September 11th, 2009 / 5:19 am
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British Library Sound Archives


Check out this unbelievable treasure trove of audio material available for free:

The ICA Talks package consists of 1,000 hours of recordings of events at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, in the Mall, London – made in the period 1981-1994.

Here are just a few of the talks I found that look especially interesting:

Michael Ondaatje (Discussion and readings of ‘Running in the Family’ and ‘Coming through Slaughter’)

Bohumil Hrabal and Julian Barnes, in conversation

Christine Brooke-Rose and A. S. Byatt, in conversation

Juan Goytisolo and Chris Rawlence, in conversation

Angela Carter discusses magical realism

William Gaddis and Malcolm Bradbury, in conversation

Dennis Cooper talks to artist Susan Miller about pornography, violence, lust, literature and politics on the occasion of the publication of his book ‘Frisk’

Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey Bennington, in conversation

Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Philosophy through the looking glass

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5 Comments

  1. September 11th, 2009 / 10:36 am Roberta—

      Oh wow. I love the ICA, but nothing I’ve ever seen there would compare to having seen Angela Carter talk Magic Realism.

  2. September 11th, 2009 / 6:36 am Roberta—

      Oh wow. I love the ICA, but nothing I’ve ever seen there would compare to having seen Angela Carter talk Magic Realism.

  3. September 11th, 2009 / 3:43 pm Justin Taylor—

      I went straight for Coop, obviously. God, I love listening to him. My favorite part is where the woman cuts in and says they don’t have to keep talking about porn, when it’s obviously the most engaged he’s been so far. He even kind of says ‘we can keep talking about it’ but she just sort of steamrolls him. Oops.

  4. September 11th, 2009 / 11:43 am Justin Taylor—

      I went straight for Coop, obviously. God, I love listening to him. My favorite part is where the woman cuts in and says they don’t have to keep talking about porn, when it’s obviously the most engaged he’s been so far. He even kind of says ‘we can keep talking about it’ but she just sort of steamrolls him. Oops.

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