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What’s Old is New Episode 2.15 - Interview with Nicole Galland, author of I, Iago

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:18:42 -0400

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Nicole Galland is the author of four novels, including I, Iago.

0:15 Welcome to Nicole Galland

0:25 About I, Iago

1:35 Iago’s motives and lack thereof inOthello

2:30 How was Nicole inspired by what Shakespeare alludes to?

5:15 Most of Nicole’s previous work is historical fiction, what led her to incorporate Shakespeare?

12:10 Shakespeare’s plays can be made relevant by actors and directors, regardless of what’s on the page.

14:30 Nicole Galland and Shakespeare for the Masses

21:40 Wrap-up and contact info

What’s Old is New is currently on maternity leave, for Jen’s new twin girls, we’ll be back hopefully later this fall or winter.

What’s Old is New Episode 2.14 - The Sun Also Rises RIP

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:56:19 -0400

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0:25 So, Nicole still hates this and the characters are annoying.

1:15 Jen actually liked the first 30 pages, and then it all went downhill once the characters actually started talking and interacting with one another.

3:50 Incomplete characterization really detracted from our enjoyment.

4:50 Do guys find this easier to relate to?

6:20 Considering aThe Sun Also Risesdrinking game.

8:00 ShouldThe Sun Also Risesstay in our canon?

10:30 Not out as an author, but the book is out.

11:15 The low point(s) inThe Sun Also Rises.

13:00Catcher in the Ryeflashbacks!

15:20 How about you just readThe Great Gatsbyinstead?

15:45 Hemingway as character, instead of author - The Paris Wifeby Paula McLain and Hemingway’s Girlby Erika Robuck.

16:45 Contact us.

Bye!

fsgbooks: I have to admit, this is what I always pictured when...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:33:00 -0400

fsgbooks:

I have to admit, this is what I always pictured when I read Gatsby.

I was really skeptical, but he does look fairly Gatsby-esque…

What’s Old is New Episode 2.13 - Interview with Eleanor Brown, author of The Weird Sisters

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:26:36 -0400

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Eleanor Brown is the author of The Weird Sisters

0:15 Welcome to Eleanor Brown, and Jen touts her 2011 ‘Best of’ list

0:50 About The Weird Sisters

1:30The Weird Sistersis not as depressing as Eleanor’s synopsis makes it sound!

1:50 ‘The Shakespeare Connection’

3:00 Eleanor has Strong. Feelings. about how we introduce Shakespeare to kids, and the connection audiobooks

7:50 Jane Austen and Shakespeare

10:20 In which we go on a tangent about Austen sequels

14:20 Eleanor’s Shakespeare research forThe Weird Sisters

17:45 The collective voice of sisterhood

21:30 Eleanor’s definition of a classic

25:00 Goodbye!

What’s Old is New Episode 2.12 - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde RIP

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:52:25 -0400

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0:15 One of Nicole’s favorites classics (who knew we HAD favorite classics?!?)

1:45 Jen mostly likes this book, but the beginning is a snoozefest.

2:35 Robert Louis Stevenson, meme master?

5:15 Thematic similarities toFrankenstein- except this is WAY BETTER.

8:45 So, we basically liked, but didn’t love this. Would Nicole like other Stevenson better now?

10:30 In which we detour into ‘protecting’ kids from literature.

13:30 Preview of our next RIP.

Bye!

Flavorwire's 10 Most Powerful Female Characters in Literature

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:42:39 -0500

Flavorwire's 10 Most Powerful Female Characters in Literature:

I’m not sure that we’d support the inclusion of Jane Eyre - especially as first on the list! An interesting list, nonetheless.

PBS’sGreat Expectations, airing April 1 & 8

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:00:05 -0500

PBS’sGreat Expectations, airing April 1 & 8

What’s Old is New Episode 2.11 - Interview with Sara Levine, author of Treasure Island!!!

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:10:19 -0500

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Sara Levine is the author of Treasure Island.

0:20 Welcome to Sara Levine, and Jen tries to introduce the three exclamation marks.

0:50 About Treasure Island!!!

