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Ark Audio Book Club #43 Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrea Lawlor from 2020-02-27T23:30:40
On this episode, the final episode of the ark audiobooks club, for now, the gang talk about “Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl”, by Andrea Lawlor. The novel follows the story of Paul/Polly Polyd...
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Ark Live — Translation Series: Johanne Bille's Elastic with Sheri Hellberg from 2019-12-30T09:51:15
On this podcast, you will a recording of an event we held back in August to celebrate the release of the English translation of Johanna Bille’s Novel, Elastic, from Lolli Editions.
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Ark Live — Loretta Auditorium Presents The Body of Loretta with J. P. Slote from 2019-12-28T16:47:13
On this podcast, you will hear a reading/performance by New York-based writer and performer J. P. Slote of extracts from three plays from the recently published collection "Loretta Auditorium Prese...
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Ark Live — Going Nowhere, Slow with Mikkel Krause Frantzen from 2019-12-15T18:09:08
On this podcast, you will hear a recording of an event to celebrate the release of Danish literary critic and cultural theorist Mikkel Krase Frantzen’s first book in English, "Going Nowhere, Slow: ...
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Ark Audio Book Club #42 The Topeka School by Ben Lerner from 2019-12-11T07:55:41
This month on the ark audio book club, we are revisiting an old flame with the new novel "The Topeka School" by Ben Lerner. Lerner’s first novel, "Leaving the Atocha Station", was the book started ...
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Ark Audio Book Club #41 The End of Alice by A. M. Homes from 2019-11-08T21:38:29
This month on the ark audio book club, the gang talk about A. M. Homes controversial novel, The End of Alice. The novel is a character study of a convicted pedophile and child murderer as he reflec...
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Ark Audio Book Club #40 The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe from 2019-10-04T06:45:56
This month on the ark audio book club, we discussed the mid-20th Century, Japanese surreal folk horror novel, "The Woman in the Dunes" by Kobo Abe. It is the story of an amateur entomologist, who i...
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Ark Audio Book Club #39 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong from 2019-08-30T13:13:23
This month on the ark audio book club, we discussed the debut novel from Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong, “On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous”. The novel is narrated by Little Dog, a Vietnamese r...
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Ark Audio Book Club #38 The Easter Parade by Richard Yates from 2019-07-26T05:47:20
This month on the ark audio book club, we discuss the unhappy lives of the Grimes sisters in Richard Yates modern classic of American aspirational despair, "The Easter Parade". Featuring Emma Agger...
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Ark Live: Todd May—On the Ontology of Gilles Deleuze from 2019-07-20T22:09:45
In this Podcast, you will hear a wonderfully concise talk from philosopher, Todd May, the former philosophical advisor to the sitcom The Good Place, on the tricky and alluring topic of the ontology...
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Ark Live: Plant Organizing—Michael Marder & Mycelium from 2019-07-20T21:35:06
In this podcast, you will hear a presentation from the plant philosopher, Michael Marder on what plants can teach us about political organization and resistance.
And a presentation from t...
Ark Audio Book Club #37 The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart from 2019-05-31T08:11:28
This month on the ark audio book club, we dive into a work experimental affect theory fictocriticism with "The Hundreds" by the literary scholar, Lauren Berlant, and anthropologist, Kathleen Stewar...
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Ark Audio Book Club #36 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata from 2019-05-01T12:54:47
This month we have read “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata, her 10th book and her first novel to be translated into English and now Danish too. The Novel to the story of Keiko, a woman out ...
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Ark Audio Book Club #35 You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian from 2019-03-29T08:19:51
This month on the ark audio book club the gang discuss the debut short story collection by the author of the viral hit story "Cat Person", Kristen Roupenian, "You Know You Want This". The collecti...
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Ark Audio Book Club #34 My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh from 2019-02-22T06:36:08
This Month, the Ark Audio Book Club discuss Ottessa Moshfegh's second novel, "My Year of Rest and Relaxation". The novel is the story of an attractive, wealthy young woman whose feelings of disaffe...
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Ark Audio Book Club #33 Repetition by Søren Kierkegaard from 2018-12-07T07:08:37
In the final ark audio book club of 2018, the Ark Audio Book Club Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard's advice on how to get out of a relationship without dumping anyone, "Repetition". But this sh...
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Ark Audio Book Club #32 Orlando by Virginia Woolf from 2018-11-09T07:42:29
This month, the ark audio book club discuss Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel of gender shifting, genre defying, identity questioning, time warping, language inventing and form defining, "Or...
