Quotomania
375 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings"When I was very young my Mother used to say to me: "We have two ears and one mouth." Unwittingly perhaps she was quoting the Greek philosopher Zeno of Elea. As a quotomaniac by profession, I believe with Michel de Montaigne that "I only quote others to better express myself." “Quotomania” is hosted by Paul Holdengräber.
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QUOTOMANIA 365: Tess Gallagher and Raymond Carver
December 01, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 3.38 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Tess Gallagher and Raymond Carver. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright, Tess Gallagher was born on July 21, 1943 in Port Angeles, Washington. She received a BA and MA from the University of Washington, where she studied creative writing with Theodore Roethke, and a MFA from the University of Iowa. Her first collection of poems, Instructions to the Dou...
QUOTOMANIA 364: Naomi Shihab Nye
November 30, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 3.11 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Naomi Shihab Nye. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Naomi Shihab Nye is an award-winning writer and editor whose work has appeared widely. She edited the ALA Notable international poetry collection, This Same Sky, and The Tree Is Older Than You Are: Poems and Paintings from Mexico, as well as The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East. Her books of poems incl...
QUOTOMANIA 363: Marcel Proust
November 29, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.67 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Marcel Proust. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Marcel Proust was born on July 10, 1871 in the Paris suburb of Auteuil. His father, Dr. Adrien Proust, was one of France's most distinguished scientists. His mother, Jeanne Weil, was a well-educated woman who loved the great classic writers of the 17th century, especially Molière and Racine. Marcel's only sibling, Robert, was born in 1873. T...
QUOTOMANIA 362: Maurice Sendak
November 28, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 2.76 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Maurice Sendak. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) was born on June 10, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland. A largely self-taught artist, Sendak illustrated over one hundred-fifty books during his sixty-year career. The books he wrote as well as illustrated include Kenny’s Window, Very Far Away, The Sign on Rosie’s Door, Nutshell...
QUOTOMANIA 361: C. P. Cavafy
November 27, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 3.19 MBToday’s Quotation is care of C. P. Cavafy. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! C.P. Cavafy is widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. He was born on April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, where his Greek parents had settled in the mid-1850s, and died on the same day in 1933. During his lifetime Cavafy was an obscure poet, living in relative seclusion and publishing little of his work. A s...
QUOTOMANIA 360: Rainer Maria Rilke
November 26, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 2.76 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Rainer Maria Rilke. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! On December 4, 1875, Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague. His parents placed him in military school with the desire that he become an officer—a position Rilke was not inclined to hold. With the help of his uncle, who realized that Rilke was a highly gifted child, Rilke left the military academy and entered a German preparatory school....
QUOTOMANIA 359: James Baldwin and Richard Avedon
November 25, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 3.39 MBToday’s Quotation is care of James Baldwin and Richard Avedon. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! James Baldwin — the grandson of a slave — was born in Harlem in 1924. The oldest of nine children, he grew up in poverty, developing a troubled relationship with his strict, religious stepfather. In 1948, at age 24, Baldwin left for Paris, where he hoped to find enough distance from the American society he grew up in to wr...
QUOTOMANIA 358: W. S. Merwin
November 24, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 3.4 MBToday’s Quotation is care of W. S. Merwin. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Appointed United States Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress in 2010, William Stanley Merwin had a career that spanned seven decades. A poet, translator, gardener and environmental activist, Merwin has become one of the most widely read and honored poets in America. He died at home at the age of 91, in the house he built, among the thous...
QUOTOMANIA 357: Henry James
November 23, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.5 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Henry James. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Henry James, (born April 15, 1843, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 28, 1916, London, Eng.), was a U.S.-British novelist. Born to a distinguished family, the brother of William James, he was privately educated. He traveled frequently to Europe from childhood on; after 1876 he lived primarily in England. His fundamental theme was to be the innoce...
QUOTOMANIA 356: Kay Ryan
November 22, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.77 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Kay Ryan. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Born in California on September 21, 1945, Kay Ryan grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. She received both a bachelor's and master's degree from UCLA. Ryan has published several collections of poetry, including The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press, 2010), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize fo...
QUOTOMANIA 355: Wallace Stevens
November 21, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 2.98 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Wallace Stevens. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate from 1897 to 1900. He planned to travel to Paris and work as a writer, but, after working briefly as a reporter for the New York Herald Times, he decided to study law. Stevens graduated with a degree from New York Law Sc...
QUOTOMANIA 354: Yannis Ritsos
November 20, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.38 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Yannis Ritsos. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990), born in Monemvasia, lost his mother and an older brother to tuberculosis at an early age, then contracted the disease himself and spent years in and out of sanatoriums. His first poems, published in the 1930s, were hailed with enthusiasm by Kostis Palamas. He fought in the Greek Resistance during the Axis occupatio...
