Stay alive. Getting through the hours, the days, the weeks, the months. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. And if you can’t crawl, I will always be here to pull you through. Do whatever it takes just to get through the hour.

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In this podcast episode, we will go through a simple discussion of Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" and a much more complex discussion on human loneliness. We all long for love and strength and whatever it needs just to get through another hour; alive, yes, with sadness and despair, but we stay alive nonetheless. And no matter what reasons we hang on to stay alive - be it another person, another cup of coffee, another waking morning, filled with warm blankets and fragrant sheets - as long as you are still breathing through another day, you are the greatest soldier. A soldier who trudges through battles no one sees, wins the wars no one knows about, and comes back as a veteran of life and sadness.

Be brave. And most important of all, be kind, always.

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You know, I came across Elvis Presley’s “Are You Lonesome Tonight” once, when I was struck by the beauty of the moon and took a step down the abyss too quickly. And though the abyss was beautiful, and though only by lying underneath it, I can truly see how sad and lonely the moon was beneath all her beauty, I swore to myself I would never do it again.

- Radio of Resistances -  

In this episode, strangely, we will not discuss Elvis Presley as the reigning king that he was in his lifetime. Instead, we will focus solely on the song that haunts me and my friends. The song that, though not as popular as Elvis himself, always brings up the tears of nostalgia to anyone and everyone who listens. As Elvis's voice charmingly and sweetly pours drops of honey into my ears, the tingling sadness of a love that is no longer here shelters my loneliness. And yes, I am lonesome tonight. If that poisonous love had ever touched your heart as it did mine, would you like to sit down and share this lonesome night with me?

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Author's Bio: Thanh Dinh graduated from the University of Toronto with distinction. Although she specialized in business management, her passion for writing and literature can burn down a whole forest. She had joined the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of Toronto and achieved a full grade and recognition from her mentor and professor, Richard Greene. As a literary enthusiast, her reading list spans across the globe - from North America's famous writers like Hemingway and Faulkner to the lesser-known Asian authors like Kenzaburo Oe and Yukio Mishima. Heavily influenced by the poets' tireless search for a cure to solitude, she resorts to solving that question using words and tiny stories to show the beauty of the living world and the scars of life's surviving veterans.  #literary #bookreview #milankundera #mentalhealth #iterarydiscussion #booksummary

So, within the week that I had been gone, the world had been on fire. Not that I had anything to do with it, because I believe I will never have that big of importance on anything, anyone, or any matter, really.

No. It’s never one person. It’s all of us.

- Radio of Resistances -

In this episode, we will have a short discussion on the infamous poet that my professor loves to hate. Indeed, many questioned his verses, his unusual line breaks, his word choices. Some, to this day, still questions his life choices. Is he a  symbol of utter misogyny? Is he a  monument of male privileges?

To me, I see him as nothing more than an erect statue of self-hatred and a life-hater. He is simply yet another one of us who crawls too far down the rabbit hole of the constant existentialism crisis. The self-hatred and self-destructive tendencies within him mount as high as  Mt. Everest. They pour out at every word and every period that he fails to put down. As  Hemingway once said about the art of writing, Charles  Bukowski forces himself to sit at the typewriter every day and bleed. The blood of human solitude, of constant repetition, of living just for the sake of dying. 

I don't know much about my professor, but all  I get from finishing the poetry collection is that  I  don't wish being a  Charles  Bukowski on anyone, even the worst of my enemies. 

Hi, this is Thanh Dinh, and welcome to another episode of Radio of Resistance.  In this podcast, we will discuss the latest translated work of Anna Gavalda, whose novel "35 Kilos of Hope" had broken our hearts in the sweetest way. "The Cracks in Our Armor" talks about us. Not the inner child nor the youthful us, but the weary and tired us. The weary of being an adult in a world where the innocence and the naivete of our inner child are never welcome. And yet, where do we find the strength to go on? When our only friend dies, when we lose our jobs, when the expectations are too high and we simply are too small, where do we find the strength to go on?  Let's find out in this episode.  

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Author's Bio: Thanh Dinh graduated from the University of Toronto with distinction. Although she specialized in business management, her passion for writing and literature can burn down a whole forest. She had joined the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of Toronto and achieved a full grade and recognition from her mentor and professor, Richard Greene. As a literary enthusiast, her reading list spans across the globe - from North America's famous writers like Hemingway and Faulkner to the lesser-known Asian authors like Kenzaburo Oe and Yukio Mishima. Heavily influenced by the poets' tireless search for a cure to solitude, she resorts to solving that question using words and tiny stories to show the beauty of the living world and the scars of life's surviving veterans.  

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In this podcast, José Saramago's lesser-known yet still widely popular novel, "All The Names," is laid bare with thoughts and feelings. All the names lead to all the lives; all the lives lead to all the stories, and they all start with a little persistent curiosity, a tiny piece of melted paper, and a little life. In fact, it is the littlest life at work: a cog in the wheel. And yet, how precious it is, how strong the yearning, and how strong it is.  ******************************** 

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Author's Bio: Thanh Dinh graduated from the University of Toronto with distinction. Although she specialized in business management, her passion for writing and literature can burn down a whole forest. She had joined the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of Toronto and achieved a full grade and recognition from her mentor and professor, Richard Greene. As a literary enthusiast, her reading list spans across the globe - from North America's famous writers like Hemingway and Faulkner to the lesser-known Asian authors like Kenzaburo Oe and Yukio Mishima. Heavily influenced by the poets' tireless search for a cure to solitude, she resorts to solving that question using words and tiny stories to show the beauty of the living world and the scars of life's surviving veterans.  #literary #bookreview #milankundera #mentalhealth #iterarydiscussion #booksummary

A short discussion on Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." A longer discussion on what is considered lightness and heaviness, what constitutes weakness and strength. Most important of all, a discussion of the heart - broken ones and wretched, yes, but a beating heart nonetheless - and how the light gets in.  ******************************** Send all your stories to be featured: [email protected] Follow me on Instagram: @bipolar_psyche See what books I am up to: https://www.facebook.com/thebipolarpsyche/Subscribe to the channel, Radio of Resistance, for the latest updates on the literary discussion podcasts.  *********************************  Author's Bio: Thanh Dinh graduated from the University of Toronto with distinction. Although she specialized in business management, her passion for writing and literature can burn down a whole forest. She had joined the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of Toronto and achieved a full grade and recognition from her mentor and professor, Richard Greene. As a literary enthusiast, her reading list spans across the globe - from North America's famous writers like Hemingway and Faulkner to the lesser-known Asian authors like Kenzaburo Oe and Yukio Mishima. Heavily influenced by the poets' tireless search for a cure to solitude, she resorts to solving that question using words and tiny stories to show the beauty of the living world and the scars of life's surviving veterans.  #literary #bookreview #milankundera #mentalhealth #iterarydiscussion #booksummary

An episode dedicated to the nurses and doctors at the frontline, fighting their lives off to protect the civilians against the pandemic, as Leonard Cohen would have done with his words, verses, and songs. From "Happens to the Heart" to "Book of Longing," Leonard Cohen's main purpose in life, as many other writers who have been through wars and crossed the border of dying, is to tell the tales of the broken and the lame. True, none of us knows that we have the permission to murder and to maim, the most important lesson remains thus: we are privileged with the freedom of choice, the freedom of thinking, and the freedom to act with consequences. And this episode, as with many other episodes, will talk about the consequences.