Podcasts Education Self-Improvement Conversations with Tyler Cynthia L. Haven on Rene Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky

Cynthia L. Haven on Rene Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky

Published: Aug. 24, 2022, noon

As a little girl, Cynthia Haven loved reading classic works of literature. At sixteen, she began her career as a reporter. And years later, those two interests converged as they led her to interview and write books about three writers and thinkers whom she also came to call mentors: Ren\xe9 Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky.\xa0

Cynthia joined Tyler to discuss what she\u2019s gleaned from each of the three, including what traits they have in common, why her biography of Girard had to come from outside academia, Milosz\u2019s reaction to the Berkley Free Speech Movement, Girard\u2019s greatest talent\u2014and flaw\u2014as a thinker, whether Brodsky will fall down the memory hole, why he was so terrible on Ukraine, why Cynthia\u2019s early career was much like The Devil Wears Prada, the failings of Twitter, and more.

Read a\xa0full transcript enhanced with helpful links.

Recorded May 18th, 2022

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