QUOTOMANIA 353: Langston Hughes
November 19, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Langston Hughes. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri. Hughes's birth year was revised from 1902 to 1901 after new research from 2018 uncovered that he had been born a year earlier. His parents divorced when he was a young child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, w...
QUOTOMANIA 352: Joan Fuster
November 18, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Joan Fuster. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Joan Fuster (1922-1992) was a highly influential poet, critic and thinker who wrote in both Catalan and Spanish. Born in Sueca, a village near Valencia, he grew up in a middle-class Catholic family and graduated with a law degree from the Universitat de Valencia in 1947. Renowned for his irony, and his concise, incisive style of writing, Fuste...
QUOTOMANIA 351: William Kentridge
November 17, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.1 MBToday’s Quotation is care of William Kentridge. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! William Kentridge uses drawings to create films. In his works, unlike in traditional animation that employs multiple drawings to denote change and movement, Kentridge erases and alters a single, stable drawing while recording the changes with stop-motion camera work. He modifies the drawing slightly, goes to the camera, and begins what h...
QUOTOMANIA 350: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
November 16, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! On March 24, 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York. After spending his early childhood in France, he received his BA from the University of North Carolina, an MA from Columbia University, and a PhD from the Sorbonne. He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, including Poetry as Insurgent Art (New Direc...
QUOTOMANIA 349: Thomas Bernhard
November 15, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.23 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Thomas Bernhard. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Thomas Bernhard, (born Feb. 9/10, 1931, Cloister Heerland, Neth.—died Feb. 12, 1989, Gmunden, Austria), was an Austrian writer who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilization in general and Austrian culture in particular. Bernhard was born in a Holland...
QUOTOMANIA 348: Bessie Smith
November 14, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.42 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Bessie Smith. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Bessie Smith (ca. 1895–1937) was a blues and jazz singer from the Harlem Renaissance who is remembered as the Empress of the Blues. Elizabeth “Bessie” Smith was the youngest child of seven, born to Laura and William Smith in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her father was a Baptist minister and day laborer and her mother a laundress. In 1900, William ...
QUOTOMANIA 347: Seneca
November 13, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Seneca. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! A note from the translator of this week’s Quotomania, James Romm: This quote gives a good sense of why Seneca is so enjoyable to read in Latin or translate. His short clauses fairly crackle with energy; metaphors pop in and out elusively as though playing hide and seek. At times the language is so seductive that one hardly cares what's being said,...
QUOTOMANIA 346: Peter Brook
November 12, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.72 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Peter Brook. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Sir Peter Brook, (born March 21, 1925, London, Eng.—died July 2, 2022, Paris, France), British director and producer. After directing plays in Stratford-upon-Avon, he became director of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden (1947–50). He later directed several innovative Shakespearean productions that aroused controversy, including his 1962 s...
QUOTOMANIA 345: Milan Kundera
November 11, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.7 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Milan Kundera. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Milan Kundera is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves—all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction wor...
QUOTOMANIA 344: Albert Camus
November 10, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.69 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Albert Camus. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Albert Camus, (born Nov. 7, 1913, Mondovi, Alg.—died Jan. 4, 1960, near Sens, France), was an Algerian-French novelist, essayist, and playwright. Born into a working-class family, Camus graduated from the university in Algiers and then worked with a theatrical company, becoming associated with leftist causes. He spent the war years in Paris, ...
QUOTOMANIA 343: Elizabeth Alexander
November 09, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.46 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Elizabeth Alexander. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Elizabeth Alexander is a prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author, renowned poet, educator, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is also president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder in the arts, culture, and humanities. Dr. Alexander’s most recent book, The Trayvon Generation (2022), is a galvanizing medi...
QUOTOMANIA 342: Anne Carson
November 08, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute - 1.7 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Anne Carson. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Anne Carson was born in Toronto, Ontario on June 21, 1950. With the help of a high school Latin instructor, she learned ancient Greek, which contributed to her continuing interest in classical and Hellenic literature. She attended St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto and, despite leaving twice, received her BA in 1974, her MA in ...
QUOTOMANIA 341: Harold Pinter
November 07, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes - 1.96 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Harold Pinter. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Harold Pinter, (born Oct. 10, 1930, London, Eng.—died Dec. 24, 2008, London), British playwright. Born into a working-class family, he acted with touring companies until 1959. His early one-act plays were followed by the full-length The Birthday Party (1958). His next major plays, The Caretaker (1960) and The Homecoming (1965), established h...
QUOTOMANIA 340: Marcus Aurelius
November 06, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes - 2.76 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Marcus Aurelius. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Marcus Aurelius , in full Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustusorig. Marcus Annius Verus, (born April 26, AD 121, Rome—died March 17, 180, Vindobona [Vienna] or Sirmium, Pannonia), was a Roman emperor (161–180). He was born into a wealthy and prominent family. Hadrian arranged that Marcus and Lucius Verus be adopted by the designated f...
