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pleasures of the podcast*
Mar. 27th, 2009 11:59 amOver at the Lannan foundation podcast, there is a recording of Samuel Delaney interviewing Junot Diaz.
What more could you want? Seriously.
There's an introduction by Delaney, then some readings by Diaz from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and then a discussion.
The pleasure of this reading and conversation is immense. During the discussion, Diaz speaks about the interfeed of science fictional concepts with "the recent and the deep history of the Caribbean," -- both colonial foundations and post-colonial dissonance. "The Caribbean figures deeply in what we would call the power chords of science fiction." Love that.
Interplay about genre, form, reading, everything.
I got the podcast through iTunes, but it can also be got at: The Lannan Podcast. The specific program (from January) is here.
My one concern is that Delaney sounds like he is having some trouble breathing, and it worries me.
* * * * * *
I found the talk yesterday when I was looking for more Michael Silverblatt interviews. My Bookworm podcast hadn't updated yet, and I was feeling bereft.
He's got several interviews on the Lannan site. I also listened to an interview Silverblatt gave on the Marketplace of Ideas podcast. This was less satisfying, though I think it might have been the source for my Lannan Lead.
I am very fond of the great badger, and many of the things he said gave me delight, but he made a mistake.
He made a couple of mistakes, actually. The central error, though, was in saying, roughly, "Why shouldn't I be arrogant, if my abilities are superior?"
And the answer, also very roughly, is "Because in this same conversation, you have incorrectly defined 'anodyne' as though it had the same meaning as 'placebo', which it has not, and earlier you made another similar mistake."
That is, o great silver badger whom I love, even terribly terribly clever people get things wrong, and it's better if you leave yourself some leeway. A little false modesty serves very well when you find yourself in unexpected need of real modesty.
My wisdom. Hard-earned.
{rf}
*O Barthes that you were with us now
What more could you want? Seriously.
There's an introduction by Delaney, then some readings by Diaz from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and then a discussion.
The pleasure of this reading and conversation is immense. During the discussion, Diaz speaks about the interfeed of science fictional concepts with "the recent and the deep history of the Caribbean," -- both colonial foundations and post-colonial dissonance. "The Caribbean figures deeply in what we would call the power chords of science fiction." Love that.
Interplay about genre, form, reading, everything.
I got the podcast through iTunes, but it can also be got at: The Lannan Podcast. The specific program (from January) is here.
My one concern is that Delaney sounds like he is having some trouble breathing, and it worries me.
* * * * * *
I found the talk yesterday when I was looking for more Michael Silverblatt interviews. My Bookworm podcast hadn't updated yet, and I was feeling bereft.
He's got several interviews on the Lannan site. I also listened to an interview Silverblatt gave on the Marketplace of Ideas podcast. This was less satisfying, though I think it might have been the source for my Lannan Lead.
I am very fond of the great badger, and many of the things he said gave me delight, but he made a mistake.
He made a couple of mistakes, actually. The central error, though, was in saying, roughly, "Why shouldn't I be arrogant, if my abilities are superior?"
And the answer, also very roughly, is "Because in this same conversation, you have incorrectly defined 'anodyne' as though it had the same meaning as 'placebo', which it has not, and earlier you made another similar mistake."
That is, o great silver badger whom I love, even terribly terribly clever people get things wrong, and it's better if you leave yourself some leeway. A little false modesty serves very well when you find yourself in unexpected need of real modesty.
My wisdom. Hard-earned.
{rf}
*O Barthes that you were with us now
