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Ledger: A Writing Podcast038: Andre Dubus III - Author, "House of Sand and Fog," "Townie," "Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin"Andre Dubus III is the author of HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, TOWNIE, DIRTY LOVE, SUCH KINDNESS, and more, along with his newest, GHOST DOGS: ON KILLERS AND KIN, a collection of essays.
A previous episode, "The Most Important Question a Writer Can Ask," covers an appearance of Andre's at Politics & Prose when he gave some advice on writing that deeply affected me. This episode continues that trend.
Andre discusses the impulse toward fiction versus non-fiction, and how his head does or doesn’t make that distinction; how he came to teaching and what it me...2025-06-181h 05
A Word on WordsGhost Dogs - Andre Dubus IIIAndre Dubus III navigates adulthood with diverse experiences: from chasing a drug lord in Mexico to confronting privilege in New York City. In GHOST DOGS, Dubus's book of essays, he reflects on personal growth, struggles with masculinity, and the power dynamics of gun ownership. 2025-06-0223 min
The Culture Show PodcastNovember 4, 2024 - The Ufot Family Cycle and Andre Dubus IIIGrowing up in Southbridge, Massachusetts the acclaimed playwright Mfoniso Udofia rarely saw stories about Africans and African Americans that felt true to her own family. Inspired in part by August Wilson’s Century Cycle, she set out to create a cycle of nine plays that follows one Nigerian American family through three generations. Titled the Ufot Family Cycle, all nine of those plays will be produced as part of a two-year city-wide festival in Greater Boston. Led by the Huntington Theatre Company, a wide range of local cultural organizations will collaborate on the project. With the first play...2024-11-0449 min
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Andre Dubus IIIBill revisits his conversation with Andre Dubus last year after his release of Such Kindness.Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie, a #4 New York Times bestseller and a New York Times "Editors Choice". His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies, and his novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and was made into an Academy Award-nominated film...2024-09-0527 min
Books with BetsyBathing in Darkness with Sam WilmesBathing in Darkness with Sam Wilmes
Episode 1
On this episode, Sam Wilmes and I discuss reading dark books including Stephen King, horror, and dark literary fiction. We find her book ick, a new-to-me source of books, and books that connect anxiety and depression and humor.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
A Better World by Sarah Langan
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
Books Highlighted by Sam:
...2024-05-1347 min
Spiritual But Not ReligiousEpisode 14: Awakening to Life's Sacred Moments: Journeying Through "Wake Up Call" with Tom RapsasFor the video version of this episode, go to: https://youtu.be/_iUn3yOo0yw In this episode of "Spiritual but Not Religious" with Jill Dominguez, we delve into the profound insights of Wake Up Call by Tom Rapsas. Tom's journey mirrors many of our own as he navigates a departure from the confines of organized religion toward a more expansive spiritual understanding. Through his exploration of various traditions and thinkers, Tom shares with us the realization that true wisdom transcends any single belief system or authority.______________Links:About Tom Rapsas and...2024-05-0717 min
Know Your EnemyAgainst Despair (w/ Christian Wiman)This conversation is a little different. We wanted to take a break from the election-year political jousting to talk to the poet Christian Wiman about Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair, one of the most singular books published in recent memory—part memoir, part commonplace book, part poetry collection. As with his previous My Bright Abyss, Wiman, more than any other contemporary Christian writer, manages to shake off our culture's desiccated religious tropes to write and talk about matters of ultimate concern in ways that are bracing, even exhilarating. How does poetry tap into reality, or, even be...2024-04-271h 08
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The Basketball Diaries - Jim Carroll
Cruddy - Linda Barry
Hairstyles of the Dammed - Joe Meno
American Skin - Don De Grazia
Meditations from a Movable Chair - Andre Dubus
Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
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Currently reading and looking forward to
Sleeping with Friends - Emily Shultz
The Peer Effect...2024-04-041h 03
Busy BodyCreative Fitness with Writer (and my half-brother), Andre Dubus IIIFitness runs in my family, as does insomnia, anxiety and self punishment. I’m thrilled I was finally able to get my exceptionally talented, exceptionally busy half-brother scheduled for an interview. His ongoing relationship with his body and creative output was always part of my experience of what ‘working out’ meant. Instead of mirrored gyms and fancy lycra, fitness in my family was more often, self directed and self expressive… Andre gives us a beautiful, articulate story of his own experience of fitness. Both painful and liberating I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.Andre’...2024-03-271h 04
