Best Jane Donovan Podcasts (2023)

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Olivia Rodrigo Talks with David Remnick 27:59

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Being called the voice of a generation might seem a little off to someone born after the millennium. But Olivia Rodrigo’s songs clearly hit home for Gen Z. She turned twenty this year, and has already been one of the biggest stars since 2021, when “Drivers License” became the No. 1 song on the planet. She won three Grammy Awards that year, includin…

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The Common Magazine

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Jake Lancaster, “Grace’s Folly," The Common Magazine (2023) 28:03

2h ago28:03

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Jake Lancaster speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his story “Grace’s Folly,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. Jake talks about writing stories that lean into the offbeat, uncomfortable, and sometimes grotesque parts of his characters and their lives. He also discusses his writing and revision process—carving away at long …

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” a Novel of High Finance 20:53

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The daughter of eccentric aristocrats marries a Wall Street tycoon of dubious ethics during the Roaring Twenties. That sounds like a plot that F. Scott Fitzgerald might have written, or Edith Wharton. But “Trust,” by the writer Hernan Diaz, is very much of our time. The novel is told by four people in four different formats, which offer conflicting…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Kelly Clarkson on Writing About Divorce 30:29

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Twenty years after her breakout on “American Idol,” Kelly Clarkson released an album called “Chemistry” that deals with the long arc of a relationship and her recent divorce. She sat down to talk with Hanif Abdurraqib, a music writer passionate about the craft of songwriting. “This literally was written in real time,” Clarkson reflects. “That was m…

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Film & TV · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design

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Highlights - JIM SHEPARD - Novelist & Screenwriter of The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston 11:39

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"It's a thrill to work with actors you admire. And I got to work with Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, and Katherine Waterston and their wonderful actors. The whole business of film runs on compliments because then if you compliment people, you don't have to pay them. And so I got to be on the set in the Carpathians when they were filming, and I got a…

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Film & TV · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design

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JIM SHEPARD - Screenwriter of The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston 48:09

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How can literature help us extend our empathic imaginations? How can writing and reading expand our curiosity and compassion for people in situations distant from our own? Jim Shepard is the author of seven previous novels, most recently The Book of Aron (winner of the 2016 PEN New England Award, the Sophie Brody medal for achievement in Jewish lit…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Naomi Klein Speaks with Jia Tolentino about “Doppelganger” 20:49

9d ago20:49

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For twenty-some years, Naomi Klein has been a leading thinker on the left. She’s especially known for the idea of disaster capitalism: an analysis that the forces of big business will exploit any severe disruption to take over more space in our lives. She was often confused with another prominent political writer, Naomi Wolf—once a feminist on the …

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New Books in Poetry

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Jane Hirshfield, "The Asking: New and Selected Poems" (Knopf, 2023) 55:00

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When poet Jane Hirshfield first arrived at Tassajara Monastery nearly fifty years ago, a Zen teacher told her that it was a good idea to have a question to practice with. She’s been asking questions ever since. Both in her Zen practice and in her poetry, Hirshfield is guided by questions that resist easy answers, allowing herself to be transformed …

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Irish Stew Podcast

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S5E12: Jane Ferguson - No Ordinary Correspondent 1:02:08

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Growing up in The Troubles in Northern Ireland, Jane Ferguson spent most of her life reporting on the global troubles in Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Gaza, Syria, and Afghanistan, reporting for CNN International, Al Jazeera, PBS Newshour, The New Yorker and other outlets, always finding the human stories in inhuman wars and all revealed in her unfl…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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A Solution For the Chronically Homeless, and Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison 29:37

13d ago29:37

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About 1.2 million people in the United States experience homelessness in a given year—you could nearly fill the city of Dallas with the unhoused. But there are proven solutions. For the chronically homeless, a key strategy is supportive housing—providing not only a stable apartment, but also services like psychiatric and medical care on-site. The N…

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Film & TV · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design

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BENOIT DELHOMME - Cinematographer of At Eternity’s Gate w/ Willem Dafoe, The Theory of Everything w/ Eddie Redmayne - Part 1 30:33

