The Matterhorn with Dr. Kathleen Waller

What is the purpose of love letters? What is the language of love?

What does being political have to do with emotions?

What is the power of metaphor? The danger?

Today’s podcast is part of a series on the conceptual topic of letter writing. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. A full AI-generated transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.

For these eight weeks, I’ll bring you texts rel...

In what ways do letters help advance a friendship, even when one hasn’t met in person?

How do you know if you can trust the receiver of a letter? Should you worry about it falling into the wrong hands?

In the art of letter writing, how should one structure one’s composition? How should one flow from topic to topic?

Happy New Year! I’ve just arrived back in London after a wonderful trip to see my family in Boston. I wish all of you th...

Today’s podcast is part of a series on the conceptual topic of letter writing. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. A full AI-generated transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.

For these eight weeks, I’ll bring you texts related to this topic. This series is an experiment for a new podcast season that I recorded to sync up with the holiday letter season and the epistolary form of ...

What is the purpose of writing letters to people whom we see all the time, in intimate spaces?

How can a personal letter also be political?

Why might a letter allow us to include more emotional knowledge and personal feelings than an essay or article?

Today’s podcast is part of a series on the conceptual topic of letter writing. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. A full AI-generated transc...

To what extent can a letter capture the attention of someone more powerful than ourselves?

How can one use a letter to show one’s mastery of language (and other things)?

When and why do we appeal to people in letters whom we’ve never met? Why might we think some will listen to our stories more than others?

Today’s podcast is part of a series on the conceptual topic of letter writing. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Sp...

How can a frame narration provide both further truths and spark unreliability?

What is the effect of only reading one side to a story?

How do people change stories once they retell the narrative in their own words?

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Today’s podcast is part of a series on the conceptual topic of letter writing. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. A full AI-generated transcri...

Why do we write letters? How do they differ from email and other forms of communication across space?

What do we lose if we stop the ability to send letters by post?

How much of the letters you write are fictions, fact? Contain some kind of truth?

Today’s podcast is part of a series on the conceptual topic of letter writing. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. A full AI-generated transcript ...

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. As always, feel free to share any of your work related to the conversation. Thank you!

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A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.

Keywords:

* The Apartm...

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. As always, feel free to share any of your work related to the conversation. Thank you!

https://thematterhorn.substack.com/

A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.

Keywords:

* City as te...

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction.

https://thematterhorn.substack.com/

Keywords:

* The language of clothes

* Chronotope

* Clothing can show:

* Place, culture

* Identity – i.e. subcultures, gender

* Traditions (vs. change)

* Politics

* Weather

* Time period

* Functionality

* Power relationships / class, societal position, work

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction.

https://thematterhorn.substack.com/

Keywords:

* Doppelgängers / Doubles

* psychoanalysis —> literature (& psychoanalytical critical theory)

* The Uncanny / Unheimlich

* literary examples

* film adaptation / “a copy of a copy of a copy…”

* twins

* (architectural uncanny)

* your fiction

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. As always, feel free to share any of your work related to the conversation. Thank you!

A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.

Keywords:

* Adaptation discussion

* Fidelity

* Postmodernism

...

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. As always, feel free to share any of your work related to the conversation. Thank you!

A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.

Keywords:

* Sport as part of Everyday Life

* Both as action...

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction.

A full AI-created transcript can be accessed on the desktop version.

Keywords:

* Espionage - types and the current situation

* Vienna spies

* Female spies

* Spy stories

* The nature of espionage; questions for fiction

Considerations for your work:

* Do the characters in your fiction function within...

Today’s podcast is part of a series to accompany my current serialized novel, An Interpreter in Vienna, as we investigate the truth in fiction. You can also listen to the podcast via Apple or Spotify or in the Substack app. Please consider adding a quick star rating on the other players to help my reach.

I appreciate your support as a Matterhorn subscriber and look forward to our discussions. As always, feel free to share any of you...

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Visit The Matterhorn on Substack for all the links, multimedia, and a transcript as well as to join the conversation. Dr. Kathleen Waller is an author and academic who loves to play with the interdisciplinary, international layers of fictions.

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I’m an author and academic with over 20 years teaching experience. I’m interested in the nuances of truth and how culture can empower us all.

Let's Do This brings you bite-size ideas for your own creative work based on the theme of the show this week.

Visit The Matterhorn on Substack for all the links, multimedia, and a transcript as well as to join the conversation. Dr. Kathleen Waller is an author and academic who loves to play with the interdisciplinary, international layers of fictions.

https://thematterhorn.substack.com/