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Moods by Yoel Hoffmann

Burning Books

06/14/18 • 20 min

Start a story that never began and won’t end, spreading like chill to everything made of words, the kind of release that comes from depriving your most often used senses and engaging the ones you neglected.

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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.

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Khirbet Khizeh by S Yizhar

Burning Books

03/30/18 • 20 min

A soldier reflects on a just-finished mission to systematically round up and expel those left behind in the small village of Khirbet Khizeh.

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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.

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I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Zachary Lazar

Burning Books

03/17/18 • 20 min

From King David (aka Kid Bethlehem) to Meyer Lansky via Bugsy Siegel, and the many pulled in their wake, a novel that charges from Las Vegas to Jerusalem, capitals of imaginary kingdoms.

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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.

http://litopia.com/shows/burn/

Interview with Todd Hasak-Lowy

Burning Books

03/07/18 • 20 min

Interview with Todd Hasak-Lowy – author and translator of novels from Hebrew to English, including Dror Burstein’s Netanya – with digressions into Orly Castel-Bloom, Yaakov Shabtai, different kinds of literary culture and the novels they produce.

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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.

http://litopia.com/shows/burn/

Netanya by Dror Burstein

Burning Books

01/01/18 • 20 min

Is it a novel? Memoirs? A book of geology? Anthropology? Marine Biology? Yes yes yes.

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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.

http://litopia.com/shows/burn/

Human Parts by Orly Castel-Bloom

Burning Books

11/29/17 • 20 min

Permanent winter in a desert climate, a dentist with no face, a woman finding material wealth in the midst of poverty, a governmental minister whose full time job is to attend funerals – all this and much, much, much more. Download the mp3 file

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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.

http://litopia.com/shows/burn/

Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron

Burning Books

11/06/17 • 20 min

The man who keeps surviving terrorist attacks and the person who is determined to finish him off once and for all square off in this chapter by chapter account of what goes wrong when you add the human element to a simple ideological cataclysm. Download the mp3 file

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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.

http://litopia.com/shows/burn/

Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua

Burning Books

10/25/17 • 20 min

A heavyweight tale in featherweight prose. A beautiful story about a boy who slips away into adulthood. A ghost story about a person who’s still alive. Burning Books is back with a brand new season!

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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.

http://litopia.com/shows/burn/

A Star Called Henry – Roddy Doyle

Burning Books

04/11/17 • 20 min

Part One of the Doyle’s The Last Roundup charts the raising, rising and falling of Henry Smart, scamp of Dublin, caught up in the machine of so-called national so-called liberation.

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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.

http://litopia.com/shows/burn/

The Binding of Isaac by Omri Boehm

Burning Books

08/07/18 • 20 min

A reinterpretation of Genesis 22, Abraham nearly sacrificing his son Isaac, that blew my mind.

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From recent débuts to classics, fiction to non-fiction, memoirs, philosophy, science, history and journalism, Burning Books separates the smoking from the singeworthy, looking at the pleasures (and pains) of reading, the craft of writing, the ideas that are at the heart of great novels as well as novels that try to be great, but don’t quite make it.

http://litopia.com/shows/burn/

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Top 10 Burning Books Episodes

Moods by Yoel Hoffmann

Khirbet Khizeh by S Yizhar

I Pity the Poor Immigrant by Zachary Lazar

Interview with Todd Hasak-Lowy

Netanya by Dror Burstein

Human Parts by Orly Castel-Bloom

Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron

Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua

A Star Called Henry – Roddy Doyle

The Binding of Isaac by Omri Boehm

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