A escritora Eliana Alves Cruz e o poeta Jorge Augusto falam da busca pela própria ancestralidade por meio da literatura e a importância de festivais literários fora do circuito Rio-São Paulo, como a Flica, a Festa Literária Internacional de Cachoeira, na Bahia. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, Elizabeth Lowry is impressed by a study of Hardy’s late-life love poetry; and TLS science editor Sam Graydon on his ‘mosaic’ biography of Einstein
‘Woman much missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and poetry’, by Mark Ford
‘Einstein in time and space: a life in 99 particles’, by Samuel Graydon
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week’s episode in our series on the great political essays is about David Foster Wallace’s ‘Up, Simba!’, which describes his experiences following the doomed campaign of John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. Wallace believed that McCain’s distinctive political style revealed some hard truths about American democracy. Was he right? What did he miss? And how do those truths look now in the age of Trump?
More on David Foster Wallace from the LRB:
Jenny Turner on Wallace and his moment
‘The risk Wallace takes is to guess he is not the only "obscenely well-educated", curiously lost and empty white boy out there; that his sadness is also the experience of a whole historical moment.’
Patricia Lockwood on Wallace and his influence
‘It was the essayists who were left to cope with his almost radioactive influence. He produced a great deal of excellent writing, the majority of it not his own.’
Dale Peck’s notorious takedown of Infinite Jest
‘If nothing else, the success of Infinite Jest is proof that the Great American Hype machine can still work wonders.’
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This week, Jonathan Barnes joins us to explore the visionary work of Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale; and a wonderful conversation about literature and horticulture between Dame Penelope Lively and her daughter, musician Josephine Lively.
'The Quatermass Experiment 70th Anniversary', Nigel Kneale, Alexandra Palace
'You Must Listen', BBC Sounds
'Life in the Garden', by Penelope Lively
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This week David talks to novelists Adam Biles and John Lanchester about the timeless appeal of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Why has it retained its hold far longer than other political allegories? Do readers need to know about the Russian history it describes? What makes the animals so relatable? Plus we discuss other favourite political allegories, from The Wizard of Oz to WALL-E.
Adam Biles’s new novel – inspired by Animal Farm – is Beasts of England, available now.
Read John Lanchester in the current issue of the LRB.
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