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bookfareSpring Break ReadsKatherine and Ashley discuss their fav vacation reads just in time for spring break.
Books mentioned in the episode
Katherine’s current reads:
Redwood Court by DeLana RA Dameron
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ashley’s current reads:
Passing by Nella Larsen
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsen
Book News:
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (to be published in September)
One Day by David Nichols
Reads like an HBO mini series:
The In...
2024-03-071h 18
bookfareSpring Break ReadsKatherine and Ashley discuss their fav vacation reads just in time for spring break.
Books mentioned in the episode
Katherine’s current reads:
Redwood Court by DeLana RA Dameron
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ashley’s current reads:
Passing by Nella Larsen
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsen
Book News:
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (to be published in September)
One Day by David Nichols
Reads like an HBO mini series:
The In...
2024-03-071h 18
The Harper’s PodcastFrom the Audio Archive: Rachel KushnerToday we’re rerunning an episode from 2018 featuring two interviews with Harper’s Magazine’s former New Books columnist, Lidija Haas, and with our current Easy Chair columnist Rachel Kushner. Listen in advance of our event tonight at the Center for Fiction, “What Happened to Gen X?,” which will see Harper’s editor Christopher Beha in conversation with his generational peers Rachel Kushner and Ethan Hawke as they explore the question at the center of our September issue.
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee—and Brett Kavanaugh’s irate response—was an excruciating bit of political theater, c...
2023-09-1857 minThe Harper’s PodcastHamed EsmaeilionIsolated for years by strict censorship laws, community infighting, and language barriers, the writer Amir Ahmadi Arian often turned to Hamed Esmaeilion’s work for solace. In addition to authoring short stories and two novels, Esmaeilion chronicled mundane moments with his family on a blog that resonated deeply with Arian, someone of the same generation also working and living in the Iranian diaspora. Following the tragic death of Esmaeilion’s wife and daughter in the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 in 2020, Arian witnessed his friend publicly mourn his family and transform his fury into action. Arian sat down with Christopher Beha, the...
2023-09-1148 minThe Harper’s PodcastGeneration XIn his September cover story for Harper’s, Justin E. H. Smith sets out to define Generation X, that nameless cohort wedged between boomers and millennials whose members, in midlife, now face “an annihilation of almost everything that once oriented us.” Smith argues that Gen X, having come of age before the erosion of fixtures like liberal democracy and rock and roll, failed to protect postwar counterculture from commercialism and corporatization. As debates about art and politics loom large today, Smith affirms the essential link between the two while championing what he identifies as his generation’s core pursuit of artistic...
2023-08-2944 minThe Harper’s PodcastThe Lost ChildIn the spring of 2001, Benjamin Hale’s six-year-old cousin went missing in the Arkansas Ozarks, prompting one of the largest search-and-rescue missions in Arkansas history. Her miraculous discovery is a story in itself, but in a long Folio for the current issue of Harper’s Magazine, Hale also tells of the loss of another young girl in the same woods, decades prior, that seems eerily connected to his cousin’s. In conversation with Harper’s editor, Christopher Beha, Hale tackles questions of belief raised by a sequence of events so uncanny that they have prompted listeners—as well as those intimately...
2023-08-1435 minThe Harper’s PodcastJoyce Carol OatesIn “The Return,” Joyce Carol Oates’s story for the latest issue of Harper’s Magazine, a woman visits an old friend whose husband has recently died, only to discover that the nature of her friend’s grief is more chilling than she could have imagined. Oates is joined by her former student Christopher Beha, the editor of Harper’s, to discuss the connections between writing and teaching, and between writing and time. Revisiting stories by Jorge Luis Borges, John Updike, and more, they consider the ghosts that haunt Oates’s story, the ghosts that haunt fiction, and the ghosts we would argue...
2023-08-0842 min
Beyond the DeskQ&A With Liam CallananWAPL librarian Sarah talks with Liam Callanan about his latest novel, When in Rome. It’s about a woman who must choose between the chance to save a struggling convent and a life with her old flame. Plus, Sarah and Callanan talk about Paris, Milwaukee and Wisconsin State Fair cream puffs.