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Ark Live—After The Great Refusal: A Conversation with Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen from 2018-10-19T08:28:42
Here is the audio from our evening of conversation with art historian and cultural critic Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen to mark the release of his new collection of essays, "After the Great Refusal".
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Ark Audio Book Club #31 Outline by Rachel Cusk from 2018-09-28T05:50:38
This month on the Ark Audio Book Club, we discuss the first novel in Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy, "Outline". This is a novel in 10 conversations between out narrator Faye, a recently divorced 50-...
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Ark Audio Book Club #30 The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek from 2018-08-31T06:07:29
This month on the Ark Audio Book Club we discussed the Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek’s disturbing 1983 novel of repression desire and violence, The Piano Teacher. The novel tells the ...
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Ark Audio Book Club # 29 The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop from 2018-07-27T08:02:18
On this episode of the Ark Audio book club, we talk about Gio's new favorite book: The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop. Written in 1972 but not translated into English until 2011, it's a very sho...
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Ark Audio Book Club #28 Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada from 2018-06-29T08:03:47
This month on the ark attempt to talk about Yoko Tawada's novel "Memoirs of a Polar Bear" but have real trouble doing so. And while none of them can recommend this books there are a bunch they'd li...
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Ark Audio Review #11 — Terrapolis from 2018-06-22T13:43:24
Intro: Hello and welcome to the Ark Audio Review – the podcast where we talk about the Ark Book’s online literary and cultural journal. I am your co-host Nina Bang and in this mini episode we hope ...
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Ark Audio Review #10 Migration from 2018-06-01T06:22:49
This month's theme on the Ark Audio Review is migration. Nina and Stine talk to Franek Korbanski about his interview with Polish co-founders and longtime director of The Borderland Foundation, Krzy...
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Ark Audio Book Club #27 Torpor, by Chris Kraus from 2018-05-25T05:12:18
Completing a run of three years, this month the Ark Audio Book Club crew have read "Torpor" by Chris Kraus, the final part of the "I Love Dick" Trilogy. Set in 1991, three years before the events o...
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Ark Live—The Sonic Persona: A conversation on sound and sensing with Holger Schulze from 2018-05-18T07:24:05
ark books is proud to present a conversation on sensing, listening and sound, based on the new book from, University of Copenhagen professor of musicology and sound studies, Holger Schulze, The Son...
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Ark Audio Review # 9 Translation from 2018-05-11T06:56:05
This month on the Ark Audio Review, the team talk to Simon Fern about pigeons, Ebba talks about the new documentary "Dreaming Murakami", and Neus Casanova Vico talks about the new Ark Review column...
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Ark Audio Book Club # 26 "Inherent Vice" by Thomas Pynchon from 2018-04-27T07:34:40
Inherent Vice (2009) is a shaggy dog story about a hippy private investigator, Lawrence “Doc” Sportello, living in L.A. at the tail end of the 1960s (which I think could really mean up until 1974is...
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Xenofeminism in Copenhagen from 2018-04-20T06:23:13
Xenofeminism in Copenhagen thanks to the team from kbh læser. Also a big thanks to all our collaborators, Diann Bauer, Martin Hauberg-Lund, Rebecca W. B. Lund, Eksistensfilosofisk Akademi, Passive/...
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Ark Audio Review Bonus, Interview with Mikkel Frantzen from 2018-04-16T06:56:25
In this bonus episode of the Ark Audio Review, Macon Holt interviews literary scholar Mikkel Frantzen about his thesis, "Going nowhere, slow? scenes of depression in contemporary literature and cu...
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Ark Audio Review #8 Manifesto (Season 2) from 2018-04-11T07:19:28
The Ark Audio Review returns with a brand new team, Nina Band, Anne Kristin Kristiansen and Ebba Wester. This month we are looking at the theme of this year's KBH Læser festival, Manifesto. With gu...
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Senyora Psicosi More or Less, #11 Kool A.D.'s Related Risks from 2018-04-06T05:35:26
If you think you are disqualified from listening to this tape, you are. Such is the nature of suspicion. You are judged by your words, and your words are themselves judged. Turn on, tune in and dro...
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Ark Audio Book Club #25 How Should a Person Be?, by Sheila Heti from 2018-03-29T21:28:02
Sheila Heti's intentionally "ugly" novel of creative anxiety and ethical quandary, "How Should a Person Be?" If this wets your whistle, you can hear more about the book tomorrow on the Ark Audio Bo...
