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Keep It LegalMother's Day with Charla Aldous & Eleanor AldousFor this special Mother's Day episode, we sat down with acclaimed trial lawyer Charla Aldous and her daughter Eleanor Aldous on the heels of their $71.95M verdict against Walker Engineering. The mother-daughter legal team represented the family of a Texas electrician who was killed after a scissor lift on which he was working collapsed when a boom lift backed into it at an Irving Frito-Lay factory. The two discuss their strategy in securing this verdict and take a trip down memory lane. Ever wondered what its like to work with your mom? Listen to find ou...2024-05-0634 min
Edição de BolsoS2 E10 - All I Want For Christmas são sugestões de livros para oferecerGift guide de Natal do Edição de Bolso! Não queremos que os vossos presentes sejam um flop neste Natal e, portanto, deixamos a nossas sugestões de livros para oferecem a quem gostam. Bom episódio!
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“Small Things Like These” - Claire Keegan
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“Before The Coffee Gets Cold” - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
“Men Without Women” - Haruki Murakami
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” - Raymond Carver
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Auscast Literature ChannelEpisode 30: Chris Hammer thrills in “The Tilt” + Aldous Huxley; perennially prescientThe fates of three people from the 1940s, ‘70s and today collide in Chris Hammer’s thrilling new mystery, “The Tilt” - you won’t see it coming! + Prolific 20th century writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote everything from witty and malicious novels about the British literati to his still famous Utopian dystopia Brave New World, and later in his 50 year career went on to explore the world of psychedelic drugs. Annie Warburton explores the Huxley ouvre to understand why Huxley remains a classic. + Our random reader Chris also loves a good myster...2023-08-1543 min
TsundokuEpisode 30: Chris Hammer thrills in “The Tilt” + Aldous Huxley; perennially prescientThe fates of three people from the 1940s, ‘70s and today collide in Chris Hammer’s thrilling new mystery, “The Tilt” - you won’t see it coming! + Prolific 20th century writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote everything from witty and malicious novels about the British literati to his still famous Utopian dystopia Brave New World, and later in his 50 year career went on to explore the world of psychedelic drugs. Annie Warburton explores the Huxley ouvre to understand why Huxley remains a classic. + Our random reader Chris also loves a good myster...2023-08-1543 min
BookstackEpisode 79: Eleanor Herman and the Demonization of Women in PowerMisogyny in politics is as old as politics itself. But is there hope for progress? Eleanor Herman, author of Off With Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power, joins host Richard Aldous to talk about her new book. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.persuasion.community/subscribe2022-09-1622 min
A Need To Read#161 Novels to read this summerThis episode is a review of novels I’ve read recently that you might enjoy over the summer. I also discuss; why you should read classics, the trouble with falling asleep when you’re reading, remembering what you’ve read, thinking you’re insane, reading nihilist novels, and finding comfort in characters.
Books discussed
A Little Life - Hanya Yangaihara
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Siddartha by Herman Hesse
Damned by Chuck Palahniuk
Confederacy of Dunces by John O’Toole
A Brave New World by Aldous Hux...2022-04-1927 min
LIVRA-TE#04 - Eu Nunca... e revelações chocantes (Book Tag)Hoje trazemos mais uma book tag — uma espécie de quiz do BuzzFeed, só que aqui ninguém é um Tequila Sunrise nem um gelado de pistachio. No fundo, um Eu Nunca literário onde vão saber que a Rita lê livros com base na raiva e a Joana já escreveu fan fiction de Twilight (e ela era sempre a personagem principal, claro).
Livros mencionados neste episódio:
- Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (3:20)
- The Deal, Elle Kennedy (4:30)
- Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo (6:35)
- A Morte do Comendador, Haruki Murakami (8:35)
- Nine Perfect Strangers, Liane Moriarty (10:07)
- Second First Impressions, Sally Thorn...2021-11-1728 min
The Editor Life Podcast by DeVore EditorialOn Being a Writer-EditorToday we’re going to talk about being writer-editors and how being a writer affects your editing life (and how being an editor affects your writing life!).Topics discussed in this episode: -On identifying as both writer & editor [06:09]-Will being a writer intimidate or attract your Ideal Client? [08:31]-Both the writing and editing communities are so strong because of our love of words; we’re all readers [13:50]-If you’re a writer, editor, or writer-editor, you need to be a reader first [23:16]-Do you need to be writing ev...2020-12-211h 24
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)July 14, 2019 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt (Blurb, i.e. Educational Talk): "Times and Portents to Conjure Terror, Pay for Safety from War and Weather - Part 2" *Title and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - July 14, 2019 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)--{ "Times and Portents to Conjure Terror, Pay for Safety from War and Weather - Part 2" © Alan Watt }--
Long Winter Straight into Summer - Seeing Time in Different Ways - Reconstructing the Past; Understanding What People were Really Feeling -
Wage and Debt Slavery - Total Surveillance, Cameras in Trees - Movie, The Circle - Important to Experience Being Totally on Your Own -
A Sense of Real Freedom - Study of Occult; Necessity for Complete Silence from Man-Made Noises, Just the Sound of Nature, A Timeless
Feeling - The Poet Yeats on the Necessity for Total Silence from t...2019-07-1500 minCutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.rss Format)July 14, 2019 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt (Blurb, i.e. Educational Talk): "Times and Portents to Conjure Terror, Pay for Safety from War and Weather - Part 2" *Title and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - July 14, 2019 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)--{ "Times and Portents to Conjure Terror, Pay for Safety from War and Weather - Part 2" © Alan Watt }--
Long Winter Straight into Summer - Seeing Time in Different Ways - Reconstructing the Past; Understanding What People were Really Feeling -
Wage and Debt Slavery - Total Surveillance, Cameras in Trees - Movie, The Circle - Important to Experience Being Totally on Your Own -
A Sense of Real Freedom - Study of Occult; Necessity for Complete Silence from Man-Made Noises, Just the Sound of Nature, A Timeless
Feeling - The Poet Yeats on the Necessity for Total Silence from t...2019-07-151h 23
The Fringe of It#33 Catch UpThis week is a bit late, we’re really sorry, but are going by the motto: better late than never. Liv and I have a catch up, I act out my favourite scene from Four Weddings and A Funeral and Liv does a rendition of the Apprentice theme tune. All alongside the usual chat focused on shopping and TV. Shopping:Check Beret: https://www.asos.com/asos-design/asos-design-check-beret/prd/9801381Fred Aldous: https://www.fredaldous.co.uk/Rixo Erin Star Dress: https://www.rixo.co.uk/product/erin-mixed-star-dot/2018-11-1642 min
Tea or Books?Tea or Books? #45: Do Literary Prizes Affect Our Reading and The Heir vs All Passion SpentA heated conversation about literary prizes AND Vita Sackville-West. Roll up, roll up for episode 45!
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In the first half of this fortnight’s episode, we try to determine whether or not literary prizes affect our reading – which wanders off into a broader discussion of what we’re looking for from book prizes. It might get a bit controversial. And in the second half, we’re comparing two novels we love by Vita Sackville-West – The Heir and All Passion Spent.
Do let us know how you’d vote in...2017-10-0300 min