MOSTLY ESSAYS: Recent Episodes
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Mostly Essays presents essays, vignettes, observations, reflections, stories, letters and memoirs; artfully presented for persons who enjoy eclectic taste. Explore a multitude of emotions and experiences, uncovered within an artsy, literary, medical, nostalgic, pop culture, urban and philosophical realm. With a dash of edge, raunch, strange and anger; and a whole lot of honesty and 'laugh out loud.' Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mostlyessays/support
Rebecca cleverly a likens reading to our need for food, in the excerpt from essay, "Extreme Reading". One review describes Rebecca's essays as ...."If Rebecca Brown's talent for prose were any tighter, it would be a lyric - to a pop standard. An homage - a menage - to America, exposing what's laid bare in a comic tragic redux. I laughed till it hurt." - Van Dyke Parks (Composer). Read on.
RebeccaBrownEssayist #AmericanRomancesEssays #EssayExtremeReading #MostlyEssaysPodcast #SpotifyLiteraryPodcast
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An excerpt from the chapter, "Women's Progress at the Bar and on the Bench" from Ginsburg's 'serious and playful collection of writings'. Reminds us that "a sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change." And answers the question, "What does women's participation in numbers on the bench add to our judicial system?"
MyOwnWords #womensprogressatthebarandonthebench #JudgeRuthBaderGinsburg #MostlyEssaysPodcast #Spotifyliterarypodcast #GenderandLaw #JudgeAlvinRubin #MaryHartnett #WendyWWilliams
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Northcott pulls us in, if only by the title itself. Highlighted essay, "But Is It Mozart?"Northcott dissects, contrasts, and approaches Mozart's technique in answering this question coupled with presenting the facts of the day, that in fact, Mozart was not the first all-time prodigy-his precedent was all of age two when he first performed! A very interesting read.
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People Magazine describes Frazier's writing as "Perfectly groomed comic prose....It is the essence of society as we know it that concerns Frazier. That he is hilarious is just a bonus." Essay, 'Blue Bloods" highlights the horseshoe crab's role in LAL science and it's enormous contribution to vaccines.
MostlyEssaysPodcast #HogsWildSelectedReportingPieces #BlueBloods #horseshoecrabandvaccines
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Martha instructs us on how to 'get still' in the essay, "Four steps to find your life's path", in part. An 'instructive' and nurturing read. Go ahead and try the deep breathing exercise!
MostlyEssaysPodcast #MarthaBeckEssays #GetStill #OMagazine #meditation #deepbreathingexercises
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Title inspired by Gil Scott's song."Jesse McCarthy's bracing essays investigate with virtuosic intensity the art, music, literature and political stances that have defined the twenty-first century". McCarthy asks ' What can reparations mean when the damage cannot be accounted for in the only system of accounting that a society recognizes?' This episode features notes on Trap Music. "..is the only music that sounds like what living in contemporary America feels like".
MostlyEssaysPodcast #JesseMcCarthy #WhoWillPayReparationsOnmySoulEssays #BlackAmericaEssays #TrapMusic
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Have a read especially, Rule #9. Where Peterson highlights, 'Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don't.' Here Jordan explains the meaning of conversation and defines the different types. www.understandmyself.com www.jordanbpeterson.com.
JordanBPeterson #MostlyEssaysPodcast #UnderstandMyself #12RulesForLife #psychology
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Take me out to the ball game! Dave Shields highlights scores of fun and entertaining commentary "takes and mistakes" made within the sports industry. A clever read for both sports and non-sports enthusiasts.
DaveShields # MostlyEssaysPodcast #TakesandMistakes #WordsCantDescribe #funpodcast #TOEFLPREP #effectivelistening
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Minot's story, "Listen" is creatively crafted in vignette style. "Listen", presents a timeless conversation that any human, anywhere, at any time can relate to. Check Susan Minot out on Facebook @OfficialSusanMinotAuthor.
MostlyEssayspodcast #StoryListen #SusanMinotAuthor #podcastonessaysandstories #funpodcast
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In essay, 'Small Talk' Maeve highlights the fact that every culture has its very own version of small talk.
SmallTalk @TinaFey @DavidSedaris #MostlyEssayspodcast
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Fadiman breaks down the different ways to love a book, in her lighthearted essay, 'Never Do That To A Book'. Who knew that could even be categorized! lol.
