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Richard Ford reads ‘The Student’s Wife’ by Raymond Carver
"The Student’s Wife" is from Raymond Carver’s first story collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please, published in America in 1976. You could say it’s from Ray’s "early period" – written possibly as early as the late 60s, when he was one side or the other of 30 years old. Its verbal resources are spare, direct, rarely polysyllabic, restrained, intense, never melodramatic, and real-sounding while being obviously literary in intent. (You always know, pleasurably, that you’re reading a made short story.) These affecting qualities led some dunderheads to call his stories "minimalist", which they are most assuredly not, inasmuch as they’re full-to-the-brim with the stuff of human intimacy, of longing, of barely unearthable humour, of exquisite nuance, of pathos, of unlooked-for dread, and often of love – expressed in words and gestures not frequently associated with love. More than they are minimal, they are replete with the renewings and the fresh awarenesses we go to great literature to find. When they were first published in Britain by Collins Harvill, they made a great sensation that quickly spread all over the world, and made Ray (who was lovable, anyway) adored as the great story writer of his generation. Which he was. And is.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2012/dec/23/richard-ford-raymond-carver-wife
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ForceCast.net: Weekly ForceCast: November 23, 2012
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ForceCast.net: Weekly ForceCast: November 16, 2012
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ForceCast.net: Weekly ForceCast: November 10, 2012
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ForceCast.net: Weekly ForceCast: October 31, 2012
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Longform Podcast Episode 5: Paul Ford
Aaron Lammer talks with writer and programmer Paul Ford.
“You don’t really read a newspaper to preserve journalism, or save great journalism, or to keep the newspaper going. You read it because it gives you a sense of power or control over the environment that you’re in, and actually sort of helps you define what your personal territory is, and what the things are that matter for you. As long as products serve that need—as long as books allow you to explore spaces that it’s otherwise really hard for you to explore and so on—I think people will continue to read them.”
http://longformpodcast.tumblr.com/post/30941148016/paul-ford
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Stuff You Missed in History Class
The Surprising Life of Henry Ford (Part 2) — In this second episode with CarStuff’s Scott Benjamin, we pick up at the height of Ford’s success: The Model T is revolutionizing America. But he also obsessively controls his employees, becomes a noted anti-Semite and capitalizes on wartime contracts.
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Stuff You Missed in History Class
The Surprising Life of Henry Foord (Part 1) — In this episode, CarStuff’s Scott Benjamin joins the show for a discussion of Henry Ford’s early years, inventions and innovations. Yet as Ford’s success grew, his willingness to change did not – and ultimately a darker side of his personality emerged.
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