Old Blues Chapter and Verse
Cozy Reading Night: Autumn 2019
updated
Plays and books mentioned or discussed herein:
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
Films mentioned or discussed herein:
Will & Harper (dir: Josh Greenbaum)
Oscar and Lucinda (dir: Gillian Armstrong)
#shaketember
#shaketember2025
#shaketube
#shaketember #shaketube #shaketember2024
If you're so inclined please check out this weekend's videos from my co-hosts, Kelly (discussing James Shapiro's keyhole biography of Shakespeare, The Year of Lear) and Nicole (discussing Cymbeline):
youtube.com/watch?v=Ol_PkMHAk0M
youtube.com/watch?v=R6FbTKjnmj0
Kelly's announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=TeVhBpYUQhU
Nicole's announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=GO8Xmyn5JxA
#shaketember
Books and plays discussed herein:
- The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
- Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
- Possession by A.S. Byatt
Films mentioned or discussed herein:
- Angels in America (dir: Mike Nichols)
- Possession (dir: Neil LaBute)
I owe my possession of the oral history to @saintdonoghue
Here is a link to the trailer for the Angels in America mini-series, currently streaming on Max:
youtube.com/watch?v=W4bsQ6nsEZ8
And if you make videos for the event, use one or all of the following hashtags, so I might find and collect your videos in the ongoing March of the Mammoths playlist: #marchofthemammoths #marchingmammoths #marchofthemammoths2024
Let me know below what you plan to read for the event.
Apologies to my longtime co-host Alex from @bigalbooks for not getting in touch with her about hosting. It all rather snuck up on me this year, so I thought I'd just handle it myself. (But if you'd like to co-host, Alex, feel absolutely free to jump in. It wouldn't be the same without you.)
Kelly's video on Richard III: youtube.com/watch?v=1QMK_-qYiXk
Nicole's video on Richard III: youtube.com/watch?v=7zF6lnplP_8
#shaketember #shaketember2023
youtube.com/watch?v=J-x5akcI4Tw
youtube.com/watch?v=cgNdaGfpDsY
#shaketember2023 #shaketube
1. What was your first experience reading Shakespeare and what was it like?
2. Has the *reading* of a Shakespeare play ever brought you to tears? What scene was it and where were you when it happened?
3. Are there any people that have played a significant role in your Shakespeare journey?
4. Do you have a favorite book or film *about* Shakespeare?
5. Which character in Shakespeare most resembles you and in what ways?
6. Which play would you most like to see performed in a theater and why?
7. What actor, throughout history, would you most like to have seen play Hamlet while in his prime?
8. Deliver your favorite speech or soliloquy from a Shakespeare play.
9. Do any of Shakespeare's plays intimidate you? If yes, what play and why?
10. What tips would you give to intimidated readers coming to Shakespeare for the first time?
11. Which is your favorite Shakespeare play and why?
12. Tag other Booktubers.
I tag:
Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
Shelby @ShelbyLovesShakespeare
Andrew B @codex3048
Books or plays discussed in this video:
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
- Titus Andronicus by WS
- Twelfth Night by WS
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by WS
- Hamlet by WS
- The Tempest by WS
#shaketember #shaketember2023
Kelly's announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=EJQ8UD5lT50
Nicole's announcement video: youtube.com/watch?v=Digf77F3rkA
Our schedule:
September 3: The Shakespeare Voyage Tag
September 10: Romeo and Juliet
September 17: Richard III
September 24: Antony and Cleopatra
#shaketember #shaketember2023
Here is the link to the video in which I explore my favorite-ever sentence, from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse:
youtube.com/watch?v=nxK2Rtw4rb0
youtube.com/watch?v=5W3JzhzWKlg&t=31s
The objective: spend the month of March reading a book of 800+ pages. Finish it, don't finish it, stretch it out through the rest of of 2023 -- your choice. But spend the month giving some love to a long-neglected title that has always scared you off a bit owing to its number of pages.
