Proust, jealousy, The Prisoner: we talk about it all this week, in a show with Christine Smallwood, Alex Ross, Joshua Landy, and Hannah Freed-Thall. Via @literaryhub.bsky.social or all podcatchers!
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“Vinteuil SHREDS”: Cosmic Library does have a little newsletter that posts updates, occasional quotes, and thoughts on the show:
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Highly recommend this podcast.
Figure out wasted time with Marcel Proust, Christine Smallwood, Alex Ross, Joshua Landy, and Hannah Freed-Thall in our Proust season’s episode on lost time, out now via @literaryhub.bsky.social:
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It’s a great honor to be on the new Lit Hub Podcast episode, from @literaryhub.bsky.social. I’m talking about this Proust season:
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Episode 2 of our Proust season is here! Hear Alex Ross, Joshua Landy, Christine Smallwood, and Hannah Freed-Thall, who says: "I will never make an argument that is true for the entirety of this novel."
Find it @literaryhub.bsky.social or wherever you go for podcasts!
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For @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social and anyone with a Proust book club, consider our 5-episode miniseries on Proust now coming out via Lit Hub!
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Our Proust season begins! Find it @literaryhub.bsky.social or wherever you go for podcasts!
You will hear Alex Ross, Christine Smallwood, Joshua Landy, Hannah Freed-Thall, and Rick Moody—and there will be many readings from In Search of Lost Time:
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I just became a Proust podcast with the face of James Joyce, so I am especially delighted to see this:
New season, starts February 18th! It’s an unusual Proust audiobook, w/ readings from In Search of Lost Time and guests riffing. With: Alex Ross, Christine Smallwood, Rick Moody, Joshua Landy, and Hannah Freed-Thall. All thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social! Trailer:
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If you just read Knausgaard on The Brothers Karamazov and are now headed to Karamazov Town, consider our Brothers Karamazov radio play, wherever podcasts are found:
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Karamazov Season concludes with its fifth episode!
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Strange convergences, endings looping into beginnings—it’s all here, all thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Andrew Martin, Garth Risk Hallberg, and Paulina Rowinska.
📅 Fri. 5/9 @ 7PM: We are excited to welcome Adam Colman of Lit Hub’s Cosmic Library podcast for an event with the poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert and the novelist Andrew Martin, prompted by The Cosmic Library’s new season about Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s "Brothers Karamazov". Learn more: buff.ly/ZcCnfbs
In conclusion I think literary podcasts really "have what it takes."
But conversational literary podcasts are uniquely suited for this kind of experience.
You can hear this all happen in the show (season 6, episode 4). It's hard to register something similar in prose—to get thinking onto the page as it develops in conversation. Obviously some people can do that, and I think Dostoevsky happens to be one of them.
That episode then became about the extremities of logic—incompleteness theorems, parallel lines meeting in infinity or in other geometries. Making the show was consciousness-expanding.
Then he says, and you can hear this in the show: "here's where you patch in a mathematician" to explain Kurt Gödel's theorem. Because it's a podcast, I can do that. After we recorded the radio play and that conversation with Garth and Andrew, I went to talk to a mathematician at MIT.
In our latest episode, something happens that's so cool that I want to say more about it.
Garth Risk Hallberg mentions that all the unresolved ways of thinking—let's say religious, materialist, idealistic—in Brothers Karamazov remind him of the incompleteness theorem.
New: follow the Karamazov brothers to where dreams and math merge, parallel lines collide, and complete ways of thinking prove incomplete.
Mathematician Paulina Rowińska guides us to the far reaches of logic. Find it at @literaryhub.bsky.social and all podcatchers:
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This week's episode gets into Dostoevsky's non-Euclidean geometry and Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
I swear it makes almost intuitive sense! You'll hear me say things like "oh man my brain is exploding," but as I re-listen, I'm amazed at how clearly the guests explain this stuff.
And on Friday, May 9th, at 7 pm at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social, come see a live Cosmic Library event with Elisa Gabbert, Andrew Martin, and me:
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Until then, get caught up with this season’s Karamazov radio play, here:
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Plunge into The Brothers Karamazov's philosophical "reaction chamber" w/ @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Andrew Martin, Garth Risk Hallberg, and Robin Feuer Miller. It's episode 3 of our Karamazov Season, at @literaryhub.bsky.social or any podcatcher!
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New: how Dostoevsky became Dostoevsky, and then wrote fiction that went way beyond Dostoevsky.
@literaryhub.bsky.social or wherever you go for podcasts!
With: Garth Risk Hallberg, Andrew Martin, @katiabowers.bsky.social, @heartywhite.bsky.social, Robin Feuer Miller!
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I wanted a chance to re-read it! which I will do ..............starting ....................
now!
Yes!
Here at Bluesky, you'll get the DVD extras about the new Cosmic Library season (coming out via @literaryhub.bsky.social; find our Karamazov radio play there now). For example, a true story: @johncotter.bsky.social ultimately convinced me to make this season about The Brothers Karamazov. (Thanks!)
I'm in good company as a guest on this season of @cosmiclibrary.bsky.social and they're reading #Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov! The first ep is up today and I'm excited to hear how the discussion comes together around this monumental novel! Check it out: lithub.com/the-cosmic-l...
