Today, I’m speaking with Kate Jones on the topic of Mother-Writers. Kate holds an MA in 20th Century Women’s War Narratives and writes an online publication called A Narrative Of Their Own which you can find on Substack or at the link in this episode information.    Kate is also a mother of two and writes specifically about the narratives of 20th century women writers and the ways these intersect with current culture.  She is particularly interested in the ways in which women's narratives continue to inform conversations around gender, parenting, and feminism.'   Links for episode: Kate Jones’ Substack publication -- https://anarrativeoftheirown.substack.com/about & Wife.Mother.Other -- https://anarrativeoftheirown.substack.com/p/wife-mother-other   “Mothering” on The Matterhorn – https://thematterhorn.substack.com/p/mothering  Rebecca Mead on the Sandler article https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/writers-and-the-optimal-child-count-spectrum   NYT on Julia Briggs’ biography of Virginia Woolf https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/books/review/yes-virginia.html

The All-Around Reduced Personality – Redupers Helke Sander 1978, West Germany   The Matterhorn on Substack: https://thematterhorn.substack.com/about    https://www.umass.edu/defa/film/6511 https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC29folder/RedupersKatzman.html https://mubi.com/films/the-all-around-reduced-personality https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1532413/

Substack article to be published the following Tuesday. You can leave all comments there.  Sign up for free: https://thematterhorn.substack.com/about    https://thematterhorn.substack.com/p/parenting

Today, I’m speaking with Terry Freedman about Oulipo and experimentation with writing, which are both part of a new thread on Terry’s Substack publication called Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life. He will also be offering a workshop on this topic next month.   Terry has spent his career in education, first as a teacher of Economics, then as a teacher of Computing, followed by spells in a government body, local authority and independent consultancy. He’s been a freelance writer in the field of education since 1989, and also writes about education, literature, writing and anything else that takes his fancy.   Workshop : https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/writing-the-oulipo-a-taster  What is Oulipo? Via Poetry Foundation   The Guardian on Oulipo Origins of Experiments in Style on Terry Freedman’s newsletter: Eclectecism: Reflections on literature and life  Examples from Terry's newsletter Further examples    The Matterhorn on Substack: https://thematterhorn.substack.com/about

Babel, 2001, Cildo Meireles  Currently showing at the Tate, London   The Matterhorn on Substack: https://thematterhorn.substack.com/about   Cildo Meireles: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/cildo-meireles-6633/cildo-meireles-interactive-art Babel, 2001: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/meireles-babel-t14041/audio-description-babel   Bruegel painting: https://www.khm.at/en/objectdb/detail/323/ City of Glass: https://www.themodernnovel.org/americas/other-americas/usa/auster/city/ Germany’s potential English addition: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/10/germany-labour-shortage-english-second-official-language

How the act of writing can expand our present.   “Who wants to live forever? / Forever is our today.” Brian May of Queen wrote these lines for the iconic song of 1986’s’ Highlander film, a strange story featuring immortals who can only be killed if their heads are cut off (just a spin on vampires and zombies, I guess). ...    The Matterhorn on Substack: https://thematterhorn.substack.com/about  https://open.substack.com/pub/thematterhorn/p/writing-toward-immortality?r=rtf40&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Today I’m speaking with Jacqueline Leung about what it means to be an artist. Jacqueline is an award-winning pianist based in Hong Kong. She has performed and taught on four continents and as a passionate chamber musician, she is a founding member of the Phoenix Quartet. Jacqueline has a particular interest in unearthing and presenting lesser-known works, in particular, compositions by women composers. She has written articles on these topics and to date, she has recorded three solo albums with themes ranging from 1920s New York to Winter in Buenos Aires.      Artist website: http://www.jacquelineleung.com/ Spotify page: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1kO7vpNmpKbsgBF9H3BQUb?si=ST-DOcE7Tk6nDC2l34MYdw&nd=1 The Matterhorn: https://thematterhorn.substack.com/about Tell Me I'm an Artist, by Chelsea Martin

This is one of my Short Takes where I talk about texts I’ve encountered recently. Today I'm talking about Berberian Sound Studio, 2012 Written and directed by auteur Peter Strickland  Starring Toby Jones   Subscribe for free to The Matterhorn: https://thematterhorn.substack.com/about    Links:  https://mubi.com/films/berberian-sound-studio https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/how-peter-strickland-discovered-peter-tscherkassky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcpfwIkcoM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brYfT42tDh8 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/feb/15/berberian-sound-studio-review-donmar-warehouse http://virgil.org/dswo/courses/novel/wilde-lying.pdf

"Born in Ukraine" at Kunstmuseum & Wayne Thiebaud at Fondation Beyeler    I've been dying to see these shows and finally got to this week. Here's my 10 minute take on the shows.    The Matterhorn on Substack: https://thematterhorn.substack.com/about      Wayne Thiebaud at Fondation Beyeler https://www.fondationbeyeler.ch/en/exhibitions/wayne-thiebaud Born in Ukraine: The Kyiv National Art Gallery in Basel https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/exhibitions/2022/born-in-ukraine Major museums around the world are quietly recategorizing works from Russian to Ukrainian https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ukrainian-art-reclassification/index.html

Why I love the Academy Award winning film.       Links:  Everything Everywhere All at Once RogerEbert.com article about Michelle Yeoh Chinese Laundry film  Shaolin Soccer film

I’ll be recording voiceovers of a few favorite articles on my Substack publication on the request of several readers. Please keep in mind that the originals linked here on the podcast page include links for references and extra information.     Today, I’m reading The Phone Call (Everyday Performances) from November 2022. It’s one of my personal favorites, possibly because of the Keislowski film I discuss. I’m recording it today because I’m also working on something about Paul Auster that will go live next week and I talk about one of his early works here.     The Matterhorn on Substack   Photo by Mike Meyers on Unsplash

Do you want to amp up your reading practice? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by all that reading out there? What if I told you choosing to read less but better could paradoxically help you to read and learn more? Listen to learn how I made this discovery as well as practical applications of a curated and cultivated reading practice.    This is a voiceover recording of an article I published in 2022, first in Better Humans and then on my Substack page. This link to the article has further references.   I'll be recording some of the favorite posts as podcasts and there are conversations with several writers and artists coming very soon. You can sign up here for The Matterhorn on Substack.  Photo by Fran on Unsplash

An introduction to the new show with Dr. Kathleen Waller, author of The Matterhorn on Substack - https://thematterhorn.substack.com/    Building a community of truth-seekers who have fun with texts & ideas. This podcast investigates the intersections of arts, culture, and writing that tell us more about ourselves and our world.    Get in touch! kathleenw6@gmail.com    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_matterhorn_magazine/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/tournerlesmots    Music by MarkJuly on Pixabay