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Ark Audio Book Club, Bonus Infinite Jest, By David Foster Wallace from 2018-03-27T21:31:19
While Sarah and Gio are away, Macon has gathered together some of the volunteers at ark who have read David Foster Wallace's long thing, "Infinite Jest" for a chat about the month's they spent with...
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Ark Audio Review, #7 Christmas Special from 2018-03-27T15:03:33
In the Snorri's final episode of the Ark Audio Review we present to you the Christmas Special.
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Ark Audio Book Club #24 The Sellout, by Paul Beatty from 2018-03-27T13:43:11
The final Ark Audio Book Club of 2017 on Paul Beatty's award-winning novel "The Sellout". Featuring Frederikke Nøhr Hemmingsen, Giovanna Alesandro, Sarah Ommanney and Macon Holt. Published by Farra...
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Ark Audio Book Club #23, Blood and Guts and High School, by Kathy Acker from 2017-11-23T21:32:17
This month on the Ark Audio? Book Club, Macon Holt?, Sarah Ommanney? and Giovanna Alesandro? are joined by ark books? co-founder now of kbh læser?, Ditte Nesdam-Madsen? to discuss the reissue of Ka...
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Senyora Psicosi More or Less #10; Sjón's Company Costs from 2017-11-17T15:24:12
Swastikas, explosions, destruction. The Owl of Athens lets us drink from her fountain of wisdom. Senyora Psicosi gets stuck between two worlds, two languages, almost in lockstep with each other, ye...
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Ark Audio Review #06 Relics from 2017-11-10T22:05:47
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Senyora Psicosi More or Less #9; Mira Gonzalez' Full Floors from 2017-11-03T06:32:57
Senyora Psicosi knows why you keep coming back for more. It's the drugs. It's the terrorism. It's the childhood stories. Like the Lord's people you shall not be ashamed you Little Psicosis. Also, H...
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Ark Audio Book Club #22 Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett from 2017-10-26T20:55:51
This month the Ark Audio Book Club is talking about the satirical novel "Blackass" by A. Igoni Barrett, the story of a Nigerian man who wakes one morning to find he has undergone a Kafkaesque metam...
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Senyor Psicosi More or Less #8 Jonathan Lethem's Protected Pedestrians from 2017-10-20T05:14:01
Senyora Psicosi revves up her engine and races through the world of LSD and childhood memories. The lights of the city shine bright and Herr Caller wants to play a game.
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Senyora Psicosi More or Less, #7; Zadie Smith's Phenomenal Perspectivalness from 2017-10-05T21:15:16
Herr Caller continues to ponder the call of the void as Senyora Psicosi falls back into her own phenomenal self. Will he swerve into oncoming traffic? Will she become nothing? Jonathan Franzen does...
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Ark Audio Book Club #21 Satin Island by Tom McCarthy from 2017-09-29T06:57:39
This month on the Ark Audio Book Club it’s Macon’s pick and we have read Tom Mccarthy’s novel “Satin Island” (2015), a Kafkaesque tale narrated by a corporate anthropologist named U, tasked to prod...
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Senyora Psicosi More or Less, #6; Eileen Myles' Kitchen Knife from 2017-09-22T06:15:54
As Senyora Psicosi grapples with how life is brought into this world, Herr Caller wonders whether he should just swerve into oncoming traffic. Leave this world. Go back to the void from whence we a...
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Ark Audio Review Bonus— Ark 100 from 2017-09-14T16:16:11
The Ark Review reaches its 100th post, and Snorri and Macon discuss how you can pick up physical version of the Review for the very first time.
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Ark Audio Review #05 Ephemera (Feat. Chris Kraus.) from 2017-09-07T20:15:45
This month on the Ark Audio Review, Snorri goes through all our ephemera on the ephemeral and Macon and Gio interview Chris Kraus!
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Senyora Psicosi More or Less, #5; Julien Coupat's Digital Devices from 2017-09-01T05:30:13
As Herr Caller finally establishes interaction with Senyora Psicosi, she wonders how our digital devices shape our being in this world. There is also twice the normal terrorism in this episode whic...
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Ark Audio Book Club #20, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, By Alexandra Kleeman from 2017-08-25T05:31:57
This month the Ark Audio Book Club discuss Alexandra Kleeman's debut novel "You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine". It's a story of bodies, symbols, shark documentaries, ephemeral cakes and obscured Ch...
