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Bubbles and BooksAnti Fascist Reading Lists ExploredPlease note: This episode was recorded on Friday, January 23 2026.
Recently, Dog-Eared Books shared a reading list designed to help deepen our understanding of fascism, full of titles we believe are essential for thoughtful learning. We paired that list with a quote from George Orwell's 1984 as part of a window display at the store, and the response was overwhelming. Comments poured in from across the country and around the world. Today, we're taking a closer look at that reading list of both fiction and nonfiction books, and reflecting on why their ideas remain so urgent and important.
2026-01-2756 minBubbles and BooksWinter/Spring Books We Can’t Wait to ReadWe've turned the page into a new year, and we're looking ahead to a few books we are excited about this year. This list is unbeatable in our opinions. Discussing books that are coming out between now and June of this year. Listen along, and don't forget if you pre-order with us you'll receive 10% off your order.
Ellyn's Currently Reading | Why Fascists Fear Teachers by Randi Weingarten, The Typewriter and the Guillotine by Mark Braude & Night Theater by Vikram Paralkar
Amanda's Currently Reading | Rainbow Valley by L.M. Montgomery, Beth is Dead by Katie Bernet, & W...
2026-01-271h 10
Book Friends ForeverThe Typewriter and the Guillotine by Mark Braude read by Karen CassThe “irresistible” (Susan Orlean) untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a German serial killer stalking the streets of the French capital on the eve of WWII.
In 1925, the Indianapolis-born Janet Flanner took an assignment to write a regular ‘Letter from Paris’ for a lighthearted humor magazine called The New Yorker. She’d come to Paris to with dreams of writing about “Beauty with a Capital B.” Her employer, self-consciously apolitical, sought only breezy reports on French art and cultur...
2026-01-2004 min
Lights, Camera, Author!Lights, Camera, Author - Mark BraudeMy interview with Mark Braude, author of "The Typewriter and the Guillotine"
2026-01-1418 min
History ShortsAn American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, & Paris on the Eve of WWII, w/ Mark BraudeIn this interview episode, I'm joined by author Mark Braude to dive into his latest book, The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII—a gripping blend of biography and true-crime set in the City of Light just before it went dark. Braude takes us into interwar Paris, where an American journalist builds a life and a voice amid glamour, ambition, and mounting political dread—while the shadow of a German serial killer and a sensational case helps reveal what a society is willing to ignore until it can...
2026-01-0232 min
BattlecastThe Definitive Military History of Monaco and Monte Carlo
Monaco is a nation smaller than one square mile but filled with more wealth per capita than almost any other country in the world. According to one historian, the tiny principality has zero natural resources. However, there is one resource Monaco does possess: The Rock – an impregnable natural fortress jutting into the azure water lanes of the Mediterranean sea. It was this natural fortification and its accompanying port that laid the foundation of Monaco’s abnormally persistent sovereignty. Put succinctly, Monaco has a history steeped in warfare, assassinations, and conflict. This is the definitive story of that conflict.
I...
2025-09-1900 min
New Books in French StudiesMark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile" (Penguin Press, 2018)I must’ve been a kid when I first heard the palindrome “Able I was ere I saw Elba”. Napoleon didn’t mean a lot to me at the time. “Elba” meant even less. Decades later, I had learned a little more about Napoleon and his time there, but not that all that much it turns out. And then came Mark Braude’s The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile (Penguin Press, 2018)…This unexpected and absorbing book delves into the story of Napoleon’s exile on the island of Elba following his abdication in 1814. After his escape a...
2025-08-171h 02
New Books in Biography & MemoirMark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile" (Penguin Press, 2018)I must’ve been a kid when I first heard the palindrome “Able I was ere I saw Elba”. Napoleon didn’t mean a lot to me at the time. “Elba” meant even less. Decades later, I had learned a little more about Napoleon and his time there, but not that all that much it turns out. And then came Mark Braude’s The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile (Penguin Press, 2018)…This unexpected and absorbing book delves into the story of Napoleon’s exile on the island of Elba following his abdication in 1814. After his escape a...
