M. Allen Cunningham M. Allen Cunningham

A reading from John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice, Vol. III, Chapter 11 (1853)
MUSIC:
"A Simple Blur" by Blue Dot Sessions, courtesy of Free Music Archive

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"This music is not only infinitely durable, but perhaps the closest that music has ever come to universality."
Voice: Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna (1970)

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"I did not know what 'Information Retrieval' was and I did not wish to find out."
Voice: Harold Bloom, Interview (2000)
Music: "Glacier" by SalmonLikeTheFish, courtesy of Free Music Archive

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Originally posted May 14, 2020, the 95th anniversary of the publication of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: M. Allen Cunningham's lecture on Woolf's great novel, originally delivered to Creative Writing students at Portland State University.
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A reading from John Banville's novel Kepler, with music.
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Cunningham describes his book Q&A and then reads three short sections (which happen to feature a few "F-bombs", FYI).

Inspired by true events, bold in the forms with which it evokes an agitated, media-soaked half century in America, Q&A urgently reimagines the misunderstood quiz show scandals in light of our own time, as a moment of cultural reckoning whose reverberations we feel all around us today: in reality television, TV politics, the triumph of incoherence, and the pandemic problem of how to be real in a world of screen-induced self-deception.

This reading was performed via Zoom. View the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B57vdvR_XU.

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