An abridgement of Christina Newland's interview with Andrew Dominik in Sight and Sound:
bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/interviews/im-not-interested-reality-im-interested-images-andrew-dominik-blonde
Sean Egan's opinion piece on Martin Scorsese:
thecritic.co.uk/issues/october-2022/martin-scorsese-rinse-and-repeat-self-indulgence
My co-hosts for Shaketember have been Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868 and Rainey @RaineyDayReads
Play discussed in this video:
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Also spoiler warning re: episode three of House of the Dragon!
#shaketember #shaketember2022 #shaketube
My co-hosts in Shaketember:
Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868 and Rainey @RaineyDayReads
The scene from Bowfinger which reminded me of Parolles's capture scene: youtube.com/watch?v=E6yFlIQxp8g
Plays mentioned or discussed:
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Movies mentioned:
Bowfinger (dir: Frank Oz)
X-Men: First Class (dir: Matthew Vaughn)
#shaketube #shaketember #shaketember2022
The Ethan Hawke interview that I mention can be found here: indiewire.com/2022/07/ethan-hawke-interview-the-last-movie-stars-1234742709
A magnificent bit of writing on Noah, that chimes with my own appreciation and that I just discovered earlier this summer: brightwalldarkroom.com/2016/08/08/sacred-texts-and-ruined-childhoods-on-aronofskys-noah
Please let me know what you think of the films I hold in such high regard from the last two decades. The earlier videos in this series can be found linked below:
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: Introduction: youtube.com/watch?v=f-zhCGB601g
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 100-91: youtube.com/watch?v=ooBy95-33jY
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 90-81: youtube.com/watch?v=-IhqFo6-KW0
The Best 21st Century Films I’ve Seen: 80-71: youtube.com/watch?v=cj-9CFXHCyY&t=106s
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 70-61: youtube.com/watch?v=8bt-ro1ijZQ&t=646s
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 60-51: youtube.com/watch?v=anaT1D9ReOI&t=153s
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 50-41: youtube.com/watch?v=1610PedaaSQ&t=89s
9/3/2022: All's Well That Ends Well
9/10/2022: Coriolanus
9/17/2022: A Midsummer Night's Dream
9/24/2022: Jason (sonnets 12 and 120), Lukas (sonnets 20 and 98), Rainey (sonnets 103 and 117)
Lukas's announcement video (@acruelreadersthesis5868) can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=EoB2OtHt36c
Rainey's announcement video (@RaineyDayReads) can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=3AEJY4zYvvA
Read along with us and make videos of your own on these plays and poems -- use the hashtags #shaketember and/or #shaketember2022, so we can find your videos easily -- or plays and poems from the rest of his substantial body of work. Or simply join in with comments on our videos.
The website for the sculptor who made my ghoulish new mug is www.trevorfosterstudio.com.
And if you've always had an original watch idea in mind, send me a message on Instagram (I'm oldbluecv), and I can put you in touch with my brother.
youtube.com/watch?v=c7Rv_DfxZyc
Questions / prompts:
1. Do you remember the first A24 Movie you saw?
2. Which A24 movie do you relate to the most?
3. Which A24 movie made you cry the most?
4. Which A24 movie did you find the most disturbing?
5. What movie is not an A24 movie but seems like it should be?
6. An A24 movie you disliked?
7. Have you ever DNFed an A24 movie?
8. An underrated A24 movie you want to give a shout out to?
9. Which A24 movie have you not seen yet that you're most looking forward to?
10. Your favourite A24 movie?
Wikipedia list of A24 releases can be found here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_A24_films
My video on A Ghost Story from a few years back:
youtube.com/watch?v=iPbDxNjU27Y
And finally, if you'd like to follow me on Letterboxd, here is that link:
letterboxd.com/resurgence27
Here is the link to the Paul Kingsnorth article I mention in this video:
firstthings.com/article/2021/06/the-cross-and-the-machine
And here is the link to the Letterboxd list I've prepared re: Midrash Cinema:
letterboxd.com/resurgence27/list/midrash-cinema
#maybemidrash #maybemidrash2022
#bookhaul
Apologies for the hitches in the picture that last for two or three minutes roundabouts the 12-15 minute mark. I had a bizarrely difficult time getting so long a video uploaded, and I can only chalk it up to that.
