Take Off

Episode 64: You can listen to a sound story -- and not only that. You can write it, too! Send entries to jozsefhor@gmail.com.

Episode 63: Katarina Vesela, a colleague from Slovakia, speaks about her recently published book, Academic Writing, among others.

Episode 62: Horváth Bálint, Fekecs Adrienn and Szilas Péter, three good friends from the University of Pécs, are studying at A Coruna, Spain this semester. Last week they came to chat with me. This episode: soundbites fom our chat. Please note that due to bandwidth limitations, some of my podcast episodes may not be available at the beginning of November. If you hear a Podomatic rep saying that my monthly bandwidth has expired, don't abandon Take Off: on November 4, my counter will be reset and all the episodes will be back on the air.

Second-year MA student Kovács Gabi tells us about her blog at http://kovgab.wordpress.com

First we talked, and then we danced -- at the farewell party at Seggau Castle, Austria. Find out about Sonia Valdiviezo's novel-in-progress.

I met Jonathan at this year's Graz University Summer School. Snippets from an interview we recorded on the last day.

My Croatian colleagues, Lovorka Zergollern-Miletic and Vladimir Legac, and I went to have beer in Pécs yesterday. Guess who turned on his iPhone. Episode track: "Two Lessons to Learn" by Thalassa. More Thalassa music at http://www.ilike.com

An article by Bryan Nelson about the only animal known to be immortal, the turritopsis nutricula. See text at http://bit.ly/93JXXO Episode track: "Mystique" by Marcin Borowski. Browse more Borowski music at http://www.ilike.com

Graduating student Szántó Gábor shares ideas about the subject of his MA thesis, Wikipedia.

Episode celebrates 55th milestone with a classic grotesque article from The Onion. Theme music by Kartali Lászó

First episode of 2010 features a part of Nancy Franklin's New Yorker article about the Vancouver Olympics. Theme music by Kartali László

Second-year student and two-time Blog Oscar Award winner Szvath Dóra narrates a passage from her short story, "Passengers." The full story is on her blog: http://senator888.blogspot.com Theme music by Kartali László

An excerpt of a feature from the October 19, 2009 issue of The New Yorker. Theme music by Kartali Lacek. Episode track: "Lions," by The Features.

"I’m not saying that it’s alright to be nervous all the time, but helping stressed-out people is always better than scolding them." This idea and more in Alexander's essay. Theme tune by Kartali László. Music credit: Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus

Kartali Laci is the composer and musician of the new theme tune. Tune in to listen to that and to seven people from the first 49 episodes: Dani, Bernadett, Gergő, Steve, Lovorka, Anna, and Scott. After this episode was published, Take Off really took off: it moved to 491st place overall. That's not bad with over 30,000 other podcasts trailing behind on Podomatic! Thanks for listening!

Józsa Bernadett and Hudák Attila talk about two podcasts: Take Off and Tokyo Calling, the latter by my favorite podcaster, Scott Lockmann. Music credit: "Melt Down the Knives" by Sin Fang Bous.

Fulbright Professor Carol MacCurdy and I went to Paulus last week, and I asked her to talk about life and literature in the US. Snippets from the chat.

Excerpt from a story by Steven Millhauser.

Vasas Katalin's debut as a blog writer, plus Tomázy Dávid's and Ömböli Krisztián's stories.

On Wednesday, Rudolf Anna and I gave a talk to high-school students. In the episode: sound bites from the event.