Posts Tagged "audio"

This is what Virginia Woolf sounds like. Kind of perfect, right?

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Plays: 11

Sarah Manguso, author of The Guardians: An Elegy, stops by Brad Listi’s Other People podcast to talk about grief and memory. Listi says something kind of incredible about the book: “It’s written in these sharp poetic bursts, each of which feels as if it was carved into the page with a swiss army knife.”

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Plays: 90

Since it’s St. Patrick’s Day, I thought I’d share Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney reading his poem “Keeping Going.”

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Plays: 40

Jonathan Franzen talks about Edith Wharton and the problem with sympathy, on the New Yorker podcast.

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T.M. Wolf’s SOUND is unusual because of its polyphonic approach to narrative, manifest on the page like bars from a music score. Wolf has said he’s inspired by hip-hop and its formal approaches. Here he attempts to approximate what reading from his novel might sound like.

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Gary Shteyngart—novelist, Twitterer, and illiteracy advocate—reads “What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?” from Keret’s collection Suddenly, A Knock on The Door.

Should you find yourself inspired by Keret’s words (or, for that matter, Shteyngart’s voice), I recommend Something Out of Something, our design contest with BOMB Magazine.

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