Thomas Mann was born into an upper-middle class family in Lübeck in 1875, son of a German father and Brazilian mother. After his father's death the family moved to Munich where he and his brother, Heinrich, established themselves as writers. Thomas Mann married into the wealthy Jewish Pringsheim but despite a seemingly happy marriage and sixe children, he had strong homosexual urgings. A nationalist in World War 1, he drifted leftward between the wars and moved to Switzerland then the USA in the wake of the Nazi takeover in Germany. Among his great works are the novella Death in Venice and his novels Buddenbrooks, Magic Mountain and Dr. Faustus. Mann won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929 and died in Switzerland in 1955. Professor Tobias Boes is an expert on German cultural history in general and Thomas Mann in particular; he teaches at Notre Dame University.***The Canon Club is a show about the Western canon: the great cultural inheritance we're handed, across music, art, and literature. It was born of a blog by Ed West, in which he pined for a return to the schools of art and literary appreciation that were so famous in pre-WWI Vienna. An era when people took seriously their commitment to appreciating the art that had come before them: from Beowulf to The Divine Comedy, from Goya to Beethoven, from Brahms to Ibsen. This podcast is that latter-day Viennese salon. The Western canon is everyone's birthright, even if most of us feel under-educated in it. Paul and Ed have set out to reclaim it for themselves, and thereby transmit it to a wider audience. Ed West is a prominent British journalist, and the author of the wildly popular Wrong Side of History Substack. Paul Morland is a nationally-renowned expert in demographics, and the author of several books. In Season One, they'll be inducting one person or movement per episode into The Canon: E01: Caravaggio with Andrew Graham DixonE02: Macbeth with Neema ParviniE03: Anton Bruckner with Bryan GilliamE04: Anna Karenina with Rosamund BartlettE05: The Romanesque with John McNeillE06: Thomas Mann with Tobias BoesE07: Van Gogh with Martin Gayford

Show Topics: Segment #1: GoodBye Davante Davante Adams was traded to the New York Jets this week, and our host gives his thoughts on the matter. We also hear a portion of the "Up and Adams" show with Kay Adams, a show on which Davante Adams appears regularly. We also hear thoughts from JT "The Brick" from his Raider Nation radio show on 920AM in Las Vegas. Segment #2: Steelers @ Raiders Postgame A recap of last Sunday's loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. We hear some play by play from the game by Raiders broadcast team of Jason Horowitz and Lincoln Kennedy. Segment #3: Raiders @ Rams Pregame A look forward to this Sunday's upcoming game in Las Angeles vs the Rams at SoFi Stadium. Segment #4: So Sez Da Prez Thoughts from our host, Larry DaPrez Rogers. His take on all the current happenings around the Raiders, and how the fans are taking it. Segment #5: The Boneline call-in segment, where listeners can join the show (Call 1-77-55-RAIDER) Callers: 01. Rubin from N. Carolina 02. Robert Moorehead, the Tokai Raider 03. The Cheesehead Raider 04. G from Memphis, Tennessee 05. Raul Oliveros 06. Jeff from DC Metro Raiders 07. Raider CEO Pride from Nashville 08. The Oaktown Homie 09. Patrick in Mississippi 10. Raider Greg 11. Nebraska Raider 12. Raider Colin from Pleasanton, CA 13. Matty Raider from Albany, NY 14. Traci from New Jersey 15. Lucid Raider 16. The Chef - Join our forum at: http://www.raidernationpodcast.com/forum - Subscribe free in iTunes - Visit our YouTube page at: http://www.youtube.com/raidernationpodcast Music credits: Back in Black - Tribute to AC/DC; Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood; The Raiders by Sam Spence. Running time: 1:46:33

In this week's Patron's Choice episode, Paris & Chris discover how little they know about the former soviet union and how their American cultural upbringing did not prepare them to appreciate books that are heavily steeped in U.S.S.R. culture. Our Patron Anna actually mailed us this book and requested that we do an episode on it. It’s pretty incredible to get books mailed to us; thanks so much for your generosity and for being a TBC Patron, Anna! Content Warnings: In addition to our usual barnyard language, this episode includes discussion of: antisemitic descriptions and existential/clone issues.

What caused the recent major AWS outage, the breaking changes that just arrived upstream, and a new mail client for Linux. Plus our reaction to Microsoft's Android subsystem that's in the works.

  Cory Doctorow is an activist, science fiction author and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is also a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He favours liberalising copyright laws and is a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books, the most recent of which is called Radicalizing, four SF novellas "connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what America could be in the near, near future." I met with Cory in Ottawa after he'd appeared at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. We talk primarily about book publishing, the new EU copyright directive and the practice of writing Science Fiction. 

Series: Biblio File in Buenos Aires Guillermo Martínez is an Argentine novelist, detective fiction and short story writer. He earned a PhD in mathematical logic from the University of Buenos Aires, after which he worked for two years in a postdoctoral position at the Mathematical Institute, in Oxford. His most successful novel is Crímenes Imperceptibles known as The Oxford Murders, written in 2003. He was awarded the Planeta Prize for this novel, which was adapted into a film in 2008, directed by Alex de la Iglesia, and starring John Hurt and Elijah Wood. We met in his apartment in Buenos Aires to discuss how mathematics and Borges have informed his novel and detective fiction writing.

I met with members of the Canada Council's Supporting Artistic Practice Program team last month to discuss changes made in 2017 to the literary book publishing grant program. Among other things we talk about the fact that programs are designed to benefit all Canadians, about phases in the spectrum of activities in artistic creation, supporting writers versus book production, professional development for arts professionals, new opportunities for literary publishers to get funding, the digital strategy fund, whether or not publishing is an artistic endeavour, literary non-fiction, Ken Whyte and Procupine's Quill, filling in profiles, project grants, core support and juries.  * Please note that Guylaine Normandin is no longer with the Canada Council.  

Donald Trump faces new allegations of groping women. Wikileaks releases hacked emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta. And Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. Diane and a panel of reporters discuss the top domestic stories of the week.