Ouça a segunda parte da entrevista histórica de 1976 de Clarice Lispector para Marina Colasanti, Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna e João Salgueiro. O biógrafo Benjamin Moser e a editora Mariana Delfini ainda comentam os bastidores. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
In the first of our seasonal round-ups, we look back at Stephen Marche on the agonies of the writing life; and Nat Segnit dives into Adam Gopnik's survey of mastery.
'On writing and failure: Or, the peculiar perseverance required to
endure the life of a writer', by Stephen Marche
'The real work: On the mystery of mastery', by Adam Gopnik
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week our history of the great essays and great essayists reaches the twentieth century and Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (1929). David discusses how an essay on the conditions for women writing fiction ends up being about so much else besides: anger, power, sex, modernity, independence and transcendence. And how, despite all that, it still manages to be as fresh and funny as anything written since.
Read more on Virginia Woolf in the LRB:
Jacqueline Rose on Woolf and madness
‘It is, one might say, a central paradox of modern family life that its members are required to mould themselves in each other’s image and yet to know, as separate individuals or egos, exactly who they are.’
Gillian Beer on Woolf and reality
‘The “real world” for Virginia Woolf was not solely the liberal humanist world of personal and social relationships: it was the hauntingly difficult world of Einsteinian physics and Wittgenstein’s private languages.’
Rosemary Hill on Woolf and domesticity
‘Woolf, who had once found it humiliating to do her own shopping, spent the last morning of her life dusting with Louie, before she put her duster down and went to drown herself.’
John Bayley on Woolf and writing
‘For Virginia Woolf wish-fulfilment was in words themselves, that protected her from herself and from society.’
Listen to David’s History of Ideas episode about Max Weber’s ‘The Profession and Vocation of Politics’.
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This week, Kate Hext on women who have run or climbed their way through the world, despite efforts to stop them; and Alice Robb thinks about how - and why - we tell stories through dance.
'In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors', by Rachel Hewitt
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This week David talks to American historian Gary Gerstle about the shape-shifting journey of the US Republican Party, from the Civil War to the battles of today. How did the party of the North become the party of the South? When did the war party lose its appetite for war? Why does an organisation born out of anti-Catholicism now see its mission as to get Catholics onto the Supreme Court? And what could finally break the party apart?
Gary Gerstle’s latest book is The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order.
For more on the Great Abortion Switcheroo of the 1970s.
Listen again to David’s episode on Hume and American default.
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Celebramos os 4 anos do 451 MHz com a entrevista histórica de 1976 de Clarice Lispector para Marina Colasanti, Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna e João Salgueiro. No final, o biógrafo Benjamin Moser e a editora Mariana Delfini comentam os bastidores. Ouça a segunda parte em 28 de julho. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, cycling commentator par excellence Ned Boulting on the Tour de France of a century ago; and Peter Parker delves into the many faces of the self-styled 'Master' playwright, Noel Coward.
'1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession', by Ned Boulting
'Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward', by Oliver Soden
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For the third episode in this series about the great political essays, David explores Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’ (1849), a ringing call to resistance against democratic idiocy. Thoreau wanted to resist slavery and unjust wars. How can one citizen turn the tide against majority opinion? Was Thoreau a visionary or a hypocrite? And what do his arguments say about environmental civil disobedience today?
Read Thoreau’s essay here
From the LRB:
Paul Laity on Thoreau and self-sufficiency
Jeremy Harding on XR and civil disobedience
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