NP: Podcasts/BEE Podcast/The Great Courses

[Mark Kohut]

LESS THAN ZERO....advance into bookstores, fewer than 6,000
copies......first review rave WSJ
and only the Chicago area had the rest of the first edition. (7, 500 or
10,000 dunno). Until sold out
quickly.
I know this.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Franz Kafka: The Office Writings
> <https://books.google.com/books?id=_Vzl9bVOtrcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=how+hard+did+Kafka+work?&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfhLjq4u3KAhWGPj4KHYKPAmo4ChDoAQghMAE>
>
> <https://books.google.com/books?id=_Vzl9bVOtrcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=how+hard+did+Kafka+work?&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfhLjq4u3KAhWGPj4KHYKPAmo4ChDrAQgiMAE>
> https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0691126801
> Franz Kafka
> <https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1324&bih=876&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Franz+Kafka%22&ved=0ahUKEwjfhLjq4u3KAhWGPj4KHYKPAmo4ChD0CAgjMAE>,
> ‎Stanley Corngold
> <https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1324&bih=876&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Stanley+Corngold%22&ved=0ahUKEwjfhLjq4u3KAhWGPj4KHYKPAmo4ChD0CAgkMAE>,
> ‎Jack Greenberg
> <https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1324&bih=876&tbm=bks&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Jack+Greenberg%22&ved=0ahUKEwjfhLjq4u3KAhWGPj4KHYKPAmo4ChD0CAglMAE> -
> 2009 - ‎Preview
> <https://books.google.com/books?id=_Vzl9bVOtrcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=how+hard+did+Kafka+work?&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfhLjq4u3KAhWGPj4KHYKPAmo4ChC7BQgmMAE>
> Gathers eighteen legal briefs and other documents written by Kafka in his
> professional role as a lawyer for the Workmen's Accident Insurance
> Institute in Prague, and explains the issues involved and their role in his
> literary development.
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am suddenly having to commute a lot more. I was basically living on,
>> and gleefully, willingly into, debt for six months after grad school. Now I
>> am working a lot more. (If I wasn't against the day before, holy shit am I
>> now). I'm still very blessed as far as all this goes--I'm only working
>> half-time and am making enough to live healthfully, with relative comfort,
>> freedom, etc, in a major metropolis--but I am often a big baby about it.
>> (Then again, Kafka never actually worked very long hours, from what I
>> understand.)
>>
>> PODCASTS
>>
>> Longer commutes beget more time listening to things. Any podcast
>> recommendations are welcome. And I mean any--interested in mind expansion,
>> here.
>>
>> BEE PODCAST
>>
>> I have started listening to The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. I have
>> conflicted feelings about it generally. I think, on the one hand, it
>> reveals that BEE's best contributions in recent memory are as a cultural
>> critic/pundit type. And in that regard he is actually a voice I really
>> value. But. I will say that I think the medium of podcasting--as opposed to
>> nonfiction writing, say--is a complicated, and sometimes good translation
>> of him. Hearing him--both in just human auditory processing/personality
>> parsing and in what effect having to more or less improvise has on
>> him--reveals a lot more of his humanity, as his nonfiction writing is often
>> too like his fiction in voice. Kind of disaffected. It has elements so
>> overtly affected they obscure his humanity and niceness. Too confident. In
>> the podcast he seems like a caring guy. But he also loses a bit of
>> precision/intelligence. Which makes sense given that his writing process is
>> often sort of tortured. (He, like Didion talks about, is a different person
>> behind a typewriter.) But I recommend at least trying an episode of the
>> podcast. It treats pop culture and entertainment with an intelligence and
>> perspective I don't get from many other places, myself.
>>
>> THE GREAT COURSES
>>
>> One of the things that advertises on his show is this subscription to The
>> Great Courses. These are, copy says, college-level courses curated by world
>> class professors. It seems suspiciously unCool to me. And also unacademic.
>> But I am feeling, as ever, totally deficient in every body of knowledge
>> (especially history). Do any of you guys have any experience with this? -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>
>
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