In Renaissance Venice, Aldus Manutius turned his mid-life crisis into a publishing revolution, printing books that permanently changed the way we read. In a recent review, Erin Maglaque celebrates Aldus as the progenitor of the paperback and a model for late bloomers. She tells Tom about Aldus’s achievements, his monumental ego and his part in the creation o ... Show More
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On Politics: The Bust-up at the BBC
The BBC is in crisis, again. A leaked dossier alleging a lack of impartiality in its reporting on Trump, Israel, race and gender has felled its director general and drawn threats of a defamation lawsuit from the White House. Yet many at the corporation point to the dossier’s cult ... Show More
1h 4m
Nov 21
Aftershock: The War on Terror – Episode 1: With Us or Against Us
In the days after 9/11, George W. Bush declared a state of emergency and initiated what would become an unprecedented expansion of US power. Public debate narrowed: there were new limits on what was acceptable, and not acceptable, to say. The London Review of Books published a nu ... Show More
44m 54s
Mar 2024
Si tu réinventais la terre, d'Andrée Chedid
<p>À l'occasion de la journée internationale de lutte pour les droits des femmes, découvrez la plume inspirante d'Andrée Chedid. "Si tu réinventais la terre" est un de ses poèmes, bonne écoute à toutes et à tous ! Et à lundi 👋</p><br><p>📖 "Textes pour un poème / Poèmes pour un ... Show More
2m 47s
Jul 2023
Liberté, de Paul Éluard ✍️
<p>Paul Éluard, de son vrai nom Eugène Grindel, est l'auteur du célèbre poème "Liberté". Un texte écrit pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et devenu un symbole d'espoir, marquant ainsi plusieurs générations. C'est le deuxième poème que nous vous proposons d'écouter au cours de no ... Show More
4m 56s
May 2023
The Podcaster (and The Novelist)
<p>Jordan Castro joins the pod to discuss his novel The Novelist, poop, alt-literature, the death of the sacred, our humorless generation, swallowing the responsibility pill, and being Christ-pilled.</p>
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1h 3m
Nov 2019
Ep 209: Cracking the audiobook code
Today’s guest is Jamie Freeman, a reader who was led to audiobooks by her favorite true crime podcasts… and has since made serious space in her life to read with her earbuds in. Anne and Jamie chat about spine-tingly crime nonfiction, historical romance, their favorite audiobook ... Show More
48m 23s