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Classicist and reader extraordinaire JC Boyle tells us about the Greeks, Ezra Pound, Thomas Bernhard, lending out your books, and so much more!

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

Episode artwork: Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy [cropped]. Wm. S. Kimball & Co., 1889. CC0 1.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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V. C. Andrews
Flowers in the Attic

Aristophanes
Peace

Aristotle

James Baldwin

Honoré de Balzac
The Unknown Masterpiece

Roland Barthes
Mythologies

The Beatles

Simone de Beauvoir
The Mandarins

Samuel Beckett

Saul Bellow

Andrei Bely
Petersburg

Ingmar Bergman

Lauren Berlant
Cruel Optimism

Thomas Bernhard
Concrete

Thomas Bernhard
Gathering Evidence & My Prizes

John Berryman
"Dream Song 14"

John Berryman
The Dream Songs

Roberto Bolaño
By Night in Chile

Brockport Writers Forum
John Berryman Interview

William F. Buckley

Ian Buruma
"Who Did Not Collaborate?" (on Jean-Paul Sartre)

Michael Cacoyannis
The Trojan Women

Julius Caesar

Albert Camus

Elias Canetti
Auto-da-Fé

Elias Canetti
Crowds and Power

Horacio Castellanos Moya

Marcus Porcius Cato

Catullus
The Complete Poetry, translated by Frank O. Copley

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Cicero

Coffee House Press

Criterion Collection

Confucianism

Dalkey Archive

Gilles Deleuze

Deborah Eisenberg

Nawal El Saadawi
The Nawal El Saadawi Reader

Euripides
Bacchae

Euripides
The Trojan Women

Jon Fosse
Septology

William Gaddis
Agapē Agape

Maxim Gorky

Stephen J. Gould

David Graeber / David Wengrow
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Grove Atlantic

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Memories of Underdevelopment

Mark Haber
Lesser Ruins

Mark Haber
Saint Sebastian's Abyss

John Haffenden
The Life of John Berryman

Byung-Chul Han
The Burnout Society

Heinrich Heine
"Die Lorelei"

Abbie Hoffman
Steal This Book

Homer

Gitta Honegger
Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian

Gary Indiana

James Joyce
Dubliners

Miranda July

John Maynard Keynes

Eugene Lim
Fog & Car

Literary Hub

Nicole Loraux
The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City

Nicole Loraux / Laura M. Slatkin / Gregory Nagy
Antiquities: Postwar French Thought vol. 3

Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain

Gaius Marius

Karl Marx

Søren Mau
A Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

Menander

Henry Miller
Black Spring

Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer

John Mullen
Great Poets in Their Own Words

Iris Murdoch
The Sea, The Sea

Mark Neocleous
Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police

New Directions

NYRB Classics

John O'Brien

Kenneth Patchen

Pamela Paul

Raoul Peck
Lumumba

Bob Perelman
The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky

Plato

Plutarch
Lives

Chad W. Post
"Remembering John O'Brien"
 
Ezra Pound
"Canto LXXXI"

Hannah Proctor
Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat

Marcel Proust

Gerard Reve
The Evenings

Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Ellen Rutten
Sincerity After Communism: A Cultural History

J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction

Sallust

Arno Schmidt

Ousmane Sembène
Xala

Socrates

Solon

Sophocles
Antigone

Scott Spillman
Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today

Benedict de Spinoza

Heiny Srour
The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived

Gertrude Stein

Bret Stephens

Rabrindrinath Tagore

Hunter S. Thompson

Thucydides

Leo Tolstoy

Leon Trostsky
The History of the Russian Revolution

Jean-Pierre Vernant

Pierre Vidal-Nauet

Gregor von Rezzori
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories

David Foster Wallace

Émile Zola

Louis Zukofsky