QUOTOMANIA 339: Edgar Kunz
November 05, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes - 2.19 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Edgar Kunz. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collections Tap Out (Mariner, 2019), a NYT New & Noteworthy pick, and Fixer, forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins in August 2023. His writing has been supported by fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference...
QUOTOMANIA 338: J. A. Baker
November 04, 2022 15:00 - 3 minutes - 2.84 MBToday’s Quotation is care of J. A. Baker. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! J. A. Baker was a native of Essex, England. He wrote The Peregrine and The Hill of Summer. J. A. Baker was born on August 6, 1926, and died on December 26, 1987. From https://www.nyrb.com/collections/j-a-baker. For more information about J. A. Baker: The Peregrine: https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-peregrine?variant=1094932429 “Werner Herz...
QUOTOMANIA 337: Pablo Neruda
November 03, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.46 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Pablo Neruda. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Born Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in the town of Parral in southern Chile on July 12, 1904, Pablo Neruda led a life charged with poetic and political activity. In 1923, he sold all of his possessions to finance the publication of his first book, Crepusculario (“Twilight”). He published the volume under the pseudonym “Pablo Neruda” t...
QUOTOMANIA 336: Daphne du Maurier
November 02, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.73 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Daphne du Maurier. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989) is one of the best-loved authors of popular fiction of her generation. Her novels established her as a master storyteller, but she also wrote plays, short stories and biographies. Haunting and atmospheric, her work occupies a unique place in 20th century literature, appealing to a broad audience yet worthy o...
QUOTOMANIA 335: Quentin Tarantino
November 01, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.48 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Quentin Tarantino. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Quentin Tarantino, in full Quentin Jerome Tarantino, (born March 27, 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.), is an American director and screenwriter whose films are noted for their stylized violence, razor-sharp dialogue, and fascination with film and pop culture. Tarantino worked in a video store in California before selling two screenplay...
QUOTOMANIA 334: Alfred Hitchcock
October 31, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.48 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Alfred Hitchcock. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Alfred Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, England on August 13, 1899. He was the youngest of three children born to William and Emma Jane Hitchcock. After attending a technical school at 15, Hitchcock spent the first years of his career as a draftsman, advertising designer, and writer. An interest in photography led to him working in Lond...
QUOTOMANIA 333: Sappho
October 30, 2022 15:00 - 3 minutes - 2.92 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Sappho. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Only a handful of details are known about the life of Sappho. She was born around 615 B.C. to an aristocratic family on the Greek island of Lesbos. Evidence suggests that she had several brothers, married a wealthy man named Cercylas, and had a daughter named Cleis. She spent most of her adult life in the city of Mytilene on Lesbos where she ran an...
QUOTOMANIA 332: Madeleine L’Engle
October 29, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.47 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Madeleine L’Engle. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) was the Newbery Medal-winning author of more than 60 books, including the much-loved A Wrinkle in Time. Born in 1918, L'Engle grew up in New York City, Switzerland, South Carolina and Massachusetts. Her father was a reporter and her mother had studied to be a pianist, and their house was always full of music...
QUOTOMANIA 331: Peter Schjeldahl
October 28, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes - 2.65 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Peter Schjeldahl. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Born in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1942, Schjeldahl was a college dropout who fell into journalism with a job at the Jersey Journal in Jersey City at the age of 20. He spent a year in New York, befriending the poet Frank O’Hara, who was part of the New York School of experimental painters and writers. Schjeldahl once planned a biography of ...
QUOTOMANIA 330: Walter Pater
October 27, 2022 15:00 - 3 minutes - 3.13 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Walter Pater. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Walter Pater, in full Walter Horatio Pater, (born August 4, 1839, Shadwell, London, England—died July 30, 1894, Oxford, Oxfordshire), was an English critic, essayist, and humanist whose advocacy of “art for art’s sake” became a cardinal doctrine of the movement known as Aestheticism. Pater was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and at Que...
QUOTOMANIA 329: Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 26, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.5 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! American poet, essayist, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts. After studying at Harvard and teaching for a brief time, Emerson entered the ministry. He was appointed to the Old Second Church in his native city, but soon became an unwilling preacher. Unable in conscience to administer t...
QUOTOMANIA 328: Mary Ruefle
October 25, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes - 2.06 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Mary Ruefle. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Though poet and essayist Mary Ruefle was born outside Pittsburgh, she spent her youth moving around the United States and Europe with her military family. She has published over a dozen books of poetry, including Dunce (2019), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, My Private Property (2016), Indeed I Was Pleased with...
