In this episode of ark books talks, Frida invites Tomek, Clara and Arshia to discuss the Greenlandic book Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen ! Tune in for a conversation about sexuality, gender identity, and Tomeks refusal to construct long sentences!Ark Books Talks is conducted by Frida Hammershøy and María González. Thanks to Tais Abrahamson for the …

First Ark Books Talks of the year, where Anabel, Emma, Frida and María discuss Dogs of Summer, written by Andrea Abreu, translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches. Ark Books Talks is conducted by Frida Hammershøy and María González. Sound edit by Macon Holt. Thanks to Tais Abrahamson for the music!Av Ark Audio

It took us a while but Ark Books Talks is here again discussing The Bricks that Built the Houses by Kae Tempest. Paul, Will, Frida and María have a nice conversation about it. Listen listen!Ark Books Talks is conducted by Frida Hammershøy and María González. Thanks to Tais Abrahamson for the music!Av Ark Audio

Ark Books Talks is back after the summer break and this time Ayla, Tom, Frida and María discuss After the Sun, written by Jonas Eika, translated from Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg and published by Lolli Editions. Ark Books Talks is conducted by Frida Hammershøy and María González. Thanks to Tais Abrahamson for the music!…

In this new episode of Ark Books Talks Will, Kajsa, Frida and María discuss Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters and with it many topics as gender, motherhood, adulthood and life.Ark Books Talks is conducted by Frida Hammershøy and María González. Thanks to Tais Abrahamson for the music!Av Ark Audio

Ark podcast is back. Frida, Franek and Maria discuss Delta of Venus, a collection of 15 erotica short stories written by Anaïs Nin in 1940 and published in 1977.Av Ark Audio

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On this podcast, you will hear a recording of an event to celebrate the release of Danish literary critic and cultural theorist Mikkel Krase Frantzen’s first book in English, "Going Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression", from Zero Books.Joining Frantzen for the discussion were the Artist and activist Jakob Jakobsen and Ida Benck…

This month on the ark audio book club, we are revisiting an old flame with the new novel "The Topeka School" by Ben Lerner. Lerner’s first novel, "Leaving the Atocha Station", was the book started this crazy show so in many ways this is something of special occasion. In The Topeka School, Adam Gordan of the Atocha stations is back and this time we …

This month on the ark audio book club, the gang talk about A. M. Homes controversial novel, The End of Alice. The novel is a character study of a convicted pedophile and child murderer as he reflects over his life in prison. When he starts receiving letters from a bored college student who dreams of seducing the young boy who lives next door to her…

This month on the ark audio book club, we discussed the mid-20th Century, Japanese surreal folk horror novel, "The Woman in the Dunes" by Kobo Abe. It is the story of an amateur entomologist, who is tricked by some villagers into becoming their prisoner in a giant sandpit where he must shovel sand with the eponymous woman. On the podcast this month…

This month on the ark audio book club, we discussed the debut novel from Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong, “On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous”. The novel is narrated by Little Dog, a Vietnamese refugee who grew up in the United States as a letter to his mother, who’s English comprehension is pretty limited. In the letter, he excavates his childho…

This month on the ark audio book club, we discuss the unhappy lives of the Grimes sisters in Richard Yates modern classic of American aspirational despair, "The Easter Parade". Featuring Emma Aggersbo Tomel Chwałek, Macon Holt and your host, Giovanna Alesandro.Av Ark Audio

In this Podcast, you will hear a wonderfully concise talk from philosopher, Todd May, the former philosophical advisor to the sitcom The Good Place, on the tricky and alluring topic of the ontology of Gillies Deleuze in his work Difference and repetition. And the illuminating Q&A that followed I screwed up pressing the record button so it kind of s…

In this podcast, you will hear a presentation from the plant philosopher, Michael Marder on what plants can teach us about political organization and resistance. And a presentation from the Danish art/philosophy and activist group, Mycelium on how they use similar but different principles in their work and the lively Q&A that followedIf you like th…

This month on the ark audio book club, we dive into a work experimental affect theory fictocriticism with "The Hundreds" by the literary scholar, Lauren Berlant, and anthropologist, Kathleen Stewart. Talking about the book this month are Tomel Chwałek, Sheri Helberg and Giovanna Alesandro and your host is Macon Holt.…