Grab: This Critically-Acclaimed Full Audiobook For Thriller Fans.Ghost Dogs by Andre Dubus IIIPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/2645to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Ghost Dogs
Author: Andre Dubus III
Narrator: Andre Dubus III
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
Release date: 03-27-24
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 9 ratings
Genres: Art & Literature
Publisher's Summary:
In Ghost Dogs, Dubus’s nonfiction prowess is on full display in his retelling of his own successes, failures, triumphs, and pain. In his longest essay, “If I Owned a Gun,” Dubus reflects on the empowerment and shame he felt in keeping a gun, and his decision, ultimately, to give it up. Elsewhere, he writes of a violent youth and of...2024-03-278h 47
Let Your Ears Discover the Magic of Full AudiobookGhost Dogs: On Killers and Kin Audiobook by Andre Dubus IIIListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 759611
Title: Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
Author: Andre Dubus III
Narrator: Andre Dubus III
Format: Unabridged
Length: 08:47:49
Language: English
Release date: 03-26-24
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Biography & Memoir
Summary:
From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments
During bright summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus IIIs grandfather taught him that mens work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a...2024-03-268h 47
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsGhost Dogs: On Killers and Kin by Andre Dubus IIIPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759611 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin Author: Andre Dubus III Narrator: Andre Dubus III Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 47 minutes Release date: March 26, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: From the literary master and best-selling author of Townie, reflections on a life of challenges, contradictions, and fulfillments During bright summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III’s grandfather taught him that men’s work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with privilege while living with a rich girlfriend in N...2024-03-2605 min
Tech, Innovation & Society - The Creative Process: Technology, AI, Software, Future, Economy, Science, Engineering & Robotics InterviewsThe Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights"I am deeply concerned about the digital world. My deep concern about the handheld is it's casting everybody to be in a trance, and it's taking from them the only thing we have, which is the present moment. Everyone's walking around in a state of continuous partial attention."Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His novel, House of Sand and Fog was...2024-03-1913 min
Tech, Innovation & Society - The Creative Process: Technology, AI, Software, Future, Economy, Science, Engineering & Robotics InterviewsExploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS IIIWhat can reading teach us about loss, healing, and survival? How can we transform anger into empathy? What can we learn from the creative act about turning personal setbacks into opportunities for self-discovery and growth?Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into an Acad...2024-03-1955 minSocial Justice & Activism - The Creative Process - Activists, Environmental, Indigenous Groups, Artists and Writers Talk Diversity, Equity and inclusionThe Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights"I was the boy whose hatred for bullies had become a hatred for injustice of all kinds–for imperialism and colonialism, for racism and poverty, for a world where cruelty and violence and oppression were rewarded with power and vast sums of money for the brutal for the brutal few at the expense of many."Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His no...2024-03-1913 minSocial Justice & Activism - The Creative Process - Activists, Environmental, Indigenous Groups, Artists and Writers Talk Diversity, Equity and inclusionExploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS IIIWhat can reading teach us about loss, healing, and survival? How can we transform anger into empathy? What can we learn from the creative act about turning personal setbacks into opportunities for self-discovery and growth?Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into an Acad...2024-03-1955 minPhilosophy, Ideas, Critical Thinking, Ethics & Morality: The Creative Process: Philosophers, Writers, Educators, Creative Thinkers, Spiritual Leaders, Environmentalists & BioethicistsThe Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights"The point of life is to be happy, and the way to be happy is to be a success. – It's horseshit. This is not the point of life. It's a lie. The second part is, you must be willing to fail. Not, oh, I'm going to tolerate a little bit of it. I am going to totally fail at this, but I'm still going to do it anyway."Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been incl...2024-03-1913 minPhilosophy, Ideas, Critical Thinking, Ethics & Morality: The Creative Process: Philosophers, Writers, Educators, Creative Thinkers, Spiritual Leaders, Environmentalists & BioethicistsExploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS IIIWhat can reading teach us about loss, healing, and survival? How can we transform anger into empathy? What can we learn from the creative act about turning personal setbacks into opportunities for self-discovery and growth?Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into an Acad...2024-03-1955 minEducation, The Creative Process: Educators, Writers, Artists, Activists Talk Teachers, Schools & CreativityThe Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights“And so I teach young people, and I find it immensely gratifying to do so, especially for those who've already found writing in their blood so young. I say, ‘Do you know how lucky you are to have found something that makes you feel so alive this early in your life? People live whole lives and never find it.’ ”Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritu...2024-03-1913 minEducation, The Creative Process: Educators, Writers, Artists, Activists Talk Teachers, Schools & CreativityExploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS IIIWhat can reading teach us about loss, healing, and survival? How can we transform anger into empathy? What can we learn from the creative act about turning personal setbacks into opportunities for self-discovery and growth?Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into an Acad...2024-03-1955 minFilm & TV, The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design, Talk Art & CreativityThe Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights"The character I wrote about in House of Sand and Fog was based on a former colonel and aeronautical engineer in the Shah's Air Force. I watched him work at a gas station. And on his days off, he'd put on his suit and look for better work. One night I'm helping him bring his groceries in, and he said in his thick Persian accent, "You know, I used to work with kings and presidents and prime ministers in my office by myself. Now, I'm serving candy and cigarettes to kids who don't even know who I am."2024-03-1913 minFilm & TV, The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design, Talk Art & CreativityExploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption w/ ANDRE DUBUS III - Author of House of Sand & FogWhat can reading teach us about loss, healing, and survival? How can we transform anger into empathy? What can we learn from the creative act about turning personal setbacks into opportunities for self-discovery and growth?Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into an Acad...2024-03-1955 minBooks & Writers: Novelists, Screenwriters, Poets, Journalists, Playwrights, Non-fiction Writers & Showrunners Talk Writing, Creativity & The Creative ProcessThe Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights"All creative writing is that act of reaching for the pieces to put it back together again. And with the memoir, the essay, it's human memory. Your memory for your own existence. With fiction, it’s a dream world where you're reaching for the shards. And I find it's so moving because that's what it feels like when I feel that I might be writing well. It's just uncovering and uncovering.Writing is a free fall into the writer's psyche, and if you want some clarity on what you believe, just write something sincere and emotionally naked and re...2024-03-1913 minBooks & Writers: Novelists, Screenwriters, Poets, Journalists, Playwrights, Non-fiction Writers & Showrunners Talk Writing, Creativity & The Creative ProcessExploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS IIIWhat can reading teach us about loss, healing, and survival? How can we transform anger into empathy? What can we learn from the creative act about turning personal setbacks into opportunities for self-discovery and growth?Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into an Acad...2024-03-1955 minBooks & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists, Screenwriters, Playwrights, Poets, Non-fiction Writers & Journalists Talk Writing, Life & CreativityThe Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights"All creative writing is that act of reaching for the pieces to put it back together again. And with the memoir, the essay, it's human memory. Your memory for your own existence. With fiction, it’s a dream world where you're reaching for the shards. And I find it's so moving because that's what it feels like when I feel that I might be writing well. It's just uncovering and uncovering.Writing is a free fall into the writer's psyche, and if you want some clarity on what you believe, just write something sincere and emotionally naked and re...2024-03-1913 minBooks & Writers · The Creative Process: Novelists, Screenwriters, Playwrights, Poets, Non-fiction Writers & Journalists Talk Writing, Life & CreativityExploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS IIIWhat can reading teach us about loss, healing, and survival? How can we transform anger into empathy? What can we learn from the creative act about turning personal setbacks into opportunities for self-discovery and growth?Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into an Acad...2024-03-1955 minThe Creative Process in 10 minutes or less · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Sustainability, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism, TechnologyThe Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III"If you want to check in and get some clarity on what you believe, I tell people, well, just write something really honest and emotionally naked and read it back to yourself, and you'll see a lot of what you believe, think, fear, regret, desire, etc.We always reveal ourselves in our work. The truth is, I identify far more with those on the outside than on the inside. And even though from the outside it looks like I'm on the inside – you know, I'm a successful author, professor, white, privileged, educated, straight male from the United St...2024-03-1913 min
The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism, Tech, SustainabilityThe Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights"If you want to check in and get some clarity on what you believe, I tell people, well, just write something really honest and emotionally naked and read it back to yourself, and you'll see a lot of what you believe, think, fear, regret, desire, etc.We always reveal ourselves in our work. The truth is, I identify far more with those on the outside than on the inside. And even though from the outside it looks like I'm on the inside – you know, I'm a successful author, professor, white, privileged, educated, straight male from the United St...2024-03-1913 min
The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film, Music, TV, Art, Writing, Creativity, Education, Environment, Theatre, Dance, LGBTQ, Climate Change, Social Justice, Spirituality, Feminism, Tech, SustainabilityExploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS IIIWhat can reading teach us about loss, healing, and survival? How can we transform anger into empathy? What can we learn from the creative act about turning personal setbacks into opportunities for self-discovery and growth?Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His work has been included in The Best American Essays and The Best Spiritual Writing anthologies. His novel, House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award and was made into an Acad...2024-03-1955 min
Secret Lives of the DisabledSuch Grace: Andre Dubus ll featuring Andrea Ivanov-Craig, PhD and Rev. Jep StreitMacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient , short story writer Andre Dubus ll, was hit by a car on a highway in Massachusetts @ age 50, sustaining disabling injuries that disabled him until his death 12 years later. Andrea Ivanov-Craig, author of Moving Toward Redemption: Spirituality & Disability in the Late Writings of Andre Dubus ll while Jep Streit was a participant in his weekly short story workshop for years. (The son of Andre Dubus ll, novelist Andre Dubus lll, is featured in Ep. 2 of this podcast Such Kindness.)2024-01-101h 07
Paternal#94 Andre Dubus III: Fighting To Get FreeAcclaimed author Andre Dubus III once wrote that he’s drawn to writing about “working class men who work with their hands … men up against it who only know one or two ways how to get free, both of which can hurt other people or themselves.” Dubus knows from experience. He grew up in the 1970s and 80s with a famous but notoriously absent father in the mill towns along the Merrimack River in Massachusetts, always eager to throw a punch if it proved his worth as a man. His experiences led to the celebrated memoir Townie, dubbed by one crit...2023-10-1137 min
The Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'MearaNow in Paperback: Andre Dubus IIIThis originally aired as Episode 54 on June 23, 2017.Andre Dubus III is the author of the memoir Townie and the novels The House of Sand and Fog and Such Kindness.Support: Patreon.com/cnfpodShow notes: brendanomeara.comNewsletter: Rage Against the AlgorithmSponsor: Liquid IV, promo code cnfSocial: @creativenonfictionpodcast on IG and Threads2023-10-0656 min
Live from the Book Shop: John Updike's GhostEP50: Dubus, Dudes, and a Racy AudiobookIndeed, it's our 50th episode, which is a wicked big deal, and Sam and Hannah are high on the successful Andre Dubus III event they have just completed, and so you get a recaap of that and some behind-the-scenes stuff (he is very charming; throws out Ezra Pound quotes off the top of his head), but no worries, we quickly move into talk of similar dude-lit writer Richard Ford's "Be Mine," the third Frank Bascombe book. It touches off a discussion of the "shitty dad" trope and the relative rarity of father-son stories in contemporary lit. Just because you're...2023-09-2242 min
Otherppl with Brad ListiAndre Dubus III on Family, Divorce, Fear, Poverty, Vigilante Justice, Writing as Salvation, and the DivineIn today's flashback, an outtake from Episode 549, my conversation with Andre Dubus III from October 2018.Dubus is the author of several books, including Dirty Love, The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog (a New York Times bestseller, Oprah's Book Club pick, and finalist for the National Book Award), and a memoir called Townie. Earlier this month, he published his latest novel, entitled Such Kindness, available now from W.W. Norton & Co.I spoke with Andre Dubus III as he was on tour for his novel Gone So Long.Air date: October 31, 2...2023-06-0923 min
