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Previously Maevyn’s Bookshelf, Now Maevyn's Athenaeum. An Athenaeum is an institution for the promotion of literary or scientific learning. A Library or Reading Room. A Sanctuary of Athena at Athens, built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, and frequented by poets and scholars. Making a come back from disappearing in 2019 to bring you more crazy adventures, fun stories and hopefully some knowledge. Welcome to my Athenaeum, where you'll find Magic hidden in plain sight.
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Mai Wang is an assistant professor of literature at UT Dallas, where she teaches Asian American and Chinese diasporic literature. Her first book project, The Asian American Renaissance, examines the imaginative alliances formed between diasporic Asian American authors and their nineteenth-century American predecessors. In this conversation: How Asi…
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Michael Thomas is curator of The Legacy of Vesuvius: Bourbon Discoveries on the Bay of Naples at the Meadows Museum, Dallas, as well as From Texas to the World: Common Ground at UT Dallas and the Dallas Museum of Art. In this conversation: What the Bourbons discovered in 18th-century excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum; the effect of the Grand T…
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Gerytades: An Aristophanes Play... sort of, by poet and translator A.M. Juster, is out now from Contubernales Publishing. In this conversation: How Gerytades was lost and found; what makes for great comedy; timeliness and timelessness in human nature; how to approach a play that survives in fragments; the fate of light verse; literature, humor, and…
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"Dragon Eye," Thomas Riccio's immersive video installation documenting the culture of the Miao people of China, was recently on view at the SP/N Gallery at UT Dallas. In this conversation: The process of visiting and doing research with the Miao people in remote mountain villages; cultural preservation in the face of modernity; "Form Fatigue"; an e…
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Thomas Locke Hobbs is a photographer whose books include L.A. Vedute, which was shortlisted for Aperture Photobook of the Year, and Rampitas. In this conversation: Cities in the U.S., Peru and Colombia; domestic architecture, density and class division; negative space in the built environment; Eugène Atget and photo history; season, climate, and mo…
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Franklin Einspruch is the editor of Aphorisms for Artists: 100 Ways Toward Better Art, by Walter Darby Bannard, and the proprietor of Dissident Muse Journal. In this conversation: Why the aphorism?; the significance of abstract art and of Clement Greenberg; the place of commitment in art; how to teach art; the relationship between creativity, intui…
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Erika Doss is the author of Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion (University of Chicago Press). In this conversation: why art historians have often neglected the intersection of art and faith in modernism; the fluidity of religion in modernity; modern artists vs. religious artists; comparing Christian Science, Bahá’í, …
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Thomas Pfau, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English and professor of German at Duke University, with a secondary appointment on the Duke Divinity School faculty, is the author of Incomprehensible Certainty: Metaphysics and Hermeneutics of the Image (Notre Dame, 2022). The journal Modern Theology recently devoted a forum to this book, with contribu…
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Gary Saul Morson is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. He is the author of Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter (Harvard University Press). In this episode: How Russian literature differs fr…
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Maryann Corbett's translations of three ballades by Christine de Pizan appear in the Winter 2024 issue of Athenaeum Review. In this conversation: The poet's life and times amidst the Hundred Years' War, the Western Schism and the execution of Joan of Arc; the literary debate on the rights of women; the poet's representation of courtly love; the bal…
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Brian Allen, a senior fellow at National Review Institute and National Review’s art critic, is an art historian living in Arlington, Vermont and a frequent contributor to Athenaeum Review. In this conversation: the transition from museum director to full-time art critic; the state of art criticism and the value of diverse points of view; how to cul…
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Bill Kristol is director of ⁠Defending Democracy Together⁠, editor at large of ⁠The Bulwark⁠, and the host of ⁠Conversations with Bill Kristol⁠. In this conversation: moving from academia to Washington, D.C.; changing perspectives over the course of a career in politics; the successes and failures of American conservatism; the most insightful polit…