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Ark Audio Review #04 Leisure from 2017-08-18T08:14:44
This month on the Ark Audio Review, the theme is "Leisure" and Snorri Rafn Hallsson is stretched out on a beach sipping a mojito and has outsourced the podcast to Macon Holt and Franek Korbanski, a...
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Senyora Psicosi More or Less, #4; Jeffrey Eugenides's Filament Fibers from 2017-08-10T20:13:09
It isn’t February 30th, and it may never be, although it once was, and Senyora Psicosi is here. Whatever the date, she is always here, a single thread running through the whole fiber of existence. ...
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Senyora Psicosi More or Less, #3; Elena Ferrante's Amplifier Adjustments from 2017-08-04T06:06:13
The rain softens Seniora Psicosis voice and reduces it almost to a whisper. As her voice withers away, so does her sense of self. Seniora Psicosi enters a dissociative state where one hand undoes t...
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Ark Audio Book Club #19 Pond, by Claire-Louise Bennett from 2017-07-27T22:02:03
Ark Audio Book Club #19 Pond, by Claire-Louise Bennett by Ark Audio
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Senyora Psicosi More Or Less, #2 Han Kang's Skin Swelling from 2017-07-20T20:58:32
Come along as Senyora Psicosi experiences the side effects of antidepressants, lays the groundwork for making bombs and takes a call from a man with a keen interest and exciting opinions on fishing...
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Ark Audio Review #03 Against________ from 2017-07-14T06:13:25
One can be against everything, and some people definitely are, but fighting everything at once is not an option. In the month of June we at Ark Books tried to collectively write against everything,...
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Senyora Psicosi More or Less, #1 Tao Lin's Electric Espionage from 2017-07-07T05:53:16
Senyora Psicosi More or Less, #1 Tao Lin's Electric Espionage
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Accursed Growth! Part 2 from 2017-06-25T16:15:32
There is no new book club this month,So instead we are going to release the audio from an event we held back in March as a part of this years KBH Læser festival (Copenhagen reader for the non-danis...
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Accursed Growth! Part 1 from 2017-06-25T15:15:51
There is no new book club this month,So instead we are going to release the audio from an event we held back in March as a part of this years KBH Læser festival (Copenhagen reader for the non-danis...
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Ark Audio Review #02 No Theme from 2017-06-16T05:24:08
This time, Ark Review didn't put together a theme, which doesn't give Snorri a great deal to work with but he still finds a way. He talks with the host of the storytelling phenomenon "The Horses Mo...
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Ark Audio Book Club #18 I'm very into you, By Kathy Acker & McKenzie Wark from 2017-05-28T18:55:18
This month on the Ark Audio Book Club, the gang discuss "I'm very into you", an intense collection of emails between Kathy Acker and Mckenzie Wark that cover everything from sexuality and The Simps...
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Ark Audio Review #1 Defanging from 2017-05-12T07:03:05
In the first episode of the Ark Audio Review, a mash up of Ark Audio and the Ark review, we look at defanging, vampires, the modern school system and irony in the time of late capitalism.
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Ark Audio Book Club #17 Aliens and Anorexia By Chris Kraus. from 2017-04-23T07:12:34
For this episode of the Ark Audio Book Club we have read "Aliens and Anorexia" by Chris Kraus, the second book in the "I Love Dick trilogy" published on Semiotext
Ark Audio Book Club #16 The Gospels of Mark and John from 2017-03-27T05:31:42
On this edition of the Ark Audio Book Club, we talk about the new testament gospels of Mark and John These give oddly different but strangely similar accounts of a young (though middle aged by the ...
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Ark Audio Book Club #15 I Hate The Internet, by Jarett Kobek from 2017-02-26T21:18:28
This month Macon Holt fills in for Giovanna Alesandro for the 15th Ark Audio Book Club in which we discuss Jarett Kobek’s raucous and rather experimental satire of the cultural dominance of San Fra...
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Ark Audio Book Club #14 Nothing Holds Back the Night by Delpine De Vigan from 2017-01-29T14:32:41
On the 14th Ark Audio Book club, this month we discuss Nothing Holds Back the Night back by Delphine De Vigan. The book is a non-traditional novel/memoir of the troubled life of the author's late m...
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Ark Audio Book Club #13 The Vegetarian by Han Kang from 2016-12-26T07:58:29
This month on the Ark Audio Book Club we discuss Deborah Smith's award-winning translation of South Korean writer, Han Kang's unsettling but oddly beautiful novel, 'The Vegetarian'. This is the Kaf...