This month we have read “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata, her 10th book and her first novel to be translated into English and now Danish too. The Novel to the story of Keiko, a woman out of sorts from the world who has learned not to trust her instincts. Thus she has found sanctuary from the adult world by working in a convenience story s…

This month on the ark audio book club the gang discuss the debut short story collection by the author of the viral hit story "Cat Person", Kristen Roupenian, "You Know You Want This". The collection is an exploration of the miscommunicated, frustrated and perverse desires the American middle class. It's funny and uncomfortable reading but does it h…

This Month, the Ark Audio Book Club discuss Ottessa Moshfegh's second novel, "My Year of Rest and Relaxation". The novel is the story of an attractive, wealthy young woman whose feelings of disaffection, alienation and nihilism, not to mention old fashioned familial trauma, are so overwhelming she decides she needs to sleep for a year. It's the end…

In the final ark audio book club of 2018, the Ark Audio Book Club Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard's advice on how to get out of a relationship without dumping anyone, "Repetition". But this short philosophical novella has so much more to say about the (im)possibility of consistency and identity in a world that is too interesting to stay the sa…

This month, the ark audio book club discuss Virginia Woolf's classic modernist novel of gender shifting, genre defying, identity questioning, time warping, language inventing and form defining, "Orlando: A Biography". Featuring Frederikke Nøhr Hemmingsen Josephine Lund Leviné and hosted by Macon Holt.…

Here is the audio from our evening of conversation with art historian and cultural critic Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen to mark the release of his new collection of essays, "After the Great Refusal"."After the Great Refusal" offers a Western-Marxist reading of contemporary art focusing on the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde’s transgressi…

This month on the Ark Audio Book Club, we discuss the first novel in Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy, "Outline". This is a novel in 10 conversations between out narrator Faye, a recently divorced 50-something writer and those she meets on her trip to Greece to teach creative writing. Faye is almost absent from that narrative, the only real sense we h…

This month on the Ark Audio Book Club we discussed the Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek’s disturbing 1983 novel of repression desire and violence, The Piano Teacher. The novel tells the story of Erika Kohut, a talented one-time concert pianist in Vienna who, due to a couple of key performance failures (although arguably the cause of thes…

On this episode of the Ark Audio book club, we talk about Gio's new favorite book: The Necrophiliac by Gabrielle Wittkop. Written in 1972 but not translated into English until 2011, it's a very short book about a necrophiliac in Paris. Only in France, right? By day he deals antiques and by night he digs up dead folks and does what necrophiliacs do……

This month on the ark attempt to talk about Yoko Tawada's novel "Memoirs of a Polar Bear" but have real trouble doing so. And while none of them can recommend this books there are a bunch they'd like to recommend instead. Sarah would suggest "Lincoln on the Bardo" by George Saunders, Nina would recommend "Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the…

Intro: Hello and welcome to the Ark Audio Review – the podcast where we talk about the Ark Book’s online literary and cultural journal. I am your co-host Nina Bang and in this mini episode we hope to wet your appetite ahead of the first installment of the upcoming street party Lyse Nætter a.k.a BRIGHT NIGHTS! Ebba Wester and I have interviewed Ditt…

This month's theme on the Ark Audio Review is migration. Nina and Stine talk to Franek Korbanski about his interview with Polish co-founders and longtime director of The Borderland Foundation, Krzysztof Czy?ewski. And Nina talks with ?ilan Deniz Teyhani about her book recommendations ahead of the launch of Trampoline House's new journal, The T Hous…

Completing a run of three years, this month the Ark Audio Book Club crew have read "Torpor" by Chris Kraus, the final part of the "I Love Dick" Trilogy. Set in 1991, three years before the events of I Love Dick, Torpor follows Sylvie and Jarome, characters with names borrowed from Georges Perec’s Things: A Story of the 60s, which cannot be read as …

ark books is proud to present a conversation on sensing, listening and sound, based on the new book from, University of Copenhagen professor of musicology and sound studies, Holger Schulze, The Sonic Persona: An Anthropology of Sound. In The Sonic Persona, Holger Schulze undertakes a critical study of some of the most influential studies in sound s…

This month on the Ark Audio Review, the team talk to Simon Fern about pigeons, Ebba talks about the new documentary "Dreaming Murakami", and Neus Casanova Vico talks about the new Ark Review column "Translation Tuesday", in which she and Sheri Helberg translate new Nordic literature into Spanish and English.…

