Severance Part 4

Discussing chapters 19-26 of Severance by Ling Ma. Send me your comments on the podcast, book, or language learning! Web: theenglishchronicles.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @theenglishchronicles Support this podcast on Patreon. Notes: 1. Jen Lue, “Routine Made Everything Possible: An Interview with Ling Ma,” Asian American Writers’ Workshop, May 9, 2019, https://aaww.org/routine-made-everything-ling-ma-severance-interview/. 2. Courtney Vinopal, “Author Ling Ma Answers Your Questions About ‘Severance,’” PBS News Hour, December 3, 2020, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/author-ling-ma-answers-your-questions-about-severance.

Discussing chapters 13-18 of Severance by Ling Ma. Send me your comments on the podcast, book, or language learning! Web: theenglishchronicles.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @theenglishchronicles Support this podcast on Patreon. Notes: 1. Jen Lue, “Routine Made Everything Possible: An Interview with Ling Ma,” Asian American Writers’ Workshop, May 9, 2019, https://aaww.org/routine-made-everything-ling-ma-severance-interview/. 2. Nicholas Zill, “How Do the Children of Immigrant Parents Perform in School?” Institute for Family Studies, July 8, 2020, https://ifstudies.org/blog/how-do-the-children-of-immigrant-parents-perform-in-school. 3. “How Millennials Want to Work and Live,” Gallup, 2016, https://www.nwais.org/uploaded/conferences/Business_Officers/2019_BusinessOfficers/Resources/Gallup_How_Millennials_Want_to_Work_and_Live.pdf.

Discussing chapters 5-12 of Severance by Ling Ma. Send me your comments on the podcast, book, or language learning! Web: theenglishchronicles.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @theenglishchronicles Support this podcast on Patreon. Notes: 1. Adam Morgan, “In ‘Severance,’ Ling Ma Destroys New York City,” Chicago Review of Books, August 14, 2018, https://chireviewofbooks.com/2018/08/14/severance-ling-ma-interview/. 2. Ling Ma, “In Satirical ‘Severance,’ a Stricken Country Works Itself to Death,” interview by Ari Shapiro, All Things Considered, NPR, August 10, 2018, https://www.npr.org/2018/08/10/637473748/in-satirical-severance-a-stricken-country-works-itself-to-death. 3. Alexandra Twin, “Outsourcing,” Investopedia, last modified May 2, 2021, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/outsourcing.asp. 4. Angie Mohr, “4 Ways Outsourcing Damages Industry,” Investopedia, last modified June 25, 2019, https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0312/4-ways-outsourcing-damages-industry.aspx.

Discussing chapters 1-4 of Severance by Ling Ma. Send me your comments on the podcast, book, or language learning! Web: theenglishchronicles.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @theenglishchronicles Support this podcast on Patreon. Notes: 1. “Ling Ma,” The University of Chicago Division of the Humanities English, accessed August 7, 2021, https://english.uchicago.edu/people/ling-ma. 2. Courtney Vinopal, “Author Ling Ma Answers Your Questions About ‘Severance,’” PBS News Hour, December 3, 2020, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/author-ling-ma-answers-your-questions-about-severance. 3. Courtney Vinopal, “How the Final Days of an Office Job Inspired this Apocalyptic Novel,” PBS News Hour, December 9, 2020, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/how-the-final-days-of-an-office-job-inspired-this-apocalyptic-novel. 4. Oxford Dictionary, s.v. “Severance,” https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/severance. 5. “Severance Pay,” U.S. Department of Labor, accessed August 7, 2021, https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/severancepay. 6. “Great Recession,” History, accessed August 7, 2021, https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/recession. 7. “Young, Underemployed and Optimistic,” Pew Research Center, February 12, 2012, https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2012/02/09/young-underemployed-and-optimistic/.

Discussing “November 2036: The Off Season” through “October 2057: The Million-Year Picnic” in The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury.  Send me your comments on the podcast, book, or language learning!  Web: theenglishchronicles.com  Email: [email protected]  Instagram: @theenglishchronicles  Support this podcast on Patreon.  Notes: 1. Stephen Banker, “Interview with Ray Bradbury,” September 23, 1979, The Washington Post,  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1979/09/23/interview-with-ray-bradbury/f2a4ba44-eadf-4f84-88b5-d983e2bde2ec/. 2. Venetta Nealy, “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 03 01 1978 Ray Bradbury,” YouTube Video, February 21, 2017, 16:09,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1UaSpNumX8. 3. “Cold War,” History, accessed August 4, 2021, https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history. 4. “All the Way the Bay of Pigs Invasion Failed,” History, accessed August 4, 2021, https://www.history.com/news/bay-of-pigs-mistakes-cuba-jfk-castro. 5. “Cuban Missile Crisis,” History, accessed August 4, 2021, https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis.

