Herzog Part II: Great men take on the potato
Wrapping up Saul Bellow's Herzog, where the going gets tough and the tough take baths.
First up, the failed murder. Herzog gets his dad's old revolver, works himself into a state of total conviction that killing his ex-wife Madeleine and her lover is not just justified but righteous, and then lose…
Paul Theroux on the road in Canada
We’re talking about Canada today, a place I know a little something about. My homeland is the subject of Paul Theroux’s newest travel book.
He drove from Newfoundland’s rocky shores west to rainy Vancouver, talking to people from all walks of life.
His roots in Canada run deep, and he tells th…
Martin Amis's Inside Story
The latest work by British author Martin Amis, Inside Story: How to Write, takes the death of his closest friend, Christopher Hitchens, as the starting point for this book. Along the way we meet other vibrant characters who have helped define Martin Amis - from his father Kingsley Amis, to his hero…
Martin Amis's Inside Story
The latest work by British author Martin Amis, Inside Story: How to Write, takes the death of his closest friend, Christopher Hitchens, as the starting point for this book. Along the way we meet other vibrant characters who have helped define Martin Amis - from his father Kingsley Amis, to his hero…
Sara Paretsky In Person With Paul
Sara Paretsky chats to Paul Burke about her new spy thriller Bad Company, Lily, CIA = bad dog, being a Chicago Pitbull and falling out of bed in Paris as inspiration for a novel.
Bad Company The CIA forced Lily to retire before she was ready. She'd spent forty years as a field agent. She'd been ski…
Ayad Akhtar on THE RADIANCE
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author, Ayad Akhtar joins us to talk about craft, the campus novel, autofiction, and his latest book, The Radiance, with host Miwa Messer.
This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.
New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays…
Brian Wood. 'Zen in Beverly Hills'
Don't tell me what the poets are doing
Don't tell me that they're talking tough
Don't tell me that they're anti-social
Somehow not anti-social enough…
~ The Tragically Hip
Literally Drinking is the podcast where Paul Boucher and Ross Mikkelsen sit with Canadian authors, have a few drinks and tal…
Rushing the Cockpit
Our friend Matt Continetti is back to discuss breaking news of a thwarted 9/11-style attack on a flight from Dubai to Tel-Aviv and the heroism of the passengers who averted disaster, and how this ties to recent terrorism stories coming out of the UK, and to Iranian grand strategy. Plus, Senator Eri…
If Machines Can Do This, What About Us?
Global existential angst about AI is reaching fever pitch. So I put four common beliefs about AI through an inquiry to see which ones hold up.
If you've been with me since the start, you'll know I've spent a good while on the flaw in the human operating system — the way we take the voice in our hea…
Spellbreakers Ep. 183: Nobel Prize Roundup
First up, the focus shifts to Diane Baker, Nobel Prize Roundup and Stockholm. Then the talk turns to cathode rays, with South Pole, Nobel Committee and Nobel Prizes in the mix. From there, the crew gets into tab instead, with South Pole, Antarctica and Halson in the mix. Later, it's on to Brownian …
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