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The Worst CenturyAsk a 22-year old White Man!: Murakami, Paolini, SeboldIan and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
Normalcy did not return... But never fear! We're still here! (And we might be coming at you a bit more than usual as we start the year and clear out the backlog from 2025 recordings.) Today, you're hearing our conversation about the Goodreads Most Popular books of 2002: Eragon* by Christopher Paolini, The Lovely Bones* by Alice Sebold, and Kafka on the Shore* by Haruki Murakami. We get into how all straight boys need...
2026-01-121h 31
这是真的么IsThisRealEp78 越悲观，越要回到具体性里去1995年，为了面对整个英国教育剧场剧团财政削减的现实，青年剧场常务会议（SCYPT）成立了一个戏剧合作社，来为许多被剥夺了实践教育剧场机会的演教员提供一个能继续做戏的机会。在吉勒姆（Geoff Gillham）和约曼（Ian Yeoman）的带领下，戏剧合作社制作了一出经典的教育剧场作品《骨头笼》。30年后的今天，海星重新导演了这部作品，作为庆祝教育剧场60周年的纪念演出。这出戏讲述的是一个男人拖着一辆笼车，车里有被绳子锁住的年轻女孩，但女孩一直将这个地方叫做“家”，男人的梦话里，不断重复他为女孩建造的四面高墙，当另一个女孩出现，并希望解救这个女孩时，她却不愿从笼子里出来。这出戏的结尾将由每一场的观众决定。在本期节目中，作为演教员的我和媛媛，与导演海星一起讨论了观众的不同决定，为什么要在今天上演这样的故事，以及与本剧有关的种种关于内容和形式的讨论。希望对你会有帮助。——曹曦Shownotes•《骨头笼》的参与者为什么不行动？• 暴力地将人解救是正确的么？
2026-01-101h 08The Worst CenturyTake Me Back to God’s Own Country: Eugenides, Haslett, Barrett, GlassIan and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
Readers, normalcy did not return as originally promised, but we are scheming and plotting for 2026 with the hopes of a new version of ourselves. We are back though, and we're getting into the awards contenders of 2002! In this episode, we are talking about Middlesex* by Jeffrey Eugenides, You Are Not a Stranger Here* by Adam Haslett, Servants of the Map* by Andrea Barrett, and Three Junes* by Julia Glass. We're defining what makes a book...
2025-11-231h 37The Worst CenturyVerbalize Scare Quotes: Stranger FacesIan and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
Normalcy is (maybe) returning to the Worst Century feed, and we are back with the final installment in our discussion of the year 2001. In this episode, we use Namwali Serpell's 2020 collection Stranger Faces* to look at the role of the face in 2001 and today. To help do this work, we get into four great films, which you can find here if you want to watch before you listen. During the discussion, we...
2025-09-141h 39The Worst CenturyIan Hasn't Seen a Movie: Alameddine, Erdrich, Everett, Palahniuk, PatchettIan and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
Life continues to disrupt, but God's two favorite little soldiers power on. This episode, we get into the critical darlings of 2001: Bel Canto* by Anne Patchett; I, the Divine* by Rabih Alameddine; The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse* by Louise Erdrich; Erasure* by Percival Everett; Choke* by Chuck Palahniuk. The discussion ranges from what these 2001 books were saying about women and Queers to the resonating call for a r...
2025-08-311h 34The Worst CenturyStay Young, Make Content: Sue Monk Kidd, Yann Martel, and Carlos Ruiz ZafónReproductive/Gendered Violence Content Warning
Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
After a month and a half of moves, power outages, and vacations, we're back! This episode, we're talking about the "Most Popular" fiction books of 2001 as listed by GoodReads: Life of Pi by Yann Martel*, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd*, and The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón*. We get into Page's hatred of child protagonists, some of t...