Books mentioned or discussed herein:
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Porius by John Cowper Powys
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Films mentioned or discussed herein:
Threads (dir: Mick Jackson)
Chernobyl (dir: Johan Renck)
Station Eleven (dirs: Jeremy Podeswa, Helen Shaver, Hiro Murai and Lucy Tcherniak)
Perceval (dir: Eric Rohmer)
Steve's Arthurian Starter Kit video:
youtube.com/watch?v=8nUCCfSnrkY
#marchingmammoths2022
This event is co-hosted by Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868 and Alex @bigalbooksforever. Their announcement videos can be found here:
youtube.com/watch?v=ZAnqPPlsxY0
youtube.com/watch?v=5Bv7FWuwN6U
#marchingmammoths2022 #marchingmammoths
www.foliosociety.com
Earlier videos in which I discuss Red Comet:
youtube.com/watch?v=_UrcZf876LY&t=1s
youtube.com/watch?v=ZtWJVdlTu-U
Please let me know what you think of the films I hold in such high regard from the last two decades. The earlier videos in this series can be found linked below:
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: Introduction: youtube.com/watch?v=f-zhCGB601g
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 100-91: youtube.com/watch?v=ooBy95-33jY
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 90-81: youtube.com/watch?v=-IhqFo6-KW0
The Best 21st Century Films I’ve Seen: 80-71: youtube.com/watch?v=cj-9CFXHCyY&t=106s
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 70-61: youtube.com/watch?v=8bt-ro1ijZQ&t=646s
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 60-51: youtube.com/watch?v=anaT1D9ReOI&t=153s
Films discussed herein:
Christine (dir: Antonio Campos)
Doubt (dir: John Patrick Shanley)
Girl with the Pearl Earring (dir: Peter Webber)
Impossible, The (dir: J.A. Bayona)
Jane Austen Book Club, The (dir: Robin Swicord)
King's Speech, The (dir: Tom Hooper)
Pan's Labyrinth (dir: Guillermo Del Toro)
Prisoners (dir: Denis Villeneuve)
Skyfall (dir: Sam Mendes)
Witch, The (dir: Robert Eggers)
Readalong announcement video:
youtube.com/watch?v=iAOThUpa3lg&t=72s
Video on chapters 1-32:
youtube.com/watch?v=IZ1rxLERcBo&t=2s
Video on chapters 33-57:
youtube.com/watch?v=zGtFPVA3Hhg&t=1198s
Video on chapters 58-79:
youtube.com/watch?v=KzPDochANqI
youtube.com/watch?v=iAOThUpa3lg&t=72s
The revised reading schedule is thus:
Chapters 1-32 - for October 9th
Chapters 33-57 - for October 23rd
Chapters 58-79 - for October 30th
Chapters 80-111 - for November 6th
youtube.com/watch?v=iAOThUpa3lg&t=72s
The revised reading schedule is thus:
Chapters 1-32 - for October 9th
Chapters 33-57 - for October 23rd
Chapters 58-79 - for October 30th
Chapters 80-111 - for November 6th
Link to the Literary Hub article about the Literature of the Voice and Literature of the Pose:
lithub.com/winning-the-game-you-didnt-even-want-to-play-on-sally-rooney-and-the-literature-of-the-pose
youtube.com/watch?v=iAOThUpa3lg&t=72s
The reading schedule is thus:
Chapters 1-32 - for October 9th
Chapters 33-57 - for October 16th
Chapters 58-79 - for October 23rd
Chapters 80-111 - for October 30th
The reading schedule is thus:
Chapters 1-32 - for October 9th
Chapters 33-57 - for October 16th
Chapters 58-79 - for October 23rd
Chapters 80-111 - for October 30th
Here is a link to a series of annotations that Peter Carey did in 2013. See the annotations for pages 339 and 342 to get a sense, in his own words, of what I discuss near the end of this video and why the American first edition hardcover is to be avoided at all costs:
theguardian.com/books/interactive/2013/may/18/peter-carey-oscar-lucinda-annotations
Here is the link to my video on Neo-Victorian Fiction:
youtube.com/watch?v=X2LFDY-kGAQ&t=2s
The music paying behind the intro in this announcement video is "Prince Rupert's Drop," from Thomas Newman's original score of Oscar and Lucinda, the 1997 film adaptation directed by Gillian Armstrong. Obviously, I neither own nor claim to own the rights to it, and fully and happily concede that whatever monies result from eventual monetization of this video be turned over to the copyright holder on that piece of music.
