Island Idylls podcast

Island Idylls

Aaron Menikoff

Island Idylls riffs on books and life with Barry Menikoff. Author of Stone Mother, Brooklyn born and bred, retired Hawaii university professor, international scholar. Evangelical pastor Aaron Menikoff, author of Politics and Piety, spices this dialogue between father and son. Both chasing that elusive line in an old song, What's it all about, Alfie?

37 épisodes

37 - This Mortal Coil - Island Idylls Is Back!
02/11/2026
1:29:51
"I'm of an age where I can say pretty much anything and not get arrested for it."Barry Menikoff.After five years away, Island Idylls returns with "This Mortal Coil," and for the first time Aaron Menikoff and Barry Menikoff are recording in the same room. Barry is 87. He grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, "before everyone wanted to go to Brooklyn." He chose graduate school at Wisconsin over Iowa because his sister said Iowa "sounds like hogs" and Wisconsin "sounds like cheese." He wrote his dissertation on Henry James and turned down offers from Benjamin Mays and from Leslie Fiedler's department in Montana. Instead he built a career at the University of Hawaii, where he became a leading Robert Louis Stevenson scholar, researching summers at the Huntington Library.Barry talks frankly about chasing fame through books and about writing two memoirs, Stone Mother and Lost Embers: Madison Remembered. He also describes his recent fight with cancer, which took him to Portland for treatment. When his son Aaron, an evangelical pastor, asks a secular Jewish academic what he wants younger people to know about mortality, Barry draws on Shakespeare, Keats, Hemingway and Graham Greene, then lands on the advice Henry James and Stevenson gave: "Be kind."The episode is a moving father-and-son conversation about legacy, family and the randomness of life. It ends with a great-grandson named Henry on the way.Do you have questions for us? Email us at [email protected]🎙️🎙️🎙️Podcast production by FullCast
36 - The Gothic Lit of Flannery O’Connor
17/09/2021
59:38
A great conversation with Aaron and BarryDo you have questions for us? Email us at [email protected]🎙️🎙️🎙️Podcast production by FullCast
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35 - Hemingway, Regret, and Death
18/08/2021
1:04:40
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34 - “Look it Up!” - A Dive Into the Dictionary
28/07/2021
55:58
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33 - The Great Fitzgerald
16/06/2021
52:05
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32 - God & Meaning
18/05/2021
56:30
Nine StoriesCatcher in the Rye Do you have questions for us? Email us at [email protected]🎙️🎙️🎙️Podcast production by FullCast
31 - J. D. Salinger & Bananafish
28/04/2021
54:12
Nine StoriesCatcher in the Rye Do you have questions for us? Email us at [email protected]🎙️🎙️🎙️Podcast production by FullCast
30 - Who is Irwin Shaw?
07/04/2021
1:00:51
Rich Man, Poor ManThe Young LionsShort Stories: Five DecadesIRWIN SHAW, EXTOLLED FOR SHORT STORIES, DIES by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times Obituary Do you have questions for us? Email us at [email protected]🎙️🎙️🎙️Podcast production by FullCast
29 - What is Art?
17/02/2021
1:06:22
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28 - Pale Horse, Pale Rider - Katherine Anne Porter
27/01/2021
1:12:52
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