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Selected Prose
by Selected ProseStory readings and interviews with writers.
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34. Nada Alic
57m · PublishedReading Series | I Was Promised A Hot Dog by Patrick Doerksen
10m · Published33. Brandon Gauthier
1h 12m · PublishedOur next guest is professor Brandon Gauthier. Brandon completed his doctorate in Modern History at Fordham University in 2016. He is the Director of Global Education at The Derryfield School and an Adjunct Professor of History for Fordham University. His first book, BEFORE EVIL: Young Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Kim came out in April of 2022, from Tortoise Books. Here is a brief summary of this compelling examination of the lives of the 20th century's worst dictators:
"Historian Brandon K. Gauthier has created a fascinating work—epic yet intimate, well-researched but immensely readable, clear-eyed and empathetic—looking at the lives of these six dictators, with a focus on their youths. We watch Lenin’s older brother executed at the hands of the Tsar’s police—an event that helped radicalize this overachieving high-schooler. We observe Stalin grappling with the death of his young, beautiful wife. We see Hitler’s mother mourning the loss of three young children—and determined that her first son to survive infancy would find his place in the world.
The purpose isn’t to excuse or simply explain these horrible men, but rather to treat them with the empathy they themselves too often lacked. We may prefer to hold such lives at arm’s length so as to demonize them at will, but this book reminds us that these monstrous rulers were also human beings—and perhaps more relatable than we’d like."
*Content Warning* - We discuss online radicalism, mass murder, and specifically the horrendous and evil mass shooting carried out by a fanatical white supremacist that occurred in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, 2022.
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32. Bud Smith
52m · PublishedReading Series | The Good Morrow by Ryan Napier
12m · PublishedRyan Napier is the author of Four Stories about the Human Face (Bull City Press). He lives in Massachusetts. More at ryannapier.net and @ryanlnapier on Twitter.
Reading Series | The Good Morrow by Ryan Napier
12m · PublishedRyan Napier is the author of Four Stories about the Human Face (Bull City Press). He lives in Massachusetts. More at ryannapier.net and @ryanlnapier on Twitter.
Reading Series | The Sequel by Sam Price
2m · Published31. Marlowe Granados
1h 6m · PublishedToday's guest is Marlowe Granados!
Marlowe is a writer living in Toronto. Happy Hour is her debut novel.
Marlowe is also a filmmaker and hosts a podcast called The Mean Reds, a show highlighting women-led films. She has an advice column in The Baffler titled "Designs for Living." And as if all this wasn't impressive enough, Marlowe also works in fashion.
**Thank you to Klankbeeld for the lovely sounds and SighPilot for the music
Reading Series | Survival Skills by Brittney Uecker
4m · PublishedBrittney Uecker is a librarian, writer, and Scorpio living in rural Montana. Her work has been featured in HAD, Taco Bell Quarterly, Kalopsia, and others. She is a Best of the Net nominee for fiction and tweets (@bonesandbeer).
This story originally appeared in Dark Entries Journal in October of 2021.
Reading Series | Survival Skills by Brittney Uecker
4m · PublishedBrittney Uecker is a librarian, writer, and Scorpio living in rural Montana. Her work has been featured in HAD, Taco Bell Quarterly, Kalopsia, and others. She is a Best of the Net nominee for fiction and tweets (@bonesandbeer).
This story originally appeared in Dark Entries Journal in October of 2021.
Selected Prose has 60 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 43:24:36. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 12th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 1st, 2024 01:17.