What's Old is New
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Exploring the classics and the new books they've inspired
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.11 - Interview with Sara Levine, author of Treasure Island!!! | Sara Levine is the author of Treasure Island. 0:20 Welcome to Sara Levine, and Jen tries to introduce the three exclamation marks. 0:50 About Treasure Island!!! 2:30 Sara's background with Stevenson's non-exclamated Treasure Island - from essayist to novelist 4:00 Coming to Treasure Island (and classics in general) as a child, versus as an adult - and hey, we come back to Jane Eyre again, surprise! 7:20 Treasure Island!!! and how we do (and perhaps shouldn't) respond to classics 10:40 Sara's writing process, reading Treasure Island to write Treasure Island!!! 12:45 What is a classic? Sara's definition. 15:00 In which we make silly jokes about Sara, Stevenson, and punctuation. 16:30 Wrap-up | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.10 - A Christmas Carol Rip | 0:25 Don't forget about the Dickens contest! 1:06 Nicole HATED it. 2:20 Jen is indifferent. 3:10 Should Jen be allowed to listen to books she hates instead of reading them? 4:35 So, we don't have that much to say... 5:50 Shortest show ever! | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.9 - Jane Austen (Persuasion) | 0:30 Our initial thoughts about Persuasion. 2:35 Jane Austen is basically hilarious, and honestly, Persuasion isn't very romantic 4:25 How does Jane Austen have such lovely heroines who have such terrible sisters? 6:25 Wentworth plays games 9:10 Persuasion and Austen in general stay in the canon (and now we want to watch Clueless). 10:00 Welcome Laurel Ann Nattress 10:25 About Jane Austen Made Me Do It 11:40 How did Jane Austen Made Me Do It come about? 16:00 Laurel Ann's Jane conversion 24:40 The participating authors 29:10 Laurel Ann's favorite 30:30 Wrap-up | 12/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.8 - Interview with Erin Blakemore, author of The Heroine’s Bookshelf | Erin Blakemore is the author of The Heroine's Bookshelf. 0:40 Welcome to Erin, and she explains The Heroine's Bookshelf 2:40 The development of The Heroine's Bookshelf - from Jane Eyre on! 4:50 The heroines 6:15 The emotional appeal of the authors (Jen sort of cops out), and our personal experiences with them 14:00 Is today's awesome YA keeping kids from discovering some of the classics? Also, some digression. 22:30 E-readers freeing our reading habits 25:25 Women-specific reading rooms 27:00 What books do we not want people to ask us "what are you reading?" 34:20 What would Erin's authors be doing if they lived today? Plus the Their Eyes Were Watching God readalong 40:25 What does Erin consider to be a classic? Including the classics of girl p*rn 40:20 Ally Condie's Matched illustrates our horror of the narrowness of some people's canon 46:30 The negative power of "the classics" 53:30 Wrap up | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.7 - The Scarlet Pimpernel Classics Rip (Or Not???) | 0:25 Jen sounds punchy, within the first minute. 0:45 It is like A Tale of Two Cities, but not WAY TOO LONG and Nicole is amazed that The Scarlet Pimpernel didn't read like a play, even though it was a play first. 2:45 The verdict of Nicole the skeptic! It is romance adventure, but we love it! 3:55 There is a strange noise and I have no idea what it is, but we continue loving on The Scarlet Pimpernel. 4:15 We basically read this because Jen once read Lauren Willig's books. 5:15 HOW DO WE PRONOUNCE BARONESS ORCZY'S NAME? Sadly, this time Jen can't just ask the author. 6:30 Is this the best writing in the world? Maybe not, BUT IT WORKED FOR THE STORY. 7:40 A Tale of Two Cities is much more ambitious than The Scarlet Pimpernel, but they aren't dissimilar and Baroness O's book is WAY more accessible. 10:45 Nicole's initial reluctance to The Scarlet Pimpernel. What is the deal with the pimpernel, anyway? 12:20 More about Lauren Willig's The Secret History of the Pink Carnation series. 15:35 In which we keep The Scarlet Pimpernel in our personal canon. 17:15 Sorry, guys, there was no "ripping" in this classics rip! 18:20 Next classics rip, we're going back to Dickens and reading A Christmas Carol, expect snark. 