197. Seeing Paris Behind the Postcard -- Amit Chaudhuri

197. Seeing Paris Behind the Postcard -- Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri rejoins me to discuss his new novel/memoir/essay, Chateau Rouge. The book is about a writer who finds himself in a region of Paris, Chateau Rouge, filled with immigrants and their small business hustles, not cafes and patisseries. Shocked by how different Chateau Rouge is from the Paris of Hemingway and Proust, the narrator has to find a new way to understand what Paris is and what it means, without reliance on Parisian cliche.

Amit and I discuss all of this, and also the broader question of how you find the meaning in the mundane. We also conclude the interview talking a bit about the filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, whose films were also about the meaning of the mundane. I recommend starting Ozu with his film Good Morning, linked below. Amit recommends I was Born, But... also linked below. And you may be interested to learn that Good Morning is Ozu's own remake of I was Born, But...

Chateau Rouge: https://flyleafbooks.com/book/9798896230878

Good Morning: https://archive.org/details/good-morning_202012

I was Born, But...: https://archive.org/details/i-was-born-but

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196. Shay's Rebellion as Honorable Anarchy -- Daniel Bullen

196. Shay's Rebellion as Honorable Anarchy -- Daniel Bullen

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195. The Fascist Appeal of The Movies -- David Thomson

195. The Fascist Appeal of The Movies -- David Thomson

David Thomson joins me to discuss his new book, A Sudden Flicker of Light. Although we both love movies, we've noticed that movies have distorted our way of seeing the world, changed our sense of real...

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194. The Boston Tea Party as Direct Action -- Benjamin Carp

194. The Boston Tea Party as Direct Action -- Benjamin Carp

Historian Benjamin Carp joins me to discuss The Boston Tea Party and how we should remember it today. We particularly discuss the tea party's place in revolutionary history, the radicalism embedded in...

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193. Ancient Anarchy -- Christopher B. Zeichmann

193. Ancient Anarchy -- Christopher B. Zeichmann

Christopher B. Zeichmann joins me to discuss his new book about ancient anarchism. We discuss the way the origins of the word anarchy, the way that democracy and anarchy have long been linked, and how...

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192. Can AI be Saved From Capitalism? -- Cory Doctorow

192. Can AI be Saved From Capitalism? -- Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow joins me to discuss how capitalist ideology has made AI worse than useless, and if there's a way for us to make AI useful rather than malicioushttps://flyleafbooks.com/book/9780374621568

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191. The Deep American Constitution -- Mark Peterson

191. The Deep American Constitution -- Mark Peterson

In this episode of Radicalism in the American Revolution, Historian Mark Peterson joins me to discuss his new book The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History. We dis...

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190. Anarchism is...Cooking -- Mark Bittman

190. Anarchism is...Cooking -- Mark Bittman

The fastest, easiest way to anarchize your life is to buy food locally and cook it yourself (or grow it yourself). It won't create an anarchist society. But it's a great first step.Mark Bittman and I ...

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