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Hello everyone! In our first episode as per our new way of doing things, I, Frank, have an incredible conversation with RS Benedict of the Rite Gud podcast! We wrap up a special double collab on Kurt Vonnegut, first on Breakfast of Champions for a bonus episode, and now for us with Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death!

In this excellent episode we talked about memory, war, fiction, how to portray memories and fictionalise the past and even on responsibility as writers! A good primer for this continued format along with an important and great talk all around!

You can find Rite Gud here: https://kittysneezes.com/category/podcast-3/rite-gud/

And their Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ritegud

Definitely recommend supporting them!!

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: La Valse, Maurice Ravel, 1920

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Hello everyone! This a special announcement from me, Frank, about some changes to the show, what I'm thinking and doing next. Don't you worry, The Left Page will continue strongly no matter what! All in all, I will carry us forward best I can, and I am sure that there will be excellent conversations, talks and ideas! I shall take this as an opportunity, and strive my hardest to do a good show and create excellent content for everyone!

My love and thanks to all of you! Frank

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Hello everyone! This is a short message for all from me Frank, as I consider and think back on 2020 and well... What is still the most important thing, what I'm after, what I need and what I seek. Hope. You can also find the text in full, here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45634475

Thank you for always listening, caring, and being here, through everything. 2020 would have been much worse without you, here's to more in 2021, to growth, to perseverance and love.

The Left Page

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Happy Holidays, a beautiful New Year and Merry Christmas all!! 2020 is almost done, but we are not! As a Holiday special we present to you a particularly festive story from Socialist writer and academic China Miéville! We are finally back, after too many technical and health issues, but back! We talked about copyright and Disney being evil, the idea of literature having greater potency than theory, and the necessity to do things! As such, here are recommendations and references mentioned on the episode! All of them are incredible and worth a listen: The short story: http://socialistreview.org.uk/291/tis-season

Coffee with Comrades: https://www.coffeewithcomrades.com/ https://coffeewithcomrades.com/episode-50-fuck-theory-do-shit

Horror Vanguard (with Jon & Ash): https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500

Labor Kyle's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRwzzq8hVdFjcNw_I9wZrVQ

All Gamers Are Bastards: https://soundcloud.com/agabpod

The Magnificast: https://soundcloud.com/themagnificast

Protean Pirate Radio: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/protean-pirate-radio/id1508589426

Protean Mag: https://proteanmag.com/

Working People Pod: https://workingpeople.libsyn.com/

Rebel Steps: https://rebelsteps.com/

Srsly Wrong: https://srslywrong.com/

Working Class History: https://workingclasshistory.com/

Little Red School House: https://littleredschoolhouse.libsyn.com/

Rite Gud: https://kittysneezes.com/category/podcast-3/rite-gud/

Red Menace: https://redmenace.libsyn.com/

And of course, RevLeftRadio: https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/

Please support our Patreon if you're interested and want to check out the Reading Corner and join the Poetry Club! https://www.patreon.com/leftpage

Intro Music: The Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1892

Outro Music: Christmas Eve / Sarajevo, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Christmas Eve and Other Stories, 1996

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Hello everyone! This time we experimented with something slightly different from our usual material, we talked a retelling from Nordic Mythology! In particular from Neil Gaiman's collection of it.

We focused on a particular one "The Mead of Poetry" and expanded wildly on art, creation, then onto the proper Left part of the show. Towards the violence involved in poetry and literature's world, and how understanding the world and the material conditions are invaluable to understanding the work itself. An attempted light talk delved Left, so par for the course, really! We hope you find it fun and interesting as well!

Shows mentioned during the episode:

Icy Sedgewick's Fabulous Folklore: https://www.stitcher.com/show/fabulous-folklore

The Magnificast's episode with Dominick Knowles from Protean Magazine: https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-magnificast/episode/communism-and-poetry-w-dominick-knowles-67331191

Check out Protean Magazine as well! https://proteanmag.com/

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Waking Every God, Pain of Salvation, Remedy Lane, 2002

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This episode marks the return of the Poetry Club for our $5 Patrons, and as a special way to keep you company during this hellish week. Also a way to share a bit of what we're planning for the Poetry Club and how to both do it and expand what we're doing, hopefully you'll find it interesting and will be engaged into joining the Patreon for it!

It's a very fun talk on a favourite poem of ours that we know intimately. We also both share quite a bit about us and our facing of life and times of the quarantine! It's a fantastic one!!

Read the poem here: https://fleursdumal.org/poem/224

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Happy Halloween everyone! We are once again joined by the spectacular Horror Vanguard to talk about an incredible work, Thomas Ligotti's 2002 novella (and two short stories) form My Work is Not Yet Done! We face corporate horror, how capitalism drains away all that makes us human and good, and what both is and means standing against this Ichor of Darkness.

It is a great and fascinating conversation as we both chat endlessly about how corporations and office jobs are demeaning and awful, but still find time to laugh and smile all the same. Once again, a powerful collab, by the best horror podcast about communism and best communist podcast about horror out there!

Check out the Horror Vanguard!

On Twitter @HorrorVanguard

SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500

And support them on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard

You can find us on Twitter @leftpagepod

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Intro Music: Danse Macabre, Camille Saint-Saëns, 1874

Outro Music: Reign of Fear, Apocalyptica, Shadowmaker, 2015

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Hello everyone! This time we approach a very dear short story from an incredible Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector. As we talk about "Love" we investigate the social conditions of the family and Brazilian middle class in the 1960s; how capitalism forces labour and work upon us as all meaning; the overwhelming power of an epiphany; and the important search for Revolutionary Love, and what that is. It is quite a wild and fun episode, making for a fascinating conversation, and one neither of us we'll forget anytime soon! We hope you enjoy it just a bit as much as we did as well, it is our continuous gift to you! The short story, in English: https://theoffingmag.com/fiction/love-amor/

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Gnossiene Nº 4, Erik Satie, 1891

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We are back again! So soon? You might ask, but it is all in the name of getting back on track with our scheduling!

This was an incredibly interesting episode to talk about Memory, History, the relation we establish with our lives and experiences... It was really insightful and a blast to do! So we hope you enjoy our brief conversation of Jorge Luis Borges' short story "Funes the Memorious".

The Short story if you'd care to read it! Short and fantastic! http://vigeland.caltech.edu/ist4/lectures/funes%20borges.pdf

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: Sea of Memory, Premiata Forneria Marconi, 35... e un minuto, 2007

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And once again, we are back! Chaos ensued for a bit, and my (Frank's) personal life got... intensely jumbled, but oh well. Here we are again, with a packed episode and an incredible collab with Roy from the Marxist Poetry Podcast!!

CW for sexual assault, abuse, pedophilia and a lot of gore.

We talk in this episode about Guy Endore's 1933 novel The Werewolf of Paris! An incredible and very intricate gothic story about violence, death, curses, and all set in the Paris Commune! Definitely a packed show, and hopefully a fun one at that!

You can find Roy and his work on:

https://twitter.com/MarxistPoetry

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marxist-poetry/id1473011608

You can find us on Twitter @leftpagepod

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Intro Music: Gymnopédie Nº1, Erik Satie, 1888

Outro Music: You're a Wolf, Sea Wolf, Leaves in the River, 2007

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