@AnneFadiman #MostlyEssayspodcast #ExLibris #neverdothattoabook #podcastonbooks
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In prose like style Bolina's award winning collection presents, the essay, 'What I Tell Them'. Based on what he should be recommending to his poetry students on becoming poets and what he in fact does say - '...I tell them you'll need to let the poem overthrow you'.
@JaswinderBolina #MostlyEssayspodcast #Spotifypodcastonwritingpoetry #whatitellthem
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Nabokov breaks down the creative process for us in more or less two Russian words, 'vostorg' and 'vdokhnavania'....listen for more insights.
@VNabokov @MostlyEssays @editorBrianBoyd #Spotifypodcastoncreativeprocess
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Herbert gives us reasons why the response to the question - 'tell me what it means?' Isn't so straight forward.
@HerbertRead #MostlyEssayspodcast @thetenthmuse
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A true 'mega dose of self awareness ' in an excerpt that offers an 'unguarded' insight into, depression, anxiety and misanthropy.
@CazzieDavid #ShitTalking #MostlyEssays #Spotifypodcastdepression
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Murphy presents the social function of gossip. From a psychological, neuroscience and sociological viewpoint, as it applies when it comes to listening. We shouldn't worry, only 3-4% of gossip is mean-spirited.
@KateMurphy #TheMoralityofListening #WhyGossipIsGoodForYou #YoureNotListening #gossippsychology #Spotifypodcastpsychology #MostlyEssayspodcast
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An excerpt from essay, 'Semi-Connected Thoughts...' invites us to look at the word, 'Now' and to imagine the person who does, 'flyfishing'....It won't be long before one breaks out into poetry by Yeats.
@TomMcCarthy #NowNowNow #MostlyEssaysPodcast #flyfishing #Spotifypodcastonhumorousessays
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Essayist and music iconoclast Partch describes in expanded detail Yeats 'great passion and disillusionments' in regards to setting his texts to music - and the talented similarities they shared.
@WBYeats @HarryPartch #essaysonpoetry #essaysonmusic #YeatsOedipus #nofeelingformusic #IHearWithOlderEarsThanTheMusicians
TheLakeIsleofInnisfree
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In essay, "O'Christmas Sock' Bragg playfully enlightens us on the 'why' of Christmas stockings and gives us room to ponder on their 'previously bottomless stretch'. Happy Holidays!
@RickBragg #MostlyEssayspodcast #christmasessays #humorousessays #Spotifyentertainingpodcasts
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"Clever fast paced humor with mixture of benign serenity and quiet intellectual authority", is wittyly displayed in highlighted essay, "At Covent Gardens". Beerbohm's take on his experience at the opera.
MostlyEssays @MaxBeerbohm @CoventGardens #funnypodcasts #Spotifyessaypodcasts #entertainingessays
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Brian Selznick amongst a slew of celebrated authors 'pays tribute' to his favorite 'brick-and-mortar for books' - Warwick's located in La Jolla, California.
MostlyEssays @BrianSelznick @AdamRoss @JohnGrisham @TerryTempestWilliams @DaveEggers @WendellBerry @AnnPacker @AnnPatchett #Spotifypodcastsforwriters
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Described as the funniest person in Washington - Alexandra brings us to tears with a laugh out loud vignette list on available parenting styles. Did she miss any? lol
MostlyEssaysPodcast @AlexandraPetri #SpotifyPodcasts #HowToParentWrong #NothingIsWrongHereIsWhy
HelicopterParenting #FreeRangeParenting
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Gonzales shares his love for lenses here. Coupled with some reminders on questions we still have unanswered in this century, regarding. 'The All-Seeing Eye'.
MostlyEssays #Spotifypodcast
LaurenceGonzales #TheChemistryOfFire
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Highlighted essay, 'The Night Before Christmas' is an informative and entertaining argument which presents us with a defense for keeping the Santa myth alive amongst children. Author of over 100 books, Gardner's work is described as, 'vital and original' (Shirley H.)
MostlyEssaysPodcast #SpotifyPodcasts #TheJinnFromHyperspace #MartinGardner @MartinGardner
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Young takes us on a trip down memory lane. From 'the box' to Britney Spears, where he first saw her.