Thanks to my wife Kelly and my friend Thomas for their technical assistance in the making of this video.
#readalong #victober2021
Join us next Saturday, the 11th of September, for a discussion of Shakespeare's The Tempest over on Rainey's channel.
Plays or books or other art mentioned or discussed in this video:
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss
Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
...and the Netflix animated series Bojack Horseman
#shaketember #shaketember2021 #shaketube
@OldBluesChapterandVerse
@acruelreadersthesis5868
@saintdonoghue
@RaineyDayReads
The schedule of Zoom discussions is as follows:
9/4: Othello (on my channel)
9/11: The Tempest (on Rainey's channel)
9/18: a play of Steve's choice (on -- predictably -- Steve's channel)
9/25: The Winter's Tale (on Lukas's channel)
Read along with us and join in with your own videos or in the comments below our videos, or mix it up and go rogue with some Shakespeare of your own choice. Let us spend September celebrating the Bard!
#shaketube #shaketember #shaketember2021
youtube.com/watch?v=8AI_wnQfIXo&t=2s
Impellitteri's song "Tonight I Fly" can be heard here:
youtube.com/watch?v=9N9QfVqTdw0
The tag prompts are as follows:
1. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being a normal person and 10 being the late Harold Bloom, how much are books and reading a part of your life?
2. Where does your personal library stand right now in relation to the rest of your life? Do you have more books now than you ever have? Fewer? How has your library changed?
3. Take a mental step back and ask yourself: what is the most likely first bookish impression a newcomer would have in your home?
4. How often (if ever, gulp) do you clean or re-organize your books?
5. On average, how many books do you acquire in a given week?
6. What song is your current ear-worm?
7. What percentage of your self-control do you retain in a well-stocked bookshop?
8. Do you ever feel the need to take a break from books? If so, what form does it take?
9. When you meet a new person, how long does it take you to bring up books?
10. Have you given any thought/made any provisions for your personal library after you croak?
11. Are you known among your friends & loved ones for your weird and probably unhealthy relationship with books?
This video is largely a response to his video that can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=kmCsC6YdnUU
But also, more nominally, to this wonderful video from my favorite Booktuber on the subject of poetry, Emily Butler: youtube.com/watch?v=WNHGL6Ck2Ok&t=161s
Poems mentioned or discussed in this video include:
"Every Riven Thing" by Christian Wiman
"After the Diagnosis" by Christian Wiman
"Lesbos" by Sylvia Plath
"Awareness" by William Stafford
"At the Thirtieth Reunion" by William Stafford
"Not Writing" by Jane Kenyon
Maybe Midrash is an event I'm hosting with the following Booktubers (check out their channels if you've yet to do so):
@saintdonoghue
@RickMacDonnell
Felicia at Little Prairie Library: youtube.com/channel/UCokJv7u_sHqZUrFQYetlyDA
#maybemidrash #maybemidrash2021
Here is the link to Kelly's video, in which I read the back cover of The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies by Robert Kirk:
youtube.com/watch?v=QJYz4yoVc0w&t=12s
Statement from the Authors Guild on WW Norton's decision to usher Blake Bailey's biography of Philip Roth out of print:
authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/authors-guild-statement-on-w-w-nortons-removing-blake-baileys-books-from-circulation/#:~:text=The%20Authors%20Guild%20stands%20firm,should%20stand%20on%20its%20own.
