26 Burst results for "Emily Dickinson"
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"emily dickinson" Discussed on Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
"And Ed, my first husband, lovely man. Died at 69. So much that he's missed so much. Three children, 6 grandchildren. And. I was a widow for 1516 years. And in the 16th or 17th year, I re met a boy that had well done a boy now, but you know a man, but a boy that I had dated in college. For two months, we spent the two months because he was the poet from Williams college, and I was the poet from Smith college, and we were introduced by somebody who said, oh, you should meet because they didn't like poetry, but boy, they could give me or give him to the poet from the other college. And we spent two wonderful months going back and forth between Smith and Williams, talking about Emily Dickinson. The poet and that was the first thing we did was we went and we met at the Emily Dickinson museum. And now we are together. So it's a very romantic moment in my life that I should have these stories of romance coming out. You mentioned poetry is being something that was in your relationship quite early on and I noticed you said earlier that you send out a poem every day. And I just wondered, how on earth do you get an inspiration? I clocked that as well, a poem every day. That just blew my mind a little bit. Let me put it this way. I've been doing that for 18 years. But this year, because, well, I'm slowing down, sometimes they're healthy issues. Sometimes we're traveling. So some days I have to write two or three poems to try to catch up. Because I've missed three days. Today I haven't sent one out yet. Are they all good? No, of course not. How could they possibly be? They are all, I'm dealing every day with new issues of one kind or another. Maybe it's the weather, maybe I've seen a deer outside my house maybe I've seen the bears outside my house, yes, I have bears outside my I actually had a bear on my porch. Who decided to come and sleep for a while when my porch. So those things all are little snapshot of my life, and sometimes they are my very angry political poems and sometimes they are love poems and sometimes they are hate poems and sometimes they are, oh my God, I haven't written anything. So I better get something down on the page poems. But it becomes finger exercises for me usually in the morning. When I'll write a poem, go over it a couple of times, and then send it out. And it wakes up the brain, it wakes up the fingers. It wakes up that part of me that likes to put words together. So it's better than drinking a cup of tea, and I don't drink coffee at all. So it's my wake-up call, usually, to myself, to the writer inside of me. I love it. And I think routine is so important for writers and yeah, I really need to get back into my writing routine. But we really wanted to talk to you about because you have been
WABE 90.1 FM
"emily dickinson" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Friedman in now. He's director of free expression and education programs for pan America at the group that works to protect freedom of expression. Also the author of a report that came out this week about the rise of banned books in schools across the country. Jonathan, welcome. Great to be here. And we'll get to our listeners in just a moment, but first of all, one of my takeaways from this report is that there are communities in this country that are on fire over this issue. How do you see it? Well, I see it as an uptick in not only calls to remove books from schools, but in particular in the organization and coordination of it as a growing movement, as we called it in the report. There have been demands and challenges to books in schools for decades, but there are something different taking place right now. This isn't just an individual parents in isolated ways picking up books from their children and filing complaints. There are groups online who are trying to coordinate and encourage people to bring their concerns, not just to bring them to school boards, but to bring them in a kind of adamant, uncompromising fashion. We're going to get to all of that, but first, let's bring in some of our listeners. We heard from a lot of teachers, including Adam burn tritt, who teaches high school English in Brevard county, Florida. I have had books in my classroom library that I had to pull off my shelves, poetry books, such as Emily Dickinson, I have had books I've used for years that I had to stop using. There are things which I am mandated to teach, but I must develop lesson plans for carefully, such as Shakespeare's the tempest, which I must somehow teach without ever bringing up the concept of colonialism or color so that I do not make any student uncomfortable in any way. Now we heard a lot about this. The idea that even many classics that have been taught for years in schools are causing conflict. How common is that across the country? Well, I think this is very common. The idea that is behind a lot of these bands is that essentially any parent who's objecting about anything ought to be able to take that objection into action. In other words, that that book that they don't like ought to be restricted from everybody. And that is what is causing so much chaos and difficulty for a lot of schools, which have historically run, you know, with a degree of trust and expertise vested in teachers. It doesn't mean that there aren't channels and there shouldn't be channels for parents to raise these concerns, but it's an extreme to jump to, I don't like this book, therefore nobody should be able to read it. And that seems to be what's common in many teachers and librarians experiences. Okay, let's hear from a student. This is high school junior Alexandra coffee who says her central bucks school district in doylestown, Pennsylvania. Has recently come up with very restrictive book policies, particularly on gender identity and race, here she is. I am deeply concerned by the negative effects that this policy will
Fresh Air
"emily dickinson" Discussed on Fresh Air
"It's like, you know, I regretted questioning what she saw was victory because I had a different scale. And her skill was that she never knew what it's like to be applauded. And they were applauding for her. They looked at her and they said, you made this poet. You made something that we value. You're an artist, too. And I think what I learned that day was that we were always too artists, you know, it's just that the culture valued one more so than the other. But after that day, everything was equal to me. Everything collapsed. And I looked at my mother and I said, I come from a family of artists. You've spoken quite a bit about this, invisibility that Asian people experience in this country. How do you reconcile, though, that over the years, and really as you lay out for us throughout your life, you are visible, and people recognize you, how does it feel as an individual to be seen? It's challenging for me because I'm an introvert and I didn't want to be known in this way. I thought that writing a book, your book would live in the world, and you get to hide. One of my heroes is Emily Dickinson and I love her work, but I also what I love about her is her sort of disobedience to the world that demanded her to be seen and she chose her own privacy in her own dignity. And it's not something I've been able to do, you know, so much of being a writer in the modern world is publicity and being out in the open. And it's okay. I've made peace with it to a certain extent, but it's not something I ever envisioned. And it's hard because on one hand, you're very visible. And on another, you know, you're only visible in context..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"emily dickinson" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Your book is titled the dumbest generation grows up from stupefied youth to dangerous adults. So what do you mean by the dumbest generation? Well, that refers to the millennials. Born in the early 80s up to, say, year 2000. And I wrote this previous book, the dumbest generation in 2008, and the thesis there was, hey everybody, this web two is taking off. And we are letting teenagers lead the way on social media on texting, the handheld devices, all the tools of participation and chatting and Instagram and YouTube, which whose media whose motto was broadcast yourself. And we're letting teenagers dive into these screens surrounding themselves in youth culture, peer pressure, adolescence, and the mentors are not trying to compensate for that by insisting you learn religion, you learn history, you learn politics, you read some great literature, good books, civics, geography, they're just letting them go and that this is going to be a horrible intellectual spiritual and emotional formation for young people. Now we're 15 years later, and we all heard about how amazing the millennials were. How are they doing now? They're in middle age, millennials are in a sour mood. Anxieties up, depression is up suicide rates are up. They have sort of a vindictive sense of their fellow Americans. They have high levels of social mistrust. And when they see what they think is an injustice going on, even a micro aggression, they want to see that that culprit punished. That's why millennials lead the way on cancel culture in America and I saw you last week speak eloquently about cancel culture that this is really a demonic trend in American life. I fully agree with you on that. But the millennials feel quite righteous, indignation. They will sign a petition with 2000 others to get someone fired.
The New Yorker: Fiction
"emily dickinson" Discussed on The New Yorker: Fiction
"He was, you know, that moment where kids have a few words, but they use them and they combine them in many ways. So it's so playful and funny. And at the same time, those words were laughing at us. And those were the days I remembered this short story. And this story is full of, as you say, tenderness, but also contradiction. Yeah. Even from the very beginning, you know, he thinks he found himself in this room on a bright watery white, moonless night. Well, how can the night be bright if it's moving? Each image seems to have a contradiction within it. And perhaps that's playful. I mean, when you reread truths, you don't have the sense that you already know what he's going to talk about. Each sentence has something weird and as you just said, you know, that's like a mistake, you know, it's like a teacher would say like this is a contradiction. You have to fix. At the same time, there is something about translated littered to her. I've been trying to think about reading and loving writers that wrote in languages you don't know a word, you know, like polish to me or I don't know German and when you speak Spanish, you have a sense of three or four languages, even if you don't know them. You can hear Portuguese and Italian French. But the Polish are now I don't know a word of it. And at the same time, you deal with different and I think there are like four or 5 translations of raw materials work into Spanish. So you never have the original, you know? And there is something really beautiful about that. The Spanish translations are really different when one another. Do you have a favorite? No, I wouldn't say, so I mean, I like the flowing of not really getting at the same time I like that in general. I mean, in English too. I mean, I started reading Emily Dickinson's poetry.