MostlyEssaysPodcasts #WesleyYoung @WesleyYoung @BritneySpears
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Bragg gets us ready for stuffed turkey day, or does'nt as the case may be here. Enlightening us as to why the idea of stuffed turkey, 'ain't even human.'
MostlyEssaysPodcast #RickBragg #PulitzerPrize #FullyDressed #MySouthernJourney
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Rushdie highlights 'One Hundred Years Of Solitude" and Garcia Marquez's fondness for gross exaggeration.
MostlyEssays #SalmanRushdie #Spotify #Podcasts #PodcastsOnWriting
OneHundredYearsOfSolitude
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The Caribbean renowed Calypso musician is the heart of the feature essay, 'Lord Kitchener Still Rules Calypso.' Here we discover, the evolution of Calpyso and how Lord Kitchener, the Calypso King, worked to make it more 'imaginative.'
MostlyEssays #TimothyWhite #LordKitchener #CalypsoKing
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A comedic sketch on how not to make one's status as a health icon. A Run do not Walk - away from this lifestyle! Number twenty one may be the safest bet there at a minimum.lol
MostlyEssays #MattBellassai #everythingisawful #humorousessays
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This collection of essays presents Walter Blair's writings categorized by style - Old Southwest, Local Color and Literary Comedian Humor. In this excerpt Blair illustrates the Tall Tale in 'The Ugliest Man In The World'. A tale that is not only funny, it helps us to see a sense of history and co-hesion within the American culture.'
MostlyEssays #AmericanHumor WalterBlair #Comedianhumour #Americanculture #EssaysOnAmericanHumour #funnyessays.
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Have a thorough laugh at any vices you can relate to stated here by award winning humorist Jenny Allen; and whilst you're at it consider your own strengths - apart from ....well...'holding down the fort' lol.
MostlyEssays #JennyAllen #LifeLiterally #WillEveryonePleaseStop #mostmispronouncedwords #AndyBorowitz #fortaynot #usedandabusedwords #EnglishLanguage #50FunniestAmericanWriters
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Based on the study of animal emotions, Beckoff's collection, highlights the query, 'Do Animals Have Spiritual Experiences?'
MostlyEssays #animalmind #MarkBeckoff #DoAnimalsHaveSpiritualExperiences
WhyDogsHumpandBeesGetDepressed
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An excerpt from Michael's essay 'Twilight Of An Author', spells out what many writers gradually experience 'in their later years' .
MostlyEssays #MichaelDirda #essaysonwriting #FrostProvideProvide
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Gompertz fills in our artist knowledge gap here - a read that will leave us more enlightened. We know alot about Van Gogh but what of his 'old friend and tormentor, Paul Gauguin?' Apparently Van Gogh should be forever indebted to him - regardless of his 'Primitivism' and 'childlike quality' picture style. (Excerpt)
MostlyEssays #VanGogh #PaulGauguin #WillGompertz #WhatAreYouLookingAt #essaysonArtandArtists #vangoghimmersiveexperience
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A recommended essay for persons who have not yet seen a non-Disney version of 'Peter Pan'. The original version Gaitskill reminds us that, - "nothing will stand still", "not the most powerful of feelings nor the deepest bond."
MostlyEssays #Peterpan #JMBarries #SpotifypodcastsMovies #MaryGaitskill #PiratesOfTheCaribbean #DisneyPeterPan
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Fishbein brings on the funny and insightful with her take on Photoshopping the Truth and the difference between being nice and good. In her essay "Honesty Is The Best Policy..." (Excerpt).
MostlyEssays #RebeccaFishbein #GoodThingsHappenToPeopleYouHate #hilariousessays #LOLessays
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Enter, 'the geography of the imagination'. Hohn's highlighted introduction outlines expectations of his essays featuring, thin ice, illustrated encyclopedias, etymology and sociology paced with Thoreau's best remembered questions, 'Who are we?' and 'Where are we?' To help make sense of histories and geographies.
