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In An Extravagant Death, Charles Finch—who concluded the prequel trilogy of his protagonist Charles Lenox with 2020’s The Last Passenger—returns Lenox to his current timeline of the late 1870s and takes England’s most famous private detective on a road trip (an ocean voyage, actually) to America. There’s a murder and a wealthy denizen of Gilded...  Read more »

In An Extravagant Death, Charles Finch—who concluded the prequel trilogy of his protagonist Charles Lenox with 2020’s The Last Passenger—returns Lenox to his current timeline of the late 1870s and takes England’s most famous private detective on a road trip (an ocean voyage, actually) to America. There’s a murder and a wealthy denizen of Gilded... <a href="http://www.speakingofmysteries.com/podcast/episode-211-charles-finch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Read more »</a>

Episode 211: Charles Finch

Jeff Menzise

Maya Cummings

Carl Nelson

Kemetic Scholar Dr. Charles Finch connects the dots to the so-called Age of Aquarius. Dr. Finch will explain how our ancestors created the calendar and its relationship to the constellation of stars. Before we get to Dr. Finch, Life coach Dr. Jeff Menzise discusses the relationship between African Spirituality and Free Masonry. Getting us started, Dr. Maya Cummings debuts her late husband Elijah Cummings’ book, ‘We’re better than This’.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kemetic Scholar Dr. Charles Finch connects the dots to the so-called Age of Aquarius. Dr. Finch will explain how our ancestors created the calendar and its relationship to the constellation of stars. Before we get to Dr. Finch, Life coach Dr. Jeff Menzise discusses the relationship between African Spirituality and Free Masonry. Getting us started, Dr. Maya Cummings debuts her late husband Elijah Cummings’ book, ‘We’re better than This’.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Dr. Charles Finch, Dr. Jeff Menzise & Dr. Maya Cummings On The Carl Nelson Show

This week, host Rumaan Alam talks about the aims of literary criticism with novelist and book critic Charles Finch. In the interview, Charles discusses the impact of platforms like Goodreads (where anyone can be a critic) and explains why it’s so hard for people to make a living writing book reviews. He also talks about how a book’s popularity can affect his response to it and how it’s possible to get burned out from writing too many reviews. After the interview, Rumaan and co-host Isaac Butler discuss their relationships to criticism, as people who both write reviews and produce creative work. In Slate Plus, Rumaan asks Charles about the critics he admires most and the titles he would assign if he were teaching a course on criticism.If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. It’s only $35 for the first year, and you can get a free two-week trial. Sign up now to help support our work.Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com.  Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, host Rumaan Alam talks about the aims of literary criticism with novelist and book critic Charles Finch. In the interview, Charles discusses the impact of platforms like Goodreads (where anyone can be a critic) and explains why it’s so hard for people to make a living writing book reviews. He also talks about how a book’s popularity can affect his response to it and how it’s possible to get burned out from writing too many reviews. After the interview, Rumaan and co-host Isaac Butler discuss their relationships to criticism, as people who both write reviews and produce creative work. In Slate Plus, Rumaan asks Charles about the critics he admires most and the titles he would assign if he were teaching a course on criticism.If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. It’s only $35 for the first year, and you can get a free two-week trial. <a href="https://my.slate.com/plus?utm_medium=link&amp;utm_campaign=plus_pod&amp;utm_content=Working&amp;utm_source=show_notes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sign up now</a> to help support our work.Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to <a href="mailto:working@slate.com">working@slate.com</a>.  Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Working: Critic Charles Finch on Reading Hundreds of Books a Year

Critic Charles Finch on Reading Hundreds of Books a Year

Laila Lalami

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami comes The Other Americans, a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant--at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Late one spring night, as Driss Guerraoui is walking across a darkened intersection in California, he's killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow, Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself.  As the characters--deeply divided by race, religion, and class--tell their stories, connections among them emerge, even as Driss's family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love--messy and unpredictable--is born. Lalami is in conversation with Charles Finch, bestselling author of the Charles Lenox mysteries.

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami comes The Other Americans, a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant--at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture. Late one spring night, as Driss Guerraoui is walking across a darkened intersection in California, he's killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow, Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and an Iraqi War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself.  As the characters--deeply divided by race, religion, and class--tell their stories, connections among them emerge, even as Driss's family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love--messy and unpredictable--is born. Lalami is in conversation with Charles Finch, bestselling author of the Charles Lenox mysteries.

Laila Lalami, "THE OTHER AMERICANS" w/ Charles Finch

 Charles Finch - Jazz Shapers with Mishcon de Reya  

Author Charles Finch headed to Oxford after his work on Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential run ended well short of the White House. That’s good for us. He got a novel out of it. The Last Enchantments looks back at his days in England as a 20-something American begins to find his way in the world. He talks with Steve Bertrand about that and about his Charles Lenox detective novels, which are set in England during Victorian times.

Author Charles Finch headed to Oxford after his work on Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential run ended well short of the White House. That’s good for us. He got a novel out of it. The Last Enchantments looks back at his days in England as a 20-something American begins to find his way in the world. He talks with Steve Bertrand about that and about his Charles Lenox detective novels, which are set in England during Victorian times.

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