Readings, conversations and thoughts from Marcel Proust's Masterpiece: "In Search of Lost Time"! More episodes here!! https://patreon.com/thebookpodcast 😊😊
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Proust Podcasts
It’s just a Harpy reading Proust. Not front to back, just randomly.
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Gary Rodger (aka Mooncat) and Tilt Araiza (aka Ocho) bring Sitcom Club-style discussion to things other than sitcoms; they'll take on TV, cinema and other aspects of popular culture, frequently 20th century British fare.
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A yearly curation of conversations between children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Ruben and Rachel Galindo.
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An unscheduled, unpredictable Supreme Court podcast. Hosted by Will Baude and Dan Epps.
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This podcast features funny and engaging conversations, with friends and guests, from various creative backgrounds. The simple aim is to have an interesting chat. Using my version of the Proust questionnaire, we aim to have fun and see where we end up. This might sound pretentious, but it's not. It's just good fun and an excellent way to spend 30 mins of your life. Enjoy !!
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A podcast about the pursuit of knowledge through interesting and engaging conversation, hosted by Agent Palmer. Released every other Tuesday.
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The aim of “Interview with a Therapist” is to humanize the therapist and destigmatize the treatment. This podcast takes a personal look inside the professionals who treat mental health. Each episode is an interview with a different therapist using the same 10 questions. This format is inspired by James Lipton and The Actor’s Studio; the Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire; NPR’s Terry Gross and Dan Gottlieb’s Voices in the Family.
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Every Tuesday, a new book summary! Embark on a journey of knowledge with the "20 Minute Books" podcast, your free gateway to invaluable insights distilled from best-selling non-fiction books. Spanning categories such as Business, Entrepreneurship, Psychology, and more we transform influential works into engaging (roughly) 20-minute summaries. Perfect for commuters, budding entrepreneurs, or book enthusiasts, join me as I distill key takeaways from a world of wisdom, offering a rich library o ...
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mainly interviews with authors, mainly university presses.
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Welcome to The Flaky Biscuit Podcast! Each episode, award-winning baker, Bryan Ford, welcomes fellow chefs, comedians, actors, musicians, change makers and more to his kitchen table. The guest's favorite, most nostalgic meal sets the tone for the stories of their childhood, growth, failure, triumph, and everything in between. These meals could be anything from a homemade version of a packaged baked good like a Twinkie, to re-creations of a special family gumbo. Bryan will do his best to make ...
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There’s more to a book than what’s written on its pages: a book can change the world. In each episode of Writ Large, host Zachary Davis talks with one of the world’s leading scholars about one book that shaped the world we live in—whether you’ve heard of it or not. These conversations go beyond the plot summaries to unpack each book’s context and creation, and reveal its lasting influence on the ideas of today. Learn more at writlarge.fm
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Exploring the people, the science and the challenges in neuroscience.
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Daily musings about Good Life, Beauty, Dante and the Renaissance, the Ancient World, Science, Literature and Great Morning Coffee! ☀️☕️
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extra af, i know i am terrible. hve fun
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That Book is about those books you've always heard of but have no idea what their deal is. Hosted by Hannah Weaver and Michael Goldsmith, readers with high expectations and low standards.
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A blend of slow radio, gardening advice and conversation, and readings from the best garden and wildlife writing. With Andrew O'Brien.
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3 guys—a pastor, a scholar, and their gleeful provocateur—discuss the great books. We take God and literature seriously—but the second one not overly so.
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Welcome to Season Three of The Critic and Her Publics: On Translation. In 1999, twelve distinguished writers gathered at Casa Ecco, a villa on Lake Como, to discuss the art of translation. Twenty-five years later, their ideas are still apt and powerful. Last October, Merve Emre convened a group of translators and publishers at the same villa to return to those ideas and to examine a field at an inflection point. In this series, you’ll hear from the translators Maureen Freely, Daisy Rockwell, ...
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"The Story and Science of the Reading Brain" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Maryanne Wolf Category: Science
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"A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier Category: Technology & the Future
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"Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Carlo Rovelli Category: Science
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Episode 165 features Beth, Theo, Ed, Kristen, Dave, Stef, Mark, Dan, and Brian. Discussing trips through books and music, old movies and new experiences, talking nerdy, relationship origins, job searching, the always ubiquitous why question and of course, I double check my levels! Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode AgentPalmer.com Readin…
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We're back to break down a month's worth of shadow docket activity -- three recent summary reversals, plus the stay in the Texas gerrymandering case (Abbott v. LULAC). We also discuss the launch of the SCOTUSblog "interim docket blog."By Will Baude & Dan Epps
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"How circumstance and creativity collide in tune" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: David Byrne Category: Science
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Rolling for Initiative with Kat the Dungeon Mom
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1:14:08Episode 164 features Kat the Dungeon Mom, who is here to talk about being the game master. Plus loving the performing arts, teaching, raising a child, concerts, events, and much much more… Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode Kat The Dungeon Mom Linktree AgentPalmer.com Other Links 'Time Machine' is a great reintroduction to Minchin's smar…
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"10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Austin Kleon Category: Creativity
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"An account of the conditions of African Americans after the end of slavery" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: W.E.B. Du Bois Category: History
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The Proust Questionnaire: Volume IV, Jason Zapata
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1:08:56Episode 163 features the return of one of my best friends Jason Zapata. He's back to tackle some of Proust's Questionnaire, plus ch-ch-ch-changes, responsible technology usage, virtues, authors, unfinished projects and much much more. Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode What is the Proust Questionnaire? JasonZapata.com AgentPalmer.com Fri…
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Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged explores the question: What happens when the creators of a society refuse to create? Her answer was a work that is equal parts dystopian warning, philosophical manifesto, and cultural Rorschach test. Though critics panned it, the book's characters, symbols, and moral vision continue to reverberate through Americ…
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Will and Dan record a rare live show in an unusual venue: the Salamander Resort in Middleburg, Virginia, at the annual attorney retreat for trial boutique Wilkinson Stekloff. Dan teaches Will some of the new lingo he's learned from the firm's trial experts before a deep dive into civil procedure. First, we dig into the recently argued Coney Island …
