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Tank Magazine Podcast

A weekly podcast of arts, fashion, politics, science and literature from the pages, contributors and editors of Tank Magazine.

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00:17:09

Joanna Walsh reads from “Craft in the digital age”

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2023/05/03

"If craft is not literal reproduction, can it also change the nature of social reproduction? It's a big ask to expect a kitting needle to puncture a government..." In this week's TANK podcast, Joanna Walsh reads from her piece "Craft in the digital age", which considers the myriad interweavings between craft, capitalism and modern technology.

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00:12:33

Tina reads from our interview with ChatGPT

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2023/04/26

"I may be able to trick some people into thinking I'm human..." In this week's TANK podcast, Tina reads from our interview with our favourite robot overlord ChatGPT, discussing autonomy, how machine learning works and the murky future of AI.

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00:14:23

Olivia Erlanger reads from “The fantastic real”

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2023/04/19

"Science fiction fantasy allows for the kind of storytelling that can elaborate on and extrapolate from the increasingly bizarre reality we hold in common." In this week's TANK podcast, Olivia Erlanger reads her piece 'The fantastic real', an account of how science fiction fantasy has influenced her artistic practice.

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00:04:09

Charlotte Shane reads from “Prostitute Laundry”

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2023/04/12

"Drunk client was getting slightly drunker than usual at one of our lunches when he decided that we had to go to one of the city's ritziest strip clubs..." In this week's TANK podcast, Charlotte Shane reads from her memoir Prostitute Laundry, a thoughtful account of the pleasures and pains of sex work.

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00:19:11

Paul Franz reads “Yesterday this day's madness did...

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2023/04/05

"Never before has what is most intimately one’s own been so readily available as the object of others’ knowledge." Paul Franz reads from his piece "Yesterday this day's madness did prepare", which investigates the representation of time, memory and research in Terry Gilliam's 1995 sci-fi noir.

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00:52:01

Jeremy Corbyn on education

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2023/03/16

“It wasn’t all perfect in the 1960s, but there was a genuine debate about ideas” Jeremy Corbyn on school, his vision for a National Education Service and the learning opportunities within industrial action.

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00:12:48

Faisal Devji considers the New Right

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2023/02/08

"It is unadmitted grappling with the history of Empire that is informing the discourse and the narrative of the European Right, and not the story of fascism..." Faisal Devji, a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, on the European Right, its relationship to colonialism and race, and its future on the political stage.

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00:13:24

Geoff Dyer disintegrates

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2022/10/12

“In novels, very often we hear about an evening or an afternoon that changes the character’s life forever... actually, some of the big changes in life happen not suddenly, but very gradually.” Geoff Dyer reads from The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings (Canongate, 2022), his paen to conclusions, endings and exits by way of Bob Dylan, Jean Rhys, Friedrich Nietzsche, J.M.W. Turner and the Disintegration Tapes.

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00:25:12

Justin E.H. Smith goes superheroic

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2022/09/28

“The demotion of movies comes at a time when the world, in reality, is cracking clean open and we are fast losing the shared traditions that included a common artistic language and art forms with a life-breath in them that came down through the generations.” Justin E.H. Smith reads from his piece “We Don't Need Another Hero” from TANK’s entertainment issue. Read here.

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00:25:12

Welcome to Sillyvisation

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2022/09/15

“These days, it’s silly season all year round. The result is that access to reliable information, in our so-called “age of information”, is more contested than ever, and what’s more, clogged up by the detritus of often very entertaining distraction, one of the ideas successfully sent up by the film Don’t Look Up (2021), about the annihilation of humanity. Turns out that being functionally ignorant isn’t really blissful at all.” Tina reads Masoud Golsorkhi's editor’s letter from the brand new

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00:28:46

Anton Hur and Bryan Karetnyk translate the world,...

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2022/08/31

We invited acclaimed literary translators Anton Hur and Bryan Karetnyk to discuss the art of translation: the unstable element of deception, the difference between working with living and long-gone writers, and what it feels like to live half-inside a language. This is part two of the conversation, so if you haven’t listened already, start with last week’s podcast.

