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The Book I HAD to WriteMatthew Specktor on hybrid memoir, Hollywood failure & that time Marlon Brando left a voicemailIn this episode, I talk with author and novelist about his recent hybrid memoir and cultural exploration, Always Crashing in the Same Car. We discuss his fascination with figures who faced creative crises in Hollywood, from F. Scott Fitzgerald, filmmaker Hal Ashby or musician Warren Zevon to more overlooked but similarly brilliant figures like Carole Eastman, the screenwriter of the 1970s classic Five Easy Pieces.We also explore the realities of growing up in LA, including being “celebrity-adjacent.” That’s perhaps best illustrated by the time Marlon Brando left an incredible monologue in the form of a voicem...
2024-07-3138 min
It's My Screen Time TooTween Dreams and Rescue Teams: American Girl Corinne Tan the Movie ReviewWe revisit the American Girl universe for the first time in years to watch American Girl: Corinne Tan The Movie. We may have struggled to find things to love in this short movie aimed at tweens, but you’d better believe we found a spot for podcast fave John Cho in our reimagined HBO casting.Previous episodes we mentionMaryellen: Extraordinary Christmas Review American Born Chinese Review Harriet the Spy Review Inventing the Perfect College Applicant from New York Magazine on January 29thThe Other Two available on MaxThey do still...
2024-03-1327 min
The Lives of WritersHeidi Julavits [Host: Kaycie Hall]On today's episode of The Lives of Writers, Kaycie Hall interviews Heidi Julavits.Kaycie Hall is the lead editor of our online journal Autofocus. She's also a writer and literary translator, whose work has appeared in Peach Mag, Neutral Spaces, Triangle House Review, and other journals. Heidi Julavits is the author of the new book Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years, The Folded Clock: A Diary, and four novels, including the PEN Award-winning The Vanishers. She is an associate professor at Columbia University and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in N...
2023-11-0356 min
LA Review of BooksAndrew Leland's "The Country of the Blind"Andrew Leland joins Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher to talk about his first book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight. The book recounts Leland’s experience of gradually losing his vision due to a condition called retinitis pigmentosa, which eventually results in blindness. The knowledge that it’s not a question of if, but when he will become blind, leads him to a deeper investigation of blindness itself: how it is represented in literature, language, and media; what its political and racial dimensions are; the connection it has to technology and innovation; how it can...
2023-08-1849 min
Flightless BirdIceThis week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates America’s obsession with ice. From excessive ice in drinks to the joy of frozen food, Farrier finds that ice is deeply American. Meeting with Reid Mitenbuler, the author of Bourbon Empire, David discovers the story of Frederic “The Ice King” Tudor, who dug up ice from the lakes of New England and got America, and the world, hooked on ice in the 1800s. Farrier then heads to New York to meet writer and academic Heidi Julavits, who muses about the significance of ice in American culture, and tells David about her icy me...
2023-08-0847 minLA Review of BooksHeidi Julavits’s “Directions to Myself"Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by author Heidi Julavits, whose new book is called "Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years." Heidi Julavits is also the author of The Folded Clock: A Diary as well as four novels. She is an associate professor at Columbia University. In Directions to Myself, Heidi returns to her own life, specifically her relationship to her pre-adolescent son, whose childhood is nearly at an end. After a student at her university accuses another of rape, she begins to wonder about how a mother should steer her son as he grows into a...
2023-07-2849 min
Latest Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenDirections to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years by Heidi JulavitsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/666361 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years Author: Heidi Julavits Narrator: Heidi Julavits Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 6 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls “witty, sly, critical, inventive” and whose mind Leslie Jamison calls “electric.” “An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising.”—George Saunders That night, in his bed, I spread my son’s palm wide and tried to read it...
2023-06-2710 min
Coopers' CodeSure FootingToday's show, with guest Kent Klaudt, will be discussing team risk assessment, its pros, cons, and risks, using the lens of avalanche risk awareness. The application of avalanche risk analysis to litigation risk was inspired by an excellent New York Times article. For more on this, look to Heidi Julavits’s What I learned in avalanche school, New York Times, Dec. 31, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/31/magazine/avalanche-school-heidi-julavits.html
For those interested in reading the original Coopers’ Code article this show is based on, it can be found here: https://www.coopers.law/sure-footing/
I’m on a M-F'in...