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"Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Stephanie Land Category: Biography & Memoir
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After a predictably unpredictable set of detours through Latin grammar, parenting philosophies, and 90s video games, we catch up on the latest shadow (interim?) docket activity and recap the oral argument in the tariffs cases.By Will Baude & Dan Epps
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"The Biohacker's Guide to Getting the Body and Mind You Want" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Dave Asprey Category: Health & Nutrition
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What does a Game Designer do and more with Greg Costikyan
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54:04Episode 162 features Greg Costikyan a game industry veteran who's published games for a variety of platforms from the table to the phone as well as more than a few novels. You'll hear us discuss that plus his career, a little bit of process, plus adaptability, teaching, cooking, and much much more… Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode Cost…
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"An Emotional Education" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Alain de Botton and The School of Life Category: Mindfulness & Happiness
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Crazy Half-Drunk Unreliable Research Assistant
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1:03:41Divided Argument is in its sixth season! Our first episode of the term focuses, of course, on the latest developments on the shadow docket. These include several grants of interim relief to the Trump administration, as well as some dissents from the denial of certiorari. But first, an update on Dan's travel schedule and ChatGPT usage, and an import…
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"The Science behind Atheism" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Richard Dawkins Category: Philosophy
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A Fulfilling Conversation with Adam Ortiz
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1:12:19Episode 161 features Adam Ortiz, deputy secretary for the Maryland Department of the Environment, and we touch on public service, but that's not why he's here. You'll hear us talk about why I invited him on the show, and just how much we have in common; baseball, music, and more. Plus you'll hear us discuss mid-atlantic sports towns, fulfillment, w…
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"What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Malcolm Gladwell Category: Psychology
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"What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money – That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki Category: Money & Investments
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Was B.P. Kelso Engineered to Write?
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1:07:46Episode 160 features B P Kelso. Who is among many things, an engineer by trade, a scriptwriter, an author, and a dad. We discuss storytelling, adaptation, reading, always learning and much much more. Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode BPKelso.com PlayingwithPlays.com AgentPalmer.com Other Links Rock doc shows that, just maybe, Simple Pla…
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For the season finale, we're joined by Yale law professor Justin Driver to talk about his new book, "The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education." We discuss the conservative cases for and against affirmative action, the post-SFFA world of university admissions, the promise and limits of colorblindnes…
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"Detox Your Mind for Clearer Thinking, Deeper Relationships, and Lasting Happiness" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: David Perlmutter, Austin Perlmutter and Kristin Loberg Category: Health & Nutrition
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Proust Questionnaire Vol III: Christopher J. Hughes
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1:16:29Episode 159 features the return of one of my best friends Christopher J. Hughes. He's back to tackle some of Proust's Questionnaire. And aside from explaining what to do when things are 25 pixels to the left we discuss art, color, the creative process and much much more. Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode What is the Proust Questionnaire…
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Susan Stewart's Clarendon Lectures: Poetry's Nature
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"Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: David Goggins Category: Motivation & Inspiration
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"The Science of Changing Your Mind" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Joe Dispenza Category: Health & Nutrition
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Episode 158 features Laura Eppler who I've known for quite a while and who's become a very good friend. She's here on the show to discuss her second career as an officiant. In fact, just over one year ago from the release of this episode she married Stef and I in our backyard. We discuss that second career, plus boredom, writing, and divert into a …
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We extend our record-breaking run with a discussion of the Court's two big recent emergency docket rulings: Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo and NIH v. American Public Health Association.By Will Baude & Dan Epps
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"The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Malcolm Gladwell Category: Motivation & Inspiration
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"How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Robert J. Shiller Category: Economics
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Episode 157 features Kevin Freitas who, as you'll find out, could be who he says he is or he could be 17 hobbies in a trenchcoat. We discuss his online handheld computer museum, music, programming, photography, 3d modeling, and even go back as far as Geocities, perhaps even further… Mentioned and Helpful Links from This Episode kevinfreitas.net han…
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In this final episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione series for 2025, we’ll confront a subject that the literary world likes to keep subtextual: money. The translators and publishers, who usually meet over contract negotiations, open up their books and compare bottom lines, to see who feels like they’re being short-changed, and why. Is there—o…
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We're joined by Michigan law professor Richard Primus to talk about his new book, "The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumerated and Federal Power." Richard describes one of the the most widespread beliefs about constitutional law -- that the federal government is one of limited, enumerated powers -- and why he thinks it is actually wrong. Along t…
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How do we decide which translations are better than others? In this episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione, Jacques Testard of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Adam Levy of Transit Books reveal how they evaluate books for acquisition. And, because so many of the guests on this show have served on prize juries, we compare our experiences making judgme…
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In this episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione, another session of practical translation: the reading and comparing of many renditions of one passage, to see how translators make their choices. But the text we’ll be examining, 1001 Nights, presents an unusual challenge. Unlike with the Proust that we discussed in the first episode, there is no…
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In this episode of Hawthornden's Como Conversazione, we discuss the problem of English. What happens when you bring a nation’s literature into its colonizer’s language? Is it inevitably a kind of violence? Here, we look to the field of translation studies, which provides some answers—not all of them satisfying. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.c…
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"Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World" 👉 For more insights, check out the full book here 📖 Transcript and written book summary available here for free 🗒️ Author: Bruce Feiler Category: Career & Success
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