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We read Susan Sontag's "Against Interpretation" (1964) and discuss criticism, cave paintings, Walter de Maria, Adopt-a-Highway, and institutional critique.

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Si llevas tiempo escuchándome, sabes que siempre he tenido cierto síndrome de Peter Pan. O más bien algo de vértigo ante la velocidad a la que pasa mi vida. No debo ser el único, ni debe ser algo moderno, ni únicamente occidental, porque pocos temas se han repetido tanto en la historia de la humanidad como las reflexiones sobre el arte de vivir. Haz la prueba, busca en Google o en Amazon simplemente eso, “el arte de vivir” y de pronto te encontrarás casi infinitas obras clásicas y modernas de muy distinto pelaje. Desde Séneca al Dalai Lama, de Krishnamurti a Schopenhauer, de El arte de vivir en soledad a El arte de vivir en pareja, de hacerlo con sencillez o de hacerlo sin miedo. Por salirme, me ha salido hasta una biografía ilustrada de Lola Flores. Esa no la vi venir.

Pero, ¿por qué vivir es un arte? El arte es un concepto que tiene infinitas definiciones. Las más habituales tienen que ver con usar la creatividad y la imaginación para crear obras bellas o que expresen sentimientos. Pero, otra forma de verlo, es a través de su naturaleza. La naturaleza del arte es una en la que no hay reglas definidas. No hay una única forma de hacer buen arte, ni la misma manera gusta a todo el mundo. Es más, siempre se pueden encontrar nuevas formas de hacer arte. Decía Susan Sontag que el arte es una forma de consciencia, una manera dinámica de contemplar. Por eso, vivir es también un arte. Porque no hay reglas definidas, ni realmente universales, y porque las decisiones que tomamos en nuestra vida son la forma en la que expresamos nuestras conclusiones de contemplar lo que nos pasa. 

Que sea un arte, no significa no significa que no podamos aprender de todos aquellos que se obsesionaron sobre el tema antes; igual que un artista puede aprender e inspirarse con otros artistas tan diferentes como Velázquez, El Bosco, Warhol o Kandinsky. O Lola Flores, por supuesto.  

Hoy retomamos la serie de diseño vital —esa que en temporadas anteriores usamos para buscar ideas que aplicar en nuestra vida— y lo hacemos para sumergirnos en algunas reflexiones, actuales y clásicas, sobre cómo vivir. Seguramente nos lleve algunos capítulos, no sé cuántos. Aunque, bien pensado, puede llevar toda una vida.

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In this episode of the premiere Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker lore podcast, Sean and Chadd look at the narrative of Emet-Selch in Shadowbringers in dialogue with with works of Susan Sontag. Along the way, they talk about disease, Camp, and the inexorable replacement and preservation of memory, and come to a surprisingly concrete conclusion about the nature of the text of FFXIV: Shadowbringers.
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On Photography -  Susan Sontag, 1973  
Notes on "Camp" - Susan Sontag, 1964  
Illness as Metaphor - Susan Sontag, 1978  
And, finally, that picture of Susan Sontag we were talking about: https://imgur.com/a/nPyWn62

Charlotte Wood is one of Australia’s finest, most original writers. She is the author of six novels; a collection of interviews called The Writers’ Room; Love & Hunger; and The Luminous Solution, about creativity and resilience. Charlotte’s most recent novel The Weekend is funny, tender and often uncomfortable, and won the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year. The Natural Way of Things was a bestseller and published internationally. It received various awards including the Stella Prize, and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for fiction. Charlotte also has two podcast series, The Writers’ Room and Eat like the Animals. 

The Luminous Solution is wise and filled with energy and inspiration - it isn’t just for writers and artists but for anyone wanting to enrich their inner life. As Ailsa Piper describes, it is a ‘magnificent book of consolation, inspiration, completely individual observation, scholarship, honesty, wisdom and wonder. Every page contains food for the mind and spirit.’ 