Novelist SpotlightNovelist Spotlight #120: From the badlands to House of Sand and Fog with Andre Dubus IIIAndre Dubus III — bestselling author of nine books including “House of Sand and Fog,” “The Garden of Last Days,” “Bluesman” and the memoir “Townie” — is out with his latest novel, “Such Kindness.” Dubus was a finalist for the National Book Award (for “House of Sand and Fog”), has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, Two Pushcart Prizes, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in more than 25 languages, and he teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Fontaine, a modern dancer, and their t...2023-06-081h 20
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Andre Dubus IIIBill welcomes celebrated novelist Andre Dubus III to the show. Andre's books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His novel, Gone So Long, received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal and has been named on many “Best Books” lists, including selection for The Boston Globe’s “Twenty Best Books of 2018” and “The Best Books of 2018”, “Top 100”, Amazon. He has three new books out or forthcoming, his novel Such Kindness, June 2023, a collection of personal essays, Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, due winter 2024, and, as editor, Reaching...2023-06-0628 min
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, PsychologicalSuch Kindness by Andre Dubus IIIPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679307to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Such Kindness
Author: Andre Dubus III
Narrator: Andre Dubus III
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Release date: June 6, 2023
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2
Genres: Psychological
Publisher's Summary:
A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is maki...2023-06-0610h 53
Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, PsychologicalSuch Kindness by Andre Dubus IIIPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/679307 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Such Kindness Author: Andre Dubus III Narrator: Andre Dubus III Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 53 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is m...2023-06-0605 min
Book PublicThe Lonely Voice: 'Dancing After Hours' by Andre DubusIn "Dancing After Hours" by Andre Dubus, main character Emily is convinced she will never find love. At the tavern where she tends bar, she sees clearly the loneliness of other people. One night, that perception changes in the most unlikely of ways.2022-11-2038 min
Literally Delicious PodcastEpisode 8 - Persian Food from Andre Dubus' House of Sand and FogIn this week's episode, Nick talks House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III and gets nerdy about some crispy rice. We also make khorest bademjan from a recipe courtesy of a friend of the author that you can find in the Book Club Cookbook by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp. We hope you enjoy and that you keep listening to Literally Delicious!If you would like to suggest a meal (or beverage) from a work of literature for a future deep dive, send an email with the dish’s name, title of the literary wo...2022-04-1932 min
Manifesto!Episode 40: Flannery O'Connor versus Andre Dubus IIJake and Phil (finally) discuss Flannery O'Connor's Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction, alongside Andre Dubus II's short story Killings
The Manifesto:
Flannery O'Connor, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction
https://bscc.instructure.com/courses/4608/files/434937/download?download_frd=1
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrveIu0DdE
The Art:
Andre Dubus II, Killings
https://www.uww.edu/documents/library/ersearch/er/moore_g/moore_101/dubuskillings_101_moore.pdf2022-02-041h 28
The Pivotal Stories ProjectAndre Dubus III (Part 2)Today, we continue our conversation with Andre Dubus III. His novel House of Sand and Fog was a New York Times bestseller was made into an Oscar-nominated film. His memoir, Townie was also a New York Times bestseller, and his work has been nominated for a National Book Award and featured on countless Best of lists. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes. Andre also teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Today, Andre and I discuss violence and its evolution, both in h...2022-01-2645 minThe Pivotal Stories ProjectAndre Dubus III (Part 1)Andre Dubus III is the author of numerous works of fiction, including The Cage Keeper and Other Stories, The Garden of Last Days, Blues Man, and his most recent work of fiction, Gone So Long.His novel House of Sand and Fog was a New York Times bestseller and was made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connolly. His memoir, Townie, was also a bestseller and his work has been nominated for a National Book Award and featured on countless best-of lists.He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine A...2022-01-1946 min