2:30 Sara’s background with Stevenson’s non-exclamated Treasure Island - from essayist to novelist

4:00 Coming to Treasure Island (and classics in general) as a child, versus as an adult - and hey, we come back to Jane Eyre again, surprise!

7:20 Treasure Island!!! and how we do (and perhaps shouldn’t) respond to classics

10:40 Sara’s writing process, reading Treasure Island to write Treasure Island!!!

12:45 What is a classic? Sara’s definition.

15:00 In which we make silly jokes about Sara, Stevenson, and punctuation.

16:30 Wrap-up

What’s Old is New Episode 2.10 - A Christmas Carol Rip

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:15:52 -0500

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0:25 Don’t forget about the Dickens contest!

1:06 Nicole HATED it.

2:20 Jen is indifferent.

3:10 Should Jen be allowed to listen to books she hates instead of reading them?

4:35 So, we don’t have that much to say…

5:50 Shortest show ever!

'New' Jane Austen portrait unearthed by author

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:58:51 -0500

'New' Jane Austen portrait unearthed by author

What’s Old is New Episode 2.9 - Jane Austen (Persuasion)

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:44:36 -0500

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0:30 Our initial thoughts about Persuasion.

2:35 Jane Austen is basically hilarious, and honestly, Persuasion isn’t very romantic

4:25 How does Jane Austen have such lovely heroines who have such terrible sisters?

6:25 Wentworth plays games

9:10 Persuasion and Austen in general stay in the canon (and now we want to watch Clueless).

10:00 Welcome Laurel Ann Nattress

10:25 About Jane Austen Made Me Do It

11:40 How did Jane Austen Made Me Do It come about?

16:00 Laurel Ann’s Jane conversion

24:40 The participating authors

29:10 Laurel Ann’s favorite

30:30 Wrap-up

We love this update of Huckleberry Finn from Tom the Dancing...

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:22:17 -0500

We love this update of Huckleberry Finn from Tom the Dancing Bug. Click the picture above to see the whole thing.

iheartclassics: A Darcy quote necklace to fill you with warm...

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:00:06 -0500

iheartclassics:

A Darcy quote necklace to fill you with warm snugglies all day long. *^_^* <3

thewanderingreader:

Showing a little Darcy love. ;)

What’s Old is New Episode 2.8 - Interview with Erin Blakemore, author of The Heroine's Bookshelf

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:06:05 -0500

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Erin Blakemore is the author of The Heroine’s Bookshelf.

0:40 Welcome to Erin, and she explains The Heroine’s Bookshelf

2:40 The development of The Heroine’s Bookshelf - from Jane Eyre on!

4:50 The heroines

6:15 The emotional appeal of the authors (Jen sort of cops out), and our personal experiences with them

14:00 Is today’s awesome YA keeping kids from discovering some of the classics? Also, some digression.

22:30 E-readers freeing our reading habits

25:25 Women-specific reading rooms

27:00 What books do we not want people to ask us “what are you reading?”

34:20 What would Erin’s authors be doing if they lived today?
Plus the Their Eyes Were Watching God readalong

40:25 What does Erin consider to be a classic? Including the classics of girl p*rn

40:20 Ally Condie’s Matched illustrates our horror of the narrowness of some people’s canon

46:30 The negative power of “the classics”

53:30 Wrap up

doubledaybooks: Published by Doubleday in...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:06:05 -0500

doubledaybooks:

Published by Doubleday in 1899.

book-aesthete:

Dracula
Bram Stoker. New York, Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First American Edition.

The rare first American edition of this immortal classic and cornerstone of supernatural fiction. Cover art, with Dracula’s castle high atop a hill with bats flying and the gilt-stamped sun setting. 7¼x5, original decorative tan cloth, front cover stamped and lettered in dark blue, gilt and green.

Was Jane Austen Murdered?

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:35:45 -0500

Was Jane Austen Murdered?:

This is a fascinating supposition and could very well be the real cause of Austen’s death - the arsenic anyway. I’m interested to read Ashford’s book and see who, exactly, she thinks killed her. I’m not terribly convinced at the moment it was murder instead of, say, accidental arsenic poisoning.