Camp. CRUELLA. Crap.

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In this edition of Swerve South, Jaime and Theresa discuss the campy delight of Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Will Ferrell’s spoof/celebration of the international song competition Eurovision. Our hosts share some of their favorite moments from the film: cameos from former Eurovision winners like Conchita Wurst, outrageous costumes and performances, and the surprisingly moving ending. The episode explores Eurovision’s odd combination of artificial, schlocky camp and absolute sincerity and contemplates why the international pop culture phenomenon has yet to land with American audiences. Whether you’re a longtime fan of Eurovision or a newcomer, this episode is a great introduction to both the movie and the contest’s over-the-top charms.

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Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we’ll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know -- but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Leading Ladies, Activists, STEMinists,  Local Legends, and many more. Encyclopedia Womannica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures.

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ESSAY - Basje Boer leest voor: 'Ladycamp'. Een essay waarin ze zoekt naar woorden om "ladycamp" mee te definiëren, aan de hand van verwachtingen, taboes en de grenzen van het vrouw-zijn.

Lees 'Ladycamp'.

*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card. 

Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long? Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.

Books by Benjamin Moser

Sontag: Her Life and Work (ebook)

Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (translated by Moser) (ebook)

The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (edited by Moser) (ebook)

Books by Sheila Heti

Women in Clothes (ebook)

Motherhood (print book available when branches reopen)

“My Life is a Joke” (link opens a 2015 story by Heti in The New Yorker)

Materials by or about Susan Sontag

Debriefing: Collected Stories by Susan Sontag

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (of Susan Sontag), 1964-1980

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

On the Eve of the Met Gala, Andrew Bolton Takes Vogue on a Walking Tour of “Camp: Notes on Fashion” (link opens a Vogue magazine article from May 2019)

Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA podcast 
A four-part Interview with Susan Sontag (can be listened to in any order)

Episode One: This God-Damned Celebrity Culture (23 mins)

Episode Two: The Little Illness Book (19 mins)

Episode Three: The Arts Give Humans Dignity (19 mins)

Episode Four: Make Something Better (19 mins)
 

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.
 

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.

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Works by Susan Sontag

From America

The Volcano Lover

Tuesday, and After: New Yorker Writers Respond to 9/11 (New Yorker article from Sep 2001)

Regarding the Pain of Others

Debriefing: Collected Stories

Works about Susan Sontag

Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser

Robert Fulford: A Sojourn With Susan Sontag (National Post article from 2012)

Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview

Susan Sontag: A Biography by Daniel Schreiber

Other Related Books or Materials

Theatre of War by Lewis Lapham

About the Host

Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.

Music is by Yuka

From the Archives

Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.

Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.

Writers Off the Page is a biweekly podcast series produced by Toronto Public Library that presents the best of 40 years from the archives of the Toronto International Festival of Authors (formerly known as IFOA: International Festival of Authors). Between 10-20 minutes long, episodes feature interviews, readings and discussions with some of the 20th century's best-known writers.

Works by Susan Sontag

From America

The Volcano Lover

“Godot Comes to Sarajevo” (New York Review of Books article)

Books about Susan Sontag

Swimming in a Sea of Death: a Son’s Memoir by David Rieff

Sempre Susan: a Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez

Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser

Other Related Books or Materials

Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett

Ubu Roi: Drama in Five Acts by Alfred Jarry

Regarding Susan Sontag: a 2015 documentary

About the Host

Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.

Music is by Yuka

From the Archives

Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.

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Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.

Books by Susan Sontag

The Benefactor

Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors

From America

Books about Susan Sontag

Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser

Other Books or Materials Mentioned

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Film: David Lean’s 1946 version of Great Expectations (Criterion Collection)

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

About the Host:

Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.

Music is by Yuka.

This podcast series is produced by Toronto Public Library, in collaboration with TIFA (Toronto International Festival of Authors) and Library and Archives Canada.