Kottke Ride Home
"emily dickinson" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"Plus, and I haven't had a chance to watch it yet, so no worries, there are not any spoilers ahead, and please don't tweet any at me either. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Hailee Steinfeld plays a young ish Emily Dickinson struggling with her art and the social pressures of the time, both personally and at large in a nation on the eve of Civil War. Though real life Emily Dickinson was published here and there, she's one of those artists who didn't achieve huge fame until after her death. Something she wrote about quite a lot. Nowadays, Dickinson is known as the OG sad girl, emo poet, but in her time she was better known as a bit of an eccentric hermit. Albeit one who absolutely crushed it at local baking competitions. Quoting an Atlas obscura piece about the messy history of one of Dickinson's most well-known recipes, Dickinson spent hours each week making bread and cake for her father's household. She certainly was writing in the kitchen on scraps of paper, says Martha Nell Smith, a Dickinson scholar at the university of Maryland. Some extant Dickinson manuscripts are decorated with food stains, including likely splatters of current wine in Emily specialty. Dickinson left several handwritten recipes among her papers, and their line breaks bear the same telltale dashes of her poetry. Meanwhile, the open ended form of Dickinson's poems, sometimes mimics the terseness of a recipe. They're recipes for reading, Smith says. Quotes. Despite Dickinson has long been depicted isolated, chased, perhaps self conscious. The last few decades of scholarship have shown another side to the poet, one that is social, at least in terms of vibrant correspondence, if not physically leaving her house too often, and the sensuality and enthusiasm for life that dots her poetry just as often as deep wonderings about death. One of Dickinson's surviving recipes is not one she created herself, but rather one that she baked a lot and became known for in the community. It's a Caribbean Christmas cake called black cake. Harvard University owns the original handwritten scrap of paper on which Dickinson jotted down the recipe for a friend. And 5 years ago, a reference assistant at the library and a new staff member who happened to be a former pastry chef, tried making the cake from Dickinson's handwritten recipe, and went well enough that every year since they've held an event in December in which people attempt to make the cake and share it all together. They've also adapted it slightly, namely making it smaller. Dickinson's version calls for an enormous two pounds of flour in 19 eggs. The Harvard one pairs it down to 8 ounces of flour and just 5 eggs. The recipe is reprinted in the Atlas obscura link in the show notes if you want to try it yourself this holiday season or maybe while you watch the final episodes of Dickinson on Apple TV plus..
Kottke Ride Home
"emily dickinson" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"You get to decide whether to put different blocks on a machine. If the machine lights up, you get a star, which translates to a sticker for the kids or a few cents for grown-ups. But if it doesn't light up, you lose twice as much. The point of the game is to figure out which blocks make the machine light up and earn as many stars as you can. It seems easy, but a learning trap is lurking. Suppose you choose a white striped block and you get a star, and then you try a white spotted one and you lose two stars end quote. There's study found that adults quickly figured out what they thought was a simple rule. Stripes are good, spots are bad. They avoided all spots. But it turned out that only white spots were bad. So when adults avoided black spots, they missed out on a reward. 70% of adults in the trial never figured this out because they didn't even try the black dotted blocks. Kids meanwhile, just got excited to try anything new, even if they knew it might lose them their beloved stars. As a result, they gathered far more evidence than adults, and most of them figured out the real rule about the dots. But they earned fewer stars, quoting again. Computer scientists talk about a fundamental tradeoff between exploration and exploitation and learning traps are an excellent example. We grown ups are often so anxious to exploit that we don't explore. So afraid of losing stars that we miss the chance to learn something new. Children in contrast are natural explorers willing to sacrifice stars for the sake of information. You need both types of thinking to thrive. But we grown ups might learn something from those insatiably curious kids. Quote, all things in balance for sure. Because again, I'll say that the eager curiosity driving some kids is only possible because there are world weary adults around to protect them from harm. You know, some kids do have big fears and hesitations because they have been through traumatic events. We need balances internally and within communities. Those willing to dream big and push further and those who take a second to consider and maybe reel the others in. Learning traps maybe aren't all that bad in moderation. Just.
Kottke Ride Home
"emily dickinson" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"You ever had someone say this to you? You know, maybe you failed at something and your disillusioned, you don't want to try again, and someone says, how many times did you fall down when you were learning how to walk as a baby? If you'd given up after one or two tries, you would have crawled into this room on your hands and knees. I've never loved that expression. One, it's a bit ableist, but two, when we're kids, especially infants, we don't know enough to be scared or perhaps more importantly discerning about things. So, of course, we keep trying. But as adults were more cautious. Psychologists call these learning traps. Alison gopnik explained it in The Wall Street Journal, quote, when we grown ups try something new from oysters to opera and get a bad result, we usually won't try it again. And that might seem like the most basic kind of intelligence even rats stay away from a path that leads to a shock, but it has an important downside. If we quickly conclude that all oysters and operas are indigestible and reject them ever after, will never learn that the world is more complicated than that. A stale clam or lame Aida may keep us from ever discovering the delights of a sparkling balloon oyster or a scintillating magic flute. Quick side note on this article's example of oysters and opera. When I studied abroad in Amsterdam as an undergrad, our professor took us on a field trip to the oldest gay bar in the country, which makes it one of the oldest in the world. And since it was the middle of the day, when we students piled into the small, dark bar, hardly anyone was there. Some opera song was blasting on the speakers, though, and this tiny old man was sitting in the middle of the empty bar, shucking oysters into a bowl. And when we entered, he said, welcome. It's oysters and opera day today. I just always thought that was a great theme and just a kind of surreal moment. I never realized oysters and opera were such a common pairing, but anyways, back to learning traps. Adults are far more susceptible to learning traps, and it makes sense. You know, if you have one bad experience, you'll remember that experience and be worried about it when you encounter something similar in the future. Like being scared of air travel after a bad plane experience, Gupta says this could even be where certain parts of anxiety disorders phobias and PTSD come from. Learning traps have long been designed in the lab to study various hypotheses. But one test that's been tough is comparing kids to adults. As gopnik puts it, they're just so different that it's really hard to compare..
Kottke Ride Home
"emily dickinson" Discussed on Kottke Ride Home
"COVID-19 has been announced this time from Pfizer plus why adults aren't as good at learning new things as kids are, but is that such a bad thing? And the messy legacy of both Emily Dickinson and her favorite cake recipe. Here are some of the cool things from the news today. So on Thursday, the United Kingdom became the first country to authorize use of Merck's COVID-19 pill and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is currently reviewing that same one. But now there is another pill on the block, Pfizer announced at the end of last week that their antiviral pill called pax livid was so effective that they stopped their trials early. And this is a common technique when results are so undeniably clear, and it was something ordered by an independent group of medical experts. Pfizer says that their pill cuts rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% in high risk adults. The phase two three study included 775 unvaccinated high risk adults, some of whom received the Pfizer pax livid pill, three to 5 days after showing COVID-19 symptoms. They were given paxil vid for 5 days. Those who got the Pfizer pill had an 89% reduction in combined hospitalization and death rates. Overall, of those who got the pill less than 1% had symptoms severe enough to require hospitalization and not a single participant in that group died. Doctor Michael dulson, Pfizer's chief scientific officer said, quote, we were hoping that we had something extraordinary, but it's rare that you see great drugs come through with almost 90% efficacy and 100% protection for death. Merck's antiviral pill showed in trials that it cuts rates of hospitalization and death by 50%, which is a lot less than 90% on the surface, but quoting The Associated Press, experts warned against comparing preliminary results because of differences in the studies, including where they were conducted and what types of variance were circulating. And further on the differences between the two quoting again, although Merckx pill is further along in the U.S. regulatory process, Pfizer's drug could benefit from a safety profile that is more familiar to regulators with fewer red flags. While pregnant women were.