Titles discussed in this episode include: When in Rome, Paris by the Book, The Cloud Atlas and All Saints by Liam Callanan.
Also mentioned: The podcast The Bittersweet Life, Ninth House and Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo, What Happened to Sophie Wilder by Christopher Be...
2023-02-2435 min
The Harper’s PodcastKate DiCamilloKate DiCamillo—the author of Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, The Beatryce Prophecy, and many other novels—speaks with Harper’s Magazine editor Christopher Beha about discovering her vocation in children’s literature. DiCamillo discusses how her writing for children is shaped by a sense of responsibility toward them, and what children’s literature can offer to adults. Rather than trading on double entendres and other devices that enliven children’s stories for the parent reading at the bedside, DiCamillo recovers a child’s sense of magic for adult readers—one that isn’t displaced into a realm of fantasy.
Read “...
2022-12-0635 min
Close Reads Podcast HQChris Beha Shares the Books He Loves“Christopher Beha is one of the most talented young writers at work today.” —Jess Walter, author of Beautiful RuinsThis episode’s guest is Chris Beha, author of one of my favorite recent novels, The Index of Self Destructive Acts, which was nominated for the 2020 National book award and is one of the best books about people talking about ideas.Beha is also the author of a memoir, The Whole Five Feet, and the novels Arts & Entertainments and What Happened to Sophie Wilder. Plus, he is the editor of Harper’s Magazine, one of the most consist...
2022-06-2456 min
The Goldberry Books PodcastChris Beha Shares the Books He Loves“Christopher Beha is one of the most talented young writers at work today.” —Jess Walter, author of Beautiful RuinsThis episode’s guest is Chris Beha, author of one of my favorite recent novels, The Index of Self Destructive Acts, which was nominated for the 2020 National book award and is one of the best books about people talking about ideas.Beha is also the author of a memoir, The Whole Five Feet, and the novels Arts & Entertainments and What Happened to Sophie Wilder. Plus, he is the editor of Harper’s Magazine, one of the most consist...
2022-06-2456 min
Sacred and Profane LoveEpisode 49: Christopher Beha on Lucky PerIn this episode, I speak with the writer, editor, and critic, Christopher Beha, about the Danish bildungsroman by Henrik Pontoppidan, Lucky Per. We focus on Per’s struggle to escape from those aspects of his life that are not chosen—family, religion, place—his quest to understand himself, to love other people, and to live a life that is truly happy and free. Along the way, we discuss reviews of the novel by James Wood and Morten Hoi Jensen, and we give our own diagnosis of why Per fails to be either happy or free.
I hope you enjoy our conversa...
2022-05-201h 41
Sacred and Profane LoveEpisode 49: Christopher Beha on Lucky PerIn this episode, I speak with the writer, editor, and critic, Christopher Beha, about the Danish bildungsroman by Henrik Pontoppidan, Lucky Per. We focus on Per’s struggle to escape from those aspects of his life that are not chosen—family, religion, place—his quest to understand himself, to love other people, and to live a life that is truly happy and free. Along the way, we discuss reviews of the novel by James Wood and Morten Hoi Jensen, and we give our own diagnosis of why Per fails to be either happy or free. I hope...
2022-05-201h 41
Mozgová Atletika35. Zhulený behomNové vedecké poznatky o behu Ako začať behať bez utrpenia Dôležitosť “nečinnosti” Benefity behu, o ktorých si nepočul Bežecká výzva + súťaž ---------------------- Ak ti v náš podcast prináša pridanú hodnotu a chceš bonusovú časť epizódy (a mnohé iné výhody) môžeš nás podporiť na Patreone tu: Patreon ---------------------- Aplikácia na behanie sa volá STRAVA a do našej bežeckej skupiny (Mozgoví atléti) sa môžeš prihlásiť tu: https://www.strava.com/clubs/mozgovaatletika Top4 Running Shop ...