19:30 PRIZE ALERT! The first person to recommend something by Dickens that we like (or, you know, don't hate after 100), you will win A BIG PILE OF BOOKS!!! Comment here, or email oldisnewpodcast@gmail.com 20:50 Wrap up! | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.6 - Interview with Hillary Jordan, author of When She Woke | Hillary Jordan is the author of Mudbound and When She Woke. 0:30 Hillary explains the premise of When She Woke 2:15 The genesis of When She Woke aka, why it is important to pay attention to your family 3:50 Hillary's ode to The Scarlet Letter 5:10 Dear schools, please stop making 15 year olds read The Scarlet Letter! 6:20 We get the cliff notes version of The Scarlet Letter references in When She Woke 8:10 Hillary Jordan has read all the classics (okay, not ALL of them, but you know what she means) 9:50 The definition of a classic, a la Hillary Jordan 11:40 The writing process for two very different books 16:15 How post-9/11 America changed When She Woke and the conflicting American attitudes towards freedom 20:10 Jen's rambling wrap-up | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.5 - Lord Byron | 0:15 In which we are somewhat speechless, our experiences with Childe Harold 2:20 Does anyone actually read Byron? It doesn't seem like anyone adapts his work 3:50 Jen compares Byron to Paris Hilton 4:30 Is Byron as bad has he has been represented? Nicole talks about Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee 7:25 A bad rap may be the best thing that happened to Byron's legacy 9:35 Introducing the Justin Evans interview Interview with Justin Evans, author of The White Devil 10:00 Say "hi" to Justin Evans everyone! 10:25 About The White Devil 11:10 Why Lord Byron? 15:00 Harrow School 16:40 Byron: predator or protector? 18:55 Justin's experience reading Byron 22:00 The growth of Byron's writing 23:20 We retitle Justin's book The Grossest Ghost and Nicole reveals her deep, dark secrets 28:00 What constitutes a classic in Justin's opinion? Our Wrap-up 32:50 We will all now torture Nicole 33:45 Jen says Byron is never the main character and is immediately proved wrong. He really does end up in books with supernatural elements, though 38:15 That is the sound of us tentatively kicking Byron out of the canon 41:40 Contact us! | 10/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.4 - Interview with Louis Bayard, author of The School of Night | Louis Bayard is the author of The School of Night and a number of other mysteries, many of which have their roots in classic literature 0:27 Louis explains The School of Night 1:25 The connection between Shakespeare and the title, and background on the real School of Night 3:10 The villainy of book lovers in The School of Night 5:35 Is there anyone whose manuscript Louis would kill to have? Thoughts on collecting versus reading 10:30 Why reincarnate classic authors and characters? 14:00 The definition of a classic, a la Louis Bayard, in which we all diss some classics (and, you know, Jane Eyre and Frankenstein) 22:00 Everybody Loves Shakespeare (and Poe, and Dickens...why is it so?) - wait, he's actually right that her name is Anne Hathaway. Also, Jen tries to insert a Doctor Who reference 27:45 Wrap-up, contact us! | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.3 - The Catcher in the Rye Classics Rip | 0:40 Brief preview of upcoming WOIN-related books A Man of Parts by David Lodge - September 15, 2011 Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy - September 29, 2011 Louisa and the Country Bachelor by Anna Maclean - October 4, 2011 Little Women and Men by Lauren Baratz-Logsted - November 8, 2011 The Shakespeare Guide to Italy by Richard Paul Roe - November 8, 2011 2:10 We begin our Catcher in the Rye discussion with remembrances and Jen is sarcastic 5:00 Nicole remembers relating to Holden as a high school freshman 5:50 We look at Holden and Catcher in the Rye as adults 10:00 Jen tells a story (does this ever not happen?) 12:00 Is Holden emotionally immature, mentally ill, or just a teenager? 15:30 Jen hates everyone in the book, just because she saw them through Holden's eyes. Nicole is a little more open-minded. 17:55 Why has The Catcher in the Rye become a classic? 21:20 The Catcher in the Rye keeps its place in our canon! 