Classicist and reader extraordinaire JC Boyle tells us about the Greeks, Ezra Pound, Thomas Bernhard, lending out your books, and so much more! Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy [cropped]. Wm. S. Kimball & Co., 1889. CC0 1.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons and Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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! V. C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic Aristophanes Peace Aristotle James Baldwin Honoré de Balzac The Unknown Masterpiece Roland Barthes Mythologies The Beatles Simone de Beauvoir The Mandarins Samuel Beckett Saul Bellow Andrei Bely Petersburg Ingmar Bergman Lauren Berlant Cruel Optimism Thomas Bernhard Concrete Thomas Bernhard Gathering Evidence & My Prizes John Berryman "Dream Song 14" John Berryman The Dream Songs Roberto Bolaño By Night in Chile Brockport Writers Forum John Berryman Interview William F. Buckley Ian Buruma "Who Did Not Collaborate?" (on Jean-Paul Sartre) Michael Cacoyannis The Trojan Women Julius Caesar Albert Camus Elias Canetti Auto-da-Fé Elias Canetti Crowds and Power Horacio Castellanos Moya Marcus Porcius Cato Catullus The Complete Poetry, translated by Frank O. Copley Louis-Ferdinand Céline Cicero Coffee House Press Criterion Collection Confucianism Dalkey Archive Gilles Deleuze Deborah Eisenberg Nawal El Saadawi The Nawal El Saadawi Reader Euripides Bacchae Euripides The Trojan Women Jon Fosse Septology William Gaddis Agapē Agape Maxim Gorky Stephen J. Gould David Graeber / David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Grove Atlantic Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Memories of Underdevelopment Mark Haber Lesser Ruins Mark Haber Saint Sebastian's Abyss John Haffenden The Life of John Berryman Byung-Chul Han The Burnout Society Heinrich Heine "Die Lorelei" Abbie Hoffman Steal This Book Homer Gitta Honegger Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian Gary Indiana James Joyce Dubliners Miranda July John Maynard Keynes Eugene Lim Fog & Car Literary Hub Nicole Loraux The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City Nicole Loraux / Laura M. Slatkin / Gregory Nagy Antiquities: Postwar French Thought vol. 3 Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain Gaius Marius Karl Marx Søren Mau A Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital Menander Henry Miller Black Spring Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer John Mullen Great Poets in Their Own Words Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea Mark Neocleous Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police New Directions NYRB Classics John O'Brien Kenneth Patchen Pamela Paul Raoul Peck Lumumba Bob Perelman The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky Plato Plutarch Lives Chad W. Post "Remembering John O'Brien"  Ezra Pound "Canto LXXXI" Hannah Proctor Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat Marcel Proust Gerard Reve The Evenings Walter Rodney How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Ellen Rutten Sincerity After Communism: A Cultural History J. D. Salinger Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, an Introduction Sallust Arno Schmidt Ousmane Sembène Xala Socrates Solon Sophocles Antigone Scott Spillman Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today Benedict de Spinoza Heiny Srour The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived Gertrude Stein Bret Stephens Rabrindrinath Tagore Hunter S. Thompson Thucydides Leo Tolstoy Leon Trostsky The History of the Russian Revolution Jean-Pierre Vernant Pierre Vidal-Nauet Gregor von Rezzori Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories David Foster Wallace Émile Zola Louis Zukofsky

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