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
"emily dickinson" Discussed on My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
"Specifically from the view of him pretending to have discovered poems by emily dickinson and the public library in amherst massachusetts. Which is where she was from collects. Money to buy here to four unpublished. Loss emily dickenson poems. That were fake. Yeah he's he's like a he. He was like one of the greatest. Forgers or the most infamous forgers. Anyone had ever seen working it. He's doing it so essentially what happened was he was trying to sell some new set of documents to the church. Steve christian soon you a little bit about an antiquities and all documents and so he was questioning he was like. I heard this guy is being questioned about the oath of the freemen. They're they're not even sure he's under investigation. We need to look closer at these papers on them out so what he did was he. Plants a bomb christianson office to kill him then. He planted the other one at gary sheets house to make it look like it had something to do with. Cfs on anything to do with him shit. That's tricky yeah. I mean this guy. is you know. Yeah tricky. Here's a trickster. He was eventually arrested. In january of nineteen eighty-six charged with a total of twenty seven counts including murder forgery. Possession of an unregistered machine gun and jesus craze. Yeah that's literally is jesus christ salamander. So he albino salamanca. You can't forget the al lineup. I mean all of their beliefs for hundreds of years are one thing and then he gives them paper. That's like it turns out an bino salamander had to say you're like an angel sounds cooler so we're just going to stick with their like we now. We need to have a really big meeting. Then we have to start. Second praying doing albinos salamander mean. Would that ever even have been a choice. No they say also so he had like six hundred forgeries that got sold and are in the market were. They're still finding them. Yeah i was going to ask. Yeah so they're apparently and he wrote a letter from jail explaining which things he did were forgeries because some things obviously race started out he kind of there were valid ones. So they're saying that they're like there's some daniel boone signatures out there. That are fake. That like there's there's because there were hardly any in the first place but then mark hovering these long suddenly there's four that are in the marketplace which brings the value down and it turns out you know three of them aren't real. Do you think that his forgeries are now worth money. A lot of money to murdering types. Yeah or like is there forgers museum. I'd go to that. Do i mean. I think overall the historical signatures are going to be worth the most. Of course they're like a son there's gotta be like smithsonian or some kind of thing that's just like you know it's history this rap pastor in that look what happened yeah. I just think it's funny that he did it so much. And when you see the paper like he would bake the paper in the oven. Going to ask lighters. Yes ugly western. All that they found all this they found that he specifically meant to match but then the when the guy who finally started investigating forensically he was like the new ones. All glow blue underneath a microscope. Because they're new..
Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"emily dickinson" Discussed on Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"I really see this not hard. The raven a flexible that but this is a great palm on that a great title. This is her if his plan of mental or something category. I'm working about eighty or even just courses pen riders and they always going to have you sleep number one off one on something to bring out. It's almost hormone away. This thing has This is a big literature. Course and everything they're gonna you know. Split has rule and we don't really know why cleanse bonding raw skull. La flor nights when you go into religious stuff that you don't want to bring out. Its usual response to say. No way firming. Is breath considered exploration visiting the most or even a many instances it has structural definitely why we don't really know why a lot of plotting and and many incidents that she had asked for life. Get everybody listen so have to say i hope a lot of one family farming is negative loud investigating stops even and maybe just the gayle is a must be the storm bird warm so it was a and and see this. She had some positive to say once in a while. So it's really it's really fabulous short. Everybody high winds some of the greatest connection to birds. I think is operatives coaches storm brought him tackle the best the little bird. Thanks to see may have so warm Socialist through and a sense ever in extremity positiveness connects of. That really is a my really a short and really a piece of work talk about. I don't know why some of the poems ever written had connection to birds. You know the raven is a raven and his strange. That really say we're con director. Louis edition the added at. Its with the nicest five is called the palm through all the stuff that she went to one. A sense referred to even really is mind susan. How wonderful all the dedicated. She has to talk with her. Todd these social crane. She had a couple of friends and they were signed offenses to them. I think that her work as is actively incorrect all the under nineteen still want to indicate around and published. You'll see all the crimes of them say cases or palms have again that she had dedicated so she even my personal cranes she had a couple of films and even though she didn't take these people all the time hundred poems with a lot i mean ending. Dixon was serious sponsor. And i guess you have any instances if you're still alive but i don't wanna be might not have been a colada some of that i think they public disconnection crumble of rise. Social you can see how much imagination that doesn't she was. Diana was interested in such a doesn't seem window detached to all the time right all the people in mind. It didn't seem to be in many instances seen and spirit and the mom been a complete at. He seemed to be prison interns formal. It's just adding this connection new social atmosphere. We don't really know why that's the case. Why but carrying sprig amando. Some kind of even be shy one much. It all seemed to have people in by died from a heart problem and fonts mental. Any woman that mencia stats to the motion. Internalisation old mental illness wind. Casey mourned her. I don't know why i and he's now. Rallying mental causes woman so much to have any illnesses but as we returned from heart and immune from hypertension mental illnesses about mental community. Beer when people go through the internals ain't women more internalize the most interesting brusher and he's shooting should be now harding gilead individuals. You should be held right now. The cleveland to be marriage but physical other kinds of as we talked about inquires your arm and many times in the very little of that for her mental little community and on and she was just four people and make no people had seen as the most interesting people. These of the mistakes that one me talking to other people should be contacting in other marriage but mental illness or other kind of.
Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"emily dickinson" Discussed on Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"Interesting because out. Good time You know outsiders really tell and of course she shows us some for palmas when looking for bidder reconvening ways that way you know and she liked the upon the her tastes really really him. An almost about goal stood like that affect your wine and having a good time which you didn't line a lot of great. She's telling even if he was taste individually has to go beyond what we've seen a woman learn her writing. How much imagining because she says. Never mind i your dough all that you have to do you know i me. Many ways more boundary project and. That's definitely what she'd get tricky and it's a great line and behavior poet even if she was a strange. Was that weird but brilliant. We've seen more when you're going to write his account sweetest. She was so. We don't have to make some weirdo. Titles were wrong. interesting title. Read her why this is. One of our famous spoke about four years after she was such a weird. She has a lot of interesting like aphorisms household that minimum behavior almost like But the proverbs from solomon the bible. She was that weird. I really liked that. Okay is countless feel. I published in the in the in to Kind of titles. That really had some cool really all right. This is one of a lot about it. It really makes them famous produced as we got that she died. Four years she died. Okay jazz those interest all my wife sitting proverbs in the bible that she thought that in sound strange wind while she was still in honestly personality maybe even some of her ideas and stuff about her distinctive because she believes whether that was real about hand tell you though she's talking about she kind of like cool rain published so much i it's really great. She's titles going to many ways little girls modern more than a hundred and something years personality was close to town of what she believed that mantle. Epilepsy is. I can tell you much about health home that home hugh which is a nice positive title shelter funeral in my brain qualitative titles which. I really love lions. Most cycles doesn't have you know it. Even though one hundred years ago so she well mobile many many aspects We grow phobic talking about epilepsy. Spoon this much about mental health home and we also know that ways which is a nice okay in the end the palm itself. That leads you in many ways. This is paul where they talked about that. She does have meant to epilepsy. And we'd be the ones who signed really psychological person whether she had any. It's really. this does agoraphobia on. Have a lot of vaccines hard work. We also know that in many ways it's issues a lot of the palm itself if you to them so now they will have something of some channels close. The deficit that she says ray. Lunch title top psychological words trend. Okay and.
Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"emily dickinson" Discussed on Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"Or give me on this comment surprising when The house brought five of them. That had jokes. Because i don't want to incredible controversy because she died to get him to with your family. Ettinghausen the seventy at all so you can say about two hundred. Same thing happened to Childhood house agreement on comment on. I think they still name. Which controversy happened because later on when patients he has news put together. I don't want to do this. And they wind up getting out. Susan a number of some personal references. Because i think the no she wasn't a work without any teams was mostly that same thing in your house and then later on me. She told me some of what she wanted to restore does. She do had hers and she did get some feedback from There's a lot of dedication so Stuck in into understanding. Why am i don't really isn't a lot. I mean is the truth is the truth correspondent no. She wasn't a brutal and even though she never got married. And he'll compensation was mostly you know a couple members of the house of visiting. The house wasn't wholly isolated. So you know. I wanted to not even understand hands at times melancholy hall of situation going anybody because even though she mature and then she thinks she's want to understand and and two people poetry. That's the mind you know out or she was excessively negative and even though she was people who visit. It's definitely somebody that feeling. Because she was you know why should we have that whole. But because even though she's about death and metality which he thinks he's wanted to understand it and and and to explore in her writing and maybe even in her dodd-frank talk a little bit about you know she wanted to check out. She wasn't an excessively. We don't really know what she was. Typing things we can show in the house things. I don't like it doesn't necessarily. That's about some of the have almost like he did have a lot of emily. Dickenson create things right. Now there's contact around five years it says to simply she was on the president at all. she was sitting want to go out and experience the world because she had epilepsy little bit about homes. That could go. I seventy eight different directions and say yes. We don't really know for sure. I took a couple of things. we can alma. She wasn't totally isolated. Came later into and win fires especially when the peak work she crazy. Thank teachers around. You've all people don't tend to be one of the greatest in military say had epilepsy y- random help hit it but she was totally isolated bathrooms. She became revenues out there so she rounded education. There's plenty of food. She hid so see who. I doubt surrounded her for a while. Second row things intellect something in help statesman. I'd mainly close people around them. The help hit it but other than that he can't he was telling me how measure making love to accept some of the hands. Plenty of thinking that so right now. She's not both america and it happens around here for a while. Maker letters mentioned that another glenis nothing except at bearing in mind so social probably her mental illness We can fact that we know everything and wait on people including surrender. People doesn't the truth was supposed to be. How the. Jim carrey like down to hell riders again lane all chief that bear in mind version. But what a credible voice probably Who made us. I don't like to back. Danny the away from her when people on people come up with the right did the same thing with martin. Luther king just seems like it's overly we remember his word. America's marching balloting z. Do to try to try to talk about the truth. All day long they come to fully shy and is rhodium. Terrible right number thoroughfares. That i mean it's redick. Who knows the pressure of as killian all the pressure on going to a man out there stakes. He was human. Let's let them make those a scheme all the king but yeah people for a long time eight nine for his crunching and his speaking remember his marching blessed. Try to better. And and the black americans and it doesn't help feed quality. Doesn't help her a number of extras able to who knows killing and all the pressure to now hanging out with this guy no. We're not doing all these things. Rudolph staying little yet time what you want for. What her column means basic things. We all know by blessed me. The great man me on restriction wasn't interested so try to avoid that she went nonsense. I'm gonna read one but talk about a couple little cracking we don't want to. We're not putting down scandal. Emily Adults but it lets us is interesting because it talks will do what she's to explore. Lion in you know a rebel reconvening ways that way. Now there's already popular. I'm gonna us online known germany. Of course she really in many ways almost like she was just his good. Never brundige farms an.
Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"emily dickinson" Discussed on Strength To Be Human --Literary Podcast, Hosted by Mark Antony Rossi
"Strength to be human on the whole robson. Hello and welcome to the strength to human podcast. Host eat poet classic mark anthony. Ross dickerson in this. No we were the meaning of being in changing digital world on that because now with alcohol here so i want to get those away but i always find it interesting but we learn more as we study more about these folks. We learn a lot more has gone through this level in many ways. Is you certainly became one of america's probably all the mistakes you could something as a writer because people had gone through her entire because and we'll talk about those closest to them do mention. I grew the more you know. One thing i would learn more It has we learned long list of mistakes. As you're gonna material dixon. Death certainly verbal miracle radio all the possible mistake report about was gone through her entire one of the mentioned because she was born in one of the more four actually many of the american writers not to be listening because you education access anything but you definitely hands. She had kademi all right so Walk female who went back. We'll go from there. Is someone of massachusetts now. She was born in one of the about remember they were were born. So it's not a new gallup poll. Oftentimes you could have had the city's because family contact with them that report that had the education and she studied immersive kademi. She didn't have a lot. Attendance female household family obviously had friends for the rest of them now and then and and talk round but she never really rented very much you know allow mode mental state combs but also other communication correspondent. Alan is oftentimes about their category eccentricities. Out she was reported that she had a lot of usual. Ms addictive case She time seem to be some people who visited the house water but she never really rented very much. I'll sit down and her often. Mother who communication was to emily hundred Very own little. She remember the gothic. I'm did venture out almost says she has won't to where trump says has to be the writing. I mean she left. nearly eighteen. Hundred entry was often communicate. Some slant little different but sometimes both now hold. Do i mean exciting for some reason. Emily some someone because they didn't read death law. Did this kid have this one. The house so much time. These thoughts getting her cases left. Nearly eight hundred about that show of course spread here. Most of them had some slant before. Oh boy and what do we to go but I only ten someone of the republican talking about a suffused early on your life without this i will publish honestly thoughts can together. We thank god so she didn't care about golfing was he wants to do now. Whatever mentioning before he knows she wind up dying sounds. You're right at eight hundred. Eight hundred formed ready to go There was well-known of eighteen hundred republican. She publicist on anonymously. Nobis fit to commend by anything around. Set a pure time so she really never really gets too much unusual fashion and who really knows. It's really had her own house really orange that i don't know whatever life she has and i'm not really well known but you know you live in a house for fifty something years. Correspondence did always conventional lee's life. Many times she uses light. That was john semester much because the usual fashion punctuation. It's so closet so she. She really had her own lowering she was. She had documented relationship. Make fun of the ones. Most likely you don't go out in a whole life. So i guess you could say that was her life but then Came mystic kind of life. She had because it's so you know we speak but this one lacks relationship with her father. Much certainly not something. Nature established doesn't seem to of wondering there's all maryland and a couple friends she had in his sister-in-law who helped mary. Checkout some hundred homes. Never either edit or.
WTVN
"emily dickinson" Discussed on WTVN
"Once. News radio 6 10 TVs help calm and transport you from pandemic stress, but many of us are finding it harder to read. Now. Here's how and why. Get back to it from this weekend's Jennifer Krauchanka books are good for the brain. Now, more than ever, Elizabeth Bernstein of The Wall Street Journal has more on the importance of reading during the pandemic. Elizabeth What do books do for us? The books were so good for us of my like to say neuroscientists tell us this psychologist Telesis but also your high school English teacher told you that so they expand our world. We get Tau learn, of course, but they also provide an escape products. I am always on my Ended this year of the line of poetry By Emily Dickinson. There's no frigate like a book a book and move us away from this thing 2020 2021 now that we're stuck in, so they do that, But also there's research that shows that they broaden our perspective and they help us emphasize more with others to help us. Calm down. Other in our head. They distract us when we get enough flows State of reading. We're not worrying about everything else. How did book sales do last year? They skyrocketed. And so I think this was a surprise to a lot of people that book sales had the best year since they didn't condemn in 2004 with comparable data, so they really skyrocketed. This was driven by very specific categories. I think about 30% of Adam A little more was Children's books, fiction and nonfiction. People started home schooling and had to start reading with their kids. So that did it. Memoirs were big. Don't nonfiction, especially books about race and civil rights were big biography, something that had a narrative Obama's book with huge Bolton's books with huge so there was a very specific categories. That drove this but but huge sales. Elizabeth you mentioned in your story that you have had some trouble getting through books. Why? I have. I'm a life long reader. Somebody who's you know, one of my biggest loves is reading. I could in a typical year, read one of your books a week and I'm talking substantial books and suddenly you know the pandemic hits last spring, and I can't get through a sentence. Really? And I went in and watch this. I got a little bit back into reading, but I saw many people tweet about this discussed. Friend would even confess it like they were confessing some kind of, you know, drug habit like, Hey, I can't read. I'm humiliated. So want to know what was going on. What's going on is our brain is so focused. Basically, I'm trying to keep alive and scanning for threats. We have been in a state of constant fight or flight activity in our heads. The spring. And so it's very hard when your brain's busy try it. Concentrate anxieties, very taxing. And so it's hard to have that concentration left. We're speaking with Elizabeth Bernstein of The Wall Street Journal. Elizabeth You have some tips on what you should do when you're getting started. What are they? So I talked again. Psychologist. Neuroscientists really decide, you know, give our brains tax and it's busy really scanning for threat. What are we going to do so that we can get back to reading or read? It's such a great thing. And one of my favorites, which I wouldn't have guessed is meditate before you read, so sit down with an app. It could be five minutes a little guided meditation or just sit down quietly and try to clear your mind. Do that before, because you're creating space in your brain. Basically to read. I love that one. Another one again Straight from the neuroscientists is to start short. Don't launch into the 800 you know, page biography that, you know, Start with a short story. Maybe start with the short story you've read before something familiar and comforting or something from a favorite author. Because what's happening is our brains are wired to love reward. So when you've finished something, you even a short story your brains like said it's going to want more. Something that I have trouble with. I start a book, and I really don't like it, but I feel guilty if I quit reading it. Is it okay to close that book and start something else? Yes, you have my permission, and you actually have the permission of all the major readers and book industry people. I talked to it. Life is hard now it is, too. There's no reason why reading has to be unpleasant. Put it down. If you're not getting into it, there's a lot out there that I'm sure you would get into. When people do feel the guilt. I had this experience last week. I made myself focus on a book that was highly regarded, and I thought I would love and I just couldn't get into it. Put it aside. Maybe you'll come back to it later. Maybe not, but returned to something else that you might like. What about the switching back and forth? Do people do this? I do. And I'm sure you do as well switching back and forth from fiction to nonfiction. Other people that just read fiction or just read nonfiction or do a lot of us. Mix it up. I think a lot of people mix it up. But there certainly are people who say I prefer one of the other and they read heavily in that area, and even within it, they might say I love nonfiction. I read only in military history, whatever it is, and so, but people mix it up. I would think over the course of time. Certainly. It's Wall Street Journal columnist Elizabeth Bernstein with this weekend's Jennifer Krauchanka 30 minutes now after the hour on this weekend. Yeah. Use traffic and weather for Columbus. Use radios. 6 10 double View TV End.
