Best Ursula Lindsey Podcasts (2024)

Ghassan Kanafani is best known for his famous novellas, but he was many things besides a talented writer: a prolific journalist, an insightful critic and editor, a heterodox Marxist, a spokesman for the militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He wrote and lived like he had no time to waste (which turned out to be true: he was assass…

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562. 1899 Season 1 Review (with Erin Lindsey, Andrea Kail, Ruairi Carroll) 1:30:45

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561. Amanda Knox and Christopher Robinson, hosts of Labyrinths 1:04:54

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560. For All Mankind Seasons 3 and 4 Review (with John Joseph Adams, Sara Lynn Michener, Rafael Jordan) 1:33:06

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559. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert Book Club (with Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, Rajan Khanna) 1:27:15

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WITH GAZA 1:08:37

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This episode features writing from and about Gaza, and explores the imperative to write, between hope and hopelessness, at a time when words both seem to count enormously and to not be enough. Show Notes This episode’s cover art is by Chema Peral @chema_peral Letter from Gaza by Ghassan Kanafani was written in 1956. Mahmoud Darwish’s Silence for th…

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558. Bodies TV Show Review (with Erin Lindsey, Andrea Kail, Ruairi Carroll) 1:37:01

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557. John Joseph Adams on Baldur's Gate III 1:37:24

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556. For All Mankind Seasons 1 and 2 Review (with John Joseph Adams, Sara Lynn Michener, Rafael Jordan) 1:24:05

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555. Kyle Newman on Dungeons and Dragons and Star Wars 56:52

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554. Andrew Yang, co-author of The Last Election 51:31

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553. David Cronenberg Movies: Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Existenz, Crimes of the Future 1:37:30

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552. Greg Lukianoff on Superheroes and Cancel Culture 1:03:57

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On Translating Arabic Literature with Robin Moger 53:14

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We talk to Robin Moger about how he became a translator from Arabic and about what has changed in recent years in the field of Arabic literature and translation and what has stayed the same. Moger’s first book-length literary translation was Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s 2008 novel الفاعل, which became A Dog with No Tail. His most recent is a translation of…

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551. Blindsight by Peter Watts Book Club (with Theresa DeLucci, Sam J. Miller, Seth Dickinson) 1:29:45

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550. Abby Goldsmith, author of Majority 1:04:48

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A Crime at the End of the Sahara 46:54

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Said Khatibi’s detective novel نهاية الصحراء (End of the Sahara) is set in a remote desert city in Algeria in the Fall of 1988, when the country’s October Riots are about to break out place. The book is one of the winners of this year’s Sheikh Zayed Book Award. Khatibi explained how his writing is also a way of exploring larger historical crimes. S…

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549. Charlie Kaufman Movies: Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Anomalisa, I'm Thinking of Ending Things 1:45:51

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548. Susan Palwick, author of The Fate of Mice and All Worlds Are Real 1:09:49

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547. Ian Livingstone on Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy 1:00:55

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546. John Romero, co-creator of Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein 3D 1:01:40

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545. Silo Season 1 Review (with John Joseph Adams, Sara Lynn Michener, Rafael Jordan) 1:29:23

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Remembering Hamdi Abu Golayyel 1:19:27

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Egyptian novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel died last month at the age of 56. In this episode, we remember Hamdi and his one-of-a-kind literary career, telling the story of Egypt’s laborers, Bedouin, and migrants. Show Notes: Egyptian Novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel Dies at 56: ‘There Was No One Like Him’ A Special Section at ArabLit on Abu Golayyel, Bedouin …

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544. Gregory Frost, author of Rhymer and Attack of the Jazz Giants and Other Stories 1:14:28

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543. Movie Review: Logan’s Run, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Silent Running, The Andromeda Strain, Colossus: The Forbin Project 1:40:46

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Inside The World of Lebanese Comics with Rawand Issa 1:00:31