16d ago30:33

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What makes films memorable and meaningful? Great cinematographers are not only translators of a director’s vision but are involved in a dance between director and actor. When combined with personal techniques like handheld, the camera itself can become a character, bringing us back in time and behind the eyes of well-known figures like Van Gogh and…

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New Books in Poetry

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Alyssa Noelle Coelho, "The Alchemy of the Beast" (Saved by Story, 2023) 1:22:48

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"I wept as time stopped, and I wept as time refused to cease." Grieving her faith, her love, and her identity, twenty-one-year-old Scarlett V. Leonelli is devastated by an unexpected tragedy--one threatening to unravel her to her very core. Following a series of inexplicable synchronicities, Scarlett journeys deep into the jungle of a hidden villag…

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New Books in Poetry

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Amy Berkowitz, "Gravitas" (Éditions du Noroît/Total Joy, 2023) 1:01:16

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Frank, conversational, and darkly funny, Gravitas examines the tendency of MFA programs to teach women that their lives aren’t worth writing about. These poems bear witness not only to alienation but also to the bittersweet joy of being forced to invent alternative ways of living and writing. Amy Berkowitz is the author of Gravitas (Éditions du Nor…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Richard Brody Makes the Case for Keeping Your DVDs 13:21

16d ago13:21

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At the end of this month, after more than two decades, Netflix is phasing out its DVD-rental business. While that may not come as a surprise given the predominance of streaming platforms, it’s a great loss to cinephiles, according to the New Yorker’s Richard Brody. Streaming services routinely drop titles from circulation, and amazing films may be …

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New Books in Poetry

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Dong Li, "The Orange Tree" (U Chicago Press, 2023) 1:04:39

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Dong Li’s The Orange Tree (U Chicago Press, 2023) is a collection of narrative poems that braids forgotten legends, personal sorrows, and political upheavals into a cinematic account of Chinese history as experienced by one family. Amid chaos and catastrophe, the child narrator examines a yellowed family photo to find resemblances and learns a new …

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New Books in Poetry

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A Better Way to Buy Books 34:29

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Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy Hunter, founder and CEO discusses his journey to creating one of the most revolutionary new organizations in the book world. Bookshop has found …

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Digging Deep with Mark Sutcliffe

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Digging Deep with Daniel Alfredsson 49:40

19d ago49:40

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Mayor Mark Sutcliffe sat down with Daniel Alfredsson in February 2023 to talk about his amazing hockey career, his strong advocacy for mental health and his love for Ottawa. Le maire Mark Sutcliffe s'est entretenu avec Daniel Alfredsson en février 2023 pour parler de son incroyable carrière de hockeyeur, de son engagement en faveur de la santé ment…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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A Master Class with David Grann 34:00

20d ago34:00

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David Grann is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of two nonfiction books that topped the best-seller list this summer: “The Wager” and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” from 2017, which Martin Scorsese has adapted into a film opening in October. Grann is among the most lauded nonfiction writers at The New Yorker; David Remnick says that …

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Alone and on Foot in Antarctica 25:00

23d ago25:00

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Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and collector of rare books, maps, and fossils. But his true obsession was exploration. Worsley revered the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and he had led a 2009 expedition to the South Pole. But Worsley p…

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Irish Stew Podcast

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S5E11: Jane Delury – Hedge Author Draws on Irish Roots 54:53

24d ago54:53

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Our Global Irish conversation with award-winning author Jane Delury centers on her second novel Hedge, a bildungsroman of an Irish American woman in her forties named Maude pursuing a career in the esoteric field of garden history, looking for clues in the past under the mounting challenges of the present. The theme of bringing a garden back to lif…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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No More Souters 49:42

27d ago49:42

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David Souter is one of the most private, low-profile Justices ever to have served on the Supreme Court. He rarely gave interviews or speeches. Yet his tenure was anything but low profile. Deemed a “home run” nominee by the George H. W. Bush Administration, Souter refused to answer questions during his confirmation hearing about pressing issues—most…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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How Does Extreme Heat Affect the Body? 16:56