2022-02-0123 minMozgová Atletika35. Zhulený behomNové vedecké poznatky o behu Ako začať behať bez utrpenia Dôležitosť “nečinnosti” Benefity behu, o ktorých si nepočul Bežecká výzva + súťaž ---------------------- Ak ti v náš podcast prináša pridanú hodnotu a chceš bonusovú časť epizódy (a mnohé iné výhody) môžeš nás podporiť na Patreone tu: Patreon ---------------------- Aplikácia na behanie sa volá STRAVA a do našej bežeckej skupiny (Mozgoví atléti) sa môžeš prihlásiť tu: https://www.strava.com/clubs/mozgovaatletika Top4 Running Shop ...
2022-02-0123 min
Ethics and Culture CastEpisode 63: Christopher BehaChristopher Beha is the author of a memoir, The Whole Five Feet, and the novels Arts & Entertainments and What Happened to Sophie Wilder. His latest novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, was nominated for the 2020 National Book Award. He is the editor of Harper’s Magazine.Special Guest: Christopher Beha.Links:Author's Homepage: Christopher BehaThe Index of Self Destructive Acts — Longlisted for the National Book Award
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, The Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and BuzzFe...
2021-11-1934 minThe Harper’s PodcastThomas Chatterton WilliamsThomas Chatterton Williams is an expatriate writer and a former Harper’s Magazine Easy Chair columnist. He joins editor in chief Christopher Beha to discuss his essay, “Continental Divide,” in which Williams travels to Leukerbad, Switzerland, to retrace James Baldwin’s journey in “Stranger in the Village.” The two reflect on the rewarding perspectives gained from living outside one’s home country, and survey the souring relationship between the United States and France.
Read Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village”:
https://harpers.org/archive/1953/10/stranger-in-the-village/
Read Williams’s “Continental Divide”: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/10/continental-divide-stranger-in-the-village/
Read Williams’s final column for Harper’s: https://harper...
2021-11-1532 min
Sinica PodcastJournalist Te-Ping Chen on her short fiction collection, Land of Big NumbersThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Wall Street Journal correspondent Te-Ping Chen to talk about her just-released collection of short fiction, Land of Big Numbers: Stories. Featuring 10 short stories all set in China or featuring Chinese characters, it showcases both the author’s keen eye for detailed observation and her imaginative powers and offers an unfailingly empathetic look at China from a wide range of disparate angles. Te-Ping even reads a passage from one short story, “Lulu,” which was previously published in The New Yorker.10:51: A real-life inspiration for her fiction28:30: A reading from “...
2021-02-1853 min
The Best Hang PodcastSeason 1 Mike On Much: Christopher Beha (#138)Mike, Max, and Shane discuss recent chaos in the stock market as they attempt to understand what went down. Then, they welcome feature guest and the author of “The Index of Self-Destructive Acts,” Christopher Beha, for a conversation about his process, influences, and why he decided to leave Twitter. Lastly, Shane's Surprise involves a hair salon changing its designation to a Film Studio in order to stay open during lockdown.Produced in association with Much Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-02-011h 27
Sacred and Profane LoveSacred and Profane Love Episode 26: St. Augustine and the Index of Self-Destructive ActsIn this episode, I talk with philosopher Jamie Smith (Calvin College) about St. Augustine and Christopher Beha’s latest novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. Our conversation covers the surprising connections between St. Augustine and the existentialists–most especially Albert Camus–and how St. Augustine can help us understand the gap between what we long for and the finite world that we are situated in.
2021-01-111h 02
I Like to ReadPlain Bad Heroines, Memorial, and Clap When You LandWatch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XFeTP3SAGXgBOOKS MENTIONED:“Plain Bad Heroines” by Emily M. Danforthhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50496875-plain-bad-heroines?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Wo31HkHiYK&rank=1“Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema” by Lindy Westhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998099-shit-actually?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=uN6qFHDHKg&rank=1“Memorial” by Bryan Washingtonhttps...
2020-11-1521 min
The Greenlight Bookstore PodcastEpisode QS23: Peter Cameron + Christopher Beha (October 29, 2020)Peter Cameron joins Greenlight discusses his atmospheric, suspenseful new novel What Happens at Night with mutually admired fellow author Christopher Beha of Harper's Magazine. They discuss how Cameron create the dreamlike mood of his fiction, the potential for fiction to transport the reader, and whether writers have an obligation to engage with social issues, as well as Cameron's recurring motifs of grandmothers, strange cities, and hotels, among others. Recorded August 18, 2020.
