50: "Why Read Books?" Week

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Welcome to episode 50. It covers the week of September 14 - 18, 2020.

This week’s theme is: *Why Read Books?” The curator is Dan Kubis.

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This week's podcast spotlight is Pray for Us. Find it here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pray-for-us/id1497592584


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More on this podcast:
Each week on this podcast, we’ll share the information that's within the newsletter put out by EarBuds Podcast Collective. EBPC is a listening movement. We send a weekly email with a theme and 5 podcast episodes on that theme, and each week is curated by a different person. Anyone can curate a list -- just reach out!


Here are the episodes chosen by Dan this week:


A Phone Call from Paul

A Conversation with Maggie Nelson
48 minutes

In this episode, Paul Holdengraber talks to the writer Maggie Nelson about how Proust inspires guilt, the disillusionment of youth, and how aging is a spectacular adventure. For more, visit LitHub.com.



Live at Politics and Prose

Lisa Halliday
50 minutes

Halliday’s debut novel was one of the literary events of 2018, earning uniformly rave reviews and a place on innumerable bestseller lists. The narrative ingeniously combines two starkly different narratives to give us a startling view of today’s world. The book starts with Alice, a young editor and writer in New York, and her relationship with an older, established novelist, a character based on Philip Roth. In the second section, Halliday turns to Amar, an Iraqi-American man who is detained by immigration officers at Heathrow as he’s en route to see his brother in Kurdistan.


Being Human

Revolution as Preservation: A Conversation with Fred Moten
51 minutes

An interview with Fred Moten, professor in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU. The interview focuses on Professor Moten's life and career, particularly his recent volume of criticism called "consent not to be a single being." The Nathaniel Mackey poem "Destination Out," which Moten references at the end of the conversation, is available here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi…tination-out


Reading Women

Interview with Anjali Sachdeva
37 minutes

Autumn and Kendra chat with Anjali Sachdeva about her debut short story collection All the Names They Used for God.



Just the Right Book Podcast

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Most Intimate Evil of Enslavement
72 minutes


How does memory create power? How do you define freedom, and how does the emotional savagery of selling and separating members of a family destroy and define a human being? And, most powerfully, in the midst of trauma and loss, how does one find courage and how does love survive? These ideas and more are explored in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel, The Water Dancer.


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