What’s Old is New Episode 2.7 - The Scarlet Pimpernel Classics Rip (Or Not???)

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:01:06 -0500

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0:25 Jen sounds punchy, within the first minute.

0:45 It is like A Tale of Two Cities, but not WAY TOO LONG and Nicole is amazed that The Scarlet Pimpernel didn’t read like a play, even though it was a play first.

2:45 The verdict of Nicole the skeptic! It is romance adventure, but we love it!

3:55 There is a strange noise and I have no idea what it is, but we continue loving on The Scarlet Pimpernel.

4:15 We basically read this because Jen once read Lauren Willig’s books.

5:15 HOW DO WE PRONOUNCE BARONESS ORCZY’S NAME? Sadly, this time Jen can’t just ask the author.

6:30 Is this the best writing in the world? Maybe not, BUT IT WORKED FOR THE STORY.

7:40 A Tale of Two Cities is much more ambitious than The Scarlet Pimpernel, but they aren’t dissimilar and Baroness O’s book is WAY more accessible.

10:45 Nicole’s initial reluctance to The Scarlet Pimpernel. What is the deal with the pimpernel, anyway?

12:20 More about Lauren Willig’s The Secret History of the Pink Carnation series.

15:35 In which we keep The Scarlet Pimpernel in our personal canon.

17:15 Sorry, guys, there was no “ripping” in this classics rip!

18:20 Next classics rip, we’re going back to Dickens and reading A Christmas Carol, expect snark.

19:30 PRIZE ALERT! The first person to recommend something by Dickens that we like (or, you know, don’t hate after 100), you will win A BIG PILE OF BOOKS!!! Comment here, or email oldisnewpodcast@gmail.com

20:50 Wrap up!

What’s Old is New Episode 2.6 - Interview with Hillary Jordan, author of When She Woke

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:22:20 -0400

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Hillary Jordan is the author of Mudbound and When She Woke.

0:30 Hillary explains the premise of When She Woke

2:15 The genesis of When She Woke aka, why it is important to pay attention to your family

3:50 Hillary’s ode to The Scarlet Letter

5:10 Dear schools, please stop making 15 year olds read The Scarlet Letter!

6:20 We get the cliff notes version of The Scarlet Letter references in When She Woke

8:10 Hillary Jordan has read all the classics (okay, not ALL of them, but you know what she means)

9:50 The definition of a classic, a la Hillary Jordan

11:40 The writing process for two very different books

16:15 How post-9/11 America changed When She Woke and the conflicting American attitudes towards freedom

20:10 Jen’s rambling wrap-up

Mr. Darcy’s Guide to Wooing Women

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:47:32 -0400

Mr. Darcy’s Guide to Wooing Women :

This is the kind of snark that we can get behind, here at What’s Old is New.

What’s Old is New Episode 2.5 - Lord Byron

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:31:30 -0400

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0:15 In which we are somewhat speechless, our experiences with Childe Harold

2:20 Does anyone actually read Byron? It doesn’t seem like anyone adapts his work

3:50 Jen compares Byron to Paris Hilton

4:30 Is Byron as bad has he has been represented? Nicole talks about Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

7:25 A bad rap may be the best thing that happened to Byron’s legacy

9:35 Introducing the Justin Evans interview

Interview with Justin Evans, author of The White Devil

10:00 Say “hi” to Justin Evans everyone!

10:25 About The White Devil

11:10 Why Lord Byron?

15:00 Harrow School

16:40 Byron: predator or protector?

18:55 Justin’s experience reading Byron

22:00 The growth of Byron’s writing

23:20 We retitle Justin’s book The Grossest Ghost and Nicole reveals her deep, dark secrets

28:00 What constitutes a classic in Justin’s opinion?

Our Wrap-up

32:50 We will all now torture Nicole

33:45 Jen says Byron is never the main character and is immediately proved wrong. He really does end up in books with supernatural elements, though

38:15 That is the sound of us tentatively kicking Byron out of the canon

41:40 Contact us!