2025-08-171h 02
New Books in Western European StudiesMark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile" (Penguin Press, 2018)I must’ve been a kid when I first heard the palindrome “Able I was ere I saw Elba”. Napoleon didn’t mean a lot to me at the time. “Elba” meant even less. Decades later, I had learned a little more about Napoleon and his time there, but not that all that much it turns out. And then came Mark Braude’s The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile (Penguin Press, 2018)…This unexpected and absorbing book delves into the story of Napoleon’s exile on the island of Elba following his abdication in 1814. After his escape a...
2025-08-171h 02
New Books in Military HistoryMark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile" (Penguin Press, 2018)I must’ve been a kid when I first heard the palindrome “Able I was ere I saw Elba”. Napoleon didn’t mean a lot to me at the time. “Elba” meant even less. Decades later, I had learned a little more about Napoleon and his time there, but not that all that much it turns out. And then came Mark Braude’s The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile (Penguin Press, 2018)…This unexpected and absorbing book delves into the story of Napoleon’s exile on the island of Elba following his abdication in 1814. After his escape a...
2025-08-171h 02
ArtMuseArtMuse ArtTalks: Host Grace Anna Interviews Author Mark BraudeKiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920’s Paris can be ordered online HERE.Mark Braude is the author of three non-fiction books, Kiki Man Ray being his third. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, a visiting fellow at the American Library in Paris, and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He is currently based in Vancouver, Canada, where he lives with his family.For those who haven’t yet listened to our episode on Kiki de Montparnasse, Kiki was an artist’s model, performer, painter, actress, and memoirist active...
2025-08-1557 min
The Nurturing Father's PodcastNavigating the Complex Stages of Pre-Teen and Teenage Boys W/ Special Guest: Ted BraudeTed Braude talks about his experience as a social worker, working with young and pre-teen boys, and shares some tips on how to approach certain situations with boys and pre-teens!
2024-05-2934 min
Beyond The ZeroDavid Cotner - A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (1973)David Cotner
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David's Instagram violencestories
Gateway books
- Orgies and Troilism
- Strangely Enough C.B. Colby
- A Void - Georges Perec
Current reads
Forgotteness by Tanja Maljartschuk
KIKI MAN RAY: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
- Mark Braude
Nick Solsby - Everything Keeps Dissolving
Maya Deren -Choreographed for CameraBook - Mark Alice Durant
2024-02-231h 09
Kroniki paryskieKąpiele w arszeniku, czyli ikony dekadenckiego ParyżaMuzy wielkich artystów, osobowości dekadenckiego Paryża, kobiety, które rządziły miastem przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Były na językach wszystkich i na pierwszych stronach gazet. Kim były Kiki de Montparnasse, Virginie Amélie Gautreau (Madame X) i Victorine Meurent? Które z nich kąpały się w arszeniku albo nacierały powieki rtęcią? Nie mówiąc już o tym, co wkraplały sobie do oczu, by te wydawały się być jeszcze piękniejsze. I w końcu, czyje opadające ramiączko było przedmiotem takiego skandalu, że zamieszane w nieg...
2023-12-2338 min
The French History PodcastThe forgotten star: Kiki de Montparnasse with Dr. Mark BraudeKiki was 'Queen of Montparnasse,' a superstar of her time. Who was she and why has she been forgotten? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-1639 min
DEAD AIRWAVES(Story podcast)DEAD AIRWAVES EPISODE 45 The Roaches By Thomas M. DischDead Airwaves Episode 45. The Roaches By Thomas M. Disch Read Martin Clothier Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction writer and poet.[1][2][3] He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, a Rhysling Award, and two Seiun Awards, among others. In the 1960s, his work began appearing in science-fiction magazines. His critically acclaimed science fiction novels, The Genocides, Camp Concentration and 334 are major contributions to the New Wa...