2025-07-201h 33The Worst CenturyMen Are Sad: Russo, Franzen, & WhiteheadIan and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
This episode, we're talking about the big awards books of 2001, but first, we discuss the Pulitzer drama of 2025. We get into generational trauma, the right wing "they're coming to get you" conspiracy, how sad men are, and influencer culture and the monetization of hobbies. You know, light stuff!
Links:
Follow Page: BlueSky, Letterboxd
Follow Ian: Substack, BlueSky, Letterboxd
Bookshop: Empire Falls*, The Corrections*, John Henry Days*, Culture Creep*, Rejection*
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2025-06-081h 26The Worst CenturyHello to Our One Listener: Notes on Camp (2024)Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
This episode, we're talking about how Camp absolutely slays the house down boots, divas. Listen along as we discuss how 2000 was the last year of Camp until the Barbie movie and how auteur directors are resurrecting the studio system to bring Camp back. We get into Sontag's seminal essay "Notes on Camp" as we discuss Gladiator II & The Substance, and we talk about the essay collection Tacky by Rax King as a l...
2025-05-251h 48The Worst CenturyHe's a Symbologist, That's His Job: Dan Brown, George Saunders & Helen DeWittIan and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
Today's episode is about the books 2000 wants you to remember. We get into Dan Brown, John Grisham, George Saunders, and Helen DeWitt. We get caught up in the limbo that is time talking about a pope who was alive when we recorded. (And you get to hear Chris's voice giving us a little real-time update.) We also discuss how the year 2000 helped to create America's obsession with the "Deep State" and how...
2025-05-111h 32The Worst CenturyJohnny Depp Is Our Most Watched Actor: On the Movies of the Year 2000Episode 2 and still going strong!
Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
Today's episode is all about the movies of the year 2000. We start by diving into the Oscar & Indie Spirit Best Picture nominees for the year - really it's just a lot of talk about drugs and corporate power. Then we play a fun game where we look back to create our own ideal ballots for the year. A full list of the movies we talked...
2025-04-271h 29The Worst CenturyReimagining the American Dream: Sontag & ChabonWe're so back, baby!
Ian and Page, your two favorite store-brand English professors, have put together a syllabus for reading our way to an understanding of the 21st Century.
On this first episode, we get into our rules for the road, share a little about what went in to making this project, and dive into the first two books for the year 2000: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize) and In America by Susan Sontag (winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction).
Listen to hear...
2025-04-121h 22
Books with BetsyEpisode 24 - Always Been a Fan of a List with Ian GillhamOn this episode, Ian Gillham, @criticalgayze on Instagram, and I discuss our shared love of book lists, book awards, and reading these lists. We also discuss Ian’s Substack project focusing on the Pulitzer Prize and how it has morphed throughout the years. Also, stick around for some hot takes about super popular books!
Here is the link to Ian’s Substack so you can follow along with his prize project.
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Colored...
2024-10-211h 05
Talking Wealth Podcast: Stock Market Trading and Investing Education | Wealth Creation | Expert Share Market AnalysisPulse FM Weekly Australian Share Market UpdateEach Friday Ian Nichols and the team at Pulse FM, talk about what's happening on the Australian share market with one of our analysts Blake Sterling, Janine Cox or Dale Gillham. Tune in for share market tips, share trading tips and general share market commentary.
2012-09-1400 minTalking Wealth Podcast: Stock Market Trading and Investing Education | Wealth Creation | Expert Share Market AnalysisPulse FM Weekly Australian Share Market UpdateEach Friday Ian Nichols and the team at Pulse FM, talk about what's happening on the Australian share market with one of our analysts Blake Sterling, Janine Cox or Dale Gillham. Tune in for share market tips, share trading tips and general share market commentary.
