Advice from the Beatles (new episode) – Human Voices Wake Us
Advice from William Wordsworth (new episode) – Human Voices Wake Us
Advice from Charles Dickens & Alice Munro – Human Voices Wake Us
Advice from Walt Whitman & W. B. Yeats – Human Voices Wake Us
John Keats: "The poet has no identity" – Human Voices Wake Us
The Voice of Toni Morrison – Human Voices Wake Us
Ezra Pound’s Advice to a Young Poet – Human Voices Wake Us
Van Gogh's Early Years – Human Voices Wake Us
Van Gogh: Starry Nights & Sunflowers – Human Voices Wake Us
True Horror – Human Voices Wake Us
Stephen King's Great Novel of Parenthood & Grief – Human Voices Wake Us
Emily Dickinson – Human Voices Wake Us
Advice from Seamus Heaney // James Joyce's "Araby" – Human Voices Wake Us
Advice from Beethoven, Joseph Campbell, W. S. Merwin, W. D. Snodgrass – Human Voices Wake Us
On Seamus Heaney (new episode) – Human Voices Wake Us
Loneliness, pt2 // Shakespeare, Sex & Sonnets – Human Voices Wake Us
On Seamus Heaney (new episode) – Human Voices Wake Us
The Earliest Bookstores I Remember // Picasso's "Guernica" – Human Voices Wake Us
Advice from Joan Didion, Stanley Kunitz, Billy Collins & Alice Munro – Human Voices Wake Us
Seamus Heaney's Origin Story – Human Voices Wake Us
How Did Picasso Do It? – Human Voices Wake Us
An episode from 11/16/21: Tonight I read from a few books on Pablo Picasso, where he talks about how the power behind his own paintings, and his huge output, remained a mystery for him as much as anyone else. For most of the time, Picasso seems to have been along for the ride, and the lasting nature of his work seems to be less about how consciously he went about it, than how intuitively he was able to deal with an impulse he barely understood himself.
The first few quotations come from the huge Taschen book about Picasso that covers his entire life; the rest come from the multi-volume biography of Picasso by John Richardson:
- A Life of Picasso 1: The Prodigy: 1881-1906
- A Life of Picasso 2: The Cubist Rebel: 1907-1916
- A Life of Picasso 3: The Triumphant Years: 1917-1932
Ted Hughes Responds to Fame – Human Voices Wake Us
Ted Hughes's Origin Story – Human Voices Wake Us
Beethoven on His Deathbed – Human Voices Wake Us
Poetry & Education in Eighth Century England – Human Voices Wake Us
Advice from Flannery O'Connor, Jacques Barzun, Jean Guéhenno – Human Voices Wake Us
Hart Crane to His Father – Human Voices Wake Us
Advice from Leonardo da Vinci, Conrad Aiken, & Others – Human Voices Wake Us
Advice from Shakespeare, Robert Lowell, Philip Larkin, & Others – Human Voices Wake Us
Vermeer in Bosnia – Human Voices Wake Us