Secret Life of Books

Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole
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Every book has two stories: the one it tells, and the one it hides.The Secret Life of Books is a fascinating, addictive, often shocking, occasionally hilarious weekly podcast starring Sophie Gee, an English professor at Princeton University, and Jonty Claypole, formerly director of arts at the BBC. Every week these virtuoso critics and close friends take an iconic book and reveal the hidden story behind the story: who made it, their clandestine motives, the undeclared stakes, the scandalous backstory and above all the secret, mysterious meanings of books we thought we knew.-- To join the Secret Life of Books Club visit: www.secretlifeofbooks.org-- Please support us on Patreon to keep the lights on in the SLoB studio: https://patreon.com/SecretLifeofBooks528?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkinsta: https://www.instagram.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast/youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@secretlifeofbookspodcast/shorts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. Life and love with MND: Lisa Genova's Every Note Played with Prof Dominic Rowe

    1天前

    Life and love with MND: Lisa Genova's Every Note Played with Prof Dominic Rowe

    Published in 2018, Lisa Genova’s Every Note Played follows the experiences of renowned concert pianist Richard Evans from the moment he is diagnosed with a form of Motor Neurone Disease, or MND, to his death less than two years later. It is a confronting, blow-by-blow account of the physical deterioration caused by MND, but also a testament to humanity’s capacity for empathy, love and redemption.  In this special episode, recorded in support of MotorOn (which raises funding for MND research), Jonty talks to Professor Dominic Rowe - director of the Macquarie University Centre for MND and one of the world’s leading experts in MND.  When Every Note Played begins, Richard is recently divorced from his wife Karina, but neither have been able to move on from their anger and endless emotional ruminating. But when Richard is diagnosed, Karina becomes his primary carer. Over the last months of his life, they learn to forgive one another and move on - one towards death, the other towards creative rebirth.  Every Note Played is the fifth novel by Lisa Genova, who made her debut with the bestselling Still Alice in 2007. Still Alice was adapted into a film, with Julianne Moore giving an Oscar winning performance in the title role as the 50 year old Alice who develops onset dementia. Richard Glatzer directed the film while suffering from advanced MND - and he died a few months after release. Inspired by Glatzer, and their friendship, Genova wrote Every Note Played. Content warning: this episode is a frank conversation about a subject some may find disturbing. For more information about MND, please go to:  Macquarie Centre for MND Research - www.mndnsw.org.au - the site has links to info lines and information packs  If you are interested in donating to MotorOn and supporting the work of the Macqueries Centre for MND Research, please go to www.motoron.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    41 分钟
  2. That's Classic! Mariana Enriquez at Sydney Writers Festival

    1天前 • 订阅者独享

    That's Classic! Mariana Enriquez at Sydney Writers Festival

    That's Classic! is a bonus series for subscribers only. Sophie and Jonty recorded this episode with bestselling Argentine gothic horror writer Mariana Enriquez, backstage at the Sydney Writers Festival May 2025. Mariana Enriquez is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is the author of the novel Our Share of Night, the collections of short fiction, Things We Lost in the Fire, A Sunny Place for Shady People and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (shortlisted for the International Booker Prize). She was awarded the Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso in 2024. She’s now living in Tasmania. More episodes in the series coming your way on Friday over the next several weeks.

