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Required Reading from Liberties
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On Required Reading we talk with writers and readers about the texts — old and new — that influence or express their worldview.
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David A. Bell on the book review's past, present, and uncertain future
1w ago00:35:55Tap to summarizeDavid A. Bell joins Morten Høi Jensen to discuss his essay from Liberties' spring issue "The Life and Death of the Book Review."
Transcribe →A.E. Stallings on writing poetry
3w ago00:37:30Tap to summarizeA.E. Stallings discusses her recent essay "How Poems Happen (For Me)" with Morten Høi Jensen.
Transcribe →Abbas Milani on Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma
Apr 1400:34:54Tap to summarizeAbbas Milani and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Milani's recent Liberties essay "Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma"
Transcribe →Yahia Lababidi - Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton; Secretaries of Silence
Mar 3100:33:36Tap to summarizeYahia Lababidi discusses his recent essay "Secretaries of Silence" with Morten Høi Jensen. The essay is about the relationship between Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton.
Transcribe →James Wolcott - Gloire Days
Mar 600:24:32Tap to summarizeJames Wolcott and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Wolcott's essay "Gloire Days" and Trump's obsession with Mar-a-Lago.
Transcribe →Dan Sinykin - Close Reading
Feb 900:35:40Tap to summarizeDan Sinykin and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Close Reading For The Twentieth Century, the book that Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winnant edited and which was published recently by Princeton University Press.
Transcribe →Morten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus -- Mann and Soutine
Jan 2700:44:40Tap to summarizeMorten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus discuss their respective books The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain and Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art.
Transcribe →Lance Richardson - Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen,
Jan 500:39:01Tap to summarizeOn this episode of Required Reading, Morten Høi Jensen and Lance Richardson discuss Richardson’s new biography Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, exploring the author’s environmentalism, his time working for the CIA, and his fascination with the Bigfoot Legend."
Transcribe →Aatish Taseer - Return to Self: Excursions in Exile
Nov 1100:35:24Tap to summarizeOn November 7th, 2019, the Indian government revoked Aatish Taseer's Indian citizenship. In this episode of Required Reading, MORTEN HØI JENSEN and AATISH TASEER discuss Taseer’s recent book Return to Self: Excursions in Exile, a memoir about processing that violent ejection and grappling with the shards of self which remain after statehood.
Transcribe →Daniel Elkind - Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier
Oct 1500:34:39Tap to summarizeDaniel Elkind and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Elkind's new book, Dr Chizhevsky's Chandelier: The Decline of the USSR and other Heresies of the Twentieth Century.
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