other / likes
Buster Keaton
“[laughs] I still rather — I’ll watch 15–20 minutes of The Three Stooges every time I can, but I prefer Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy.”
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Dana Gioia
Published podcast speaker
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book / uses
Inside Enderby
“I’ve read Inside Enderby, the Enderby novels, three times and they never failed to amuse me.”
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What Dana said.
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01 / preference
When I write lyrics for an opera libretto, it has to work as a poem, it has to work as something that the composer can set to music, which means it has to be tight enough to have a form but not so tight that the composer can’t get into it.
“When I write lyrics for an opera libretto, it has to work as a poem, it has to work as something that the composer can set to music, which means it has to be tight enough to have a form but not so tight that the composer can’t get into it.”
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- Dana Gioia
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- Conversations with Tyler
02 / preference
Poe, I know pretty darn well, Samuel Johnson, and Wordsworth because I think, in my own work, both as a prose writer and as a creative writer, I can learn from them and my main goal right now is to finish a long poem that I started a few years ago, which stopped about a third of the way through so I can finish that.
“Poe, I know pretty darn well, Samuel Johnson, and Wordsworth because I think, in my own work, both as a prose writer and as a creative writer, I can learn from them and my main goal right now is to finish a long poem that I started a few years ago, which stopped about a third of the way through so I can finish that.”
- Speaker
- Dana Gioia
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
03 / preference
I like business school and I like my colleagues at business school because they were people that just wanted to get things done.
“I like business school and I like my colleagues at business school because they were people that just wanted to get things done.”
- Speaker
- Dana Gioia
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- Conversations with Tyler