Please let me know what you think of the films I hold in such high regard from the last two decades. The earlier videos in this series can be found linked below:
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: Introduction: youtube.com/watch?v=f-zhCGB601g
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 100-91: youtube.com/watch?v=ooBy95-33jY
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 90-81: youtube.com/watch?v=-IhqFo6-KW0
The Best 21st Century Films I’ve Seen: 80-71: youtube.com/watch?v=cj-9CFXHCyY&t=106s
The Best 21st Century Films I've Seen: 70-61: youtube.com/watch?v=8bt-ro1ijZQ&t=646s
Films discussed herein:
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (dir: Guillermo del Toro)
House of Flying Daggers (dir: Zhang Yimou)
Last Days in the Desert (dir: Rodrigo Garcia)
Logan (dir: James Mangold)
Loving (dir: Jeff Nichols)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (dir: Peter Weir)
Monsoon Wedding (dir: Mira Nair)
Mr. Turner (dir: Mike Leigh)
Obvious Child (dir: Gillian Robespierre)
Zodiac (dir: David Fincher)
Books mentioned or discussed herein:
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner
Angels in America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
As a God Might Be by Neil Griffiths
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
Maybe Midrash co-hosts:
@saintdonoghue
@RickMacDonnell
Felicia @Little Prairie Library: youtube.com/channel/UCokJv7u_sHqZUrFQYetlyDA
Maybe Midrash is a May readathon in which we, as readers -- whatever our religious backgrounds or lack thereof -- bring our curiosity, intellect, skepticism and sense of wonder to bear in exploring religion.
My co-hosts' announcement videos:
Felicia @Little Prairie Library: youtube.com/watch?v=BEB8xhoxeqM
@saintdonoghue: youtube.com/watch?v=m3TPojD5dHM
@RickMacDonnell: youtube.com/watch?v=veHnSt74LZQ
To participate in Maybe Midrash, read one work of literary fiction dealing with religion (think publishing houses like FSG and Penguin, not Thomas Nelson and Tyndale House) and one work of non-fiction dealing with religion during the month of May. Both will be books OF YOUR CHOICE. Please use #maybemidrash so that I can find your videos easily and collect them in a playlist.
Books discussed in this video:
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
Films discussed in this video:
Da 5 Bloods (dir: Spike Lee)
Frantz (dir: Francois Ozon)
Light from Light (dir: Paul Harrill)
#marchingmammoths2021 #worldpoetryday
theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/14/us-winter-storm-rocky-mountains
#snowtube
Kelly's "Saint Patrick's Day Shoutouts Challenge" video:
youtube.com/watch?v=VenNjw2pgjA
Books mentioned or discussed in this video:
Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath by Paul Alexander
Sylvia Plath: A Biography by Linda Wagner-Martin
Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
Films discussed in this video:
Nomadland (dir: Chloe Zhao)
Songs My Brothers Taught Me (dir: Chloe Zhao)
#marchingmammoths2021
Please note that the text herein from the blog post I wrote years ago has featured in an earlier video on my channel. I will link it below, in case any of you are interested.
Here is the link to the Seuss Estate's statement:
seussville.com/statement-from-dr-seuss-enterprises
Here is the link to my earlier video on what Christianity is and is not (in my view), and why the excision of even the most objectionable passages from the Bible is a bad idea:
youtube.com/watch?v=qs09cAeUy14
Here is the link to Lili Wilkinson's column in the Guardian:
theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/05/dr-seusss-legacy-of-kindness-has-only-been-bolstered-by-his-estates-decision
Here is the link to Brian's video on the Seuss controversy @BookishTexan :
youtube.com/watch?v=ktLuDM9DblE&t=133s
And here is the link to Madison's video at Reading Wayfarer:
youtube.com/watch?v=mMM6nsYWWuo&t=5s
#drseuss
I'm reading the new biography of Sylvia Plath, Red Comet, this month -- and I thought it would be fun to share all of the books by and about Plath that my wife and I own before embarking.
