Our wide-ranging conversation with poet and library fan Ollie Shane covers European history, contemporary poetry, Somerset Maugham, and more!
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.
Episode artwork: Student at the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1981 (cropped). Image with no known copyright restrictions courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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Theodor Adorno et al.
Aesthetics and Politics
Richard Aldrich
Colonialism and Homosexuality
Joseph Barbera & William Hanna
The Jetsons
Antony Beevor
The Second World War
Walter Benjamin
"The Work of Art in the Mechanical Age of Reproduction"
Bertolt Brecht
Love Poems
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children
Richard Burton
"The Terminal Essay"
CAConrad
While Standing in Line for Death
Oscar Chan
Nazi Titanic
Chris-Chan (Christine Weston Chandler)
Len Deighton
Winter
Jacques Derrida
Specters of Marx
Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle
Charles Dickens
Caroline Elkins
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Caroline Elkins
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
Tan Twan Eng
The House of Doors
Bob Fosse
Cabaret
Veit Harlan
Jud Süss
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
Selina Hastings
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography
Fritz Hippler
The Eternal Jew
Martin Jay
Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure
François Jullien
In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics
Philip Kerr
Berlin Noir
Philip Kerr
Hitler's Peace
Chris Kraus
I Love Dick
Chris Kraus
Where Art Belongs
Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts
Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
Bad Gays podcast
Janna Levin
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
Gabriel García Márquez
Until August
Airea D. Matthews
Bread and Circus
W. Somerset Maugham
The Narrow Corner
W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
Ted Morgan
Maugham: A Biography
Russell Nieli
Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language
Luis Puenzo
The Official Story
Assotto Saint
Sacred Spells: Collected Works
Diane Seuss
Four-Legged Girl
Diane Seuss
Frank: Sonnets
Diane Seuss
Modern Poetry
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Ollie Shane
I Do It So It Feels Like Hell
Ollie Shane
Notes from the Void
Danez Smith
Bluff
Frank Spotnitz (creator)
The Man in the High Castle (series)
Torquato Tasso
Jerusalem Delivered (esp. Anthony M. Esolen translation)
Morten Tyldum
The Imitation Game
Michael Verhoeven
The Nasty Girl
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Parzifal
Michael Warner
Publics and Counterpublics
Bill Watterson
Calvin and Hobbes
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
