by International Anthony Burgess Foundation
<p>The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast Channel hosts two podcasts:</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast</strong> is dedicated to exploring the life and work of Anthony Burgess and his contemporaries, and the cultural environment in which Burgess was working. A combination of scripted episodes, interviews and lectures, this series is a resource for students, readers and anyone else interested in twentieth century literature, film and music. The International Anthony Burgess Foundation Podcast includes episodes on A Clockwork Orange and other novels written by Burgess, the influence of James Joyce, literary dystopias and utopias, and Burgess’s musical compositions among many other themes and topics.</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>The Ninety-Nine Novels Podcast</strong> delves into Anthony Burgess's 1984 survey of twentieth century literature, Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939. The book is a personal, and somewhat idiosyncratic, selection of Burgess’s favourite novels, and not only stimulates debate but acts as a crash-course in the literature that inspired and influenced Burgess throughout his career. The Ninety-Nine Novels Podcast invites experts to illuminate Burgess’s choices, and includes episodes on famous masterworks to unjustly forgotten gems.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>-----</p><br><p>For more information about Anthony Burgess visit the <a href="https://www.anthonyburgess.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">International Anthony Burgess Foundation online.</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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November 20, 2024
Writer and academic Sarah Graham and host Graham Foster delve into The Catcher in the Rye, exploring Holden Caulfield's rebellion against society in 1940s Manhattan.
November 13, 2024
<p>In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests.</p><br><p>In this episode, we’re joined by novelist Adam Roberts, who introduces us to Life in the West by Brian Aldiss.</p><br><p>Life in the West tells the story of Thomas Squire, a filmmaker who is attending an academic conference to introduce his new documentary, Frankenstein in the Arts. At the conference he engages in conversations with the other attendees while dealing with the dissolution of his marriage, the trauma of his childhood and the violent years he spent in Yugoslavia as a member of British intelligence. Anthony Burgess calls the novel ‘a rich book, not afraid of thought.’</p><br><p>Brain Aldiss was born in 1925. After serving in Burma during World War II he worked as a bookseller in Oxford, which was the inspiration for his first novel The Brightfount Diaries, published in 1955. He went on to become one of the most respected British science fiction writers, writing 41 novels, 26 collections of short stories, 8 volumes of poetry, 5 volumes of autobiography and many more works of literary criticism, drama and edited anthologies. He died in 2017 at the age of 92.</p><br><p>Adam Roberts is a writer and an academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. His most recent novel, <em>Lake of Darkness</em> is available now. <em>A History of Fantasy</em> is forthcoming from Bloomsbury (2025).</p><br><p>-----</p><br><p>BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE</p><br><p>By Brian Aldiss:</p><br><p>Hothouse (1962)</p><p>Greybeard (1964)</p><p>Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973)</p><p>Frankenstein Unbound (1973)</p><p>Helliconia Trilogy (1982-85)</p><p>Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1986)</p><p>Forgotten Life (1988)</p><p>Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's: A Writing Life (1990)</p><p>Remembrance Day (1993)</p><p>Twinkling of an Eye, or My Life as an Englishman (1998)</p><p>Somewhere East of Life (1994)</p><p>'Supertoys Last All Summer Long' in The Complete Short Stories: The 1960s Part 2 (2015)</p><br><p>By others:</p><br><p>Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)</p><p>Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)</p><p>The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1955)</p><p>A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)</p><p>Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess (1980)</p><p>The Names by Don DeLillo (1982)</p><p>Small World by David Lodge (1984)</p><br><p>-----</p><br><p>LINKS</p><br><p><a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Lake-of-Darkness-by-Adam-Roberts/9781399617673?a_aid=BurgessFoundation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts</a> (affiliate link)</p><br><p><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fantasy-9781350407824/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fantasy: A Short History by Adam Roberts (forthcoming)</a></p><br><p><a href="https://medium.com/adams-notebook" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Adam Roberts's blog at Medium</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.anthonyburgess.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">International Anthony Burgess Foundation</a></p><br><p><a href="https://anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Burgess Foundation's newsletter at Substack</a></p><br><p>The theme music for the Ninety-Nine Novels podcast is Anthony Burgess’s Concerto for Flute, Strings and Piano in D Minor, performed by <a href="https://nodicecollective.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">No Dice Collective</a>.</p><br><p><br></p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
November 6, 2024
<p>In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess's interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess's list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests.</p><br><p>In this episode, Will Carr is joined by writer and academic Paul Fagan to discuss At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien.</p><br><p>At Swim-Two-Birds is narrated by a young undergraduate student who invents wild stories featuring a host of strange character. The novel consists of three of the student’s seemingly unlinked stories that introduce characters such as Furriskey who is a fictional character created by the equally fictional Trellis, a writer of Westerns. As the narrative progresses, the student’s characters seem to take on a life of their own, and the novel becomes an absurdist brew of Irish folklore, farce, and comedic satire.</p><br><p>Flann O’Brien was born Brian Ó Nualláin in County Tyrone, Ireland in 1911. After studying at University College Dublin he joined the Irish Civil Service, during which time he wrote novels in both English and Irish Gaelic, scripts for television and theatre, and newspaper columns as Myles na gCopaleen. He died in 1966.</p><br><p>Paul Fagan is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, where he is working on the Irish Research Council project <em>Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing, 1860s-1950s</em>. He is a co-founder of the International Flann O’Brien Society, a founding general editor of the <em>Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies</em>. He is the co-editor of <em>Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories</em>, <em>Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities</em>, as well as five edited volumes on Flann O’Brien.</p><br><p>-----</p><br><p>BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE</p><br><p>By Flann O'Brien:</p><br><p>An Béal Bocht (1941)</p><p>The Hard Life (1961)</p><p>The Dalkey Archive (1964)</p><p>The Third Policeman (1967)</p><p>The Best of Myles (1968)</p><br><p>By others:</p><br><p>The Golden Ass by Apuleius (c. 200)</p><p>The Fenian Cycle (from c. 600)</p><p>The Madness of Sweeney (c. 1200)</p><p>Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605-15)</p><p>Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1623)</p><p>A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift (1704)</p><p>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759)</p><p>The Crock of Gold by James Stephens (1912)</p><p>Orlando by Virginia Woolf (1928)</p><p>Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (1939)</p><p>Travelling People by BS Johnson (1963)</p><p>If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino (1979)</p><p>Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino (1979)</p><p>Lanark by Alasdair Gray (1981)</p><p>Blooms of Dublin by Anthony Burgess (1982)</p><p>A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner (1983)</p><p>House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski (2000)</p><p>Milkman by Anna Burns (2018)</p><br><p>-----</p><br><p>LINKS</p><br><p><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-finnegans-wake-human-and-nonhuman-histories.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Finnegans Wake: Human and Nonhuman Histories, edited by Paul Fagan and Richard Barlow</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.anthonyburgess.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">International Anthony Burgess Foundation</a></p><br><p><a href="https://anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Burgess Foundation Substack</a></p><br><p>The theme music for the Ninety-Nine Novels podcast is Anthony Burgess’s Concerto for Flute, Strings and Piano in D Minor, performed by <a href="https://nodicecollective.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">No Dice Collective</a> </p><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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