22:40 We go off-topic about The Lord of the Flies - at least it isn't Jane Eyre or Frankenstein this time! 23:30 Final thoughts 25:45 Nicole has one more book preview for us: The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz - November 26:20 Wrap-up 26:50 Quick preview of our next Classics Rip in November 27:25 Bye for real! | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.2 - Interview with William Deresiewicz, author of A Jane Austen Educatio | 0:25 Jen does an awesome job introducing Bill Deresiewicz (by which we mean that she pronounces his name correctly) 1:00 Bill talks about the premise of A Jane Austen Education 3:20 The interbraiding of memoir, literary criticism, and Austen biography 4:45 On Austen’s most accessible works and people’s hesitation about her work 8:30 In which we sound a little anti-social 9:20 Getting down and dirty: the Charlotte Bronte/Jane Austen feud, we just can’t leave JANE EYRE alone! 13:45 The writing process of A Jane Austen Education 16:35 What constitutes a classic? The Bill Deresiewicz edition 20:40 The problems with the canon as it stands, and we go off topic onto Frankenstein and Dickens 25:15 Trying to pull men out of the Jane Austen closet 28:00 Wrapping up | 9/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 2.1 - Madame Bovary | 0:18 Our thoughts on Madame Bovary - you might be surprised! 1:15 Nicole thinks books are too long 3:23 Jen goes on a tangent about Gone With the Wind and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind by Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley 4:23 Classic vs modern books, the proliferation of scenery, and Jen goes on another tangent about Steinbeck and Grapes of Wrath 6:53 Back to what Nicole actually thinks about Madame Bovary 7:52 Madame Bovary as character study 9:25 Our feelings about Emma Bovary 11:05 The absurd naivety of the characters 14:00 In which we keep Madame Bovary in our cannon and we are impressed with Flaubert’s layers 16:00 Jen’s nonfiction books relating to Madame Bovary - Madame Bovary’s Ovaries by David P. Barash and Nanelle Barash and Dirt for Art’s Sake by Elisabeth Ladenson 20:50 Nicole’s fun books relating to Madame Bovary - Gemma Bovary by Posy Simmons Interview with Linda Urbach, author of Madame Bovary’s Daughter 22:10 How Linda came to Madame Bovary and an introduction to Madame Bovary’s Daughter 26:00 What was it like to have a mother like that? 27:45 How people reacted to Madame Bovary in Flaubert’s time and how we react now 31:00 Emma Bovary and Casey Anthony 35:10 Emma Bovary’s suicide as an act of penance 35:30 What constitutes a classic to Linda Urbach 37:00 Wrap-up, and Nicole has one more book - Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 14 - Season 1 Wrap Up | Season 1 Overview 0:30 The main shows Frankenstein, with Joanne Rendell, author of Out of the Shadows Sherlock Holmes, with Graham Moore, author of The Sherlockian Jane Eyre, with Erin Blakemore, author of The Heroine's Bookshelf Little Women, with Kelly O'Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott Fairy Tales, with Carolyn Turgeon, author of Mermaid 1:00 Mini-shows Meg Wolizter, author of The Uncoupling Arthur Phillips, author of The Tragedy of Arthur Nina Sankovitch, author of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair Gabrielle Donnelly, author of The Little Women Letters Kamala Nair, author of The Girl in the Garden 2:30 Our favorites classics revisited 4:10 We really hate Frankenstein, guys 5:50 Our working definition of what constitutes a classic and our personal canon. 9:00 Our Dickensian failure Dear John Charles Our What's Old is New summer reading list 14:15 The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma The Twelfth Enchantment by David Liss - August 8 The White Devil by Justin Evans (we've already read it, but we can't help but mention it) The Canterbury Tales graphic novel Coming up on What's Old is New: 19:30 We're taking a break and revamping 20:40 The Season 2 schedule 24:30 The upcoming classics 26:50 Wrap-up | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whats Old is New Episode 12: Interview with Nina Sankovitch, author of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair | Nina Sankovitch read a book a day for an entire year; her memoir, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair is a record of that year. Nina also operates the site readallday.org. 0:20 Introducing Nina and Tolstoy and the Purple Chair 3:55 Reading the classics on a schedule: 5:10 "These are classics for a reason" 6:25 Nina's definition of a classic (and she lets brand new books in, if they qualify) 9:05 We like when authors give us excuses to get rid of the books we hate from our cannon. 