Yes, Always

Benjamin Hale

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Yes, always ... I'm always p-past that. Yes.

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Text of Pleasure, Text of Bliss -- with Michaela Angier

Yes, Always, has now been fused with my show of the same name on WXTI Tivoli Community Radio, 97.3 FM. If you happen to be in or near Tivoli, NY, on any Sunday from 6:00-9:00 PM, please listen, or stream it here. This is my first reprised episode of Yes, Always, after a long hiatus. Back in June I had a great conversation about music (mostly, and a few other things) with Michaela Angier.
04/02/2023

The Logos, and logos, with Mark de Silva

Talking with the brilliant novelist, essayist and philosopher Mark de Silva ( @MarkdeSilva1 ) about his novel The Logos, about logos, about advertising, the metaphysics of writing fiction, the history of capitalism, and just about everything. Mark de Silva is the author of the novels Square Wave (2016) and The Logos (2022), as well as the essay collection Points of Attack (2020). He holds degrees in philosophy from Brown (AB) and Cambridge (PhD). He is a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine and a research editor at the New York Times Magazine.
11/27/2022

Fashion / Sense with Gwenda-lin Grewal

Talking about fashion and philosophy with Gwenda-lin Grewal: Grewal's recently released book Fashion / Sense; ant death spirals; the quest for immortality; the Heraclitan church of athleisure; and much more...
11/18/2022

The News

Todays news: Sharon Stone's husband mauled by Komodo dragon; Florida man asphyxiates on regurgitated cockroaches after winning live cockroach-eating contest; tallest man in the world rescues dolphin; Michigan man pleads guilty to murdering and eating parts of Kevin Bacon; "Pedantic Literalist," by Marianne Moore; Prince Rupert's drops; Prince Rupert's dog believed to possess magical powers.
11/11/2022

The Secret Miracle

Jorge Luis Borges, The Secret Miracle. 1943. Translated by Andrew Hurley. Read by Benjamin Hale.
10/25/2022

What Is a Monster?

A Halloween episode: the Kraken, Michael Myers, the Terminator, killing mice, the banality of evil.
09/21/2022

In the Memory Palace of Don Juan

Don Juan, melancholy at the twilight of his life of pleasure, in a last quest to relive his memories imprisons himself in a nightmare.
09/04/2022

Bust It Baby

Talking with Andrew Ricketts about basketball movies, William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, Conan the Destroyer, black American slang, the roots of the word woke.

8 Episodes

Yes, always ... I'm always p-past that. Yes.

Creator

Benjamin Hale
Years Active

2020 - 2026
Episodes

8
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

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