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Hello everyone! September was my birthday month, so I played around with Science Fiction a lot, as I can! And in this, unlocked Writers' Desk episode I chat about the relationship between creating a Future, and our own views and understanding of Past and Present.

It was really fun, and really cool too, enjoy!

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Hello everyone! Hope you've been looking forward to this month's full release episode! This time, Solarpunk! In this episode I have an excellent interview and conversation with Justine Norton-Kertson, Editor-in-chief of Solarpunk Magazine.

We had a wonderful chat on imagining the future, solarpunk literature, hope, and how writing a different, better future, is just as good and important, along with being a welcome breath of fresh air. Enjoy!

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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A brief announcement on a few changes I'm going to make for my own health and care, while preserving the show and making sure it keeps going good and interestingly

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In this episode I delve into the Cyberpunk genre for the first time, talking about William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer in particularly! I explore quite bit over how there is much more to Cyberpunk than pure aesthetics. In terms of critique, genre, and possibility, there is more to it being done, and that can be done with it, along with elaborating these questions of the genre and how we can think and critique it.

I don't go over everything there is in it, but I certainly go over some of the big questions and even sneak in a bit about AI which was good fun too, enjoy!

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Intro & Background Music: Oblivion, by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio. Check them out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-wKcIkElIc

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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In this incredible episode and collaboration, me and Brett, from Revolutionary Left Radio chat about the Don DeLillo novel "White Noise". We talked about some of its many questions of life, death, along with both the reflections it brings and its issues. We even dive into its genre as a "postmodern novel", matters of climate disaster and on irony as an effective tool, or not, to communication and literature now.

It was a great time and episode, with an amazing comrade and one of the best podcasters out there. This was a great honour and an absolutely fantastical time! So we hope you enjoy it too!

Follow and support Brett and RevLeftRadio along with its sister shows, Red Menace and Guerrilla History however you can!!

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Just a few words on the disasters and the crimes and the losses of Brazilian culture.

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Hello listeners! In this new episode I have an interesting chat about the 1958 Italian novel, "The Leopard", by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa! I make considerations on aristocracy, changes and power, along with some of my own questions of how to do historical interpretation and analysis of fiction. It's a good chat on a good novel too, and hopefully I shared some interesting elements of those questions, allowing further deep dives and considerations. Enjoy! If you can, please support us on Patreon, where you can find our Reading Corners and Writer's Desks! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage Songs throughout: 3 Gymnopédies (1890), 6 Gnossiennes (1889-1897), 2 Préludes du Nazaréen (1892). Erik Satie

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In this episode I am joined by the excellent Alessandra Pino to talk about the 1958 short story by Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen), Babette's Feast! We talk about food, gothic food, its power as a means of memory and communication, along with the larger matter of the Paris Commune, some of its history and the relationship with food, both in the story and in reality. It's a lot of fun! Enjoy!

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Allie's Romancing The Gothic lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8v8PDwHFhM

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello everyone! In this episode I am joined by the incredible scholar Maeva Chargros to talk about the fascinating Nordic Noir, both as a genre and some of its histories and properly diving into not one example, but two! As we talk about Henning Mankell's Before the Frost and Stieg Larsson's first book of the Millenium series! CW for violence, mutilation, sexual assault, rape, animal cruelty Do take care with the warnings, but it is still a very good and interesting episode that we hope you enjoy all the same on violence, abuse, and more on these Nordic societies, via these powerful and painful books. Maeva's Twitter @Hellawyn Her Romancing the Gothic Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBW5_x9q8xU

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Downtime, Vistas, Miracle of Sound, 2014 -> Check out his Bandcamp! https://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/

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Hello all! This is my trial run at the new Patreon content I've been cooking up, The Writer's Desk! Simply put, I want to think about the relationship between fiction and politics from the point of view of a writer well... writing it! It is a question or a larger field that I reflect on a lot, and might be something interesting to work on and share here too! Do let me know what you think and find of it if you can! This will be replacing the Poetry Club as our $5 tier bonus, and I hope you enjoy it! Please support our Patreon if you're interested and can support me! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage

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