10:35 Nina's favorite classics from her year 13:35 How Nina managed a book a day 17:45 The reading schedule without reading a book a day 19:45 What do you get from reading a book in a day? 22:30 Writing about personal loss 27:25 Wrap-up ______________________ Books and authors mentioned in this episode: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy C.J. Sansom's Matthew Shardlake's Tudor Mysteries Captain Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Twice Told Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorn | 7/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whats Old is New Episode 11: Interview with Kamala Nair, author of The Girl in the Garden | 0:07 Introducing Kamala and The Girl in the Garden 1:50 Kamala’s background with The Secret Garden (in which we make the 8 year old joke again) 2:25 Re-reading The Secret Garden 4:45 Using The Secret Garden as inspiration 7:30 The parallels 8:15 The mother-daughter relationship 10:15 Realizing that our parents are people, and Jen freaks out about her father’s first name 12:45 The North-South divide in India 15:00 What is a classic? (We get into the Frankenstein and Jane Eyre things again, we just can’t leave them alone!) 19:40 Wrap-up | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whats Old is New Episode 11: Interview with Gabrielle Donnelly, author of The Little Women Letters | Gabrielle Donnelly is an author and journalist formerly of London, now living in Los Angeles. The Little Women Letters is her fifth book. 0:10 Introducing Gabrielle and The Little Women Letters 1:20 In the Little Women universe 2:00 Gabrielle’s past with Little Women (in which Jen laughs triumphantly in reference to our Little Women show) 4:00 Leaving out Beth 5:25 Louisa May Alcott hates the Irish 7:00 Striving for selflessness 11:15 Why Little Women? 13:00 Keeping the modernisms out of Jo’s letters 15:30 What would LMA write? 19:00 Gabrielle’s favorite Louisa May Alcott works 22:45 Continuing on with the March family 24:45 Wrap-up | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whats Old is New Episode 10: Interview with C.C. Humphreys of Vlad: The Last Confessions | 0:10 Introducing C.C. Humphreys and Vlad: The Last Confession 4:00 Vlad’s motivations 6:00 Vlad the Impaler and Rudolph Giuliani 11:00 Vlad the Unapologetic 12:55 Religious warfare/culture clash - how little changes 15:55 Bram Stoker and the real Dracula, Count Vampyre 19:00 Addressing the novel 21:35 Aaaand THERE’S the connection, Vlad reborn through Stoker 23:30 C.C.’s upcoming writing 27:00 Vlad endures in Romania 28:30 “Public executions? Fantastic.” 30:30 Wrap up | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 9: Interview with Arthur Phillips, Author of THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR | Author Arthur Phillips recently published his 5th book, The Tragedy of Arthur, which purports the existence of a newly discovered Shakespeare play. He was kind enough to join us to chat about both his book and the Shakespeare connection. Already read the book? Come back tomorrow for our exclusive tumblr-only outtakes of the parts of conversation that we deemed too full of spoilers for the podcast. ---------- 0:20 Arthur's other books (and his Jeopardy career!) 2:20 The Tragedy of Arthur - so meta 3:06 When The Tragedy of Arthur insinuated itself into Arthur's brain 4:45 The Anti-Stratfordians, tell us what you really think, Arthur 12:45 Arthur-as-character's dislike of Shakespeare 15:40 Arthur Phillips validates our existence as a classics podcast that doesn't always like classics and we get off topic talking about Jane Eyre 21:00 Why has Shakespeare endured? Who is right? 26:35 The wrap-up Thanks for joining us! Feel free to comment below, or email us at oldisnewpodcast@gmail.com | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 8: Little Women | Introduction 0:45 Nicole’s Little Women experiences 1:50 Does Little Women hold up, should it be kept in the classics canon? 