Compulsive Reader's author interviews, book chat, literary discussions, readings and more. It's an audio haven for book lovers! Recent and upcoming guests include Terry Denton, Marion Halligan, Sir Ken Robinson, Emily Ballou, Sofie Laguna, Matthew Riley, John Banville, Felicity Plunkett, Mark Coker, Peter Bowerman, Eric Maisel, Ramona Koval, Tim Flannery, Carl Zimmer, Gail Jones, Jane Smiley, Frank Delaney, Ben Okri, and many more.
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A series of live conversations between writer Carl Zimmer and eight leading thinkers on the question of what it means to be alive. What Is Life? was recorded in front of a live audience at Caveat in New York and is supported by a grant from Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative.
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Join journalist Kirk McElhearn as he interviews writers of all kinds about their processes, routines, and how they use Scrivener, the app dedicated to long-form writing. In the first half of the show, writers share their experiences and their different approaches to getting words down on the page; in the second half, they get into the specifics of how they use Scrivener to help them. Whether you’re a Scrivener user or just interested in writing, this podcast has something for you.
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Interviews with thought-leaders about their new books. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/van-leer-institute
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From neurons to nanotech and from quarks to the cosmos, BookLab is the podcast that puts science books under the microscope! Join hosts Dan Falk and Amanda Gefter for a look at the latest in popular science writing: what’s new, what’s hot, and what you ought to be reading right now.
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Indian Genes is committed to bringing in ideas and thoughts from Global leaders in their field to every listener and home, with the intention of providing free and easy access to this information to all that would want to continue their quest for continuous learning. We also are very focused on our young talent that would benefit from this exposure as they plan and move ahead in the careers and life path, hopefully inspiring them to greater heights and clarity in thought that builds both cha ...
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The shamefully inadequate & grossly irreverent Doctor Who podcast Also hear us on: Prognosis Negative Movie Reviews Star Trek: Romulans Bearing Gifts The Best Picture Podcast 1001 Movies Podcast Sci-Fi Party Line
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The world's top musicians, composers, & producers tell trumpeter-composer-vocalist Knox Summerour how they've made it in the world of music for TV, Film, Games, Stage, & Studio. Go behind the scenes of Film Music, TV bands, Game music, Jazz, Pop, Classical, and more for tips, advice, and timeless stories from the professionals who've been there, who are there, who will be there. If you're a musician, a student, a freelancer in any field, or simply a fan of great music and musicians, this pod ...
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Cary Nelson, "Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
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Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre, Cary Nelson's Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles (Academic Studies Press, 2024) takes up issues that have consequently gained new urgency in the academy worldwide. It is the first book to ask what impact antisemitism has had on the f…
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Episode 42: William Shaw, Author of Crime Fiction and Adventure Thrillers
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William Shaw writes crime fiction and adventure thrillers. Show notes: William Shaw The Wild Swimmers Aphantasia The Conspirators Raymond Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Writers just want to be left alone Elly Griffiths: The Locked Room Martin Green: Seven Types of Adventure Tale: An Etiology of a Major Genre The Interpreter Adam…
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Chris French - Aliens. Ghosts. Paranormal Activity...Lets Fact Check !
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Aliens! Ghosts! Paranormal Activity....lets take a Skeptical look as all this and then make informed decisions ! Indian Genes speaks to Professor Chris French who is the Head of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Psychology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Co…
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Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet, producer, and educator who runs the well-respected regional arts initiative Poets Out Loud. She joins us to read from and talk about her debut book Tight Bindings. Visit Sarah’s website at: https://sarahtemporal.com/ Watch videos of Sarah performing and order Tight Bindings: https://puncherandwattmann.com/pro…
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Jay Garfinkel, "Kohelet's Cocktail: Beyond the Pursuit of Happiness" (Illuminated Press, 2024)
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Dive into the timeless wisdom of Ecclesiastes in Jay Garfinkel's groundbreaking work, Kohelet's Cocktail: Beyond the Pursuit of Happiness (Illuminated Press, 2024) This exquisite "illuminated" digital masterpiece marries the ancient with the avant-garde, offering a fresh, poetic voice to the biblical text that has resonated with humanity for millen…
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MHC #181.9 Cat and Sean Catch Up Episode! (Boom through Dot & Bubble)
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73 BOOM DOTS? Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Eight One.9 featuring Carl, Cat, Sean, Josh and Eric. Join us as we dive into (semi?) NEW Doctor Who stories, catching up with Cat & Sean on the fourth, fifth and sixth episodes of Ncuti Gatwa's first season. Let the banter begin! LINKS: @SciFiPartyLine: scifipartyline.com @ProgNeg: prognosisnega…
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BookLab 035: The Blind Spot; Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation; The Rigor of Angels
