Empty globe rings with shimmering harmonics.

Hollow World

The second novel by by literary wunderkind, Helen DeWitt, Lightning Rods is probably the most challenging book we’ve yet featured on Backlisted. Usually described as a satire on American capitalism, it is the diasarmingly upbeat and funny tale of Joe, a struggling salesman, who develops a new office product that he believes serves an urgent need in modern corporate life. Quite what that product is and how it works requires a delicacy in description and a warning for listeners: this is not one for family listening. We are joined by returning guests, novelist and playwright Marie Philips and writer and performer, Ben Moor. The episode also features Andy rediscovering a lost folk horror classic from the 1970s - The Autumn People (also known as The Autumn Ghosts) by Ruth M. Arthur while John is blown away by the force of Sarah Churchwell’s incandescent and incisive account of an American classic: The Wrath to Come:  Gone With the Wind and the Lies America Tells.

Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)
13:21 - The Autumn Ghosts by Ruth M. Arthur. 
18:34 - The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell. 
24:42 - Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt.

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Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt

This Hallowe’en episode of Backlisted focusses on the collection of ‘uncanny’ stories by Henry James, first gathered together under the title The Altar of the Dead and Other Tales to form the seventeenth volume of the New York Edition of his Collected Works in 1917. We are joined, as ever, by our resident spook-master Andrew Male, and by acclaimed novelist and Henry James aficionado Tessa Hadley. We each choose a story to present and read from - these are tackled in chronological order to better trace the evolution of James’s famously dense and challenging late style . Before that Andy confesses his admiration for I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymours’ new biography of Jean Rhys and reads a short Jean Rhys ghost story, while John revisits Giving Up the Ghost, Hilary Mantel’s haunting (and haunted) memoir.

Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)
5:49 - I Used to Live Here Once by Miranda Seymour
12:19 - Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel
19:38 - The Altar of the Dead and Other Tales by Henry James

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The Altar of the Dead and Other Tales by Henry James

[disquiet0575] Thin

Pariah Rebel - #282

Video for track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKLDxIXsAXU&t=133s
far distance beckons
– hazy blue peaks loom over
calm sea horizons

Raymond Cobley is an experimental composer and regular participant in our Haiku challenge. Now retired, Raymond aims to explore the possibilities afforded by open-source software, which he uses exclusively for creating and editing both sounds & images. All his works are published ​under a Creative Commons licence, and free for anybody to download or remix.

Hazy blue -(naviarhaiku477)Video for this track- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKLDxIXsAXU&t=133s

Unofficial PLK rmx inspired by the 289 TPC challenge 

ElDeez4 Lyfe

PEACE

ALABAZ 289 TPC Non Entry Rmx

Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Carlos Vivanco & Jason Mowry
Final mix by Jason Mowry
@asleepwithheadphones
@lazydadamusic

Perpetual Motion

Perpetual Motion By Jason Mowry & Carlos Vivanco

Used samples:

Title: FACTORY 1.wav
Author: indieground
Link: freesound.org/people/indieground/sounds/588360/

Title: White noise clip_original.m4a
Author: summersew
Link: freesound.org/people/summersew/sounds/645469/

Title: marac4.wav
Author: altemark
Link: freesound.org/people/altemark/sounds/184541/

Tears of joy

summer sky…
rippling the silence
a watersnake

a haiku by
Janice Doppler.   https://poets.drifting-sands-haibun.org/first-name-starts-with-j/janice-doppler/
For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

The Watersnake's Song.

The Watersnake's Song (NaviarHaiku507)

In a special edition recorded earlier this year live at the Durham Book Festival, John and Andy are joined by writers Adele Stripe and Ben Myers to discuss Gordon Burn's debut novel Alma Cogan. The 'WHWBR?' slots are occupied by Pevsner's guide to Durham and The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)
2'45 - County Durham Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England by Roberts, Martin, Pevsner, Nikolaus, Williamson, Elizabeth
10'35 - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
16'26 - Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn

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Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn

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Alma Cogan by Gordon Burn

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