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Our season finale is here! Travis Chi Wing Lau talks about understanding chronic pain: https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/travis-chi-wing-lau-understanding-chronic-pain/
Find out why doctors have a hard time understanding chronic pain, how that relates to eighteenth-century medical training, and how poetry can help us understand pain in ways medicine can't.
We oppose police brutality and racism. We encourage you all to check out these resources about ongoing protests and actions created by HTR team member Colby King with the Columbia University Black Students Organization and support them however you can: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p6IOTPoSUQpOLjcqPFTfCULdoqH_WUZjmEYXFRJdI2c/edit =0
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Out today: Paula Moya on how (not) to read arrogantly: https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/paula-moya-how-not-read-arrogantly/
We discuss the novels of Toni Morrison, feminist philosophers María Lugones and Marilyn Frye and why self-centredness is understandable - but can lead to seriously misunderstanding other people’s lives.
First episode of a new decade: Marisa Galvez on the appeal of crystals through the ages. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, find out why medieval poets associated crystals with love and erotic desire!
https://howtoreadpodcast.com/marisa-galvez-appeal-crystal-through-ages/
New episode: Dora Zhang on atmospheres in life and literature! https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/dora-zhang-atmospheres-literature-life/
We discuss how atmospheres are palpable yet hard to pin down, atmospheres at parties (real and fictional), how language shapes the atmosphere of a novel, and why sensitivity to atmospheres gets unfairly dismissed as feminine and irrational.
Dora considers novels by Virginia Woolf and Emile Zola, and also Jon Stewart's thoughts on atmosphere in stand-up comedy - plus (in the bonus clip) the movie Gaslight.
Out today - dancing stars in Indian cinema, with Usha Iyer! https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/usha-iyer-dancing-stars-indian-cinema/
We talk about story vs spectacle, the career of movie star Vyjayanthimala and how dancer-actresses challenge the norms of "good" acting - plus the political power of Beyonce and Rihanna's dancing
New episode alert! David Marno on poetry, prayer and paying attention: https://howtoreadpodcast.com/david-marno-poetry-prayer-paying-attention/
We cover early Christian monks, the poetry and sermons of John Donne and even online jokes - plus why some people have thought that distracting thoughts were literally demons!
We're back for season 3, with Michaela Bronstein on why bingeing novels and TV can actually be a good thing!
We discuss the novelists Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Elena Ferrante, Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy plus the TV shows Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Mad Men.
https://howtoreadpodcast.com/michaela-bronstein-art-bingeing/
How do we read a poem addressed to a "you" who is a Greek goddess, an urn or even a bar of soap? In our latest episode, Jonathan Culler explores how we relate to these strange addressees in complex, fluid and surprising ways: https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/jonathan-culler-weird-ways-poems-address-readers/
We discuss poems by Sappho, Horace, John Keats, Percy Shelley, Pablo Neruda, Kenneth Koch and Robert Frost - and Jonathan reveals the strangest thing he's ever seen a poem addressed to!
16. Weird ways poems address their readers December 7, 2018 December 7, 2018 Many poems speak to a “you” who is not you the reader. And when a poem addresses an inanimate object – like an urn or even a bar of soap – it’s especially clear that readers aren’t being addressed directly. But ...
New episode! Find out why Sarah Chihaya thinks rereading is "perverse" (in a good way) and how that applies to recent remakes, sequels and experimental novels that expand on stories we already know: https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/sarah-chihaya-remakes-sequels-other-story-expansions/
We discuss Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast, the sequel to Trainspotting, Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, Zadie Smith's On Beauty and even briefly Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!
Not your parents' poem! Tom Mole explains how new illustrations in the Victorian era updated Romantic poetry in ways the poets could never have dreamed of: https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/tom-mole-how-illustrations-reshaped-romantic-legacy/
New episode alert! Merve Emre explores the complex reasons why we do or don't identify with characters. With examples from Freud to Fifty Shades of Grey, she explains what identification can teach us about ourselves and about the world: https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/merve-emre-identifying-with-characters/
In our latest episode Martin Puchner explores the surprising fact that certain artists in literate cultures - from Ancient Greece to medieval Mali to Stalinist Russia - have preferred the medium of speech to writing. Find out why: https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/martin-puchner-literature-from-speech-to-writing-and-back/
11. Literature from speech to writing and back September 28, 2018 September 28, 2018 We tend to think of literature as something that’s written down. But Martin Puchner is interested in cases where the spoken word precedes, coexists with or even comes after the written word. From Ancient Greece to...
The new season starts TOMORROW! Martin Puchner discusses literature from speech to writing and back, going from Ancient Greece via medieval Mali to Stalinist Russia
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