KQED Radio
"emily dickinson" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Hill? While Jonah Hill is known for his R rated comedies. It was the Wolf of Wall Street that made him the king of the curse. Words weren't a confounding 107 times in that movie alone, and we won't hear them. What did you think of the documentary? Does all that swearing? Offer some kind of catharsis? Well, let me first say that I was looking forward to the challenge of talking about this show on radio without getting a huge FCC fined for everybody who hears the program. Basically, this is a really smart and informative documentary about the history of profanities that is spiced with comments from comedians and performers would you get Is this really interesting Look At where the boundaries of society are and how they change over time. What we consider profane and one moment but not consider profane and another. How does it change? Depending on who uses the profanity? When a woman uses the B word is that different than if a man uses it? So this is something people might have missed because it it dropped on Netflix like two days before the Capitol attack, But it's worth taking a look at, especially if you want to get a little bit of an escape from some of the crazy news headlines of the day. One word to talk about your fan of Apple TV Pluses. Dickinson, which is a historical drama based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson, its second season came out last week. Did you like it? It's a really interesting show. Basically, it's a show that tries to talk about what Emily Dickinson's life must have been like if she was starting to write poems and decide that that's what she wanted to do. But it's told with a very contemporary veneer. All the music is modern, and even the sensibilities of the characters. They're kind of modern, so it's almost like a CW kind of rendition of Emily Dickinson's Genesis. And there's a funny scene in the first episode of the second season, where her eyesight is starting to fail, and her dad has taken it to a really expensive doctor. And he's a little disappointed with the diagnosis that he winds up with. Let's check it out. This was a lot of money to pay for a bit of impossible advice before the sun. She's not a back. Do you know that? It's okay? I don't need the sun I saw of the moon only hush. Can't you see I'm in the middle of shouting at this man? If you like, You could stay a couple more days. I could conduct further observation. I wanna go home. The best present you with the Bill Hall. You're took. I'm actually back his very first ophthalmologist. So you know the characters kind of refer in a knowing way, you know, to the historical nature of it that sometimes they break the fourth wall again. It's something that could be a little escapist that people could watch to maybe take their mind off of what's happening in government right now. I don't know what you're talking.
WTOP
"emily dickinson" Discussed on WTOP
"Jen. Do we learn anything new about Tiger Woods and this docuseries? I don't know that we learn anything new, but it is certainly a very compelling syriza, and I think people are going to be inclined to compare this to the last dance the SYRIZA about the Chicago Bulls that compelled so many of us last year. This is a bit different because it's not as in depth. This is just a two part docuseries to the first part airs this Sunday. The second part is next Sunday. And the other big difference is that we don't hear from Tiger Woods himself in this docuseries. We hear from a lot of other people other than Tiger Woods s O, which makes for a kind of Ah In some ways, more honest portrait of him, but it also is missing his voice. I think in a lot of ways good for golfers, a non golfers alike. Oh, absolutely. I mean, if I sound tired this morning, it's because I was a very late watching this when I thought I was just gonna watch the first part and immediately went to part two. S so it is. It's really interesting and it really I think the through line through this is his relationship with his father and the impact that his father had on him throughout his life. Hmm. Well, tell us about season two of Dickinson. So Dickinson. If you haven't watched the first season, I urge you to go back and watch that and then jump into this. It's a look at Emily Dickinson, but through a very interesting lens that And backward mystic. Everybody in this show talks and kind of millennial speak. So if you watched Bridget in, for example, and you're like, Oh, I want another period piece. That's that's a little bit different. This is even More different, I think more clever on dis season really looks at how she's dealing with the fact that if she becomes a writer and really makes herself publicly known, how is she going to deal with that fame? All right. I just finished Bridger Tin. By the way, it was a lot of fun. This is this is even more fun. Debbie. I think that Bridget in was okay. I'm excited. Thanks, Jen. Have a great weekend. You two culture critic Jen Chaney.
Before Breakfast
Read a poem
"Today's tip is to build a reading habit by tackling a poem a day. Poems tend to be short, but can take you to amazing places. And so can help you find space in life for a little bit of beauty. As I talked to people about their schedules over the years I've learned that many people want to find more time to read. Along with volunteering and. Doing reading something that we know would improve our lives. But when life gets busy, it's easy to let it go. And once you let it go. Getting back in the habit can seem intimidating. Most books demand at least a few hours of time. Reading and little bits might not be very satisfying. Hence the beauty of poems. Unless you're reading T S Eliot. Elliott's the wasteland. Most poems are relatively short. You can easily borrow e books of poetry from your library through an APP like Libby, and then read through them on the kindle APP. Or. You can go to a website. such as poets dot, Org or Poetry Foundation Dot Org and find poems selected by their editors. In any case, you can get free poems on your phone quickly. And I'm guessing that you always have your phone nearby. And for the cause of building a poetry reading habit. This is actually a good thing. Notice when you pick up your phone. What do you do? Many people check texts or emails first and then look at social media APPS. As you find yourself doing this. Consciously clip to the poetry website or your daughter instead. In about three minutes. You can read a poem. A whole poem. which will give you at least some feeling of accomplishment? Whatever else you did or didn't do during the day you are the sort of person who reads poetry. Now, of course some poems are better than others. I've read through volumes from some of my favorite poets like Mary Oliver. Billy Collins Classic poets such as Emily Dickinson, and sometime stuff is awesome, and sometimes even with the vaster. Sit doesn't always speak to us. But. Poems do have away of going places that pros can't always follow. Dunwell upon can conjure up an image and a feeling. You can ponder that image and feeling as you go about your day. That image and feeling can take you outside your life for a few minutes. An elevate your experience. Putting a little beauty and to the moment. Not Bad for three minutes right. And as you find yourself finding three minutes here and there you'll start to see that you do in fact, have time to read. You just have to choose to do so. And so poetry can become a gateway to literature of all kinds. So today find some poetry. Put, it where you can read it. And, if nothing else, you'll end the day feeling like you put something a little special into your life.
Dear Sugars
How Do I Find the Courage to Be My Own Guide?