    18 分钟
  3. Oscar Wilde 3: "A Handbag?!" The Importance of Being Earnest

    4天前

    Oscar Wilde 3: "A Handbag?!" The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest, first performed in 1895 at the sumptuous St James' Theatre in London, was Wilde’s last, and without question his greatest piece of dramatic writing. The handbag, the cucumber sandwiches, the Bunburying and the first class ticket to Worthing all come together to create a timeless classic that has been rarely out of performance since its debut. It was a smash-hit from the moment it opened, but even as the lights went up, Wilde was grabbing the spotlight in the press and the courts with his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young gay lover Bosie. None of this is apparent on first viewing "Earnest," which seemingly refuses to be serious. It's a farce and a romance and a fairy tale -- but it's also a radical confession of homosexual attraction and a bitter satire on Victorian morality and domestic politics. It’s also a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta Patience which was itself a parody of Oscar Wilde and the aesthetic movement in England. Content warning to listeners: reading this play – and possibly just listening to this episode - will cause you to irritate your family members by attempting aphoristic remarks and epigrammatic witticisms. Books and writers mentioned in this episode: Oscar Wilde: A LIfe (2021) by Matthew Sturgis Sodomy on the Thames: Sex, Love and Scandal in Wilde Times (2012) by Morris B Kaplan Oscar Wilde, Vera, or, The Nihilists; Salome; The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan; A Woman of No Importance; The Ideal Husband. Oscar Wilde, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."; "The Decay of Lying"; "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"; "The Critic as Artist" Bram Stoker, Dracula Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado About Nothing Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal; The Rivals Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer Henry Arthur Jones, The Silver King; Saints and Sinners Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Emile Zola Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler; The Doll's House George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Pygmalion Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Mary Shelley, Frankenstein -- To join the Secret Life of Books Club visit: www.secretlifeofbooks.org -- Please support us on Patreon to keep the lights on in the SLoB studio and get bonus content: patreon.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast -- Follow us on our socials: youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@secretlifeofbookspodcast/shorts insta: https://www.instagram.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast/ bluesky: @slobpodcast.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小时 25 分钟
  4. Happier with Henry Wotton: Gretchen Rubin on Aphorisms and the Importance of Being Oscar Wilde

    6月6日 • 订阅者独享

    Happier with Henry Wotton: Gretchen Rubin on Aphorisms and the Importance of Being Oscar Wilde

    Gretchen Rubin is one of America’s best known and best-loved writers on how to be happy. She published her evergreen classic The Happiness Project in 2009, and it was an instant hit. She’s followed it with many more books on the habits of happiness, and she’s also co-host of a hit podcast Happier, which she hosts with her sister, the writer Elizabeth Craft.   Today we’re talking about Gretchen’s take on Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde’s only novel, which is packed with sometimes brilliant and sometimes merely glib aphorisms and witticisms. We talk about why pithy sayings are so appealing, whether they are ever really true, and why Wilde was so obsessed with this kind of writing. A companion episode to episode 63 on the book itself.   Mentioned on this episode:   Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Project, Life in Five Senses, Happier and Home and Secrets of Adulthood. Gretchen Rubin and Elizabeth Craft: Happier the podcast. Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray. -- To join the Secret Life of Books Club visit: www.secretlifeofbooks.org -- Please support us on Patreon to keep the lights on in the SLoB studio and get bonus content: patreon.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast -- Follow us on our socials: youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@secretlifeofbookspodcast/shorts insta: https://www.instagram.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast/ bluesky: @slobpodcast.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    41 分钟
  5. That's Classic! James Bradley at Sydney Writers Festival

    6月5日 • 订阅者独享

    That's Classic! James Bradley at Sydney Writers Festival

    That's Classic! is a bonus series for subscribers only. Sophie and Jonty recorded this episode with Australian writer James Bradley, award-winning author of the international non-fiction hit "Deep Water," and the new novel "Landfall," backstage at the Sydney Writers Festival May 2025. More episodes in the series coming your way on Friday over the next several weeks.

    18 分钟
  6. Oscar Wilde 2: If Looks Could Kill: The Picture of Dorian Gray

    6月3日

    Oscar Wilde 2: If Looks Could Kill: The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s only novel, and it caused a sensation. It was used as evidence in Wilde’s trial for the crime of “gross indecency” in 1895. The conceit of the story is famous – a portrait grows old and corrupt while its human subject remains eternally youthful. But who knows what really happens in this famous modern myth? Sophie and Jonty talk about the influence of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Jonty throws around some exciting legal phrases like the Criminal Law Amendment Act. There’s plenty of discussion of Wilde’s personal obsession with home interiors, as well as a debate about why Wilde is so indebted to Dickens when he’s always going on about his contempt for matters of morality. Find out how a novel that is quintessentially about London is also about Wilde’s Irish identity, and what kind of wallpaper Oscar Wilde had in his student digs at Oxford. As the arch-aphorist and aesthetic rogue Henry Wotton would say, this podcast episode “has all the surprise of candour,” so find out what really happens in this legendary modern myth.   Books referenced or mentioned in this episode: Oscar Wilde: A LIfe (2021) by Matthew Sturgis Sodomy on the Thames: Sex, Love and Scandal in Wilde Times (2012) by Morris B Kaplan Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying,” “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” and “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.” (1889) Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (1838) Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864); Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870); Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897) H.G. Wells The Time Machine (1895) War of the Worlds (1898) -- To join the Secret Life of Books Club visit: www.secretlifeofbooks.org -- Please support us on Patreon to keep the lights on in the SLoB studio and get bonus content: patreon.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast -- Follow us on our socials: youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@secretlifeofbookspodcast/shorts insta: https://www.instagram.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast/ bluesky: @slobpodcast.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1 小时 21 分钟
  7. That's Classic! with Ferdia Lennon, writer of the hit debut "Glorious Exploits"