2012-09-0700 min
Ian WhitcombIan Whitcomb 63 - War of the Whisperers (Art Gillham vs Jack Smith)Ian Whitcomb 63 - War of the Whisperers (Art Gillham vs. Jack Smith)
Jesse Crawford - She's A New Kind Of Old-Fashioned Girl
Art Gillham (The Whispering Pianist) - You May Be Lonesome (But You'll Be Lonesome Alone)
Art Gillham - Cecilia
Whispering Jack Smith - Cecilia
Whispering Jack Smith - Baby Face
Whispering Jack Smith - Glad Rag Doll
Art Gillham - I'm Waiting For Ships That Never Come In
Art Gillham - Sweetheart of All My Dreams
Whispering Jack Smith - Miss Annabelle Lee
Whispering Jack Smith - She's A New Kind of Old-Fashioned Girl
Art Gillham - She...
2012-08-141h 00Talking Wealth Podcast: Stock Market Trading and Investing Education | Wealth Creation | Expert Share Market AnalysisPulse FM Weekly Share Market UpdateEach Friday Ian Nichols and the team at Pulse FM, talk about what's happening on the Australian share market with one of our analysts Blake Sterling, Janine Cox or Dale Gillham. Tune in for share market tips, share trading tips and general share market commentary. This week Blake talks about the Facebook Float, Google and the Australian Dollar
2012-02-1000 minTalking Wealth Podcast: Stock Market Trading and Investing Education | Wealth Creation | Expert Share Market AnalysisPulse FM Weekly Share Market UpdateEach Friday Ian Nichols and the team at Pulse FM, talk about what's happening on the Australian share market with one of our analysts Blake Sterling, Janine Cox or Dale Gillham. Tune in for share market tips, share trading tips and general share market commentary
2012-01-1300 minTalking Wealth Podcast: Stock Market Trading and Investing Education | Wealth Creation | Expert Share Market AnalysisPulse FM Weekly Share Market UpdateEach Friday Ian Nichols and the team at Pulse FM, talk about what's happening on the Australian share market with one of our analysts Blake Sterling, Janine Cox or Dale Gillham. Tune in for share market tips, share trading tips and general share market commentary
2011-12-2000 minTalking Wealth Podcast: Stock Market Trading and Investing Education | Wealth Creation | Expert Share Market AnalysisPulse FM Weekly Share Market UpdateEach Friday Ian Nichols and the team at Pulse FM, talk about what's happening on the Australian share market with one of our analysts Blake Sterling, Janine Cox or Dale Gillham. Tune in for share market tips, share trading tips and general share market commentary
2011-12-0200 minTalking Wealth Podcast: Stock Market Trading and Investing Education | Wealth Creation | Expert Share Market AnalysisPulse FM weekly share market updateEach Friday Ian Nichols and the team at Pulse FM, talk about what's happening on the Australian share market with one of our share market analysts Blake Sterling, Janine Cox or Dale Gillham. Tune in for share market tips, share trading tips and general share market commentary.
2011-11-2000 minTalking Wealth Podcast: Stock Market Trading and Investing Education | Wealth Creation | Expert Share Market AnalysisPulse FM Weekly Share Market UpdateEach Friday Ian Nichols and the team at Pulse FM, talk about what's happening on the Australian share market with one of our analysts Blake Stirling, Janine Cox or Dale Gillham. Tune in for share market tips
2011-10-2400 minIan WhitcombIan Whitcomb 38 - My Whiz Kid FriendIan Whitcomb 38- My Whiz Kid Friend
Russ Carlson & The High Steppers - A Shanty in Old Shanty Town
Russ Conway - Got A Match?
Johnny Maddox - Do It Again
Johnny Maddox & Adam Swanson - In My Harem
Frederick Hodges & Adam Swanson - Stay Out Of The South
Art Gillham - Angry
Little Jack Little - You're a Heavenly Thing
Ford & Glenn - I Get The Blues When It Rains
Miff Mole - Some Sweet Day
Charles Hamp - Rose of the Rio Grande
Emmett Miller - Anytime
Ragtime Bob Darch - That Teasin' Rag
Adam Swanson & Ian Whitcomb...
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