"Let's get to the letter I'm gonNA reach to you. Do your sugars a thirty four year old woman and I'm recently coming to terms with the fact that I spent my life being too afraid to do what I WANNA do time after time. I've let social norms guide me where I've looked others for their opinions about my next step my purpose while I've learned a lot from many teachers writers philosophers and therapists. It seems crucial at this point. I learned how to listen to my own heart and be brave enough to follow it. I WANNA be my own guide. It may seem ironic then for me to be asking for your advice. But I'm not asking you to tell me what I should be doing. It's how how do I learn to trust myself the way I did when I was a kid before I decided that other people knew better than me and gave them all the power. How do I learn to recognize my heart's voice and stand up for what it wants? How do I avoid falling back into that safe prison of what someone else thinks? I should but not what I truly want to do. Emily Dickinson wrote the heart. Wants what it wants or else it does not care. I know this to be true and I don't WanNa find myself back in a job or relationship or pursuit. My heart doesn't care about. How do I tend to my heart and keep it bay? The people the thoughts the fears that threaten this fledgling relationship between my heart and me sincerely hardward bound powerful interesting Have you asked yourself these questions when I first read it? I thought about our very first episode. And you know you're saying you're saying well. What what. What sort of been guiding precept in thinking about these questions of how you kind of get actualized and start building a life that feels more authentic. And what you. WanNa be doing on earth. Because you don't have a long time and I feel like we gotta as quickly as we can get to the things that really are meaningful to us and I thought about that. John Prion lyric that. I told you so many years ago. Your heart gets bored with your mind. And it changes you and heart bound is describing that my heart is bored with my mind But it's something even more than that in this case it's the there are other people and other voices. They're getting in the way of what she wants to do to whom she is been obedient and finds herself being obedient. So Hartford bound. You know when I read your letter there these questions that are kind of big abstract questions and I'm going to ask you to be more concrete about them on read back a couple to you. How do I learn to trust myself the way I did? I was a kid before I decided that other people knew better than me and gave them all the power. So my question to you is what other people. And how did you give them power? And how are you in your life? Giving them power you write how to avoid falling back into that safe prison. I love that safe prison of doing what someone else thinks I should do. Who are these someone else's you have to be specific about who they are and how to try to counteract them actively and specifically and there's only one way to really genuinely counteract them and that is to decide that they are not the voices who will determine what you do with your life at this point where you're at heart bound you're still bound up actually in those other voices in those other. People are those social conventions the fact that you wrote this letter. It's an indication that you're stepping away from that. And so you ask how do how do you learn how to trust yourself and the first thing I wanna say is that this is not something you learn one time. Do One time right. It's something that you do every day over and over again for years and years and years and the meaning of life that you put into action looks different at different times but it's always returning to the idea that you really need to trust yourself and I'll say that for me. I love this phrase brave enough I mean aside for the fact that actually a title one of my books. I love that you used this phrase. I need to learn how to listen to my heart and be brave enough to follow it and the way you do that as you just get brave enough not to have some big glorious life that you just cast off all conventions and other voices but you're brave enough to make one step in the direction that you WanNa go and that is for you. Heart rebound. I actually think it's your writing us this ladder that you've even popped your head above that sort of surfaced a enough to say you know what. I'M NOT GONNA listen to all these people anymore. I need to trust myself. That's the first step in my life. You know in really practical terms in every arena. I've had to do this as most. I'm sure Steve. You've done as well. Were you have to say this would be the thing that would be like the conventional the norm the thing that would be easier for other people around me and and some waste for myself to do? I mean any writer sample. We stepped into this profession knowing that it was probably a bad idea because you know most people need a career because they need to pay their bills right and the minute you decide to be a writer or an artist of any sort. You're you're you're saying okay. I'm going to take this risk and I'm not gonNA listen to the voices of reason and and security and all that stuff. I'm going to walk this. Paf heart bound. You mentioned relationships too. You know we're supposed to make nice. Were supposed to be in relationships. Please people around us. Sometimes you have to step off that path. You adopt a position in relation to all the people who love you that disappoints those people in your case. You're like keep thinking about you have to go off and do something that's crazy. Yeah and it's not just the going the idea of having going off and hiking the trail and it's not the inspiration the realization. The moment you say I'm leading lights. That doesn't feel real enough to me. It's the perspiration of at every point where it seems impossible and doomed battle through it. The backpack is ridiculous. You brought all this stuff along. Your feet are bloody your reason wild resonated with so many people because at every point you ran up against the real hard work of making an a difficult inconvenient decision. I would also say that within this letter this idea of how do I get back to a childlike state? A state where I trust myself and instinctual state and what I say oftentimes to writing students and try to say to say it to myself is look. Consciousness is by nature obsessive children. Come into the world obsessed that is they care about things too much and what happens with obsession. Is that socialized. We beat down the voices that care about things too much in that feel too much and part of the artist's journey. I guess is to say screw that I do care about it too much. I am to invest in. I'm obsessed with it and I'm going to be honest about obsession rather than trying to lead a safer more. Conventional approved life but it's an emotionally and psychologically inconvenient arrangement because you feel more and you face certain things about yourself that bring you away from arrangements that are there and especially in our culture to kind of keep you insulated from deep feeling. Yeah but you know. I love that you singled out this this phrase because I thought the same thing I I want to trust myself the way I did when I was a kid and you know kids will sometimes be at play and they will say these absurd things and create these sort of outlandish scenarios imaginative play worlds. Don't make sense to the people around them. They absolutely make sense to them. I remember you know like my son. One time you know he just. He found a deck of cards in a room and sort of far off room in the house and one by one he. He took one card at a time and ran to the other end of the house until he had stacked them at the end of the House and he was so determined it made sense to him in the only person. It didn't seem crazy to him. Yeah because he was so engaged in doing and you know when you said Al Gough. Maybe you have to go off and do something crazy what I think about that is. It doesn't matter if what if what you're doing seems crazy to other people right to you. It's right and that's how my hike was you know. Never did I feel so right then when I went off and did something that many others perceived as crazy that can like I agree you. That can be a very hard life when you first step off the path but I think the harder life is never stepping off the path while always to do
After The Fact
Ken Burns: 'America's Storyteller' on His Creative Process
"Ken Burns has been called America's storyteller a title earned over more than four decades and thirty three films including his most recent one on country music. We traveled his barn. That is his office in Rural New Hampshire talk about how he creates art from history. My first film was on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and when I started fundraising forward in seventy seven. I looked about about twelve years old and people delighted in turning down saying that. This child is trying to sell me the Brooklyn Bridge and when I finally amassed a a can't say a critical mass But some money to film I started filming and I finished most of the principal photography in the summer of nineteen seventy nine and realized allies with all this footage and no money that I needed to get a real job and I had a really nice offer for a job but I felt in my bones in my guts that if I put the footage up on top of the refrigerator on a shelf I'd just wake up. Twenty twenty five years later and having not finished it so I wanted to move to someplace where I could live for nothing and figure out how you made a film about a bridge. How you how you told stories in history how you animated old photographs how you use sound effects and music and I moved here to the house? I'm living in now. I rented it for a couple of years. My oldest daughter was born there and so I had to buy hi it. The best professional decision I ever made was deciding to stay here. Once that film was nominated for an Oscar. Everyone said Oh you come back to New York and I said no I think. Can we stay here. The work I do is so labor intensive it's like academic or medical scientific research takes years and years and years to do it right and and it was more important to put the very difficult still to this day grant money and I'm very grateful for for pews involvement for for decades in the work that we've done put that all on the screen to have zero overhead in essence So that we can tell the funders that look. It's it's on the screen if we're take ten and a half years to do Vietnam or eight and a half years to do country music or the war. The history of the Second World War that we did that that the the felt that their money was going not some costly rent in midtown Manhattan But in a rural area where it's very clearly all all up on the screen. The work clearly energizes you. Are there things outside of work that allow you to have the energy and vitality and creativity the practices that you do yourself that allows you to sort of grows beyond as a filmmaker that also influences you as a filmmaker. Being a father is the most important activity. Yeah I have four daughters. I'm blessed I'm rich and daughters who ranged from the late thirties to a nine year old. They're the greatest teachers. I live in the spectacular. Her place that nature continually Reminds me of my insignificance and so the humility that comes from understanding the ending. How much nature us is actually makes you bigger just as if you if you think that you can say to somebody you know? Don't you know who I am. Doesn't commend you to the smallest and weakest little place and first of all in Walpole New Hampshire any notoriety variety award celebrity plus fifty cents. Gets you a cup of coffee. I do the New York Times Crossword puzzle in INC in physically. I buy the paper everyday we day and I read novels or magazines and watch television mostly for news and sports rabid baseball fan and then mostly I walk and I do that at least once a day. If not twice a day by the end of the day I have about ten miles. What happens in walking is very interesting hosting its meditative? Sometimes it's it's it's social. I can talk to daughters. I can talk to colleagues but mostly it's so lower with my dog and we've just sort of watch things leaves falling from trees SUNSETS and sunrises. That's what Emily Dickinson called the far theatricals of day which I still think is one of the greatest phrases of all times and I am very much addicted to the far theatricals a day. One of the things we want to do is talk just about your creative process. That's how you go about doing what you do. We start with the most basic question. Which is how you pick your topics? You've talked a lot about how you've got a whole range going out for the next next ten twenty years which is amazing. But how do you decide you know the glib answer is that they choose me. I I'm just looking for good stories in American history and that's what I want to say I is that I'm a storyteller. I'm not looking to make a political comment on the present though I know is Mark Twain is supposed to said that history doesn't doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes that is to say I've never finished a project where I haven't lifted my head up at the end of this long usually multiyear process and not seen the way in which the themes the important themes are not only evergreen but are resonating in the present. We do get completely distracted by the idea. That history repeats itself it does not it never has please show me where it has you know. Are we condemned to repeat what we don't remember no. It doesn't seem team that that's the case is knowing history thing. Of course it is so I think we just come to it from the sense that we have an amazing story to tell in our country. I feel that too often. It's it's been sanitized and that the real version which is incredibly diverse. An incredibly complicated is the one we ought to be focusing on and that in no way does does it diminish the positive aspects to give Some of the negative stuff the novelist Richard Power said the best arguments in the world won't change. I'm just single persons mind. The only thing that can do that as a good story so I'm not in the business of changing people's minds but I am in the business of trying to figure out what a good story stories