If you're going to be participating and if you haven't yet let me know with what book, let me know in the comments below. Happy March of the Mammoths, everyone! I look forward to your check-ins!
Books discussed in this video:
- The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
Books mentioned in this video:
- The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
- Daughters of the North by Sarah Hall
- Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Serena by Ron Rash
- As a God Might Be by Neil Griffiths
- Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again by Rachel Held Evans
- Jack by Marilynne Robinson
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen
- The Fifth Season by NK Jemison
- Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer
- White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
- Unquiet by Linn Ullmann
- Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
Films discussed in this video:
- The Forty-Year-Old Version (dir: Radha Blank)
- Stranger than Fiction (dir: Marc Forster)
- Everything Must Go (dir: Dan Rush)
- Beginning (dir: Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Booktubers mentioned in this video:
Lukas @acruelreadersthesis5868
@RickMacDonnell
Jack @ Rambling Raconteur
youtube.com/channel/UCYJoqMxWfnqqttRZa-qkeDQ
Juan @justjuanreader
youtube.com/watch?v=xtdqEcABGE4&t=0s
I was tagged by Sina from Beating Around the Books:
youtube.com/watch?v=YdJvfPrlkHE
The prompts:
1. A is for Author: which author have you read the most books by?
2. B is for Black History Month: what are you reading for Black History Month?
3. C is for Currently Reading: what are you reading right now?
4. D is for Drink: what is your drink of choice while reading?
5. E is for E-Book: do you prefer e-books or physical books?
6. F is for Favorite Fictitious (or Fictional) Character: who is yours?
7. G is for Georgia: do you know any famous Georgians (the country -- not the US state)?
8. H is for Horror: is there a book that really scared you?
9. I is for...I don’t know…Italy, India, Ireland…Intelligent…whatever you like...
10. What book have you Just finished?
Books mentioned or discussed herein:
Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell
the Kurt Wallander series by Henning Mankell
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Sina's channel Beating Around the Books:
youtube.com/channel/UC61bA8SxHgoE9O9JgAQouQw
Kelly's video in which she and I discuss what it's like being married to a Booktuber:
youtube.com/watch?v=EsbOi0U9Lj0&t=12s
The Guardian article in which writers discuss their favorite romantic scenes in literature:
theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/13/i-can-cry-just-thinking-about-it-the-most-romantic-moments-in-literature
Books mentioned or discussed in this video:
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Harvest by Jim Crace
Havoc, in its Third Year by Ronan Bennett
Films discussed in brief or at length in this video:
September (dir: Woody Allen)
The Silence of the Lambs (dir: Jonathan Demme)
The Dig: (dir: Simon Stone)
Hard to Be a God (dir: Aleksey German)
Lukas: youtube.com/watch?v=zYrxR52AUuQ
Alex: youtube.com/watch?v=1pfKTIfuZBY
Images of mammoths used in this video are free for use in the public domain, the illustration (housed in the British Library) was found at Picryl, while the photograph of the skeleton was found at Pixabay.
Music is the opening of "Blizzard (PON I)" by Kai Engel, which is licensed under Creative Commons and can be found at Free Music Archive here:
freemusicarchive.org/search/?adv=1&quicksearch=kai%20engel&page=3
Mammoth and storm sound effects created by Donny Rood.
Thank you to my friend Dan Hauck for assisting me -- masked up and socially distant -- in getting the footage of the mammoth itself.
#marchingmammoths2021
Kelly's video on commenting:
youtube.com/watch?v=heyUdQbOe1Y&t=113s
Steve's video response:
youtube.com/watch?v=47kGXK4Yskg
And, lastly, a video from Claudia at Spinster's Library on the subject (I don't mention her video herein, but it's terrific, and she's been one of the fiercest Booktubers on the subject of hate in the comments field):
youtube.com/watch?v=krJ9m5Y8YzA
Books or texts mentioned or discussed:
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Films mentioned or discussed:
Light of My Life (dir: Casey Affleck)
In Search of Kundun with Martin Scorsese (dir: Michael Henry Wilson)
22 July (dir: Paul Greengrass)