2023-05-2251 min
Selected ShortsWear and TearHost Meg Wolitzer presents three works that offer unusual perspectives on clothes and fashion—selling, making, and coveting. In Anne Enright’s “(She Owns) Everything,” read by Mary-Louise Parker, a saleswoman becomes a compulsive consumer; In “Clothes on the Ground: A Conversation with Leap,” we hear from a Cambodian garment worker, interviewed by Julia Wallace for the compendium Women in Clothes, edited by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton. Leap is voiced by Jennifer Lim. And shopping is an antidote to aging in Joanne Harris’s “Faith and Hope Go Shopping,” read by Lois Smith.
2022-09-1558 min
Richfield Branch Library PodcastWell Loved: Book Sale Gems and Bargain Bin FindsIn this episode, we mine the book sale for hidden treasures! Join us this weekend, June 4th 2022, at the Richfield Library for the Friends of the Library Book Sale.
Christina shares books that have collected meaningful ephemera before she found them, including Uses of Enchantment, and The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits, Less by Andrew Sean Greer, The Intuitionist, and Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead. And she shares the comedically iconic time capsule that is Absolut Book by Richard W Lewis.
Jen discusses some tiny gems she's found over the years, including the L...
2022-05-3150 min
Better WordsHybrid genre novels and the world of artificial intelligence with Eli LeeEli Lee was born in Dorset and now lives in London. She writes fiction and non-fiction for a variety of anthologies, magazines and websites. She is the fiction editor and a contributor to the literary journal Minor Literatures and has also worked for Strange Horizons. Her debut novel, A Strange and Brilliant Light, has just been published.Our interview begins at 15 minutes. Mini book club: Cultish by Amanda MontellA thought-provoking and compulsively readable exploration of how cult-ish language pervades our everyday life. *Note: Caitlin read a copy through her job wit...
2021-09-281h 13
Discover Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenWe Want What We Want: Stories by Alix OhlinPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/484230 to listen full audiobooks. Title: We Want What We Want: Stories Author: Alix Ohlin Narrator: Kristen Sieh, Brittany Pressley, Eileen Stevens, Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 52 minutes Release date: July 27, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: An Esquire Best Book of Summer • A collection of glittering, surprising, darkly funny stories of people testing the boundaries of their lives—from the award-winning author of Dual Citizens, who is 'spoken of in the same reverent breath as Lorrie Moore and Joy Williams' (Heidi Julavits, author of The Folded Clock). In the mordantly funny 'Money, Geogr...
2021-07-2710 min
City Arts & LecturesRachel KushnerRachel Kushner is the author of several novels including The Mars Room and The Flamethrowers. Her work has been compared to Joan Didion’s, and that of Don DeLillo, a literary mentor to Kushner. Kushner’s newest book, The Hard Crowd, is a collection of essays from the past 20 years that showcase her intellect and diverse interests, from muscle cars to postmodern art and politics. She has received grants and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine...
2021-05-091h 04
Public Books 101Novels and Catastrophe (with Heidi Julavits and Leah Price)Novelist Heidi Julavits and scholar Leah Price join our host, Nicholas Dames, to consider how novels help us make sense of catastrophe.
When Ling Ma's Severance was published in 2018, the idea of an airborne global plague seemed theoretical. In hindsight, it appears eerily prescient. How do novels like Severance guide us to understand our place in historical time—to process events like pandemics alongside the mundanity of everyday working life?
You can find complete show notes here and purchase books from our independent-bookshop partner, Harvard Book Store, here.
2021-03-291h 01
Bande à part124(Repost): Visible Mending & UnzippedBande à part is three years old! We posted our very first episode in January 2018, listen again to celebrate our very first conversation. Hear us discuss Unzipped, Douglas Keeve’s 1995 documentary about the truly wonderful Isaac Mizrahi, and Beatrice’s foray into learning the art of visible mending. See links below.
The Conversations with Jason Campbell & Henrietta Gallina: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-conversations/id1328893989
Emily Spivack, Worn Stories: http://wornstories.com/
Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton, Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes (2014): www.penguin.co.uk/books/196157/women-in-clothes/9781846148354.html
Visible Mending:
https://humantextilewellness.wordpress.com/
http://celiapym.com/
https://tomofholland.com/
http...
2021-01-3122 min
ChatChat - Claudia CraggChrista Parravani, on Her Reckoning with Life, Death and Choice.Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Christa Parravani about her harrowing account, , the story of one woman's reckoning with life, death and "choice". It is, she says, a memoir of 'Choice, Children and Womanhood.' In 2017 Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to West Virginia and was surviving on a teacher's salary and raising two young children with her husband, screenwriter Anthony Swofford. Another pregnancy, a year after giving birth to her second child, came as a shock. Christa had a history of ectopic pregnancies, and worried that she wouldn't be able to find adequate medical care...