2023-07-0436 min
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life540: Mark Braude!This week, I talk with historian and biographer Mark Braude about artist, model, and cabaret singer Kiki Man Ray and the art life in Paris in the 1920s.
2022-09-101h 10
Masters in Psychology Podcast31: Moshe Ratson, MBA, MS MFT, LMFT – Founder and Executive Director of spiral2grow Marriage and Family TherapyMoshe Ratson was born and raised in Israel but always wanted to be in New York. In this podcast, Moshe discusses his academic and professional journey which eventually led him to become an innovative and well-known psychotherapist, business consultant, and executive coach in New York. He recalls what made him gravitate toward psychology and admits that learning about all of the available psychology programs, schools, degrees, and career paths was “pretty confusing” but explains that once he knew he wanted to have a private practice in marriage and family therapy, the choices became clear to him.
Moshe earned his Bachelor of S...
2022-08-2942 min
The Book ReviewRoaring Through Paris With ‘Kiki Man Ray’Mark Braude’s new biography, “Kiki Man Ray,” visits a place of perennial interest — Left Bank Paris in the 1920s — through the life of the singer, model, memoirist and muse. On this week’s podcast, Braude says that his subject thoroughly captured the spirit of her age, “a mix of deep pain and a very deep love of life” that emerged after the First World War.We’re used to reading about this age, Braude says, through the eyes of Americans in Paris, like Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Kiki “represents something that sometimes gets overlooked,” he says, which is “the French contrib...
2022-08-1229 min
Hodder BooksKIKI MAN RAY by Mark Braude, read by Karen Cass - audiobook extractThe story of Alice Prin, aka Kiki—who captivated 1920s Paris—and her tumultuous relationship with photographer Man Ray
Though many have never heard her name, Alice Prin—Kiki de Montparnasse—was the icon of 1920s Paris. She captivated as a ground-breaking nightclub performer, wrote a bestselling memoir, sold out exhibitions of her paintings, and shared drinks with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Peggy Guggenheim, Marcel Duchamp and Gertrude Stein. She also shepherded along the career of the then-unknown American photographer: Man Ray.
Following Kiki in the years between 1921 and 1929, when she lived and worked with Man Ray, Kiki Man Ray char...
2022-08-1108 min
The Bookish LifeWe're Feminists, After All...Sara forces Phil to bring up Douglas MacArthur one more time, but then we get into some fantastically feminist retellings. One today's episode, we discuss Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc by Katherine Chen, Ithaca by Claire North, The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean, If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity by Justin Gregg, Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi and translated by David Boyd and Lucy North, We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky by Emma Hooper, and Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Br...
2022-08-0532 min
The Kirk Minihane ShowClient Love When We DoDeleting Dave is back. Dave Portnoy was fed up with a former Barstool Sports employee but deleted the initial audio talking about it (00:10:00). Howard Stern wants Al Michaels to tell people to get vaccinated on the Super Bowl broadcast (00:26:00). Tim Dillon brilliantly trolls Mark Shanahan of the Boston Globe prompting Joe Rogan to reach out to Shanahan himself (00:53:40). Kevin Clancy seeks guidance from his sherpa (00:37:48). Harrison second guesses Kirk's parody song instincts (00:40:00). Kevin from Malden really irritates Jim Braude and Margery Egan (00:47:30). The Oscars are irrelevant now, Steve Robinson is itching to do something much more....
2022-02-092h 10
Unsolved Mysteries RewindOur Halloween Episode! Friendly Ghost, Vision Quest, Miss Katie and ReincarnationIn this special Halloween episode Kim and Mark discuss Season 3, Episode 7 of Unsolved Mysteries.
Friendly Ghost
Vision Quest & UD
Powers of Miss Katie
Update: Reincarnation
Join us this week as we discuss hurricane harbingers, past lives, gold leaf excretions and getting to know oneself through psychedelics.
James Randi
http://www.randi.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi
Lawrence Millman
http://lawrencemillman.com/
Jeffrey Mishlove and Stephen E. Braude on Katie – the gold leaf lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5eY3yfDIg0&t
As always, thank you to Mat...
