Ms. Jamerson’s Literary Saloon: Podcast for May 29, 2009
The second episode of the podcast is ready for your listening pleasure. In it we talk about William Langewiesche’s “The Pirate Latitudes.” It’s a tale of Somali pirates and impotent nation states on the high seas. Your experience will be more enjoyable if you read it first.
Next week we’ll be looking at “Living La Vida Robot” by Joshua Davis.
Show Notes:
• Here are some pictures of the cheese rolling adventure that Andrew mentioned.
• Here is the essay by J.J. Abrams about the power of mysteries and how spoilers, well, spoil them.
• Unfortunately some of the New Yorker content mentioned isn’t up on the Internet yet, but when it is go to newyorker.com to find it.
• For another take on Somali pirates listen to these two episodes of Planet Money: “The Pirates Have Timesheets” and the followup “And Three Baby Camels.”
Andrew mentioned the beard and mustache championships. I mentioned the cheese, my friend.
Here is the beard and mustache champs link:
http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/
You are quite right.