Ep. 7:  AYN RAND as a Writer (Roderick Long)
Channel: Agoric Cafe
Date: 2020-08-24

Was Ayn Rand a good writer or a bad one?  Find out now using this one weird trick!

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Here are some links to items mentioned in the discussion: 

Richard Wagner’s “Liebestod”:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiPKv8EGaOQ

Matvei Blanter’s “John Gray”:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU5KfvdUWmM

Other versions of “John Gray”:  
https://aaeblog.com/2016/12/27/eminence-grise/

Chopin’s Nocturne opus 9 (NOT 10!) no. 2:  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E6b3swbnWg

Roderick Long’s 2004 blog post on standards of criticism:
http://praxeology.net/unblog05-04.htm#13

Ayn Rand’s WE THE LIVING:  
https://www.amazon.com/We-Living-75th-Anniversary-Ayn-Rand/dp/045123359X/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Ayn Rand’s THE FOUNTAINHEAD:  
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fountainhead-ayn-rand/1100315867?ean=9780451191151
  
Ayn Rand’s ATLAS SHRUGGED:  
https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191145/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Bonus:  Roderick Long on ATLAS SHRUGGED:
http://praxeology.net/atlas-Plato-RTL-2.doc

Ayn Rand’s ANTHEM:  
https://www.amazon.com/Anthem-Ayn-Rand/dp/0451191137/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Bonus:  Roderick Long on ANTHEM:  
https://lfb.org/rands-dystopian-masterpiece/

Ayn Rand’s THE EARLY AYN RAND:  
https://www.amazon.com/Early-Ayn-Rand-Selection-Unpublished/dp/045121465X/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Ayn Rand’s THE ROMANTIC MANIFESTO  A PHILOSOPHY OF LITERATURE:  
https://www.amazon.com/Romantic-Manifesto-Philosophy-Literature-Shakespeare/dp/0451149165/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Ayn Rand’s THE ART OF FICTION: A GUIDE FOR WRITERS AND READERS:  
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Fiction-Guide-Writers-Readers/dp/0452281547/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Robert Mayhew’s anthology ESSAYS ON AYN RAND’S WE THE LIVING:  
https://www.amazon.com/Essays-Ayn-Rands-We-Living/dp/0739149709/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Adam Weiner’s HOW BAD WRITING DESTROYED THE WORLD: AYN RAND AND THE LITERARY ORIGINS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS 
https://www.amazon.com/How-Bad-Writing-Destroyed-World/dp/1501313118/?tag=praxeologynet-20

ATLAS SHRUGGED movie:
– Part 1:  
https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Part-One-Blu-ray/dp/B005N4DMMG/?tag=praxeologynet-20
– Part 2:  
https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-II-Strike-Blu-ray/dp/B00AIBZGJ6/?tag=praxeologynet-20
– Part 3:  
https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Part-Iii-Blu-ray/dp/B00PLEF8DO/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Fëdor Dostoyevsky’s THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV:  
https://www.amazon.com/Karamazov-Brothers-Classics-Dostoevsky-Paperback/dp/B014S3275A/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Thomas Mann’s DOCTOR FAUSTUS:  THE LIFE OF THE GERMAN COMPOSER ADRIAN LEVERKÜHN AS TOLD BY A FRIEND: 
https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Faustus-German-Composer-Leverkuhn/dp/0375701168/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Thomas Mann’s THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN:  
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Mountain-Thomas-Mann/dp/0679772871/?tag=praxeologynet-20

D. H. Lawrence’s WOMEN IN LOVE:  
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Penguin-Classics-Lawrence-Paperback/dp/B011D9ZJBQ/?tag=praxeologynet-20

André Gide’s THE IMMORALIST:  
https://www.amazon.com/Immoralist-Andr%C3%A9-Gide/dp/0679741917/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Friedrich Nietzsche’s THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA:  
https://www.amazon.com/Thus-Spoke-Zarathustra-Modern-Library/dp/0679601759/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Plato’s COMPLETE WORKS:  
https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Complete-Works/dp/0872203492/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Arthur Conan Doyle’s THE LOST WORLD:  
https://www.amazon.com/World-Stories-Wordsworth-Classics-Paperback/dp/B0073SXQBM/?tag=praxeologynet-20

Jules Verne’s JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH:  
https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Journeys-Journey-Centre-Classics/dp/0192836757/?tag=praxeologynet-20

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