Listen "Beckett, Biography, and Absorbing Books: Liam Heneghan"
Episode Synopsis
We're talking to environmental studies professor and author Liam Heneghan, who joins us to talk about sustained reading, the politics of biography, Samuel Beckett, and more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Samuel Beckett [cropped]. Public domain image by Roger Pic courtesy Bibliothèque national de France and Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay! Anaximander Samuel Beckett Endgame Samuel Beckett Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnameable: A Trilogy Deirdre Blair Samuel Beckett: A Biography Patricia Claus "The Miletian School: Ancient Greece's Pioneers of Philosophy" Hart Crane Charles Darwin The Origin of Species Charles DarwinVegetable Mould and Worms René Descartes David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest Alan Garner The Owl Service "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" Jack Halberstam The Queer Art of Failure Thomas Hardy Václav Havel Liam Heneghan Through Pleated Light: Confessions and Translations David Hume James JoyceFinnegans Wake James Joyce Ulysses Patrick Joyce Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason John Locke London Review of Books Lucretius On the Nature of the Universe Mabinogion Louis MacNeice Thomas Mann Buddenbrooks David Marr Patrick White: A Life Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh Lapvona Ottessa Moshfegh McGlue Ottessa Moshfegh My Year of Rest and Relaxation New York Review of Books Flannery O'Connor "Good Country People" Presocratics Roger Scruton Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story Socrates Wallace Stevens "The Three Little Pigs" Colm Tóibín "Seagulls as Playmates" Helen Vendler The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry Patrick White Riders in the Chariot Patrick White Voss
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