36 min
Take #1: Ulysses, Kafka, Keats, & the meaning of death The Grapevine Sessions
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On the Grapevine Sessions, hosts Harry and Nicholas discuss books and ideas, sparked by 'grapes' – passages from the world's books, chosen from Grapevine (atgrapevine.com).
Grapes this week:
+ James Joyce on a day in Dublin (Ulysses)
+ George Orwell on reading Ulysses (Inside the Whale)
+ George Bernard Shaw on the truth of Ulysses (in Shakespeare and Company)
+ John Carey on the intimacy - and alienation - of Ulysses (The Intellectuals and the Masses)
+ Nicole Krauss on the frustrations of Kakfa (Forest Dark)
+ John Keats on an ode to a nightingale (Ode to a Nightingale)
+ Sara Baum on the death of a swan (Spill Simmer Falter Wither)
+ James Baldwin on life and death (The Fire Next Time)
+ Mike McCormack on a man experiencing his death (Solar Bones)
+ Chinua Achebe on the mind of a colonial (Things Fall Apart)
On the Grapevine Sessions, hosts Harry and Nicholas discuss books and ideas, sparked by 'grapes' – passages from the world's books, chosen from Grapevine (atgrapevine.com).
Grapes this week:
+ James Joyce on a day in Dublin (Ulysses)
+ George Orwell on reading Ulysses (Inside the Whale)
+ George Bernard Shaw on the truth of Ulysses (in Shakespeare and Company)
+ John Carey on the intimacy - and alienation - of Ulysses (The Intellectuals and the Masses)
+ Nicole Krauss on the frustrations of Kakfa (Forest Dark)
+ John Keats on an ode to a nightingale (Ode to a Nightingale)
+ Sara Baum on the death of a swan (Spill Simmer Falter Wither)
+ James Baldwin on life and death (The Fire Next Time)
+ Mike McCormack on a man experiencing his death (Solar Bones)
+ Chinua Achebe on the mind of a colonial (Things Fall Apart)
36 min