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The Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut was named after an N.F.L. player who died of exertional heatstroke. The lab’s main research subjects have been athletes, members of the military, and laborers. But, with climate change, even mild exertion under extreme heat will affect more and more of us; in many parts of the United Sta…

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New Books in Poetry

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David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023) 1:09:43

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Thy Power, O Liberty, make strong the weak, And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak. At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley published the first book in English by a person of African descent and the third book of poetry by a North American Woman. She was a poet but also a political actor and celebrity – the most famous African in North America and Eu…

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New Books in Poetry

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Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020) 1:34:29

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As I learned from Hollis Robbins’s monograph Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition (U Georgia Press, 2020), there has been a long-standing skepticism of the sonnet form among Black writers and literary critics. Langston Hughes wrote that “the Shakespearean sonnet would be no mold to express the life of Beale Stree…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Origins of “Braiding Sweetgrass” 27:14

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Robin Wall Kimmerer is an unlikely literary star. A botanist by training—a specialist in moss—she spent much of her career at the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry. But, when she was well established in her academic work, having “done the things you need to do to get tenure,” she launched into a different …

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Film & TV · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design

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Highlights - Actress CATHERINE CURTIN (Orange is the New Black) & Artistic Director KATE MUETH (Director, Educator, Choreographer) 18:11

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"Because I do do enough TV and film. Sometimes the bigger the budget, you know, sometimes... (gestures as though to say 'the quality doesn't always increase'). So, I'm always glad to just relax in the creative process, and I'm always very grateful for that. I think it's why I do so much indie film because it's really fun. ...The depth of the pain t…

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Film & TV · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design

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Actress CATHERINE CURTIN (Stranger Things) & Artistic Director KATE MUETH (Neo-Political Cowgirls) 57:16

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Why do we make art? What can the performing arts teach us about how to engage in dialogues to overcome conflict and division? Our guests today are actress Catherine Curtin and artistic director Kate Mueth. Curtin is known for her roles on Stranger Things, Homeland, and Insecure. She played correctional officer Wanda Bell in Orange Is the New Black,…

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The Common Magazine

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Ala Fox, "Ramadan in Saint-Denis" (The Common Magazine, Issue 25) 53:37

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Ala Fox speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “Ramadan in Saint-Denis,” which appears in The Common’s most recent issue. Ala talks about weaving together the threads of her experiences living in Paris into an essay that explores a lot of questions but doesn’t try to answer them. The piece dives into the dynamics between neighborho…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Tessa Hadley on What Decades of Failure Taught Her About Writing 19:09

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The New Yorker first published a short story by Tessa Hadley in 2002. Titled “Lost and Found,” it described a friendship between two women who had been close since childhood. Hadley’s fiction is often consumed with relationships at this scale: tight dramas close to home. She captures, within these relationships, an extraordinary depth and complexit…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Talking to Conservatives about Climate Change 31:13

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Even in a summer of record-breaking heat and disasters, Republican Presidential candidates have ignored or mocked climate change. But some conservative legislators in Congress recognize that action is necessary. David Remnick talks with a leader of the Conservative Climate Caucus about her party’s stance on climate change, her belief that fossil fu…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Novelist Esmeralda Santiago on Learning to Write After a Stroke 19:31

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The author Esmeralda Santiago has been writing about Puerto Rico and questions of immigration and identity since the early nineties. But, in 2008, she suffered a stroke that left her unable to decipher words on a page. In the months that followed, she relied on some of the same strategies she’d used to teach herself English after moving to the Unit…

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New Books in Poetry

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Molly Peacock, "A Friend Sails in on a Poem: Essays on Friendship, Freedom and Poetic Form" (Palimpsest Press, 2022) 57:18

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For the last forty-five years, the distinguished poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed nearly every poem they’ve written-an unparalleled friendship in poetry. In A Friend Sails in on a Poem (Palimpsest Press, 2022), Peacock collects her most important essays on poetic form and traces the development of her formalist aestheti…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Will the End of Affirmative Action Lead to the End of Legacy Admissions? 30:58

