# Jean Giono

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Gethan Dick, author of "Water in the Desert Fire in the Night"

My guest today is artist and writer Gethan Dick, an Irish-born author, living in Marseille, who has written a very interesting book about survival in a post-apocalyptic world. Specifically, how pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing interface with a desperate quest for humanity’s continuation. In …

The Man Who Planted Trees

The Man Who Planted Trees  by Jean Giono read by Before the Page Podcast host Charlie Mehrhoff. Copies of the book, The Man Who Planted Trees, featuring exquisite wood engravings by Michael McCurdy are available from CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING by going to the publisher's website at - https://www.chel…

Makenna Goodman

In this episode the American writer Makenna Goodman speaks to Take Four Books about her new novel, Helen Of Nowhere, and together with presenter James Crawford they explore its connections to three other literary works. In Helen Of Nowhere, published by Fitzcarraldo, a disgraced professor is being…

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life

Have we forgotten how to truly participate in the natural world? What can the ancient practice of shepherding teach us about ecological healing? How does physical labor connect us to the land, memory and belonging? In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu sp…

The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life with HELEN WHYBROW

Have we forgotten how to truly participate in the natural world? What can the ancient practice of shepherding teach us about ecological healing? How does physical labor connect us to the land, memory and belonging? In this episode of the Speaking Out of Place podcast, Professor David Palumbo-Liu sp…

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono

An Audio Reading of The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono for the Cass City PROMISE.

Verity Sharp and Matthew Syed

Harriett Gilbert talks favourite books with music presenter Verity Sharp and table tennis champion turned author Matthew Syed. Their books are The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson and Chéri by Colette. These spark deeply-felt argument over whether planting …

Helen Whybrow

This week we visit with Helen Whybrow at Knoll Farm in Fayston, Vermont.  Helen Whybrow is the author of The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life (Longlisted for the National Book Award & Winner of the Vermont Book Award), A Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite’s Radical Experiment in Living and Dead…

A Bookmobile Full of Friends

This is a reading of the main essay from today’s letter. Not included in the audio: the poem and the fiction (but they are here in the notes). You should subscribe to the email version at luckywords.substack.com On Books Kate and I had our anniversary this week, and we went book shopping. Besides p…