Inherent Vice (2009) is a shaggy dog story about a hippy private investigator, Lawrence “Doc” Sportello, living in L.A. at the tail end of the 1960s (which I think could really mean up until 1974ish). One night, his “ex-old-lady”, Shasta Fay Hepworth, comes around looking for help to stop the kidnapping of the billionaire land developer she’s been …

Xenofeminism in Copenhagen thanks to the team from kbh læser. Also a big thanks to all our collaborators, Diann Bauer, Martin Hauberg-Lund, Rebecca W. B. Lund, Eksistensfilosofisk Akademi, Passive/Aggressive, Sorte Firkant for the venue and for the financial support from Nørrebro Lokaludvalg.For more info on XF and the video Diann plays in her pres…

In this bonus episode of the Ark Audio Review, Macon Holt interviews literary scholar Mikkel Frantzen about his thesis, "Going nowhere, slow­? scenes of depression in contemporary literature and culture". This was recroded back in December.Av Ark Audio

The Ark Audio Review returns with a brand new team, Nina Band, Anne Kristin Kristiansen and Ebba Wester. This month we are looking at the theme of this year's KBH Læser festival, Manifesto. With guests Simon Fern, Franek Korbanski, Macon Holt and Sheikha Gross.Av Ark Audio

If you think you are disqualified from listening to this tape, you are. Such is the nature of suspicion. You are judged by your words, and your words are themselves judged. Turn on, tune in and drop dead as Senyora Psicosi and her two callers (is she hearing double?) play a game that Jonathan Franzen is not invited to join.…

Sheila Heti's intentionally "ugly" novel of creative anxiety and ethical quandary, "How Should a Person Be?" If this wets your whistle, you can hear more about the book tomorrow on the Ark Audio Book Club podcast, or just swing by the store and pick up a copy.Av Ark Audio

While Sarah and Gio are away, Macon has gathered together some of the volunteers at ark who have read David Foster Wallace's long thing, "Infinite Jest" for a chat about the month's they spent with this crazy book. Featuring Neus Casanova Vico, Franek Korbanski, Macon Holt and, for the last time for the foreseeable future on Ark Audio, Snorri Rafn …

In the Snorri's final episode of the Ark Audio Review we present to you the Christmas Special.Av Ark Audio

The final Ark Audio Book Club of 2017 on Paul Beatty's award-winning novel "The Sellout". Featuring Frederikke Nøhr Hemmingsen, Giovanna Alesandro, Sarah Ommanney and Macon Holt. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Av Ark Audio

This month on the Ark Audio? Book Club, Macon Holt?, Sarah Ommanney? and Giovanna Alesandro? are joined by ark books? co-founder now of kbh læser?, Ditte Nesdam-Madsen? to discuss the reissue of Kathy Acker's transgressive, highly literary anti-novel, "Blood and Guts and High School".Av Ark Audio

Swastikas, explosions, destruction. The Owl of Athens lets us drink from her fountain of wisdom. Senyora Psicosi gets stuck between two worlds, two languages, almost in lockstep with each other, yet slightly out of sync. Pull at the threads and unravel yourself with this episode of Senyora Psicosi, More or Less.…

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Senyora Psicosi knows why you keep coming back for more. It's the drugs. It's the terrorism. It's the childhood stories. Like the Lord's people you shall not be ashamed you Little Psicosis. Also, Herr Caller talks about his unrealized dreams and Lord Edmund returns to the controls.The Big Blue by Sea of Aland is licensed under a Creative Commons At…

This month the Ark Audio Book Club is talking about the satirical novel "Blackass" by A. Igoni Barrett, the story of a Nigerian man who wakes one morning to find he has undergone a Kafkaesque metamorphosis and transformed into a white man. The transformation is not complete, however, as his ass is still black. Featuring Tim Spangsberg, Macon Holt, …

Senyora Psicosi revves up her engine and races through the world of LSD and childhood memories. The lights of the city shine bright and Herr Caller wants to play a game.Av Ark Audio

Herr Caller continues to ponder the call of the void as Senyora Psicosi falls back into her own phenomenal self. Will he swerve into oncoming traffic? Will she become nothing? Jonathan Franzen doesn't know. Lord Edmund has stumbled into the control booth once again, twiddling the knobs like a man possessed...…