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Micah Mattix is Professor of English at Regent University and the editor of the Prufrock newsletter on Substack. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Review, and The New Criterion, and was appointed poetry editor at First Things in 2021. In this conversation: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, ten years of Prufrock; the state…
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"A Brief History of Emergence," by Frederick Turner, Robert Stern, and Roger F. Malina, appears in the Winter 2024 issue of Athenaeum Review. In this podcast: Why is emergence important in complex systems? How is emergence important for physics, for geophysics and for the arts? What is an emergent university? How is emergent research conducted? Dis…
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Jason Andrew is the founding partner at Artist Estate Studio, LLC, the entity that manages the estates of Jack Tworkov and Elizabeth Murray among others. Over the past 20 years, he has organized historic exhibitions and published extensively on the life and work of Jack Tworkov. He lives and works in Brooklyn. Midori Yamamura, Ph.D., is the Alcaly/…
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Daniel Asia has been an eclectic and unique composer from the start. He has enjoyed the usual grants from Meet the Composer, a UK Fulbright award, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacDowell and Tanglewood fellowships, ASCAP and BMI prizes, Copland Fund grants, and numerous others. He was recently honored with a Music Academy Award from the American Academy o…
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Zohar Atkins is is the Founder of Etz Hasadeh, a Center for Existential Torah. He is a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. He holds a DPhil in Theology from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and semikha from the Jewish Theological Seminary, where he was a Wexner Graduate Fellow. He received both an MA and BA from Brown Uni…
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Peter Chametzky is Professor of Art History, and has been on the SVAD faculty since 2012. His research focuses on 20th and 21st century German art and culture. From 1998 to 2012 he taught at Southern Illinois University, first as Associate Professor and then as Professor, and served as Director of the School of Art and Design on the Carbondale camp…
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Andrew Amstutz studies modern South Asian history in global contexts. His work explores the intertwined histories of science, technology, and Muslim politics in South Asia as well as museums and public history debates. He currently is a member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. At UA Little Rock, he teaches courses on Asian history, …
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Happy Holidays from Maevyn's Athenaeum ! So many cultures celebrate a form of Christmas & many have folklore that exists before modern day Christianity. I collected four stories from various cultures to read to you as a holiday gift. When I was younger my sister and I would wake up energized and excited for the Christmas morning that was to come. W…
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Novembers book was Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. This book was recommended by Hina Rose a very close friend of mine. Triggers in this book include: Betrayal, Death, Discrimination, Murder, Violence and War There are Fake Royalty Tropes and A Love Triangle Trope. This is a lengthy episode, but i promise it is worth it! My special Guest AJ put it ve…
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This episode I tell Robert all about The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix This book has a lot of triggers in it especially Rape, Gore, Racism & Misogyny. These topics may be upsetting to some, but we only talk about them briefly. I wanted to read a vampire book for Halloween & you guys picked a great read, though it w…
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I Don't Give a F*ck This month I fly solo to bring you The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck by Sarah Knight. I have been reading this book for a long time, and it was well worth the read, I just wish I had done it sooner! In this episode I go over the lessons I learned from this book, how I've applied it in my life and I demonstrate how it …
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Book Bash! This month I swapped books with Robert, good friend & Patron, He read The Fire Within by Chris D'Lacey & I was supposed to read Overlord... We'll get into that... We also get our first real Book Bash on the podcast! Where I truly share my feelings on some really bad books. Yes I did revisit the Birthmarked Trilogy. If you want to recomme…
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A Thousand Ships Book Review Featuring Trena Tackitt as Guest Host, & the first ever video with no watermark! Yay us! Trigger Warnings for this book & episode: War, Sexual Assault, Rape, Kidnapping, Slavery, Brutality towards slaves and Death, of Men, Women, Children elderly and Animals. It is always ok to not read or finish a book for any reason, …
