How many of you grew up with funny little characters called Moomintrolls? Well, this week we visit Finland and the fantastical world of the Moomins — a world created by one of Finland’s most beloved artists and writers, Tove Jansson.
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Tove Jansson and the world of the Moomintrolls
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Ali Smith on Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson’s thirteen books about the Moomins have been translated into more than thirty languages and have delighted generations of children the world over. But she also wrote for adults, and her novels are now being translated from Swedish into English. The Booker nominated writer Ali Smith was introduced to Jansson’s classic children’s books late in life, and she was equally inspired by her first encounter with the Finnish author’s adult writings. Jane Little talks to Ali Smith about the joy of discovering Jansson’s writing and how it has affected her.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2007_24_wed.shtml http://mrstsk.tumblr.com/post/37493536912
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Interview: Robin Sloan, Author of ‘Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore’ : NPR
Author Robin Sloan has written short stories and worked for Twitter. His new book brings those two worlds together to argue that embracing digital culture doesn’t mean you have to give up the treasured books — and values — of the past.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162233599/mr-penumbra-bridges-the-digital-divide
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Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore Interview & Book Giveaway! | Spark with Nora Young | CBC Radio
Nora speaks with thinker and technologist Robin Sloan about his debut novel Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. It’s an adventure filled with fantastical high-concept technology, except it isn’t science fiction. The story is rooted in the now, showing that technology isn’t magical but part of our everyday lives.
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/full-interviews/2012/10/31/mr-penumbras-24hour-bookstore/
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Jomad 16: Megalopolis vs Godzilla
Recorded live at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, we combine podcast powers with Sam Twyford-Moore from The Rereaders. Our guest is Karen Pickering. We talk podcast origins, hots tubs are soup for your genitals, The Emerging Writer anthology Karen edited, a community of anxiety sufferers, the hegemony of the left, women in theatre, ten minutes noisy reading, deciding what not to read and watch, Sacha Baron Cohen, Facebook friends with the FBI, Feminist Idol, HHhH, Dick Pound and the Woodsmen, Jeanette Winterson and is Lena Dunham’s Girls the mirror we all deserve?
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Martin Amis : The Bat Segundo Show
A podcast interview with Martin Amis
Subjects Discussed: How smoking prohibitions curtail sociopaths, Katie Price as fictional inspiration, reading the collected works of Jordan, whether Amis should be writing about the working class, class anxiety, living with a Welsh coal miner’s family, Amis’s views on class disappearing in England, the London riots, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, people shooting at each other during Black Friday, income inequality, physical deterioration in Amis’s novels, Lindsay Anderson’s if…, the male climacteric, Amis’s tendency to introduce incest with legal and moral codex, researching incest, “yokel wisdom,” New Labour and education, opportunism and rioting, Occupy Wall Street, police brutality, whether fiction can ever rectify social ills, Swift’s A Modest Proposal, Dickens, the video game medium, clarifying Amis’s stance and false rumors of shame about Invasion of the Space Invaders, being befuddled by remotes, addiction, being a Luddite, representing the present in fiction without including smartphones, going back in time as a novelist, Money and Amis’s lack of interest in New York, when nonfiction serves as a muse for fiction, pornography, masturbation, young people and sex, The Pregnant Widow, not fully understanding world events when writing The Second Plane, the massacre of the Sunni Muslims in Syria, social media, the camera as world policeman, Nabokov’s slogans, what provoked Amis’s impetuous words in a 2006 interview, Amis’s problematic remarks in interviews, lacking a filter, and writing as the ultimate intercession.
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Comic Books Are Burning In Hell 1
That’s right, we’re calling this a launch. We have a new theme song, a singular focus, and the same randy attitude. For the inaugural edition, it’s all about the latest installment of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen—Century: 2009, that is. Kick back and get situated: we have ourselves a podcast, people.
http://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2012/07/comic-books-are-burning-in-hell-episode-1.html http://www.factualopinion.com/
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Comic Books Are Burning In Hell 0.8
This week, Tucker, Chris, Matt and Joe talk about Wayward Girls, Zaucer of Zilk, a bit on Dredd, then Saga, then something else about comics, there’s a part where Tucker yells too long and Chris sort of loses it, Matt uses the word "integrity", Anne Sullivan and the Trails of Helen Keller, and then Tucker talks about Godzilla.
http://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2012/07/comic-books-are-burning-in-hell-episode-08.html http://www.factualopinion.com/
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Comic Books Are Burning In Hell Episode 0.7
This week, Tucker, Chris, Matt and Joe talk about Shiguru Mizuki and Wolverine. To be clear: there is a differentiation between the two topics. You don’t have to listen to the Mizuki stuff to keep up with the Wolverine conversation, or vice versa. Obviously, we’d hope that you want to hear both conversations—that’s why they were recorded at the same time. But we can’t make these decisions for you. We wouldn’t ever try. That wouldn’t be fair to you, to your people.
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Comic Books Are Burning In Hell 0.6
This week, the team discusses which fine artists they most wish had done comics, a discussion which leads into Jesse Jacobs and his new book, By This Shall You Know Him. After that, it’s time for Chester Brown and the recent release of Ed The Happy Clown, which opens up a whole bag of history: and unsurprisingly, Joe has you covered. This one is accidently a little longer than usual, and Tucker’s volume drops a little too much for our liking..but we’re getting there! An RSS feed is to come as well!
http://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2012/06/comic-books-are-burning-in-hell-episode-06.html http://www.factualopinion.com/
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