Vertigo in Verse

Vertigo in Verse

Sunil Iyengar has a mission: to get us reading more narrative verse. Join me as I talk to him about the new anthology he's edited, The Colosseum Book of Contemporary Narrative Verse [https://www.cuapress.org/9798893721195/the-colosseum-book-of-contemporary-narrative-verse/], and how one of the poems in the collection, Rachel Wetzsteon's "Madeline for a While," complements Hitchcock's Vertigo. It's a great conversation about the intersection of poetry and film. Rachel Wetzsteon, “Madeleine for a While” from Sakura Park. Copyright © 2006 by Rachel Wetzsteon.  Reprinted with the permission of Persea Books, Inc (New York), www.perseabooks.com [http://www.perseabooks.com].  All rights reserved. Get full access to Pages and Frames at pagesandframes.substack.com/subscribe [https://pagesandframes.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Adam Reiner's Restaurant Rules

When Willy Loman’s neighbor, Charlie, complains that he has heartburn, Willy tells him, “It’s because you don’t know how to eat.” Adam Reiner, author of The New Rules of Dining Out: An Insider’s Guide to Enjoying Restaurants [https://lsupress.org/9780807185599/the-new-rules-of-dining-out/#:~:text=The%20New%20Rules%20of%20Dining%20Out%20invites%20food%20lovers%20to,York%20Magazine%2C%20among%20other%20publications.] (LSU Press) would argue that we don’t know how to dine and that the more we understand how restaurants work, the better experiences we will have when we visit them. We talk about the brigade system, interactions between guests and staff, and two great restaurant-themed films: The Menu and Boiling Point. Bon appetit! You can also watch the video version on PagesandFrames.com. Please consider subscribing and leaving a review. Pages and Frames is reader-supported. To never miss a post or episode, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Pages and Frames at pagesandframes.substack.com/subscribe [https://pagesandframes.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Tom Lutz on 1925

If you ever see Tom Lutz on Jeopardy! and the Final Jeopardy category is, “The Year 1925,” call Vegas and put your life savings, house, and 401(k) on his winning the game. His new book, 1925: A Literary Encyclopedia [https://a.co/d/1NQGN1u] (Rare Bird Books), is an exhaustive collection of entries on the cultural, scientific, and historical scenes; across 800 pages, entries range from “Wilbur Cortez Abbott’s The New Barbarians” to “Zeitgeist.” The philological coincidence that makes that word the last entry is perfect for the book, which captures the spirit of its time in a manner that is accessible, erudite, and addicting. As a novelist, historian, professor, critic, and founder of the Los Angeles Review of Books [https://lareviewofbooks.org/], Tom has lived among books his entire life, but he is far from bookish: like his writing, he’s energetic, often funny, and engaging. Listen to us talk about Hemingway, Mencken, and the now-forgotten Joseph Hergesheimer. Get full access to Pages and Frames at pagesandframes.substack.com/subscribe [https://pagesandframes.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

The Ghost and Mr. Mankiewicz

Join me for a conversation with Nick Davis, author of Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz -- A Dual Portrait, about his grandfather Herman, great-uncle Joe, and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Get full access to Pages and Frames at pagesandframes.substack.com/subscribe [https://pagesandframes.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Eric G. Wilson on Coleridge and Hitchcock

In this episode, I talk to Eric G. Wilson, author and professor of British Romanticism at Wake Forest University, about this fruitful pairing of a writer and filmmaker.  When I first asked him what he wanted to discuss, he replied, “Coleridge and Hitchcock” almost instantly.   Both of these artists were, in Eric’s words, “obsessed with obsession” and the work of each one illuminates the other’s. “Coleridge is like a proto-Freudian or proto-Hitchcock,” Eric says.  “His work has the doubling and obsessions that show up all the time in the twentieth century.  He’s the perfect writer to shed light on Hitchcock as a filmmaker.”  Get full access to Pages and Frames at pagesandframes.substack.com/subscribe [https://pagesandframes.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]