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Plain Reading's latest episode is up! We're talking with classicist JC Boyle about looking for a new Greece, the inheritors of Thomas Bernhard, and a massive amount of #Books !

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plainreading.libsyn.comPlain Reading: In Search of Another Greece: JC BoyleClassicist and reader extraordinaire JC Boyle tells us about the Greeks, Ezra Pound, Thomas Bernhard, lending out your books, and so much more! Intro and outro music: "" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay. Episode artwork: Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy [cropped]. Wm. S. Kimball & Co., 1889. CC0 1.0 image courtesy and Metropolitan Museum of Art. Want to learn more about the books—and other media!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on , , and —and show your support at ! V. C. Andrews Aristophanes Honoré de Balzac Roland Barthes Simone de Beauvoir Andrei Bely Lauren Berlant Thomas Bernhard Thomas Bernhard John Berryman "" John Berryman Roberto Bolaño Brockport Writers Forum Ian Buruma "" (on Jean-Paul Sartre) Michael Cacoyannis Elias Canetti Elias Canetti Catullus Nawal El Saadawi Euripides Euripides Jon Fosse William Gaddis David Graeber / David Wengrow Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Mark Haber Mark Haber John Haffenden Byung-Chul Han Heinrich Heine "" Abbie Hoffman Gitta Honegger James Joyce Eugene Lim Nicole Loraux Nicole Loraux / Laura M. Slatkin / Gregory Nagy Thomas Mann Søren Mau Henry Miller Henry Miller John Mullen Iris Murdoch Mark Neocleous Raoul Peck Bob Perelman Plutarch Chad W. Post ""  Ezra Pound “” Hannah Proctor Gerard Reve Walter Rodney Ellen Rutten J. D. Salinger Ousmane Sembène Sophocles Scott Spillman Heiny Srour Leon Trostsky Gregor von Rezzori

Have you heard the Vonnegut quote about not using semicolons? That using one does nothing but show you've been to college?

That statement has always bugged me, so I looked into it and found a lot more in the article where it appears.

For example, he used a semicolon himself in the piece and said Shakespeare was a bad storyteller!

Here's the whole story:

Listen: pod.link/173429229

Read: grammar-girl.simplecast.com/ep

Watch: youtu.be/bziXQJ5pmkA

Tonight’s hang: Kim Thayil of Soundgarden (the riffs are still molten), Paloma Faith (UK pop royalty, and Maggie Lindemann (proving pop-punk never actually left).

Playlist includes Beatles, Green Day, Passengers, Patty Griffin, live Radiohead, a new Brittany Howard cover, and the Pennyworth theme.

6p ET on WFPK.

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