Hey, hey! Episode 3 is up! Check out my conversation with evolutionary biologist Zack Blount, who lets us know why #scientists need to read widely—and tells us what makes for good #horror and a good #bookstore .
Hey, one of December's guests and I were just talking about Christian Wiman—and there he is in a recent article on, among other things, #poetry and poetic #faith in a dying world. Right now, I'm appreciating this assertion: "There is severe contradiction between our need to speak of ultimate things and the immunity of those things from speech. There is also, sometimes, #hope and rescue."
Good LORD—Kevin Lambert's Querelle of Roberval was incredible. As I said on my (personal, not #podcast) Goodreads/LibraryThing accounts this morning, I imagine Lambert as being an entirely fearless author.
One reason I love #reading the New York Review of Books is that I come across things I never knew would move me. Behold, in Daniel M. Lavery's discussion of a new one from Jacques Pépin was this thought to remember: "'You don't have to try to be different,' Pépin reassures readers... because the great gift of excellence, of following through... and becoming deeply familiar with rules, habits, and best practices, is that individuality will invariably shine through."
If #Halloween season has you in the mood for a creepy mix of a Grimm-like #FairyTale and, say, situations the House of Atreus might well understand, check out Nathan Grover's new #ShortStory over at Ergot!
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is literally the first Herzog film I ever saw (Every Man for Himself & God Against All was the subtitle (?) or alternate title for that film)
I've always thought it was a great title altho someone told me it's a German saying rather than something he just cooked up