HeyJaredThe Library of Lazy Thinking Podcast
In each episode, lovers of literature join host Glenn Fisher to talk about a book they'd like to put in the library, thoughtfully exploring its themes and why it inspires them. If you love books (and rambling book chat), this is the show for you. lazythinking.substack.com
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Fiona Mozley on Lovers of Franz K. by Burhan Sönmez, tr. Sami Hêzil (opens the original)
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Can you get through a discussion about Kafka without using the word Kafkaesque? No. It’s my fault. I thought we’d nailed it, and my wonderful guest for this episode, the Booker-shortlisted author Fiona Mozley, lasted out the whole half hour. Listening back, I did not. I could have perhaps edited it out. I could have got someone else to edit it out. I could have asked the guy called Max Brod who edits the show for me. But if I did that, and if indeed there was a guy who edits the show for me call
Adrian Duncan on The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd (opens the original)
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Are you fucking with me? Yes. Great. I thought so. It might sound negative, but it’s actually a sign of huge respect. Possibly the most intimate secret dialogue a reader can have with a writer. It’s a dialogue that arises on numerous occasions when reading Jo Lloyd’s work, and it’s a dialogue my guest and I both experienced positively in reading this inventive and immersive collection of short stories. Indeed, welcome to The Library of Lazy Thinking Podcast , with me, your host, Glenn Fisher. As
Ellie O'Neill on Empathy by Sarah Schulman (opens the original)
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In an increasingly paranoid and isolating age, empathy seems in short supply. Even when we say we empathize, how much do we actually listen to the nuance of someone else’s experience, especially if it jars with our own? Are we even capable of truly listening to others when we so often seem entirely incapable of listening to ourselves? These challenging questions are at the heart of the fascinating yet relatively unknown novel, Empathy , which is the focus for this episode of the show. Thankfully
Jem Calder on The Easter Parade by Richard Yates (opens the original)
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He does warn you. But still. Despite the opening line telling you things aren’t going to end well, something about the way The Easter Parade tangles you up in the lives of the two Grimes sisters means that by the end you’re both surprised and entirely accepting of their bleak fate. And despite the bleakness, it’s pretty damn brilliant. It’s an opinion shared by my excellent guest for this episode of the show, literary man of the moment, Jem Calder. As he points out, there’s a lot of Yates in his
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