QUOTOMANIA 327: Clarice Lispector
October 24, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Clarice Lispector. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Clarice Lispector, (born December 10, 1920, Chechelnyk, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died December 9, 1977, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was a novelist and short-story writer, and one of Brazil’s most important literary figures, who is considered to be among the greatest women writers of the 20th century. Escaping the Jewish pogroms that were par...
QUOTOMANIA 326: C.P. Cavafy
October 23, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes - 2.19 MBToday’s Quotation is care of C. P. Cavafy. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! C.P. Cavafy is widely considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. He was born on April 29, 1863, in Alexandria, Egypt, where his Greek parents had settled in the mid-1850s, and died on the same day in 1933. During his lifetime Cavafy was an obscure poet, living in relative seclusion and publishing little of his work. A s...
QUOTOMANIA 325: Benjamin Constant
October 22, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.8 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Benjamin Constant. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Benjamin Constant, in full Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, (born Oct. 25, 1767, Lausanne, Switz.—died Dec. 8, 1830, Paris), Franco-Swiss novelist and political writer, the author of Adolphe, a forerunner of the modern psychological novel. The son of a Swiss officer in the Dutch service, whose family was of French origin, he studied ...
QUOTOMANIA 324: Mahmoud Darwish
October 21, 2022 15:00 - 3 minutes - 2.94 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Mahmoud Darwish. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish was born in al-Birwa in Galilee, a village that was occupied and later razed by the Israeli army. Because they had missed the official Israeli census, Darwish and his family were considered “internal refugees” or “present-absent aliens.” Darwish lived for many years in exile in Beirut and Paris. He is the author...
QUOTOMANIA 323: Lydia Davis
October 20, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Lydia Davis. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Lydia Davis is the author of Essays One, a collection of essays on writing, reading, art, memory, and the Bible. She is also the author of The End of the Story: A Novel and many story collections, including Varieties of Disturbance, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award for Fiction; Can’t and Won’t (2014); and The Collected Stories of Ly...
QUOTOMANIA 322: Randall Jarrell
October 19, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes - 2.16 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Randall Jarrell. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Randall Jarrell was born on May 6, 1914 in Nashville. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University. From 1937 to 1939 he taught at Kenyon College, where he met John Crowe Ransom and Robert Lowell, and then at the University of Texas. Jarrell’s first book of poems, Blood for a Stranger (Harcourt, 1942), was publishe...
QUOTOMANIA 321: Patti Smith
October 18, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Patti Smith. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Patti Smith (American, b.1946) is a singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist, known for her role in the punk rock movement of the 1970s. Born in Chicago, and raised in South Jersey, she studied at Glassboro State Teachers College, before moving to New York City in 1967. There, she met and befriended Robert Mapplethorpe, with whom she maintai...
Quotomania 320: Alexander von Humboldt
October 17, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.48 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Alexander von Humboldt. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Alexander, Freiherr von Humboldt, (born Sept. 14, 1769, Berlin, Prussia—died May 6, 1859, Berlin), was a German naturalist and explorer. In 1792 he joined the mining department of the Prussian government, where he invented a safety lamp and established a technical school for miners. From 1799 he explored Central and South America, t...
Quotomania 319: Herakleitos
October 16, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.64 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Herakleitos. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Heraclitus, also spelled Heracleitus or Herakleitos, (born c.540 BCE, Ephesus, Anatolia [now Selçuk, Turkey]—died c. 480) was a Greek philosopher remembered for his cosmology, in which fire forms the basic material principle of an orderly universe. Little is known about his life, and the one book he apparently wrote is lost. His views survive ...
Quotomania 318: Gilles Deleuze
October 15, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.45 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Gilles Deleuze. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Gilles Deleuze, (born January 18, 1925, Paris, France—died November 4, 1995, Paris), was a French writer and antirationalist philosopher. Deleuze began his study of philosophy at the Sorbonne in 1944. Appointed to the faculty there in 1957, he later taught at the University of Lyons and the University of Paris VIII, where he was a popular l...
Quotomania 317: Edna St. Vincent Millay
October 14, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on February 22, 1892. In 1912, Millay entered her poem "Renascence" to The Lyric Year's poetry contest, where she won fourth place and publication in the anthology. This brought her immediate acclaim and a scholarship to Vassar College, where she continued to ...
Quotomania 316: Annie Ernaux
October 13, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes - 1.86 MBToday’s Quotation is care of Annie Ernaux. Listen in! Subscribe to Quotomania on quotomania.com or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app! Annie Ernaux, née Duchesne, was born in 1940 in Lillebonne Normandy. A few years later her parents moved to Yvetot, where they kept a café and grocery shop in a working-class district of the town. She studied at a private Catholic secondary school in Yvetot, encountering girls from more middle-class backgrounds, and experiencing shame of her ...