Our podcast, "Quote Me," focuses on the life and legacy of authors. We'll discuss their major works and what inspired them, the history around their lives, and anything else we can think of. As lovers of information, we want as much as we can get about the people who've created our favorite stories.
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Our podcast, "Quote Me," focuses on the life and legacy of authors. We'll discuss their major works and what inspired them, the history around their lives, and anything else we can think of. As lovers of information, we want as much as we can get about the people who've created our favorite stories.
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December 28, 2022
William Shakespeare: Legacery
<p>William Shakespeare is the timeless author of such plays as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For the last 400 years Shakespeare’s plays have been performed around the world and adapted into films, television series, and graphic novels. Shakespeare himself has even gone on to appear as a character in film, television, novels, and graphic novels as a character. He is celebrated with many titles and distinctions. He has been called the Swan of Avon and the Bard. Some even rank him as the greatest dramatist of all time and the most influential writer in the history of the English language. Join us on a special episode of Quote Me as we dig into and tell some candid stories about the man behind some of the most well-known stories of all time.</p>
December 1, 2022
Ursula K. Le Guin and Nora Keita Jemisin
<p>Nora Keita Jemisin was raised in both Mobile, Alabama and New York City. Bouncing back and forth between the two cities, fiction was Jemisin's anchor. She always knew that she wanted to be a writer and began taking steps to become one in her late 20s and early 30s. Since then, she has found great acclaim and has been heralded by The New York Times as, "The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation." She is most well known for her trilogy of novels, collectively called The Broken Earth. In 2018 she became the first author in history to win three Best Novel Hugo awards in a row, one for each book in the trilogy.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Ursula K. Le Guin, born Ursula Kroeber on October 21st, 1929, in Berkeley California, is a celebrated author of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and more. She's written 23 novels, 12 volumes of short stories, 11 volumes of poetry, 13 children's books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. She's won several Nebulas and Hugos along with a slew of other awards. Known mostly for her science fiction, Le Guin refused to be pigeonholed into a single genre.</p>
November 1, 2022
Happy Halloween! Machado VS Percy
<p><br> Happy Halloween! On a very special anniversary episode of Quote Me, we pay tribute to the legendary Shirley Jackson by discussing two writers who have been directly inspired by her work. It’s a clash of horror titans as we discuss and compare the influence of Shirly Jackson on Carmen Maria Machado and Benjamin Percy!</p> <p>Carmen Maria Machado was born July 3rd, 1986 in Allentown Pennsylvania. She is the author of the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, memoir In the Dream House, and comic The Low, Low Woods. She is well known for crossing genre borders and creating a new genre called "Liminal fantasy." Winner of the National Book critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize, Machado has a long list of residencies, honors, and academic essays to her name.</p> <p><br> Benjamin Percy was born in Eugene, Oregon on March 28, 1978. He spent most of his formative years growing up in Oregon and it serves as the primary setting for most of his fiction. Benjamin has written six novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction essays, comics, podcasts, and screenplays. Two of his most well-known works are the horror thriller Red Moon and the post-apocalyptic quest tale The Dead Lands.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Benjamin Percy reading Goodnight Moon: https://soundcloud.com/graywolfpress/benjamin-percy-reads-goodnight-moon</p>
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