2020-10-131h 07
P3 HistoriaNapoleon - makten, hybrisen och det monumentala falletOm Napoleon Bonapartes väg till maktens höjder och om den hybris som orsakade ett av historiens mest monumentala fall och lämnade honom förvisad och förnedrad, fängslad på en enslig och vindpinad ö mitt ute i havet. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. Redaktionen för det här avsnittet består av:
Cecilia Düringer - programledare och manusMarie Fjellborg - research och manusEmilia Mellberg - producentPablo Leiva Wenger - scenuppläsareJulia Öjbrant – ljuddesign och slutmix
Medverkar i...
2020-05-1452 min
Where Is My Mind?Ep. 2: Blindfolded"How can you have a normal functioning person with almost no brain?" Featuring host Mark Gober’s interviews with Dr. Eben Alexander, Dr. Dean Radin, Dr. Bruce Greyson, Dr. Larry Dossey, Dr. Diane Powell, Dr. Brian Josephson, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Dr. Jeff Mishlove, Dr. Jan Holden, Dr. Alan Hugenot, Barbara Bartolome, Dr. Cassandra Vieten, Helané Wahbeh, Dr. Stephen Braude, and Brenda Dunne.
Listen to all of Mark’s interviews here: https://markgober.com/podcast/ Check out Mark's book, "An End to Upside Down Thinking": https://www.amazon.com/End-Upside-Down-Thinking-Consciousness/dp/1947637851
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2019-08-1534 min
History Author ShowMark Braude – The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Exile to EscapeJanuary 28, 2019 - Mark Braude, who we chatted with previously about his book: Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle, brings us the tale of a legendary military leader who's almost too big for the word legend. Napoleon Bonaparte of France. We meet the titan of France not at the peak of his power, but at his low-point: Cast out, kicked off the throne, and walking among the citizens of a tiny island as one of them.The book is The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Exile to Escape. Mark Braude is a National Endowment for...
2019-01-281h 03
History Author ShowMark Braude – The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Exile to EscapeJanuary 28, 2019 – Mark Braude, who we chatted with previously about his book: Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle, brings us the tale of a legendary military leader who’s almost too big for the word legend. Napoleon Bonaparte of France. We meet the titan of France not at the peak of his power, but at his low-point: Cast out, kicked off the throne, and walking among the citizens of a tiny island as one of them.
The book is The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Exile to Escape. Mark Braude is a National Endowment for...
2019-01-281h 03
Rob Hayes34 - Trams, Rain and Avacado Lattes (Melbourne Pen Show 2018 Edition)Welcome to the special Melbourne Pen Show edition of the podcast!
The Nib Section is the official podcast of Fountain Pens Oceania You can always email us at thenibsection@gmail.com
Go like us on Facebook!
Follow us on Twitter and Instagram
The hosts were Alisdair (@alisdairdaws), Mel (@the_fine_nib_chick) and Diana (@thegrynne).
FORMAT
00:17—Introduction to the Melbourne Pen Show
Mel and Ali also feature in Episode 27 - "Horses for Courses"
Melbourne Pen Show (@melbournepenshow)
Melbourne Pen Group - email Max Braude max@kblcommercial.com.au to sign up to their mailing list
FPO Discord server
My Hearty Timber...
2018-12-061h 37
The Nib Section34 - Trams, Rain and Avacado Lattes (Melbourne Pen Show 2018 Edition)Welcome to the special Melbourne Pen Show edition of the podcast!
The Nib Section is the official podcast of Fountain Pens Oceania
You can always email us at thenibsection@gmail.com
Go like us on Facebook!
Follow us on Twitter and Instagram
The hosts were Alisdair (@alisdairdaws), Mel (@the_fine_nib_chick) and Diana (@thegrynne).
FORMAT
00:17—Introduction to the Melbourne Pen Show
Mel and Ali also feature in Episode 27 - "Horses for Courses"
Melbourne Pen Sho...
