Ep 13: Against Hope
Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Randall Jarrell’s poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”
– Randall Jarrell’s poem “90 North”
– Poet and critic Jonathan Farmer
– Alain de Botton’s book The Architecture of Happiness
– A. E. Stallings’ translation of Hesiod’s Works and Days
– Bulfinch’s Mythology
– Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths
– Bernard Evslin, Dorothy Evslin, and Ned Hoopes’ book The Greek Gods
– My 2019 conversation with JP Gritton
– Colson Whitehead’s novels The Intuitionist, The Underground Railroad, The Nickel Boys, and Zone One
– Matt Matros’ essay “As the Pandemic Drags on, ‘Zone One’ Warns Us Not to Hope”
– Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz
– The anonymous Anglo-Saxon poem “The Wanderer”
– Louis MacNeice’s poem “The Suicide”
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