Tom C's Books, Films, Work and Organisation Podcast

Tom Calvard

Started out covering chapter material from my 2020 book, Critical Perspectives on Diversity in Organizations (Routledge), but now broadened to cover other book reviews, films and things of general personal and intellectual interest! (co-hosted by one-eyed black Pug, all-round legend, and my very good friend, Odin!)

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Tom C's Books, Films, Work and Organisation Podcast

Episodes (15)

Jul 28, 2024 Cypress Grove (2003) by James Sallis
Jul 21, 2024 The Death of Homo Economicus (2017) by Peter Fleming
Jul 14, 2024 Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940)

Tom C's Books, Films, Work and Organisation Podcast

Jul 28, 2024
20 minutes
9 MB

In this episode I discuss the literary crime fiction novel Cypress Grove by James Sallis, first published in 2003. I start with some reflections on the enduring popularity and variety of the crime/detective fiction genre in general. Then I move into discussing Sallis' detective protagonist, John Turner, and the past/present chapter structure of the book, which alternates between turner helping solve a case in a small rural town and flashback vignettes from different earlier phases in his life and career. I suggest that detective fictions have many implications for problem-solving in work, but also much more deeply for dealing...

Tom C's Books, Films, Work and Organisation Podcast

Cypress Grove (2003) by James Sallis

Tom Calvard

00:00 -20:08