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Purchase: The Recognitions from amazon.com Explore: A Readers Guide to The Recognitions at williamgaddis.org Listen: 42 Minutes Seasonal Book Club shows from 42minutes.com For the fourth installment of our seasonal book club, the program recognizes William Gaddis's first novel from 1955, The Recognitions, a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin... On Election Day, the program considers our operating system with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, and discuss his recent book, Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus. While there is no utopia yet on earth, the program considers this idea with one who survived A Transcendent Childhood. Claire Hoffman, author of the recent Greetings From Utopia Park explains that... There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Or that's what Doug and Will find as they look back at five years of 42 Minutes on the very day they set... The program travels back in time to a moment in October of 2011 when Will & Doug began a weekly conversation about SYNC. Tonight the program considers the zeitgeist and uncovers the secrets of time travel with writer, director, editor Jacob Gentry, the filmmaker responsible most recently for the film, Synchronicity.... Tonight the program meets long time listener, Michael Isaiah, a musician from the Bay Area who released a solo album of music this past spring. Time is of the essence! The program wakes up tonight, or, experiences an Anamnesis, a loss of forgetfulness with SyncBook+PLUS member, William Keefer, author of the recent Jupiter Publications novel, Anamnesis. Will, Doug, & Alan look back at five years of Sync Book and consider a community of artists exploring the impossible. The program considers the allure and propaganda of the West as well as its harsh realities with Guggenheim fellow, Claire Vaye Watkins, author of the recent Gold Fame Citrus, published in 2015 by... Will and Doug come home from vacation to discuss their first meeting at the 2016 Oly Sync Summit. The program again discusses "alternate realities" for this, our third edition of the seasonal book club, but this time under the guise of 1Q84, Haruki Murakami's gigantic novel from 2011. Our... As a close to our monthly exploration of emptiness, we consider childhood emotional neglect with author and clinical psychologist, Dr. Jonice Webb, who wrote Running On Empty which looks with a... The program celebrates Independence Day with primitivist philosopher and author, John Zerzan. We consider mass society, anarchy, and technology for 42 minutes. Loren Coleman returns to 42 Minutes to aid the search for monsters with updates on recent developments in the fields of his expertise: Copycat Shootings, Forteana, and Twilight Language. The origin of the word "anarchy" comes from the Greek which means "without" "chief" or "ruler." We explore this today for 42 minutes with Canadian essayist, Zander Sherman. The extraordinary exists if we know where to look for it and how to think about it, and today's guest, Dr Jeffrey Kripal, author of the recent book, The Super Natural, helps us to see it. Today's procession of the damned considers the strange-but-true tale of American horror, The Bye Bye Man, recounted by historian, Robert Damon Schneck, which will become a major motion picture this...
FREE 11.24.16 Episode 249: Fall Book Club
The Recognitions
For the fourth installment of our seasonal book club, the program recognizes William Gaddis's first novel from 1955, The Recognitions, a masterwork about art and forgery, and the increasingly thin line between the counterfeit and the fake.
Topics: Sensitive Boy, Postwar Fiction, Gravity's Rainbow, Catch 22, Forgery, Infinite Jest, Voice, Encyclopedic Novel, Jet Set, Realism, Arrival, Crypto-Kubrology, Imagination, Man In The High Castle, Art World, Painting, Sun Worship, Golden Bough, Westworld, Player Piano, Fake, Postmodern Noise.
11.24.16
Fall Book Club (249)
The Recognitions
11.08.16
Douglas Rushkoff (248)
Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus
11.02.16
Claire Hoffman (247)
Greetings From Utopia Park
10.24.16
Jacques the Fatalist (246)
28 Days 6 Hours 42 Minutes 12 Seconds
10.18.16
5th Anniversary (245)
Episode Now
10.10.16
Jacob Gentry (244)
Synchronicity
10.03.16
Michael Isaiah (243)
The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
09.26.16
William Keefer (242)
Anamnesis
09.19.16
Alan Green (241)
Sync Book Anniversary
09.12.16
Claire Vaye Watkins (240)
Gold Fame Citrus
09.05.16
Olympia Sync Summit 2016 (239)
Synker Things
08.08.16
Summer Book Club (238)
1Q84
08.01.16
Dr. Jonice Webb (237)
Running On Empty
07.27.16
John Zerzan (236)
Running On Emptiness
07.14.16
Loren Coleman (235)
Sync Renegade 8: Crypto-Language
07.04.16
Zander Sherman (234)
Running on Empty: Anarchy & Alienation
06.27.16
Jeffrey Kripal (233)
The Super Natural
06.20.16
Robert Damon Schneck (232)
The Bye Bye Man