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Hi everyone, I've switched gears a little bit, I hope you enjoy the hour long Come Back Special I worked really hard on with my friend and patron Trena Tackitt. Thank you so much for watching the first episode of Maevyn's Athenaeum. I want to share all my reading adventures with you all so please reach out and say hi to me! It absolutely makes my d…
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In deze aflevering interviewt Marieke van Ekeren illustrator Loes Faber over haar debuut graphic novel 'Ik ben mijn muze'. Daarin verweeft Faber de levens van acht vrouwelijke kunstenaars en hun werk. Claude Cahun, Frida Kahlo en Charley Toorop hebben een hoofdstuk gekregen. Het gesprek gaat de keuze voor deze kunstenaars en het maakproces. Ook gaa…
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In deze aflevering interviewt boekverkoper Romy Day Winkel dichter Nisrine Mbarki en draagt Maxime Garcia Diaz een gedicht voor. Ongepland werd dit een uitzending vol met genomineerden voor de C. Buddingh'-prijs en zelfs de winnaar! Maar eigenlijk gaat deze aflevering over nieuwe poëzie, over meertalig schrijven, over relaties, feminisme, en moeder…
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In deze aflevering van de Athenaeum Podcast blikt collega Daan Stoffelsen terug op de Boekenweek in een gesprek met Auke Hulst, wiens boek 'De Mitsukoshi Troostbaby Company' op de shortlist voor de Libris Literatuurprijs stond. Auke Hulst was tijdens de Boekenweek te gast in het Martyrium en we besloten het gesprek nadien ook op te nemen. Dat resul…
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In deze aflevering blikken wij terug op de Boekenweek 2022 met een gesprek tussen Jetske Brouwer en Eva Meijer. Jetske Brouwer is programmeur bij Spui25 en zij interviewde schrijver en filosoof Eva Meijer live in de winkel ter gelegenheid van de Boekenweek. Het gesprek gaat over het recent verschenen boek van Eva Meijer getiteld 'Zee Nu'.…
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In deze aflevering blikt boekverkoper Lolita Storm vooruit op de Boekenweek en bijbehorend thema 'de eerste liefde'. Zij gaat in gesprek met Joost Oomen, wiens boek 'Visjes' net is uitgekomen bij uitgeverij Querido; met Johan Kuiper van het CPNB en Mulisch Huis; en met schrijver Rinske Hillen over haar boek 'Mannenmaal'. In gesprek delen zij hun me…
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De Athenaeum Podcast wordt gemaakt door de boekhandelaren van Athenaeum Boekhandel op het Spui in Amsterdam: elke maand gaan we in gesprek met schrijvers, dichters, essayisten én met elkaar. Deze aflevering bestaat uit drie onderdelen rondom het thema rouw. Allereerst een voordracht uit het nieuwe foto- en poëzieboek 'Broos' van Roos Klijn. Daarop …
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De Athenaeum Podcast is een podcast gemaakt door de boekhandelaren van Athenaeum boekhandel op het Spui in Amsterdam. Vanaf nu presenteren wij elke maand een nieuwe aflevering waarin wij in gesprek gaan met schrijvers, dichters, essayisten én met elkaar. Deze aflevering bestaat uit drie onderdelen. In het eerste deel gaan boekverkopers Romy Day Win…
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Turner’s Modern World at the Kimbell Art Museum: https://kimbellart.org/exhibition/turners-modern-world Turner’s Modern World catalog: https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847869343/ What made Turner modern? (1:00) — Stylistic transition in the 1830s; “painting with tinted steam”; The Burning of the Houses of Parliament (4:30) — The sublime and the …
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More about Czesław Miłosz: A California Life https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/czeslaw-milosz-a-california-life/ https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/tag/czeslaw-milosz/ How the book originated (0:45) — The vatic tradition in Polish poetry (4:30) — Warsaw 1945 and “Dedication” (6:45) — Introducing Polish literature to California students (11:00) — Imme…
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Onlangs sprak collega Helen Westerik dierethicus Willem Vermaat over zijn boek 'Waarom we geen hondenmelk drinken. De carnistische keuze'. Een gesprek over de ideologische tegenhanger van veganisme: het carnisme (ook vlees eten is een ideologische keuze) en het bevragen van de norm. Bestel het boek hier: https://www.athenaeum.nl/boek/?authortitle=w…
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Engaging skeptical audiences in a polarized age (1:30) — Two cheers for the Enlightenment, and the Stephen King-Lovecraftian vibes of New England (7:30) — Self-experimentation, and moderate deference to scientific consensus (12:15) — Giving science the right amount of authority (17:00) — When, and when not, to write from personal experience (19:30)…
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Onlangs sprak collega Ghizlan El Hachimi schrijver Richard Powers over zijn roman 'Verwilderd', die op de shortlist van de Booker Prize 2021 stond. Bestel het boek hier: https://www.athenaeum.nl/boek/?authortitle=richard-powers/verwilderd--9789025471392Over 'Verwilderd':‘Verwilderd’ van Richard Powers gaat over astrobioloog Theo Byrne die een veelb…
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