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  • ep. 288 - Partridge Boswell

    Partridge Boswell is author of the 2023 Fool for Poetry Prize-winning chapbook Levis Corner House (Southword Editions, Munster Literature Centre) and Grolier Poetry Prize-winning collection Some Far Country Partridge is co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival and teaches at Vallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters in Montreal. His poems have recently found homes in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Ireland Review, Southword and The Moth. He lives with his family in Vermont and troubadours widely with the poetry/music group Los Lorcas, whose debut release Last Night in America is available on Thunder Ridge Records.

    Find more about the band here:
    https://loslorcas.com/
    As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.
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    This Week’s Prompt:
    Write a poem that includes a prank and ends with a question.
    Next Week’s Prompt:
    Write a poem in which someone makes a mistake that leaves an impression.
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    1 hr 52 min
  • How Pronouns Evolve

    John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor, host of the Lexicon Valley podcast, opinion writer at The New York Times, and the author of Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words (Avery, 2025), talks about his new book that digs into the cultural and linguistic history of pronoun usage in English and what light that sheds on today's controversies.

    21 min
  • Look Inside Yourself To Find Your Unique Gifts - David Brown

    David Brown is a life coach, a former Antarctic research scientist, and a martial arts instructor. David is also founder of the Institute of Sovereign Leadership.

    This is one of my favourite conversations to date. I loved David's thoughtful and articulate responses to my questions about his work around sovereign leadership, his journey as a leader, how he's overcome setbacks in life (including the death of his brother), and of course what his 'edge' is and how he's leaning into that.

    Watching the episode back and re-living our conversation was an absolute pleasure and I urge you to spend an hour or so in David's company.

    Read more about David here https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-brown-institute-of-sovereign-leadership/

    0 min
  • ABR's Peter Rose - the Exit Interview

    After 24 years, the Australian Book Review's CEO and editor, Peter Rose, is stepping down. By the time he leaves, Peter will have edited close to 250 issues, worked with more than 1500 writers and helped shape the national conversation.

    • GUEST: Peter Rose, Outgoing editor and CEO of the Australian Book Review
    • PRODUCER: Ali Benton
    27 min
  • Peter Rose departs the Australian Book Review after 24 years

    After 24 years, the Australian Book Review's CEO and editor, Peter Rose, is stepping down. By the time he leaves, Peter will have edited close to 250 issues, worked with more than 1500 writers and helped shape the national conversation.

    • GUEST: Peter Rose, Outgoing editor and CEO of the Australian Book Review
    • PRODUCER: Ali Benton
    27 min
  • He quit journalism to fight authoritarianism. How’s that going?

    Last year, we did an episode with Barton Gellman, who talked about the war games he was running with high-level military leaders and government officials to prepare for a second Trump term. 


    A bunch of you have been asking us to have Barton back, to find out what he’s doing, now that the second Trump term is here. So we called him up.


    Barton works at the Brennan Center for Justice.


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    25 min
  • On Mavis Gallant

    Mavis Gallant is best known for her short stories, 116 of which were first published in the New Yorker. Extraordinarily varied and prolific, she arranged her life around the solitary pleasure of writing while battling extreme self-doubt. Tessa Hadley joins Joanne O’Leary to discuss her recent review of 44 previously uncollected Gallant stories and her own forthcoming selection for Pushkin Press. They explore what makes Gallant a ‘writer’s writer’, where her reporting and fiction intersect, and why her novels fail where her short stories succeed.


    Find further reading on the episode page: https://lrb.me/gallantpod

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    40 min
  • The bliss and the perils of ignorance

    Aristotle claimed that all humans want to know. But at the same time, we battle a competing desire to not know. Through history, humanity has been repeatedly compelled to ignore realities, seduced by irrational rumours, magical thinking and preposterous prophets. Are we living in a time of particular ignorance? 

    25 min