Orpheus
With Michael Silverblatt on KCRW Bookworm in 1992
updated 6 years ago
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Also, if you'd like to chat about books feel free to join the discord: discord.gg/5J6HZg3e4H
Also, if you'd like to chat about books feel free to join the discord: discord.gg/5J6HZg3e4H
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If you'd like to support my channel you can join my Patreon: patreon.com/orpheus_sings
Also, if you'd like to chat about books feel free to join the discord: discord.gg/5J6HZg3e4H
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Thinking Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold: ecotoneinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/aldo-leopold-tlam.pdf
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Still working on a set of Montaigne translated by Florio
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If you'd like to thank me for my videos or support my channel you can join my Patreon: patreon.com/orpheus_sings
Also, if you'd like to chat about books feel free to join the discord: discord.gg/5J6HZg3e4H
If you'd like to thank me for my videos or support my channel you can join my Patreon: patreon.com/orpheus_sings
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If you'd like to thank me for my videos or support my channel you can join my Patreon: patreon.com/orpheus_sings
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A recap of the second half of my reading for 2023.
My booklist for the second half:
The Sunflower Forest by Jordan
A Small Farm Future by Smaje
Overshoot by Catton
Dwellers in the Land by Sale
The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin
Bloom by Xi Chuan
Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
The MANIAC by Labatut
A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts
Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien
Hamlet by Shopkeeper
An Indigenous Peoples' History by Dunbar-Ortiz
Pedro Paramo by Rulfo
Crow With No Mouth by Ikkyu
Ripened Wheat by Hai Zi
Enough to Say It's Far by Pak Chaesam
Ghost of by Nguyen
Angels & Saints by Weinberger
Impressions of Theophrastus Such by Eliot
Night Bus by Zuo Ma
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Works and authors mentioned:
The Analects by Confucius
Mencius
Zhuangzi
Dao De Jing
Elegies of Chu
The Classic of Mountains and Seas
Tang Dyansty Poets
Li Po
Tu Fu
Wang Wei
Po Chu-i
Wei Ying-wu
Li Shangyin
Li He
Song Dynasty Poets
Su Tung-po
Wang An-shi
Six Great Classics
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Journey to the West
Outlaws of Liang Marsh
The Plum in the Golden Vase
The Scholars
The Story of the Stone (or Dream of the Red Chambers)
Qing Dynasty Prose
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Six Records of a Life Adrift
Flowers in a Mirror
The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai
Modern Chinese History
The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin
Tombstone by Yang Jisheng
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
Juárez: the Laboratory of Our Future by Charles Bowden
The Myth of the State by Ernst Cassirer
Civilization on Trial by Arnold Toynbee
End Times by Peter Turchin
American Prometheus by Sherwin & Bird
The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot
The Sunflower Forest by William Jordan III
Currently Reading
A Small Farm Future by Chris Smaje
Overshoot by William Catton Jr.
The Indo-Europeans by Jean-Paul Demoule
Charles Bowden interview link:
youtu.be/1ollB5EQggg
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Photo is Niko Kazantzakis
New Macunaima: ndbooks.com/book/macunaima
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Buy The Garden of Seven Twilights here:
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Buy Literature and Politics here:
contramundumpress.com/literature-and-politics
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Joy Williams on The Passenger
harpers.org/archive/2023/01/joy-williams-on-cormac-mccarthy-the-passenger-stella-maris
Cormac McCarthy Interview (best one ever done)
youtu.be/HrUy1Vn2KdI
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La muerte de Aliocha Coll by Javier Marias
elpais.com/diario/1990/12/01/cultura/660006020_850215.html
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Here's a brief video on my favorite art historian: Aby Warburg. I talk about his early years, his famous trip to America where he studied Pueblo culture and finally the creation of his masterpiece: the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne.
Names mentioned:
Ernst (EH) Gombrich
James Mooney
Franz Boas
Fritz Saxl
Raymond Klibansky
(Erwin Panofsky)
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42 translators not 12! for the Dionysiaca of course...
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Books You Haven't Read (Nate Rankin)
youtu.be/7dfLa4cMBlg
Miss Macintosh, My Darling Pre-Order
https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/miss-macintosh-my-darling
Solenoid Pre-Order
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The Garden of Seven Twilights Pre-Order
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http://www.fuguestatepress.com
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Gaddis
youtu.be/s4u6pKcObDY
On the path to the infinite plank
youtu.be/SxhId8Gk55Y
Santa Fe Institute Clips
youtu.be/Dw8Ku3m1rXo
youtu.be/dyTii_1o0RA
NYTimes Article
nytimes.com/2022/03/08/books/cormac-mccarthy-new-novels.html
McCarthy's Archive
https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/
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Thumbnail is a painting by Remedios Varo.
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theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/the-sorias-los-sorias-by-alberto-laiseca
theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/the-weaver-of-crowns-la-tejedora-de-coronas-by-german-espinosa
theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2021/05/13/attila-atila-by-aliocha-coll
theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2021/12/26/small-symphony-of-the-new-world-pequena-sinfonia-del-nuevo-mundo-by-luis-cardoza-y-aragon
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http://storberose.blogspot.com/2022/01/thomas-pynchon-in-craters-vicinity.html?m=1
An awesome essay on Gravity's Rainbow that gave me a lot to think about.
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Lots to read...
2/22 - Books of Jacob by Tokarzcuk (trans. Jennifer Croft) - Riverhead Books
2/22 - The Man from the Future by Bhattacharya - Norton
3/22 - Pleromatica, or Elsinore's Trance by Catren (trans. Thomas Murphy) by Urbanomic
10/22 - Solenoid by Cartarescu (trans. Cotter) - Deep Vellum
?/22 - Writings on Art & Poetical Theory by Pessoa - Contra Mundum
8/22 - Miss Macintosh My Darling - Dalkey
11/22 - Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne: Commentary Volume
Late/22 - Prae II by Szentkuthy - Contra Mundum
Check out Travel Through Stories - youtu.be/1e0YjzGhOOw