Cultivating Place
Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, Marta McDowell
"Emily Dickinson was a gardener. She was also an iconic poet. And and this week we enjoy a conversation. With Garden Writer Marta McDowell to hear more about how the two callings intermingled in the life of emily only Dickinson. Welcome Marta arm so happy to be back Jennifer. I also happy to have you. I will note that this makes you the all all time. Most interviewed person on cultivating place. Marta so we should have like a drum roll. Happy to have Marta back back. So I have given you a little bit of an introduction but remind listeners and tell new listeners of whom there are a great many a little a bit about your own current practice in what you do as a writer what you do as a gardener of course while I consider myself self a garden writer and really I do a lot of things that you can append the word garden too you so I teach about gardening. I lecture about gardening. I they do some consulting on gardening and I very much garden myself as well and tell tell us just a tiny bit about your current garden and partly why I want you to describe this for listeners is that it bears the beautiful traces traces in threads and clues of almost all the books you have worked on which I think you like to describe as being at the sort of intersection of the pen and the Trowel trowel. Yes so the reason my garden is overcrowded. Just definitely read too much and so when I read about a an author who likes to garden I want to grow. Grow what they grew it. It's like a little link through time as if I could reach out I- fingers and touch them. I'm in a way that is not the into page which you know we so often encounter a writer through the printed page but actually through this medium medium of plant yeah give us an illustration of how this has worked for you. So and I I say this again to just illustrate this wonderful crossover that you include in all the books that I have read of yours. which is sort of how to have a garden in like this person would have had a garden and this was true in the Laura Ingalls Wilder Book and this is definitely true in the Emily Dickinson Book? And I believe it was true in terms of at least plant lists in all the president's gardens as well. Yes I seem to like to count. Things are always very long-planned implant list. must be some like personality type but my garden is. Let's see it's a garden of about a half an acre occurred. It is in a suburban neighborhood. My house is not new. It was built in nineteen twenty nine. Which means it's approaching one hundred years old? It sits on the front of the property so in the front. I have only only things that aren't lawn in the back. I have a tiny so-called lawn although most people who who look at it probably wouldn't call it that and I have many trees my one little patch of son I have flowers ars and herbs and then I have a woodland garden in the back and I think that's the one. Interestingly that Emily Dickenson has influenced the most because she did do a lot of wildflower collecting in wildflower walks and so in her home in her letters there so many wildflowers and she's she's from Massachusetts. I live in New Jersey. You know basically. That's a little colder where she is but I can grow most of the things that she would have found and in the woods around amherst Massachusetts so things like blood route. You know what a what a great emily Dickenson glanced right. Yeah you know You know just so many of those little spring ephemeral the things that bloom in in the spring and then completely disappear at least in my garden by the end of the summer. And then don't pop up again until next spring Burton. Yeah so you've been a gardener far longer than you've been a garden writer and you've been garden writer for a very long time now. How did one become the other and tell us about emily? Dickinson's role in that. So the the minute I had a little patch patch of earth which was round. I duNNo. Let's say nineteen eighty. I started to garden and started to just WanNa grow growth things in in a way. It didn't matter what the thing was. I just really discovered this connection to the soil and and Emily Dickinson happened entirely by accident. It was when I was in a completely different life I was. I had a job in corporate America. I would go on these trips from Lil. You know the head office in New Jersey and go out to visit insurance agencies at in this case ace and I was going across Massachusetts visiting agencies and I had a spare afternoon and I I literally told off into a higher a rest area and stared at the brochure wreck. Can you picture that yes again right. And so there was the thing for the Emily Dickinson Concerned Museum and I thought Oh hit studied Emily Dickinson you know. Let me go up to the museum and so I called. I'm sure on the pay phone and and said can I still make it. And she said Yes yes come and I found out that day Emily Dickinson had been a gardener and the door opened opened for me. I'm I suppose was poetry. It was like you know two roads diverged in the Ray Right right and so I just I. I absolutely became obsessed with Emily Dickinson and her gardening interests. And so that was a round nineteen eighteen ninety eight Two years later I I left my corporate job. I published an article about Emily Dickinson. I you know I just. I took another track. I started studying gardening. You know more seriously and you know kind of building up. I don't know and then you know I published a book in two thousand five and two thousand ten. I worked with the New York Botanical Garden on a big shows. You would think I had planned it right but I did just happen. It just happened. And and somehow the universe the collective consciousness the the seeds dormant in your own soul Found you took took you and grew you along this path and it was It has taken several kind of guises since then But Emily Dickinson was definitely the start. And when you say you published a book in two thousand five. That was your first book on Emily Dickinson. The first edition of this book is that correct. Yes and that was my first book about gardening and the same likewise with the big exhibit at The New York Botanic Tena Gardens. That was all sort of botanic garden exhibition about Emily Dickinson her gardening life and her gardening hardening motivation as well. Correct yes and I should say you know. This is the value of going to a museum right right. You know it's like you may not think anything in particular about a museum but you know it really something can touch you. And I've stayed involved with the museum really from the start. So that's been a continuous thread.
Bill Leff and Wendy Snyder
Apple TV+ Hits Friday. Its Series (Mostly) Miss
"Let's start out with the explanation of apple TV this is a relatively new thing what we need to know about apple TV yeah this the views today actually if you bought an apple device after September ten graduations you already have it absolutely free for at least a year you can get a free trial by going to the apple TV app if not you can check out apple TV plus for four ninety nine a month it is launching a bunch of big buzz he shows the top of them is the morning show it's a drama starring Reese Witherspoon Jennifer Aniston and Steve corral and it's a dramatic show despite the stars that are in it about a morning show that separate the meat you scanned all all of the today show and throws it into turmoil there's also CD which is a game of thrones style drama about a world where everybody is blinds starring Jason Momoa from game of thrones bunch of other shows on there it's I watch all of them at this point it is very much a mixed bag the only one that I really liked and I really can't recommend to everybody this show called you can send the stars Hailee Steinfeld as young Emily Dickinson and it's kind of like euphoria beats thirty rock meets his drama beats a million different things uncategorized of all but I was fascinated I and like to at least one joke perhaps said the morning show is ridiculously entertaining but supercell Sirius spend fifteen million dollars an episode which is an insane amount of money but apple so they're putting all of their chips in the US but so far I think everybody in the office here to senator greens the shows are not great so if you have a free trial and do you want to check it out certainly I would suggest sampling the morning show sample taken standing if that all sounds interesting if you're into sci fi there's a show from Ronald D. Moore who created it Battlestar Galactica calls for all mankind was about an alternate history where America lost the space race very well made but also reporting frankly but it the other thing if you don't have a free trial I would hesitate to recommend spending even before ninety nine the account just because I've been plagued by a lot of tech issues today people have been proud of had problems logging into free trials finding the shows except for so give it some time listen to the bison that baby check it out in a couple of weeks if you're interested what are they doing on the morning show that's costing fifteen million per episode is that for the kids a great cast is is that a lot of that money goes out to them is that what it is I think a lot of money wanted to them it's also it's a gorgeous looking show it's beautifully shot by being the letter who started director jail for awhile after she corrected the action movie the peacemaker mess and she did deep impact immediately after that but you don't ton of TV since then it's at the starting the shot was very clearly spent a ton of money on this and again the ID it's kind of trashing it's like very much a trashy soap operas so I don't know why they spent that much money on it but I I don't have a lot of time I sat down to watch three solid hours this nonstop back to back yes I could not stop playing so just in terms of entertainment value I think it's worth it for that I'm trying to think of the track record of other networks when they rolled out a new schedule I remember when fox first became a network years ago it was kind of a slow rollout they just did a couple shows at the beginning and then build from there it's got to be tough to come up with a full schedule of shows and have a mall be successful and and great right that's almost impossible it's almost impossible and this is a big problem with apple TV plus right now that they're not taking the lessons but a lot of the other streaming that works done even Netflix did that very slowly enabled out house of cards then they had arrested development arch new black before they wrapped up to you thirty five new television shows every single day of the week apple TV plus is trying to be all of that media plea almost wanting more of their own each be within their own Netflix because the other thing that you should know about this for the apple TV plus price you're only getting the shows you're not getting everything that he is on TV that you would normally get from the iTunes store the TV store or anything like that yeah it's just the additional shows so I wish there were better it seems like they just gave people blank Jackson said to everyone we don't know what's going on the TV so again some of the stuff is get service desk very bad hopefully it'll get better they're certainly not giving it up anytime soon because all the shares regardless of quality have been picked up for a second season I gotta tell ya I'm surprised that that your stars like a Reese Witherspoon Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell are selling out to apple like that it just seems weird to me you know they've found a big screen the alignment and that I think they said was they want to give creators the chance to really express themselves so this case it's it's produced by Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston it's been playing very different parts I will say they're both fantastic at the show Jennifer Aniston is unlike you ever seen her before so I think that's what they're going for the chance and the same thing that other folks are jumping at is actually a new version of Oprah's book club the diffuse its first absent today and again I think it was just this blank check that apple had into them and said you do what you want you follow your muse and some people follow their views and absolutely wrong direction and hopefully of course correct a little bit and that somebody will give them a little more guidance going
NPR's Business Story of the Day
Apple, Disney Enter Streaming Market
"This message comes from NPR sponsor xfinity some things are slow like simple easy awesome more at xfinity dot com restrictions apply it is not about us I assure you so this joins almost a half dozen new high profile streaming great sitcom out of sticking a camera in your offices this is like a competitor Netflix or what well you know in a way I mean big outfits like Disney and Warner media built their own streaming platforms and apples joined in own and it offers original commercial free shows to draw consumers deeper into about us how does the pay that's called the morning show on his new service Emily Dickinson and The Best Apple TV pilot I've seen is this anthology it for the two point overs just give it some time Yeah okay so in less than two weeks November out there that are going to try to serve all most of your TV needs and it feels like Disney pluses that seven dollars a month for about seventy dollars a year I mean I think sometimes it's tough for critics like me Well can you give any advice about what to do here I mean we've all Amax this year from or this week for more media they're promising like ten thousand hours of content diary to see what you actually watch a be aware of what's out there they're streaming platforms when the season is over and and go somewhere else and the combined costs could easily be less than like you're getting a cut loose at an awesome library or mazing grocery store and just enjoy.
