# Brian Dillon

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Linguistically Aware - Episode June 9, 2026

Language in Humans and Machines with Dr. Julie Sedivy What would it mean for machines to understand language the way humans do? In this episode, we dive deep into the fascinating intersection of linguistics, cognition, and artificial intelligence with psycholinguist, Dr. Julie Sedivy. We explore …

Poems for Company - June 22, 2026

“Gone Parents“: Poets featured today consider deceased parents, somewhat sentimentally or as mysterious dream figures.  Ted Kooser, “Mother” and “Father,” from Delights & Shadows (Copper Canyon Press, 2004).  Seamus Heaney, “Uncoupled,” from Selected Poems 1988-2013 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014…

Writers' Response to the Landscape (Full Episode): Roundtable Talks - ‘Change & Recovery’

Writers, Brian Dillon, Sue Stuart-Smith and Noreen Masud spend time on the reserve and reflect on the landscape, geography and location of Elmley not only as something exterior but also on the interior experience of inhabiting the marshland. Chaired by Tom Morton *Tom Morton is a writer and curator…

Writers' Response to the Landscape (Introduction): The human experience of nature and change

Introduction to the Writer's Roundtable discussion 'Porous Borders' in which Sue Stuart-Smith, Brian Dillon and Noreen Masud explore themes relating to landscape and the human experience of nature and change. Chaired by Tom Morton.

Brian Dillon & Olivia Laing: Ambivalence

In Ambivalence (Fitzcarraldo) Brian Dillon explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. It's at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and ear…

Brian Dillon & Olivia Laing: Ambivalence

In Ambivalence (Fitzcarraldo) Brian Dillon explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. It's at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and ea…

Brian Dillon's "Ambivalence: An Education"

On this episode, Vince Francone (A Book No One Wants, Jabber) and Chad W. Post discuss Brian Dillon’s forthcoming book, Ambivalence: An Education (NYRB/Fitzcarraldo) as part of their ongoing series of podcasts on Irish literature. (You can find earlier episodes in this series here.) They discuss ho…

Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives Audiobook by Brian Dillon

https://libranovo.com/free Listen to free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented LivesGenres: Health & Wellness, FitnessAuthor: Brian DillonNarrator: John LeeRelease date: 12-29-2010Length: 9:23:28Language: EnglishPublisher: Blackstone AudiobooksDescription:Charl…

TPOE 400: Loah

Loah released her debut album Materia Medica on June 5. She says: "The ambition was to create a hypermodern body of work that sonically exemplifies the changing definition of what Irishness is, what femininity is and indeed what musical ‘genre’ is and its flexibility in the modern context. We have …

FYRC #2: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899) w/ Tia Glista

* CORRECTION: In the episode, I mention that Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published in 1899. Dracula was actually published in 1897. Tia Glista is a Toronto-based arts writer and PhD candidate. Her criticism and essays on gender in film, literature, and art have appeared in The Guardian, Toronto Star,…