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QUOTOMANIA 365: Tess Gallagher and Raymond Carver
Quotomania - December 01, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 receive...
QUOTOMANIA 364: Naomi Shihab Nye
Quotomania - November 30, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 colle...
QUOTOMANIA 363: Marcel Proust
Quotomania - November 29, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 s...
QUOTOMANIA 362: Maurice Sendak
Quotomania - November 28, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 ar...
QUOTOMANIA 361: C. P. Cavafy
Quotomania - November 27, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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, whe...
QUOTOMANIA 360: Rainer Maria Rilke
Quotomania - November 26, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 of...
QUOTOMANIA 359: James Baldwin and Richard Avedon
Quotomania - November 25, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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, de...
QUOTOMANIA 358: W. S. Merwin
Quotomania - November 24, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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...
QUOTOMANIA 357: Henry James
Quotomania - November 23, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 f...
QUOTOMANIA 356: Kay Ryan
Quotomania - November 22, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 b...
QUOTOMANIA 355: Wallace Stevens
Quotomania - November 21, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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. H...
QUOTOMANIA 354: Yannis Ritsos
Quotomania - November 20, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 diseas...
QUOTOMANIA 353: Langston Hughes
Quotomania - November 19, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 rese...
QUOTOMANIA 352: Joan Fuster
Quotomania - November 18, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 Va...
QUOTOMANIA 351: William Kentridge
Quotomania - November 17, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 cha...
QUOTOMANIA 350: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Quotomania - November 16, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 B...
QUOTOMANIA 349: Thomas Bernhard
Quotomania - November 15, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 d...
QUOTOMANIA 348: Bessie Smith
Quotomania - November 14, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 “B...
QUOTOMANIA 347: Seneca
Quotomania - November 13, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 tra...
QUOTOMANIA 346: Peter Brook
Quotomania - November 12, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 St...
QUOTOMANIA 345: Milan Kundera
Quotomania - November 11, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 Ligh...
QUOTOMANIA 344: Albert Camus
Quotomania - November 10, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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...
QUOTOMANIA 343: Elizabeth Alexander
Quotomania - November 09, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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. S...
QUOTOMANIA 342: Anne Carson
Quotomania - November 08, 2022 16:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 cont...
QUOTOMANIA 341: Harold Pinter
Quotomania - November 07, 2022 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 wi...
QUOTOMANIA 340: Marcus Aurelius
Quotomania - November 06, 2022 16:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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...
QUOTOMANIA 339: Edgar Kunz
Quotomania - November 05, 2022 15:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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/HarperCo...
QUOTOMANIA 338: J. A. Baker
Quotomania - November 04, 2022 15:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 De...
QUOTOMANIA 337: Pablo Neruda
Quotomania - November 03, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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 poeti...
QUOTOMANIA 336: Daphne du Maurier
Quotomania - November 02, 2022 15:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’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...
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