MostlyEssaysPodcast #DonovanHohn #GeographicalEssays #ThoreauInfluence #TheInnerCoastEssays
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Rosenberg encourages us to put our thinking hats on, until he uses, the quote from Phil Rizzuto to Yogi Berra the Yankee catcher which states otherwise,"When you think, you hurt the whole team". 'Art is a Special Way of Thinking', indeed; and as essay it is one of the most successful ways of engaging thought and questioning Conceptualism and ideas in art.
MostlyEssayspodcast #HaroldRosenberg #ArtCriticismpodcast #EssaysOnArt #Spotifypodcast #ConceptualismEssay #ArtIsASpecialWayOfThinking
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A fun take on the love for reading. Described by O'Brien as 'about living with, and through and among and inside many, many, books and making countless connections among them.'
MostlyEssays # GeoffreyOBrien #literarypodcast #whatshallireadnext #MeditationOnReading #TheBrowsersEctasy
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Geoff draws us in here on his introspective view on music as 'shelter', especially the blues. "..as long as there are people on earth they will have need of this music."
MostlyEssays #GeoffDyer #essaysonmusic #effectivelistening #BluesForVincent #VanGogh #OtherwiseKnownAsTheHumanCondition
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For author and legal writer of over eighty books, the subject matter of bathrooms is no laughing matter. Herbert feels modern civilization has gotten the "whole attitude toward bathrooms wrong". For one the bathroom needs to be "opulent and full of pictures."
MostlyEssays #essayonbathrooms #APHerbert #AboutBathrooms #TheBookOfTwentiethCenturyEssays
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Calling All Moby Dick Fans! Letham conveys a love for Moby Dick through his essay, "Engulf and Devour". 'Dear reader arrive at page one with expectations, anticipations, your breath held...' Have a listen and see if you can relate, in regards to any book you too may have wholeheartedly appreciated this way.
JonathanLetham #MostlyEssays #EngulfandDevour #essaysonbooks #essaysonMobyDick #Spotifybookreviewpodcast
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Maupassant's robust storytelling in selected short story, "An Old Man" cleverly amuses...wait for it, wait for it....
MostlyEssays #GuydeMaupassant #my #oldageessay #AnOldManEssay #lolessay
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This essay uses Frost's poem 'Provide, Provide', to describe Frost's use of rhetoric, irony and rhyming triplets. 'The multiple rhyme does not banter but it does swagger a little'.
MostlyEssays #RobertFrost #poemProvideProvide #AlwaysBeginningKumin #MaxineKumin
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Do you know of a particular piece of art that makes you "cranky"? Check out Michelangelo's "young archer" more commonly described as a "Cupid" or sometimes "Manhattan Cupid", what are your thoughts? Steinberg does not hold back here on his disapproval of the figure's proportions. 'As he sees it, incoherence prevails'.
MichelangelosSculptureCupid #MostlyEssays #podcastonart #youngarcher #LeoSteinberg #ArtCriticism
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On Coltrane, Jones illustrates, 'he is turning his attention to that old problem in jazz of improvising on a simple and terribly strict melodic line.....'
MostlyEssays #LeroiJones #AmiriBaraka #essaysonmusic #jazzessay
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Langer's selected essay by Brelet, makes a distinction between form and silence. The essay also considers types of silences and form and contemplates why 'sound must fade away and die'.
SusanKLanger #MostlyEssays #ReflectionsOnArt #Music&Silence #essayonmusicphilosophy #podcastonmusicphilosophy
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'No One Can Teach Or Show You Intuit' - A giant in the art criticism world, Greenberg gives us an "expansive view on taste and quality of art".
ClementGreenberg #MostlyEssays #ArtCritic #EssaysOnTaste #Intuition&AestheticExperience
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From a collection of over two hundred beloved reads. Essayist, Montaigne is highlighted - for 'he writes what he feels and what he knows to be true'. But above all, 'you will recognize yourself in him - human nature.' (no matter that he was from the sixteenth century).
MostlyEssays #Montaigne #JOYOFREADING #CharlesvanDoren
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What does meditation have in common with bread baking? This way to an inspiring collection of writings by top mind, body, and spirit leaders - presented by worldwide teachers Ed and Deb Shapiro. The selected excerpt by Mark Jensen, looks at how the role of meditation could co-exist within politics to bring about a better world.
meditation #Deb&EdShapiro #mostlyessays #worldpeace #meditation&politics #MarkJensen #BeTheChange
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This selection is a solid piece on the role of ambition and the poet. (In sixteen points). Where Donald Hall informs us, 'I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.'
