Take Off

Take Off 51: Iveszics Alexander's Essay

Jozsef Horvath — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:13:22 GMT

"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

Take Off 50: Voices from the Past

Jozsef Horvath — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:53:05 GMT

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!

Take Off 49: Bernadett and Attila Comment on Podcasts

Jozsef Horvath — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:52:19 GMT

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.

Take Off 48: Chat with Carol MacCurdy

Jozsef Horvath — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:46:53 GMT

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.

Take Off 47: Invasion from Space

Jozsef Horvath — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:12:19 GMT

Excerpt from a story by Steven Millhauser.

Take Off 46: Blog Posts by Kati, Dávid and Krisztián

Jozsef Horvath — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:27:28 GMT

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

Take Off 45: Meeting High-School Students

Jozsef Horvath — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:08:15 GMT

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

Take Off 44: Instant Karma

Jozsef Horvath — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:05:52 GMT

Listen to an article by Sasha Frere-Jones published in The New Yorker on January 12.

Take Off 43: Tomázy Dávid Talks About His Story

Jozsef Horvath — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:06:34 GMT

First-year student Tomázy Dávid talks about a story he will start writing soon.

Take Off 42: Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

Jozsef Horvath — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:25:27 GMT

The last pages from Proulx's highly acclaimed novella.