michelle Williams

Children's librarian Louise Tripp talks with us about graphic novels, reading in groups, and even horror films!

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Melissa Broder Death Valley Tomas Alfredson Let the Right One In Dario Argento Suspiria Joseph Barbera / William Hanna The Jetsons Betsy Bird Truman Capote In Cold Blood

Jeremiah S. Chechik Diabolique Johnnie Christmas Swim Team Henri-Georges Clouzot Les diaboliques Gavin de Becker The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence Charles Dickens Julia Ducournau Raw Evanston Public Library 101 Great Books for Kids List William Friedkin The Exorcist Sarah Gerard Carrie Carolyn Coco Mia Goth Alastair Gray Lanark: A Life in Four Books Luca Guadagnino Suspiria Wolfgang Hildesheimer Tynset HiLoBrow Jim Jarmusch Only Lovers Left Alive Dakota Johnson (article by Bethy Squires at Vulture) Kanopy Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey Kekla Magoon The Secret Library Nida Manzoor We Are Lady Parts Joseph Moncure March The Wild Party David Robert Mitchell It Follows Daniel Myrick / Eduardo Sánchez The Blair Witch Project The Nation School Library Journal Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath The Letters of Sylvia Plath, vol. 1 Marjane Satrapi Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood W. G. Sebald Art Spiegelman Maus: A Survivor's Tale George Takei They Called Us Enemy Craig Thompson Blankets Alberto Toscano Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea Fernanda Trías Pink Slime Raymond Tyler / Summer McCinton Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars Logan Ury How Not to Die Alone: The Surprising Science that Will Help You Find Love Emily Van Duyne Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation Anjana Vasan Ti West X Trilogy(article by Scott Roxborough at The Hollywood Reporter) Marguerite Young Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

Engineer and runner Muna Mitchell joins us to discuss the pleasures of process, thinking in stories, and even book art.

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Jean M. Auel The Earth's Children series Jane Austen Nicholson Baker The Mezzanine

James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain

Leonard Baskin Carl Boyer A History of Mathematics Michael Connelly Resurrection Walk Alain Delon Helen DeWitt "Scribbling" Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Emily Dickinson "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" Annie Dillard The Writing Life Malcolm Gladwell Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Edward Hirsch "Fast Break" Friedrich Hölderlin Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin (translated by Maxine Chernoff & Paul Hoover) Nick Hornby Ted Hughes Crow Jedidiah Jenkins To Shake the Sleeping Self Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow M. M. Kaye The Far Pavilions Marian Keyes My Favorite Mistake Mark Kurlansky 1968: The Year that Rocked the World Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo London Review of Books J. D. McClatchy, ed. Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets Colleen McCullough The Thorn Birds Jean-Pierre Melville Le Cercle rouge (The Red Circle) Jean-Pierre Melville Le Samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville Un flic (A Cop) Vincente Minnelli Brigadoon Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind Friedrich Nietzsche Shaquille O'Neal Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values Poetry in America Radiolab J. K. Rowling Edward Said J. D. Salinger Adam Shatz Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree Zadie Smith David Strathairn Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery: An Autobiography Walt Whitman "The Wound-Dresser" Dick Wolf / Rick EidLaw & Order

We're talking today to linguist and grant writer Kenzie Grubitz Simpson about folklore, the power of embodiment and language—and even the weather!

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David Abram The Spell of the Sensuous Theodor Adorno Daniel Allison House of Legends podcast Daniel Allison Scottish Myths & Legends J. L. Austin How to Do Things with Words Beowulf Svetlana Boym Paul Celan Raymond Chandler Red Wind Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell Aleister Crowley John Crowley The Aegypt Cyle John Crowley Ka John Crowley Little, Big Terrence Deacon Jacques Derrida Joan Didion "The Santa Anas" Merlin Donald A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness Moshe Feldenkrais Aris Fioretos, ed. Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan Allen Grossman True-Love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing Che Guevara Werner Herzog Grizzly Man Hildegarde of Bingen Samuel Johnson/ James Boswell A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland / The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Alfred Kroeber George Lakoff / Mark Johnson Metaphors We Live By Urusla K. Le Guin "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" Urusla K. Le Guin A Wizard of Earthsea Urusla K. Le Guin Buffalo Gals Urusla K. Le Guin Tales from Earthsea Urusla K. Le Guin The Left Hand of Darkness Urusla K. Le Guin The Other Wind Urusla K. Le Guin The Telling Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook John Sayles The Secret of Roan Inish Viktor ShklovskyKnight's Move Denis Villeneuve Arrival Ludwig Wittgenstein Frances A. Yates The Art of Memory William Tell

We're talking in this episode to poet and editor Rachel Mennies, who tells us about writing into and through uncertainty, what keeps us writing, and what it's like to be part of a journal's editorial staff.

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Agni

Ruth Awad / Rachel Mennies The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry

Booktalk

Lucy Brock-Broido Stay, Illusion

Roberto Calasso Literature and the Gods Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Dust Peter Hammond Sapphire & Steel HomerThe Iliad Homer The Odyssey Lewis Hyde The Gift Stephen King On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Mario Levrero The Luminous Novel David Lynch Twin Peaks J. D. McClatchy, ed. Poets on Painters: Essays on the Art of Painting by Twentieth-Century Poets Rachel Mennies "Less than Certain: How to Teach Bewildering Poems" Rachel Mennies The Naomi Letters Madeline Miller Circe Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles Christopher Nolan Interstellar Alice Oswald Memorial Ezra Pound Mark Rothko Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit Elaine Scarry On Beauty and Being Just Talmudic stories Chris Van Dusen Bridgerton W. B. Yeats