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