Mona Talbott and Kate Arding are the forces behind Talbott & Arding, a cheese and provisions shop, in Hudson, New York. Mona and Kate approach their food, shop, and community with intention and love. They sat down with Julia to talk about what their lives were like before they opened their business, how they navigate running it together as a couple, and more.

Mona has over 25 years experience in the culinary industry. She began her cooking career as a camp cook in remote logging camps in her native Canada, formalizing her training at the Western Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon where, in 1993, Talbott graduated with highest honors. She was a cook at Chez Panisse for five years before she launched Mona Talbott Catering and began cooking exclusively for “A” list private clients and catering events both in the United States and Europe working within the fine arts, media and entertainment industry. Her ongoing collaboration on special culinary projects with Alice Waters eventually led her to Italy, where, from 2006-2011, she was the founding Executive Chef at the Rome Sustainable Food Project at the American Academy in Rome. She has written and published two cookbooks: Biscotti and Zuppe: Recipes from the Kitchen of the American Academy in Rome, and contributed to over ten cookbooks authored by notable chefs. In 2010, Talbott was included in COCO, 10 World-Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs and, most recently, contributed 50 recipes to Amy Goldman’s forthcoming book, Heirloom Peppers. Mona has published recipes and written articles for the New York Times, Saveur, Bon Appetit, and Organic Cooking.

Kate is an internationally recognized authority on cheese with over 20 years of experience in the farmhouse cheese industry. Her work encompasses cheesemongering, sales and marketing, infrastructure management for small-scale cheese businesses, affinage (cheese maturation), publishing and teaching. She is a keynote speaker at regional and national conferences. Kate’s cheese career began at Neal’s Yard Dairy, London, UK in 1993 where she developed a thorough understanding of what it takes for cheesemakers and retailers to create and sustain profitable businesses. In 1997, Kate was recruited by Cowgirl Creamery & Tomales Bay Foods, the award winning cheese retailer and cheesemaker, to be their Head Cheesemonger and Cheese Buyer at their newly formed company in Marin County, California. In 2008, Kate co-founded the ground-breaking consumer print and online cheese magazine Culture: The Word on Cheese.

Kate’s consulting work has influenced agricultural agencies, cheese producers and retailers around the globe, working in places as diverse as Uganda, Ecuador, the Netherlands and Macedonia. A member of the Board of Directors for the American Cheese Society (ACS), and Co-Chair of the ACS’s Regulatory and Academic Committee, Kate also regularly judges at many U.S. and international competitions. In 2011, she was inducted into the Guilde Internationale des Fromagers, where she was especially recognized for her work within the artisanal cheese industry, both in the U.S and overseas. Kate is an area editor of the Oxford Companion to Cheese (Oxford University Press, 2015). As an industry spokesperson and sought-after expert, Kate has appeared on The Martha Stewart Living Show, Heritage Radio Network and has been regularly featured in national and international press, including the San Francisco Chronicle, The LA Times, The Times (UK). As a contributing writer, editor and photographer, Kate’s work on cheesemakers and the cheesemaking process has been published in media outlets worldwide.

Follow-up links from the episode:

• Julia will be signing copies of Now & Again at Talbott and Arding (323 Warren Street in Hudson, NY) on Saturday May 4, 2019 from 2p - 3p. Come say hi!
• For more about Talbott and Arding, head here.
• For the quinoa recipe (Charoset Quinoa) from Now & Again that Julia mentioned, head here.
• For the red lentil recipe (Curried Red Lentils with Coconut Milk) from Small Victories that Juila mentioned, head here.
• For Julia's Red Lentil Soup with Coconut and Cilantro from Feed the Resistance, head here.
• For more about Rolling Grocer 19, head here.
• For more about Kinderhook Farm, head here.
• For more about Julia, head here.

Uncle and the Aunties consider a first edition Susan Sontag reader with a passionate inscription.