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An artist and a fraud walk into a bar.
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Rest in Peace. Love your work.
I would really like to know what is Alice Oswald's preferred translation. Does anyone know? Lattimore?
He was always an interesting speaker. He knew so much, was so talented. God rest him.
Our present is the future of the people who already passed away...
Thankyou for this Video
Erpenbeck should be in the running for the Nobel Prize. She has more gravitas than Murakami. I love this book.
Reading this now. Slowly, thoughtfully, Fantastic.
Amazing book!
Thanks for this interesting talk. Small point at 3.53 Madeline Miller says that Patroclus is 'always' described as 'gentle' in the Iliad. Not quite. In Book 16 he goes on a rampage on the battlefield during which, on my tally, he kills at least 54 Trojans. These include Thestor, whom Patroclus spears through the jaw to hook him out of his chariot like catching a fish, and Sarpedon, whom Patroclus spears through the chest and accidentally pulls Sarpedon's lungs out of his body when Patroclus pulls out his spear. Patroclus also tries to storm the walls of Troy itself, when as the Trojan leader Hector says 'I suppose you thought you would destroy my city and enslave the women of Troy and take them in your ships.' None of that is kind or gentle. But to an Ancient Greek there was nothing incompatible with being kind to his own people, including even, up to a point, his family's slaves, yet ferocious and merciless to his enemies. On the matter of homosexuality, in the literature of later centuries, some forms of (mostly male) homosexual love seem to have been celebrated quite openly in places like Athens and Thebes. However, Homer's poems, probably the oldest surviving Greek literature, I do not think mention homosexuality at all. We simply don't know what the attitude to it was then. So far as their sexuality is mentioned, Achilles and Patroclus are both portrayed as attracted to women, probabky, at least under the circumstances of wartime, more sexually than romantically. In Iliad Book 9, Achilles and Patroclus, while sharing a large hut, are each have a captured female slave sleep beside them at night. One of Achilles' other pretty slave girls is temporarily promoted to spend the night with him when Agamemnon takes his favourite Briseis away. Also in Book 9, when Agamemnon promises a fantastic list of rewards if Achilles returns to battle, these include, if they capture Troy, twenty Trojan women 'the most beautiful you can find'. This suggests that Agamemnon sees Achilles as heterosexual, or he might have offered handsome male Trojan youths rather than attractive captured women. No one considers the women's wishes in any of this, of course, but that is a different point. This does not preclude the possibility that Achilles and Patroclus were bisexual. Indeed, in later times, in Athens, when homosexual male affairs were, in some forms, widely accepted, a man was still expected to marry a woman and sire children with her to carry on the family blood line. At least by that date, people were speculating as to whether Achilles and Patroclus in the Iliad were lovers. However, it does not necessarily mean anything to ask 'What was the real relationship between them' as they are legendary figures like Robin Hood or King Arthur. We don't know for certain if they ever existed. If they did, they may not have been like the legends about them that survived to be recorded in later times.
It is such a joy to hear Emily Wilson talk about Homer, about translating the Iliad, about poetry and the decisions she made, her word choices, trade offs, what is gained and what is lost, with each decision.
Jayne Anne Phillips’ Night Watch, a mother-daughter saga set in a West Virginia asylum after the civil war, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction 2024. Congratulations 🎉
What happened to Gen Y?
Waters comes across as a guy who is too intoxicated by his own dandy - personality and his effant terrible stamp decades ago to take another artist seriously & give some space. Well done Otessa for not smiling along with his stupid jokes & comments. Highly intelligent woman and one of the most exciting writers of the last years. Awaiting a lot more fantastic, existentialistic and controversial books from this elegant lady.
I❤ this novel
Thanks for sharing it. ❤
Just finished My Beloved Monster - was blown away and now reading Surrender, NY- fabulous writer! SADDENED BY NEWS OF HIS ILL HEALTH!
Glad to hear it was a good read. I saw that news report. Very sad. I just thought he got old.
Such a brilliantly written book. I loved it. Work of art!
what a treat! great idea to have this panel with the author asking the questions.
Another Masterpiece along with 4321
What do you guys think about de movie of 1951?
Esto es maravilloso de escuchar, so many new visions on the book. I am glad to watch and listening this
I dislike this woman. Can’t figure out why exactly.
Love lawrence block. 👌🏽
He is amazing. I love his raw honesty about his mental health.
I love his honesty ❤
She saved the romance of the whole gay community
Litteraly been searching for a discussion on that topic for days on youtube. Thank you so much for being here you're almost the only one
I'm not typically a big reader, but after seeing this movie, I immediately bought the book. I was pleasantly surprised to find the movie stuck very close to the book. (The same way Shawshank did.) The Devil All the Time novel and film are both excellent! I highly recommend both.
It's a very informative interview of auther i am working on book.
I just finished reading this book, from cover to cover just in two days. I loved it. One point raised in this interview I also found interesting, that it seems like nowadays our sexuality is our identity and needs to be broadcast 24/7. I grew up in the '70s and, at least for me, identity was more related to ones ideas, beliefs, talents and personality, which still to me are so much more important than what sex I am or' identify as'. It is very incomplete to me.
love her
Какая в этом году выпущена книга и её название этой книги вы сможете когда-нибудь там прочитать эту книгу пожалуйста поделитесь комментариями я буду благодарна вам за это спасибо огромное
Какие приятные книги вы пишите скорее всего романы интересные вот вчера я послушала сегодня прямо приятно спасибо вот вот прямо открывайте мир какой-то душевный покой спасибо огромное огромное вам спасибо за это
Спасибо за книги как вы приятно читаете вот правда каждый день вот слушаешь сейчас правда почаще бы так вот так вот ознакамливали нас с вашей книгой очень приятно спасибо вот сделали для меня такой сюрприз и подарок спасибо огромное
Arlaina is a funny, witty and engaging instructor. She is true to what she does. A splendid human , she helps students bring out the best in you and your writing. I am so fortunate to have her at Gotham!
two amazing writers together!!!! very beautiful!
I’m not catching the name of your favorite author. W. Jay bot. Help!
I can see why people thought this would be a perfect match…. But the vibes were so different and it was off and I was thoroughly entertained from it all ❤
Вы музыкант на чём играете😊
I loved the book. I need to reread it soon.
The most underrated writer out there. A reader from the Philippines here. Thank you for your stories and novels Mr. Baxter.
This is the essence of what is to me one of the most unique writing styles I've ever read. Even when the narrator isn't specifically identified, it clearly belongs in that place telling that story.
My hero Terese svoboda
Thank you for an amazing performance reading and a stimulating discussion.
"promo sm" 😊
guy on the right - shut the heck up