The Cosmic Library

A @lithub podcast adventuring through Finnegans Wake, 1,001 Nights, the Hebrew Bible, Journey to the West, and many many short stories. By @_AdamColman_.

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Join us in "The Hall of the Monkey King"!

The trailer for Cosmic Library's season 4—on JOURNEY TO THE WEST—is here.

This season, that classic and extremely funny Chinese novel prompts conversations about cinema, about comedy, about Buddhism, about transcendence.

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We have a trailer @lithub—and an interview with me—for the new Cosmic Library season on The Brothers Karamazov:

https://t.co/VgHesltCRN

The new season starts April 16! It opens with a radio-play adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel!

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At this point The Cosmic Library's social media existence has really shifted to the other microblogging place.

For quotes from our show's luminaries, for updates on the forthcoming season: find us there!

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This is the review I've been waiting for:

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Cosmic Librarians, you've heard a reflection on Diane Oliver in our U.S. short story season; now you can read @GabrielJBump on the subject of Oliver and her stories:

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The friend? James Joyce

[Adam O'Fallon Price @AdamOPrice]

me, reading a friend's work-in-progress: wait, so did you choose all these words and put them in this order, or is it more or less random?

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@higley_alex True, yes! Justin mentions the former-podcaster status in the show. Still—metaphysically—I sometimes think that no one ever stops being a podcaster.

Eager to read TRUE FAILURE! A book with such a title goes immediately to the top of my list.

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"When people say they use my podcast to fall asleep, it feels slightly insulting," says @NYerFiction's Deborah Treisman on the @_CosmicLibrary_. But fiction and podcasts work in dreamy ways; hear about it all in the finale of this season on short stories:
https://t.co/8N1eVWQYyS

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Here: https://t.co/HrRZGRq5gj

And in the podcatchers!

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Ok there’s a lot going on in this episode, including a meditation on literary podcasting, and my discovery that characters in @my19thcentury’s REBOOT are named after actual lit podcasters @higley_alex and @clnichols6.

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Get ready for a very American conclusion to our season on American fiction. How American? At one point the novelist Justin Taylor exclaims, "I'm back, baby! I'm rebooted!"

Nobody said such things in the Finnegans Wake season. (But it's not so far from a summary of the Wake.)

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Get ready for a very American conclusion to our season on American fiction. How American? At one point the novelist Justin Taylor exclaims, "I'm back, baby! I'm rebooted!"

Nobody said such things in the Finnegans Wake season. (But it's not so far from a summary of the Wake.)

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This week: @NYerFiction's Deborah Treisman, @tayari, @my19thcentury, Becca Rothfeld, and Andrew Kahn. Hear about The NYer's glittering fiction archive—a "very, very diverse and interesting and jumbled-up catalog," in Kahn's words.

@lithub and everywhere!
https://t.co/fBsvEAoq9K

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This week’s show follows conversations on weird fiction and more—there’s @my19thcentury on Poe, Andrew Kahn on the brevity of some weird fiction, and a journey into cosmic strangeness.

@lithub:

https://t.co/LRfrE53xbY

And all podcatchers:

https://t.co/fBsvEAoq9K

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@DavidNaimon @KnowYrEnemyPod @SelectedShorts 1) I'm a huge fan!

2) Hm . . . I'm now sending everyone to our newest episode, with a performance of "Wakefield" and associated riffs:
https://t.co/TZZ6AAleTJ

For more story-inquiry, there's our 1,001 Nights season, starting here:
https://t.co/VMO1zi624E

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Very happy with the shows now listed as "you might also like" for Cosmic Library in Apple Podcasts. @DavidNaimon's Between the Covers, @KnowYrEnemyPod, @SelectedShorts. It's a good situation over there!

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Whoa look at this—The Cosmic Library’s weird fiction star this season, author of REBOOT and our guide to Hawthorne: @my19thcentury, AKA Justin Taylor

[Elisa Gabbert @egabbert]

@_CosmicLibrary_ I've just been listening to the new season! Big "Wakefield" fan

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New essential reading for Cosmic Librarians, from @egabbert: https://t.co/uACM5oUTA1

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There's a transporting reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield" by the actor Max Gordon Moore in the latest episode—and you'll hear @my19thcentury introduce Hawthorne. Find it at @lithub or in any podcatcher:

https://t.co/fBsvEAoq9K

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"If I know you, and I have not given you a copy of this book, it means I don't like you."

High praise from Tayari Jones as she discusses NEIGHBORS AND OTHER STORIES on @_CosmicLibrary_'s American short stories episode.

Give it a listen!

https://t.co/ggV4t8Tm7w

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The podcast of literary infinity is back! This season: the world of short stories in the U.S., with The New Yorker's Deborah Treisman, Tayari Jones, Becca Rothfeld, Justin Taylor, Andrew Kahn, and Max Gordon Moore.
https://t.co/8N1eVWQYyS