DonaldHall #PoetryandAmbition #AnthonyBrandt #writingpoetrytool #MostlyEssayspodcast
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This body of work was once referred to as George Eliot's unpublished poetry. In "Form: Notes on Form in Art" (1868) George enlightens us on the principles of Form in Art. Not only does she apply it to Art - but also brillantly to Mass (Man) and Sculpture.
MostlyEssaysPodcast #FormInArt #GeorgeElliot #SpotifyPodcast #WritingTool #ArtistTool
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Paz a noble prize recipient, brings us the 'richness' of Mexico in an excerpt from "Laughter and Penitence". Elaborating on the role of Laughter; types of Laughter; and how Laughter illuminates what happiness is .
OctavioPaz #MostlyEssayspodcast #MexicanEssays #EssaysonArt #LaughterandPenitence #EssaysonLaughter #EssaysonHumour #EssaysonHappiness
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Buzz presents life lessons in thirteen chapters, and highlights, Trust in Chapter 10. Have, 'a game plan and your own inner directions, ...to control your own destiny by the choices you make.'
BuzzAldrin #selftrust #innerdirection #tothemoonandbeyond #trustyourgut
mostlyEssaysPodcast #ApolloIIMission #nodreamtoohigh #leadershipskills #effectivelistening
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Ikeda offers us his feelings on music and even the possible role it may have in communicating human's innermost feelings to one another.
MostlyEssays #translatorBurtonWatson #musicascomfort #joyofmusic #thelivingbuddha #DaisakuIkeda #podcastonmusic
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An interesting excerpt from the essay "Lets Talk About Taste", highlighting the "growing fragmentation and subculturization" of pop-culture and it's criticism. Encompassing all the 'brows' you can think of, from 'low' to 'high' to 'middle' lol. (Excerpt)
mainstreamculture #Middlebrow #lowbrow #nobrow #postart
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Jonathan Winters takes us on flight as a seagull. Whilst making comparisons to the beach pelican and lamenting on flying in the fog or being a kite. In the end settling on being in a pirate movie.
JonathanWinters #mostlyessays #seagulls #goflyakite #childhood #listening
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Thomas constructed a brief and funny take on the overuse of "cliches and vogue" words, 'Task Force' and 'Breakthrough'; especially in advertising writing. Can you think of today's current overused 'vogue' words?
MostlyEssays #ThomasPyles #Taskforce #breakthrough #voguewords #EnglishUsage #EnglishUsagePodcast #EffectiveListening #TOFELPrep
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In Sontag's eloquent essay "Dancer and the Dance", she gives us an observation of the demands of the dancer and what sets them apart from the athlete, coupled with the ideology of the dancer historian Lincoln KIrstein.
SusanSontag #Petipa #Noverra #GeorgeBalanchine #Taglioni #Nureyev #MikhailBaryshnikov #essaysondance #LincolnKirstein #Diaghileu
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Ursula breaks down the use of Yin and Yang as well as Utopias in literary works (including her own). Cleverly highlighting, "We", "The Machine Stops" and "Erewhon" and her own works. In concluding she wants to know if she was successful in writing a utopia in her work, 'Always Coming Home'.
URSULALLEGUIN #EMForster #MostlyEssays #TheMachineStops #Readwe #ReadUtopia #ThomasMoore #NoTimeToSpare #ThinkingAboutWhatmatters #UptopiyinUtopiyang
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Never Heard Of Fugue?! Greenberg explains all, in his chapter "Fugue It". Illustrating 'episodes' in fugue and how fugue relates to form, melody, and quintessential Baroque - This is a great interactive episode, recommending Johann Sebastian Bach Fugue in C minor, Clavier. (ca. 1722) to look for discussed elements.
FugueIt #MostlyEssays #BachandFugue #BaroqueLessons #RobertGreenberg #GreatCourses #GreatCoursesInMusic
#howtolistentogreatmusic
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Mary's memoir in essays calls "upon our many selves to help us figure out who we are". Here an innocent rhyme takes centre stage as newfound calming "affirmation" and adds as a means in highlighting "moments of memory". (Excerpt)
IMissYouWhenIBlink #MaryLauraPhilpott #MostlyEssays #MomentsOfMemory
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An excerpt, looking at "place" as an instrument for writing. Arguing how 'sense of place gives equilibrium and how it achieves honest writing.'
