I posted my first #booktube video today. I'd love your feedback. I've gotten some great stuff already
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Books in Conversation: Alien Clay and Edge of Sentience
YouTube video by Ryan Kapsar
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January 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I posted my first #booktube video today. I'd love your feedback. I've gotten some great stuff already
#BooksInConversation
youtu.be/ZsYNy0joOdo
#BooksInConversation
youtu.be/ZsYNy0joOdo
I like this series. You might enjoy a related one at #booksinconversation
January 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I like this series. You might enjoy a related one at #booksinconversation
Ellen Wayland-Smith's The Science of Last Things (highly recommended) + Steward Brand's The Clock of the Long Now = taking the long view, for both solace and creativity. #booksinconversation #books #booksky
January 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Ellen Wayland-Smith's The Science of Last Things (highly recommended) + Steward Brand's The Clock of the Long Now = taking the long view, for both solace and creativity. #booksinconversation #books #booksky
Evan S. Connell's The Aztec Treasure House + Eliot Weinberger's Works on Paper & Karmic Traces (and many other collections) = the essay as form for absorbing history, transforming it into literature. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 29, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Evan S. Connell's The Aztec Treasure House + Eliot Weinberger's Works on Paper & Karmic Traces (and many other collections) = the essay as form for absorbing history, transforming it into literature. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn + Agustin Fernandez Mallo's The Things We've Seen = the impossibilty of arrival, the art of meandering, the aftermath of war. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 28, 2024 at 2:11 PM
W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn + Agustin Fernandez Mallo's The Things We've Seen = the impossibilty of arrival, the art of meandering, the aftermath of war. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Anna Kavan's Ice + Denis Johnson's The Stars at Noon = women in wartime. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 26, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Anna Kavan's Ice + Denis Johnson's The Stars at Noon = women in wartime. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Maxim Biller's Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz + Pierre Michon's Rimbaud the Son = the lives of poets. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 24, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Maxim Biller's Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz + Pierre Michon's Rimbaud the Son = the lives of poets. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Gregor von Rezzori's The Snows of Yesteryear + Antonio di Benedett's Zama = life in the provinces. #booksinconversation #books #booksky
December 23, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Gregor von Rezzori's The Snows of Yesteryear + Antonio di Benedett's Zama = life in the provinces. #booksinconversation #books #booksky
Mark Lilla's The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction + Jeffrey A. Lockwood's The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects = paranoid obsession. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 21, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Mark Lilla's The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction + Jeffrey A. Lockwood's The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects = paranoid obsession. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World (wow!) + Conrad's Heart of Darkness = going too far. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 20, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World (wow!) + Conrad's Heart of Darkness = going too far. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Amy Leach's Things That Are + Eliot Weinberger's An Elemental Thing + Xavier de Maistre's Voyage Around My Room = spirits in a material world. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 19, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Amy Leach's Things That Are + Eliot Weinberger's An Elemental Thing + Xavier de Maistre's Voyage Around My Room = spirits in a material world. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
At #booksinconversation I've been pairing books that speak to each other in some way, which makes me doubly pleased to see this upcoming "Double Feature" event matching The Discarded with Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler. www.meetup.com/swarthmoresc... #books #booksky
DOUBLE FEATURE: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler & The Discarded, Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 8:30 PM | Meetup
For January we're starting off the year reading a DOUBLE FEATURE - two books both of which have meta themes that skirt the lines between fantasy and reality.
If on a Winte
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December 18, 2024 at 9:13 PM
At #booksinconversation I've been pairing books that speak to each other in some way, which makes me doubly pleased to see this upcoming "Double Feature" event matching The Discarded with Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler. www.meetup.com/swarthmoresc... #books #booksky
Kafka's "Investigations of a Dog" + Vilem Flusser & Louis Bec's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis = other modes of inquiry. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 17, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Kafka's "Investigations of a Dog" + Vilem Flusser & Louis Bec's Vampyroteuthis Infernalis = other modes of inquiry. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Rae Dalven's Cavafy + Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard's Cavafy + Daniel Mendelson's Cavafy = the art of translation. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 16, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Rae Dalven's Cavafy + Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard's Cavafy + Daniel Mendelson's Cavafy = the art of translation. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Homer's The Iliad + John Williams' Stoner = evolving notions of war and heroism. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 15, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Homer's The Iliad + John Williams' Stoner = evolving notions of war and heroism. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Ivan Vladislavic's The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories + Giorgio van Straten's In Search of Lost Books = fire, shame, family members, and other ruthless editors. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 14, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Ivan Vladislavic's The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories + Giorgio van Straten's In Search of Lost Books = fire, shame, family members, and other ruthless editors. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Rem Koolhaas' Conversations with students + Steward Brand's The Clock of the Long Now = the past is too small for the future to inhabit. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 12, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Rem Koolhaas' Conversations with students + Steward Brand's The Clock of the Long Now = the past is too small for the future to inhabit. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Soccer War + Eduardo Galeano's Soccer in Sun and Shadow = the beautiful game is never just a game. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 12, 2024 at 12:25 AM
Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Soccer War + Eduardo Galeano's Soccer in Sun and Shadow = the beautiful game is never just a game. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Robert Graves' I, Claudius + Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian = 20th century takes on the Roman psyche. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 10, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Robert Graves' I, Claudius + Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian = 20th century takes on the Roman psyche. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
In celebration. Hugh Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler + Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat = the madness of power, the inevitability of its end. With image!
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December 9, 2024 at 8:29 PM
In celebration. Hugh Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler + Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat = the madness of power, the inevitability of its end. With image!
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In celebration. Hugh Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler + Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat = the madness of power, the inevitability of its end. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 9, 2024 at 7:49 PM
In celebration. Hugh Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler + Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat = the madness of power, the inevitability of its end. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 8, 2024 at 10:24 PM
A.R. Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist + Harry Houdini's The Right Way to Do Wrong + Philippe Petit's Man on Wire = cultivating virtuosity. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 6, 2024 at 1:31 PM
A.R. Luria's The Mind of a Mnemonist + Harry Houdini's The Right Way to Do Wrong + Philippe Petit's Man on Wire = cultivating virtuosity. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Fernando Pessoa's Selected Poems + Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers = multitudes, pantheons. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 6, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Fernando Pessoa's Selected Poems + Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers = multitudes, pantheons. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend + Olga Tokarczuk's Primeval and Other Times = novels that climax with simple object (a pair of shoes, a coffee grinder) laden with an almost unbearable weight. #booksinconversation #booksky #books
December 5, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend + Olga Tokarczuk's Primeval and Other Times = novels that climax with simple object (a pair of shoes, a coffee grinder) laden with an almost unbearable weight. #booksinconversation #booksky #books