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Burning Books

Burning Books

Litopia

A show dedicated to discussing, celebrating, exploring (etc) great books, very good books, bad books, and very bad books
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Burning Books episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Burning Books for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Burning Books episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Burning Books - A Star Called Henry – Roddy Doyle
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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.

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Burning Books - My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
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12/01/16 • 20 min

Elena is friends with Lila, whom hurts Elena in all kinds of ways that Elena finds fascinating, and painful. Slums, slums, slums, creepy older men, and not a single moment of levity. Prepare yourself.

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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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Burning Books - School of Velocity – Eric Beck Rubin
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11/27/16 • 20 min

Jan and Dirk were inseparable as teenagers, right up till the moment they separated. That didn’t end the friendship, though, which lives on even as the two grow estranged from one another.

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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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Burning Books - Hadrian's Memoirs – Marguerite Yourcenar
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02/24/15 • 25 min

At the end of his days, sitting in his villa outside Rome, the Emperor Hadrian writes a long letter to his adopted son, and next great leader of Rome, Marcus Aurelius. In Hadrian’s world, thoughts duel with power, ideas with reality, books with life. Aurelius often gets praise as the first philosopher king, but in this telling it’s Hadrian who is as much thinker as conqueror. Marguerite Yourcenar’s towering intellect and faultless prose bring Second Century Rome to life.

Yeah, it’s good.

Photo: FraserElliot

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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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Burning Books - Moods by Yoel Hoffmann
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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.

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

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Burning Books - Interview with Todd Hasak-Lowy
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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/

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Burning Books - Netanya by Dror Burstein
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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/

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Burning Books - Human Parts by Orly Castel-Bloom
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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/

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Burning Books - Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron
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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/

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Burning Books - The Blue Fox - Sjón
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02/07/14 • 11 min

Things are not what they appear to be, and not even what they appear later to be. Foxes are animals that cannot be trusted, and sometimes they are not even animals. This is that in Sjón's slender novel. Intriguing.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Burning Books have?

Burning Books currently has 56 episodes available.

What topics does Burning Books cover?

The podcast is about Literature, Fiction, Reviews, Books and Nonfiction.

What is the most popular episode on Burning Books?

The episode title 'Moods by Yoel Hoffmann' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Burning Books?

The average episode length on Burning Books is 24 minutes.

How often are episodes of Burning Books released?

Episodes of Burning Books are typically released every 21 days, 1 hour.

When was the first episode of Burning Books?

The first episode of Burning Books was released on Sep 18, 2013.

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