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The practice of legacy admissions—preferential consideration of the children of alumni—has emerged as a national flash point since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in June. Even some prominent Republicans are joining the Biden Administration in calling for its end. David Remnick speaks with the U.S. Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, a…

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Film & TV · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design

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Highlights - ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON 10:23

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"Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito and director Ivan Reitman, who also wrote the film, were willing to work for free and just take a percentage of the profits. They were able to get the film made. They had to fight with the studios to produce that film. And the only way that the studio agreed to produce Twins was when they said, 'We will not t…

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Film & TV · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing, Cinematography, Producers, Composers, Costume Design

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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON 58:04

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“Why I was different from all the other boys in my town I cannot tell you. I was simply born with the gift of vision.” – ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Is there any better example of the American Dream than Arnold Schwarzenegger? What does it take to make your vision a reality? How do you cultivate iron focus to overcome any obstacle and realize your dreams…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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James McBride on His New Novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” 14:01

2M ago14:01

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James McBride’s new novel, “The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store,” centers on the discovery of a skeleton at the bottom of a well in a small town in Pennsylvania. What unfolds is the story of a young Black boy raised by a Jewish woman decades earlier, a story that has been closely held secret among the communities that call the area home. McBride has b…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Emily Nussbaum on the Culture Wars in Country Music 36:52

2M ago36:52

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Last month, the country singer Jason Aldean released a music video for “Try That in a Small Town,” a song that initially received little attention. But the video cast the song’s lyrics in a new light. While Aldean sings, “Try that in a small town / See how far ya make it down the road / ’Round here, we take care of our own,” images of protests agai…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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A Trip to the Boundary Waters 17:08

2M ago17:08

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Alex Kotlowitz is known as a chronicler of Chicago, and of lives marred by urban poverty and violence. His books set in the city include “An American Summer,” “There Are No Children Here,” and “Never a City So Real.” Nevertheless, for some 40 years he has returned to a remote stretch of woods, summer after summer. At a young age, he found himself n…

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New Books in Poetry

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Linda Nemec Foster, "Bone Country: Prose Poems" (Cornerstone Press, 2023) 1:14:12

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Linda Nemec Foster has published twelve collections of poetry including Amber Necklace from Gdansk (finalist for the Ohio Book Award in Poetry), Talking Diamonds, and The Lake Michigan Mermaid (2019 Michigan Notable Book) which was created with co-author Anne-Marie Oomen and artist Meridith Ridl. Her work appears in magazines and journals such as T…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Regina Spektor on “Home, Before and After” 43:17

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Twenty years ago, Regina Spektor was yet another aspiring musician in New York, lugging around a backpack full of self-produced CDs and playing at little clubs in the East Village—anywhere that had a piano, basically. But anonymity didn’t last long. She toured with the Strokes in 2003, and, once she had a record deal, her ambitions grew beyond indi…

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Irish Stew Podcast

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S5E10: Luke McManus – Filming the Song of a Dublin Road 1:02:13

2M ago1:02:13

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Join us on a stroll along North Circular Road from Phoenix Park to the Dublin Docklands with our guide Luke McManus, the documentary filmmaker of the award-winning North Circular which opens in New York City on July 28th. Rendered in graphic black & white over a soundtrack of local North Circular musicians, the film gives voice to narratives from t…

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Colson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto” 23:22

2M ago23:22

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Colson Whitehead is one of the most lauded writers working today. His 2016 novel “The Underground Railroad” won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction; he won the Pulitzer again for his next novel, “The Nickel Boys,” in 2020. His career is notable for hopping from genre to genre. As an artist, he tells David Remnick, “it seemed …

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director 27:22

2M ago27:22

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In making “Oppenheimer,” which opens in theatres this weekend, the director Christopher Nolan relied on a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2005 biography of the father of the atomic bomb, “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. Bird is credited as a writer of Nolan’s movie, and he s…

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