2020-10-2959 min
The Englewood Review of Books PodcastEpisode 6: Karen Swallow Prior & John Wilson (Reading Under Quarantine, Part 2) and a Special AnnouncementAfter a special announcement about the future of the podcast, Jen continues the conversation about "reading under quarantine," with two very special guests: John Wilson and Karen Swallow Prior. They discuss what their reading experience is like right now in this disorienting time, and what types of books and authors they're gravitating towards.Books mentioned in this episode:How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church by C. Christopher SmithOn Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books by Karen Swallow PriorSpacefarers: How Humans Will Settle the Moon, Mars...
2020-06-0132 minThe Harper’s PodcastTests of TimeThe June issue marks the 170th anniversary of Harper’s Magazine. As Harper’s editor Christopher Beha notes in his new column, Editor’s Desk, the magazine has published “more than two thousand issues, few of them produced under such challenging circumstances.” In this episode, web editor Violet Lucca speaks with Beha about the challenges of creating a magazine while the world is on lockdown, as well as the larger question of how to begin processing the enormity of this pandemic and its economic and political fallout.
Read Beha’s column: https://harpers.org/archive/2020/06/tests-of-time-covid-19/
This episode was produced by Violet Lu...
2020-05-2226 min
The Lonely PaletteBonus - Open Source, "The Bauhaus In Your House," ft. The Lonely PaletteThe Lonely Palette is on break until November 2019, so every Wednesday in October, a different Hub & Spoke producer will take the host's chair to present an episode of their show that Tamar is especially fond of. Enjoy this month's podcast petri dish of art, culture, history, and society, and subscribe to any and all Hub & Spoke shows at www.hubspokeaudio.org.This week:Open Source with Christopher Lydon is a local conversation with global attitude. "The Bauhaus in Your House," which originally aired on 90.9 WBUR in April 2019, is an exploration of art, architecture, and design with T...
2019-10-0950 min
The Lonely PaletteHiatusEp 0.2 - Hub & Spoke Presents: Open SourceThe Lonely Palette is on break until November 2019, so every Wednesday in October, a different Hub & Spoke producer will take the host's chair to present an episode of their show that Tamar is especially fond of. Enjoy this month's podcast petri dish of art, culture, history, and society, and subscribe to any and all Hub & Spoke shows at www.hubspokeaudio.org.
This week:
Open Source with Christopher Lydon is a local conversation with global attitude. "The Bauhaus in Your House," which originally aired on 90.9 WBUR in April 2019, is an exploration of art, architecture, and design with Tamar Avishai, Peter Chermayeff...
2019-10-0950 minThe Harper’s PodcastIs Poverty Necessary?Common sense seems to dictate that the rise of automation will bring about the economic demise of the working class. But need this be true? This assumption draws on a history of economic thought, from Malthus to Marx, that accepts laws such as the labor theory of value and the iron law of wages—laws that imply poverty as a necessary consequence—as inevitable. In the June issue of Harper’s Magazine, Marilynne Robinson examines this history. Drawing upon Henry George’s Progress and Poverty, she explores economic theories that might support alternate modes of creating and distributing wealth across society...
2019-06-0535 minOpen Source with Christopher LydonThe Bauhaus in Your HouseA conversation on art, architecture, and design with Tamar Avishai, Peter Chermayeff, Ann Beha, and Sebastian Smee. Bauhaus was the art school in Germany that created the look of the twentieth century. We just live ... The post The Bauhaus in Your House appeared first on Open Source with Christopher Lydon .
2019-04-1200 min
Espai llibres – Ràdio MaricelRecomanacions post Sant JordiAmb Rosanna Lluch fem balanç de la diada de Sant Jordi, i afegim noves recomanacions: El jilguero de Dona Tartt, Dias de Nevada de Bernardo Atxaga, Primera temporada d’Enric Pardo i Qué fue de Sophie Wilder? de Christopher R. Beha.
Escolteu-ho
https://continguts.radiomaricel.cat/continguts/2014/04/30/llib_30042014.mp3
L'entrada Recomanacions post Sant Jordi ha aparegut primer a Radio Maricel.
2014-04-3000 min