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Ark Audio Book Club #12 The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink from 2016-11-27T17:13:45
On the 12th edition of the Ark Audio Book Club, we discuss Nell Zink's first novel, 'The Wallcreeper'. It is a short and highly innovative novel that with a unique perspective on a lot of issues an...
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Ark Audio Book Club #11 10:04 by Ben Lerner from 2016-10-23T20:52:55
On this special anniversary edition of the Ark Audio Book club we have brought together the panel from the first ever episode, on Leaving the Atocha Station, to talk about Ben Lerner’s second novel...
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Ark Audio Book Club #10 The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand from 2016-09-26T06:19:16
This episode is about Ayn Rands epic, and pretty crappy, novel "The Fountainhead". The book was published in 1943 and is one long ode to individualism and a bashing of collectivism. At over 700 pag...
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Ark Audio Book Club #9 Dark Spring By Unica Zürn from 2016-08-29T05:36:19
This month on the Ark Audio Book Club we read Unica Zürn's 1967 Book 'Dark Spring'. It's the story of a young girl growing up in the suburbs of Berlin, but it's really about her fatally complicated...
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Ark Audio Book Club #8 Richard Yates by Tao Lin (Feat. Caspar Eric) from 2016-07-24T20:33:29
In this episode of the Ark Audio Book Club we explore the genre ‘’new sincerity’’, with Tao Lins 2010 novel called Richard Yates. The book is about the relationship between about two characters, Da...
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Ark Audio: Ark Live presents Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. PART 2 (Feat. Emma Holten) from 2016-06-29T05:44:09
Back in March we held and event as part ok, KBH Læser, on David Foster Wallace’s story collection 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men’. These are the reordering we made of the event edited for time....
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Ark Audio: Ark Live Presents Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. PART 1 (feat. Mikkel Frantzen) from 2016-06-28T14:59:09
Back in March we held and event as part of, KBH Læser, on David Foster Wallace’s story collection 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men’. These are the reordering we made of the event, edited for time...
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Ark Audio Book Club #7 Submission by Michel Houellebecq from 2016-05-27T06:44:57
In the 7th edition of the Ark Audio Book Club we talk about Michel Houellebecq's 2015 novel 'Submission'. The novel is set in the year 2022 in France, and the political tension is escalating. We be...
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Ark Audio Book Club #6 Story of the Eye by George Bataille from 2016-04-24T16:14:40
In the 6th episode of the ark audio book club we are talking about French philosopher Georges Bataille’s novel 'Story of the Eye’, which was originally published in 1928 but wasn’t translated into...
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Ark Audio. Essay: Erectile Eyes by SORT SNAK'S Jon Auring Grimm from 2016-04-14T20:01:55
In this bonus Podcast, in anticipation of the upcoming audio book club on Georges Bataille's 'Story of the Eye', we present the audio essay 'Erectile Eyes' by the founder of SORT SNAK, philosopher ...
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Ark Audio Book Club #5 I Love Dick, by Chris Kraus (Feat. Emma Holten) from 2016-03-27T19:10:17
In the 5th edition of the ark audio book club we are examining "I Love Dick" by Chris Kraus, originally published by Semiotext(e) in 1997, reprinted in 2015 by Tuskar Rock Press in Great Britain. T...
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Ark Audio Book Club #4 Goodbye to Berlin, By Christopher Isherwood from 2016-02-26T15:07:07
On this fourth Ark Audio Book Club we discuss Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin. The book is a portrayal of Berlin in the interwar period. From 1930 to 1933 Christopher Isherwood, the narra...
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Ark Audio Book Club #3 Doppler, By Erlend Loe from 2015-12-25T18:10:57
In this third episode we talk about Erlend Loe’s 2005 Bestseller Doppler.
The book is a social satire on contemporary Norway right before the financial crisis of 2008.
It’s really entertain...
Ark Audio Book Club #2 The First Bad Man, By Miranda July from 2015-11-26T16:44:41
In the second edition of ark audio book club, we will be discussing Miranda July’s novel The First Bad Man. Its funny, its dark and its troubling. This book is at least in part about inner and oute...
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Ark Audio Book Club #1 Leaving The Atocha Station By Ben Lerner from 2015-10-29T16:31:26
In this episode we are discussing Ben Lerners debut novel ‘’Leaving the Atocha Station’’ from 2011. We are trying new ways of sharing the literature and those experiences, this is just one of the w...
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