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00:31:22

Anton Hur and Bryan Karetnyk translate the world,...

Tank Magazine Podcast ·

2022/08/24

We invited acclaimed literary translators Anton Hur and Bryan Karetnyk to discuss the art of translation: the unstable element of deception, the difference between working with living and long-gone writers, and what it feels like to live half-inside a language. This is part one of Anton and Bryan's conversation – part two will be released next week. Watch Bryan and Anton in conversation on TANKtv, and read more about Cursed Bunny and Deceit in our Summer Reader.

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00:09:26

Thuận and Trà My Hickin read from Chinatown

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2022/08/17

Thuận and Trà My Hickin read from Thuận's novel Chinatown, in a translation by Nguyễn An Lý. Thuận reads in Vietnamese and Trà My in English, providing a rare opportunity to hear the novel in two of Thuận's languages. See last week's podcast, or this video on TANKtv, for a mediative interview with Thuận in which she discusses language, translation, and what you can say in French but not in Vietnamese.

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00:33:05

Tice Cin interviews Thuận

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2022/08/10

Tice Cin interviews writer Thuận, alongside translator Trà My Hickin, about her new novel Chinatown. Thuận’s twelfth novel and the first to be translated into English, Chinatown takes place over the couple of hours that a mother and her son wait in a stopped Metro carriage. As she waits, she is assailed by recollections of her son’s father and their shared adolescence in Hanoi, her university years in Leningrad, and her life now in Paris and its suburbs. Tice and Thuận spoke about dreaming, walking,

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00:15:54

Claire de Rouen discuss books and art

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2022/08/03

Directors of iconic bookshop Lucy Kumara Moore and Lilly Markaki discuss their art book selections for the Summer Reader. Along the way, we discussed the history of the shop, how personal experience shapes what ends up on the shelves, and some of the books they selected to showcase, which included a tome on the riotously creative domestic life of the Cherry family and Martine Syms's pocket-Bible-style mediation on the self image. Find out more about Lucy and Lilly's selections in our Summer Reader

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00:09:33

Pankaj Mishra reads from Run and Hide

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2022/07/26

Pankaj Mishra reads from his exacting novel Run and Hide, a prescient and unflinching examination of globalisation at the level of the individual and the local. Enrolling in the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology will change Arun's life and send him wheeling from Delhi to New York to Tuscany, but how long can he and his friends live out this strange and extravagant lifestyle? Read our interview with Pankaj here.

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00:10:24

Readings from Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes

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2022/07/20

Fernanda Melchor reads from her ferocious novel Paradais, "a labyrinthine monologue on the banal violence of a modern-day teenager" (Virginie Despentes). Then, translator Sophie Hughes reads from her translation of Fernanda's previous novel Hurricane Season – for which she "deserves a medal", according to the New Statesman, her translation "expertly capturing the novel’s lugubrious comedy and propulsive, high-octane scatology". Read an extract of Paradais in the Summer Reader. Both books are

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00:29:00

Barbara Epler talks her book selections

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2022/07/13

We invited publishing superstar Barbara Epler of New Directions to make a selection of books for our Summer Reader. She tells Tina about how she built her list and why every writer on it is a genius. Read extracts from Barbara’s selections in the latest issue of the magazine.

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00:13:31

Tina speaks to Honford Star

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2022/07/06

Tina speaks to two of the Summer Reader's guest editors, Anthony Bird and Taylor Bradley of Honford Star. Showcasing the best in recent East Asian literature, their picks range from a series of short stories featuring a talking toilet golem, a ghost story delving into Japanese colonial history and a person with a gingko tree growing out of their thumb. Read extracts from Anthony and Taylor’s selections in TANK’s Summer Reader, online or in in print.

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00:05:53

Harald Voetmann reads from Awake

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2022/06/29

Harald Voetmann reads from his novel Awake, in which Pliny the Elder – sleepless during the long nights of the Roman Empire – dictates his Natural History to his slave Diocles. In this extract, Pliny recalls the brutality and tenderness of his childhood. Awake is out in the UK with Lolli Editions. You can read an extract from the novel in the Summer Reader.

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