23. Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Novelist) – Write to Live/No Logic In War

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

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Arts, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 November 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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"There is no central logic in war. Victor Hugo wrote about street fights in Paris. In one street people are killing each other. In the next street people are enjoying their coffee. They’re not even aware of what’s happening." – Orhan Pamuk Think Again is a spontaneous intellectual variety show–The world's brightest minds grapple with surprise topics. On the heels of the publication of A Strangeness in My Mind, his extraordinary epic novel of life in Istanbul over four decades through the eyes of a street vendor, Nobel Laureate Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk joins host Jason Gots for a soulful, far-ranging discussion of immigration, war, love, and the art of the novel. And he teaches Jason something he'll never forget about how to live the writing life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Huh. Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:04.3	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.2	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.9	Mmm, that is good.
0:12.9	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.8	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:19.1	Delicious.
0:19.6	Hi there, I'm Jason Gatz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.
0:25.8	Big Think is an online forum for big ideas from the world's most creative thinkers and doers.
0:31.5	With the Think Again podcast, we want to see what happens when experts are asked to respond to interview clips on topics they may or may not
0:38.0	have any knowledge about. We want to jump with them into the unknown with no script, no preparation.
0:43.8	Today I'm very, very happy to be joined by Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author of
0:49.5	novels including Snow. My name is Red and the Black Book, these are their English names,
0:55.4	and of the memoir Istanbul, Memories and the City.
0:58.9	His new novel is called A Strangeness in My Mind.
1:02.1	It paints a sometimes grand,
1:03.6	sometimes intimate picture of the changing city of Istanbul
1:07.3	from the 1970s to the present through the eyes of mevlut a street vendor.
1:11.6	Welcome to think again, Orhan.
1:13.6	Very pleased to be here.
1:14.6	I am two-thirds of the way through your very long book.
1:19.6	I've been reading it for a couple of weeks now, and I'm not the fastest reader in the world,
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