Live Mic Classic Books

Toronto Public Library

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Live Mic Classic Books features curated discussions that explore classic literature from a variety of perspectives, with some of the most important names in contemporary literature. Recorded for Toronto Public Library both virtually and in-person, these episodes offer fresh insights into timeless works.

2020-06-27

Alan Hollinghurst: The Sparsholt Affair

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Book by Alan Hollinghurst The Sparsholt Affair The Stranger’s Child The Swimming-Pool Library The Line of Beauty Books by Dimitri Nasrallah The Bleeds Blackbodying Niko If you like Alan Hollinghurst… A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin Howards End by E.M. Forster Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

35 min
2020-06-17

Saeed Jones: How We Fight for Our Lives

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Books by Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives Prelude to Bruise Referenced in this interview and other related material The Works of Toni Morrison (Toni Morrison) Saeed Jones's Sensual Memoir of Race, Sex and Self-Invention (article from the New Yorker) The Works of Yusef Komunyakaa (Yusuf Komunyakaa) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

39 min
2020-06-10

Abbi Jacobson: I Might Regret This

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Books by Abbi Jacobson I Might Regret This Books by Rachel Giese Boys: What it Means to Become a Man Referenced in this interview and other related material The Broad Strokes (Interview with Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer in Grantland) Broad City Is Ending. Be at Peace With That. The Creators Are. (NY Times Article) Ilana Glazer Comedy Special, The Planet is Burning The Genius of Broad City (article from The Guardian) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today's best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

41 min
2020-05-20

Sally Rooney: Normal People

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Book by Sally Rooney Normal People Conversation with Friends Books by Sheila Heti Women in Clothes Motherhood How Should A Person Be? The Middle Stories Ticknor Books by authors Sheila talks about in this interview The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry Beatlebone by Kevin Barry The Wig my Father Wore by Anne Enright Actress by Anne Enright Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library's 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

50 min
2020-05-06

On Civil Society: #MeToo

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Books by Robyn Doolittle Had It Coming : What's Fair in the Age of #MeToo? Crazy Town : The Rob Ford Story Books by Megan Towhey She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement Other Related Materials Unfounded: Why Police 1 in 5 Sexual Assault Claims as Baseless (Series from the Globe & Mail) With Weinstein Conviction, Jury Delivers a Verdict on #MeToo (Article from the NY Times) A Year of Reckoning (Article from the NY Times) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

1h 1m
2020-04-28

Barry Lopez: Surviving What’s Coming

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long?Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Book by Barry Lopez Horizon Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory Outside: Six Short Stories Of Wolves and Men Crow and Weasel Resistance Books by Alissa York The Naturalist Fauna Effigy Mercy If you like Barry Lopez… Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West by John David Unruh Dersu Uzala by Vladimir Arsenyev The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J. Pyne Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea by Anna Badkhen Other Related Materials How Climate Change has Influenced Travel Writing (article from The Atlantic) Why the World Needs Barry Lopez (article from Outside Online) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

43 min
2020-04-22

Emily Nussbaum: I Like to Watch

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Book by Emily Nussbaum I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution Books by Rachel Giese Boys: What it Means to Become a Man Books on TV mentioned in I Like To Watch I’ll Be There for You: The One About Friends by Kelsey Miller Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell I Think I’m Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families by Carroll O’Connor The Sopranos Sessions by Matt Zoller Seitz Other Seminal Books on TV TV (the book) by Alan Sepinwall The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific by David Bianculli Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes by Saul Austerlitz Other Related Materials I Love Top Ten Lists (article from The New Yorker) Critic Emily Nussbaum on the charms of modern television-watching (article from Vox) Critic Emily Nussbaum Weighs In on Best TV shows of the Decade (clip from NPR) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

45 min
2020-04-20

Benjamin Moser: The Life of Susan Sontag

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed. Books by Benjamin Moser Sontag: Her Life and Work (ebook) Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (translated by Moser) (ebook) The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (edited by Moser) (ebook) Books by Sheila Heti Women in Clothes (ebook) Motherhood (print book available when branches reopen) “My Life is a Joke” (link opens a 2015 story by Heti in The New Yorker) Materials by or about Susan Sontag Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (of Susan Sontag), 1964-1980 Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag On the Eve of the Met Gala, Andrew Bolton Takes Vogue on a Walking Tour of “Camp: Notes on Fashion” (link opens a Vogue magazine article from May 2019) Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA podcast A four-part Interview with Susan Sontag (can be listened to in any order) Episode One: This God-Damned Celebrity Culture (23 mins) Episode Two: The Little Illness Book (19 mins) Episode Three: The Arts Give Humans Dignity (19 mins) Episode Four: Make Something Better (19 mins) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik. Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

37 min

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Live Mic Classic Books features curated discussions that explore classic literature from a variety of perspectives, with some of the most important names in contemporary literature. Recorded for Toronto Public Library both virtually and in-person, these episodes offer fresh insights into timeless works.

Creator

Toronto Public Library
Years Active

2018 - 2020
Episodes

23
Rating

Explicit
Show Website

Live Mic Classic Books