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Some researchers believe that the traditional scientific approach, in spite of its impressive 400-year track record, has left something out. Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson lay out the argument in The Blind Spot. And on the nightstand: Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation, by George Musser; and The Rigor of Angels, by William Eggin…
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Samuel C. Heilman and Mucahit Bilici, "Following Similar Paths: What American Jews and Muslims Can Learn from One Another" (U California Press, 2024)
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Two academics, one Jewish and one Muslim, come together to show how much their faiths have in common—particularly in America. This book provides a braided portrait of two American groups whose strong religious attachments and powerful commitments to ritual observance are not always easy to adapt to American culture. Orthodox Jews and observant Musl…
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Eyal Regev, "The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Eyal Regev's The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred (Yale UP, 2019) is he first scholarly work to trace the Temple throughout the entire New Testament, this study examines Jewish and Christian attitudes toward the Temple in the first century and provides both Jews and Christians with a better understanding of their respective fai…
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Episode 41: Natasha Bell, Thriller Author and Creative Writing Teacher
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Natasha Bell writes psychological thrillers and teaches creative writing. Show notes: Natasha Bell His Perfect Wife How author Ken Follett sold nearly 200 million books (video showing how he writes) Faber Academy: Finish Your Draft Catherine Lacey: Biography of X Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you …
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BUBBLES: Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Seven Eight featuring Carl, Caleb, Sean, and Eric. Join us as we dive into a NEW Doctor Who story, discussing the sixth episode of Ncuti Gatwa's first season as the 15th Doctor, in Dot and Bubble. Let the banter begin! LINKS: @SciFiPartyLine: scifipartyline.com @ProgNeg: prognosisnegative.libsyn.com @…
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Patti Miller on the newly revised version of Writing True Stories
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Patti Miller joins us to read from and talk about her book Writing True Stories which has just been extensively updated and extended. She talks about what has changed in the 30+ years since she started teaching Life Writing, the impact of technology, her best tip, her own work in progress, and lots more. Find out more about Patti and Writing True S…
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Wendy Van Camp, Speculative Fiction Writer and Poet
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Show notes: Wendy van Camp The Planets SFWA - Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association The Curate’s Brother: A Jane Austen Variation of Persuasion NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) Stuart Horwitz: Blueprint Your Bestseller Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please foll…
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MAGIC: Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Seven Eight featuring Carl, Caleb, Sean, and Eric. Join us as we dive into a NEW Doctor Who story, discussing the fifth episode of Ncuti Gatwa's first season as the 15th Doctor, in 73 Yards. Let the banter begin! LINKS: @SciFiPartyLine: scifipartyline.com @ProgNeg: prognosisnegative.libsyn.com @StarTrek…
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Julia Levitina reads from and talks about her new book The Girl From Moscow including such things as how the book came about, why fiction, how the book follows her own departure from the Soviet Union, the importance of 1983 as her setting, inherited trauma and her protagonists, antisemitism, the theatre, her work-in-progress and lots more. Find out…
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Judith Lewis Herman, "Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Judith Herman is renowned for her groundbreaking work with survivors of trauma, including sexual trauma. Her earlier books include Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror (Basic Books, 2022) and Father-Daughter Incest (Harvard UP, 2000) The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violen…
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Episode 39: Kate Heartfield, Historical Fantasy Author
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Kate Heartfield writes historical fantasy novels, games, and stories. Show notes: Kate Heartfield The Embroidered Book The Valkyrie John Gardner, Grendel Aeon Timeline Vajra Chandrasekera, The Saint of Bright Doors Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it in Apple Podca…
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BOOM: Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Seven Eight featuring Carl, Caleb, Sean, and Eric. Join us as we dive into a NEW Doctor Who story, discussing the fourth episode of Ncuti Gatwa's first season as the 15th Doctor, in Boom. Let the banter begin! LINKS: @SciFiPartyLine: scifipartyline.com @ProgNeg: prognosisnegative.libsyn.com @StarTrekRBG:…
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Thomas Sparr, "German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City" (Haus Publishers, 2021)
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In the 1920s, before the establishment of the state of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwrigh…
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MHC #178.5 Carl & Caleb's Thoughts On Space Babies & The Devil's Chord
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MAESTRO BABIES? Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Seven Eight.B featuring Carl, Caleb, Sean, and Eric. Join us as we dive into (semi?) NEW Doctor Who stories, catching up with Caleb & Carl on the second and third episodes of Ncuti Gatwa's first season, with Space Babies & The Devil's Chord. Let the banter begin! LINKS: @SciFiPartyLine: scifipa…
