Key West Literary Seminar
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Podcast Description
The Key West Literary Seminar has been drawing lovers of literature to our small island in the subtropics for more than a quarter of a century. Our podcast series presents the best of KWLS recorded history- readings, panel discussions, and lectures by some of the world's most influential writers- for use by educators, students, and readers worldwide. New recordings are released each month.
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James Merrill: a reading for Elizabeth Bishop | This 1993 reading in tribute to Elizabeth Bishop reveals James Merrill’s significant gifts as a reader and interpreter of Bishop’s work, and suggests the depths of the influence he felt from the poet who “set standards for me as no other contemporar | 4/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Douglas Coupland & William Gibson | Douglas Coupland and William Gibson discuss technology, culture, and the craft of writing. Communications technologies are a "global memory prosthesis," says Gibson, and aspire to an experience in which distinctions between the "virtual" and the "real” | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Other Worlds? (Isn’t the “Real” One Enough?) | Acclaimed science and technology writer James Gleick leads Year of the Flood author Margaret Atwood, British novelist China Miéville, and American writer Joyce Carol Oates in a discussion of the tensions between the real and the unreal inherent in writin | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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China Miéville: Manifestos, Movements, & Moments | British novelist China Miéville is a 3-time winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, given to the best science-fiction novel published in the U.K. Here he explores genre, 'the elephant in the room,' argues for its embrace as a useful taxonomy, and urges wri | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jonathan Lethem: The True and the Real | Jonathan Lethem’s novels include Motherless Brooklyn and Chronic City and he is an authority on the works of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick. At the 2012 seminar, he presented ‘The True and the Real,’ a ‘plate-spinning act’ exploring such disparate | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joyce Carol Oates: Close Encounters with the Other | Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 50 novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. In this recording from the 2012 seminar, Oates reads "San Quentin," a short story based on her experience teaching English at San Que | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Colson Whitehead: Departing the Zone | Colson Whitehead is the acclaimed author of five books, including Zone One, a wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel in which zombies wander Manhattan. In this humorous talk from the 2012 seminar, Whitehead recalls early influences including Stephe | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Julia Reed: Drinking & Other Southern Pursuits | Julia Reed is a contributing editor at Newsweek and a native of Greenville, Mississippi. In this rollicking talk from the 2011 Seminar, Reed discusses facets of Southern life including disproportionate rates of murder and churchgoing; Mississippi’s repe | 7/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adam Gopnik: Rituals of Taste | Adam Gopnik is an award-winning American journalist best-known for his work at The New Yorker. The former art critic of the magazine, Gopnik's work encompasses an incredibly broad range of cultural topics and figures. In recent years he has often written | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nicole Mones: Chinese culture through Food | Nicole Mones is an acclaimed novelist whose works draw from her experiences in China, where she began a successful textile trading business in 1977. Her books, including A Cup of Light, Lost in Translation, and The Last Chinese Chef, frequently explore Ch | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
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- Category: Literature
- Language: English
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