It’s still a vivid memory, working my first summer job and hiding out, reading Stanley Corngold’s edition of The Metamorphosis, which included a section of notes as long as the story itself. My recent post about Thomas Wolfe elicited a handful of comments like, “I loved to read him when I was young, but as I get older he no longer holds up.” My own versions of Wolfe are people like Hesse and Dostoevsky, but Kafka has remained one of those authors I latched onto in high school who has never lost his power. The Spiritual Significance of Everyday Work (new episode) 49:08.Rachel Carson on the Deep History of the Sea 42:46.Bruce Springsteen / Simon Schama / The Iliad 44:38.Cities Under Siege: The Gauls Sack Rome / Occupied Paris / William Blake's London 48:12.Shakespeare's Library / Ancient Egypt's Temple Libraries / Seamus Heaney Goes to School 48:54.Psalm 23 / Mary, Queen of Scots is Executed / 3 Poems by Mary Oliver 53:16.Seamus Heaney: 10 Essential Poems 01:08:53.Raising a Musical Prodigy / God's Response to Job 56:39.You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone.Īny comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to in a voice message: The translation is by Raymond Scheindlin.ĭon’t forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. Nowhere else is the terror and mystery of human suffering more deeply expressed, and God’s response to it remains a confounding and sublime performance. In the second part, I read one of the most powerful pieces of poetry to come out of the ancient world, God’s response to Job, from the Hebrew Bible. An episode from 9/1/23: In the first part of tonight’s episode, I read from Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, & the Search for Identity, where Solomon talks about musical prodigies and the difficulties they face as children and adults.
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