2020-12-1633 min
The Secret Life of Writers by TabloLeanne Shapton on where it all began, jealousy and ghosts, living in New York as a writer and artist, and the weirdest book so far.Leanne is an extraordinary artist and writer. She is the author of 'Was She Pretty' which looks at jealousy and how we fixate on our partner’s exes; 'Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry' which tells the demise of a relationship in a way no one else would think of; 'Native Trees of Canada'; 'Swimming Studies' which won the National Book Critic's Circle Award Award; and 'Women in Clothes' that Leanne wrote with Sheila Heti and Heidi Julavits. Her latest is 'Guestbook', a book about ghosts th...
2020-06-1754 min
From the Front Porch271 || The One with the Pandemic Annie and cousin, friend, and former Bookshelf staffer Ashley Sherlock share their thoughts on quarantine reading. What is one supposed to read during a global pandemic? The following are Annie and Ashley’s recommendations.
All of the books mentioned in today’s podcast are available at The Bookshelf:
The one who wants to pretend everything is fine: How To Be Fine by Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer; The Office by Andy Greene; Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The new homeschooler: Matilda by Roald Dahl; Bloomability by Sharon Creech
The...
2020-05-1440 minCity Arts & LecturesSally RooneyNot yet thirty years old, the Irish novelist Sally Rooney has quickly amassed an international following. In “Conversations with Friends” and “Normal People”, Rooney’s nuanced depictions of complex characters confront structures of intimacy, friendship, and class. On February 12, 2020, Sally Rooney and fellow writer Heidi Julavits had a conversation - originally scheduled before an audience at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in January, but postponed due to Rooney’s illness, the program was recorded in a New York studio.
2020-03-011h 09
Suite (212)In conversation with Sheila Heti (or: How Should a Writer Be?)Sheila Heti's new novel 'Motherhood' (Henry Holt/Harvill Secker, 2018) is a formally inventive, deeply personal exploration of a woman's decision about whether to have children. It builds on the success of her 'novel from life', 'How Should a Person Be?' and confirms her as one of the most interesting and exciting authors of the 21st century. In our June 2018 episode, Juliet talks to Sheila about her new book and her life in writing.
WORKS BY SHEILA HETI
The Middle Stories (2001)
Ticknor: A Novel (2005)
How Should a Person Be? (2010)
The Chairs are Where the People Go (2011)
We Need a Horse (2011)
...
2018-06-1959 min
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory PodcastEpisode 030 - RereadingWe talk about when, why, (whether), and what we Reread, and what does it all mean? Plus: format shifting for rereads, plays vs. scripts, cover versions of fiction, and the suck fairy. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi Books We Mentioned Titus Groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones Women in Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi...
2017-06-0659 minFrom the Front PorchEpisode 104 || January Reading RecapAnnie and Chris chat about public transit, public urination, and all the books they read in January. Annie read: +The Underwriting by Michelle Miller +The Folded Clock by Heidi Julavits +The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder +American Fire by Monica Hesse +Himself by Jess Kidd +The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers
Annie is currently reading: +Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Chris read: +The Wanderers by Meg Howrey +Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Chris is currently reading: +American War by Omar El Akkad
2017-02-0239 min
Live Wire with Luke BurbankEp. 295: "Timing is Everything" with Heidi Julavits, John Irving, Diana Nyad and Israel NebekerEp. 295: "Timing is Everything" with Heidi Julavits, John Irving, Diana Nyad and Israel Nebeker
2015-11-1352 min
Embark On Into A Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook During Your Workout.The Folded Clock by Heidi JulavitsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/3287to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Folded Clock
Author: Heidi Julavits
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 04-21-15
Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 stars, 54 ratings
Genres: Diaries & Correspondence
Publisher's Summary:
2015-04-219h 25Power-Up With: This Vivid Full Audiobook For Story Seekers.The Folded Clock by Heidi JulavitsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/38934to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Folded Clock
Author: Heidi Julavits
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 04-21-15
Ratings: 3.5 out of 5 stars, 54 ratings
Genres: Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence
Publisher's Summary:
2015-04-219h 25
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Folded Clock’This week, Heidi Julavits and Jeffrey Lieberman.
Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
2015-03-2744 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘The Folded Clock’This week, Heidi Julavits discusses “The Folded Clock”; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Jeffrey Lieberman talks about “Shrinks”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collecti...
2015-03-2744 min
The Book ReviewInside The New York Times Book Review: ‘America’s Bitter Pill’This week, Steven Brill discusses “America’s Bitter Pill”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Heidi Julavits talks about Rachel Cusk’s “Outline”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for informat...
