Island Idylls riffs on books and life with Barry Menikoff. Author of Stone Mother, Brooklyn born and bred, retired Hawaii university professor, international scholar. Evangelical pastor Aaron Menikoff, author of Politics and Piety, spices this dialogue between father and son. Both chasing that elusive line in an old song, What's it all about, Alfie?
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36 - The Gothic Lit of Flannery O’Connor
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35 - Hemingway, Regret, and Death
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34 - “Look it Up!” - A Dive Into the Dictionary
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33 - The Great Fitzgerald
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Nine Stories Catcher in the Rye Do you have questions for us? Email us at islandidylls@gmail.com 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast production by FullCastAaron Menikoff, Barry Menikoff tarafından oluşturuldu
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31 - J. D. Salinger & Bananafish
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30 - Who is Irwin Shaw?
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Rich Man, Poor Man The Young Lions Short Stories: Five Decades IRWIN SHAW, EXTOLLED FOR SHORT STORIES, DIES by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times Obituary Do you have questions for us? Email us at islandidylls@gmail.com 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast production by FullCastAaron Menikoff, Barry Menikoff tarafından oluşturuldu
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28 - Pale Horse, Pale Rider - Katherine Anne Porter
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27 - Capote’s A Christmas Memory
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26 - Stevenson and the Short Story
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25 - Introduction to the Short Story
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Episode 25 tackles the subject of the short story. What is it (yes, of course, it’s short)? But there’s more to it than that. In this episode Barry defines terms and gives us a crash course in some of the most important, twentieth-century, writers. In Episode 26 we’ll take a deep dive into Barry’s introduction to The Complete Short Stories of Rober…
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As Barry and Aaron think about season three, drop them a note at islandidylls@gmail.com and let them know what you think of Island Idylls. Meanwhile, listen and enjoy! 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast production by FullCastAaron Menikoff, Barry Menikoff tarafından oluşturuldu
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23 - Leo Tolstoy: Art as Mission?
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22 - Ellison, Baldwin, and Black Lives Matter
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21 - Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
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20 - The Art of Writing II
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19 - Camus and the Meaning of Life
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16 - Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
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14 - Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
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13 - D. H. Lawrence & Pornography
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10 - Marriage in The Portrait
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09 - Henry James, “The Master”
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06 - Stone Mother, Part Three
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05 - Stone Mother, Part Two
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04 - Stone Mother, Part One
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Everybody has a story, but most people don’t write them down. Barry did! In his memoir, Stone Mother, Barry shares what he remembers about his early years. A family that escaped persecution in Poland. Growing up poor. Being alone. Being Jewish. Escaping New York.In this episode, Aaron asks his father to define a memoir. Why doesn’t his memoir read …
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03 - Breaking Down the “System”
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Barry and Aaron dive into the deep end of the pool as they discuss Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem, “System,” found in his famous Child’s Garden of Verses. What do most people think about religion? Is it a “system” that blesses the good and punishes the bad--as the poem suggests? Barry argues Stevenson found comfort (and helped scores of others find …
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02 - Introducing Barry Menikoff
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As a newly minted PhD at the young age of 26, less than 25 years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Barry said goodbye to Madison, and found himself teaching Hawaiians just a few miles off Waikiki Beach. There are worse places to work! Today, Barry is known as a renowned Robert Louis Stevenson scholar. Thanks to his plain prose and books like Treas…
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01 - Introducing Island Idylls
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You’ve found Island Idylls! In this inaugural episode, Barry and Aaron get to the bottom of the title. What island are they talking about (hint: Aloha) and what exactly is an “idyll”? They explain the origin of the podcast. Long story short, it begins with a father who spent his life as an English professor and a son who loves to ask lots of questi…
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