2018-12-061h 37Rob Hayes8.5 - Bonus Episode: Melbourne Pen Show 2017In a special bonus episode of the podcast, Sophia and Mark bring you interviews with organisers, visitors, vendors, social media luminaries and everyone in between, direct from the Melbourne Pen Show 2017!
The Nib Section is the official podcast of Fountain Pens Oceania.
You can always email us at thenibsection@gmail.com
Go like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/TheNibSection/
Twitter: @thenibsection
Instagram: thenibsection
FORMAT
00:34—Melbourne Pen Show Organisers
Sophia chats with Max Braude, the 2017 Melbourne Pen Show organiser, and Marcus and Rebecca Lee-Steere, the husband and wife duo, members of the pen show organising committee.
14:35—Sally Siderio
Sally is President...
2017-12-0255 minThe Nib Section8.5 - Bonus Episode: Melbourne Pen Show 2017In a special bonus episode of the podcast, Sophia and Mark bring you interviews with organisers, visitors, vendors, social media luminaries and everyone in between, direct from the Melbourne Pen Show 2017!
The Nib Section is the official podcast of Fountain Pens Oceania.
You can always email us at thenibsection@gmail.com
Go like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com/TheNibSection/
Twitter: @thenibsection
Instagram: thenibsection
FORMAT
00:34—Melbourne Pen Show Organisers
Sophia chats with Max Braude, the 20...
2017-12-0255 min
Joel Riddell, host of Dining AroundMark BraudeWhen planning for a fantastic holiday, Monte Carlo is always on my list. I know it sounds very LALA, and perhaps it is, but check out my interview with Mark Braude, who's book "Making of Monte Carlo", is an in depth study into the what spawned Le Jetset, and a celebration of the Principality who changed the way people think about luxury travel.
2017-05-0110 minNew Books in French StudiesMark Braude, “Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle” (Simon and Schuster, 2016)Mark Braude’s Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle (Simon and Schuster, 2016) tells the captivating story of the rise of Monte Carlo as Europe’s most famous casino-resort from the second half of the nineteenth century to the end of the 1920s. In a series of fascinating chapters, Braude takes readers through the history of this modern, luxury playground, from the legalization of gambling in Monaco in 1855, through a rise of the site in the decades that followed, a period of decline after the First World War, and a revival during the Jazz Age of the inte...
2017-03-091h 02History Author ShowMark Braude – Making Monte CarloApril 11, 2016 - Today, our time machine will wend its way through the tight mountain passes of Southern France, and across the blue seas of the Mediterranean to the principality of Monaco. Yes, Monaco. The name itself conjures up images of glamour and gambling, of royalty and race cars. But how did it get that way? It's about half the size of Central Park, the second-tiniest nation in the world. Yet it's played a big role as a destination of gambling and vice for the world's rich and famous.Dealing the cards today is Mark Braude, who sends us...
2016-04-1141 minHistory Author ShowMark Braude – Making Monte CarloApril 11, 2016 – Today, our time machine will wend its way through the tight mountain passes of Southern France, and across the blue seas of the Mediterranean to the principality of Monaco. Yes, Monaco. The name itself conjures up images of glamour and gambling, of royalty and race cars. But how did it get that way? It’s about half the size of Central Park, the second-tiniest nation in the world. Yet it’s played a big role as a destination of gambling and vice for the world’s rich and famous.
Dealing the cards today is Mark Braude, who send...
2016-04-1141 min
CotEcastTop of the POPSTitle: Top of the POPS
Host(s): Mark Garside, James Fisher
Guest(s): Andrew Deane, Philip Braude
Opening Question: What’s the best medical TV theme song/tune?
Main Topic: Issues to consider for junior doctors involved in preoperative care of older patients
Discussion Points:
What is POPS?
Why/how is this different from orthogeriatrics?
Why are older patients at risk?
What special considerations should be made in the medical care of these patients (e.g. Pain management, IV fluids)?
How can you get training?
How can juniors do...
2015-06-2549 min