2015-01-0943 min
Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 317 — Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, & Leanne ShaptonSheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, and Leanne Shapton are the guests. They are the editors of the bestselling book Women in Clothes, which features the work of more than 600 authors, including notables like Cindy Sherman, Lena Dunham, Kim Gordon, and Molly Ringwald. Kirkus Reviews says “Poems, interviews, pieces that read like diary or journal entries—all these responses help the editors fulfill their aims: to liberate readers from the idea that women have to fit a certain image or ideal, to show the connection between dress and ‘habits of mind,’ and to offer readers ‘a new way of interpreting their outsides.’...
2014-10-011h 17
Otherppl with Brad ListiEpisode 269 — Labor Day SpecialToday's show features conversations with multiple authors, all of whom have contributed to a new anthology entitled Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Women Writers. Guests include the anthology's editors, Eleanor Henderson and Anna Solomon, as well as Amy Brill, Arielle Greenberg, Cristina Henriquez, Heidi Julavits, Jane Roper, Rachel Jamison Webster, Sarah Jefferis, and Sarah Strickley.
Booklist says
"This isn’t a how-to book, nor does it present a case for the ‘perfect birth,’ which sets it apart from the plethora of childbirth manuals and lends it broader appeal and a very different type of resonance."
And Emma Stra...
2014-04-161h 54
LongformEpisode 72: Andrew LelandAndrew Leland is an editor at The Believer and hosts The Organist.
"I think a good editor has a strong stomach for crazy assholes. Because often crazy assholes are really brilliant great writers."
Thanks to TinyLetter and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode.
Show notes:
Leland's archive at the Oakland Standard
Leland's blog, "Good Jobbbbbbbbb"
[4:00] "Web Dreams" (Josh Quittner • Wired • Nov 1996)
[5:15] 826 Valencia
[5:45] A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (David Eggers • 2001)
[6:45] "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" (The Review of Contemporary Fiction • Jun 1993)
[15:30] Interview with Laura Owens (Rachel Kushner • The Believer • May 2003)
[17:45] "Rejoice! Believe! Be Strong and Read Hard!" (Heidi Julavi...
2013-12-1157 min
BookwormHeidi Julavits: The VanishersHeidi Julavits on female rivalry and the psychic bonds between mothers and daughters in her imaginative new novel.
2012-04-2629 min
Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column1278: Time to Read Episode 040: Ben Marcus and Heidi JulavitsThe Flame Alphabet and The Vanishers
2012-04-1837 minRick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column1274: A 2012 Interview with Heidi Julavits"...wouldn't it just be way easier to be a dead person these days?"
2012-04-0937 min
Talk to MeAuthors Conjure Up 'Strange Places' in Readings at Happy EndingThe theme for the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series at Joe's Pub in March was Strange Places. Listen to the extraordinary — and absurd — environments that authors Jessica Anthony, Amelia Gray and Heidi Julavitz conjured up their readings. Host and curator Amanda Stern was fighting through a migraine. Author Jessica Anthony had a chest cold. And half of the musical duo Kaiser Cartel, Courtney Kaiser, went into labor the day of the show, leaving Benjamin Cartel to perform on his own.
Regardless of these challenges, Anthony, along with the two authors Amelia Gray and Heidi Jula...
2012-03-2332 min
The Dinner Party DownloadEpisode 140: Ewan McGregor, Pretzel Dumplings, and Happy EndingsThis week: Actor Ewan McGregor, in three dimensions… “Happy Endings” star Casey Wilson’s (semi) happy endings… Youth Lagoon’s dinner party soundtrack… A ‘psychic’ reading from Heidi Julavits… The best sushi chef in the world… Pretzel dumplings… How “Uranus” got its name… And next-gen Posts teach us about table fairies. Plus: drinkable pancakes, Irish jokes, a w-h-i-z-k-i-d, and much more.
2012-03-1500 min
Fordham ConversationsLying in LitIn literature, what does it really mean to tell the truth? We explore
that question with authors Mary Karr--she's the author of the hugely
successful memoir "The Liar's Club"; and Heidi Julavits, whose novel
"The Uses of Enchantment" explores the idea of how truth changes when
different interests get involved.
2007-03-1729 min
Fordham ConversationsLying in LitIn literature, what does it really mean to tell the truth? We explore
that question with authors Mary Karr--she's the author of the hugely
successful memoir "The Liar's Club"; and Heidi Julavits, whose novel
"The Uses of Enchantment" explores the idea of how truth changes when
different interests get involved.
2007-03-1700 minBookwormHeidi Julavits: The Effect of Living BackwardsHeidi Julavits' first book was a bleak novel. Her second book's vision is lighter, but the subject remains dark: a terrorist training cell…
2003-10-0229 min