Burning Books

Moods by Yoel Hoffmann

Start a story that never began and won’t end, spreading like chill to everything made of words, the kind of release that comes from depriving your most often used senses and engaging the ones you neglected. * Download the mp3 file [https://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_056.mp3] * Subscribe in iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/burning-books/id711530960] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/ [http://litopia.com/shows/burn/]

Khirbet Khizeh by S Yizhar

A soldier reflects on a just-finished mission to systematically round up and expel those left behind in the small village of Khirbet Khizeh. * Download the mp3 file [https://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_055.mp3] * Subscribe in iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/burning-books/id711530960] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/ [http://litopia.com/shows/burn/]

I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Zachary Lazar

From King David (aka Kid Bethlehem) to Meyer Lansky via Bugsy Siegel, and the many pulled in their wake, a novel that charges from Las Vegas to Jerusalem, capitals of imaginary kingdoms. * Download the mp3 file [https://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_054.mp3] * Subscribe in iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/burning-books/id711530960] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/ [http://litopia.com/shows/burn/]

Interview with Todd Hasak-Lowy

Interview with Todd Hasak-Lowy – author and translator of novels from Hebrew to English, including Dror Burstein’s Netanya – with digressions into Orly Castel-Bloom, Yaakov Shabtai, different kinds of literary culture and the novels they produce. * Download the mp3 file [http://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_053.mp3] * Subscribe in iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/burning-books/id711530960] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/ [http://litopia.com/shows/burn/]

A Star Called Henry – Roddy Doyle

Part One of the Doyle’s The Last Roundup charts the raising, rising and falling of Henry Smart, scamp of Dublin, caught up in the machine of so-called national so-called liberation. * Download the mp3 file [http://www.radiolitopia.com/enclosures/bb/bb_048.mp3] * Subscribe in iTunes [https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/burning-books/id711530960] >>> From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it. http://litopia.com/shows/burn/ [http://litopia.com/shows/burn/]