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CUTBITS: Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway Question Mark Three Five featuring Sean, Cat, and Eric. Join us as we discuss Han Zimmer's career defining work on Doctor in Distress. WARNING: This discussion contains miscellaneous K-9 and Company, Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Sherlock, Class, new WHO, and/or classic SPOILERS pertaining to Doctor W…
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MAESTRO: Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Seven Eight featuring Cat, Sean, and Eric. Join us as we dive into a NEW Doctor Who story, discussing the third episode of Ncuti Gatwa's first season as the 15th Doctor, in The Devil's Chord. Let the banter begin! LINKS: @SciFiPartyLine: scifipartyline.com @ProgNeg: prognosisnegative.libsyn.com @StarT…
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BABIES? Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Seven Seven featuring Cat, Sean, and Eric. Join us as we dive into a NEW Doctor Who story, discussing the first (or apparently second?) episode of Ncuti Gatwa's first season as the 15th Doctor, in Space Babies. Let the banter begin! LINKS: @SciFiPartyLine: scifipartyline.com @ProgNeg: prognosisnegative…
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Omar Musa joins us to perform from and talk about his new album The Fullness. We talk about collaboration and his amazing collaborators, pushing into liminal spaces of multiple identities, leaning into grief and joy ("our lives given shape by shadows"), ego deflation, how some of the songs on The Fullness were created, the percussiveness of rap and…
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MHC #120 Last Christmas 8.14 [Lost Episode]
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CHRISTMAS: Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Two Zero featuring Cat, Chris, Josh and Eric. Join us as we dive into our thoughts on the 2014 Christmas Special, Last Christmas. Let the banter begin! This is a Lost MHC recorded in 2015. LINKS: @SciFiPartyLine: scifipartyline.com @ProgNeg: prognosisnegative.libsyn.com @StarTrekRBG: startrekrbg.lib…
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Carl Zimmer, "Life's Edge: The Search For What it Means to be Alive" (Dutton, 2022)
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Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the apple sitting on your kitchen counter alive, or is only the apple tree it came from deserving of the word? If we can’t answer that question here on Earth, how will we know when and if we discover alien li…
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David Tal, "The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and development of the 'special' relations between Israel and the United States. Questioning the usual neo-realist approach to understanding this relationship, David Tal instead suggests that the relations …
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Episode 38: Veronica G. Henry, Fantasy and Mystery Author
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Veronica G. Henry writes fantasy, mystery, and speculative fiction novels. Show notes: Veronica G. Henry The Canopy Keepers Shinrin-yoku - forest bathing How to Store Handwritten Notes and Texts in Scrivener Projects 47North Tracy Clark: Hide Learn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, ple…
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Kent MacCarter joins us to read from and talk about his new poetry book Fat Chance. We talk about Kent's process, about having written the "feel bad book of the year”, his journalistic process, the nature of Gossypiboma (retained medical objects), memoir, reverse ekphrasis, and lots more. For more information or to purchase a copy of Fat Chance vis…
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Seth D. Kaplan, "Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time" (Little, Brown Spark, 2023)
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The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what resources and opportunities we have access to, the quality of schools our kids go to, our sense of security and belonging, and even how long we live. Yet too many of us live in neighborhoods plagued by rising crime, school violence, family disintegration…
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Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951)
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A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, who eventually taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements—the first and most famous of his books—was made into a bestseller when Pre…
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TRACTATORS: Welcome to Mostly Harmless Cutaway One Seven Two featuring Cat, Carl, Sean, Josh and Eric. Join us as we dive into Season 21 Episode 3, Frontios. Let the banter begin! LINKS: @SciFiPartyLine: scifipartyline.com @ProgNeg: prognosisnegative.libsyn.com @StarTrekRBG: startrekrbg.libsyn.com Mostly Harmless Cutaway Patreon: patreon.com/MHC WA…
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Episode 37: Debbie Urbanski, Science Fiction Author
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After many years writing short stories and essays, Debbie Urbanski has published her first novel, After World, about AI at the end of humanity's physical presence on earth. Show notes: Debbie Urbanski After World Alan Weisman, The World Without Us M.R. Caray, The Girl With All the Gifts Marlen Haushofer, The Wall How Daydreaming Can Enhance Creativ…
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Brothers and Sisters for Israel (“Achim Baneshek”): A Conversation with Ronen Koehler
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How does an organization change in an instant, shift its focus and mission in response to a new reality? One volunteer organization did just that. In this podcast, Ronen Koehler shares the ideas, skills and commitments that enabled his organization’s dramatic, consequential change. The nonprofit, Brothers and Sisters for Israel (“Achim Baneshek” in…
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