4:15 The reading experience as children versus as adults 6:55 Jen’s odd 3rd grade complex 7:35 Amy’s book burning 9:45 Jo and Laurie, Laurie and Amy, Jo and the Professor 15:45 Meg 16:30 Beth 18:00 The relationship between the sisters Little Women-related books 19:40 March by Geraldine Brooks 21:45 Bronson Alcott 22:30 March and Little Women and vegetarianism 25:35 Mr. March and Marmee Chat with Kelly O’Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott 30:00 Say ‘hi’ to Kelly, everyone! 31:00 Louisa’s opinion of her audience and her own work 36:50 Jo and the Professor 38:20 Kelly and Louisa 42:10 Kelly’s favorite Little Women characters, Mr. March and Marmee 47:15 Louisa’s choice to leave Mr. March out of Little Women 48:05 Bronson Alcott 56:40 Why is Little Women such an enduring classic? 1:00:00 Wrap up | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 7: Interview with Meg Wolitzer | Author Meg Wolitzer recently published her 8th book, The Uncoupling, which uses the ancient Greek play Lysistrata to explore the vagaries of relationships and female desire. She was kind enough to join us to chat about both her book and the piece of classic literature that informs it. Already read the book? Check out whatsoldisnew.tumblr.com for exclusive tumblr-only outtakes of the parts of conversation that we deemed too full of spoilers for the podcast. 0:30 Meg Wolitzer explains The Uncoupling and Lysistrata 3:00 The reworking of classic literature in modern times. 4:30 The timelessness of art and a quote from The Uncoupling 6:00 The difference in how young and old women react to the 'spell' 11:00 The lack of self-reflection in modern culture 13:15 Why did Meg feel the need to tell this story at this time? 16:15 Love The Uncoupling? Where you should start in Meg's backlist. 17:00 Wrap-up Thanks for joining us! Feel free to comment below, or email us at oldisnewpodcast@gmail.com | 4/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What’s Old is New Episode 6: Spring 2011 Preview | Jen and Nicole have scoured the catalogs for you and found a myriad of books based on or using works of classic literature or their authors. Here’s everything we found for the second quarter of 2011. April - 0:50 5 - The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer The Lysistrata (hardcover) - Riverhead Books, Penguin 19 - The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips meta Shakespeare (hardcover) - Random House 26 - The Great Night by Chris Adrian A Midsummer’s Night Dream (hardcover) - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Macmillan TBA - Jane Austen Stole my Boyfriend Jane Austen (hardcover) - Macmillan Children’s Books, Macmillan May - 8:00 13 - Bedlam: The Further Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte by Laura Joh Rowland Charlotte Bronte (paperback release) - Overlook Trade Paperback, Penguin (mystery) June - 8:40 7- Louisa and the Missing Heiress by Anna Mclean Louisa May Alcott (paperback reissue) - New American Library, Penguin (Mystery) 7 - The Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelly Little Women (hardcover) - Touchstone, Simon 8 Schuster 15 - The Girl in the Garden by Kamala Nair The Secret Garden (hardcover) - Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Mashups - 12:00 April 1 - Cinderella: Ninja Warrior by Maureen McGowan Cinderella (paperback) - Silver Dophin Books April 1 - Sleeping Beauty: Vampire Slayer by Maureen McGowan Sleeping Beauty (paperback) - Silver Dophin Books April 12 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (paperback) - Gallery, Simon 8 Schuster May 17 - Grave Expectations by Charles Dickens and Sherri Browning Erwin Great Expectations (paperback) - Gallery, Simon 8 Schuster Jane Austen Fiction (Sourcebooks) - 14:00 April - What Would Mr. Darcy Do? by Kara Reynolds April - The Trouble with Mr. Darcy by Sharon Lathan April - Wickham’s Diary by Amanda Grange May - Mr. Darcy and the Secret of Becoming a Gentleman by Maria Hamilton May - The Truth About Mr. Darcy by Susan Adriani June - Mr. Darcy Goes Overboard by Belinda Roberts | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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