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The Chills at Will Podcast is a celebration of the visceral beauty of literature. This beauty will be examined through close reads of phrases and lines and passages from fiction and nonfiction that thrills the reader, so much so that he wants to read again and again to replicate that thrill. Each episode will focus on a different theme, such as "The Power of Flashback," "Understatement," "Cats in the Cradle," and "Chills at Will: Origin Story."
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Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
This episode focuses on the thrill-inducing writing that is produced, paradoxically, by understated and straightforward writing. What a pleasure to explore Ernest Hemingway's "Old Man at the Bridge," Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," and Juan Rulfo's "No Oyes Ladrar los Perros." Pete shouts out his former college professor Francisco Jimenez, the great writer of among others, Breaking Through/Cajas de Carton, reads some of Rulfo's original Spanish, drops another Godfather reference (!), and details the awesome and possibly apocryphal story of Hemingway spinning the most-famous six-word short story of all-time.
This episode will be followed by Part Two later this week.
Authors Mentioned and Episode Allusions and Songs:
311, "Amber" Instrumental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXX2w8I1G6U
Michael Corleone Gets Hit by the "Thunderbolt": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0iXfa2unYY
Ernest Hemingway-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
Hemingway's Famous Six-Word Story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_sale:_baby_shoes,_never_worn
Robert Frost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost
Francisco Jimenez: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Jim%C3%A9nez_(writer)
Juan Rulfo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rulfo
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