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We're talking today to linguist and grant writer Kenzie Grubitz Simpson about folklore, the power of embodiment and language—and even the weather! 

Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay.

Episode artwork: Virginia Frances Sterret (cropped). Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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David Abram 
The Spell of the Sensuous                         

Theodor Adorno

Daniel Allison
House of Legends podcast

Daniel Allison
Scottish Myths & Legends                       

J. L. Austin
How to Do Things with Words           

Beowulf


Svetlana Boym

Paul Celan 

Raymond Chandler                             
Red Wind

Susanna Clarke                                   
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Aleister Crowley

John Crowley                                      
The Aegypt Cyle 

John Crowley
Ka                                                       

John Crowley
Little, Big                                             

Terrence Deacon

Jacques Derrida                                  

Joan Didion                                        
"The Santa Anas"

Merlin Donald
A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness

Moshe Feldenkrais                              

Aris Fioretos, ed.
Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan        

Allen Grossman
True-Love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing

Che Guevara

Werner Herzog                                   
Grizzly Man

Hildegarde of Bingen

Samuel Johnson/ James Boswell
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland / The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Alfred Kroeber

George Lakoff / Mark Johnson
Metaphors We Live By

Urusla K. Le Guin
"The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction"  

Urusla K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea

Urusla K. Le Guin
Buffalo Gals

Urusla K. Le Guin
Tales from Earthsea

Urusla K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness

Urusla K. Le Guin
The Other Wind

Urusla K. Le Guin
The Telling

Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook

John Sayles
The Secret of Roan Inish

Viktor Shklovsky
Knight's Move

Denis Villeneuve
Arrival

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Frances A. Yates
The Art of Memory

William Tell