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42 Minutes 351: Summer Book Club - The Tunnel - 09.26.2020 Tonight, for the summer installment of the seasonal book club, the program considers The Tunnel, William Gass's second novel which first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, and at which time was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. It's the story of a middle aged professor who, upon the completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction to his magnum opus. The Tunnel meditates on history, hatred, unhappiness, and, above all, language. Topics Include: Gaddis, Gass, Postmodernism, William Kohler, Empathy, Guilt & Innocence, Web of Influence, Butterfly Effect, Joyce, Ulysses, Childhood, Perception, Uncle Balt, Shadow, Light, Truth, Beauty, Fascism, House of Leaves, Filth, Dark Thoughts, Nazis, Party of Disappointed People. 42minutes.com

42 Minutes 336: Spring Book Club - Don Quixote - 05.24.2019 Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago. Thus, the book club follows the adventures of this noble Hidalgo who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to become a knight-errant, reviving chivalry and serving his country, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire. Topics Include: Cervantes, Sync Borges, Nabokov, Figurants, Outside, Inside, Subject, Object, Real, Fake, Degree, Empire, Class, 1492, Inquisition, Old Christian, Converso, Occult, Astrology, Shakespeare, Magical Tradition, Translation, Truman Show, Fame, Knight Errant, King James, Enchantment, Brutality, Ego, Honor. 42minutes.com

42 Minutes 335: Alan Green - Creatures Of Habit - 05.20.2019 Upon the first anniversary of Alan Green's magnum opus sync film, Vision & The Voice, he and Doug do a little on air shadow work. Topics Include: Vision & The Voice, Time, Past, Artifact, Prescient, Psychedelic Roller Coaster, Sync Book Radio, Art, Sync Community, Sync Quick News, Easter, Broken Shoe, Fractal Mapping, New Cycle, Balance, Sync Book Radio Movie Labs, McLuhan, Sync Pimp, Sync Storm, Swampy, Shadow Work.  https://vimeo.com/267825186

42 Minutes 334: Danny Colombo - Dream Worlds - 04.16.2019 With another Treefort Music Fest in the bank, the program wraps up the 2019 festival as well as looking back at the 2016 Boise Spring Sync (and other Dream Worlds) with musician and artist, Danny Colombo. Topics Include: Treefort, Boise Spring Sync, Sync Summit, Tinfoil, James Evan Pilato, #PumpUpThaVolume, Olympia, Broken Limb, Chai, Rubble Bucket, Toro Y Moi, Zipline, Corporate Festivals, Festival Magic, Nice, Travel Magic, Synchronicity, Flow, Undercover Dream Lovers, Dent May, Cherry Glazer, Learning Curve, Chaz Bundick, Corporate Cartoons, Dreamwords, Collective Unconscious. http://www.dannycolombo.com

42 Minutes 333: Jake Kotze - The Sync Whole - 04.19.2019 Upon the 10th anniversary of the group sync blog, The Sync Whole, the program shares 42 minutes with its founder, Jake Kotze. Topics Include: Synchromysticism, 10th Anniversary, 2012, Canadian Museum For Human Rights, Jim Sanders, Juan Flores, Tonkiri, Ayahuasca, Time Loops, Nonlocal, Ripples, 911, Practice, Insanity, New Normal, Social Media, Way Back Machine, Censorship, Love, Super Heroes, Phoenix, Blackhole, Syncjack, Event Horizon, The Flip Monism, Panpsychism, Church AND State, WWW, Community. http://g8ors.blogspot.com/2009/04/dream-becomes-reality-2012.html

42 Minutes 332: Douglas Rushkoff - Team Human - 02.05.2019 Today for 42 minutes we consider Douglas Rushkoff's latest book, Team Human, which is the hopeful "state of the union" that we all need. Topics Include: Neoliberalism, Clinton Foundation, Climate Change, Participation, Community Organizing, Reality TV, Tabloids, Digital Media, Bias, Binary, Extreme, Good Old Days, Socialist America, Capitalism, Industrialism, Political Economy Of Media, Ideology, Fascism, Smart Phone, Dumb Human, Dignity, Externalizing Cost, Exploitation, Connection, Isolation, Conspiracy, Pivot, OS, Power Law Dynamics, Green New Deal. https://rushkoff.com

42 Minutes 331: Marshall Poole - Pasadena - 03.04.2019 Treefort is here, folks! Get out there and see it all. Catch Marshall Poole on Friday, and be sure to check out all their other acts: Blood Lemon, Built To Spill, Gipsy Moonrise. Topics Include: Treefort, Main Stage, Purring Mantis, Blood Lemon, 2C, 1A, Totems, Jack Parsons, Band & Orchestra Dorks, C of I, Randy Rhodes, Michael McDonald, Herbbie Hancock, Etude, Tango Alpha Tango, Heavy Instruments, Gipsy Moonrise, Blood Lemon, Built To Spill, Thunderpussy, Pussy Riot, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Mandolin Orange. https://marshallpoolemusic.com

42 Minutes 330: Jonathan Evison - Lawn Boy - 02.26.2019 Today Lawn Boy, the great American landscaping novel by Jonathan Evison arrives in paperback. On Thursday, Jonathan arrives in Boise for Treefort. Catch him then at 2:30 pm at The Owyhee first floor cafe and on Saturday at noon at the same location. Topics Include: Treefort, Storyfort, Happiest Place On Earth, El Kora Shrine, Seattle, Fanzine, 1982, March Of Crimes, Iggy Pop, Prince, Food & Beer, Cabin Fever, Legends Of The North Cascades, Holden Caulfield, Wealth, Walmart, Robber Barron, Capitalism, Jamie Ford, 10th Street. http://www.jonathanevison.net

42 Minutes 329: Sarah Manguso - 300 Arguments - 03.05.2019 Today for 42 minutes, the program considers life writing with author, Sarah Manguso. Her most recent book, 300 arguments was published by Graywolf in 2017. Sarah appears at Treefort Saturday, March 23rd from 2 to 3 pm at The Owyhee and on Sunday, March 24th from noon to 2 at The Owyhee first floor cafe space. Topics Include: Treefort, Storyfort, The Cabin, Mary Oliver, Patter, Poets, Prose, Boston, 17th C.,Outsider, America In A Nutshell, DFW, Infinite Jest, Obligation, Sync Blog, Credible Narrative, Destiny, Bookclub, Time, Literary Philosophy, Grief, Suffering, Plato, World Center For Birds of Prey, Graywolf. http://www.sarahmanguso.com

42 Minutes 328: Camille Acker - Training School For Negro Girls - 03.04.2019 In anticipation of Storyfort 2019, the program connects with writer, Camille Acker to discuss her 2018 work, Training School For Negro Girls. In this, her debut short story collection, Camille unleashes the irony and tragic comedy of respectability onto a wide-ranging cast of characters, all of whom call Washington, DC, home. She appears at Treefort Friday, March 22nd at Woodland Empire from 4 to 6 pm and on Sunday, March 24 at The Owyhee first floor cafe space from 3 to 4pm. Topics Include: Treefort, Storyfort, Mambo Sauce, D.C., Lower School, Upper School, Black Girls/Black Women, Gentrification, Race, Class, Identity, Ideology, Time Machine, Janet Jackson, Journal, Short Story, Novel, Edward P Jones, Power, Gender, Colorism, Truth To Power. https://www.camilleacker.com