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Comics artist Rawand Issa joins us to talk about her book Inside the Giant Fish (trans. Amy Chiniara, Maamoul Press); her path from journalism to graphic art; artist groups and collectives across the region; the “new school of Arab comics,” and the challenges of making a living as a comics artist. We also talk about a few other Lebanese graphic nov…

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542. Bill Fawcett on Robert Asprin 1:21:47

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Sawad Hussain’s Translation Advice 58:06

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Translator Sawad Hussain joins us to talk about the challenges of making a living as a translator, the art of co-translation, her focus on Arabic literature from Africa and the Gulf, and the advice she gives to her translation mentees. We also highlight three of Sawad’s recent and forthcoming translations: Haji Jaber’s Black Foam, Bushra al-Maqtari…

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541. Philip Plait, author of Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe 53:21

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540. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Movie Review (with John Joseph Adams, Michael Witwer, Ben Riggs) 1:35:21

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Looking Back From Iraq 56:35

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Twenty years after the disastrous and mendacious US invasion of Iraq, we take a look at writing from Iraq: memoirs, poems and blog posts. Shalash the Iraqi is a collection of such posts – a satirical, surreal, and affecting panorama in life in a Shia suburb of Baghdad in the early years of the occupation. Show Notes: An excerpt from Gaith Abdul-aha…

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539. The Last of Us Season 1 Review (with Erin Lindsey, Theresa DeLucci, Zach Chapman) 1:30:18

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538. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 (with John Joseph Adams, Rebecca Roanhorse, P. Djèlí Clark) 1:22:21

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Love and its Discontents 1:07:15

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We wandered through Arabic poetry and prose to talk about many different forms of literary love: regretful love, unreciprocated love, bad love, vengeful love, liberating love, married love. We read this poem by Núra al-Hawshán: “O eyes, pour me the clearest, freshest tears And when the fresh part’s over, pour me the dregs. O eyes, gaze at his harve…

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537. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert Book Club (with Andrea Kail, Matthew Kressel, Rajan Khanna) 1:28:31

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536. Arcane Season 1 Review (with Erin Lindsey, Zach Chapman, Lara Elena Donnelly) 1:32:44

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Should You Turn Down That Literary Award? 58:28

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It’s literary prize season! When the Sawiris Cultural Awards were announced at the start of 2023, novelist Shady Lewis Botros turned his novel award down, launching a storm of criticism, defense, and discussion. Is it bad manners or good politics to turn down a prize? How do different prizes affect the literary landscape? How is the 2023 prize seas…

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535. James Wynn and Craig Brewer on Gene Wolfe 1:06:13

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534. Warren Lapine on Roger Zelazny 1:21:04

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533. Andor Season 1 Review (with Erin Lindsey, Andrea Kail, Matt London) 1:41:18

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532. Michael Livingston on Robert Jordan 1:16:14

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531. Cliff Bleszinski, creator of Gears of War and author of Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games 1:00:58

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Getting Your Wish 1:02:35

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Egyptian graphic novelist Deena Mohamed talks about her debut urban-fantasy trilogy Shubeik Lubeik (“Your Wish is My Command”). A product of playful self-translation, it’s coming to English as a single volume. It will be unbottled by Pantheon (US) and Granta (UK) on January 10, 2023. Show Notes: While the US edition keeps the title “Shubeik Lubeik,…

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530. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge Book Club (with Tobias S. Buckell, Abby Goldsmith, Mercurio D. Rivera) 1:35:29

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529. Melinda M. Snodgrass, author of Lucifer's War 1:05:57

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Yasmin El-Rifae’s Radius 1:10:53

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El-Rifae’s book Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution tells the story of a movement that mobilized in Egypt to protect female protesters from mob sexual attacks in 2012 and 2013. Based on interviews with friends and comrades, the book explores memory, truth, gender, violence, political organizing, trauma, and possible futures. Show Notes You can o…

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