MostlyEssaysPodcast #EudoraWelty #PlaceInWriting #SpotifyPodcasts
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Ozick underscores Rudyard Kipling, offering reasons why he is ignored on the 'literary side' and what makes his style less, 'common place.' Ozick feels Kipling is deserving of being regarded as 'some of the strongest fiction of the last 100yrs.'
CynthiaOzick #justsostories #RudyardKipling #DinInTheHead #MostlyEssaysPodcast #SpotifyPodcast #podcastsonwriting #EffectiveListening
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In this excerpt from the essay titled, 'What Frogs Think' Russo squashes the myths around Omniscience as a writing tool. And explains the role of the omniscient narrator coupled with cutural appropriation. (Unedited)
MostlyEssays #DestinyThief #RichardRusso #Omniscience #WhatFrogsThink #writingtools #PulitzerPrizeWinner #StorytellervsStoryshower
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Just consider how truly fantastical the Constitution is! For not only did it 'imagine a country', but it also 'imagined a people imagining themselves'! In this excerpt, 'Words On A Piece Of Paper! Here we are presented with the decision of whether or not the Constitution should belong to or even be considered literature.
Shallus #RogerRosenblatt #MostlyEssaysPodcast #ConstitutionAsLiterature #TheManInTheWater #WordsOnApieceOfPaper
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A humorous read with bouts of meditative pauses. Holmes takes us on a jingle filled journey coping with an anxious and/or nervous disposition -challenging faith and spirituality. Learning in the end, Awareness Is Peace! (Excerpt)
GoBackInsideYourSelf #PeterHolmes #MostlyEssays #AwarenessIsPeace #CastAllMyCares #spotifypodcasts
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A most useful book in regards to using art as expressive therapy. In the highlighted excerpt, 'What Is The Point Of Art?' Alain and John present seven psychological frailities that art helps to correct. Here in plain speaking terms de Bottom and Armstrong depict how art 'is beneficial as a tool' with applicable 'means of assistance' adding 'purpose' and 'value' in doing so. www.theschooloflife.com
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This humorous collection of essays, 'How To Travel With A Salmon,' is out of Milan and considered a successful translation. The selected essay cleverly illustrates the use of suspension points at the end and in the middle of sentences and especially for usage indicating insignificant literary characters.
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Thomas takes us down the rabbit hole of an airline's customer service experience, scenario. Today what would it sound like purely from an airline staff's point of view?
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Julian Barnes' 'criticisms are regarded as artistic property'. In the Chapter 'So does it become Art', Barnes looks at elements that factor into Art worthiness. How Art evolve and engage is also considered. www.julianbarnes.com
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Monas keeps the translation as true to form as possible. Osip a word lover - looks at the novel form, biographies, fabulas and on essays as a self sustaining art.
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CAUTION: Ick factor ahead in the name of colon wellness. Lisa's clever take on the chapter 'Game of Thrones' is a sensational way to bring about colon health awareness; through the toilet's new found accessory. Get ready to have your colon health improve.
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Mary Olivier's, 'Uptream' collection of essays is a wholesome body of 'ministries of thought'. Especially in, Olivier's essay, 'Wordsworth's Mountains'. Where we are encouraged not to ignore our whimsical side, building houses out of leaves. Whilst noting the Universe's dual characteristics of 'briskness' and 'radiance'.
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World renowned Hawkins not only brought to the public's attention his crippling disease, but also gave a renewed and plainer way of understanding the universe. The highlighted essay, 'Public Attitudes', underscores how our opinions face off with science, and how teaching science needs to evolve as fast as science does to be effective.
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Levi's translated essays, often described as 'witty and gemlike' don't lose meaning. Especially in highlighted essay, 'The Moon and Man', which explores the new meaning of braveness.
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Darda regarded as one of the best book critics around, presents some of the best reads - 'abound'. I've highlighted the chapter on a novel encompassing the greatest thinkers, creators, scientists, teachers, storytellers and poets ever - 'The Lunar Men' whose characters were often referred to as the lunatics. A recommended read for a month when the moon is 'nigh!
