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- 3 weeks ago35 min
David A. Bell on the book review's past, present, and uncertain future
David A. Bell joins Morten Høi Jensen to discuss his essay from Liberties' spring issue "The Life and Death of the Book Review."
- Jun 22, 202637 min
A.E. Stallings on writing poetry
A.E. Stallings discusses her recent essay "How Poems Happen (For Me)" with Morten Høi Jensen.
- Apr 14, 202634 min
Abbas Milani on Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma
Abbas Milani and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Milani's recent Liberties essay "Ali Khamenei: A Profile in Dogma"
- Mar 31, 202633 min
Yahia Lababidi - Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton; Secretaries of Silence
Yahia Lababidi discusses his recent essay "Secretaries of Silence" with Morten Høi Jensen. The essay is about the relationship between Czesław Miłosz and Thomas Merton.
- Mar 6, 202624 min
James Wolcott - Gloire Days
James Wolcott and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Wolcott's essay "Gloire Days" and Trump's obsession with Mar-a-Lago.
- Feb 9, 202635 min
Dan Sinykin - Close Reading
Dan Sinykin and Morten Høi Jensen discuss Close Reading For The Twentieth Century, the book that Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winnant edited and which was published recently by Princeton University Press.
- Jan 27, 202644 min
Morten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus -- Mann and Soutine
Morten Høi Jensen and Celeste Marcus discuss their respective books The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain and Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art.
- Jan 5, 202639 min
Lance Richardson - Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen,
On this episode of Required Reading, Morten Høi Jensen and Lance Richardson discuss Richardson’s new biography Peter Matthiessen, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, exploring the author’s environmentalism, his time working for the CIA, and his fascination with the Bigfoot Legend."
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