The Frame
Apple TV Plus early reviews: Are the new shows any good?
"This Friday apple will launch streaming service apple TV plus with four very expensive original shows the tech giant isn't the only big name marching into the streaming battlefield next month Disney will launch its own Perform Disney plus NBC HBO Both Have Plans to follow suit Friday TV critic Caroline Fram key check out apple's new series and she gave me her down road I've seen at least one episode of four shows launching the morning show See for all mankind Dickinson all of which have producers who have come from TV they're not totally new The morning show obviously features probably the busiest stars Reese Witherspoon Steve Carell and Jennifer Aniston which is probably the biggest actor coup for any of the apple show's coming synthesis Jennifer Aniston's first regular TV role since friends good morning I'm bringing you some sad had upsetting news and while I don't know the details of the allegations to throw me under the bus Mitch Kessler my co host and partner of fifteen years was fired today you know see and for all mankind are both alternate history shows that I think is actually a very interesting see is as an alternate future in which almost all humans have lost the ability to see some say site was taken from them by God to heal the air for all mankind as an alternate history of what if the Soviet Union made it to the Moon I was about being first turns out the stakes are much bigger those are interesting concepts but what they do with it isn't particularly interest thing that was really striking to me in your views in an a two way you had with one of your other variety critics is that felt that they weren't daring that given what else is out there on streaming services like Netflix and Hulu Amazon prime that they weren't willing to go the extra mile and actually take a risk yeah and I think that would obviously agree disagree with me I think the morning show particular feels like it did belong on network six years ago despite trying upbringing timely elements they obviously had to bring in some of me to Dickinson shirts trying for those who don't know Dickenson is about emily Dickinson but it's about her as a feisty teenager played by Hailee Steinfeld one purpose that is to become a great writer it definitely does a lot stylistically it has a lot of you know bass heavy rap music that comes in every so often is played by wiz Khalifa it's very cw in the vein of Riverdale but I do think looking at the four shows overall there's this weird sense I got that all these shows might have been more interesting if they came out five years ago you know they're all very shiny expensive versions of things I feel like we've seen before or that have been innovative previously but in twenty nineteen I don't know I feel like I need a little bit more from them to really stand out when there are so many shows if you were to step back and say this is clearly the market that apple is going after could you define what that audience might be I don't know that I can say that because I'm not sure apple can either think that this first of shows is a confusing one because all seem to be sort of going for a different audience Dickinson's kind of going for a CW teen thing for all mankind feels very AMC to me morning show I think I said my column feels sort of ABC CBS all access question mark and see is like a game of thrones got lost I I just don't know where what they were trying to do with the four of them combined I think feels like they were casting a wide net and it just feels like some of these shows are kind of splitting the difference in not playing it very safe they're not really taking aside and maybe that felt safer apple but it it's not very interesting TV no in one of the challenges for apple is they don't have the library that say Netflix or Disney plus has so they we are making almost a pure play on these shows and if they don't have a show that people have to watch the question is I guess would people spend five bucks a month just to watch Jennifer Aniston and that seems to be the proposition doesn't it the content library is a big part of streaming services and I feel like Apple has kind of underestimated that they to their credit are pricing it relatively low five dollars a month is definitely the lowest price by pretty wide margin for any of the streaming services right now though I believe that Disney plus will not be much more expensive and again they have all these movies all these other shows that will be available just for people to have so even if you're not interested in one of the original shows you you're probably gonNA subscribe so you can watch all the Disney stuff right and that's the issue right because even as people are cutting maybe their direct TV subscription or their cable subscription if you start doing ala carte pricing where you're getting Netflix Amazon prime you're getting Hulu Oh you're getting Disney plus a couple of bucks here pretty much your back to a hundred plus a month patch what would be the argument for subscribing to apple right now or maybe are there other shows that they're hoping will continue generating momentum and he you have to imagine it's the latter especially because they have been signing more and more overall deals with other creators or shows down the Line Affonso Koran recently assigned TV deal which I find very interesting Jason Kanaan's and Friday Night Lights signed an overall deal there and in general these overall deals for creators like Ryan Murphy if it can get people
KCRW's Hollywood Breakdown
Apple Lifts the Veil on TV+
"Kim Masters and this is the Hollywood breakdown joining me as is Matt Bellamy of the Hollywood reporter and Matt as as we have long known apple has this TV thing people have been waiting for apple to come in to the entertainment business for a long time and they they did set up a thing. They have finally announced. I mean they've trickled out some stuff about their shows. They had this event where the people who were making those shows is were brought to talk about them. They didn't show any footage which struck a lot of people is very weird but finally apple is ready to drop the veil so November November. I it's subscription service. TV plus will launch for the cheap price and this is undercutting the Disney cheap price which I would call a price to lure you in in and get you hooked. Disney's is seven dollars. That's obviously a lot less than net flicks apple five dollars and apple. It's not just five dollars. It's free if you buy a new iphone or MAC or other various apple products that they want you to buy so this is a very very low price point and the design line here. It's very clear now is to keep you in the apple ecosystem. They are at their core a hardware company a products company and if they can can put all these other bells and whistles on apple music and news and a video game service and now television they can keep you in the apple ecosystem. I am buying apple products and they hope makes money on this new. TV service yeah about that okay so they have a bunch of shows with you know impressive talent reese witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston or in something called the morning show is supposed to be a very expensive show. There was a lot of noise about production and was alleged alleged to be troubled. We haven't seen too much yet and we've seen a trailer. of course this will launch soon. There's something with Hailee Steinfeld called Dickinson when she looks like a very very dramatic reconstruction of the poet Emily Dickinson who was reclusive and not Haley. This looks different. Let's just put it that way and a whole bunch of other stuff now. I'm just going to be skeptical. Matt you know I. I don't know that people are going to feel like Oh. I've got to have that five dollars. A month is cheap and free is is cheaper than that but you know there's a lot of competition for eyeballs right now. I don't know that apple can start from scratch and launched something. I don't know how compelling they feel. They needed needed to be but if they really WANNA be in this game. I think ultimately they're going to have to buy some studio. Maybe I'll take the other side on this one because I think that apple isn't starting from from scratch. They're starting with the most powerful and well loved brand in the world and when people say oh there's a TV service coming from apple a a brand that I know and I have in my pocket all the time and I buy things from and I interact with. That's what they want and if you think about the model here we're moving away from on the traditional television model where it's all about valuing the content and the advertising you can sell against the content here. The content is secondary. Gary just like it is on Amazon prime where they're not actually selling you video shows. They're selling you toilet paper and bath creams and all the other things that that you buy on Amazon and if you pay for prime you get this other thing along with. It and apple is really in the same boat here. They're not actually selling you a reese witherspoon show. Oh they're selling you more apple products and they're selling you an ecosystem that they want to control and have you buy all of your other stuff whether it's HBO and Showtime Oh time or potentially many other different things through the apple ecosystem just to be clear apple. TV plus is not a TV. It's a thing that you get on your devices and as you say maybe that's going to be successful formula for Apple. I mean one of the interesting things to note. Is that win. This was announced in the price point was announced announced the stock of Roku went way down why was that because roku cells rival hardware to apple TV so the thinking is is that this is going to encourage more people to buy the Apple TV device which allows you to connect to a smart television and put apple programs on and you're going to be less likely likely to buy Roku all. I already have Roku so at least for me. I'm either way right. That's felony aditorial director of the Hollywood reporter. He joins me this Monday. At one thirty on the business. I'm Kim Masters and this is the Hollywood breakdown.
Sean Hannity
Who is Bruce Ohr, the Justice official Trump keeps tweeting about?
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