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Did you know in the Omaha language the word "dance" is the same word for "love"? Here Terri's ecological themed essay illustrates her love for the sage grouse bird, their 'dancing in place' and their pending dilemma. (Excerpt)
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Have you had your ten minutes of deep belly laughter for the day? Whether you've had cancer or not, laughter and having a sense of humor have shown to have healing benefits through scientific studies. Have a laugh as Laura portrays fighting cancer whilst keeping the accoutrements intact! p.s. Add Patch Adams to your Netflix playlist this weekend.
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Sloane's collection, "Look Alive Out There" presents a tete-a-tete with a fast proceeding awkward moment - Laugh out loud.
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Do you eat to live or live to eat? Daum offers us a thought provoking listen. Inspiring us to think upon - Would you prefer Happiness to Joy or Joy over Contentment? Better yet, can Excellence be found within the realm of one's comfort zone? (Excerpt) megandaum.com
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Lucy's unflinching honesty in her essay, 'Fool In Boots', illustrates the timeline of the history of the authentic Blue Jeans, and how making/wearing political statements, became fashionable.
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A rare find today! Check out the only work ever found where Mark Twain gives the viewpoint of a woman (Eve)...interesting. (Excerpt)
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Ever wondered what Bruce Lee was like in person? Here writer and poet Paisley Rekdal paints us a lightly humored and poignant picture of her mothers' experience. Don't know who Bruce Lee is, add Enter the Dragon to your movie playlist.
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Lend an appreciative ear to the homage, for Keith Moon, drummer to, 'The Who'. Read in part, James' essay takes us through all the fun stuff of, 'The Who's' drumming success and the discourse of Moon's character.
#JamesWoods #MostlyEssayspodcast #Moonrecords #TheWho #Quadronphia (14:08mins)
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Ever thought of reading the dictionary like a book? No need. It's been done - all 21,000 pages - and reported upon. Nicholas kindly informs us on the word study with a plot, in the essay A-ZYXT. Time to, 'manually recalibrate' our brain. #MostlyEssayspodcasts #dictionary #NicholasBakers #AZYXT. (11:19mins)
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'Know your bone, bury it, unearth it and gnaw at it still,' A quote noted from Annie's collection of 'wise and funny essays,' called 'The Abundance' we take note on her advice to writers, in the selected essay read in part.
#MostlyEssayspodcast #AnnieDillard #TheAbundance #onwriting (10:28mins)
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Bob has a list for you to consider, before you wreck your canvas! Consider the suggestions before getting a tattoo - chocolate is on the list. A review for Odenkirk's collection of light humorous topics, entitled, 'A Load Of Hooey', intended to 'evoke' much needed 'distractions.'
SaturdayNightLife #MostlyEssayspodcast #wantatattoo #BobOdenkirk #montypython #bettercallsaul #netflix. (8:17mins)
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Take a listen to an excerpt of the 'witty and entertaining,' essay entitled, 'Christmas Freud.' Illustrating Christmas through the eyes of a Freud impersonator. #MostlyEssayspodcast #hilariouspodcast #hilariousessays #davidrachoff #Christmasessays #Christmashumor (11:08mins).
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Do you dread the holidays, find 'Xmas words in need of a makeover? Then this is the perfect story for you. Selected from an anthology collection dedicated to the holidays. Need I say ...... 'Happy Holidays!'
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Are you often amused by a 'Scroogey' outlook on the Holidays; or have often mused on what the constitutional take on 'compulsory love' would entail? With funny bone on hand, consider - in part, Hitchens' essay, 'The Truth About Christmas.'
#MostlyEssayspodcast #funnyChristmasessays #ChristopherHitchens #Christmashumor #hilariousessays (10:42mins)
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Enter, 'Show Ho Ho Time,' Laurie's humorous tale of being casted, party pooper. A lesson for us all next holidays - 'memorize the carols or don't get picked!'
MostlyEssayspodcast #LaurieNotaro #christmasessays #ChristmasHumor #hilariousessays #holidayfun #ItLookedDifferentOnTheModel (20:33mins).