Discussing ““February 2034: Interim” through “November 2036: The Luggage Store” in The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Send me your comments on the podcast, book, or language learning! Web: theenglishchronicles.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @theenglishchronicles Support this podcast on Patreon. Notes: 1. National Endowment for the Arts, “NEA Big Read: Meet Ray Bradbury,” YouTube Video, October 3, 2017, 22:18, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqp38_uS-eg. 2. “Censorship by the Numbers 2019,” Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, accessed August 4, 2021, https://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/Censorship%20by%20the%20Numbers%202019_0_0.pdf. 3. “Top 10 Challenged Books of 2019,” Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association, accessed August 4, 2021, https://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/Top%2010%20of%202019_1_0.pdf. 4. Jeff O’Neal and Rebecca Schinsky, “Ding the Basket,” June 28, 2021, in Book Riot - The Podcast, podcast, 1:07:35, https://bookriot.com/listen/ding-the-basket/. 5.  Rudy Miller, “Parents Sue Over Black Lives Matter Lessons in Lehigh Valley School District,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 16, 2021, https://liber.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2021/06/16/lehigh-valley-county-parents-sue-east-penn-school-district-Black-Lives-Matter-lessons/stories/202106160156.

Discussing “June 2032: —And the Moon Be Still As Bright” through “November 2033: The Fire Balloons” in The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Send me your comments on the podcast, book, or language learning! Web: theenglishchronicles.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @theenglishchronicles Support this podcast on Patreon. Notes: 1. Venetta Nealy, “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 03 01 1978 Ray Bradbury,” YouTube Video, February 21, 2017, 16:09,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1UaSpNumX8. 2. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997). 3. “Hernán Cortés,” History, accessed August 4, 2021,  https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/hernan-cortes. 4. “Manifest Destiny,” History, accessed August 4, 2021 https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/manifest-destiny

Discussing “January 2030: Rocket Summer” through “April 2031: The Third Expedition" in The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Send me your comments on the podcast, book, or language learning! Web: theenglishchronicles.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @theenglishchronicles Support this podcast on Patreon. Notes: 1. Oxford Dictionary, s.v. “Colonization,” https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/colonization. 2. Oxford Dictionary, s.v. “Genocide,” https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/genocide. 3. Kenneth C. Davis, “America’s True History of Religious Tolerance,” Smithsonian Magazine, October, 2010, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/. 4. “Life,” Ray Bradbury, accessed July 28, 2021,  https://raybradbury.com/life/. 5. “NEA Big Read,” National Endowment for the Arts, accessed July 28, 2021, https://www.arts.gov/initiatives/nea-big-read. 6. National Endowment for the Arts, “NEA Big Read: Meet Ray Bradbury,” YouTube Video, October 3, 2017, 22:18, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqp38_uS-eg.

Announcing the next three book selections for the podcast: Severance by Ling Ma, March: Book One and Book Two, and All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders. Send me your comments on the podcast, book, or language learning! Web: theenglishchronicles.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @theenglishchronicles Support this podcast on Patreon.

Today features the first episode of the Patreon-only podcast From the Page the Screen. In this podcast, I discuss stories and the movies and television shows they've inspired, letting you know what's worth reading or watching...or both! Enjoy today's podcast and sign up on Patreon to get a new episode each month. Send me your comments on the podcast, book, or language learning! Web: theenglishchronicles.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: @theenglishchronicles Support this podcast on Patreon. Notes: 1. “Marcus Garvey,” History.com, last modified January 26, 2021, https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/marcus-garvey. 2. James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work, (New York: Vintage International, 1976). 3. Ashley Clark, “Malcolm X: Spike Lee’s Biopic is Still Absolutely Necessary,” The Guardian, February 19, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/19/malcolm-x-spike-lee-biopic-black-cinema-selma-the-butler. 4. “Riots erupt in Los Angeles After Police Officers Are Acquitted in Rodney King Trial,” History.com, last modified April 27, 2021, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/riots-erupt-in-los-angeles. 5. “Rev. Al Sharpton Full Eulogy George Floyd Funeral,” News 19 WLTX, June 9, 2020, video, 34:53, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxG2jTA2Oc. 6. “1964, March 29 - Malcolm X - We Didn’t Land on Plymouth Rock - Closed Captioned,” Captioning for Everyone, November 3, 2014, video, 3:44, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Aq2Z0i8D6A; “Malcolm X. | Slave Mind | Warner Bros. Entertainment,” Warner Bros. Entertainment, January 17, 2012, video, 1:07, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMdDwBliS-o. 7. “Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Official Lyric Video),” Sam Cooke, January 22, 2016, video, 3:10, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4. 8. “Eulogy Delivered by Ossie Davis at the Funeral of Malcolm X,” Malcolm X, accessed June 25, 2021, https://www.malcolmx.com/eulogy/. 9. Roger Ebert, “Malcolm X,” RogerEbert.com, November 18, 1992, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/malcolm-x-1992. 10. Clark, “Malcolm X.”