    5月29日 · 附赠内容 • 订阅者独享

    That's Classic! with Ferdia Lennon, writer of the hit debut "Glorious Exploits"

    A new bonus series for subscribers only, Sophie and Jonty record backstage at the Sydney Writers Festival May 2025. That's Classic! is a series of chats with popular and bestselling writers about their own favorite classics.

    15 分钟
  8. Classic Books vs Trump: Jill Lepore on reading her way through the first 100 days

    5月27日

    Classic Books vs Trump: Jill Lepore on reading her way through the first 100 days

    Jill Lepore is one of America’s most renowned intellectuals. She’s Professor not only of American History, but also of Law at Harvard University; she's a staff writer at the New Yorker, and still finds time to write some of the most renowned history books of the 21st Century, including the magisterial and monumental These Truths: A History of the United States, the brilliant Secret History of Wonder Woman and Sophie’s personal favourite, a history of King Phillip’s War and the origins of American identity. For the first 100 days of the new US presidency, Jill Lepore turned to the classics-- the Penguin Little Black Classics to be exact. In these miniature volumes of great writing, Jill found the imaginative intelligence, resilience and sense of ordinary pleasures she needed to abide with what's going on across America -- and at Harvard specifically -- as a result of Trump's turbulent regime. Listen and learn how the classics reconnect us with deep truths that we might "hold to be self-evident," but which have so often been under threat across human history. Books mentioned in this episode and published in Penguin Little Black Classics: The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio (~1350) "As Kingfishers Catch Fire," Gerard Manley Hopkins (1877) Anon. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (late 13C) Wailing Ghosts, Pu Songling (c.1640) "A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift (1727) Tang Dynasty Poets (c8C) "On the Beach at Night Alone," Walt Whitman (1856) A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees, Kenko (13C) "The Eve of St Agnes," John Keats (1819) "Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls," Marco Polo (c1300) "Caligula," Suetonius (121 CE) "Olalla," Robert Louis Stevenson (1885) The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848) "Trimalchio's Feast", Petronius (c.60 CE) Inferno, Dante (14C) "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale," Geoffrey Chaucer (c1390) Essais, Michel de Montaigne (1580) "The Beautifull Cassandra," Jane Austen (1788) Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey "The Maldive Shark," Herman Melville (1888) Socrates’ Defence, Plato (399 BCE) "Goblin Market," Christina Rossetti (1862) -- To join the Secret Life of Books Club visit: www.secretlifeofbooks.org -- Please support us on Patreon to keep the lights on in the SLoB studio and get bonus content: patreon.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast -- Follow us on our socials: youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@secretlifeofbookspodcast/shorts insta: https://www.instagram.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast/ bluesky: @slobpodcast.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 分钟
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Every book has two stories: the one it tells, and the one it hides.The Secret Life of Books is a fascinating, addictive, often shocking, occasionally hilarious weekly podcast starring Sophie Gee, an English professor at Princeton University, and Jonty Claypole, formerly director of arts at the BBC. Every week these virtuoso critics and close friends take an iconic book and reveal the hidden story behind the story: who made it, their clandestine motives, the undeclared stakes, the scandalous backstory and above all the secret, mysterious meanings of books we thought we knew.-- To join the Secret Life of Books Club visit: www.secretlifeofbooks.org-- Please support us on Patreon to keep the lights on in the SLoB studio: https://patreon.com/SecretLifeofBooks528?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLinkinsta: https://www.instagram.com/secretlifeofbookspodcast/youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@secretlifeofbookspodcast/shorts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • 创作者
    Sophie Gee and Jonty Claypole
  • 活跃年份
    2024年 - 2025年
  • 单集
    74
  • 分级
    儿童不宜
  • 版权
    © 2025 Secret Life of Books
  • 节目网站
    Secret Life of Books
  • 提供者
    Sophie Gee

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