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What's the difference between a writer and a critic? And why should it matter? Here is Grace's take on developing the writer's skills. From an essay excerpt that embodies her 'unique and effective' style. #GracePaley #MostlyEssays #EssayistPaley #APaleyReader (6:20mins)
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Come have a listen to a Jung scholar's perspective on 'a sense of humor' and 'play.' An essay from Helen M. Luke's book of selected essays, 'The Laughter At The Heart Of Things.' #Shakespearehumor #Jungonhumor #Helenluke #essay #literaturehumor #Dickenshumor #divinecomedy #laughter.
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Welcome back to part 2 of Helen Luke's essay, 'The Laughter At The Heart Of Things,' Exploring the Jung fundamentals on, 'sense of humor' portrayed in Shakespearean and Dickens literature.
helenluke #jungonsenseofhumor #shakespeareanhumor #dickenshumor #thelaughterattheheartofthings. (13:07mins)
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How easy would it be to say out loud to yourself, you are poet after publishing ten books and have them translated in over a dozen languages? Leave a message. Kingsolver's modesty speaks volumes in this endearing and maternally spiked essay. www.kingsolver.com (16 mins)
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Here is Joel Golby's Part 2 take on why Rocky IV is the G.O.A.T. What's your take on the Rocky films would you watch prequels/sequels on HBO? Leave a message. www.joelgolby.com (under 15:04 minutes)
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Calling All Past, Present And Potential Rocky Fans, Come One Come All!!! This is the first of two parts on Golby's fresh take on all films Rocky and Rocky associated ie Rocky I-V and Creed et cetera. Would you watch this on TED Talks? Fans have your say leave a message please! www.joelgolby.co.uk. 'Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant,Brilliant, Brilliant Essays.' (30:06 mins)
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Jung guru, Luke gives us an eloquent essay story behind the root origins of the word, 'host.' Founder of the center, Apple Farm Community in Michigan. #host #hospitality #hostile # hospital . 'The Laughter At The Art Of Things.' (24:02 mins).
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One of many personal 'contemporary essays from editor Wendy Martin's collective on themes ranging from families, ethnic identity, joy of children to the pain of infertility and more. 'Essays by Contemporary American Women.' 1996
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The mini essay, 'Farder to Reache'; takes on astronomy in poetry and invites pioneers, Kepler and Whitman, for a beer. Meet Albert Goldberth, known for his insightful essays and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his poetry. www.graywolfpress.org. (Under 6 mins).
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Catch a snippet of life in New York through the eyes of a self proclaimed Luddite, Kurt Vonnegurt. Vonnegurt is regarded as a 'grandmaster of American letters,' and candid in speaking his mind on the state of technology versus human application and life. "A Man Without A Country." 8:13.
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This essay, read in part, is from a same titled book of essays on art, sex and the mind; The essay takes us through a comparative study of Pablo Picasso's, 'Weeping Woman,' Max Beckmann's, 'Carnival Mask' and William de Kooning's, 'Women II from Siri's perspective. What do you think? 15:05
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Doctors get writer's block too. Meet Richard Selzer a former surgeon and former Yale professor and award winning writer; and his book, 'The Exact Location Of The Soul - New and Selected Essays.' When all else fails even a surgeon will implore upon his pen in it's mother tongue. (8:28)
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We have all be there! Take a listen to Nora Ephron's take on the, 'elusive name recall' at a social engagement. Author of best seller, 'I Feel Bad About My Neck,' and director of, 'Sleepless in Seattle,' Nora's works are always hilarious and real. 6:09
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Is it enough to say, 'I just want to be happy?" Shouldn't there be more concrete specifics? Would it be ok to be something else, like' busy' or 'interested'? A. Burrows pens an interesting perspective on the view of, 'wanting to be happy,' in this selected piece, taken from his book, ' This Is How-Help For The Self.' Check him out on www.augusten.com and go see him on tour. 7:55 mins.
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Meet David Searcy and his collection entitled 'Shame and Wonder Essays,' described as 'strange, wonderful and full of curiosity and nostalgia.'.
Under 7 mins.
https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/staging/2019-9-7/26989963-44100-2-494af8a7279ef.m4a.
http://iphf.org/inductees/mathew-brady/
https://granta.com/contributor/david-searcy/
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