Here is the list for our Summer reading!
Wild Swims, by Dorthe Nors
The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021, by Yusef Komunyakaa
In Memory of Memory, by Maria Stepanova
Walking on Cowrie Shells, by Nana Nkweti
Sea of Tranquility: A novel, by Emily St. John Mandel
Klara and the Sun links:
A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro (NYTimes review)
'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality (NPR review)
The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot (Atlantic review)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro review – another masterpiece (Guardian review)
Bomb Under the Table: On Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” (LA Review of Books)
Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun (Video/Waterstones)
Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro on his new book, Klara and the Sun (Video/Kennys)
Kazuo Ishiguro talks about ‘Klara and the Sun,’ ‘GMA’s’ March Book Club pick (Video/ABC News)
Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with Kate Mosse for World Book Night (Video/British Library)
Kazuo Ishiguro: A Nobel Novelist Searches for Hope | The Agenda (Video)
Nobel Lecture: Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 (Video)
Ishiguro and AI:
Kazuo Ishiguro Uses Artificial Intelligence to Reveal the Limits of Our Own (The New Yorker)
Kazuo Ishiguro thinks artificial intelligence could replace human novelists (Literary Hub)
Klara and the Sun Imagines a Social Schism Driven by AI (Wired)
Nobel author Kazuo Ishiguro on artificial intelligence, and what it means to be human (CBC)
The Books Briefing: Boundaries Between Humans and Machines Are Vanishing (Atlantic)
The impact of artificial intelligence on human love - Kazuo Ishiguro (Channel 4)
Nobel-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro on artificial intelligence and love (Channel 4)
Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘When AI is writing our constitutions we should worry’ I FT (Financial Times)
Here are links related to our recent discussion of Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française:
The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter, Élisabeth Gille
Denise Epstein, fille d' Irène Némirovsky, parle avec Egill Helgason - Kiljan 2011-09-07
Irène Némirovsky: "Suite Française"
Kristin Scott Thomas Exclusive Interview - Suite Française
Watch! TEN talks to Suite Française star Matthias Schoenaerts
Mark Kermode reviews Suite Francaise
David Golder:
Heath, Malcolm. “The Universality of Poetry in Aristotle’s Poetics.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 389–402, http://www.jstor.org/stable/
David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair
The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter
A Strange and Beautiful Book About a Mother Who Disappeared
Franz Werfel:
Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand
NICOLAISEN, PETER. “The Southern Agrarians and European Agrarianism.” The Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4, Mississippi State University, 1996, pp. 683–700, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26475898.
For our upcoming session, I suggest you read "Guigemar" and "Yönec." Then, consider these groupings:
In addition, here are two great resources you can use to prepare for our reading and discussion of the Lais of Marie de France:
British Library:
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-lays-and-fables-of-marie-de-france
Kathy Krause:
https://middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/“lais”-marie-de-france
Cite:
Krause, Kathy. “The Lais of Marie de France,” Middle Ages for Educators, April 10, 2020. Accessed[date]. https://middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/node/266/
Royal Shakespeare Company - background and trailer
https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-rover/
Georgetown University - Department of Performing Arts
https://performingarts.georgetown.edu/the-rover-reframe/
Shakesqueer Theatre Company - via Facebook
From backstage at the Goodman to kids & clips