Sean Murphy discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Sean Murphy is founder of the non-profit 1455 Lit Arts and directs the Center for Story at Shenandoah University. He has been publishing fiction, poetry, reviews (of music, movie, book, food), and essays on the technology industry for over twenty years. His latest book is red, white, and blues, his fourth poetry collection, which is available at https://www.seanmurphy.net/rwb/.

1. America learned all the wrong lessons from popular 80s movies
2. America is a myth-making machine
3. Atlantic City's disintegration tells us everything we need to know about Trump
4. Howard Dean's scream
5. The Assault on the Arts & Humanities Explain the Deeper Motivation of Late-Stage Capitalism
6. AI Can't and Won't Replace Art

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Steven Seidenberg discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Steven Seidenberg is the author of Anon (Omnidawn, 2022), plain sight (Roof Books, 2020), Situ (Black Sun Lit, 2018) Null Set (Spooky Action Books) and Itch (RAW ArT Press, 2015). His books have been published in Italian, Portuguese and Swedish translation, and his collections of photographs include The Architecture of Silence: Abandoned Lives of the Italian South (Contrasto, 2023) and Pipevalve: Berlin (Lodima Press, 2017). Coda is his latest published work and the cover features one of Steven’s photographs. It is available at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coda-Steven-Seidenberg/dp/1632431734

Steven lives in Boston, America, and frequently travels with his work, particularly in Europe.

1. Philosopher Vilem Flusser https://www.frieze.com/article/without-firm-ground-%E2%80%93-vil%C3%A9m-flusser-and-arts
2. Composer Julius Eastman https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2021/06/21/1007150496/julius-eastman-a-misunderstood-composer-returns-to-the-light
3. Photographer Lynne Cohen https://www.frieze.com/article/lynne-cohen
4. Painter Morris Ben Newman https://www.tfaoi.org/aa/9aa/9aa5.htm
5. Poet Lorine Niedecker https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/lorine-niedecker
6. Museum of Otherness and Elsewhere https://www.blocal-travel.com/street-art/maam-museum-rome/

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Daniel Hahn discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Daniel Hahn is an award-winning translator, author and editor of numerous fiction and non-fiction works. He is one of the editors of The Ultimate Book Guide, the first volume of which won the Blue Peter Book Award. Other titles include children’s works such as Happiness Is a Watermelon on Your Head (a picture-book for children) and a new edition of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. He has been a chair for prestigious international prizes including the International Booker Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He was previously chair for the Society of Authors and currently serves on the board of trustees for English PEN. His new book If This Be Magic is available at https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-this-be-magic-the-unlikely-art-of-shakespeare-in-translation-daniel-hahn/75a20e19805e32b5.

1. Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak https://www.drttmk.com/books/outside-over-there
2. Appalachian Waltz by Mark O’Connell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajkgNEO_Yeg&list=RDajkgNEO_Yeg&start_radio=1
3. Machado de Assis https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/12/17/machado-de-assis-well-ventilated-conscience/
4. Semicolons https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/colonandsemi/semi
5. Asterix in English translation https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-the-genius-of-anthea-bell-and-derek-hockridge/
6. Hamlet Goes Business https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/hamlet-goes-business

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